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 Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:42 am
Who: Dani, Axel
Where: No Beans About It (coffee shop)
When: 2:00 PM
Weather: Sunny and mild.☃ ☃ ☃ Dani had decided to approach her impending guardianship like she does everything else: methodically, enthusiastically, and with a lot of brightly colored tabs. After the initial shock had worn off, excitement and anticipation began to set in alongside a healthy dose of nerves, and she'd realized she was woefully unprepared for the task at hand. Forget capturing a soul -- which is something she's going to have to visit at some point, in length, and decide exactly what that means -- her understanding is that Raevans come into life as teenagers, and it's been a while since Dani herself was a teen. Add the fantastic element to all of this, and she'd realized she had her work cut out for her. So, of course, she'd hit Google with a vengeance. She had more parenting websites bookmarked than she'd known existed, and already had a thick binder full of information, meticulously highlighted and tabbed for later inspection. The Raevan aspect, though, she knew she could only explore at length with other people who were in the same boat as she was, and she had never been more grateful for another human being than she was for whoever organized the contact list with other lab patrons. Several outgoing calls later, she'd managed to make a couple of appointments to discuss what was to come, and she was waiting for her first one with (what she felt was) admirable patience. They'd chosen a coffee shop, one of the few that Dani frequented and enjoyed both the brew and atmosphere of, and she was tucked away into a corner, pencil sharp, brand new notebook at the ready. It was sort of like being in school again, except she genuinely cared about the subject about a hundred times more than most of what she'd studied, at least up through high school. Reaching for her coffee (soy milk, and iced despite the chill in the air), she took a sip, legs crossed at the ankle as she surreptitiously checked her watch and waited for the designated meeting time to arrive.
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 11:23 am
It had been hard to hide the excitement in Axel’s voice when she’d first received the call from Dani. She hadn’t done anything guardian related in a while and she’d accepted right away without even knowing the full details. Of course she’d answer all her questions! That was exactly how Axel herself had started before Isobel had been born, she could never have refused such a request. Once the initial time and date were set in stone, and it had been appropriately marked into her calendar, Axel had told Isobel. The Raevan was happy for her guardian to finally be doing other things with other guardians.
Isobel had started working at an art museum, which left their home a little empty. Axel was a little overly protective since then, so this outing would do her some good. Even if her guardian was usually quite busy, this was dead season and all the quiet and extra time was making her a little too antsy for Isobel’s taste.
At 2 p.m. Axel was walking into the much anticipated warmth of the coffee shop. She rubbed her hands to warm them up a bit from the cold and scanned the few other patrons around. She spotted Dany easily and headed over to her like a giddy school child.
“Dani?” Axel said as she got closer. “I’m Axel, Isobel’s guardian.” She gave the other woman a grin and extended her hand out in greeting before taking a seat across from her. “I’m glad you called me, I’ve wanted to do this kind of thing of so long!” Putting her hat away, Axel removed her jacket and finally really settled down to hear out the new guardian and order a nice cup of bitter hot coffee to warm her insides. She eyed the waitress briefly to let her know that she was ready to order before refocusing on Dani herself.
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:24 pm
Dani's smile was instant and wide as she half-rose out of her chair, her enthusiasm obvious in the brief, energetic hand shake before she resettled. It was her first full day off for the week, and she had been absolutely thrilled that Axel could make the time to meet with her -- it was going to make it so much easier to get prepared for the impending guardianship of her Raevan if she could get ahold of people in a timely manner and take down notes. Her mother thought she was going overboard, as she always did, but she was proud nonetheless. That was the nice thing about being close to family, both in proximity and as far as inter-personal relationships went, she supposed. She could say a lot about her mother (and give her a bottle of wine and a free evening and she would), but the fact of that matter was, they'd always been there for each other. Family trumped almost everything else. Her mama wasn't exactly thrilled with how Dani was going about getting a family, and she still had a lot of choice things to say about how things ended with Tristan, but Dani was trying to ignore that for everyone's sake. It would be different once she had a child in her custody, she was sure. Maybe it wasn't the most conventional way to get grandchildren, but as the only child and with her mother definitely not wanting to remarry or adopt any kids, Camila really couldn't afford to be picky. Settling back down and tucking her hair behind her ears, she beamed another bright smile, gesturing toward the untouched muffin on the table. " Thank you so much for making time for me, Axel. I'm really excited, and I have a lot of questions. Muffin?" Dani knew herself well, and knew she could be a bit much upon first meeting, so she made a concentrated effort with new people to try to tone it down a bit. The last thing she wanted was to completely bombard one of her best resources and scare her off forever. Even still, she couldn't help but add, " I'll be taking notes, if you don't mind. I have a lot of different areas I want to cover, and we don't have to go over everything today, obviously, I just want to make sure I get as much, you know, info as I can." The waitress came over as Dani finished speaking, and she folded her hands over her notebook, waiting politely for Axel to order.
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:31 am
"It's no problem at all really. We all had to start somewhere and I started in a coffee shop too." Axel chuckled, recalling the memory back and smiling. She'd met Anita for coffee and had brought along her scrap book. Anita had answered all of her questions and then they'd parted ways. Axel had been exactly like Dani, young, enthusiastic with excitement quite literally electrifying her. It was nice and she was more than happy to help another owner.
"Oh, thank you." Axel slide the small plate over to her side and began peeling away the muffin cup.
"I don't mind at all, whatever helps you. I'm here to help you after all." Axel chuckled, she wasn't going to make things difficult. She was going to make it a smooth process as possible especially if Dani had a lot of questions for her. Axel wanted to try and get through all of them, it would help Dani in the future if she was meeting with other owners.
The waitress had understood her signal pretty well and made it to the table just in time. Axel ordered her coffee, no sugar or milk for her. She needed the taste of bitter warmth and she was off sugar so no sugar no milk. The waitress nodded and went off to get the coffee, she hadn't needed to ask if she needed anything since she was already munching on a muffin. The young waitress was quick and was soon back with the steaming cup, left it and then went off to serve the other customers.
"Alright," Axel took a quick sip of the coffee, brows wrinkling as the warm liquid almost burnt her tongue. "Throw 'em at me!"
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