Imperial Junkyard, Tuesday afternoon

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Jumping off the roof the other night had made Walter realize that he still wasn't fully back in shape after his "little illness." Between that and yesterday's Prophecy class, a bit of a workout seemed like just the thing.

Those passing the junkyard will hear the sounds of wire and tearing metal as Walter "works things out in his head."

[ooc: Open as open things are wont to be. The sounds would hopefully alert anyone coming to investigate to be cautious, as I'm sure whoever is running the clinic today does not want to be reattaching any severed pieces. SP is the name of the weekday game.]

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[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

"I see you're back in training," Alfred commented as he passed by with a load of groceries.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter gave a last pull to reduce a standpipe to neat disks and turned to Alfred.

"Yes, sir. I've been working back up to heavier work."

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

Alfred gently set the groceries down, then rooted around in the junk before pulling out a sheet of metal and some pipes. He constructed an odd looking fulcrum out of the pipes and balanced the sheet of metal on it before stepping back to a safe distance.

"There. See if you can cut one of the pipes in the base without making the entire thing fall. Precision exercise."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter flicked out a wire in a swift movement, then twitched his fingers to draw it back into his ring.

Nothing appeared to have changed about the assemblage Alfred had constructed.

"Will that do, sir?" Yes, he did look a tad smug.

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

Alfred stomped his foot near the assembly and one of the pipes slid down to the ground in half. The assembly remained standing.

"Yes. Why don't you see how long you can do that before the whole thing collapses?" Alfred said.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter nodded and chose another likely target, this time using a pair of wires to remove a slice from the center of another pipe. If he did it right, it should be rather like that yanking the tablecloth off the table while leaving the place settings in place trick.

If he did it right, of course.

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

And he did.

"Very good," Alfred said. After a while he spoke again. "It feels like it's been a while since I've seen you. How have you been?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

It did feel like it had been quite some time. Walter took a few steps around Alfred's construction before carefully picking off a piece of pipe from one side while slicing off a bit of the sheet metal to maintain its balance with the shift.

"Recuperating. Studying. Finding things out that quite disturb me." Which was a noteworthy admission from Walter, and quite an understatement.

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

"Such as?"

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"Now what did this junk ever do to you?" the Doctor said, before approaching. Announcing his presence seemed like a good idea.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Volunteered itself to give me something to train with?" Walter suggested, turning to the Doctor and pulling out a handkerchief to wipe his face.

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"I see," the Doctor said. "And butlering calls for a lot of large object filleting?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I'm multitalented," Walter said with a bit of a grin. "I fell into butlering as something to do when things were slow."

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"Ah, yes," the Doctor said. "The mysterious benefactor of some sort, if memory serves correctly."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I suppose that is one way to look at it," Walter conceded. "Sir Hellsing has been my benefactor, and I suppose he is mysterious in his own fashion."

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

"Mysterious in the sense that he is a mystery to me," the Doctor said. "I'm sure you probably know plenty about the fellow."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes I wonder," Walter muttered, remembering how downright sane Arthur had behaved on Parents Weekend.

"I suppose you could go back to 1944 and meet him."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Chaos Sense... tingling.

Pippi flounces into the Junkyard.

"Hey 'ol buddy, 'ol pal 'o mine!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter dropped the piece of aluminum siding he was attempting to make into a snowflake and grinned at Pippi.

"It never fails to amaze me how you seem to know I'm here."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"You do make a lot of noise."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"The devil you say! I do?" And when was Walter ever facetious?

"How is Miss Longstocking this afternoon?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi picked up the half finished snow flake and tossed it up into the air where Walter could finish it off.

"Miss Longstocking is happy to see Mr. Dornez having fun and would like to join him in that."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Mind your eyes," Walter warned before he turned the snowflake into confetti.

"You know you're always welcome. You give me a good workout down here."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi shielded her eyes as she looked up to watch the little sparkling bits fall to the ground.

Very Pretty.

"Cool... So, juggling? Or shall we try to think up something new?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Alfred had me doing something earlier since I have to have some chronology here that was interesting. He piled some things up and then had me take pieces out without making the whole structure fall."

He wasn't really sure how to include Pippi in that, though. "Maybe something else. Unless you want to build things for me to destroy."