Long Time No See [Rust]

[Calbrina Largo]

"Bleach, showercaps, gloves, dye." Cal pointed at each of the items in a small box on her room floor and sighed as she let down her now back length hair. Her Original hair colour, chocolate brown, had grown out her black and pink to below her shoulders, and she needed a dye job. BAD. She pushed herself off the chair in front of her EQ boards, and picked up the small box to head for the bathroom. She opened her door carefully so she wouldn't alarm Rust and made a b-line for a package on the counter and ran into the bathroom. "Ok. Safe." She clicked the lock on the door and set her boxes on the counter as she looked into the mirror, "I'd be embarrassed as all hell if he saw me like this..." She picked up the instructions from the box of hair products and got to work with the bleach.
~About 45 minutes later~
Cal pulled the shower cap off her head and dunked it into the sink to rinse out all the extra bleach. she lifted her head and flipped her hair back, making a streak of water on the ceiling and wall behind her. "Yessss..." She grabbed the hair dryer and fully dried out her hair. Blonde... Not her style, but a good in between for something better. She picked up the large blue bottle from the box and read the instructions on the side of it while humming her beats.

After she got the blue in her hair and the showercap on she reached for the other box and pulled it open to reveal a piercing gun and jewelry. She looked in the mirror and turned her head side to side, checked up on her eyebrows, flicked her nose and felt her ears. She picked the places she wanted her new piercings and she prepped her gun and her lower lip on the right side. "Happy thoughts, Cal. Just keep thinking those happy thoughts." She lined up the spot and... after a wince and a couple tears she had her lip pierced with a starter ball. She reached up and smeared the tears from her cheeks and checked her handiwork with a grin. Now to the Ears....
~After that grueling experience and 15 minutes after~
Cal pulled the shower cap off her head and she jumped into the shower to rinse out all the extra dye from her scalp and hair. She waited till the water ran clear and turned off the water and snatched a towel from the rack. She stood in the mirror again and ran her fingers through her new blue hair, "Oh this'll be lovely." she picked up the hair dryer and fixed her hair up and looked at the door, "If he hasn't bothered me by now...I guess he isn't home. Which means..." She grabbed one of her large safety pins off the counter and pinned her towel shut and walked out into the living room and clicked on the TV to Wrestling.

[JDGreat]

((Just to clarify, this is after Rust and Secernia's date but BEFORE Hospitalis. So they're still "going out" - JD ))

Whistling away after grabbing some shopping, Rust messed about with the keys for a moment outside. He'd finally managed to fix the lock and sort himself and Cal out with new keys. Honestly, he wasn't too sure he knew that much about the DJ except that her WUBWUBWUB alarm woke him up early nearly every morning. Not the most horrendous crime, but it was starting to aggravate a little.

Honestly though? He just wanted to catch her around some time. She seemed like an interesting character and they never seemed to meet up at the right time. It was like they had only met twice. When they first moved in and at Ace's party. It was getting a little ridiculous the amount of time they didn't spend with one another.

Eventually, Rust got the door open, still whistling. He picked up his bags and was just about to walk in when he stopped whistling abruptly.

There's a nearly naked blue haired pierced girl raiding my fridge.

Abruptly looking up and away from the lady in the state of her undress, Rust coughed twice, with a slight blush.

"Err...excuse me, Miss? Don't know how you got in here, but this is my Dorm. And you don't look like Cal either."

Clearly, the mechanic hadn't realised it was Cal herself from the back.

[Calbrina Largo]

Cal had made her way to the kitchen and she shuffled around in the fridge for a moment before finding a beer on it's side, pushed to the back of the icebox. "Yes. Delicious Buzzes. Now how about food..." before she started digging she heard Rust's comment and she wondered for a sec then her hair fell over her shoulder, "Oh, Right." She pulled out of the fridge and stood up to turn and look at him. She stood there for a minute, almost like a deer in headlights, with a beer in her hand. "Hey, Rust..." She noted his embarrassed state and popped the top of the beer off on the counter's edge and fixed her towel for a less of an awkward conversation, how much less, though, she wasn't sure.

She scruffed her hair on the side for a minute and drew one side of her mouth up, "Sorry to surprise you. I needed a new thing." She dropped her hand to her side and sipped from the beer, "So uh..." She tapped her fingers on the glass and her nails made a tink tink tink, "Want me to help with those?"

[JDGreat]

Rust blinked as he heard the voice and looked down just to see who it was.

"Wait, CAL?!" he asked aloud, slackjawed. "Bloody hell mate, didn't even recognise you for a second there! Well, you definitely managed to give yourself a change, let me tell you..."

Then he realised she was still only clad in a towel. Coughing again and finding the ceiling VERY interesting to look at, Rust just blushed slightly darker as she asked her question.

"Why...don't you go get changed first?" he asked, very diplomatically. "Then I could do with the help, yeah. We also need to catch up, girl."

His eyes fell on what was on the TV and he brightened up.

"Oh hey! Didn't know you watched this too!"

[Calbrina Largo]

Cal gave a small smile at his surprise and set her beer on the counter, "I guess..." She wrinkled her nose at the thought of having to get dressed, but she shuffled off to her room and finished drying off to switch from her towel to a black laced camisole and a pair of batman boxers, which she found ridiculously comfortable to wear as shorts. She checked on her EQ board to see if any of the dials had been tampered with and she gave a smile and a pat on the side of the whole box over a few pieces of duct tape over laping to make a Writing space that read 'Cal's Baby - Touch and DIE'.

"Yea. Sometimes." She called back to Rust's comment about the TV and made her way back to the shopping bags in the living room and started helping put things away, "I usually only have it on if I see it. It's not like I go looking for it or anything." she picked up a bag of crisps and tossed them over the couch to the living space in front of the TV, "I shall eat those in a moment."

[JDGreat]

Seeing that Cal was now...ahem...dressed for lack of a better word, Rust got back to emptying the shopping into the fridge and cupboards. He gave a nod at the girl as she re-entered.

"Suits you, actually." he complimented with a grin, stacking some of the shelves. "Not that the others didn't but...Jeez Cal, didn't the piercings sting a little? Especially if you did 'em yourself?"

He winced slightly at the phantom pain, but shrugged. He wasn't a wuss, just asking in general. The mechanic did grin at her little explanation about the wrestling though.

"Aww man, thought I'd found another big fan for a moment." he smirked, eyes flicking over every now and then to the TV. "Still, it's been getting better recently. You should definitely check it out again sometime, properly."

Seeing the crisps abruptly stolen, Rust shrugged, grabbed a newly bought can of Coke and clicked it open before drinking deep.

"Sure, it's what they're there for." he reasoned, before finishing off the shopping and seating himself on the couch. Checking his phone for any texts from Secernia, he gave a slight sigh, remembering the ending of their "date".

Man, oh man, was he an idiot.

Putting the phone away, he looked back over at Cal.

"You gonna be going back to your mixes now?"

[Calbrina Largo]

Cal bit at her lip and stood in thought for a moment, "Nah. I don't really feel like it. Plus my crisps are already over here." she jumped the back of the couch and settled into the seat rather gracefully. She reached down and snatched up her crisp bag and tore into it wildly. With a mouthful of crisps she looked up at him and coughed, "Sorry... I haven't eaten in a while." She slowed down her eating to a good moderation. "So Uh..." she said through her chips as she watched the TV. She searched for something to say to him, anything, really. Jeez...This is the longest I've spent with this guy I think... her mind reeled as she munched quietly on her chips. She was never really good at this whole starting conversations thing. She remembered how she just yelled out when she first got into the dorm, but she didn't know him then, now she has to live with him and she didn't want to say anything off putting.

She never really had to talk to people this much, They'd usually just tell her a song request and she'd play it, or if she didn't have it she'd say so and they'd leave. She looked at him out of the corner of her eye through a thin veil of hair, "What um... What are your powers?"

[JDGreat]

Watching the girl slide onto the couch, Rust raised an eyebrow. She WASN'T going back to her room? That was odd behaviour in itself, but giving up the chance to do mixing too? That just seemed...un-Cal-like.

Shrugging, he sat on the same couch next to her, watching the TV beside her, the silence becoming slightly more awkward.

Err...what do? I'm normally good with this kind of stuff and yet.

Before he could take the plunge though, Cal spoke up, looking at him awkwardly. He turned to face her, grin on his face. THERE was a good ice breaker, if a little personal.

"Bit of a private question, dontcha think?" he teased, tongue sticking out slightly. "What, you want to ask what colour underwear I'm wearing next?" Laughing a little, he waved her off as he used Gabrielle's own line way back when he first arrived. "Nah it's cool."

With a bit of concentration, the AA appeared in a wisp of blue energy and a whisper of displaced air. Flexing it's clawed digits slightly in the air, Rust looked back to Cal.

"This...is the Astral Arm. Or the AA for short. Had it since I was four years old."

[Calbrina Largo]

Cal's stomach plunged when he said it was a personal question, she thought that's the stuff she needed to know to live happily with him; That was the whole reason she declined going back to her room. She started to speak up again but his 'it's cool' comment quietened her. She heard the air shift and looked at the... Arm.. Thing? Cal wasn't sure exactly what it was, "It's an... arm." She blatantly stated. She inspected it for a moment and noted how the name sort of fitted it. It was a blue that reminded her of stars, and it was nearly the same colour as her own eyes.

"Astral Arm..." she repeated softly, "Is it like...Is it alive? or is it just...a thing you summon?" She reached out slowly as if she was going to try to touch it.

[JDGreat]

Rust moved his arm slightly and the Astral arm followed it, allowing Cal to touch the strange blue swirling energy. It felt like human skin, but was slightly warmer to the touch and the energy underneath felt like blood pumping through veins that were not visible to the eye.

Slight wisps of blue energy were appearing over Rust's left shoulder too, but as soon as Cal looked at them properly, they would disappear into the ether. Rust gave no reaction.

"Well...it's kinda both..." the mechanic admitted with a sheepish grin. "Sometimes it follows my exact orders. Other times, it tends to do it's own thing. Often for the better, but sometimes, when I get angry, it lashes out of it's own accord. That's a big downside..."

Trying not to think of how he first met Secernia, the Brit continued.

"But, for what it's worth, it can throw one hell of a right hook and all sorts of awesome things."

The AA then sped out, stretching as it grabbed another bag of crisps from the cupboard and tossed it towards Rust, who caught the packet easy.

"Like that."