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Guilty as Charged - 5/29 - Late Afternoon

The walk to Guilty as Charged was more difficult than usual with the alligators and their unfortunate habit of spitting goldfish. In fact, the only reason Haley figured she avoided getting bit was because she was on wheels and she had fast reflexes to avoid them. Otherwise, she was sure it wouldn't have been pretty.

When she arrived at the shop, Haley figured that she probably wouldn't get any customers today with all the craziness, but she opened up anyway.

Lounging in her chair behind the counter and eating a crushed up bag of ramen as the hot option on her water cooler was broken, she was sort of dreading the walk home.

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"...Loki told you about the oven, didn't he?" asked Daisy, unable to help chuckling. "And I think it's sadder that we have to meet like this. I've been an awful neighbour," to some... "and typically it's a bad sign if I meet someone first on the job..."

"Yeah, he didn't explain though; he said I should let you tell me the story. No pressure though." Haley said with a grin.

"Now, when you say bad sign, you mean...?"

"That usually when I meet people on the job," said Daisy with a grin, "I'm escorting them to a cell, not their apartment. And the only reason Loki isn't explaining that story is because it means admitting he was wrong."

"See, for some reason, my mind was going down a completely different, somewhat superstitious road." Haley shook her head. "I guess I was just trying to avoid thinking about the possibility of being handcuffed again." Handcuffs sucked.

"Anyway, how was Loki wrong?"

"Again?" Daisy asked. She couldn't help asking. And to make it seem less like a reflex, though, she made sure she added on, "And that one was all about Loki claiming that he could do anything. So I found something he couldn't do. Fix a stove."

After the inside blew up.

"Oh, I've only been arrested for a few petty things. Nothing big really." Except for the property damage worth fourteen thousand. That was kind of big, but not solely her fault.

She nodded, understanding perfectly now. "It's easy to want to prove him wrong though, isn't it? Glad to know I'm not the only one."

A look passed over Daisy's face, a frown, one that made it pretty obvious that, when it came to the law, there was no such thing as 'petty' or 'big.' It was all infractions against justice...

"He asks for it," said Daisy, "and then gets whiny when you do prove him wrong."

"I served my time though, if that makes you feel any better. I didn't weasel out of punishment. And the law and I are mostly over now anyway. We considered a serious relationship, but ultimately went our separate ways."

"I've yet to see him be really whiny, but that's just because I haven't gotten the opportunity to prove him wrong yet. I'm sure, I'll get to it sometime though." Haley suggested with another grin.

Distracted for a moment by a volley of fire from the troopers, Daisy jumped a little and provided a few follow up shots before she replied. She shook her head a little.

It did make her feel better, actually. Owning up to it, serving her time...infinitely better than weaseling out some excuse.

"A good break-up," she said. "Maybe another time when there aren't giant alligators everywhere, you'll tell me about it. Over drinks or something. And I can offer you some suggestions, maybe, about proving Loki wrong. I've gotten pretty good at it." And she allowed the faintest of grins, feeling slightly conflicted. Not because of Loki, but because it seemed everyone in this town had a past...

Except her.

"Sounds good to me." Haley agreed, noticing the slight expression change but not pointing it out.

"Have you been here long?"

"Since October last year," Daisy said with a nod. "And you've just moved in, right? You have Matt's old apartment."

"Yeah, I've been here about a month. Didn't exactly hear about Matt, but he left the place very clean." Haley admitted.

"I don't think he was really here long enough to make a mess," said Daisy. "He was nice, though."

"I don't know how long I'll be here. I keep on saying just the summer, but it depends on a lot of different things. I mean, I technically don't have to go back to official training for at least another two years. Even then, I don't need a college to compete." Haley admitted. It just already felt pretty comfortable on her own with a shop, an apartment, and everything else here.

"Training?" asked Daisy, head tilting for a second, but then checking for gators. Still clear. Maybe they were learning that when they saw them, they got shot.

"Sorry." She seemed to forget that she wasn't at VGA anymore and that the general public couldn't just infer what training was for. "Gymnastics. Training for gymnastics. The national team and then the Olympic team hopefully." The first time around wasn't as great as it should have been, so she wanted another try.

"Gymnastics," Daisy nodded a little in approval.

So she was flexible.

"Have you met Biff yet?"

Totally natural segue, really.

It was a bit weird, but Haley replied nonetheless. "Biff? No, I don't think I have, and I haven't been drunk enough for a blackout here yet." She said with a bit of a laugh.

At this point with the protection and everything, the alligators were far from her mind.

"Why do you ask?"

Daisy shook his head. "Just wondering. He's one of my best friends; Loki's, too, actually. Good guy; you should meet him."

Apparently, Daisy's clause about picking up people on duty didn't extend to attempting to pick people up for her friends.

Haley nodded, never one to really turn down meeting new people unless she knew they hated her beforehand for her past. "Is he in the building too?"

"He's got a house," Daisy nodded. "18 Apocalypse. Best place to catch him is probably Sundays at the weapon's shop. There's a mediation room there; I use it to end ever week. Quite nice, really."

"I've never meditated before. I've seen some of the other girls try it, but a bike ride and Zeppelin always seemed to put me in the zone, so I never really needed it. I guess I could try it though." A beat. "I like to try everything once. You know, as horribly cheesy as that sounds."

"That's not cheesy at all," Daisy, the queen of cheese when she was on, smiled. "Of course, that's probably what landed you in cuffs, too."

"Yeah, that and my total inability to turn down a dare."

Daisy grinned faintly at that. "I should warn you, then," she said, "that's how Loki ended up with his tattoo."

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