Who: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Dani Moonstar What: Obi-Wan returns after his walkabout/bear-slaying. When: Late Wednesday Night Where: Dani's Home (Also home to a few others, human and non-human alike...) Rating: PG-13? (TBD) Status: Complete
It was dark.
As he bounded down the front path, Obi-Wan was more of a collection of smells than a person at this point, and the visible signs of the last twenty-four hours were scratched into his skin, rubbed into his clothing, and embedded deep beneath his fingernails. He needed a shower, and unless he really planned on keeping the beard this time, he also needed a shave. More than anything, he reeked of cigarettes after spending the day in the close quarters of his car. If Dani hadn't already figured out he was a smoker, there was no hiding it now.
Because the front door he had just arrived at did not belong to himself, but, in fact, to Dani. True to his parting words to Kitty, he had spent the entire day driving in circles through nowhere in particular, while waiting for the heat from the developing story in Trabuco Canyon to die down. At one point, he must have crossed state. Into which state, Obi wasn't sure, but the Welcome To California sign that sprang up without warning was a strong indicator that it was high time he check in with something familiar.
He knocked on Dani's door, noting that the armed guard was curiously absent. He hoped that was a good sign. There were still some lights on, or Obi probably would have driven straight on through to home -- begrudgingly, of course, but decorously.
By nightfall, the mystery still hadn't been solved, meaning there were no leads pointing in his direction, but there was a theory gaining steady momentum that the polar bear may have been traveling with some kind of circus. Something about the animal's paws seemed to indicate performance training, but by that point in the story Obi couldn't make much sense of anything. His brain was fuzzy and his head ached, thanks to the ineffectual, watery diner coffee from the afternoon that never quite took.
The first thing he would do was ask for a cup of coffee. And he would warn her hold off on kissing him.