Who: Fen & Jake What: Cameras and Hinkles When: Right after she arrived Where: The park Warnings: None Status: Completed GDoc
A person she met on the network was going to give her a tour and show her some place to eat called Hinkles. Apparently, they had really good cheeseburgers. Fen had tried those when she’d been to Earth before, and was looking forward to comparing them.
Eliot had taken her shopping to help her buy new clothes that wouldn’t get her stared at. Her Fillory clothes she put lovingly in a closet. Just in case. Something to remind her of home. But that meant she was in a sundress and sandals as she waited for Jake to meet her in the park.
This wouldn't be the first time that Jake offered a tour to a stranger. He didn't mind helping when it was needed, as long as the person didn't try to harm him. The last thing anyone needed was for his girlfriend to get pissed. Octavia was a force to be reckoned with considering where she'd come from. He, himself, wasn't a fighter and he didn't mind that. His photography gave him the amazing feeling that fighting did for some.
When he does show up at the park, his camera is actually around his neck. Not once has he ever used any type of digital camera. Something that he's sure drives Rowan crazy. There was a dark room that he used to develop pictures too. It was all very interesting.
Letting his eyes scan the park, for a moment, he eventually finds her and smiles," Fen?"
“Yes!” She answered automatically as she spun around to the sound of her name. Her smile could light up a room, and there didn’t seem to be a medium for it. “You’re Jake? Oh! What is that?”
She immediately spotted the camera. Fen had never seen one. Her exposure to cameras was limited to the ones on cellphones...which she used to take pictures of pretty much anything that caught her eye.
"I'm Jake."
He couldn't help but give a bit of a laugh and a smile at her enthusiasm. He'd never seem someone that enthusiastic before. Even with being in Madison Valley for as long as he has been, he wasn't used to it. Though, that smile only brightens at her question.
"It's a camera."
It was, obviously, nothing like what was on their phones. "Have you never seen one before?"
“Not like that,” she answered. That awe was still in her voice as she took a step closer to get a better look at the camera. “I have the one on my phone, but it’s not like that.” Fen straightened to look at Jake as if he just showed her a unicorn. Except she wouldn’t have been so surprised about that.
“What does it do different? Does it bring the pictures to life? Change the colors? Show the hidden things we can’t see?” The look on her face said any of those would be believable.”
That awe was amazing to Jake. He's never seen someone so awestruck by a normal camera before. Well, old fashioned camera anyway. Being a photojournalist had its advantages. The love he had for taking pictures was rather obvious whenever he did it. Cameras on phones? They just didn't do it for him.
"The pictures you take with this? They can be developed and once developed you can put them in a frame, keep them hung up on your wall. Like, right now, if I took a picture of you? I'd be able to take it back to the studio and develop it in the dark room. It would take a few minutes, but the pictures from cameras like these are amazing," he tells her.
“Like the pictures you can buy at Target?” Yes, she was becoming a Target Girl. People should be afraid. “I bought some to put on the walls of my chambers. So you do things like that?”
Then it occurred to her and she straightened, her eyes lighting up. “I saw things like this at Target! I didn’t know what they were! So I could get one, right?!” She had no idea there was a difference between his 34mm film camera and a digital.
"Almost like the pictures you buy at Target," Jake tells her with a bit of a smile. It was interesting to see someone that didn't really know what in the world he was talking about, not that it bothered him any. Why would it? However, he's never heard anything called chambers before. "You mean in your home or bedroom?"
He shakes his head," The cameras they have at Target is nothing like the camera that I carry with me." However, this outing hadn't been about cameras. "Did you still want to go to Hinkles?"
“My home here,” she clarified. “It’s in one of the buildings where a lot of people have their own chambers.” Fen knew she was forgetting what the word was, but she didn’t really care if she sounded stupid. She was learning new things and was very excited about it.
“Oh! Yes, please.” She was hungry and this Hinkles place sounded wonderful. “Can you tell me why your camera is different while we’re there?”
"Rooms," he tells her with a soft smile. "Here? They're called bedrooms and the buildings are apartments." Unless, of course, she lived in a house already. Then it was simply a house and bedroom. Her forgetting doesn't bother him. There were a lot of people in Madison that were different or learning about the place, as well as the culture.
He gives her another smile before turning to lead her away from the park and down a street, heading towards Hinkles. If she had questions about certain places then he'd help where he could. "I can tell you about my camera while we're there and why it's different," he tells her.
“Rooms,” Fen repeated as a blush came to her face. “Apartment!” Her excitement was back. “That was the word I forgot. Thank you. It’s pretty obvious that I’m not from earth, I guess.” It didn’t bother her most of the time since she enjoyed learning new things.
“That would be wonderful,” she said as she began to walk with him. “You’re very kind. And patient. Most people aren’t, and when I was in New York someone called me stupid because I wanted to know what kind of canine they used in hot dogs.”
"Actually, there are places around the world that don't have apartments. Most will just think you're a foreigner like some others that we have here in Madison," he tells her. It hadn't been obvious, in the least bit, that she wasn't from Earth. Some things were not as simple as not knowing a word or two.
He gives her a soft smile," Well, you'll find I'm a patient person and not like any of those people in New York." Though, he could understand the hot dog thing, in a way. He wasn't even entirely sure how that name came about. He waits for her, though, and along the way shows her different little places that she might want to visit later.
"Here we are," he tells her once they get to Hinkles, leading her inside. Hopefully, she'd get enjoyment out of the food and the place, in general.