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got_hijacked ([personal profile] got_hijacked) wrote2016-09-12 07:18 am

Room 205, Monday Morning

Rhys had been blissfully unaware of anything weird going on in town this past weekend. He'd been engrossed in finishing up the work on a rudimentary arm so he could at least have two hands to build a better one. Or maybe another ECHO eye...

Whatever. It'd get made.

If he could work out how to get this arm slotted into place without having to contort himself like a circus performer.

"Son of a bitch, c'mon," he muttered, having to reach across his body with his arm in an attempt to see what he was getting hung up on. Which meant a lot of frowning and jamming his hand into his shoulder socket.

Of course.

[Open, yesss]

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Magic?" Rhys scoffed. Yep, totally scoffed. "Really?"

At least sirens could be explained with science. Maybe. He hadn't really looked into it because sirens were terrifying.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Faith rolled her eyes as an answer. "I'm hoping it was just a hazing thing."

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pretty ridiculous hazing." Get on their level, people. No, seriously. Get on their level. The boss fights will be a bitch if you don't.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pretty ridiculous school," Faith countered. Yes, complain away, kids. You hadn't even lived through a BDE yet. "I'm Faith, by the way."

She would stick her hand out for a handshake but his seemed otherwise occupied.
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[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Rhys," he said, offering the hand of his mechanical arm. Because he was a moron who thought he was funny.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Faith gave him a look like she was trying her best not to laugh, but gingerly shook the mechanical hand.

"Not a bad handshake, considering," she told him, smirking a little. "Nice grip."

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thanks, built it myself." He craned his neck a bit to look at his shoulder socket. "Could you...?"

You know, help jam his arm into place.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine, but only because he looked really pathetic doing it himself.

"Just know this is the weirdest thing a guy has ever asked me to do," Faith let him know as she manhandled his arm into place. She probably could have been a little more gentle with it, sorry Rhys. "And I've lived in dorms with guys since I was seven."

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Faith, that was his base state of being.

"Hey, last time I had this done involved doctors." Or at least people in lab coats. Same thing, right?

He made a high pitched squeak of surprise when it finally slotted into place and then both the arm and he jerked like they'd been shocked. Nervous systems syncing up and all.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wait, what?" Except then the arm slotted in and her half-second of alarm that she was doing something that required a doctor was for nothing. She stared at Rhys, specifically his shoulder socket area, and did her best to look cool and calm about this whole thing.

"So I gotta ask, why'd you take it out if you can't put it back in?" THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.
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[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn it, if only narrative could highfive.

"Longstory," he wheezed out in one quick sentence.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, right, it probably hurt to have a hunk of metal shoved into your shoulder. Nerve endings and all.

"Suit yourself," Faith said. While just observing his whole... process here.

...It was a little awkward, just watching him, but this was a weird, interesting spectacle.

"I'm just saying, maybe you could work out an arrangement with your roommate. They shove your arm back in, maybe you... sweep or dust every once in a while or something."

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ha! Ha. Yeah, no," Rhys replied. "Kuzco and I aren't exactly pals."
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ohhh," Faith said, putting two and two together. In this case, the first 'two' was the rant Kuzco had given in class about how much he hated his roommate and the second 'two' was Rhys. "So you're the guy who banished his roommate to the common room. Okay, okay..."

Hey, she wasn't judging. She was more like amused.

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"He did it first!" And Rhys couldn't figure out why no one believed he was actually an adult.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, I mean, I can't blame you," Faith said, and now she was grinning a little sheepishly. "He's really... loud."

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Rhys snorted as he flexed the fingers on his new hand, checking to see everything was working right. "That is such an understatement." It was precious how nice she was being here.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
She grew up in dorm style living, okay? She knew bad roommates. And, true, she never tortured them or banished them, but she certainly understood the impulse.

"Does he always whine like that?" she wanted to know. "It's a lot."

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
And Rhys hadn't had to dorm with anyone since college. Which made this even worse, really. "Apparently he's an emperor," he said, rolling his eyes.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"What? No."

...That was about all she had, yup.

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yuuuuup."

They were so dismissive of poor, poor Kuzco.
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
KUZCO COULD DEAL WITH IT. While stroking his silky robes in the common room.

"This school makes no sense," Faith muttered. "Or is this just how high school is? Because I have no frame of reference, but this makes no sense."

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait until he was a llama.

"High school is nothing like that," Rhys replied vehemently. "College isn't even like this."

First of all, where were the crippling student loans and anxiety inducing standardized tests?
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[personal profile] faithseesred 2016-09-12 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Faith raised her eyebrows. "How do you know about college? Older sibling?"

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-12 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Remember that long story?" Rhys asked, making some crazy eyes because his life. His life. "I'm supposed to be twenty-nine. Not sixteen."

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