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leah_clearwater (leah_clearwater) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2010-01-23 20:46:00

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eliot spencer, leah clearwater

Who: Leah Clearwater and Eliot Spencer
What: Eliot sees Leah defending a kid
When: Early Evening
Where: Outside a Coffee shop
Rating: TBA
Status: Closed/Incomplete

Leah had decided to go out for some coffee after work one night. She was standing in line behind a very large man and his son looking bored as always. Leah couldn't do anything without being bored these days. Maybe a normal life wasn't going to be the best thing for her anymore. She was already way past that. She was thinking about what she could do in this place that would help. She hadn't noticed the too sweet smell of any vampires around, so she wasn't sure how to make herself useful in this place.

As she was lost in thought about that, she was snapped back into reality by the man in front of her pulling his son up in the line just a little to roughly. That put up a red flag in her head. Someone who does that to their kid in public, usually does much worse things to them in private, so she decided to keep an eye on them. She got out of line after the two of them had left the store and followed them silently and unseen. It helped to have the wolf reflexes on her side for things like this, because they were there even when she was in human form. Then she saw what she had hoped would happen. The man had been fussing at the boy since they left the shop and when they had reached a secluded spot in an alley not too far from it, he twisted the boy's arm to the point that Leah had heard the snap before she was able to get there. Right after that she was on the man's back pulling him away from the boy, but he turned around and pushed her up against a wall. He punched her as hard as he could for interfereing but it didn't take much effort on her part after that to knock him out. After she had dealt with him, she turned to the boy.

"Are you ok? Let's get you to the hospital."

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leah_clearwater
2010-01-24 10:26 pm UTC (link)

She could hear how he felt about sending him home with his dad. She maneuvered herself back into Eliot's eyeline so she could look him in the eye. She shouldn't have said it like that, but she had a way of putting her foot in her mouth sometimes. She wanted to show him she would never do that. "No, he's not. I won't let him, but I don't know what else to do than call Child services." That was the truth. "You say you'll take him home with you, but he's not a puppy. How long have you been here anyway?"

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thatswhatido
2010-01-24 11:17 pm UTC (link)

"You ever done time in Children's Services?" Eliot glanced away, when he said the words. "It's not any better than what he's been dealing with, I can tell you that much." He knew from personal experience.

"We shouldn't have left the bastard there. You stay with the kid. I'll go have a word with dear old dad. I'll get him to name me an uncle, give me guardianship." He had every faith he could do it too.

He failed to answer her question because he felt it irrelevant, and he still didn't believe all the rumblings about a whole different plane of existance and alternate universes and whatever.

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leah_clearwater
2010-01-25 02:37 am UTC (link)

Leah looked down after he spoke about child services. "No, I haven't." It was soft, and a lot more vulnerable than her voice usually gets, but she didn't want to take Jake out of one bad situation to put him in another. Then when she heard about this so called conversation he would have with his father, her face shot back up to be looking him in the eye again.

"What makes you so sure you'll be able to get him to say that. He punched me in the face as hard as he could when I told him I was taking him to the Hospital." It was true, though there wasn't any proof of it on her face anymore.

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thatswhatido
2010-01-25 02:56 am UTC (link)

"Because that's what I do." Okay, not quite. But it was something he could do, would do. "Stay here. I'll meet you back here in half an hour." Chances were the doctor wouldn't even be done with the boy, by then.

He stood, started for the door. He looked back at her and frowned. "Guess he missed, when he tried to hit you." He nodded, seeing no bruising at all on her face.

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leah_clearwater
2010-01-25 03:11 am UTC (link)

Leah lifted her eyebrows in a quetioning expression as he said that was what he did. She wanted to see how this was done, or even if he could do it. Her general opinion of people, though, was that they could maybe do about half of what they said they could. "Ok, I'll see you in a half hour."

She just watched as he took the steps toward the door, but didn't answer his words about Jake's father missing. She only turned to walk toward the nurse's station. He didn't have to know how fast she really healed just yet, but if he had seen her face before she turned, it could have shown him an expression that wasn't false or even sarcastic.

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thatswhatido
2010-01-25 03:30 am UTC (link)

Eliot left the hospital and returned, as promised, exactly half an hour later. He had a piece of paper written in a sloppy hand writing, naming him temporary guardian of the boy. Of course, getting that to hold up in a court was a whole other ball game, and without the team to help pull it off, Eliot wasn't sure how he'd make it happen, especially if the dad skipped out.

He held the paper up. "I'm not letting this kid go in the system." He said, anger and venom in his words.

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leah_clearwater
2010-01-25 03:48 am UTC (link)

Leah spun around when she heard him coming back into the hospital lobby and very dryly nodded at his words. If he was able to get Jake's father to actually write that down on a piece of paper, he had to be pretty convincing, or pretty violent. She walked over to him, put her hand on his shoulder calmly, and obviously asking him to calm down. If he wanted to keep Jake out of the system, they would find out how. "Ok, we won't let him be put into the system."

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	thatswhatido 2010-01-28 01:58 am UTC (link)
	"Damn right we won't." Eliot shook his head. He folded the paper and put it in his pocket. "Have you seen the doctor yet?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	leah_clearwater 2010-01-28 03:13 am UTC (link)
	Leah couldn't help but look back to the door they had taken Jake through when he asked if she had seen the doctor yet. "They haven't brought Jake back out yet. I was just about to bust through the doors to see what was going on." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thatswhatido 2010-01-30 04:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Then that's what we should do," Eliot stated. He wasn't comfortable sitting around, waiting. Unless he was working a con, patience was not Eliot's strongest point. "What the hell are they doing with him back there?" He shook his head, and moved toward the doors that led to the back, where they had taken Jake. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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