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Faolan ([personal profile] reticence) wrote in [community profile] undergrounds2015-06-18 12:29 pm

[OPEN] I'VE SEEN TROUBLE ALL MY DAYS

A. WORKING HOURS
It's a slow day. With no clients booked for the afternoon, Faolan's finding himself with an unusual amount of time on his hands. Not one for being idle, he finds himself roaming the streets, rather idly, hands tucked in pockets, looking as nonchalant and unassuming as one can. Which isn't hard, considering the fact that he's a wiry little Irishman, standing 5'6" at full height. Looking a bit like he'd rolled out of bed only hours ago (perhaps he had, in all honesty), with a healthy growth of stubble on his face, curling into his rough brown leather jacket despite the warmth of the sun above him, he doesn't exactly make himself look approachable either for that matter.

It's going to be a long night. A long night after a long night the night before, and as he blinks up at the sky above him -- is that really the sun though? -- he decides that coffee is in order. In desperate order. Stopping in the nearest shop he can find, he orders himself the simplest drink he can and sits huddled against the counter, curling over it and willing the caffeine to do its work and snap his brain into functioning as well.


B. PREP WORK - HILLINGDON
Despite the lack of clients for the afternoon, Faolan's got a job that evening. As people start to get out of work and shuffle home to their normal families and their normal lives, Faolan decides to head over to Hillingdon House and see if he can find anything interesting to use on his hunt that evening. If there's anything that can be counted on, it's the fact that if anyone's at the "Hunter's Retreat", as they call it, then they might have some goods to share. Or to at least show off, if nothing else.

It makes the fact that he has no one to go home to and nothing but the hunt ahead a little more bearable than it otherwise might be.


C. ON THE HUNT
Faolan should have known that the tip had been shady. McCoy was good for some things, but details certainly weren't his strong suit, and Faolan had been less on the ball about his research than he probably should have been. He should have known that getting a lead on the location of the vampire he'd been after for the past week was too good to be true, that he wouldn't be alone, but he hadn't been thinking too hard about it. He'd killed four children, three of them under the age of ten, and Faolan wanted him dead.

So he'd gone in alone and unprepared for not one, but five vampires to greet him. He's a good shot and he'd made every one that he could count, but as his gun clicked empty and two of them still advanced on him -- two of them with their pet werewolf for that matter -- Faolan knew that he had a problem. So he ran, throwing himself down the stairs, through the closest window and off the fire escape down one storey to the alleyway below. He has just enough time to assess that the damage from the fight before, breaking through the glass, and falling from that height isn't too bad that he can't go on, before he hears the sound of the wolf scrabbling after him from above. Making a split second decision, Faolan stows the gun behind a dumpster nearby -- hoping the thing will be in the same spot when he comes back in daylight, since it won't do him any good now -- before he takes off at a run towards the nearest open area he can find. It won't follow him out into the lights of the street and the lingering evening crowds around, will it? God, he hopes not.


D. CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
What it says on the tin!
detectiveofthewest: (Heiji: deduction)

[personal profile] detectiveofthewest 2015-06-26 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Be sure to pick each broken piece of glass out of yourself, Faolan...

Heiji considered the question. "Well, I ain't too crazy about vampires. And it'd also be nice to be on Hillingdon's good side. But the alternative was sitting back and watching -- and that's just not something I was willing to do."

Certainly, there were those out there who wouldn't have particularly cared if one human lived or died. But Heiji was not one of their number.
damnyank: (5)

it's fine! :3

[personal profile] damnyank 2015-06-26 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Trust me, it ain't a do-gooder you've stumbled into, Faolan. It's a man with foresight, who figures that apprehending a culprit early means less work by the time the corpses are getting cozy in his dead room. He's close enough to work for this potential case to become his division's problem, and the last thing Jackson ever wants is more work.

Scratch that. The last thing Jackson ever wants is this-- to suddenly be pulled in and dragged headlong into whatever mess this man's made manifest for himself. But Faolan's momentum is forcing him forward, unable to resist his lead. They pass two parked cars and a street light before Jackson gets a hold of himself.

"Let--" He yanks his arm back with surprising strength. "--go of me!"

Jackson extricates himself from Faolan's grip, immediately stumbling backwards, and nearly spraining his arm in the process. He brings them to a halt. "The hell are you doing? Besides askin' me to pack this lead into your jaw?" He draws the gun, pointing it straight at him. "Trust me, I ain't shy."
whatmatters: (lets talk about that)

[personal profile] whatmatters 2015-06-26 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Ringer drops her hands when he finally takes the weapon. She immediately takes a half-step back to regain her own personal space and is already turning to leave when he speaks again. She pauses, glancing up at him, and replies in the driest tone she can manage. "A crossbow."

The short stare that follows suggests that it might be joking, but it's nigh impossible to tell with Ringer, whose humor is equal parts sincerity and teasing even in her own mind. If nothing else, his attitude serves to ease her anger. She reaches up to tuck her hair behind her ears in a mostly perfunctory gesture. "It's yours. Do whatever you want with it."
Edited (typo) 2015-06-26 04:07 (UTC)
emotioneater: (Older than you)

[personal profile] emotioneater 2015-06-26 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
Cooper ambles towards Faolan with a slow gait. He's got no reason to hurry. If the wolf finds them, he can always duck out if things get hairy. "Then I must be lookin' at a fool. Soon t'be a dead fool, if your luck runs out." He laughs, an amused sound with just a hint of cruelty behind it.

There's an overturned wooden crate in the alley and he hops on it for a moment. As he hops off, he notes with satisfaction that he's facing someone around his own height. So rare in this day and age. People had been a lot shorter in the 18th century. "Why is the dumb pup after you?" He wants to know the beginning of the story before getting anymore invested in it.
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[personal profile] mountainbones 2015-06-28 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Danil blinked again, and then nodded. "Right, you could." He replied, with only the slightest pause. It had been a while that he had spoken to anyone outside of work, and just that conversation was normally limited to the basic necessities. Not to mention that he hadn't managed to spill his drink on anyone there as well.

His stomach twisted, tighter, a sudden rush of anxiety rushing over him. With it came a strange, compulsion, something tugging deep in the marrow his his bones, something that just felt as natural as breathing air. The hairs on his arms stood up stiffly, and he found himself reaching for something within him, a well, and untapped pool of potential.

He doesn't have to notice you. You could slip away, fade into the background, you could-

Danil, already pale, whitens a few more shades, corners of his lips pulling tight, the muscles of his jaw standing out, harsh. He didn't need such things, wasn't going to be seduced by them. He could get along just fine. Another slow, breath and the tension faded away and he could look Faolan in the eye again. "Let me buy you a cup then." He tried a smile on, and added on, lying, "Sorry. Tired. Working nightshift and all."
knightscode: Back the fuck up (♠59)

[personal profile] knightscode 2015-06-28 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
A wolf? Loose in London? Perhaps the man means a... wolfhound? Or something that looks like a wolf, a malamute or husky? His first instinct would be to call this equally the work of drugs of alcohol but... no, his pupils aren't blown out and his injuries --

His injuries have been done by an animal, or at least he hopes they were.

"You need to see a doctor," Lancelot advises, "you may need stitches. May I see...? It's all right, I've been trained in first aid. I'm a police officer."

Which he hopes is reassurance enough that Lancelot can and will help all he can, although it may not be if Faolan is nervous of the police. Plenty of people are, he knows, enough that even an off duty officer may make them feel uneasy.
knightscode: Back the fuck up (♠59)

[personal profile] knightscode 2015-06-30 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Lancelot nods once in understanding, then he's gently herding Faolan a few steps toward the outside seating area of a nearby cafe -- guiding him to sit and crouching to inspect his arm. He frowns, leans back to catch the attention of a girl clearing a table to ask for water and a cloth before shrugging off his jacket and rolling up his sleeves. Mostly to keep from getting blood on them.

"I'm going to need to push your jacket off and try and roll up your sleeve to get a better look. If it's too stuck or won't roll high enough I may need to cut it."

His voice is low and steady, eyes flicking up from the wound to catch Faolan's own. It may as well have come straight out of a police handbook. 'Speak slowly and clearly to the victim, make sure they understand the situation.' Even if Faolan is lucid enough that he probably knows exactly what is going on. You can never be too careful when someone's been attacked.
knightscode: Puppyeyes (♠38)

[personal profile] knightscode 2015-06-30 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Lancelot sits back to give Faolan space, watches the way he moves as he shrugs off the jacket. Watches as he winces before leaning forward to take it carefully and lay it on the table. He inspects his arm, unbuttons his shirt cuff and carefully begins to see how far he can push up the sleeve.

"Did the animal bite you?" he prompts gently, "or just scratch? Did you see if it was injured at all itself? Bleeding? Twitching as if it were ill?"

The barista appears again with a paper cup of hot water and a cloth and Lancelot turns to her, mouths gloves? questioningly and she hesitates before disappearing to grab a pair.
detectiveofthewest: (Heiji: words words words)

[personal profile] detectiveofthewest 2015-07-01 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Heiji blinked; for a second, he'd forgotten that the humans here had forgotten most of what they'd once known about the Other Realm.

"This is Faery! That door took us through to the Other Realm."
whatmatters: (stg)

No worries! <3

[personal profile] whatmatters 2015-07-05 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ringer bites back a mocking retort about the man's inferior life if he's not being handed crossbows more often. Tempting as it is, his request distracts her and she stares at him blankly, eyes narrowing with vague suspicion as to whether or not he's sincere. She's certainly met people dumb enough to expect everything handed to them, but this man wasn't expecting anything at all. She replies with a tone that's as demeaning as his question is ludicrous. "I have some at home you can buy."

She can also direct him to Sasuke, assuming he pursues the line of questioning and isn't trying to pull her leg for sport. At least the next question makes more sense, albeit it's one she was hoping to avoid by shoving it in his chest and leaving. Ringer loosely crosses her arms, already defensive. "No. It's legal. I don't want it. You don't need to know why."
whatmatters: (says here you're full of shit)

[personal profile] whatmatters 2015-07-06 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
He has a point. Ringer doesn't question it, all too keen to hand over her name and number if it means being rid of the damned thing. For reasons she finds difficult to accept and even more challenging to articulate, she wants to see that it's passed on to someone else and hopefully used rather than simply tossed in a dumpster. Although the sooner it's out of her sight the better.

The girl slides a pen from her back pocket and uncaps it. Without hesitating or asking permission, she reached out to take the hand of his that's less essential for holding the weapon. If he pointedly resists, she'll stop. Otherwise she'll go about pushing up his sleeve and writing her name, RINGER, and mobile on the inside of his forearm.

As she endeavors to do this, she lets out a small sigh. "I inherited it from someone I want nothing to do with."
detectiveofthewest: (Heiji: excite)

[personal profile] detectiveofthewest 2015-07-06 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. Not the most polite way to word that question, but Faolan had just had a near disastrous run-in with a bunch of vampires.

"Fae, basically. Know anyone else that can open Doors?" Because if he did, Heiji would sure like to hear about it. "Don't worry. I ain't here to kidnap you or anything. You can get back out that door... only I don't think you've been here long enough for them to have moved off yet."
knightscode: This is my dramatic pose (♠48)

[personal profile] knightscode 2015-07-06 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure you're right," Lancelot answers smoothly, "but it's better for both of us if I take precautions just in case. Ah --"

He turns as the waitress sets a pair of disposable gloves by him, tugs them on as he works up Faolan's short sleeve and begins to clean the wounds carefully. They're... significant, he thinks. It must have been a big dog.

"Could you describe it? The dog, if you had to. Rough size, colour, any significant markings or individual ways it might be recognised?"

Pausing he digs out his phone, tries to swipe the screen before realising the gloves won't let him and pulling one off a bit to begin scrolling through.

"We can get someone out looking for it so it doesn't hurt anyone else, but obviously we need an idea of search radius and to make sure we sieze the right dog."
emotioneater: (Let's take over the world)

I know the feeling well. Work is the devil.

[personal profile] emotioneater 2015-07-07 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Nice going." Cooper grins. Anyone who could take on a werewolf plus whoever was backing him up had to be pretty tough. The compliment was quickly nullified by Cooper's next words. "Did you run out of bullets or brain cells first?" He says this as he deliberately leans up against the dumpster Faolan's been eyeing.

He could move the dumpster over with ease and let the hunter escape, but why make be nice? Cooper can be quite the little shit when he wants to be. If Faolan wants to lose the wolf, Cooper's going to make him work for it.

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