basic_powers | 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."

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

She doesn't need to say anything.

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...."

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

"I had a great time."

"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.."

"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."

"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?"

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

"Has she been leading the team long?"

"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?"

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."

"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..."

"They work well as a pair," Dinah offers for them. Which isn't as damning as it sounds; they were pretty good in the team as well. "Are they the newest members?"

"Yeah, both of them came out of a small-time team out of the midwest. They're doing pretty good I think, Hat Trick's only been in the news as a hero for about 2 years now, but Crusade's been around for about 9...or at least, that's how long he's been making news on the internet."

"Alterity's been on West Coast Junior Division for about the same length of time. Steel Sentinel's been around for the last 4 years on the team, and they've got a tech expert, Uplink, who hasn't made any public appearances outside of a press conference."

They're a much older team than the League then. Most of them are much more experienced heroes, as well.

"Must be hard," Dinah remarks. "Joining an established team."

She's not entirely thinking about this one.

"...yeah, the new guy or gal always has a hard time of it, I'm surprised she's fitting into the team so well." Beauford nods, agreeing entirely. "A lot of people think of the West Coast Division as being a sort of springboard for larger careers, though... young heroes get rotated in and out of there as they move onto other teams more suited for them."

"...there's the bus we want."

Dinah gives him a sideways look as she stands and hails the bus.

"Careers?"

...that was a word from the school pamphlets, damnit.

"Alright...going onto more famous teams. or Playing with the Big Boys."

"It still sounds heirarchical," says Dinah, not really groking that she's Justice League - on the top, looking down.

"Like there's a ladder, and you climb it. Like - I don't know, like sports teams."

She lets Beauford on to the bus first, of course - he has to pay for them.

"Some people with powers, sadly do only go into the heroing for the fame of it. Or to further their political group of choice."

He really wishes he were kidding about that last one.

Dinah gives him a look that's mostly a scowl, but it's not at him, in the slightest.

"Ugh," is all she says.

"Hey, you just summed up how I feel about those guys in a single syllable."

"It's a fine line they're treading," Dinah remarks thoughtfully. "I hope they keep upright."

"Me too." Beauford nods, relaxing into one of the seats a little, before tapping his fingers on the seat thinking again.

"......I should tell Julie about the Bar."

"Yeah?"

It's a genuine question, while Dinah gives him a curious look. "How d'you think she'll take it?"

"I have no freaking idea." He answers, completely truthfully.

"She could call me a damned liar and a crazed maniac or just brush me off, or actually believe me.... ...but I shouldn't have kept something like this from her."

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"Well," Dinah says, with the benefit now of knowing some of his history, "you get used to keeping a certain number of secrets, it becomes automatic.

"The only two of my friends who know are the one who already comes there and the telepath."

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