1960's RP with Five

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In a way Roxy was lucky that she landed in the 1960's and not the pervious era, her modern look was a lot easier to blend into the 60's than if she were dumped into a June and Cleaver type of situation.

"At least I can pass off my short hair as some kind of Twiggy or Mia Farrow inspiration..." She thinks to herself as she passes by a shop window, pausing to adjust her outfit.

"And I do look great in a miniskirt if I do say so myself..."

Not that she's dressed up this way to try and lure anyone with her barely covered bottom, she is actually rather modestly dressed compared to what she wears most nights for work. Today she is going for 'casual lady about town', something that won't stand out too much if she has to do a little breaking and entering.

"Another plus for a miniskirt," She thinks to herself as she approaches the closed down appliance store. "It won't get caught on anything."

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[oldmanfive]

Five was heading out of the back door into the alleyway, holding a set of car keys as he had just handed off the film footage to Elliott and was now going to find where Diego had ran off too. The last thing he expected was to run into Roxy as he turned the corner.

"Roxy?" He asked confused, unsure of why she had turned up. He didn't see Luther with her. So he had no idea why she would come to the place he was staying alone. "What are you doing here? Did something happen to my brother?" He added after a beat, wondering if something had happened between last night and this morning.

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She freezes, her mouth pursing into a little O of surprise and her cheeks going a soft pink. It's dumb but all of a sudden she feels guilty, as if he can read her mind and know that she was just contemplating on breaking into the appliance store to check on him.
Luckily she manages to recover quickly and gives him a sunny smile, "Hey there sweets."

"I....uh nothing's wrong. Your brother is fine, I was just in the neighborhood and thought I'd check in on you. You know...just in case Luther asked about you tomorrow night at work." She motions at the store, "I'd feel pretty bad if he was like 'oh Roxy I just found out that my little brother got stabbed to death by a homeless guy'."

[oldmanfive]

It takes a moment to catch on to what is going on, when she gets a slightly embarrassed look on her face. Instinctively he lifts an eyebrow at her. Most people around here, just forgot about him after crossing paths with him. The uniform tended to throw them off his scent, but this one was taking an interest him.

"The one homeless guy that occasionally hangs around here is harmless. If he were dangerous, Elliott would have probably called the cops on him by now." He puts out there as he pockets the car keys in his right hand, while looking at the watch in his left hand.

"You don't have to worry about me. The appliance store is closed, but the building isn't abandoned. The guy who owns the place is just a little reclusive."

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Now it's her turn to raise an eyebrow at him, "Sooooo you're staying all alone with a reclusive older guy? You realize this sounds more suspicious than you just squatting here alone right? This isn't like...a pervy old man situation is it? Should I call Chris Hansen?"

She jokes and then immediately kicks herself mentally, realizing that she's made a joke about a TV program that doesn't exist yet. She tries hard not to reference things from her time but she's only been here for about 6 months and still slips up time to time. Hopefully he'll just think she's talking about some cop in town...

[oldmanfive]

He opens to reply that Elliott is harmless, but stops in his tracks as she references Chris Hansen. While he'd never got to see the show growing up. He remembers seeing random episodes when he would stay in rundown hotels on assignment. Immediately his stomach drops as what if she was also Commission. He knew there were more than assassins spread across the timeline. They usually had eyes and ears everywhere and every time period.

"...Okay just who the hell are you?" Five asks with a glare as he was definitely on his guard now.

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She watches as recognition dawns on his face, part of her crying out in satisfaction at the fact that finally someone understands her, even if it is just a dumb joke and reference from her time but more because it means that she was right about him. He is different, he isn't from this time.

She holds up her hands in a gesture of surrender, "I already told you. My name is Roxy."

"You never got around to telling me your name though."

[oldmanfive]

"Just because you said that was your name doesn't mean you haven't been lying." Five retorts with a frown. Still very much on his guard because he knows an instance of kindness doesn't mean that's she's actually a kind person. He's been around enough false kindness to be wary by now.

"Why are you so interested in who I am?" He asks defensively, unsure if she's being genuine or if she's trying to play him. The Commission takes all kinds after all. For all he knew she could be working with the Swedes who killed Hazel and tried to kill him already.

hehehe poor Five....

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She opens her mouth to respond and then closes it, a flurry of emotions that's she's been trying to repress for six months suddenly flooding to the surface. She's been on her own for half a year, trying to make the best of a bizarre situation but that doesn't mean she isn't still scared that she'll never get home or see her friends again. She looks at him, sees the suspicion in his face and suddenly bursts into tears.

"Because I'm stuck here!" She says through the flood of tears, "When I saw you I could tell you were different and I thought that maybe you were like me! You speak different and act different and you know who Chris Hansen is so that proves that you're not from this stupid time and for once I was RIGHT about something but it doesn't matter because now you're acting like I'm here to attack you or something but I'm not! I'm just scared and lonely and sick of pretending because I'm not supposed to BE HERE!"

Yes she realizes she's babbling and sounds a smidge hysterical but she can't help it.

[oldmanfive]

Well shit. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place as he certainly wasn't expecting her to have a meltdown. They barely know each other. So while he feels perfectly justified in his suspicions of her. He can't deny her breakdown is making him feel like more of an asshole than he usually is.

"Woah, woah, woah. Curb the waterworks here, before you start drawing attention to us. Look I don't know you and I don't know what you've been through. But I have literally had several people try to kill me since I landed back here. So sorry if I'm not trusting of a complete stranger right off the bat." He responds, looking a cross between frustrated and agitated.

"I just don't have time to deal with someone else's shit when my plate is full. I need to find my siblings and get us out of this timeline before those idiots manage to trigger a fucking doomsday. Luther's being a dumbass and my other brother is currently acting fucking cuckoo for cocoa puffs obsessing over trying to stop JFK's assassination like a fucking moron. I'm really reaching my wit's end here." He adds because she's not the only one going through some shit here. He's on a short time table before the world literally ends in a nuclear war.

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Her tears taper off and she stands there sniffling as he explains a bit of his situation, the two looking a lot like their roles are reversed. Her the scared child and him the chastising parent.
Finally it feels safe to speak, even though his expression is still agitated a lot of the suspicion has dropped out of it and has been replaced by what seems to be impatience, which is fine, she's used to that look.

"....Your brother is trying to stop JFK's assassination?" She asks, her one eyebrow going up. "That's fucking dumb. You're not supposed to mess with history like that or else shit will get all messed up, geeeez didn't he ever watch 'Back to the Future'?"

She wipes at the tears on her cheek with the back of her hand, feeling a bit more calm after her outburst. Sometimes it helps her to just explode and cry it out, part of her suspects that he could use a release like that but it's always different with guys.

"Also the people who are trying to kill you...." She says after a small pause, "They don't happen to be from a branch of the US government called I.O. do they?"

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"Well tell that to the dumbass if you ever see him. I need to find that moron before he causes more trouble and I have a strong feeling that I know where he'll go." Five replies, pinching the bridge of his nose. He just knows Diego is likely making another beeline for Lee Harvey Oswald. The fact that the girl got the importance of not changing the timeline wasn't lost on him.

"No, the people coming after me are from the Temps Commission. They are in charge of protecting the timeline from deviations and my idiot siblings running through the sixties trying to change things is bringing them down on us." He states with a large inhale, knowing the Commission already had them in their sights for trying to stop the apocalypse in 2019, but he wasn't going to share that part with the girl. As he still didn't know if he could actually trust her.

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"I'll slap him upside the head if I see him." She says with a snort, rolling her eyes at the stupidity of Five's brother. She wants to get back home and if this kid's brother messes with the timeline then she might not have a home to go back to, or might not even exist.

"Oh great, time cops." She mutters when Five explains a little about the Commission, it sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel but then again her whole life sounds like that so she doesn't have that hard of a time believing it.

"Okay look, this might not fully prove that I'm telling the truth but..." She says and goes into her purse, pulling out her wallet and digging into the very back of it where she pulls out two items that she usually keeps hidden and hands them to Five. The first is her drivers license which is dated in the future, the second is a photo of her and her friends, her makeshift family, on the beach in L.A.
The picture shows Roxy hugging a very tall redheaded girl while two guys make faces in the background, a third girl, a stoic Indigenous girl, stands off to one side with drinks.

"You've been trying to find your siblings, well this is my family. Only I have no idea where they are, something happened when we went through a stupid government transportation portal, I think they all stayed in 2019 but I got thrown here. I have to get back to them." She says, her eyes serious. "And if your dumb brother or a pack of stupid time cops are about to mess that up then I'm not just going to stand by and let it happen."

"I can help." She says softly, her eyes pleading with him.

[oldmanfive]

Instinctively he crosses his arms over his chest as he listens to the short version of her story. He only reaches out to take the offered items and look them over. He knows full well that stuff like this could be fabricated, but he's not so sure that the Commission would bother sending one of those types of spies in to get next to him or his siblings.

He sighs as he hands over the picture and identification back to her. "Look I don't really have time for all of this. So I'll take your word on this, but if I find out you were playing me. I will make you regret it. Despite what some other people might think, this isn't a game to me." He replies with a serious expression on his face.

He's not a fool and he knows better than to completely drop his guard. He absolutely refuses to succumb to a pretty face. It just wouldn't bode well for him.

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She nods, his suspicion is understandable but she isn't worried about his threat because she is telling him the truth and she will prove it. She doesn't know how yet but the most logical place seems to be helping him round up his siblings.

"Understood." She says and takes back her photo and I.D, slipping them back into her wallet. "So where do we start? Go find your other dumb brother? I can keep tabs on Luther at the club if you want."

[oldmanfive]

Instinctively he runs his hand through his fringe as things just keep getting more and more complicated. He lets out a small sigh as he knows he really needs to collect Diego before the idiot does any real damage to the timeline.

"Well I need to go get my idiot brother who escaped from the local mental hospital before he manages to fuck up the timeline." Five says, pinching the bridge of his nose. "I just know that moron is going to make a beeline for Oswald. That's where they picked him up last time." He adds after a beat as he goes to pull the car keys out of his pocket.

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"If he's going for Oswald I know exactly where he'll be." She says, thinking that if this brother of his is as impulsive as he sounds he'll be at the Book Depository. She smiles and holds out her hand for the car keys.

"Not for nothing sweets, but it might be better if I drive. Somehow I don't think we have time to get pulled over by the cops for underage driving."

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"I do too. The moron is predictable to anyone who know him." He states with a sigh. Though he shakes his head as he absolutely refuses to hand over the keys. He took the car fair and square. Lightly he shakes his head at her. "No way, the idiot cops don't even noticed half the time, since they are too busy being racist assholes to pay attention to a random kid driving a car." He adds, clutching the keys tightly.

He agreed to let her stick around, but he's too much of a control freak to let someone he doesn't know well drive him to retrieve his brother. "You can head back to the bar and check for Luther if you want. He knows you, maybe you can talk some sense into the big monkey."

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She retracts her hand with a shrug and an easy smile, "Okay. But if you wind up in juvie I get to tell you 'I told you so'."

When he suggests going back to the club she feels a sting of hurt but quickly brushes it aside, he just met her and is going to be suspicious until she proves she's not a threat. "Sure, I'll see if I can convince him that there's more at stake here than just his grudge against you and a broken heart."

"I'm working the next two nights at the club if you need to find me." She adds, and then goes into her purse and pulls out a bent up business card and pen, she writes her home address and phone number down and then passes it to him. "Anytime else I'm at this address."

She can tell he wants to get going so she motions for him to take off, as he passes her she gives him another smile. "You know you never told me your name. You want me to just keep callin' you sweets till we're better acquainted?"

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"They would have to catch me first." He states frankly because he's been doing things under their nose this entire time. He's more concerned about the Swedes at this point.

"If you can get him to pull his head out of his ass, I will count that as a miracle. There's a backdoor through the alleyway there. Just go in through there if you need to get ahold of me. Elliot's paranoid but he's pretty well harmless." He tells her as he takes the offered business card and pockets it.

"My name's Five." He replies after a beat.

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She cocks an eyebrow at his reply, filing away the information about Elliot and how to enter the appliance store. The fact that he told her that much is a little bit encouraging.

"Well I guess I'll see you soon then, Five. Good luck with your brother." She says and starts to turn back the way she came, pausing to glance back over her shoulder at him.

"Oh and if you enjoyed the show the other night then be sure to stop by tomorrow, there's something extra special happening that you might like." She tips him a wink and a little wave, leaving the alley and him to get down to business.

[oldmanfive]

After the disaster that was trying to speak to their father, which ended up with him getting scratched by Pogo and Diego getting shanked by their dad. Five finds himself using Elliot's phone to call Roxy. Hopefully she had more success with Luther than him and well he's fairly sure that Diego's crazy lady is the Commission mole at this point. Though he can't be quite sure yet.

He certainly feels that out of Roxy and Lila, Roxy definitely gives off the better vibes. In any case, he needs some sort of good news because everything constantly going to shit is getting old quick. The moment he hears her voice on the other end of the receiver, he speaks. "Please tell me you were able to talk some sense into the big ape?"

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The moment she picks up the phone she feels a little spark of excitement, she doesn't get a lot of phone calls normally so she's got a pretty good idea who might be on the other line.

"Hey sweets," She says casually when she picks up the line, smiling at his immediately grumpy tone. "I dunno if I'd call it sense but I do have some news for you. Seems like Luther has asked Jack to find someone for him, a woman by the name of Allison Hargreeves. Does the name ring a bell to you?"

[oldmanfive]

Of course. Five finds himself frowning that Allison is the first person Luther decides to look for. Because he hasn't had the entire year to look for her. He pinches the bridge of his nose as he suppresses the urge to sigh.

"Yeah, she's one of our sisters." Five replies, trying to mask some of his frustration. "Do you know if your boss had any luck finding her?" He asks after a beat. Since he'd definitely like to talk to her before Luther gets to her.

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"You have one hell of a big family," Roxy remarks as she sits down at her vanity, cradling the phone in the crook of her neck so she can paint her toe nails while she talks.

"And no luck yet, but knowing Mr.Ruby it won't take too long. How'd it go with your escaped brother? Find him okay?"

[oldmanfive]

"Yeah, well there's six of us, including myself. So I'm still one brother and one sister short and the clock is ticking." Five replies, while running a hand through his fringe in frustration.

"Oh I found him alright. Though he's down for the count right now. We had a little excursion with our dad's past self and the idiot ended up getting himself stabbed." He explains, definitely sounding frustrated. "You'd think the moron would know better than drop his guard, our dad wasn't a cream puff when he was raising us. And that's technically years from now."