Helping Hands

[Nox]

A tattoo shop. It had all made sense now. Why the picture hung on her wall? This was a guy who meant something to her, a lot by the looks of the lack of anything else personable in the apartment. Nox took a wild stab in the dark that Aria had gone into the store that sold bedding and bought the first thing that matched her price range. He didn't think she did that with her weapons. They were custom, he'd seen enough to know that. Though his memories of them all were still fuzzy. But it was all coming back now. Once and a while he'd be unable to fetch information or be completely surprised when he remembered it.

Nox now didn't have to ask Aria where her work had been done. Nox smiled lazily. "Seems you'll have an appointment in a few weeks then, since the one person I trust to recommend someone good, is well right here."
Nox had the drawing now, sitting on his bed side table, waiting for time to ask Aria, now he didn't have to.

Elias on the other hand Nox turned to with surprise. A student. But then again it shouldn't have surprised him. Everything about him screamed I don't have a job. Nox laughed inside at his own inner thoughts, everything about himself screamed punk with out a job. He grinned. "Like dolphins and giant whales who swallow men whole."
Jonah and the whale, hell even Pinocchio claimed fame with their whale tails. Nox chuckled to himself. Stupid jokes! "I don't think Moscow's the right joint for your career path. Too land locked."


Nox grinned madly at Lucas' question. So easy to manipulate the conversation where he wanted it to go. Though it wasn't a skill he was usually good at, but here was a man who was pretty near dating a woman who could tell him exactly how he felt. There was absolutely no envy in that thought. Nox knew Aria already felt what he did. He would have rolled his eyes at that thought, but in some ways it was comforting. To know she knew without ever having to say anything.

Nox sparred a glance for Aria, he questioned his answer, what did Lucas know? He knew about her, but how far could he go. Aria must have felt his question, she turned her head and looked Nox in the eyes with a nod. Nox let go a breathe he hadn't known he'd been holding. Damn girl made him all sorts of weird.

Nox took a swallow of the water in the brand new glass and smiled with great pleasure. He knew that he'd be laughed at, called a fake a fool, whatever, but when you say what he was about to say you get laughed at. He was game. "Yeah, we work together. We hunt monsters."