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Clary Fray/Fairchild ([personal profile] babyhunter) wrote in [community profile] pineslog2017-05-02 09:54 pm

001 - On my own

Who: Clary Fray & OPEN
Where: Home/Shelter/General Store
When: May 01 – 08
What: Day to day stuff, feel free to tag at any point during any post.
Warnings: None
[Open/]

BFF Sleep Over! – House L12 [Closed to Jack] – May 01


Clary had been settling into life as best as she could. It was awkward living alone, she wasn’t completely used to it yet, and there was a lot of uncertainty in her day to day life. She found comfort in simple tasks or memories. Like staying up late and eating a copious amount of junk food.

When she could, she’d convince Jack to sleep over. A lot of times they’d fall asleep on the couch, the TV blared some random cartoon that Clary had managed to find on the few channels she got without cable. She had some VHS tapes but they were mostly Disney movies and you could only watch The Lion King so many times before you craved to watch anything else. She’d ask for something more violent but then again Disney never really shied away from violence.

Just look what happened to Simba's dad.

They were sitting on the couch, Clary was hogging the popcorn, and watching Darkwing Duck. The TV was old with thin static lines running along the top of the screen. It worked well enough that Clary found no reason to try and save up and replace it. Her nose scrunched up at the screen as a duck in a cap pulled a rather large comical looking leaver, dropping another duck in a whole. "So wait, why are they ducks? Do you think this would be as popular if they were all polar bears or something?" She was getting bored with the show but she’d keep watching if only for something menial to focus on.

A knock at the door pulled her attention and she leaned forward, placing the popcorn bowl down. "I’m coming." She shouted at the door before stepping around the coffee table and pushing the front door open. She didn’t see anyone, instead there was a package sitting on her front porch.

"Ominous." She commented solemnly. "Hey, Jack, can you clear off the coffee table?" She placed the package down before pulling off the sticky tape that held it together. When she got the box open she found herself staring quizzically at its contents. "What? I said these weren’t mind." Apparently no one at the police station believed her when she said it was a mistake. Inside the box was a glass looking blade and then a long thin length of metal wrapped in black cloth. Her thoughts returned to the scene from one of her dreams before she pushed the thought away, looking up at Jack. "What do you think?"

Out front of her house - L12 [OPEN] – May 04


The flooding hadn’t been ideal for her lawn which added to the frustration of having a lawn. She remembered living in something like a second floor apartment at one point; no lawn just a paved paradise of concrete and stone. Not to say that Clary didn’t like grass. She just liked grass that she wasn’t responsible for.

She’d gotten a warning stating that her grass was growing too long and that the two bushes out front of her home were becoming too ornery. That wasn’t the word used in the letter but when she stepped outside she noticed thick branches twisting up like nails clawing in all directions of what used to be a beautifully trimmed bush. It was a fitting description.

Dressed in a pair of jeans and a simple green tank top Clary decided to attack the yard with a vengeance. Her hair was pulled back and for at least half of the day there were a determined look spread across her face. She could be found at many different levels of lawn care. The first was fighting with the old push mower that she’d pulled out of the garage. After she couldn’t get it working she kicked it and cursed, somehow thinking that it’d roar to life from the intimidation. Nothing, not even lawn mowers, were intimidated by a thin five foot pale slip of a girl, Clary thought with dismay as she seated herself next to the old machine.

She could also be found staring at those two front bushes, having gotten the lawn finally mowed but not knowing what to do next.

Finally, Clary gave up and sat on her front porch with a glass of lemonade, mixed from the powered stuff she’d picked up at the store, and her sketchbook positioned on her lap. The stele was sitting next to her but try as she might, she couldn’t figure out what it was for. It just felt important to keep it with her.

Lotus Street Animal Shelter/Cat Cafe [OPEN] – May 06 - 07


Clary usually only worked a few days a week on alternating afternoons. This weekend she’d ask Randel for extra work, trying to save up for more painting supplies. She could have probably asked a family member for the money but Clary was firmly against borrowing, even if it was for something that she considered a good cause. At least at the animal shelter she might convince someone to buy one of her drawings. It was like making money on what she wanted to do only those profits went directly to the shelter.

It was usually busier on the weekends but there were still times when Clary was stagnant. She was left with her thoughts and found herself thinking about her dreams. Every morning she’d wake up and draw, spilling her dreams and nightmares onto a white page. Her most recent one had been of a boy with golden colored hair. She thought he was an angle but it felt stupid the more she repeated the thought in her head. She’d eventually snap out of her thoughts, usually due to the sharp nails of a dog or cat digging into her leg.

In the early afternoon she went from working in the main shelter to opening up the café attached to it. The cats that were currently in the room were following a thin sliver of sun that moved across the store front.

When someone entered Clary would look up, mostly to make sure none of the cats were making a mad dash to the outside world. Watching the café was more relaxed and often slower than her other work. Some people ordered a salad or smoothies but they mostly just sat around and played with cats. It never got too crowded because there were only so many cats to go around. Clary ended up sketching the most during this time, pausing only to greet and help those who came in.

French’s General Store [OPEN] – May 08


Clary was resilient but it didn’t make life any easier. She moved through the notions of a normal life until she ran out of things to eat at her house. She wasn’t a frivolous shopper but she did manage to spend a great deal of time at the store, trying to figure out what to buy. She’d found that frozen foods fit her life style the most, that or buying large quantities of those dried noodle packets. Yes, they were bad for you and filled with salt but she was young and had no one in the immediate vicinity to tell her that it was a bad idea. That and they were a dollar; being feed for a dollar was very alluring.

She’d circle through the store a few times. She picked up: paper towels, batteries, frozen pizzas, cans of soup, soda, and other assorted foods. It was very obvious by what was in her cart that she wasn’t an avid chief.

Clary spent some time standing in front of the fruit before finally picking up two apples and a tiny collection of bananas. It wasn’t that she was healthy but apples and bananas were delicious. She also picked up orange juice, the kind that had somehow managed to extract all of its pulp. There was always extra pulp, no pulp and then regular when she went to the store. Clary couldn’t help but wonder if they put the pulp from the no pulp orange juice in with the extra pulp orange juice to then give it the extra pulp it claimed to have. It was a thought that earned itself a few minutes of Clary blocking the way before she finally moved.

On her way out she almost ran into someone, stopping just before her collection of food, which would make a college student proud, found its way to the floor. "Sorry. Guess I was zoning out."
comic_relief: (★ i'll keep you safe)

[personal profile] comic_relief 2017-05-05 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
Jack was no weakling. He had survived fourteen hour days of endurance training, running battle scenarios until his legs wobbled and his lungs felt like they were on fire. He'd survived the war the training had been for--deathtrap MAs, Ultima Bombs, and super-powered l'Cie included. He also knew what not surviving felt like.

There were some days, though, that living with two horned girls who would punch a wall out with their index fingers made all the harrowing battles and brushes with mortality he'd experienced look like child's play.

Retreating to Clary's house sometimes wasn't cowardice, he told himself. And it wasn't because he was lonely (even if part of it was). Clary was just easier to deal with, and she knew more about this place's culture. And she didn't threaten to eat his chocobo, which was a bonus. She was, in a way he wasn't totally comfortable defining with the influence of fake memories, a friend, and though he didn't understand half the things they got up to at her place having never watched Saturday morning cartoons in his life, he felt like it was important to keep tabs on her. Make sure she was doing okay.

Real friendship or not, he could do that much, and she looked like she could use that much.

"Mm, Darkwing Polar Bears doesn't have the same ring to it," Jack said from his cross-legged position on the floor. The life of a couch potato was a whole new world opening up before him, and he was curiously entranced by basic cable. There sure seemed to be a lot of talking animals. It was only when Clary went to answer the door and called out that he peeled his gaze away, twisting around to see. "What's up?"

Was that a box? Why did that seem so...

Helping her set it down, he had a niggling feeling there was something important about the timing. What day was it? Could it be?

To his perplexity, it was. A box with equipment in it, just like the one he'd received. But where he'd been waiting for his, she didn't seem to recognize the items inside hers.

"The town officials seem like they have a reason for everything they do," he offered. "Do they look familiar?"
toten_sie: (oh huh?)

lotus street

[personal profile] toten_sie 2017-05-06 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Randel's been busy with the less pleasant side of the business for the most part, since the flooding had brought in any number of wounded woodland animals and he's been working to arrange visits from the vet, set up times for releasing the less injured back into the wild after their rehabilitation, and purely in balancing the budget to account for the influx.

...that last one is not his cup of tea at all.

Which is why a somewhat-exhausted Randel makes his way into the cat cafe at the end of the week and just sort of flops where the cats can crawl where they like. He needs a recharge. He's not getting one but this is almost as nice. And because he's not a total barbarian, he lifts a hand to wave to Clary.
toten_sie: (quietly happy)

[personal profile] toten_sie 2017-05-06 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Can't sleep here," he admits, because there are people who come in and pay for things here, customers who enjoy food and cat time and having a glorified hobo asleep in the corner is bad for business. He knows that well enough. He's just kind of getting his moment of zen.

"So whenever you like."
seeyaduke: (deserved that)

May Fourth.

[personal profile] seeyaduke 2017-05-07 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Ana was a runner, especially when she needed to do a fair amount of thinking. She was also a runner when she needed to not think, which was where she was at right now. The words from the journal that they'd read worked around her head, along with some of the memories that she was thinking of coming from the outside world. Whatever it was, those memories weren't in the Pines. According to everything she had seen, Paris was fine and the rest of the world was fine.

But what if it wasn't? What if Paris was connected to the journal and being told to get away from people. What if this was... No, no, it wasn't her fault, because she just wasn't that important. There was something wrong with her head; that was something that she knew immediately but hadn't wanted to dwell on. It was there dogging each step that she took, so that she was a bit out of breath when she paused in front of Clary's house.

For a moment, Ana watched those bushes that Clary watched, remembering what her brain had told her about her memories. She knew Clary when she was growing up; Clary was her cousin's niece even if nothing about either of those people was familiar. Still, Ana fixed on her smile before she called out softly: "So, are you waiting for those two bushes to come out and do a trick?"
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General Store

[personal profile] byironandfire 2017-05-07 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
A catastrophe was narrowly avoided, not merely because Clary managed to stop short of smacking into much-taller Kaulder, but because (in a display of reflexes he hadn't been aware he possessed) he managed to catch both her shoulder and the bottom of one of the bags she carried in an effort to prevent either from ending up on the floor.

"Hey, now," he managed, voice a deep rasp of surprise. When he was sure she wasn't going to fall apart - not that it truly had been a concern - he took a safe step back with his hands held up. In part, it was a show that he was trying to be non-threatening, but part of him couldn't let go of the notion that he had to be ready at all times, just in case things got messy. Always be ready for the worst.

"No harm, no foul. You all right?" She didn't look all right. No one who bough bags piling with instant noodles and frozen food was all right. That screamed 'struggling college student' to him.
abnormalsadist: (totally safe)

Out front - May 4th

[personal profile] abnormalsadist 2017-05-08 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Have a familiar face peering at her from where he's passing by on the street, grinning as he watches her curse at the lawnmower. "I hear it responds if you start insulting its ancestors."
Edited 2017-05-08 15:37 (UTC)
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[personal profile] seeyaduke 2017-05-08 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Age gaps and being a teacher, but of course finding the journal in the woods was something else entirely. Ana still had the journal tucked into her books at home, hidden in plain sight where hopefully someone wouldn't happen to come looking for it. Occasionally, she still read over it, wanting to commit those words of that person to memory whoever they happened to be. Perhaps it was everything odd inside of her own head, but somehow she expected that they might be the only memory that the person received.

Teasing, Ana ran the back of her hand over her forehead. "Can't get anything past you." There was no heat in it as she looked at the girl and the bushes that were behind her. But the idea of a kid (and Clary definitely felt like a kid to her, despite the memories that were inside of her head. Clary was certainly younger than Rex who would always be a kid in her mind.) getting a letter from the town made her frown, and her back straightened for a moment as she looked around, wary.

She didn't much look like a teacher right in that moment.

But Ana managed to pull her persona on after a second and smiled. "Well, I can give you a hand with the bushes, I'm pretty good with them." She thought, or at least according to the yard and her garden.
comic_relief: (★ 'cause the end won't come)

[personal profile] comic_relief 2017-05-09 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
Jack knew as much about what a D&D campaign was as he did a stele--that is, nothing at all--but he took Clary's point. She couldn't know what she couldn't remember. That said, a flicker of familiarity seemed to run through her as she looked on the items in the box and dredged up the name of the smaller of the two, a thing too blunt to be classified as a proper dagger.

Could be these were her things and the memories just needed time to rise to the surface.

"Anything else?" he asked, watching her reaction. "Maybe something will come to you the longer you look at them." Did that make Clary a swordswoman in real life? The large of the items was a strange blade, to be sure. It looked like a sliver of crystal attached to a hilt rather than steel. Reaching for it, he admitted, "It's not like any sword I've seen before. Wonder what kind of crafting went into this..."

As soon as his hand made contact with the hilt, though, he wrenched it back with a sudden hiss.

"Ow, it's hot! Like frying pan hot." What the hell.
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Re: General Store

[personal profile] byironandfire 2017-05-09 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, you know how it goes. Trying to go about my day, almost get run over by a reckless shopping cart driver." The tone of his voice was gentle, and coupled with the smile he offered, he hoped it was clear he was only ribbing her a little bit. The girl couldn't have been more than eighteen - and what kind of person would he be if he took her to task for accidentally bumping into him?

It was a little odd, seeing her; part of his brain felt as though it was trying to kickstart into operation, flashes of deja vu that darted away from him like fish in a pond. Had he met her before?

No, that wasn't possible. He would surely recognize anyone he knew on sight, right? Then again, he had no idea how amnesia actually worked. Not this total, murky wipeout he was experiencing, anyway.
seeyaduke: (getting closer)

[personal profile] seeyaduke 2017-05-10 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, of course. I wouldn't offer if I didn't mean it." At least not here she wouldn't. No, here Ana needed to build connections between as many people as she could for when whatever happened... happened. Ana didn't know what that was, only that the sense of paranoia and the idea that someone had messed with her head was still there. She needed allies, and Clary had already been there when they'd discovered that Wayward Pines wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

"I have an idea," she said as she took the clippers and flicked them between her fingers for a second. "The size doesn't matter... like every other tool, it's all in how you use it." The tools of which Ana spoke were very clearly more than simple the garden tool that she had in her hand. "When in doubt, always start with the smallest cut and then work out from there." And that was what Ana did: a small prune, and then another, using the clippers with a speed that she probably shouldn't quite have.
abnormalsadist: (since you asked so nicely)

[personal profile] abnormalsadist 2017-05-12 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
He kept a relatively straight face as he stepped onto her lawn, hands drawn behind him. "Funny. That usually gets mine working." He leans forward as if speaking into the lawnmower's handle. "Your mother has dull blades and your father's off branded." Another tug and another sputter.

"Hn. Stubborn."
comic_relief: (★ we can leave this place together)

[personal profile] comic_relief 2017-05-13 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Owww." He flapped his hand to cool it off. The whine was more knee-jerk than actually indicative of a bad burn; when he curled his fingers into a fist and released it, his skin was red as an apple but still unbroken. "It's nothing," he assured Clary when she reached for him in concern. "You seriously didn't feel anything?"

Because that sword really didn't want an Agito cadet holding it. To his mystification, however, Clary went right back to holding it like nothing.

"What's this about baby angels? What are Nephilim have to do with weapons?" He was definitely at a loss on that front, but her apologies earned a quick smile and automatic shake of his head. "Uh, I don't really get it, but it's okay! I'm tougher than I look. Are... you okay?"
seeyaduke: (Next time I drive)

[personal profile] seeyaduke 2017-05-14 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
That made Ana laugh softly but it was a real laugh rather than the fake one that she often used. The two were so striking similar sometimes Ana felt like she was the only one who could actually tell them apart. In deference to the cameras, however, she leaned closer to Clary and whispered in a stage manor. "Well, darling, I won't tell if you won't." Following that she slyly touched one finger to her nose, the way they did in old movies when someone was in the mob. This wasn't fun but it was funny in a way, especially at moments like this.

Sometimes Ana felt if she didn't laugh at the situation, she was going to go completely insane.

"There's nothing wrong with thinking though, in all serious. As your teacher and an adult and all of that. Thinking is probably the best thing a girl can do." Which was something that Ana believed for all of her use of being pretty; being pretty alone was an ornament. If you were pretty with a brain then you could be a weapon.

"Yeah, like that. Small movements, upwards if you can do it. Getting in smaller cuts that make less work." Smaller cuts that make more damage, Clary, get it?

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