At the time, she was bright-eyed and idealistic, setting out to change the world with her magic and wit. She even had a few fights under her belt - small-time criminals, nothing glamorous or exciting, but enough that she could go to sleep at night with the feeling that she was doing good.
He was a stumbling drunk in an alley. She was just passing by the bar - she was twenty at the time, not even old enough to drink and how sad was that - when she heard him yelling at what turned out to be a garbage can. Not the most glamorous of meetings.
She still dragged him home, because that's the kind of person she was. He tripped a lot and called her 'doll', but after a night's sleep on her couch, he cooked her scrambled eggs and introduced himself. When she found out he was 'between lodgings', she awkwardly offered her apartment on a temporary basis, and... well, somehow or another he wound up paying half the rent instead.
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sforzinda
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Date: 2011-10-12 04:23 am (UTC)They met before everything changed.
At the time, she was bright-eyed and idealistic, setting out to change the world with her magic and wit. She even had a few fights under her belt - small-time criminals, nothing glamorous or exciting, but enough that she could go to sleep at night with the feeling that she was doing good.
He was a stumbling drunk in an alley. She was just passing by the bar - she was twenty at the time, not even old enough to drink and how sad was that - when she heard him yelling at what turned out to be a garbage can. Not the most glamorous of meetings.
She still dragged him home, because that's the kind of person she was. He tripped a lot and called her 'doll', but after a night's sleep on her couch, he cooked her scrambled eggs and introduced himself. When she found out he was 'between lodgings', she awkwardly offered her apartment on a temporary basis, and... well, somehow or another he wound up paying half the rent instead.