So what now? (Katydid50 x 5Bulletproof-Marshmellows)

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Single Mom

"Enjoy the simple things in life while you have them."

Name: Elenore Darling
Age: 34
Hair: Red
Eyes: Light Green
Height: 5' 5"
Build: Some muscle but not a lot.
Personality:
Likes: Her children, walking in the rain, a certain someone, and coffee as well as chocolate.
Dislikes: Ex-husband, stressful days, heels, and liars.
History: She grew up in a small town and her parents had the jobs of teachers and dentist. Being an only child she was the favorite in the family up until her mother died. Things went down hill from there and she was in her teenage years. Her mother had left her a guitar and Elenore decided to become a musician. Her father started coming home drunk and the two grew apart. She didn't know how to fix everything but he eventually found someone else and Elenore was old enough to move out then, which she did. Life was rough at first with her music career, so she took graphic design and a few other classes. Of course she still wrote music and sang once in a while but marketing proved to have a stable job. Elenore was already pregnant at the time from her boyfriend. He had been around when her mother had passed away and once he found out about the child, he proposed to her.
Life started to look up and she was happy for the first time in a long time. Grace was born eight months after they were married and Elenore had to give up college for a while to look after the kid. Sebastian was three years older than her had already had a job, so she was forced to live off his money for a while. Once Grace was three, Elenore returned to college and finished up with her degree. For the next two years things went smoothing and another child was on it's way.
Things continued like that for a while.. until Elenore found out Sebastian started going around other women. At first she didn't believe it but he started not coming home for a few days. At one point she came home late from work and found him messing with some chick in their own bedroom. Elenore took her kids and left without him noticing only to come back the next day to get her things. Of course he tried to stop her.. and she didn't tell him she was pregnant with his third child, too angry and upset with him. Elenore left after that and never looked back, not able to look past his betrayal.
Living on her own was hard especially since she had another kid on the way so she sought help from her aunt who took her in. She stayed there until Deserai was ten months old and she finally got a stable job. Buying an apartment in the heart of the city, she's lived there ever since though she dreams about buying a home once she has enough money.
Other: She has a soft spot for music.


Name: Rosalie Evergreen
Age: 54
Hair: Silver
Eyes: Olive with a hint of yellow
Height: 5' 3"
Build: Average
Personality: Friendly but can be stern when needed. Doesn't take abuse from anyone and is a good listener. Motherly figure.
Likes: Family, the country, homemade food, animals, and lemonade.
Dislikes: Flies, dirty kitchens, and liars.
History:
Other: May have a love interest.
 

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The Teenager

"Question authority, it annoys them."

Name: Grace Haley Darling
Age: 15
Hair: Red
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5' 3"
Build: Slender muscles.
Personality: She's a curious person and is rebellious. Once she puts her mind to something though she won't stop until it's done. Grace also loves to crack jokes whenever she can think of one.
Likes: Rain, music, reading, drawing, and playing guitar.
Dislikes: Controlling people, bullies, and anyone that stands in her way really.
History: Being the eldest kid in the family was easy in the beginning but it got harder when she had to look after her younger brother. Sure, she loved him but sometimes he could get really annoying. They had it good though. With her father and mother bringing in money they lived a middle class life. Her mother taught her how to play the guitar once she could actually hold it in her hands. Good memories. Her father started coming home late though later on and soon things started to hit the fan. There were family fights and all that stuff. It wasn't pleasant but she had to live through it anyway. One day.. after coming home, her father told her to stay in their rooms. She had heard the sound of another woman's voice and then their was some music. She was tempted to open the door and look but she stayed put since her little brother was there. That night they left.. her mother, her brother, and her. They packed their things and left.
It took her a few months before she realized what had happened and but she still loved her father, even if he had cheated on her mother. Then came Deserai. She was a cute little kid but Grace had to give up working on homework half the time because she had to look after her since their mother had to work late. And that's how things went from there...
Other: She has a tattoo on her torso of a small lizard that her mother and her father don't know about.








Name: Eit eh Adesh Yron 'Eyes of Hunting Wolf' (Wolf)
Age: 16
Height: 5'5"
Build: Lean-muscled.
Hair: Shoulder-length, black.
Eyes: Brown with flecks of gold, looks completely gold in the right light.
Skin: Red (Native American)
Distinguishing Features: His eyes, his hostility towards whites.
Personality: Serious, suspicious, racist, quick to become angry.
History: When he was two, his mother died giving birth to his brother, stillborn. He and his father lived with his mother's people until he was six. Leaf didn't like the hostility towards whites that Raptok was instilling in his son so they moved in with Screech and his people.
Screech, Leaf and Wolf spent the next autumn and winter at the cabin before Screech sold it to Daniel Marks. They still spend every autumn and winter there but spend spring and summer with the tribe.
Status: Currently living with his father and grandfather at their cottage on Daniel's land.
Relationships: Son to Flies Like Leaves in Wind (Leaf, once called Cliff Where Rock Falls) and Spotted Fawn (once called Speckled Fern, deceased), grandson to Screech of Circling Eagle (Screech, once called Wild Horse Running) and Flowers Dancing in Breeze (once called Wind that Shakes Branches, deceased), brother to Lost Light (deceased), nephew to Ice Claw (called Raptok or Falcon, Spotted Fawn's younger brother).  

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The Son

"It is my job as your little brother to make your life difficult. Get used to it!"

Name: Nicholas Darling
Age: 10
Hair: Red
Eyes: Dark Green
Height: 4' 10"
Build: Average. Not fat but not too skinny.
Personality: Mischievous, trouble making. He enjoys playing pranks on his older sister. But he is also a Momma's boy.
Likes: Climbing trees, playing pranks on people, his sister (though he won't admit it), his mother.
Dislikes: His dad, being told he's too young to understand something, secrets.
History: To him, life was perfect. He loved messing with Grace, getting her angry at him, and then sucking up to his mom when he got in trouble. He liked hanging out with his dad and missed him when he started coming home late. He didn't really understand why things went from being perfect to being completely horrible. All he knows is that his parents started fighting, one night his dad told him not to come out of his room, then mom came home and left with them.
He still doesn't know why he, his sister and his mom had to leave, and no one will tell him. However, he's managed to hear enough through eavesdropping to know it was his dad's fault.
Things were bad enough but then Deserai was born. He loved her, because she was his sister and he had to, but he truly wished she hadn't been born, though he doesn't say so aloud because he knows it's mean. Things were hard enough before her but they got worse afterward. Now, no one has any time to spend with him and he spends a lot of his time alone, when he's not pranking Grace. In fact, that's the only time he ever gets any attention but he doesn't think the others realize that.
Other: He resents his dad and doesn't want to have anything to do with him and often sneaks out at night to wander the streets -even though he knows it's not safe- because he can't sleep.  

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The New Man

"I don't regret anything I've done because, if I'd done anything different, I wouldn't be here today."

Name: Daniel Marks
Age: 36
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5' 11"
Build: He's got muscle but not to the point that it's creepy; broad-shouldered.
Personality: Thoughtful, mysterious. He doesn't really like most people, most adults, but loves kids, though you'd never guess.
Likes: Music, nature, quiet.
Dislikes: Most people, the city, lots of noise.
History: He started out pretty rough. His dad used to beat him and his mom until she finally couldn't stand it anymore and left. His dad only got worse after that but Daniel was glad she managed to get away, though is bitter that she didn't take him with her. When he was fourteen, he left home and lived on the streets for two years. How he managed to survive, he still isn't entirely sure. He stole what he needed and slept huddled to other homeless kids when the nights got too cold.
When he was sixteen, he left the city and headed for the country. He slept in the forest outside a country town, sneaking in at night to steal what he needed. Eventually, he was caught and thrown in the local police station. Because he'd stolen so much over the years, he was thrown in prison, in the city, for a year. When he got out, he was right back where he started.
By twenty-one, he'd gotten himself mixed up in a gang, doing odd jobs, whatever he could. He managed to get himself out by twenty-five but his time there, his actions there, and in the jail still haunts him.
He got his life on track by twenty-six, got himself a job in the city but a house in the country. He commutes to the city everyday, not being able to stand living there. He just can't.
Other: He got a tattoo in jail of a rose vine wrapped around a dagger on the inside of his left forearm.

Name: Micheal Ricks
Age: 59
Height: 5'5"
Build: Lean muscled.
Hair: Gray, sticks out at odd angles.
Eyes: Powder blue
Skin: Tanned but not as much as Daniel.
Distinguishing Features: His choice of clothing, his personality. The fact that he has no car and rides around on his rough, shaggy painted quaterhorse, Horace.
Personality: Playful, intentionally annoying, cheeky but can be mannerly and serious when the situation calls for it.
History: Parents died in a fire in London when he was fifteen. He came to America, traveled and got involved with gangs by twenty. Somehow, he managed to stay alive and powerful that whole time.
When he was forty-five, he met Daniel Marks and took the man under his wing. By forty-seven, he had managed to convince the young man to leave their way of life and followed Daniel onto the straight and narrow.
Status: Unemployed, living off the money and items he had stored from his previous lifestyle.
Relationships: Father figured to Daniel.  

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The Youngster

"Where's daddy?"

Name: Deserai Darling
Age: 3
Hair: Dark red
Eyes: Light blue-green
Height: 3'
Build: Skinny but not bony
Personality: She's happy most of the time though she asks too many questions.
Likes: Asking questions, following around her siblings, and sweet things.
Dislikes: Being alone, not knowing what's going on, and scared.
History: Deserai grew up without a father, in fact she barely even heard anyone speak of him. Of course she found out that everyone had fathers. All the other kids on the street had daddies.. why didn't she? She tried asking them before but she got no answer. Deserai followed them around though, she was always afraid that she was going to get left behind but it seemed like her older brother got annoyed of her sometimes.. as well as Grace. Why though? So many questions and no answers.
Other: She wants to know where her father is.


















Name:Lily
Age: 11
Hair: Light Brown
Eyes: Jade/Olive/Grey
Height: 4'2"
Build: Average
Personality:
Likes:  

[5Bulletproof-Marshmellows]

Elenore sighed as she was left in the car alone. The kids were off in school, or at least two of them were. Deserai was over at her aunt's house for the day, their great aunt. Rolling her shoulders back as she drove through the parking lot, trying to find a good spot to park, she couldn't help but wonder what lay in store for her today. Rubbing her temple, she had been having a hard time trying all the loose ends together concerning money. After all being a single mom with three kids was no the easiest thing in the world. Shaking her head a bit, she then parked the car. Grabbing her bag, she pulled the keys out of the car and shoved them into it before getting out and locking the car. Closing the door, she looked up at the rather tall building that she worked out.

The good thing was that Grace had gotten a job, so she could get whatever she wanted without asking her, but sometimes she worried about Grace. After all, she was a teenager. Pushing that thought away, she walked through the double glass doors, noticing that she was about twenty minutes early for work. It wasn't that bad though, at least she wasn't late like last time. Elenore needed this job and there was no way she was going to lose it anytime soon by her own mistakes.

Her heels clicked against the tiled floor as she walked towards her office. She wasn't important as the vice president or anything but she did have her own office. People walked in and out, asking for advice sometimes or giving her things that she then needed to work on. Every once in a while she would have to deliver something to her boss and sometimes speak to clients but other than that, she didn't think she had any other responsibilities.

Fixing her white button up shirt, she then opened the door to her office to find a package on her desk with a small neon sticky note on top of it saying who it was for. A new project proposal? She frowned slightly, it was obvious that it was going to be delivered to her boss but why did they want her to do it. Shrugging the thought off, she turned on the computer before hovering over her desk as she set her bag down next to the package of printed papers.  

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Daniel pulled into the parking lot, his dark blue truck was old and needed some repairs but everything was working fine as far as the engine and breaks went. It got him from place to place and that was what mattered. It wasn't like he had anyone to impress. No one would care if his vehicle was a piece of crap or a brand new convertible imported from wherever it was that convertibles were imported from nowadays. It wasn't like high school where the guy with the car got all the girls, although it probably would have helped attract women if his truck didn't look like he used it to drive around paddocks in, which he did.
Pulling into a particular spot, he turned off the ignition but didn't get out right away. His dark blue eyes scanned up the office building where he worked. He didn't hate his job like lots of people did but it certainly wasn't his dream job. Granted, he didn't exactly have a dream job in mind but he knew that working in an office wasn't it.
But it paid the bills so he wouldn't complain. It kept him off the streets in a house. The house was a lot like his truck. It looked rundown and, frankly, shitty, but it kept the rain off his head and if anything broke, he had money to fix it. The house was simple and he liked it. It was home.
Climbing out of the truck, he stuffed his keys into his back pocket beside his wallet, locked the doors and slowly made his way inside. He didn't work in the office per-say, dealing with customers and clients. He delivered things: packages, papers, etcetera. That was better, he thought, than sitting in a cubicle all day taking calls. He was a more restless person and knew he wouldn't have been able to sit there all day every day. His boss had quickly figured that out.
As he stepped into the building, his boots sounded against the tile flooring as he walked. He didn't particularly like tennis shoes and they wore out far too quickly when he worked on his land, so he wore hiking boots. He'd long since broken them in and now couldn't imagine wearing anything else. His coworkers and boss didn't mention them but he knew they noticed. As he walked up to the front counter, the woman told him that he already had some packages that needed to be delivered.
Nodding, Daniel walked off to his office, if it could be called such. It was basically just a tiny room next to the janitor's closet. People put the packages through the shoot in the door and he delivered them when he got there next. He knew people didn't have a very high esteem for him or his job but none of them ever said anything aloud. They were probably afraid of getting punched in the face. After all, he did look like the kind of guy who wouldn't take any crap.  

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She decided against taking it herself, after all there was a person assigned with the job of delivering things. Taking off the sticky note, she threw it in the trash before picking up the stack of papers. Walking through her open door, she was glad that people didn't bother stealing anything from her, after all she constantly left her purse in her office whenever she needed to walk around the building. Her computer beeped at her, letting her know it was waiting for her to put in her log in name and password. Elenore decided she would get to that later though as she looked back ahead and walked down the hall.

The man that worked with all the delivery business struck her as a friendly person even though he had intimidated her at first.

((Sorry I have to get off soon, I'll finish this tomorrow))  

[Katydid50]

Daniel pulled out his key ring, flicking through it before finally finding the key to his "office". Unlocking the door, he walked in, leaving the door open. He returned his keys to his back pocket before picking up the packages that were already waiting for him to deliver.
Sighing, he looked over the names of the places they had to be brought and who they had to be brought to. He immediately pushed one package off to the side. He did not want to go anywhere near that guy. He didn't have a stick up his backside. He had a freaking pool cue up there. The longer Daniel kept away from that guy, the better.
Looking over the other packages, he picked up a few small ones before looking up. One of the female workers had put up a mirror in there some time ago, as a kind of welcoming gift. Now, as he looked into it, he noticed how disheveled his hair was, making him frown. His shirt was clean, though. At least, it looked like it. The dark blue hid most stains. His jeans, however, was getting thin around the knees but were otherwise suitable for the office.  

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((I wasn't done with the previous post. Sorry.. my brain wasn't working when I typed this up yesterday.))

Elenore sighed as she walked down the hallway before reaching the door that lead to the little office of Daniel. She couldn't remember his last name since she usually remembered people by their face anyway. Knocking on the door gently to get his attention, she then leaned against it after a moment, holding the package in her hands. "Good morning." she told him, it was a normal greeting. It wasn't like she was going to throw the package on his desk and then leave him with the instructions. That would have been mean.
"I was wondering if you could deliver this for me." she said in a soft tone as she walked up to his desk. The name of their boss was written on top of it. She didn't want to have to deliver it especially when she had a project to work on and she didn't really want to be alone in the office with him. Sure, there had been rumors about him throughout the floors of the building. She didn't believe them, but that didn't mean she was cautious about her actions.  

[Katydid50]

((That made no grammatical sense to me))

Daniel looked away from the mirror at the sound of knocking. Turning around, his eyes landed on a woman. He couldn't remember her name or even ever recall speaking to her but he'd definitely seen her around. "Morning," he said back for the sake of pleasantries. There wasn't really anything good about his morning but there wasn't anything bad either. It was just another day at the office for him. Actually, he was surprised she didn't just toss the package at him and tell him what to do with it, or just place it on the table and leave like most people did. It was a refreshing change.
He smiled at her request and knew she was just being polite. "Well, it is my job so I suppose I could find time in my ever so busy schedule to deliver it," he said playfully. After all, she'd been polite to him. The least he could do was be polite back. Setting the other packages down, he picked up her package, his eyes snapping to the person he was to deliver it to. He grimaced when he read the name. He wasn't necessarily one to judge a person on rumors but he'd been around their boss a few times. He didn't get a good vibe from the guy.
Pushing the thoughts away, he turned back to the woman. "I'll deliver it right away," he told her. He picked up a few other packages he had to deliver that were to go to the offices around their boss's. After all, why make several trips to the same area?  

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((Sorry about that. I changed it. >.<))

A smile appeared on her lips when he replied with a playful response. If only other people were like that around her. She hated it when the only people she was surrounded by all day were uptight and had a poker face on. If she could, she would enjoy having an actual conversation with him some time. He seemed friendly and he definitely wasn't one of the overly confident men in suits that came into her office throughout the day. "I would be extremely grateful." she told him, half joking but the other half was serious. Setting the package gently on his desk since she didn't know where else to put it, she blinked when he said he would deliver it right away. She hadn't been expecting him to act so quickly but that really was up to him.. or perhaps he was just being nice.
"Thanks." she smiled once again. "I'll talk to you later then." she then walked out of the office, heading back to her own. People were filing in through the doors, coming in for work. A few bid her good morning and she did the same. It was all part of formalities that were supposed to be up held in this office setting. Walking into her office, she opened the blinds that kept the sun's rays out of her room, and let them in. Running her fingers through her red hair, she then sat down in front of her computer and typed in what the monitor asked her for. She did need to work after all.
Perhaps her lessons of graphic design had really paid off now, she didn't know, but at least she was skilled with it. Pulling up the file of the billboard, she frowned a little bit. Women were almost always photo-shopped before they were put into the media for everyone to see. Elenore despised it since she thought they looked fine without it, but she still had to go along with if she wanted to be able to feed her three children. Glancing over at the photograph that was on her desk of Grace, Nicholas, and Deseria she couldn't help but smile.  

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Daniel smiled back at the woman, surprised by his own actions. He didn't like being around people. That was why he'd bought his house in the country, so he didn't have to be around others. But he didn't actually mind this woman. He could easily imagine himself sitting down and having a decent conversation with this one. That was the impression he got anyway. People always turned out to be different than first impressions presented.
At her words, he smiled again and nodded. There was a reason she was giving the package to him to deliver instead of doing it herself. With most people, it was just laziness or they were too busy. But this guy, the boss, he could understand why she would want to avoid him. The guy was a creep. Even Daniel avoided him at all costs, except, of course, when he had to deliver a package to him.
At her thanks, and the promise that she would talk to him later, he nodded. He didn't say anything and didn't move until she had vanished from his sight. Blinking, he shook his head, muttering to himself before picking up a few packages that he had to deliver along with the woman's. He really should have gotten her name. Now, he was always going to refer to her as 'the woman' and he knew that could be quite degrading.
He closed the door behind him as he left his office before making his way to the elevator. Pressing the button, he waited patiently for the doors to open before entering. Luckily, the lift was empty and no one else got on. After he pressed the button for the floor he was headed to, he leaned back against the wall, watching as the doors shut.
Upon reaching the floor, he stepped off the elevator, just managing to avoid being run over my some office workers who all but ignored him. They didn't acknowledge his presence and the one that did looked down his nose at Daniel. Daniel shot a dark glare at him before making his way through the floor. He dropped off the rest of the packages before making his way to the boss's door and knocking.  

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The rather tall man that went by the name Frederico Ruggles sat in his office, knowing that a few packages were going to be delivered. Most of them would be come in by the hands of the man he had hired a while back but he was also waiting for a package from Ms. Darling since she was supposed to come in with a few project proposals. Sighing, he glanced over at the computer screen, his feet resting on the top of his table and the tip of his pen against his lips. He really wasn't looking forward to a long day at work but perhaps some fun could be injected into his morning. A smirk appeared on his lips as he surfed the internet. It was the only thing to occupy him at the moment. Hearing the door, he called out. "Come on in." putting his feet back on the ground, Frederico then put his hands on his desk and waited for the person to open the door. He was hoping it would be someone of the opposite sex but then again he never knew.

Elenore went back to working after a moment, she needed to finish it up before the end of the day since she had already spent almost a whole week on it. The phone went off after a moment and she picked it up before realizing that it was Grace's voice on the other end. "Grace? Aren't you supposed to be in school?" she questioned her as her eyebrows furrowed. What was going on?

She knew this was coming... Sighing, Grace bit her lip nervously as she turned her back to the principle. Her lips was bleeding a little bit but it wasn't as bad as what she had given the other teenager. That stupid jerk.. she thought before speaking. "The principle wanted to talk to you." she said in a low voice before handing the phone over to him.