the one you always run to (let_me_be) wrote in strange_ic, @ 2016-10-13 21:03:00 |
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Entry tags: | kimi delaney |
Temporary Relocation
Characters: Kimi
When: Tuesday, 4 PM
Location: downtown shopping area
After the sewers, she'd just wanted to shower and shower and stop smelling the smell and feeling the feels. The disappointment was the worst. She'd known there'd be nothing down there -- no Matty, no beast, no nothing -- but she'd sort of hoped to have it over and done with. Or at least find something. Some trace. Some sign. Some clue as to where it was, or where to start looking. Last time, it had taken them a while to confirm the sewers were likely, and longer still to find the way in. What would happen this time? And what role, if any, were the kids (what kids, really? Besides the one that had talked to Daniel ... ) going to have a part? It was maddening and exhausting to think about. So she'd done the thing she did when she was about to be overwhelmed. She refocused, applied logic, and did things in order of a list. First things first was her own place. Anrei was a dear for putting her up for the time being, but all things considered, Kimi figured she should make herself scarce. Reunited or not, they still had their own lives, their own connections, their own things to do while they worked on this. So her first stop had been the nicer local apartments where she negotiated a three month lease with an option to extend. It seemed safer than committing to a year (though she'd stay the year -- or longer -- if they had to). With a promise of keys tomorrow (how fortunate, that timing), Kimi moved on to step two which was finding an affiliate of her company that'd set her up with desk space and equipment she didn't have. Beast or not, she still had deadlines and things due to people who'd commissioned her for work. So after the inevitable 'what the fuck do you mean you're moving' argument, they finally found a place an hour outside of town. The commute was going to suck, but at least it wouldn't be daily since she could do most things from home. Then it was the other mundanities. Setting up mail forwarding. Finding someone to sublet her place back home. Finding a branch of her bank in the area. Somehow, a temporary move was more of a pain in the ass than a full move. She also thought she'd have to find friends to bring her things or take a trip home to get them ... but she'd see if there was a long enough gap in whatever plan they were concocting and go from there. With most of that taken care of, Kimi took to wandering around downtown. In clean jeans, sandals despite the not-quite-ideal sandal weather, a 3/4 sleeve shirt, she had her hands buried in her pockets, and her thoughts were a million miles away as she considered everything they'd been through in the past few days, and what was around the corner. |