Fandom Into the fire (1x1 MzHyde/Gallifrog)

[MzHyde]

Kay looked over at the menu. Everything sounded so good to her. "I'll take the cheese bean burger and fries. Thank you AJ" she told him.

She too took a marker from AJ and watched Elliott as he went towards the wall. She was curious what he would come out with. She looked around to see what others had done before them also.

Then creativity hit her and she found a spot the perfect size for her to doodle. She would call it a doodle, anyone else would call it a full blown piece of art. The image was rough and sketchy but detailed. She had learned to speed draw a couple of years ago as she used it as an outlet, when she wasn't sneaking into cinemas or such things.

The sketch was of hooded woman, raising her arm to a sheathed sword behind her back. Her hair blowing out under the hood. Her eyes dark, determination in them. She included swirling words that read "death was her curse and gift. For death had been her good friend these long long years"

She stepped away from the wall and analysed her work.
(Inspired by the artwork in the thumbnail)

 

[_gallifrog_]

A.J. nodded, then went off into the back of the restraunt to perform whatever rituals were involved in making a burger. Elliott's sketch was done purely in black marker and showed an astronaut and a deep sea diver. the drawing wasn't big as such, it fit neatly over the window frame. The astronaut was hanging from the ceiling and the diver coming up from the ground. His style was recognisable from the two drawings in the room Kay had woken up in. He, like Kay wrote underneath it, but Elliott's writing was jagged writing. "Connections" was his title

(last post, its kinda short)

 

[MzHyde]

Kay looked across and saw what Elliott drew and suddenly it all clicked into place who the artist was of those murals in her room. "Nice work" she commented.

"Guessing it's your work in the room I'm using back at John's?" She remarked. Standing beside him. "You got talent" she said once more, admiring the work.

 

[_gallifrog_]

Elliott's first response was a sarcastic quip. "Well, it was hardly John that drew them, he has depths sure, but there are dark, murky and full of rotting plants. He's not the artistic type. Chas is more of a crosswords and puzzles kinda guy, so that really only leaves me, art is my thing in our little triumvate" He like John, used the word triumvate to describe the group of himself, Chas and John.

"Yours isn't too bad either" It was as close to a compliment as he was going to go. He capped the marker and sat down on one of the chairs nearby.

 

[MzHyde]

Kay rolled her eyes at his sarcastic quip. "Just can't take a compliment like a normal person can you?" she thought to herself. He was going to be a tough nut to crack but she always did like a challenge.

Then she cocked an eyebrow when he gave an half assed compliment to her own drawing. Sure, it may not be as detailed as his but she was proud of it. Even if it didn't impress him. She sat on a chair opposite him and leaned back into the chair, folding her arms and crossing one leg over her knee.

"You don't trust me do you?" She said matter of factly. She just couldn't keep her thoughts to herself any longer. She just had to drill him.

 

[_gallifrog_]

She hit the nail spot on with her comment. He didn't trust her at all, he'd known her all of a few hours, nowhere near long enough for him to get a proper read of who she was. It took him far too long to trust people, which was a great source of annoyance, but once those people learned about his oast and the events that had lead him to meeting John, they understood why.

But Kay didn't know this stuff. She probabaly just thought of him as broody, dark, cold hearted and an asshole. Most people did. He swung himself back in the chair, so that the back of it and the back of his head touched the wall. "Nope, I don't considering I've only known you a few hours, why should I?"

 

[MzHyde]

She watched his whole attitude and just found herself smirking. She had seen this attitude so many times before....a lot of the time when she looked in the mirror.

"Hey, I get it. I'm this new 31 year old chick that's just showed up and John makes you babysit me by disguising it as parkour training. You know nothing about me and vise versa. But here's the thing-" she began.
"I can tell from personal experience you've gone through shit that changes you as a person. There's shit you won't even talk to John and Chas about. You put on this full blown asshole persona to hide from and move on from what you went through." She went on to say. Her observation skills clearly coming into view.

"How I'm doing so far?" She asked. "Look, you wanna drill me? Go for it. I can give as good I get" she told him.

 

[_gallifrog_]

Elliott hated the way that the world viewed him just another typical trenchcoat douche was the first thought of most people. He was tired of it, like so many things in life. Kay's observations of him were both completely right and completely wtong at the same time. She was trying to get to know him, he recognised that much, but he wasn't sure if he wanted her to.

"Shit is an understatement when it comes to my life. But yes, shut it out and move on is my tactic of choice." I did, after all, learn from the best was the part he didn't say aloud. "So how 'bout this? I ask you a question, then you ask me, we answer as best we can" He proposed. He had a sense of balence, she might as well learn something about him, if she was willing to talk about her no doubt dark past

 

[MzHyde]

She nodded at his response. She uses the same tactic which is she recognised it. It wasn't exactly an uncommon tactic to use either.

She smiled when he caved a tiny bit and suggested what he did. "Deal, I'm an open book" she told him. Sure, there are things she'd rather keep secret but she had to crack his wall he'd built up and show she was trustworthy. If they were gonna help her keep out of demons hands, then she felt she had to prove they could trust her, and if that meant starting with Elliott, then she'd do it

 

[_gallifrog_]

He'd rather not have gone first, but that was the way he had ended up. He knew how this would go, they'd start with basic questions, then slowly move towards the crucial ones, like some kind of twisted game of chess or Cleudo. Eventually one of them would go too far, forcing the other to either tell some henious truth about themselves, or declare themselves done with questions.

"I'll start with the boring stuff then, get it out of the way. Do you have siblings and where did you live before going on the run?

 

[MzHyde]

She was pleased with herself for making him go first. He suggested it, so he could start it was her thinking. She kept eye contact with him when he decided to start with the boring basic stuff.

"No siblings. I was an only child. Guess my folks thought I was enough to handle. As for where I lived? I lived in Highbury and Islington before going on the run. Briefly lived in the States in my teens before moving back home." She truthfully answered him. This was why being on the run came naturally to her and why she was so tired of it. Being on the move was all she knew.

"Okay, your turn. How long you known John and Chas for?" She asked.

 

[_gallifrog_]

Only child. That was unusual, at least in Elliott's mind. Her perpetually moving chuldhood didn't escaoe him either. He had stayed in London in his younder years, but as he got older, he went wherever John went.

Elliott did a quick calculation in his head (not that it was really neccesary) before replying to her question. "I've known them for almost twelve years now." twelve years next week to be precise. "How long have you been on the run for?"

 

[MzHyde]

She watched him clearly calculate the years. It was a facial expression a lot of people did when they try to think back on how long they've known people. She nodded when he said twelve years. That made sense to her if John had adopted him.

"I've been on the run for nearly two years..about a year and a bit to be a bit more accurate" she answered him. It always amazed her deep down just how long she'd lasted on her own. With her limited skills in all theories she should be dead by now. But somehow she's still around and fighting for survival.

"How long you known magic for?" Came her next question

 

[_gallifrog_]

Now that was a question with a slightly more complicated answer. Magic had always been part of his life, in soje shape or form "All my life I knew I had abilities, but I didn't understand what it was properly until I was six or seven. I started experimenting aged nine(ish). I wasn't properly trained until I met John."

"Why did you go on the run?"

 

[MzHyde]

She listened to his answer. She found it really interesting that he always had the ability but John truly showed him what he was capable of. At least, that's how she interpretated his words.

"Bit of a long story. But to try and make it short, my roommate and one of my best mates flipped on me one night. He came into my room to ask me something but saw me holding fire in my hands. Next thing I know he's muttering how 'its me' which may I add, now makes sense, grabbed for my fabric scissors and tried to attack me. I freaked out and went on the run." She explained.

she then took a few seconds to debate her next question to him. "Why did John adopt you?" She asked finally.

 

[_gallifrog_]

It was obvious to Elliott, as it now was to Kay that this "mate" knew what she was and was more than likely working for the wrong side. Her next question, require thought, how to answer it without saying "I'm actually an alien, I got kicked off my planet and told I'd be killed on sight if i ever returned"

"My people were extremely, I mean extremely magic racist. When my gifts started showing they kicked me out, exiled me, banished me... whatever you want to call it, the fact that I wasn't even a teenager yet didn't matter to them. Had I not ran into John when I did, I would have died" The word people seemed to mean tribe and not family in this case. As he spoke there was hatred in his voice and in his eyes. Whoever these former 'people' of his were, Elliott despised them with a passion.

"Did your pheonixness ever show itself when you were younger?"

 

[MzHyde]

She waited for him to answer her question in his own time. The fact he was thinking of how to word it, meant she hadn't over stepped her place. She was thankful he didn't shut her down.

Listening to his story, sadness for him showed in her eyes. "People can be so cruel" she remarked. Then he asked about her and it was now her turn to really think back for the answer.

Eventually she shook her head. "Not really... Well, apart from the voice in my head I guess. Nicknamed her Fee when I was younger. I feel like my folks knew though... They'd call me their little FlameBird but thought it was just a thing due to my name meaning Flame. It was only when I got my teens, around 17-18 that I started uncontrollably summoning fire out my hands." She told him.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"Maybe they did.." was his comment. He didn't believe in coincidences, there was always a connection somewhere.

The food arrived at that moment. Their waitress was another red-head, whose face looked startlingly familiar. Her eyes were yellow green, and her natural red hair was cut in a jagged asymetic cut. The left side cut off well above her shoulder, while the right hand side fell to her shoulder. "It really is you! I thought Age was bullshitting me again." She grinned, in a familar Irish accent, as she poked Elliott hard in the side of the neck.

Elliott rolled his eyes and jabbed her hard in the ribs. "For once he wasn't"

 

[MzHyde]

Kay sat up when the food arrived. Oh how she was so ready for this meal. She watched as the redhead seemed over the moon to see Elliott. There certainly was a connection between them both Kay thought. She didn't think just anyone would get away with jabbing him the way she did and still live to tell the tale.

She stayed out of the conversation just to be polite, after giving Elliott a bit of sass only a short while ago before starting the 100 questions game.

 

[_gallifrog_]

It was when A.J. stuck his head out of the kitchen and yelled that Kay would realise who the other girl was. They were siblings, most likely twins considering how identical they looked. "I don't bullshit!" "Pfft, yes you do, you speak more bull than truth" she snorted. "Ignore him El, he's just pissed that he lost 50 dollars in a bet on when you'd be back" "I should be insulted that you guys bet on me, but we all know A.J. is a bad gambler."

"I am not!" The girl pulled out a 50 dollar note and waved it in the direction of her brother, as he walked over. "This says otherwise." Elliott couldn't help but laugh at the antics of the twins. "give it back then" A.J. tried and failed to grab the note, his sister nimbly getting out of the way by jumping backwards over a table and making a sprint for it. A.J. ran after her.

This resulted in her being chased around the room, before she made a soectacular flying leap through the kitchen doors. "Póg mo thóin A.J." she cackled from safely behind the doors, giving him the finger.

 

[MzHyde]

Kay noticed the likeness between her and AJ and smiled to herself. "Twins...of course" she thought to herself. She took a couple of fries off her plate and took a bite, not being able to wait any longer, whilst the three of them bantered.

She couldn't help but chuckle at the girl giving her brother the finger as she escaped in an impressive manner. She then went back to her food, taking a bite out of the burger. Closing her eyes as her taste buds and stomach became very satisfied. "Damn that's good" she commented when she finished her mouthful.

It took all her might to not wolf down her food. But she had to not look like an utter animal infront of Elliott.

 

[_gallifrog_]

Elliott understood what she had yelled, he'd picked up a lot of random Irish from his times with the twins. "That's totally normal behaviour for those two by the way. They spend their time driving each other up the wall for no reason other than they can. Must be a twin thing" he shrugged

Kay' enjoyment of the buregr didn't go unnoticed "why else do you think I come here so often?" There was a genuine warmth in his voice. "And no A.J., it's not to see your ugly mug" "oh please, I am gor-geous. Stop being such a hypocritical broody bisexual over there."

The antics of A.J and his sister hadn't raised an eyebrow among the other dineres there. Clearly this was part of the experience of didning at Mac's. Elliott didn't eat ravenously, but his food was disappearing at an extraordinary rate

 

[MzHyde]

When Elliott told her that was normal behaviour for the twins, she nodded not totally surprised. She figured it was a sibling thing in general.

She smiled when he responded to her comment on the food. She sensed the warmth in his voice and it was refreshing to hear him be like that. She was about to reply when he and AJ bantered with each other again. She looked up from her food when AJ declared to the place that Elliott was bi. Something that never phased her at all.

Her best friend from university Sam was gay and constantly showing her potential girlfriends pictures. It was something Kay found sweet in their old friendship. She hadn't heard from Sam for so long now she came to think about it. She just hoped she was doing well in university or wherever she ended up.

She continued to eat savouring each mouthful until she had finished. "I can totally see why you come here now" she commented.

 

[_gallifrog_]

Elliott finished well before Kay, so he sat back and waited for her to finish. A.J. had busied himself with serving other customers, somehow managing to act like a functioning human during this time. It was clear that most people in Macs were regulars, the main ages being teenagers to young thirties.

"I found this place by accident and worked here for a while, when I wasn't busy with John. Hence why the staff know me so well." That wasn't the full truth, there was far more reasons for him to go to Macs than just the food.

 

[MzHyde]

When she finally finished she too sat back. She listened to what he had to say, "explains the clear connection you have with them. It's nice to see" she commented. She didn't know if it was the full truth or not, but she was glad he felt he could tell her anything at all.

She then glanced around taking in the other bits of art and lyrics etc on the wall. It was a go to action of her if she finished a response but didn't know what else to say. She would just look around instead.

Looking back to Elliott, she spoke. "Thank you for bringing me here" real gratitude in her tone of voice.