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basic_powers) wrote2011-07-06 11:23 pm
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Seattle Summer Showoff
As they exist from the narrow door of the linen closet for his apartment, Dinah will see two doors down the hallway to her left. One has a biohazard sign hanging from it, and the other is part-way open, enough that one can see the window and bed inside. There's a couple of photos hanging from the wall, one of Beauford and a blonde young woman laughing with the lights of a carnival in the twilight background, and one with Beauford and a reddish-brown haired man in a repurposed tan flightsuit, grinning in front of a college graduation ceremony.
To her right, she'll see that Beauford was infact not exaggerating at all about the shoebox size of his apartment's kitchen, as there is only a tiny island seperating it from the small living room. There's a well-used black futon and coffee table with a little black laptop on top of magazines and comic books. Against the wall there's a shelf with a flatscreen tv, several videogame consoles and a dvd/bluray player. Light filters through the curtain outside and Dinah can likely see the door out of the apartment with three bicycles hanging from hooks beside it on the wall, and pannier bags for the bikes hung with coats and hats from the coat rack.
It doesn't take much guessing to figure out that the blue and gunmetal bike is Beauford's from the homemade welds and adjustments given to it.
"Welcome to my humble bachelor pad...I'd give you the tour but this is pretty much it."
To her right, she'll see that Beauford was infact not exaggerating at all about the shoebox size of his apartment's kitchen, as there is only a tiny island seperating it from the small living room. There's a well-used black futon and coffee table with a little black laptop on top of magazines and comic books. Against the wall there's a shelf with a flatscreen tv, several videogame consoles and a dvd/bluray player. Light filters through the curtain outside and Dinah can likely see the door out of the apartment with three bicycles hanging from hooks beside it on the wall, and pannier bags for the bikes hung with coats and hats from the coat rack.
It doesn't take much guessing to figure out that the blue and gunmetal bike is Beauford's from the homemade welds and adjustments given to it.
"Welcome to my humble bachelor pad...I'd give you the tour but this is pretty much it."
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She bravely resists the temptation to gravitate over to the his CDs and videos and judge him by the titles thereon (those thin video cases look weird. Like CDs but movies?), but instead ends up peering out at the bikes, assessing his modifications.
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"You want a soda or a beer before we start off?" Beauford says, heading towards the kitchen. "Or do you want to admire the frankenbike some more?"
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Dinah gets handed a nice cold bottle of Mighty Maple Old Fashioned Rootbeer.
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"I think I'd be wearing too much to be able to cycle in Seattle winters," she remarks, still remembering how cold it was the last time she visited.
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"Free running, though. That's better than cycling." Bikes should have motors. Fact of life.
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"I do like sea otters."
Dinah doesn't bother with a sweatshirt, even. If she's not going to be warm enough in her tank top and pants, she doesn't want to know about it.
So she waits by the door, stretching her quads with her foot behind her ass. "It'll be nice to see an Aquarium without Aquaman talking to the residents."
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There's a kid happily sitting by the railing upstairs playing with one of her action figures making vreeeeeeeeeeoooooo noises as they leave. And as Jasil once pointed out, Beauford does live in a little bit of a rough neighborhood, there's wires and bars on the windows of the entrance of the building complex, and one heck of a sturdy electronic lock on the front door.
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The lock on the door is met with a curious look, but she's happy to step out into the sunlight, sheilding her eyes with a hand immediately.
"OK, this city is prettier in the summer," she decides.
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"Yeah, and it's tourist season." Beauford grins, walking past the pandhandling punks, ignoring them.
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"I'mm not surprised," she says. "If I were on vacation, I'd rather come here in the summer than the winter."
Gotham, on the other hand, doesn't get many tourists.
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You couldn't pay Beauford to go on a vacation there.
One of the two kids panhandling gives Dinah a very rude gesture as she and Beauford pass by, with Beauford starting into a light jog.
"I'd rather go see Uncle Ray in New York during the summer, could see Nico, and maybe a Mets game," He says, taking a moment to do a warm-up wall handspin. "But summer is when I really make a lot of money at Q57."
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Dinah totally supports anything that results in getting more tips. She follows him into the jog, then ups her own pace before lightly vaulting a fire hydrant.
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As a wall appears on the side of the sidewalk, Dinah leaps lightly on top of that and runs along the top.
"Still, gettiing paid for being a great bartender is preferable."
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"I mean, the bar has enough pretty pretty brainless cage dancers. Talented as heck at dancing but there's one that has trouble with any word with more than 3 syllables..."
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"I know how valuable underestimating a pretty face can be."
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"That's true. I forget how much people think they're entitled to answers like that."
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She swtiches to the street side of the sidewalk, using a street lamp to vault over a pile of the week's trash.
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"....and it's horrible and mean probably, but it's just so much FUN-" He's somersaulting just for the heck of it now, "To play on and off of their expectations sometimes."
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"I'm all about playing of people's expectations."
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