just a friendly reminder

[silver_lined]

[ As the month has progressed, Kal has learned a lot of things about himself. Some of them had to do with his place here and he's spent more time than one might expect considering them, measuring them against the information that he's gotten from the other memories, the ones that feel more genuine, mostly because they have the right amount of information.

The memories here, he can see and hear and taste food, feel the dirt in his hands or the water in his hair or the kisses against his cheek.

The memories from there have so much more. The taste of the air, heartbeats in his ears, thousands upon thousands of voices and stories. There's flying through the air and blood in his teeth as he fights monsters from nightmares he didn't know he'd had. He's gotten memories of the suit he took from the sheriff's station, and another suit, a brighter one, that meant something.

So all in all, it's been a long month. A month of discovery and quietly, carefully observing this place and the people here and waiting, waiting to see where he'll take his stand. He'd made a move by telling Damon Salvatore, or rather, showing him a thing or two, but that was as far as he'd gone until now. Hopefully, some folks can read between the lines. ]

While I'm sure everyone knows that the fire department is always there for anyone in need of assistance, I'd just like to personally let the people of this town know that we're here should anyone need us. Not just for fires, of course. We're a lot more just some hoses and a truck.

Just something to keep in mind.

Comments

[seeyaduke]

Will you rescue a cat from a tree?

[Someone's got to make the joke.]

[silver_lined]

Of course. No matter the size of the tree or the size of the cat.

Is it a problem you have very often, miss?

[ Straight as an arrow. But maybe there's a bit of a smirk on his face, audible if you're paying attention. ]

[seeyaduke]

[And the sound of his smirk draws a matching one from Ana.]

Well, you'd be surprised, I suppose.

[silver_lined]

I should think if I'm an old hand at cats and trees, it'd take quite a lot to surprise me. Not to be rude, of course.

[seeyaduke]

I don't think it's rude at all, darling. But then again, you haven't met me.

[silver_lined]

Not yet. It's a pleasure I'll have to look forward to.

[seeyaduke]

Ana Lewis, by the way.

[invisibill]

So... is this like a roundabout way of announcing you're about to start doing chili cook-offs?

[silver_lined]

I was never the best at chili.

[ ...someone else, someone wearing... green? Oliver. That's the name he gets. Oliver always made chili.

Terrifying chili? Maybe?

It sticks out to him, anyway. ]

But I do bake a mean pie, or so I've been told.

[invisibill]

Hey, pies good too. I don't know anyone who would say no to that. [Except it was a lot harder to make puns about firehouse pies. They practically wrote themselves for firehouse five alarm chili. ]

[silver_lined]

Not many who do. Folks are generally smarter than that.

Someone hungry at the moment?

[invisibill]

Nah, not really. You sounded like you were about to start talking about community service stuff, and that was the first thing that came to mind.

[silver_lined]

Well, we serve the community. And it's something I in particular feel very strongly about.

To be fair, I also feel pretty strongly about pie, but I figure there's nothing wrong with being the sort of person to care about things.

[invisibill]

I guess it makes sense. It doesn't really sound like the kind of job you could do unless you cared about it.

[silver_lined]

And unless you can handle running towards dangerous situations instead of away from them.

[invisibill]

I feel like that applies to a lot of careers.

[silver_lined]

Not that many, I should hope. Unless you're talking about 'problems' as opposed to dangerous situations.

[invisibill]

Problems, dangerous situations... What's the difference?

[silver_lined]

One's something that needs to get dealt with and the other one isn't necessarily.

Problems ought to be worked on but not every dangerous situation needs meddling. A beehive is a 'dangerous situation', but there's only a few problems where it'd be worth anyone's trouble for someone to stick their hand in it.

[invisibill]

But how do you tell the difference?

[In Danny's admittedly limited experience, one quickly became the other. ]

[babyhunter]

So you're like 'your friendly neighborhood fire department?

[Clary almost said SpiderMan before stopping herself.]

[silver_lined]

I'd like to think that we are.

[babyhunter]

Are you the leader? If you are you'll need a snazzy super hero name.

[silver_lined]

[ The flash hits him like a sock to the jaw: 'nice S' says the most wonderful woman in the world. 'Superman' she proclaims, waving a newspaper in one hand, her violet eyes flashing bright.

Lois.

It's a good thing this is text. ]

Even if I had one, I couldn't tell you, after all. Secret identities are important.

[babyhunter]

That's no fun. Besides you said you'd help me in my epic struggle against meal time.

[silver_lined]

I was wondering when you'd be up for getting that done.

[babyhunter]

Captain Cook maybe? I'm free whenever. Honestly I'd love some company in the evenings. It's creepy in the house by myself. If you're free tonight or tomorrow? That and I have a feeling that I'll get called out for living off of frozen pizza's soon.

[silver_lined]

How about we meet at the grocery store at about 5 o'clock to get the food for a couple of things. That should make sure we have the food finished by time for a late dinner.

[babyhunter]

Right, getting food is important for cooking. Can do Captain Cook. :)

[angelic_archer]

[Alec's been trying to read between the lines and figure out where he'll be needed. Enough of his memories have come back for him to realize that even without the latest developments in town, sitting back and doing nothing is going to drive him crazy eventually.]

Is the fire department looking for volunteers?

[silver_lined]

Always, son. Come round the fire station sometime and we can talk about where you could be of help.

[angelic_archer]

Thank you. I really would like to help. I have experience that might be helpful.

I could come by tomorrow on my lunch break or after I close the shop.

[silver_lined]

That'd be great. Please do come on by and we'll see what we've got for you.

[oldladyleia]

It's always good to know where there's more helping hands.

[silver_lined]

Any time, ma'am. I handle 'idle' well enough but it's always better to be helping.

[oldladyleia]

What's that old saying about idle hands?

[silver_lined]

Well, they're supposedly the devil's playground, but I've never been much to concern myself with what he's up to in that respect. Better things to focus on.

[oldladyleia]

I think the devil is more in the details than anything else. I always tend to worry about those.

[slowdancer]

if you did more than fix fires, you'd just be called a department, you know. not really great advertising. maybe y'all should just stick to what you're best at.