The Apartment Above Luke's, Saturday
Nov. 17th, 2018 03:08 pmAfter a big day outside - playgrounds! puppies! snow! - Katherine had come back to the place where she'd woken up and had promptly fallen asleep, all tuckered out by her adventures. Now she was awake again and hungry. The only cereal in the house was a sugar cereal, which she wasn't supposed to have and she wasn't allowed to use the stove without adult supervision.
But there didn't seem to be an adult in the whole house! Just her. That was funny. Who had a house with nobody in it?
She took a shower in the pretty bathroom and got dressed, figuring maybe she could find somewhere to eat. And another funny thing - she found a twenty dollar bill tucked away in the exact place she hid money back home: hidden in a pencil box in the top drawer of the desk. She painstakingly wrote out an IOU and put it there, and then sat down to plan her day.
First, breakfast. Then...puppies again, maybe?
[Open! Dante's thread chronologically last]
But there didn't seem to be an adult in the whole house! Just her. That was funny. Who had a house with nobody in it?
She took a shower in the pretty bathroom and got dressed, figuring maybe she could find somewhere to eat. And another funny thing - she found a twenty dollar bill tucked away in the exact place she hid money back home: hidden in a pencil box in the top drawer of the desk. She painstakingly wrote out an IOU and put it there, and then sat down to plan her day.
First, breakfast. Then...puppies again, maybe?
[Open! Dante's thread chronologically last]
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Date: 2018-11-17 08:20 pm (UTC)And... nothing.
It'd only been a little over a month since Kathy had gotten kidnapped on them. He wasn't leaving anything up to chances. And... so he found himself back by her apartment, knocking. "Kathy?"
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Date: 2018-11-17 08:29 pm (UTC)But Katherine didn't know about that. All she knew was that someone was knocking and she wasn't sure if she was supposed to answer it. She wasn't really supposed to answer the door at home, unless Daddy didn't want to be bothered, but there wasn't a grownup here to do it instead. Maybe it was a postman! Maybe there was an important package to deliver!
But what if it was a stranger?
Katherine compromised, opening the door a tiny crack, just enough to peek through. If it was a postman, she could open it more. If it was someone scary, she could shut it and run away.
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Date: 2018-11-17 08:31 pm (UTC)"Kath--" he started as the door opened.
Then stopped, blinking comically at thin air, and then at a little girl's face. "..y."
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Date: 2018-11-17 08:41 pm (UTC)So Katherine did the smart thing. She shut the door.
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Date: 2018-11-17 08:46 pm (UTC)Dante nearly knocked again, but thought better about it. Fuck, was she in there by herself? He fumbled in his pocket for the key, found it, and unlocked the door. "Kathy, it's okay, I'm-- the babysitter."
Ow.
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Date: 2018-11-17 08:51 pm (UTC)Though it did shift to reveal one dark eye at the word 'baby-sitter.'
That did make sense. A little bit. More sense than her being left by herself.
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Date: 2018-11-17 08:55 pm (UTC)Excellent lying, Son of Sparda.
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Date: 2018-11-17 09:12 pm (UTC)Her voice was very small. Much like her.
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Date: 2018-11-17 09:31 pm (UTC)Beat.
"Sorry for closing the door in your face, Mr. Babysitter. Are you gonna tell?"
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Date: 2018-11-17 09:40 pm (UTC)He held out a hand. "C'mon."
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Date: 2018-11-19 05:03 am (UTC)Either way, he figured it was a good weekend to check in with Kathy. He seemed to recall she had a tendency to have to play babysitter during these sorts of events, and he figured she could probably use some company.
And yeah, part of him was maybe hoping to get to meet wee!Kathy. He'd missed out on that part of her life, after all.
He knocked on the door, leaning in to see if he could get some hint about which it'd be. "Kathy? You in there, darlin'?"
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Date: 2018-11-19 07:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-11-19 08:37 pm (UTC)Eliot crouched down to be on a level with that eye, offering her a little smile.
"No ma'am," he said. "I'm the diner guy. Name's Eliot."
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Date: 2018-11-19 08:49 pm (UTC)"Hello, sir," she said, looking at him with big, solemn eyes. "The diner? The one downstairs?"
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Date: 2018-11-19 08:59 pm (UTC)Which would hopefully put him in a position of authority for her without being too intimidating. Kathy had told him about being painfully shy as a kid, but it was still a trip and a half getting to see any of it in person.
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Date: 2018-11-19 09:12 pm (UTC)She opened the door a bit and stepped aside. "Do you need to come in and fix something?"
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Date: 2018-11-19 09:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-11-19 10:04 pm (UTC)Her stomach grumbled, reminding her that no adults meant no breakfast either.
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Date: 2018-11-19 10:21 pm (UTC)Like make sure kids get fed. However this worked out, he'd be making sure she got a kimchi omelette. Preferably they'd have breakfast together, but he'd be just fine leaving it for her at the door and going away, if she didn't feel safe.
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Date: 2018-11-19 10:40 pm (UTC)There were shops! She had seen them. Which meant that there was someone around who knew how to work a stove.
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Date: 2018-11-19 10:51 pm (UTC)He wasn't going to jump straight to "let me come in and cook in here". He'd spent far too much of his life as the Bad Man to want any small child to trust him that much after just meeting him.
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Date: 2018-11-19 11:57 pm (UTC)Besides, it was lonely up here all by herself. She wasn't used to having nobody around.
"Downstairs?" she asked, like she needed to make sure it was still okay. "If it wouldn't be too much trouble."
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