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Kay (replicants) wrote in dunwichgame,
@ 2024-03-23 07:05:00

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!log/thread/narrative, blade runner: kay, schitt's creek: alexis rose, ∙ plot: 014 from the deep

Alexis & Kay

03.23 10AM | The Sable Salon | Low

Kay investigates a missing person.

⚠ Possible mentions of ghosts, death, dead bodies

The sign above the door creaked as it swung with the breeze rolling in from the ocean. It would've been eerie if one could pick up the sound over the bustle of a busy shopping street at noon on a Saturday. Most people wouldn't.

Kay wasn't most people.

Having exhausted his to-do list, he stood on the sidewalk across the street and watched the Sable Salon from afar. It looked different. Plastic protected the windows and there was scaffolding climbing up one side of the facade. Roof repairs, maybe. Or the masonry needed fixing.

Construction work was a long way from probable cause, but still it intrigued. Kay waited for a lull in traffic, then crossed the street with a sure step. He ignored the Closed! sign on the door as he rapped a knuckle against the frame.

Earlier, he had spotted someone enter the salon and hadn't seen them leave. Not the owner. The employee. Alexis. No one he knew personally, but that was no reason not to do his job.

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lovethatforyou
2024-03-23 04:26 pm UTC (link)

Alexis was mostly there to supervise the construction - because she was like super good at this, right, and she would throw down with any of these guys who thought they weren't going to follow her vision - or, Cinna's vision dictated through her - to a t.

So that's why she was at work all day when the shop was closed. She made sure to do some cleaning and things like that too, but mostly she was yelling (and admiring) the construction crew. When there was a knock on the door, Alexis rolled her eyes and muttered. "Can't they, like, read?"

Still, she put on a winning customer service smile and headed to the door, opening it up. Only to be greeted by a total hottie-boom-bottie so the smile became a big more genuine, reaching her eyes now. She leaned against the door frame, obviously checking him out/

"Can I, like, help you? Your hair is already perfect, I think that style is like totally working for you, love this visual journey you're on and we're, like, closed..." She pointed to the sign and the obvious construction going on around them.

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replicants
2024-03-25 06:54 am UTC (link)

If ever a question had been more effectively asked and answered, Kay would be shocked. Unfortunately, he was not easily deterred: not by running commentary or beautiful women. "Hi. I think you may be able to. I'm Officer Kay, with Dunwich PD." He showed his badge for good measure.

From somewhere behind Alexis, in the depths of the salon, came the sound of sawing. "Refurbishment?" Kay guessed. He had yet to set foot inside the salon, but others on the PD had done so. He made a note to ask their impressions.

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lovethatforyou
2024-03-25 12:51 pm UTC (link)

The surprise on her face that Kay was police and flashing a badge was not well hidden. No, Alexis wore emotions on her face pretty obviously and her wide eyes weird slightly downturned smile made it pretty clear that she was not expecting a visit from the police and that she thought getting one was real bad. Really bad. They hadn't done anything wrong though, had they?

"Yeah totally, can't run a beauty salon that doesn't look beautiful you know?" She laughed at her own bad joke and leaned against the door, arms folded over her chest. He was, obviously, not invited inside. "I'd invite you in but construction and all that. Ahh." She stuck her tongue out when she made the little ahhh omg noise, "There's like, liability and stuff. Are you here on police business?"

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replicants
2024-03-26 07:11 am UTC (link)

Kay looked down as he slid the badge back into his pocket, his lips twitching. Her concern for his wellbeing was touching. Unnecessary, given that a block of concrete could likely fall on his head and do little damage, but touching nonetheless.

He did note that Alexis herself didn't seem to be wearing any protective gear, though. Maybe she was impervious to the risks?

"Unfortunately," Kay admitted, when she asked his business. "I was wondering if you'd seen this man come in." He held up his phone to show her a photograph of Wright Jr., ripped from his social media. It showed a smiling man, handsome and young, posing with a lobster -- presumably the late Ms. Butters. "Perhaps during the Lobster festivities? Or after?"

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lovethatforyou
2024-03-27 02:47 am UTC (link)

Well, that was easy. "Nope." Alexis had a good memory for faces - especially if they were good-looking - but this guy was average. Still, she would have remembered if he had come in. "Maybe you can ask Cinna sometime, but he never came in while I was working." She smiled again, bright and maybe with a hint of annoyance in it, too.

"I didn't go to any of the lobster stuff. I have enough problems in this town not to like, take some risky chances to see some festival all about lobster." Besides, she could get her fill of lobster food from Owen if she really wanted to. At least she knew she wouldn't die there. "I figured it, like, wasn't worth the potential haunting or death or whatever Dunwich would want to mess me up with this time."

She, clearly, had some negative opinions on Dunwich but, well, who didn't? Weirdos, that's who. Alexis held her arms across her chest a little tightly, watching him. Damn, he had a good face. "Is there... like, anything else I can help you with?"

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replicants
2024-03-27 09:53 am UTC (link)

Kay made a mental note to ask Cinna, indeed, but he was in no rush to get in touch with the guy. Instinct – and Alexis's body language – told him that he was exactly where he needed to be at the moment.

"You said you have enough problems… Anything I can help with?" He wasn't above working an angle if it got his foot in the door and a few answers to questions he had yet to clearly define.

And if it didn't, well. There were always more doors to knock on.

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lovethatforyou
2024-03-27 03:18 pm UTC (link)

She could think of a handful of things he could help with, none of them appropriate for this conversation. Alexis remained closed off but leaning more casually against the door frame. From inside, something fell and Alexis gasped - a fine mist swirled and she disappeared.

Only to reappear two stores down on the sidewalk. She hustled back over, a loud 'ugh!!!' could be heard as she did so. "Issues like that so like unless you can stop random hallucination fever super power side effects then..."

Shrugging, Alexis carefully placed herself between Kay and the inside of the shop again. "My problems are pretty much just all bad luck related. Like getting sucked into the monster dimension going upstairs at Time and Again. On a Saturday!"

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replicants
2024-03-27 06:30 pm UTC (link)

If not for the fact that Alexis had been intent on blocking his way with her body, Kay would've called her disappearing act a useful trick. He weighed the possibility that a loud noise might be reason enough to step over the threshold, but in the end decided to err on the side of caution.

He was still waiting on the sidewalk outside when Alexis came stomping back, visibly annoyed. "Inconvenient," Kay observed. "And potentially damaging. Were you injured?" Not that he could do anything about it now. "Or were the owners difficult about the whole thing?" The clothing shop's upper floor was, from what he'd understood, a restricted area.

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lovethatforyou
2024-03-27 07:16 pm UTC (link)

Cinna would be unhappy if she let someone come in - liability, snooping, there were just too many things going on and Alexis was like, not the one to be handling them to be honest. "I'm not hurt. It is super inconvenient." She sighed, still annoyed with her lame superpower.

"No, they weren't all difficult about it. It wasn't restricted back then like, it was just a thing on the second Tuesday of every month you couldn't go up there but this was just a normal Saturday!" She said as if, hello! Isn't that nuts!??? "Usually you can go up no problem and see what they have up there but I opened the door that time and..."

Well, the worst time of her life had happened. "Anyway. That's all in the past now."

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replicants
2024-03-28 05:37 am UTC (link)

"Is it?" Kay looked down the sidewalk, in the direction of the shop Alexis had just returned from. "I see. In that case, is there any point in me looking into it further?" He arched his brow. "Or should I come back if I hear anything that might help?"

He'd be doing it anyway, curiosity and duty sure to get the better of him, but it was nice to be invited. And if Alexis couldn't help him with Wright, maybe she could help him in other ways. Dunwich was full of enigmas that wanted answers.

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lovethatforyou
2024-03-29 03:59 am UTC (link)

"That was probably the least inconvenient step I've done. The first one took me from my apartment to the beach. It was, like, miles away." She wasn't even exaggerating, and honestly, she rarely had to exaggerate. Her life was weird and dramatic in a lot of ways, even before Dunwich. She'd maybe use intense language but she rarely exaggerated.

Kay's willingness to help her had her smiling though, reaching a finger out to gently poke Kay's shoulder. "Youuu are like, such a sweetheart. Yeah, like, I don't know what it was all about but if you could find more about it that would be, like, amazing. Or you know, if you're not busy I mean if you wanted to look into it I would appreciate that."

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replicants
2024-03-29 06:12 am UTC (link)

Between her cadence and her antics, Alexis reminded so much of Mariette. Same gentle teasing, same easy flattery. "I'm not busy," Kay lied. He fished inside his wallet and produced a card. "In case you need to contact me. If Wright shows up, or you remember anything of note..." He let his gaze linger on hers for a moment. "Or any other reason."

With that, he nodded, and started to walk away. "Oh, I hope you've never teleported upstairs? I understand the attic door's locked shut." Per Hopper and Constantine's report, at least, it couldn't be opened through brute force or magic. "Talk about inconvenient."

And no longer applicable, if the sound of footfalls going up and down wooden stairs was any guide. Replicant hearing was sharper than a human's; Kay didn't need to see inside to know that the attic was no longer as off-limits as it had once been.

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