"Hi. This is Neil's answering machine. Neil isn't here right now, so you can leave a message, hang up and call back, catch me at school - HA! - or just give up and get on with your fuckin' life. Your choice."
[How Freddy figured out where Neil works might be his own little secret or maybe it was just damn good luck. Either way Orange has decided to meet him face to face instead of on the network to guarantee a lesser likelihood of the other kid just ditching the conversation. So he thinks anyway, but after his talk to White and learning White's already exchanged words with Neil, well, Freddy had to come. He's waited until the teen's got a free moment or even better finally off work to make his approach.]
[Neil waves to Lucy, his ever-cheerful boss, and heads out, done selling soap and bath oils and so on for the day. He pulls on a light jacket and heads out the door, unaware that anyone would be waiting for him.]
[At least this means Neil smells good unlike Freddy who smells like cigarettes wait actually that's probably appealing to some people but he's not here to attract Neil nope nope. Attraction and all that's part of what made this a problem in the first place.]
Hey. You got a second?
[Orange asks as soon as he swoops in to flank the teenager, from the curbside, to remove some of Neil's escape options.]
[Then Mr. O is there, smoking, and damn if Neil doesn't want a cigarette now. He'll have to wait until he gets home. He's surprised the man is there. Doesn't he hate Neil or, at the very least, have no reason to want to talk to him?]
Sure, I got a second.
[He keeps walking. If Mr. O wants to talk, he'll have to keep up.]
[Orange has no problem smoking and talking on the go and he'll do his best to keep up with Neil unless the kid decides to up and run. Please don't up and run, Orange isn't prepared for a foot pursuit and he doesn't like having to mix work with...well, pleasure's not the right word here.]
How you doin'?
[He sure doesn't get straight to the point or anything right away though.]
[Neil continues to look uncertain and decides to ask a question, after all.]
Hang on, you waited for me to get out of work to ask me how I'm doing? You could do that on the network, too, and not, you know, have to actually see me in person...
['Cause he was pretty sure Mr. O would be fine if he'd never met Neil...]
Maybe I wanted to see you in person, did you think about that? This whole not-face-to-face-as-normal thing is new to me too, you know.
[He gestures between them with a wave back and forth of his hand. Of course Orange isn't here to talk to Neil about the benefits of good old face to face communication either...but it is nice knowing someone else who comes from a time without wifi and text messages.]
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action! backdated to some non-curse day lol
Date: 2013-02-15 06:56 am (UTC)From:action! sorry, work ate me, then no internet on weekend...
Date: 2013-02-18 04:25 pm (UTC)From:action! no prob! I AM HERE NOW TOO
Date: 2013-02-21 05:02 am (UTC)From:Hey. You got a second?
[Orange asks as soon as he swoops in to flank the teenager, from the curbside, to remove some of Neil's escape options.]
action! so sorry...
Date: 2013-03-04 01:39 pm (UTC)From:Sure, I got a second.
[He keeps walking. If Mr. O wants to talk, he'll have to keep up.]
no subject
Date: 2013-03-05 06:58 am (UTC)From:[Orange has no problem smoking and talking on the go and he'll do his best to keep up with Neil unless the kid decides to up and run. Please don't up and run, Orange isn't prepared for a foot pursuit and he doesn't like having to mix work with...well, pleasure's not the right word here.]
How you doin'?
[He sure doesn't get straight to the point or anything right away though.]
no subject
Date: 2013-03-13 06:37 pm (UTC)From:Okay. You?
[He isn't going to say anything more at the moment, not without knowing what this is about.]
... thought I'd tag again... :)
Date: 2013-03-21 01:07 pm (UTC)From:Hang on, you waited for me to get out of work to ask me how I'm doing? You could do that on the network, too, and not, you know, have to actually see me in person...
['Cause he was pretty sure Mr. O would be fine if he'd never met Neil...]
argh sorry I missed this!
Date: 2013-03-22 06:52 am (UTC)From:[He gestures between them with a wave back and forth of his hand. Of course Orange isn't here to talk to Neil about the benefits of good old face to face communication either...but it is nice knowing someone else who comes from a time without wifi and text messages.]
oh, please don't worry... taking longer than i thought to rebound from surgery...
Date: 2013-04-04 01:08 am (UTC)From:Okay, I can get that, sure. When are you from, anyway?