(plz 2 b hitting me up if i'm posting this in the wrong place; i'm kinda new to big threads!)
Helping a stranger move into Pax during the middle of the night had definitely not been on Dominic's personal list of things he'd wanted to do before finally hitting the sack. But when he'd heard the unmistakable sound of a rather large vehicle outside he couldn't help that his curiosity was piqued. A glance through his kitchen window had shown him a sight that caused him to immediately frown, irritation rising further when he chanced to notice a peculiar post on the Pax forums (it was becoming something of a habit for him to leave the forum open in a browser while he otherwise tended to his nightly editing).
It was one thing to move into a new home at such a late hour, but another to block an entire apartment building's driveway. How were people to vacate the premises if there was an emergency? Not to mention the problems this would cause for Dominic himself, and anyone else that had a job in the morning which required them to be there on time--if the trailer sat there all night and day long, it'd bode nothing but massive disruption. Dominic hadn't often relied on public transportation since acquiring his license at the common age of sixteen, and he wasn't about to start now.
He'd begrudgingly agreed to help his new neighbor, if only so that his schedule wouldn't get thrown off come sunrise. It certainly wasn't altruism towards his fellow human being that took precedence this night. That could change, depending on the company he was about to meet, but Dominic mainly focused on tempering his irritation while he traded in his pajama pants for a spare pair of blue jeans, deciding not to change out of the brown cotton t-shirt he was already wearing. His apartment key safely in a back pocket (along with a lighter and a carton of Marlboros in case this was going to take extra long), Dominic made the short trip to the ground floor and outside, his nondescript tennis shoes scuffing lightly on the parking lot asphalt. He headed towards the offending horse trailer, which was quite impossible to miss.
Also impossible to miss were the two people gathered around the back of it. He was fairly certain he hadn't met either of these residents (in particular, the woman dressed outrageously loud would've been hard to forget). The other individual had to be the person who'd caused this disturbance--Richard, wasn't it? Right.
"Um, hi. I'm Dominic. I thought I'd come out here to offer an extra set of hands." Smiling faintly, he peered towards the opened trailer. "So, where do we start?"