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Hellboy ([personal profile] howbigcanitbe) wrote2008-07-12 12:52 pm

RP for [livejournal.com profile] sonata_adagio Just hangin' around

Patience wasn't one of Hellboy's strong suits and though he'd never really admit it, neither was solitude. He'd already befriended a couple of stray cats but he didn't have electricity (which meant no TV) and he was fairly stuck inside during the day unless he wanted to chance having Myers bitch at him. It wasn't so much Myers bitching that kept him inside though. He knew if he attracted too much attention they'd just send people to get him. While they couldn't make him do much of anything, they could make his life difficult. In any case, the sum of the situation was that just after midnight the night after he'd met Jill, he was standing on the sidewalk across from the Hyperion hotel. It hadn't been hard to figure out or at least approximate which room she was staying in. She gave him tingles that were different from the feeling he got from the vampire. He waited across the sidewalk, shifting from foot to foot for a while (which is to say about five minutes. See the patience comment) then crossed the street. He could be relatively quiet when he wanted to be so the leap he took to the third story window was fairly silent. He caught the window ledge with his right hand, dangling there for a moment before he tapped on the window with his left hand.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Luckily, Lucy was downstairs getting post slayage food. But even if she hadn't been, she was a heavy sleeper. Jill was kind of worried about what Lucy would say to Hellboy even though she knew they would eventually meet.

She was wearing a pair of white pajama pants with tiny bats on them and a black cami with a white, glittery star on it when she went to the window. She smiled when she saw him. The visit was unexpected but a good surprise too. She pointed to the right and mouthed. 'next window' to him before jogging barefoot out to the hallway and into the next room.

Once there, she shut the door and unlocked and opened the large window, waiting for Hellboy to come over.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
If she hadn't smiled, he might have just moved on but she smiled so when she directed him over to the next window, he waited, hanging out a little bit until she got the window unlocked and open. Once that was done he swung pretty easily over to the next window and pulled himself up and over the sill, landing reasonably light-footed. He straightened up slowly. he was wearing pretty much what he'd worn the night before sans the jacket. His eyes swept over her, taking in every detail. She was tiny in comparison and pretty. The pajamas made her look younger.

"Hey, you said to stop by sometime if I wanted so. Slow night, I decided to drop in. Did I wake you up?" He didn't have the cigar in his mouth, yet.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"You climb walls like Spiderman." Jill informed him amusedly. "It's pretty cool. And no, you didn't wake me up. I'm kind of a night owl. Sometimes I go two or three nights in a row without really sleeping."

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah hard to believe somethin' so big can be so agile," he shrugged. "Demon nature. Most humans sleep a lot, 'least as far as I can tell but then I ain't spent a lot of time with many of them. I don't sleep much either."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
She reached out and put a hand on his arm to guide him further into the room. "Come in. This is the bow chicka bow wow room, so dubbed by Lucy."

And then her eyes went wide and she looked to hellboy. "Not that I... you know. It's just a room for not sleeping... in the sleeping asleep sense."

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Hellboy was surprised by her hand on his arm. She felt cool to the touch but he knew that was just because his body temperature in comparison to hers was high. He moved further into the room with her though, taking in everything as he did. It's a room that's bigger than the one he's got at the Bureau, of course it's less cluttered than his room ever was.

He's scratching the back of his head and looking everywhere but her eyes when she mentioned the room's name. After her stammering is done he nods. "Nah, I get it. Like I said, slow night. I was in the area. I wanted to see you..." And then it's his turn to be slightly embarrassed, stammer and cover up. "I mean-y'know, thought I'd stop by and say hey."

He fumbles in his pocket and gets out a cigar but doesn't light it, just sticks the stub of it in his mouth. He doesn't have a lot of social graces but he knows a lot of humans don't smoke in their own homes. He never got why but it's true regardless.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
She caught that he'd said that he wanted to see her and grinned as she lead him to the couch. She sat down and patted the large portion of couch she had left for him. "One of these days you're going to have to meet Lucy. She's downstairs stuffing her face with food right now."

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
He sat down gingerly on the couch, almost testing it to see if it would hold his weight. He relaxed slightly once he'd sat down then glanced over at her. "You're not hungry? I could go and come back later or there's this demon diner we could grab something to eat at. Nobody'd bother you."

Because you know she was there with him and there are very few straight from Hell demons walking around.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"I usually only hit the demon bars if I have to knock heads together and if Lucy is there so we can back each other up." Jill commented. "You probably go to them a lot, huh?"

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
He shrugged at that. "They got good chili and pie. I fit in there."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've been there. I think you could own that place if you wanted to." Jill cast him a sideways grin.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"There aren't many pure demons walkin' 'round. Most of them are half-breeds. I haven't met anything I couldn't own," Hellboy answered honestly. It wasn't bragging if it was the truth.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Well she thought that was kind of awesome. No one could own Hellboy. "You know that I thought someone had abused you somehow when I saw you last night?"

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That made him chuckle a little, a deep sound that came from somewhere in his chest or maybe his stomach. It wasn't something that happened often.

"Darlin' I'll let the Bureau lock me up in a room this size and dictate, for the most part when I get out, but that's because they feed me six times a day, take care of my cats and Father was there. And note the use of the word let. I got out pretty much when I wanted to and they couldn't stop me."

He took the cigar out of his mouth and twisted it between his fingers a moment.

"I'm not invulnerable but I'm pretty fuckin' hard to kill. I've been run over by a train, set on fire more times than I can count and had a building fall on top of me. I ain't goin' nowhere and nobody's gonna make me."

He put the cigar back in his mouth and quirked an eyebrow at her "It was 'cause of the horns, wasn't it?"

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"The horns. I figured someone had to have cut them off of you or something." And really the only reason she had thought of that was because of her own past.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nah," he shook his head. "If I don't file 'em every day they grow and curve back over my head. I joke an' say I do it to fit in but they're the only thing about all this," he gestured with his left hand to his face and torso, clearly meaning himself "that I can change."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
She was about to say that she knew the feeling, wanting to change something about yourself. But then she realized that he might take it the wrong way. He wouldn't understand. So she nodded. "I like it this way. How fast do they grow?"

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Normally he was pretty sensitive about his horns. It was one of the few things he was sensitive about but she didn't seem to mind them and she wasn't mocking them or staring at them.

"Dunno, 'bout a foot a month if I don't sand 'em off every day. I got a power sander I use on 'em every day instead of shavin'," he joked as he ran his left hand along the beard he had.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Jill nodded. "I wish my nails grew that fast. I break them all the time and they take forever to come back even though Lucy started giving me these hair and nail pills that are supposed to make them grow faster." She held out a hand showing him her nails, some short and some long.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Hellboy put his left hand underneath hers, fingertips just touching hers and looked at her nails with a shrug. "Never understood the whole girly nail thing but then there's a lot 'bout girls I don't understand. My hair and nails don't grow as fast as my horns and on this hand, they just don't grow." He gestured with his right hand.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
After a moment, Jill pulled her hand back and curled her own fingers to inspect her nails. They were currently painted a dark purple. "There isn't a more boring topic for you than my fingernails, is there?"

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey you ain't had the pleasure of Myers' company. M'sure I can think of more boring things," Hellboy told her.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-12 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Like what?" She challenged curiously.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
"Myers is fond of readin' me all the rules the Bureau has for me then he likes to point out all the rules I broke. Like I don't know 'em. I've been there for sixty years. He's been there for what...three. Give or take a few. There's this prophecy, lots more borin' then your nails. Listenin' to Abe ramble on 'bout the demons I get sent to kill. He wants to give me a full history 'stead of just jumpin' to the part 'bout how I kill 'em."

He leaned back on the couch, his right elbow resting on the armrest. "See, lots of things more borin' and none of them nearly as pretty as you."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Jill smiled and ducked her head. "Thanks. Uhm... how long are you here before you go back to your friends?

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Hellboy shrugged at that. "Dunno. When I get bored of things here. If things blow up in Connecticut, they'll send a plane for me. They don't like me bein' here but there's nothin' they can do about that."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
"What made you leave in the first place?" Jill asked, and then winced. "I'm just full of questions, aren't I?"

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't mind. It's nice to talk with someone...you know, conversation," Hellboy answered. He thought about his answer a moment and rubbed the back of his neck. His tail twitched, draped over the armrest of the couch and finally he shrugged.

"I was alone. Father died, there was the whole thing with Liz and Myers. I didn't want to look at him everyday and so I split. I've been gone for 'bout three months. Traveling in a boxcar mostly. Stoppin' where I felt like it and movin' on 'bout the same time." He glanced over at Jill.

"I look big and mean but I don't do so well alone, 'specially that kind of alone."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"My Watcher lived here in this big hotel all by himself. I'm pretty sure there are ghosts and I'm not sure how he did it without us around. I think we scare him but he likes us being here too." Jill rambled. "I think it's nice when people like for you to be around. I've just been in the way most of my life."

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Darlin' I can't imagine how you'd ever be in the way. You're too little first of all an' you're way too sweet," Hellboy told her. "But yeah, it is nice when people want you 'round."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
She smiled at him. "Just promise me one thing. And you have to pinky swear." She held up one delicate and slender pinky. "You can't break a pinky swear."

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hellboy quirked an eyebrow at her. After a moment he shrugged and held up his left pinky, hooking it with hers. Liz had done a pretty good job of letting him in on all the childhood rituals he'd missed out on the first 30 years of his life. "Alright, what am I pinky swearin' on."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
"That you'll say goodbye first when you skip to the next town." Jill informed him. It was almost hilarious, her pinky hooked with his just because of the sheer difference in size. It was barely a hook at all.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
"I promise I'll say goodbye, Darlin' and I'll even do you one better. I'll give ya my cell number so's you can get a hold of me if you want," Hellboy told her, his pinky still 'hooked' with hers.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Jill gave him a full smile at that and squeezed her pinky around his as best she could. "You're in trouble now Hot Sauce, can't take that back now."

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't know why I'd wanna take that back," Hellboy said. Their pinkies were still entwined and he wasn't about to break them up. "Darlin' I can't promise you a lot but when I tell you I'll do somethin' I'm loyal to that."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good because I wouldn't want to expect you to come around sometimes and then you don't and then I get worried and think something bigger than you ate you or whatever happened to you and then I go try to kill whatever hurt you... it would just be a mess." Jill rambled. And when she was done, she finally pulled her pinky away from his.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Hellboy chuckled a little at her ramble but seriously, he was touched that she would worry. Not that he was about to get sniffley or chick flick over it. "You know that happened once, somethin' bigger than me ate me. I took a string of grenades down his throat with me. Pulled the pin and...well I'm fireproof. He wasn't." He glanced over at her. "M'not gonna just light outta here without sayin' somethin' to you. Promise."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Resourceful." Jill commented. "So you're pretty much invulnerable, huh?"

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Almost but not quite," Hellboy answered. "I nearly got torn apart by a whole slew of demons once. Nearly collapsed from blood lost another time and if you can behead me, I'm probably not goin' to make it. Pretty much anythin' else, I can survive."

He tilted his head and looked at Jill a moment. "What about slayers? I've heard they're pretty tough."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Tough but vulnerable. I mean I'm not fire or bullet or sword through the heart proof. But I do heal fast if its something minor." Jill explained.

"Luckily the powers that be gave us reflexes like crazy, high speeds and a hell of a punch. Slayers die all the time though."

She pulled her lower lip through her teeth. "That's why we were moved here. Something big and bad is after all of us and wants us all dead. They bombed a castle in Scotland and killed hundreds of Slayers. So we've all been split up into smaller groups so they casn't get so many at once."

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Hellboy nodded at her explanation. "Makes sense," he turned the cigar stub in his mouth for a moment. "Well I got your back," he told her.

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Is that official or something? I mean did you have to think about it?" Jill wondered.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Hellboy shrugged. "Didn't have to think much about it. It's official. I like you and you're nice to me. I don't know why but you are. Figure the least I can do is watch your back when I know things are after you."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Jill lifted her shoulders in a graceful shrug and pulled her feet up into the couch. "Most of my life I never got a chance, so I think most good people in life deserve one... even demons." She looked over to him and gave him a small, closed mouthed smile.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Hellboy thought about it and shrugged. "You know, I kinda feel the same way. Sometimes though, stupid people reaaaally make me test that theory."

[identity profile] sonata-adagio.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do you come across a lot of stupid people?" Jill asked.

[identity profile] howbig-canitbe.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"People in general are stupid," Hellboy answered. "They see me chasin' a demon and by the time they react to demon, the one I'm chasin' is past them an' I'm on it's tail so they decide to hit me with the fire extinguisher or what have ya. Ain't like it hurts too much but by the time I get around 'em, tryin' not to hurt 'em and go after the demon. It's long gone and onto hurtin' someone else. They make my job harder 'cause they don't process everythin' they see. Just the one big thing they see. Big red guy. Must be bad. They forget the big red guy is chasin' somethin' that in general, looks equally as bad as me. So yeah. I run across a lot of stupid people."