RP for sonata_adagio Just hangin' around

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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.

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"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."

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Jill smiled and ducked her head. "Thanks. Uhm... how long are you here before you go back to your friends?

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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."

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"What made you leave in the first place?" Jill asked, and then winced. "I'm just full of questions, aren't I?"

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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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."

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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."

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"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.

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"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.

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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."

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"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."