Seattle Summer Showoff

[basic_powers]

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."

Comments

[fiss84]

"Oh course," she replies amused by his nervousness. "Do you have a pen and paper? I'm afraid I don't carry any."

[basic_powers]

"Yes, erm..." He's digging around into his pockets a bit before pulling out the pen...and a wrinkled looking receipt from the aquarium giftshop. "...sorry about the paper."

"Well now......looks like our mystery metawoman is watching in the crowd." Uplink's amusement if palpalble over the comm frequency. "Someone want to give her a thank you?"

[fiss84]

"I'm on it," Alterity murmurs and, pulling out one of their business cards, sets to writing a quick note.

"Whom shall I make it out to?" 84 says with a hint of teasing in her voice.

Alterity is a brief blur around the cute brunette, who coincidentally had been following Beauford, before he reappears next to Sentinal. Dinah likely felt something slipped into her back pocket and when she looks it's a business card which has an 888 number printed on one side and a brief, hand written note on the other which reads:

"Thanks for you help with big and ugly. If you even need help or are interested in joining a team, give us a call. ~A"

[raptorcanaria]

"Barry?"

Dinah says, as soon as the familiar slipstream of a speedster brushes by. When she realises what happened and pulls out the card, she laughs out loud to herself and tucks it into a more secure pocket.

She's already got a team, thanks.

[basic_powers]

"...Beauford Tannen..." He manages to get out, still blushing, and smiling at 84. "You okay?"

[fiss84]

"Okay," she says as she writes. "I'm a little sore, that guy wasn't a light weight but I'll be okay." She then hands the pen and receipt back. The autograph reads, "To Beauford Tannen, keep flying. 84"

The i and period are hearts...some habits are hard to break.

"Did you happen to get any good pictures of the fight?" She knows Uplink with have more than enough for the website but it's the best excuse she can come up with to keep talking with him.

[basic_powers]

"I got a couple of good snapshots with the cellphone," He smiles a little, catching onto the keep talking, carefully putting the signed receipt into his front pocket. "I was in the trolley car when that thing came barreling up the hill...where do you think it was headed for, before it got distracted?"

[fiss84]

"We'd love to get copies if you wouldn't mind emailing them to us?" she says trying her best to maintain a professional tone. "You can find an email address on our webpage. As to where it was going, I can't really say. We have data to analyze and I'm sure the police would like to venture their own opinion once they've seen it. Did you see if anyone got hurt?"

[basic_powers]

"A couple of people got injured in the trolley accident, but Alterity got them to emergency medicine not long after.." Beauford replies..and catches himself leaning in toward her involuntarily.

"I know there was an older woman who was badly shaken up, but she was with Emergency Care out of the range of the fight when I last saw her."

[raptorcanaria]

Oh now they're just being obvious.

Dinah clears her throat, looks right and left, and whistles a couple of notes.

[basic_powers]

!!!

There's one last look at 84 before Beauford turns towards Dinah, and starts just a little...then smiles wryly.

"...er...I'd better get going, sounds like my cousin's getting impatient to get back home."

[fiss84]

"Of course. Thanks for letting me know about that woman, I'll check in on her later. Take care," she says with a nod and turns back to her team mates. "Shall we?"

[basic_powers]

"Ready." Crusade nods curtly, unfurling one wing for Steel Sentinel to respectively ride into the shadows and disappear, with Hat Trick holding a foot into the corner of it. If one has an option for quick transport of your grounded team members, you use it.

"See you back at base, I'll have team dinner started." Hat Trick replies, stepping up to kiss the side of Crusade's helmet before disappearing into the shadow as well.

[raptorcanaria]

"Did you get what you wanted?" Dinah asks, adjusting her backpack on her back as Beauford returns to her.

[basic_powers]

"Yes," He says, shortly and quietly, nodding towards Dinah to start jogging with him for a while.

Happens to just have something on his mind right now, and being tired from all the running doesn't much help.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah grins, and spins on the ball of her foot, falling into a quiet jog beside him.

She doesn't need to say anything.

[basic_powers]

Beauford's quiet for a good long while...in fact he's pretty quiet all the way up to a bus stop where he ducks inside to sit.

".......what a day...."

[raptorcanaria]

"Yep," Dinah agrees, unslinging her backpack and dropping it at her feet as she collapses next to him.

"I had a great time."

[basic_powers]

"Even with the mad science ruining the tourist ride bit?" Beauford says, not even getting up when the bus stops at the stop...it's not the right route number anyways so why bother?

"..got to meet 84 though.."

[raptorcanaria]

"That's just what I call Tuesday," Dinah says idly. But she lifts her head from where it's been lolling back, and grins at him. "She seems nice."

[basic_powers]

"Pbbbht." Really, it's in a well-meaning way that Beauford ends up sticking out his tongue at her. Sue him for not enjoying the bit with being thrown around.

"...yeah...yeah she does, doesn't she?"

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah grins, taking the tongue in the spirit in which it was intended.

"Has she been leading the team long?"

[basic_powers]

"She's only been leader for a little under a year now...on the team for than that. The former leader had to leave to take care of personal business." Beauford answers truthfully. "You curious about them?"

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah gives a tiny shrug. "Just in comparison. I don't think we're a new team, but there's always something to learn. The only other team I've worked with is the Doom Patrol, and they had a very different dynamic from us."

[basic_powers]

"I think the West Coast Division of the Earth Defense League is just learning with their new leader...I think most of the time she's still trying to figure out what to do with everyone as a team." Beauford sits up a little. "Hat Trick and Crusade only joined about 8 months ago..."