thursdays_angel: (Castiel--Angel of the Lord)
thursdays_angel ([personal profile] thursdays_angel) wrote2009-01-03 07:41 pm

In Which Castiel Meets Betty Roberts

There is a man in a suit and trench coat standing stock still in the middle of the bar.

Castiel is perfectly at ease; arms at his sides, occasionally turning his head to observe the comings and goings around him.

Just taking everything in.

That is why he was sent here. To learn from what he finds. Learning requires observation.

Of course, he's still getting used to inhabiting a corporeal body. It may not have occured to him yet that, standing as he is in the path of patron traffic, he might be in anyone's way.
betty_roberts: (cautious)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Never mind being in anyone's way; he's in a very specific someone's way. And that someone is a young woman struggling with a typewriter, a pile of papers, carbon paper, and a thesaurus.

"Excuse me, would you . . . that is to say, if you don't mind, could you move?"
betty_roberts: (Typewriter)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
". . . yes, I know," says the woman.

Since she is, as he has so readily noticed, the one carrying them.

She drops most of it onto a nearby table, and then carefully sets down her trusty portable (for a given definition of the word 'portable') Underwood.

"Thank you."
betty_roberts: (cautious)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Please, don't touch that," she says, automatically.

She really can't afford to replace it.

"I write for the radio."
betty_roberts: (optimistic)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
She nods. There's something about him that seems very . . . truthful.

"I'm sorry, it's just . . . well, I'd be at something of a loss if anything happened to it. I'd never get all the copies done if I had to write them out longhand, and Hilary would . . . well, she wouldn't be pleased, let's just leave it at that. I probably shouldn't bring it in here at all, but I can get so much work done here without interruption, and I'm a little behind right now."
betty_roberts: (neutral)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Um, yes," says Betty, watching the man play with the carbon paper.

"It's carbon paper," she adds, helpfully. "For making copies."
betty_roberts: (Typewriter)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes.

"And wear and tear on both the typewriter and my hands."

Useful stuff, carbon paper.
betty_roberts: (writer)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, I guess we have."

It does not occur to her that he would not be including himself in that category.

"I'm not sure I'd call that particular episode of The Crimson Blade all that interesting, though. It's more . . . stalling. Because I'm not sure how to keep the villian from forcing Lady Genevieve to marry him."
betty_roberts: (that gives me an idea)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, yes . . . but then I'd just have to make up another one. And Count Ugolino has been a very popular villian. So I think I will have to keep him around a bit longer."
betty_roberts: (neutral)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, it would make for fairly boring radio, at any rate."

She's not trying to be philosophical. Just fill half an hour of sponsored air time.

"And it is one of our more popular shows."
betty_roberts: (happy)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's always nice to become interesting at some point in the process.

"Yes," she says. "It's exhausting and frustrating and, well, crazy, some days, but I love it."
betty_roberts: (optimistic)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Like younger siblings," Betty says.

"I'm sorry, I've been horribly rude." She holds out one hand. "Betty Roberts, of station WENN, in Pittsburgh."
betty_roberts: (neutral)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Given his proclivity for touching other people's stuff, this is perhaps just as well.

Betty shakes the feeling back into her fingers as discreetly as she can. That's quite a grip he has.

"It's very nice to meet you, Mr. Castiel."
betty_roberts: (cautious)

[personal profile] betty_roberts 2009-01-04 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Betty has a feeling she's going to regret this.

". . . this form?"

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