Killian Durant (life_in_fiction) wrote in shadowrises, @ 2016-01-06 02:39:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: killian durant, character: open, character: seth braconi, status: in-progress, type: thread |
Who: Killian and Open
Where: Perked
When: Tuesday, around closing
What: Free Drinks
Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
Come out for a drink.
He'd more or less invited everyone in Shadow Falls and he didn't think the seven hundred and twenty-dollar tip he'd received that night would be enough to cover drinks for everyone but he was counting on the fact that only the right people would get the message and know just where to go and he'd be alright.
Come out for a drink didn't mean the Lion, Shade, or any of the other clubs in town. Killian worked at Perked so come out for drink meant come down for a coffee. The shop would close in fifteen minutes but after six months of hard work, picking up extra shifts, and never saying 'no' to a single request his boss asked him, he'd been entrusted with keys to the store and given a pretty title on an engraved name badge. Mi Perked es tu Perked.
Calling the money a gratuity was a gross overstatement. It was more like a forced donation to his bank account. It had been left behind by a grave-faced woman who had stared at him and the rest of the staff for a solid forty-five minutes as she drank her coffee. He'd already had her wallet in his coat pocket when she came back an hour later desperate and crying. She needed to find it, that billfold contained all of the back rent she owed her landlord and if she didn't pay up by the end of the week she would be evicted. He did his due diligence to help her. He took down her name and phone number. He put on rubber gloves and searched trough the garbage cans and bags in the back of the store. He promised to call her if it turned up.
After she left he chucked it, empty, out the back door for maintenance to uncover the next day.
Really, Sarah Wade, if paying your rent and avoiding homelessness was so important to you you probably shouldn't have stopped to have a coffee before running your errands.
It was her own fault.
He was alone in the shop now, his closing work was nearly done. He just hoped someone would come by to take him up on his offer or he may just end up putting all the money back where he'd gotten it from and giving the woman a call back in hopes of a reward.
He'd much rather ruin her week, though.