swallowed all my pride

[temsik]

[Ah, sweet freedom. He'll never get tired of it. Stepping out into the spring sun, he can feel its faint heat soaking into his suit. Somewhere under this same sky are the people he hurt all those years ago. Having served his time, he's started to forgive himself a tiny bit at a time. A couple weeks into his new life, he's found himself settling back into mundane things, like shopping. He hasn't made a huge purchase, but he tucks the paper bag protectively beneath his elbow all the same, and heads for the center of town.

He dodges a crazy hippie with a bad hat and walks to the payphone. A couple clinks of change later, he rings up a certain someone's house.]

Jowd, it's me. Tell Sissel I'm at the park. [A pause.] Thank you.

[And that's it. Leaning against the back of a bench, arms crossed, all he can do is wait.]

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[themystery]

And now you've deprived me of prime sitting material. Jowd won't even let me sit on his files, can you believe it? [ Because those are police cases, Sissel. ]

I'll be there.

[ Wait. ]

Unless... She's not allergic or anything, is she?

[temsik]

[Oh, cat. He looks amused, but doesn't argue.]

No. We'd talked about getting a pet before. [It just never happened. Yomiel thought it was too much work, and he didn't really have the time. And with everything falling down around his ears...

... Well, that was a long time ago. He definitely doesn't mind, now.]

Mind the fur, though. She'll be wearing white.

[themystery]

I'll be on my best shedding behavior. [ Good thing if you ever get a cat it won't be a smartass like this one, Yomiel. One is clearly enough, am I right? ]

What kind of pet were you thinking, anyway? Not a pomeranian, I hope.

[ One Missile is enough. ]

[temsik]

[He doesn't mind Sissel despite the sass. He's glad his best friend doesn't mind being immortal. It wasn't something that he'd enjoyed, personally.]

She wanted a Labrador, but I wanted a cat. I felt like wasn't home enough to train a puppy.

[One Missile is almost too many.]

[themystery]

[ There's some definite benefit to having a loving family take care of him while he's like this, and even when they're gone he can't imagine that he's going to be left alone. It was a very different situation for Yomiel when he was immortal. ]

Where do you go if you're not with her?

[ Remember, Yomiel, your ten years together were good but you weren't exactly stretching your programmer muscles amidst all that REVENGE!!1 plotting. ]