WHO: Fix and OPEN! WHAT: Working on a car in the parking lot WHEN: November 1 WHERE: The apartment parking lot STATUS: OPEN/ONGOING WARNINGS: TBD
Now that October 31st had come and gone, Fix was feeling much better about...well...everything. Lily was safe for another full year, and he wouldn't have to keep himself tied to her side from now on. It wasn't that he didn't like spending time with her - he loved being with her - but he wasn't quite so used to being joined at the hip. It was nice to have a little bit of distance again.
Morning found him out looking for work; which he found quite easily. Apparently the person who had hired him when he had been here before had been quite content with his work and was willing to take him on again. He even pointed him in the direction of an old car he'd bought when he was here last time, which he'd saved for him.
He worked on it there a few hours, getting it into good enough shape that it would at least run, before driving it home and parking it. There was a lot of work to do on it, a lot of things that still needed fixed (it had been making quite horrible sounds, actually), and it would give him something to do.
And he needed something to do. Something to keep his mind off of being here. Something to keep his mind off what would happen to Lily if they ever went back. It was easy to just sit back and accept things for what they were, but he couldn't do that. He had to find a way to keep Lily alive when they got back. He couldn't...he couldn't lose her again.
He popped the hood to the car, and bent over it, lambskin gloves keeping his hands safe from the touch of iron as he tinkered. It was nice to have something familiar to do, something he was good at, and he found himself so distracted that he didn't even hear the person come up behind him until he saw their shadow fall over the car.
"Oh, hey," he said straightening. "I didn't hear you coming."
He'd have to be more careful; he'd already been beaten up once in this place, and his reflexes weren't as keen as they were in Summer.