searchingfordistraction: (z: Rich Brook (Storyteller))
Jim [redacted] ([personal profile] searchingfordistraction) wrote2012-03-13 08:59 pm

in Milliways

Rich Brook enjoys filming for The Storyteller. He honestly does. It may not be the role of a lifetime, but he could do worse than to spend the day reading fairy tales to kids.

He's always liked fairy tales.

Still, when Milliways pops up during a break in filming, he doesn't turn it down. He glances back over his shoulder first; then, when no one else seems to see anything amiss, he goes in.

At the Bar, he asks for a club soda with lime. He could have something stronger if he liked - with time stopped at home, no one would be the wiser - but it seems wrong for the Storyteller to drink while he's technically on duty.



[OOC: For clarity, Jim is in character as Rich, and will be making a much stronger effort to remain in character than he usually does in Milliways. And yes, he really is coming in from filming. DVDs don't make themselves.]
captaincrieff: (Stripey jumper)

[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-16 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Wait, bombings?" That sounds a bit...

"He's not playing around, is he?"

He vaguely seems to recall a few explosions being on the news or something, but that was over a year ago. He's probably mistaken and just confusing them for gas leaks or something.
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-16 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, well. That's good. I guess as long as no-one's actually getting hurt, and the police know what you're up to."

He's not even going to begin to mention how unwise it still all sounds. Lord knows Martin's taken a few foolish jobs just for the money.
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-16 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
"No, I—I get that," Martin says. "I really do. You have to take what you can get."

There he goes, being all honest again.
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-16 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Bad parts of town, scary clients," Martin says, confirming Rich's statement. "People don't realise it, but it can be a pretty dangerous job. You make your living going into strange peoples' houses. We have a chart on the fridge with my schedule on, just, you know. In case."

He doesn't want to say in case of what. In case of anything, really.
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-16 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
"It's just me," says Martin.

Hang on. Didn't he say earlier something about working with a guy who has a thing for Hester MacCaulley?
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-16 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Luckily, I live with a few other people, so there's a little bit of a safety net there."

Someone to report him missing, at least.
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-16 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Something like that, yeah," Martin says. "If you know the right people, you can get into the sort of places you're not technically allowed to be."

Which is how a 34-year-old pilot is living in student housing.
captaincrieff: (Nervous)

[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-16 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Martin laughs. "Yeah, I know someone who gets through life entirely by just knowing the right people."

It's a bit maddening.
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-18 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, uh. No. Well, maybe. I don't know." Martin wouldn't be surprised, with the way she behaved. "I only knew her for about a day.

"No, it's this other guy I sometimes work with. Everything goes his way, even when he should be getting in trouble for something."

If Martin sounds a bit bitter, well... Rich would understand if he knew Douglas.
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-18 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Nnnno," Martin says slowly. He realises now that he's been contradicting himself this whole time.

"I, uh, do some other stuff on the side. It's more of a hobby, really — or charity work, really, since I don't get paid for it or anything."

He considers leaving it at that, but then figures that he's bound to embarrass himself sooner or later, and he may as well get it over with.

"I fly a jet for a small charter airline. Well, airdot, as the owner calls it. Just the one jet, and only one other pilot. But it takes up most of my time, which is why I need a job with flexible hours."

And now's the time when he starts steeling himself against being laughed at or mocked. That's what usually comes by this point, because who spends so much time indulging their hobby that they take a job as a removalist just to get by?
captaincrieff: (Embarrassed)

[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-18 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Tell me about it," Martin says, though he's still far from relaxing again. "My first six months doing this, I went through nine jobs. Employers tend not to like it when you disappear for a week on end because the airline gets a last minute client who wants to go to New Zealand."
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-18 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Martin manages a small little laugh. "I wouldn't know anything about that. Slave-driver CEOs, on the other hand..."

He does like Carolyn, for the most part. Just not when she makes them sleep in the plane.
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[personal profile] captaincrieff 2012-03-18 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
(No, just embarrassing.)

"Uh—" He seems rather caught off-guard by this question. "You really want to know?"

Usually when he hears that question, or one like it, the person asking is just being polite. Or they think they are, and then just try to change the subject again once he starts going on about it.

Martin can go on a bit, it must be said.

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