lieutenantantichrist | [8] Video/Action for Goldenrod, backdated to around the 9th

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[8] Video/Action for Goldenrod, backdated to around the 9th

[Jail is fucking boring.]

[They'd stuck Blake in a cell for a while until they figured out something about community service. It was a lot faster than back in the real world, but even crazy bullshit island has red tape. Blake's not sure whether that's nostalgic or not.]

[Cells are the same everywhere, too. He's never been on this side before. The novelty wears off fast.]

[He wishes he had a ball to bounce against the wall or something. They didn't even leave him any of his animals for company. Maybe that's a good thing. He doesn't know how he's going to explain this to Steve.]

[There's nothing but a book, and there's only so much anybody can take of The Dratini Code.]

[Blake leans back on the hard bunk and tosses his phone in one hand. When he got in here the one thing he was sure of was that he didn't want to talk to anybody, but nothing weakens that conviction like a couple hours alone with the hot, uneasy feeling in the back of his head.]

[He flips the phone open before he can think about it too much and says the first thing that comes to mind.]

[The face that comes up on the screen will look a lot less combative and more withdrawn than usual.]

Hey.

You think they have the Shawshank Redemption around here?

Maybe with one of those stupid puns in the title, and he digs his way out with one of those mole things. A little tiny one for finding rocks.

Seems like everything around here is like back home but turned the local kind of stupid. Do they even make any real original movies?

[In the crappy florescent lights shared by jails everywhere, the lines on his face look deep and weathered.]

I'm tired of nothing but the same old thing.

((OOC: Open for calls and visitors! Blake's in jail for punching Parker, but you don't have to broach the topic if you don't want to. He's not real proud of himself, so he'll pussyfoot around it unless asked directly. If you definitely don't want it to come up, just put in an OOC note.))

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[He had seen the feed, but hadn't made the connection of what city it was in until the next day when the ninja arrived into town early for the bug competition. So obviously the first thing he did was go off and see Blake in jail. After all, didn't this man claim to be a police officer?

Thus, Obito stepping into the room and waving at the man on the other side of the bars fairly early in the morning.]

Soooo, what'd you do?

[One of the Jennies had given him some breakfast. She left him a tin cup of coffee with the condition he didn't bang it on the bars, which got on his nerves. He hadn't been going to.]

[Probably.]

[He wasn't expecting any visitors to show up. It's that ninja kid.]

[Blake grunts.] Good morning to you too.

You make the third person I know to end up in jail. [He moved over and leaned on the bars, looking at him with a shake of his head.]

But good morning! How long are you going to be in there?

[With a touch of irony] You must know some great people.

Shouldn't be long. They say they're figuring out some kind of community service deal.

[He shrugs and looks aside] All I did was get in a fight.

Ahhh, see, you have to do that stuff where no one is watching. [He shook his head at him, curious.]

With who? Or what?

[Down by his collar, his neck reddens very slightly] I wasn't really thinking about that at the time.

Wasn't really thinking.

Somebody who was stealing from people.

Did she steal something from you, or someone you liked?

[Because clearly Blake wouldn't get himself in trouble for someone he didn't know.]

[Hey, he's a cop, sticking his nose into things that have nothing to do with him is his job. But in this case the kid's right.]

She had something that belonged to a girl I was looking out for until she disappeared.

[You say that, but that's not the impression you give the ninja okay?]

Oh. You know it's possible that it was left to her when she went home right?

[Blake snaps back sharply] No way. If she'd known her that well I would've known.

[Shit. It's a real possibility and it hadn't even occurred to him.]

Hey! Don't give me that! You can't know everyone someone knows. You also don't have to know someone well to get left something by them.

I got a pokemon from someone I'd only met once before so it just... doesn't work like that.

Then she would've said something instead of playing dumb and pretending she didn't know what little girl I was talking about!

Did she have a chance? You're not very good at listening.

[He barely lets him finish] I'm a great fuckin' listener!

[Here Blake, have all the unimpressed 'really?' faces.]

[he kicks at the base of a bar]

The point is, I gave her plenty of chances to explain herself. Instead, she tried to fight me.

Did you do it the way you normally do stuff because I think you'd do a great job offending most people, just so you know.

She might've thought that's what you were aiming for.

There's more important things to worry about. I don't give a damn if I hurt anybody's feelings.

What, a fight? That was collateral damage.

All I want is to find the kid.

....Is said kid still here? They might have gone home you know. Did you check the network?

[Blake bristles] I don't know, all right?! Her phone doesn't work, but that could be for all kinds of reasons.

[He bit his lip, then shook his head.]

No... I mean. It's a system. If the number is gone instead of not taking calls... then a person went home.

[Blake grabs onto a bar in a sudden, violent motion that makes his watch clang off the metal of the next one]

What if they don't have any home to go to, huh? What if they were finally fucking safe and now they're gone?!

[Obito leaned back, understanding dawning on his face.]

Then you can hope they come back, and that they remember.

[Blake glares at him, trying to find some smart retort.]

[His body sags, his grip on the bars the only thing keeping him up.]

[He's not real good at hoping.]

I can't just sit here and wait. The place she'd have to go back to...it's not place for a kid to be alone.

You're saying that even if she came back, she could forget everything?

Edited 2013-07-28 00:28 (UTC)

I... yeah. Yeah that's what I'm saying.

It's happened to me a couple times now, actually, but it's happened the other way too.

Edited (totally the wrong icon there) 2013-07-28 01:36 (UTC)

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