Second Stanza: [Locked from hostiles] Suddenly unemployed

[eclipsedonmyoji]

Um...

Keiji...?

Is that offer for a job still open? My place of employment kind of... burned down.

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[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

I don't make an offer of employment and not mean it.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

I was hoping so... *sigh* Noir's hurt, something's going on that I know nothing about, and the pizza parlor is gone. The whole thing burned...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

So this Noir guy was inside at the time?

Well, you're certainly welcome to work for me.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

I believe so. I got there after everything had happened. He was already on his way to get medical help.

Thank you, Keiji... for being so kind to me. I know I put on a calm front, but this hasn't been an easy adjustment for me.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Very suspicious.

It's just how I am, Daisuke. I don't usually act different for others.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

I wasn't saying that like I was getting special treatment. I'm just used to being overlooked is all.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

That's simple. I find the overlooked people are usually the ones worth paying attention too.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

.. that... makes sense I suppose.

Still, you've made it... easier to be here, I guess.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Always pleased to serve. The better my people feel, the better they do, and the better it is for everyone.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

True.

I'll get my things and come over, if that's alright.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Lost your place too?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Noir got me my apartment because I was working for him and his boss, and to get me out of Meria. If the place goes out of business I don't think I'd be able to stay.

Besides... it's too quiet without Noir around...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Oh, so you weren't living at the inns? Well, you can stay here. Though it's at your own risk.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Apartment. Inn. Honestly my apartment back home was about the same size, I could hardly tell the difference.

I'm just used to getting things by pulling my weight, you know? If I'm not working for him, why stay in the place he got me? ... I know... it's weird to think like that...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Ah, one of those types. I can understand that. Why I don't stay at the inns thought they're cheaper. I like to earn my keep.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Mhm.

Besides... the inns are the whole reason I'm still a girl. Though I think at this point I've gotten used to it.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

I have avoided all the drama over there living across town.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a wonderful idea after this whole mess...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Then I guess you're welcome to my place. Though you get to help take care of Nya-chan too then.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

I don't mind helping with that at all. Ana could stand to make a few friends of her own.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Anna? Your partner?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Mhm. She... kind of reminds me of my manager from back home. Or at least she sounds like her. She's quite a bit colder than Ilyana ever was.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's a common theme. Partners are either ones you get along with instantly or you've got major friction or they're similar to people back home.

I got lucky and got Nya-chan from an egg. I pretty much raised her.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

That is lucky.

I'm not completely sure, but I have a feeling that Ilyana may have been more like this before she found most of us. Her brother often says she was a much more closed off person, and when the band first started most people were terrified of her.

*chuckles a little* She's barely five-foot-three and she struck fear in to the hearts of everyone, even grown men twice her size.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's an impressive type of woman.

But I'm sure you can make headway with your partner. Sometimes I think what one gets in a partner is what one needs.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

I've tried to keep an open mind about it so far. It's been a bit... hit and miss. But I have no intents of giving up on her just because we can't always agree and she's a little abrasive.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Sometimes people need that to get what they need. If that's the way, getting Nya-chan fits the idea.

So I'm sure you'll be a better person because of her eventually.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Mm... you're probably right.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Well, it would happen that way if this was a show. Which some of us apparently are.