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Apr. 11th, 2016 01:06 pm[personal profile] brother_alone
brother_alone: (Listening)
Josh is making a real effort to try and get his life in order.

He's leaving his shanty more and more often, clean cut and wearing fresh clothes rather than the grimy tattered mess he'd arrived in months before. A few odd jobs around the Nexus have allowed him that much at least. They never last too long though. Partially because they're just that: odd jobs. But also, because one Bad Day or episode is all it takes to get him let go.

It's discouraging because Josh is trying so hard.

Not for himself, really. There's enough self loathing within him to bury him several times over. He hates himself. Hates what he's done. What he is. What he sees. But there are people he cares about, people who see something else that Josh doesn't.

People like Chris, like Dia. And like Han.

So when Josh's phone buzzes, he assumes it's one of the only people in this place who gives a shit about him, or the newest place he works at occasionally with some hours for him. He isn't wrong. Han wants to know if Josh is up for fixing up that rust heap he'd picked up a few weeks back. The memory makes Joshua smile as he unlocks his phone to reply.

Sure thing. Meet at your ship I'm assuming?

He doesn't wait for a reply when he leaves his shack. Josh figures he has plenty of time to change direction if need be. It's not half bad outside today anyway, and the walk will do him some good.

Date: 2016-04-11 08:32 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Scratching His Scruffy Head - Comic)
Texting is a glorious thing. Amazing that he can just hit a few keys on a phone device and his message gets where it needs to go.

[Yes. At the Falcon.]

In some ways, it's like what they're trying to do with the Holonet in his universe, but they're not quite there with it yet. Someday it will be. Now that he knows how convenient this tech is, hell, he might become an early adopter. Though not as early as Lando. That guy has everything.

At this point, Han as been scrubbing over the overracer with tinfoil for the better part of a week. Knocking off the top layer of rust has shown him that, a lot of what was once beautiful and metallic about this bike has lost all its luster.

Many of the parts are pitted. If he wants to restore it like it was coming off the factory line it's gonna need a lot of work. He'll have to decide if he wants it to gleem or if he'll be satisfied to paint over it.

Date: 2016-04-12 01:24 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Thinky Face - Episode 5)
Josh will have to walk by the overracer, which is still outside and will remain there until he's confident that the bike is not going to make a huge mess, to meet Han on the ship. Which is perfectly fine. He wanted and expected the kid to come in when he got here.

"Hope you didn't wear anything nice." Captain Solo calls out. Mostly to give his friend a direction to follow to find him.

Currently, he's regarding what is essentially a cabinet fixed into one of the walls of the ship filled with tools.

Date: 2016-04-12 04:09 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Scruffy B&W - SW Rehersals)
"Uhh." It's not as if he was keeping track, but that Josh is asking, he's trying to comb through wich days he was working on it and for how long in his mind. "Five or six hours."

And all that time invested with the result being only 'marginally' better, too. If you haven't gotten the idea of what you were in for before, Joshua, you are now. This is going to take a long time.

"So, to start with, I'm going to be handing you some tools to carry and telling you what they are." Which he does for about half a dozen pieces of equipment that he anticipates they'll be using today. Many of them will have an earth equivalent that he'll be familiar with. Notably the spanners as wrenches and drivers as screwdrivers.

"You go carry those out and I'll be right behind you."

Date: 2016-04-13 01:13 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Thinky Face - Episode 5)
That's good that he can handle the hold and grab. As Josh is carrying out the tools, Han is grabbing the other thing they'll need. Beer. If he was fixing the Falcon, no, but since this is hobbyist mechanic work. Yes.

He comes out with a package of Ryll beer when he walks down the ramp to find Josh. He really needs to have this kid teach him the difference between good beers of the Nexus and the bad ones, because the quality varies so wildly. Especially in the ones from Earth.

This is actually the last of the beer he has from his galaxy. This sixer. Still got plenty of liquor though, so, that's something.

"So" He murmurs, as he snaps one apart from the package and offers to Josh. "You're at something of a disadvantage in learning on a restoration project. There's going to be so much replaced that we'll never determine the principal cause of why it wasn't running."

Date: 2016-04-14 12:53 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Thinky Face - Episode 5)
Han snaps off a drink for himself and sets the other four beverages aside. He wastes no time in opening the bottle. The top doesn't fit the classic mold of earth beer caps, but if Josh watches the Captain open his, he'll see that it justs twists off just the same.

"Fuel line work is what we're doing today." Solo brings the burgundy colored glassine bottle to his lips and takes the first draw from the beer. He's started being a little more mindful of refrigerating the drinks now that he's getting used to them being widely served that way around here.

"It's one of the few things we can do without any replacement parts."
Edited Date: 2016-04-14 12:54 pm (UTC)

Date: 2016-04-14 03:28 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Laughing At You - Episode 4)
"Last of my beer from home." He murmurs. "It's called Ryll and they use it for all kinds of things at home, but making beer out of it is one of the best ways."

The alcohol itself compares to a pale ale. Subtle with notes of grains that taste mostly like wheat, but not completely. Pleasantly carbonated. It's not got the richest favor around, but not every beer needs to wow you. Sometimes simple is good.

"Our work stands to be awfully messy if we dont, kid." He says with that sarcastic smile of his starting to creep in. "You didn't think I'd do all the fun jobs without you, I hope."

Date: 2016-04-16 09:12 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Scratching His Scruffy Head - Comic)
Yes. Spanner, kid. It's a spanner. Call it a wrench and he's gonna give you the wicked side eye.

"Well, I let most of the fuel that had been sitting in it drip into a collector yesterday. I expected the fuel to be staler than it was." Which means it was sitting around for a lot less time than he initially thought.

"I'd love to flush it with some running water, but I don't know what my options are in the Nexus for that. Otherwise, we can make do gravity and water we can carry from off the ship."

Date: 2016-04-17 03:53 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Badass - Episode 4)
"Your guess is as good as mine." He says with a shrug. "Only thing I can figure is maybe someone pulled it out of a stream or a lake at some point." Though that's ultimately not where Han found it, he found it at a scrapyard. Something weird happened to it though, no doubt about that.

Han takes another slug of the Ryll and then sets it down somewhere he thinks that he'll remember where it was later.

"They tend to design these things to drip where I come from. You never know what planet they're going to ship these to and what resources are going to be on hand." Siphons, yeah, those are pretty common on any planet sure, but water isn't always. That's why flushing he sees more as a bonus than a critical step.

The Captain starts heading toward the Falcon, expecting Josh to follow. "I've got a few stashed under the sink. We'll go together. It might take a few passes even with both of us."

Date: 2016-04-19 05:37 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Working - Episode 5)
He's a smart kid, this Josh. That's one of several reasons that Han likes him and wants to keep him around. The little things he'll pick up on without Han needing to explain everything to death.

It's not occurred to him that Josh is different than he used to be. He hasn't known the kid all that long, though, living on your own with the kind of problems the kid has ... well, they kind of lead you to being underfed and not having the same stamina as a person of healthy weight does.

In any case, Captain Han has never been the kind of guy that orders someone to do something he isn't willing to do himself. He would have to hope that he seems like that kind of leader and that kind of man. They walk into the lounge, where the Falcon's makeshift kitchen is, and he grabs the buckets out from under the sink. Four of them.

It's one of those scenarios where the buckets are kind of big and the sink is kind of small, so each one has to get wedged into there under the faucet and they can only get about half filled. He gets two ready to go for Josh and sends him on his way. He'll be right behind with two more.

Date: 2016-04-20 03:40 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Working - Episode 5)
The Falcon seems huge from the outside, but in reality, no. It's not all that big at all. It also helps that its layout is circular. Keep going around and eventually, you'll find the place you're looking for. It's only when you start to look for the stuff that you're not supposed to find that you'll have any trouble.

Besides, the daylight streaming through the ramp is a good indicator of where 'outside' is.

Han sets down his own buckets about two minutes behind his friend with an unceremonious plop. The water shifts around in the bucket and a small amount splashes around the side.

"I'll show you what we have to take apart to make the bike ready to flush. We'll need the spanner. Do you want to do the pouring too or not?"

Date: 2016-04-21 02:40 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (How Are You [Trooper] - Episode 4)
"The fifteen millimeter."

Han is prepared to point out which spanner is the one he wants, but he's got this feeling that his friend is just going to know. Still, he's observing. Just in case.

When they get beyond the matter of which tool is the right tool, Han will position himself on the ground, but off to the side so the kid can get to where the bolts they need to remove are. He'll point out each one and he takes it upon himself to hold each one when Josh removes it.

"Okay, that's the last going to be the last one, so take it off, but hold the inner panel in place for a second and get out from underneath it. Otherwise, that shit is going to drip on you." He's drained it. There wouldn't be a lot of junk to come out of there at this point, but it's likely that he would have got a little bit surprise if not for the warning.

Also, Han's taking this opportunity to get out from under the bike now. Thanks.

Date: 2016-04-23 01:55 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Arms Folded - Episode 5)
There are a couple of answers that comes to Han's mind and because it's Han we're talking about, they're mostly sarcastic ones. He has to believe that the eyebrow and the comment has to do with the fact that little brother does give a crap about what they may or may not be dumping into the ground.

Han reaches for his beer and purposefully kicks over one of their water buckets so that it tips over. He takes a sip of his drink and gives the water a chance to run out onto the ground. Then he picks it up and places it underneath the about to be open port that Josh is still holding.

"I question the 'planetness' of the Nexus, for the record."
Edited Date: 2016-04-23 02:14 am (UTC)

Date: 2016-04-24 01:31 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] twelve_not_fourteen
twelve_not_fourteen: (Foot in Mouth - Episode 5)
An essential part of flushing is to know where to put the water in. He's not wrong about that.

The overracer should feel similarly to a motorcycle for Josh, because that is what they take the place of in his galaxy. Not unlike what is custom to the bikes of Earth, he points out that the tank for the fuel sits in a position just ahead of the seat.

"This is the spot here." He murmurs, unscrewing the cap and adding it to the things he's juggling in his grip. He supposes he should go put the beer down again. "Slow and steady with the pour, kid."

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