tampered | Log: Ongoing

Log: Ongoing

When; Friday Night
Rating; PG-13 maybe?
Characters; Rain (

livingmyths)and Connor (

itsnoteveryday)
Summary; Rain and Connor Go On a Date
Log;

Connor had said he would meet her at the Library after she was done working to go on a date. Which she couldn't help thinking would be a very bad idea. She'd only ever been on a date with Mat and she'd nearly messed everything all up. Would have if he hadn't been so kind.

Still, Connor seemed kind as well and she'd been honest with him about how bad she was at everything, so at least he wouldn't be surprised?

Anyway... She'd left Gage at home and was sitting on the steps of the Library as she waited.

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Connor didn't know how to date normal girls, let along ones that offer to have sex with him after only meeting him once. Actually, most girls tended to not want to have anything to do with him after meeting him and here was one that offered to have sex with him. Sex. With him.

And he'd said no. He couldn't believe he'd said no. In retrospect, it was the nice thing to do, the right thing to do. But a really hot girl offered to have sex with him and he'd said no.

So he asked her on a date. He had no idea what they would do, hadn't really planned beyond wearing a nice new jacket and scarf with his cleanest pants, and buying her some flowers. Wildflowers, because he didn't really see her as a roses kinda girl.

Or was she?

Anyway, he walked up to the steps of the Library and waved.

"'lo, Rain. Have a good day?"

Rain smiled shyly at him, standing up and shifting from foot to foot. "I did, yes," she said. "Did you?"

"Yeah, pretty good." If he didn't count the last two hours he'd spend furiously changing clothes and generally panicking.

He held out the flowers. How she could look that good in jeans and a fleece jacket, he'll never know, except - did he over dress? Christ, he should have figured out what they were doing before now?

"Um, these are for you, didn't really know what your favorites were, so I got a few and mixed 'em up."

She smiled at the flowers, hugging them to her as she smelled thm. "Oh, they're beautiful!"

Rain hadn't spent any time deciding what to wear. With her entire wardrobe consisting of two pairs of jeans, some t-shirts, and a nice sweatshirt, it wasn't as if she'd have had much to choose from anyway.

Well, there were the incredibly fanciful dresses that Mat had bought for her when they played fairy princess and he wanted to get her something pretty, but those weren't to wear for reals.

"Thank you, Connor," she said softly.

She liked them, oh that was a relief, and Connor smiled.

"So..." He rocked back and forth on his feet a bit. "...did you want to get something to eat somewhere, or go see a movie, or..."

Yeah, he really should have planned this better.

"Okay," Rain said. "I... whatever you want to do is fine."

She vaguely remembered seeing a movie when she was little, maybe at one of the shelters, but other than that she'd never seen one. As for eating out, well, she'd been once or twice with Mat and had tea out with Tony, but other than that, well... she ate pretty simply at home.

She knew she was going to have trouble with this.

Something was wrong. He didn't know what he'd done, but obviously, something was wrong.

"Well, let's get somethin' to eat and we can go from there, yeah?"

He stated to walk off, then stopped, and offered her his arm. Damn, he'd almost forgotten. He knew he should have snuck a cheat-sheet onto his network device.

Rain smiled, ducking her head at that familiar offer, and took his arm. "I'd like that."

"So, um, what sort of food d'you like? Chinese, French, Italian..."

Please let her have a preference, the last thing Connor wanted to do was end up picking some place she didn't like. Oh, crap, she wasn't a vegetarian, was she? Not that there was anything wrong with that just...

She frowned. She could hear that he wanted her to pick one, but she honestly had no idea. So she went with the first one. "I think Chinese would be nice."

She hoped. And tried to smile as if she knew what they were going to have.

Connor breathed a sigh of relief. He could do Chinese, and really, everyone liked Chinese, so he'd be safe, right.

He gave her arm a little squeeze. "Know just the place, then."

They walked a little farther and he realized that conversation? Was part of dating.

"So, what do you do at the Library?" It was important to sound interested in what the girl did, right?

"Oh, pretty much anything," she said. "Mostly I help organize and put things away or help people find things. The Library likes me, you know. It sings to me sometimes."

"It sings>" Connor's expression was a little worried. "The building sings. 'Course it does. Perfectly normal."

She giggled. "It does lots of things."

"Lots of things?" Now he was kinda curious. "What kind of things?

"It moves things around and plays tricks on people - makes shelves disappear or rearrange themselves. Stuff like that." She couldn't help but smile. "But it likes me so it brings me books it thinks I'll like or organizes things. Or if I'm sad it lets me stay with it and it sings to me."

"Like, how does it sing? Is it though speakers, or in your head, or the books..?"

He scratched his head a little, trying to figure out the mechanics of a singing building.

She shrugged. "I don't know. I never thought about it. I just hear it."

"You just... hear it. Does... anyone else hear it?"

Belatedly, Connor realized he just accused her of being crazy. "I mean, I'm sure they do, but does anyone else talk about it - like the way they hear it?"

She considered that. "I don't know. Barnabas might hear it too. But most people aren't there late at night like me."

"You work th' night shift lots, then?"

Rain shook her head. "I pretty much work when I want. I just love it there so lots of times I stay late at night or even sleep there. Or up on the roof. It's a good place. Safe."

"Why don't you go home?"

They approached the restaurant and Connor, wonder of wonders, remembered to open the door for her.

"It's kind of my home, too," Rain admitted shyly. "It was my home before I had one - either there or on the streets."

"Plenty of empty apartments, why didn't you jus' pick one. Or different ones if you didn't see one you liked right off?"

He let the hostess lead them to a small booth off to the side.

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