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the_five_signs ([info]the_five_signs) wrote in [info]vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-07-18 00:59:00

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Entry tags:!complete, day 16, location: thrift store, remus lupin, rose tyler

Who: Remus Lupin & Rose Tyler
What: The werewolf inspects his new surroundings..
Where: Near the Thrift Store.
When: Day 16, 9:38am
Rating: PG (Rose & Remus.. Come ON! This isn't Jack & Jones)
Status: Complete

Remus had woken in the forest with strange people. He'd been polite enough but hadn't been particularly interested in sticking around to chat. He didn't have his wand and he felt a little sick to his stomach, and he was exhausted, and all he wanted to do was find a place to sleep. But he couldn't. He had no idea where he was, but he was relatively sure that it was muggle, because there wasn't anything magic around here, none of those people had wands.. and though the dark-haired man had looked like some sort of nymph, he certainly hadn't acted like one. So the werewolf had taken his leave and decided to explore on his own. He'd passed slowly by buildings, looking like a victim from some big-name zombie movie. His face had a patch of gauze over the cheek, taped into place, there was a cut over his opposite eyebrow, a little bit of brusing there along his jaw. One of his hands had gauze on the back and a few fingers had bandages. There were more of those patched wounds under his pale blue, white-spotted cotton PJs. They had long sleeves and long pants, and sock-covered feet were now dirty from walking on the road, and he'd come to a slow stop in front of the thrift store, looking up at the sign. Maybe he could find shoes in there, but then again, he didn't have any money to buy them with.

Where was he? He'd been asleep in his bed in the hospital wing, then he was suddenly waking in the forest with those people and.. the sixteen year old boy let out a breath and lifted an injured hand to ruffle through mouse-brown (sometimes dirty blonde, in the right light) hair, causing the small streaks of gray to spread out a little and become somewhat less noticable.

Now what?


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[info]the_five_signs
2009-07-18 11:18 pm UTC (link)
"Only as old as the Romans." The younger man countered smartly, but it came with a little smile. It was old fashioned. But then he was looking her over more closely, eyes lingering on her t-shirt, though it may have seemed that he was.. well.. staring at something else. But then he was looking down at her jeans, then her shoes, and back up. "Are the clothes in there like yours?" The clothes, of course, were nothing like hers.. the story was something straight out of the 1970's and most people here were trying to remain in their former clothes, rather than where what the very retro store had to open.. except Gambit, of course.

However, he was nodding some, looking down at his sock-covered feet again, hands tightening somewhat on the box he was holding as he looked back up at her. "I haven't got any money." He had considered the fact that maybe no one was tending the store, but still.. it'd be stealing to take shoes, or clothes. And he wasn't okay with that. Not at all.

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[info]jeopardysfriend
2009-07-19 02:20 am UTC (link)
Oh, he was adorable. Completely precious and she sort of wanted to cuddle him. Poor thing, all polite and smart and far too good to be stuck here, that much was certain.

She caught him staring and lifted her eyebrows, but Rose smiled. "Canterbury, hmm? What year?" No, Rose Tyler wasn't stupid. Even she could see that somethng odd was going on. People babbling 'star dates' in their journals, talking about planets she'd never seen (and she'd seen a lot of planets)...no, something was definitely not adding up. They were from different times. But where, exactly, had Jack and the Doctor come from? And why had neither of them looked as surprised to see her as she was to see them?

Shaking her head, she gave Remus a small shrug. "No, no, it's totally okay. I have no idea what's in there, actually, but from what I've seen, no one around here takes much note of personal property. Honestly, love, we're just lucky to be okay right now. We'll consider it a loan if it's that important to you, but you've got to get into something more suitable for this place than that."

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[info]the_five_signs
2009-07-19 03:31 am UTC (link)
"Yes, miss." He breathed in slowly, puffing out his chest only a little when she announced where he was from, in question form. But when she asked what year, he looked slightly confused, but answered all the same. "This year. Nineteen seventy six." Well, that was even further back than Remy!

However, she was then announcing that no one took note of anyone's personal property around here and Remus frowned only slightly, the bow of his lips turning down and a small furrow appearing between his eyebrows. "I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that." The younger man admitted, turning his eyes back onto the dirty glass door leading into the shop. "It's stealing, if you don't have permission. Even if you intend to return it." Proper Remus, even at such a young age. Oh, he wasn't without his more playful side, his prankster side, his friends brought that out in him.

But his friends weren't here now, were they?

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[info]jeopardysfriend
2009-07-19 03:47 am UTC (link)
Oh, the seventies! Rose had always wanted to see the seventies. It'd been on their list of places to stop, but things always turned them somewhere else. "Oh, do you know The Doors? Or Led Zeppelin? Always wished I could've gone to one of their concerts. Maybe someday, if I get out of-- Anyway." She pasted her smile back into place. Poor guy probably thought she was mad.

"And really? You don't have to call me miss. I can't be much older than you. How old are you, anyway?" As she rambled, Rose all but bounced over to the door of the shop. Now that she had a set mission in mind, she was in a much better mood, despite her lack of sleep. Damn Jack Harkness. Using her forearm, she wiped some of the grime from the glass. "Oh, they're practically ancient!"

Carefully, she tugged on the door, but it opened easily enough. Obviously. Remy had only been in there the day before, after all. "Come on, Remus love. We're stuck here. Whoever left us here left this here for us, right? May as well use it."

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[info]the_five_signs
2009-07-19 04:00 am UTC (link)
When she started naming off bands, Remus only stared at her blankly, before flushing a little and shaking his head. No, he didn't know any of those bands. He didn't listen to much muggle music.. only a few Big Bands, some jazz. The rest was all wizarding music, it was what was abundant in school. And it was all that his two best friends (pure-bloods, hanging out with a werewolf? Unheard of) listened to. So that was what he'd come to like.

"I'm sixteen, just this month past." But he wouldn't ask how old she was. You definitely didn't ask women.. he'd learned that the hard way, when he'd asked one of the young teachers how old she was, and he'd had his bitten off. Sirius had been there. And he would never, ever let Remus forgot it. It was a running gag, the poor boy. "Ancient?" He came forward to look through the glass as well, but then Rose was pulling the door open and he stepped back so that she could swing it out all the way, before slowly following her inside.

"It still doesn't seem right. It does belong to someone, and it's not us." Leave it to the crazy people running this place to stick a short, cute, battered conscience in the middle of the big glass box, just to make everyone second-guess their own decisions. This could be very good, or it could be very bad. Only time would tell.

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[info]jeopardysfriend
2009-07-19 04:08 am UTC (link)
But time was something Rose had a lot of. Even if she was home, she'd be wrapped up in events involving time. And her whole life, she'd never second-guessed herself. Maybe that was a negative more than anything; Jimmy Stone had all but ruined her life, but she hadn't looked back when running off with him. But she was going to use that bold nature to her advantage for the moment.

"Sixteen? Oh, you're practically a baby to most everyone here," she told him, entering the room slowly. "As far as I can tell, anyway. I'm nearly twenty." Though counting years grew a bit more difficult when on the TARDIS. For all she knew, she was twenty-one by then. She turned in a slow circle, taking in the room in general. "Come on," she said a moment later. "It looks like the clothes are this way."

They did belong to someone, but technically they belonged to a shop owner who seemed to have up and left. "They used to belong to someone," she corrected easily enough, finding the men's shoes easily enough. "What do you usually wear? Trainers? Loafers?"

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[info]the_five_signs
2009-07-19 04:23 am UTC (link)
"I'm not a child." He announced calmly to her, though it was hard to believe, being as bandaged and pathetic as he looked, in those polka-dot jim-jams and socks. It was very hard to believe, but his tone and his demeanor certainly helped it along. "I'm young, but I'm not a child." The werewolf repeated once again, in a softer tone.

However, he gave no argument as he followed her to the back of the store, where she stopped in front of the shoes. But Remus was inspecting the clothes.. this stuff wasn't ancient, it was the height of fashion. And the boy who was used to wearing big collars and wide-leg jeans while at home, would have no problem dressing like this. None at all. "I suppose you're right." He admitted after a few moments, finally turning his eyes back down onto the shoes in front of him. "Trainers." Finally replied, as he knelt down and moved a hand out to collect up a pair of red chucks, flipping them over to check the size. Seven. Perfect. They were worn and too-familiar to Rose, but the boy was setting his box down, then sitting fully to begin tugging them on, over the semi-dirty socks. Once they were on, he was standing up and taking a few steps to make sure they fit alright, before hazel eyes came up and he nodded at her.

"Thank you." Really, he should have gotten new clothes, too.. but he was pleased enough with having shoes. Remus Lupin was very easy to please.

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[info]jeopardysfriend
2009-07-19 04:33 am UTC (link)
Rose smiled at him. She liked this guy. He was going to be her grounding, she could already tell. "No, you're not," she agreed quietly. "I hate when people still treat me like a kid." And she meant that honestly. Half the time, the Doctor still did. And her mum, too. Between the two of them, she'd feel thirty one day and twelve the next. "It's like...look, let me grow up already, you know?"

While Remus got settled with his new shoes, Rose browsed the section they were in. Shoes everywhere. It was like a shoppers' dream come true. Except, of course, that they were all terribly old. "Ooh, platforms!" she said happily. "Always wanted a pair of these." She turned them over to discover they were a half-size too big. "Bet I can find other ones." And she could. Those were most of what they had.

A moment later, shoes in hand, she turned to survey his feet. "Perfect. They look comfy. You should probably find some pants and a shirt, too. You honestly never know what'll be thrown at you here." Hesitantly, she reached out, touching the bandage on his hand lightly. "And we should probably get you looked at. We have about a million doctors here, it's ridiculous."

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[info]the_five_signs
2009-07-19 04:48 am UTC (link)
He nodded his silent agreement with her statement. Though lately, a lot more adults had been treating him like one of them. It was really quite pleasing to him, that he'd earned that sort of respect. He only wished that he hadn't had to do it the way that it had happened. But then she was going on about some platform shoes and he turned his attention onto her to watch as she happily picked some out. Women. he'd never understand them.. and while she was looking for more, and telling him to find pants and a shirt, he was nodding.

He would have moved away to do as instructed, but a hand had come out and touched that bandage, and he looked down, eyes lingering on their hands for a second before he slowly pulled his back. "Thank you for your concern, I appreciate it. But I promise that I was attended to by a professional and that I am quite alright. I'll heal." A small smile lifted up onto his face then and he lifted his eyes once again to regard her calmly. "You're very nice."

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[info]jeopardysfriend
2009-07-19 04:55 am UTC (link)
Rose ducked her head and smiled shyly, shrugging her shoulders. Unfortunately, being nice wasn't always considered a good thing. "Sometimes I get told I'm too nice," she admitted, studying his hazel eyes. They were lighter than her own, but very nice. Where hers were more brown with green, his seemed barely speckled with the darker colour. They were an interesting combination, and she liked it. Not that she was getting close enough to a sixteen year-old to find out. Adam was one thing. Jack was another. But she was pretty sure the Doctor would put his foot down at her dragging around someone barely out of primary.

She pulled her eyes from him, then, to look towards the racks of men's shirts. "Oh, there's plenty here. We should be able to get you suited up in no time. And no worries about paying for it," she reprimanded. "If anyone says anything, we'll work it off somehow. But I doubt that's going to happen. Everyone here seems to use this place and I promise you, not one of them has money."

Of course, what was stopping them from coming in and taking everything, she didn't know. But she liked the honour system the city was under. Sure, some of them seemed a bit sketchy. But for the most part, they were just survivors, trying to find their way around.

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[info]the_five_signs
2009-07-19 05:08 am UTC (link)
"If everyone jumped off of a bridge, Rose, would you do it as well?" The younger man questioned her with a bit of a lift to his eyebrows. Oh, look at that. It was a Tiny Doctor! Too old to be as young as he looked. But all the same, he was smiling some and nodding, moving away and towards the rack of men's shirts that she'd settled her eyes on. They were all large, pointy-collared, with garish or earthy, swirling patterns. And all of them, save a few, were polyester. There were a few, of course, that were work-shirts.. but he wasn't reaching for one of those. He was reaching for a brown, toupe, cream and dingy yellow one, with swirling patterns.

Could you tell he was from the seventies? And he was looking at the size on the tag, then nodding once and taking it off the hangar, before carefully replacing said hangar, and moving slowly for the pants. A pair of wide-legged jeans were picked out, they'd sit low on his hips like everything in that era did, but the shirt was long enough to cover any flesh that might have been exposed. And once he had them both, he was looking around for a dressing room, modest boy (she was a girl!). And upon finding it, he headed that way.. but alas, there was no curtain. No door. Just hinges. And the young man let out a slow breath and went inside anyway. The pants and shirt were set down and he was unbuttoning his PJs, his back facing towards her, but he was facing a mirror. And if Rose looked, she'd be treated to a well-toned back and torso.. but his arms were bloody and bandaged, and though his back was only bruised up, his chest had butter-fly bandages holding together three slices, each about ten inches long, over his chest. He looked like someone had thrown him into a cage with a wild animal.

If only she knew.

He tugged on the long-sleeve shirt, but didn't button it up immediately, only stepped out of the cotton pants (which legs were bruised, and he had a few small cuts, and one semi-large gash on one thing, also closed with butter-fly bandages), but then he was stepping into the jeans and pulling them up. Perfect fit. If only Remus had that sort of luck all the time.

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