Sanctuary

Cosmic Fey · May 13, 2012

Sky sighed and brushed blonde hair out of blue eyes. It was a gorgeous day outside and Skylar was trapped inside at a meeting to discuss the new drama Sky was writing about the rich and the pretty. Or rather, Sky was waiting to meet the woman that was going to be the lead in the drama.

Inane Tyukimori.

Skylar looked at the picture of the woman. She was very pretty, Sky thought, with her long red hair and warm eyes. Sky sighed, it didn't make sense how being beautiful meant you got everything. This country was so fucking superficial it drove Sky nuts. Just because you were good looking, things came easy for you

As a rule, Skylar didn't like people like that. Sky and the rest of the world had to work hard to get noticed and these people didn't. It wasn't really fair Mind you, Skylar was a private person, so it sort of worked out but it still didn't make it easier to handle.

"Miss Riktor, Inane Tyukimori is here to see you" Skylar's secretary said through the intercom on the phone.

Sky grimaced slightly at the use of the female title. Being Intersexual, Skylar wasn't technically either male or female, but could pass more easily as purely female so that was the pronoun Skylar used in public even though the gender space on the birth certificate was blank.

Oh well, Skylar had dealt with it since birth. It didn't really matter at the moment anyway. There was work to be done. "Send her in"

DuskRaven · May 13, 2012

((The title is fine :3 ))

"Ms. Tukimori you can go in now," the secretary, mispronouncing the name on accident.

The woman that had just walked up looked through the glasses that she was just pulling off and let the name pronunciation go. It wouldn't matter really. She had heard it all: Tukimori. Tyumori. Tyukomari. She'd even heard herself be called Tariyaki before. She inhaled and closed her eyes, preparing herself to meet the woman that would help her get her next job.

With an exhale and a wish to the kami's of arts and drama's, the girl opened the door and walked forward after closing it behind her. She had worn a simple outfit. A skirt of a light maroon color, a dark brown vest over a dark cherry blouse that dipped less than most women's shirts. Knee high socks that stopped an inch from under her skirt made her legs on her five foot four frame seem longer. Her feet itched in simple black shoes that could slip on and off. Despite the almost ten years she'd been in the United States, she was still more comfortable taking her shoes off when she entered a room and putting on a pair of guest slippers than walking around in fancy shoes on hardwood floor.

She put on a smile that, for most people, would charm the sock off them and walked over and gave a tiny bow to the woman at the desk. "You must be the writer, Skylar Riktor, yes?" she asked when she'd straightened "I'm Inane Tyukimori."

Cosmic Fey · May 14, 2012

Skylar inclined "her" head slightly when the woman straightened up, "Yes I'm Skylar Riktor. It's a pleasure to met you Miss Tyukimori" Sky said, stumbling a bit over the foreign name, but otherwise pronouncing the name correctly. Sky barely contained an eye roll at the smile the red head had on her face, reminding herself that the other woman had a job to do too and that job included being able to charm people to get rolls.

"Please have a seat," Sky gestured to the chair in front of the desk and waited until the woman was seated before continuing. "Now this drama is about the lives of the Rich and the Beautiful." Sky kept the bitterness and sarcasm in the lat words to a minimum and shifted a little in the chair; the suit Skylar had been forced to wear for the meeting was uncomfortable, the blonde preferred loose fitting, baggy clothes. It was easier to blend wearing those.

"Now my superiors have told me that, in order to write a believable drama, I should spend time with you, our lead, to see how people like that really live." Sky wasn't able to hold back an eye roll this time before smiling again. "I hope you don't mind, but if there is a problem with this plan please feel free to take it up with my superiors."

DuskRaven · May 14, 2012

Inane slowly sat in the chair offered her, her smile never leaving her face despite how annoying she thought it would be to have the other woman follow her around. She was looking over the clothes that Skylar had on out of instinct. She didn't seem to fit well in them, or at least wasn't comfortable in them. Inane quickly looked back up into the face just in time to catch the last eye roll.

"The lives of the rich and beautiful?" she said thoughtfully, trying to think of what she'd had planned that day so that she could alter it to include another person, "Well, I do want this roll, so I suppose I cannot complain all that much about something we obviously don't have any choice about." She shifted in her chair, her hands fidgeting in lap. Of all her faults, having too much energy was her biggest one. She let the smile that she'd kept on relax a little. Her eyes slowly scanned the room for any signs that the woman in front of her had ever been part of the 'rich and beautiful' as Skylar was calling Inane.

She supposed that she fit the 'beautiful' part. Many people told her this, though half the time she thought it was only because they saw the make-up she wore half the time. The rich part was mostly her parents doing and from a bit of movies that she'd stared in over the last ten years. "When are you supposed to spend time with me?"

Cosmic Fey · May 14, 2012

Skylar looked at the memo on the desk. "It says here I'm supposed to spend as much time as possible over the next two weeks with you in order to take accurate notes, so I assume that means most of the day." Sky suppressed a grimace; spending that much time in close proximity with another person was not the blonde's idea of a good time.

"I apologize ahead of time, as I'm sure this is an inconvenience for you and your plans. I myself do not like the idea of following you around like a puppy, but this is my job and as you said, we don't have much of a choice now do we?" Sky's tone of voice was polite and friendly, but blue eyes were full of sarcasm as the words were spoken.

Sky watched the woman twitch and fidget in the chair, waiting for the blow up that was sure to come after being told she was to be followed by a "nobody" and thinking longingly of the change of clothes that sat in a messenger bag under the desk that Skylar would change into after the meeting ended.

DuskRaven · May 14, 2012

Inane raised an eyebrow at the length of time. Two weeks being followed around by a writer. She sighed and pushed herself up from the chair she sat in and took a step towards the desk.

"Well then, miss puppy, as you so put it, shall we go then? The sooner we start, the sooner you can return to being a writer rather than a puppy and the sooner I can return to being an actress and not a puppy-owner," she said in a light tone before assessing the outfit that Skylar wore again. "If you are going to follow me, I think you'll need some better clothes, and by better I mean looser."

Inane tilted her head to the side and considered the woman carefully again. This wasn't what she wanted, and by golly she was going to talk to her manager about it, but there was no way that she would show distress to the writer of the character that she was to play.

Cosmic Fey · May 14, 2012

Skylar scowled at the "miss puppy" remark, it had been meant as a sarcastic comment, the blonde hadn't expected Inane to actually call Sky a puppy. She'd better not get used to it or these two weeks were going to be long and painful.

Sky let out a small sigh of relief when Inane said looser clothes would be better and that itd be a good idea to change. "Of course. Wouldn't want you to look bad, now would we?" Sky reached down under the desk and grabbed the worn brown messenger bag resting there. "Just give me a few minutes to change and we can go."

Walking out of the office and down the hall, Sky slipped into a stall in the woman's washroom and locked the door before peeling off the suit, ignoring the differences on her body that made Skylar intersexual and not female as "she" pretended to be. Sky pulled on a pair of baggy black jeans, a loose fitting dark pink long sleeved top and a light grey, equally loose, t-shirt over top, slipping on a pair of black sneakers.

Stuffing the suit back into the bag, Skylar looked in the mirror quickly, making sure that "she" passed as decidedly female. Running a hand through blonde hair, Sky stepped out of the washroom "Shall we go?" Sky asked Inane with a small smirk

DuskRaven · May 14, 2012

Inane had followed Skylar out of the office and into the hallway where the bathroom was before leaning back against the wall as she waited. She checked her skirt to make sure it wasn't wrinkled and then straightened her clothes to get rid of some extra energy before Skylar returned from the restroom. Raising an eyebrow as she looked at the outfit the woman had decided to wear. It wasn't something that Inane herself would have ever put on. She was more into skirts--long and short--and light shirts that didn't weigh her down.

However it did fall into the 'loose' category Inane had been suggesting so she couldn't complain really. She stood straight and turned towards the elevators that would take them down to the first floor and let her exit the ridiculous building that had started a two week nightmare for her. "You can take the elevator," she said before turning and opening the door to the stair well, "I'll meet you down." It wasn't that she didn't like the quickness of elevators. It was that she hated the sinking feeling in her gut whenever they went down. After having been stuck for three hours in an elevator and then having the sudden lurch of going down when she had been six, she didn't go on elevators when she could avoid it. Like this instant. She took off her shoes and started to lightly jog down the stairs, her hand latched onto the railing.

Cosmic Fey · May 14, 2012

Skylar stared at woman's retreating back, mouth hanging open slightly, before shaking out of shock and pressing the 'down' button for the elevator. Stepping into the elevator, Sky hit the 'G' button that would take the moving box to the ground floor and leaned against the wall as the doors slid closed and the elevator started moving downwards.

"Fuck" Sky mumbled. As if the writer didn't have enough to worry about to begin with, now Skylar had to follow little Miss Pretty around for two whole bloody weeks and take notes. Just how well was that going to work out? It was like the high up's were doing it deliberately to mess with the blonde. None of the other writers of this drama had to spend time with the people playing their characters. Just Sky.

The elevator arrived at the ground floor and the doors opened with a 'ding' and Skylar walked out slowly; hopefully these two weeks would go fast.

DuskRaven · May 14, 2012

Inane made it down the flight of stairs a few minutes after the elevator made it down. After years of avoiding elevators, her legs were used to the exercise. She came out of the stairwell, hoping on one foot as she pulled on her shoes a foot at a time. She blessed whatever forces had guided her that morning when she'd chosen to wear her dark black socks rather than the brown ones that would have shown every bit of dirt they had picked up on her way down. But at the same time, she knew her shoes were not made for stair going. She pulled on her shoe and then tapped the toe against the ground in an old ritual she had gotten used to in Japan and then looked around for Skylar as she pulled on the other shoe.

On her way down she had thought about her plans for the day. Initially she had been planning on coming to this meeting and then going home and practicing lines from the intro scene that she'd been given a week or so before. But what fun would that be? She looked at her watch as she walked over to the other woman. "Have you eaten yet for lunch?" she asked as she drew near. Why not be nice to the person she was supposed to spend two weeks with? Couldn't hurt.

Cosmic Fey · May 14, 2012

Sky blinked in surprise. Actually, until the actress had mentioned it Sky hadn't even been all that hungry, but now Skylar was starving. "Um. no I haven't. I've been too busy too" the blonde sad with a light blush. There'd been a chance to eat before the meeting, but Sky had been to busy preparing to eat and was now feeling the repercussions.

Skylar looked the actress over. She seemed nice and not too snobbish, but than again, she was probably trying to get on the blonde's good side. She could be an awful peson, but this wasn't too bad, Sky thought, it could be much, much worse, so why not be nice while it was possible? There was nothing to lose really.

DuskRaven · May 14, 2012

"Then let me treat you to lunch," she said before putting on her sunglasses. The actress smiled and turned from the woman and headed out into the bright sun. Despite the warmth of the sun a chilly wind was running through the streets that day, sending goosebumps up and down Inane's arms. The woman looked around and then starting out down the walkway to the parking lot. Her walk was slow, relaxed, calm. She had worked very hard to learn how to walk like this so that others would not know what was going on in 'that pretty little head' as her mother liked to put it.

She led the way towards a black car with darkly tinted windows and dark hot pink highlights along the bottoms of the door, the tops of the windows and at the back. She clicked a button on the keys she had fished out of a vest pocket and a beep could be heard from the car.

Cosmic Fey · May 14, 2012

"Th-thank you" Skylar said with a slight blush, following Inane outside. It was sunny but cool, the way Sky liked it. Taking a deep breath, Sky blew the air out slowly, letting the tension leave her body.

"Nice car," Sky said with a low whistle. It was the kind of car Sky would want if the blonde had a lot of money to spare and wanted to splurge. As it was Sky had an old-but-in-good-condition black Impala. Sky loved it to pieces.

Sliding into the passenger seat, Skylar's mind wandered to the next two weeks as Inane drove. It was going to be tough to spend that much time with someone who wasn't family and knew of Sky's "condition". What would happen if Inane discovered that although Sky had breasts like a female, Sky also had male bits and that the blonde hadn't been born female or male but somewhere in the middle? Sky sighed, running a hand through "her" hair. Sky could pass more easily for a female than a male and it would be easier to get a sex assignment surgery but - like Sky's biological sex - the blonde was still on the fence about it.

Oh well, if the actress found out, she found out and Sky would deal with it if it did - it had happened before after all - but for now Sky would try and make sure it didn't.

DuskRaven · May 14, 2012

"Thank you," Inane said as she got into the car with a smile. She liked the car for the relatively quiet flare it gave off. Many people liked pink or black, but hardly anyone appreciated how, with a little bit of work, the two could go together well enough to create a breath-taking sight. She turned the car on and a CD popped on. Instead of the normal 'pop' artists that she knew most actresses listened to a different pop artist came on. Grinning she started to bob her head from one side to another. Under her breath she sang along with the song.

"She spread her wings across the wings and flew to me with such devotion.." she she sang as she pulled up to a light before falling silent and turning to look at the girl that sat in her car with her. "What are you feeling like having for lunch? Chinese? Fast food? Italian? Russian?"

http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/382485/across-the-ocean

Cosmic Fey · May 14, 2012

((That song is amazing, I liked it so much I had to download it :3))

"Hmm, oh." Sky shook her head to get rid of the thoughts that were plaguing the writer. "You decide, it is your money and I'll eat just about anything." Skylar grinned. It was a running joke in the family that Sky had a steel bottomless pit for a stomach as the 23 year old would eat anything regardless of flavor or spiciness or anything like that at least once. "I'm up for anything, I'm not picky."

Cocking her head at the music playing, Sky grinned at Inane again. "You've got good taste in music Miss Tyukimori. I'm impressed"

DuskRaven · May 14, 2012

((Jamendo is really an amazing place to find music that is unique and not part of the normal songs you hear on the radio. Their radio sections and the instrumental music are really good. I use there when I'm looking for inspiration.))

Inane looked at the girl as she said she wasn't pick and then complimented her on her music choice. She smiled back and shrugged. "Honestly I find the music of new and upcoming artists more interesting that that of the so called famous singers. They have a unique way of looking at things," she said as she turned the care and started down the road. She turned onto the freeway and grinned as she pushed her food down on the pedal. As the car revved up, she pushed a button above her head and a small sun roof opened above them.

If they could say anything about Inane as a driver, she loved speed and the wind in her hair. The car sped down the ramp and onto the highway where she drove carefully but quickly through the lanes. If it was her pick then she was going to take this girl to a place that she had been craving for since a week previously when she'd passed it on a shopping trip. She was giggling when she finally pulled to a stop at a light after getting off the freeway.

Cosmic Fey · May 15, 2012

Sky gripped the seat in surprise when Inane sped up. The blonde hadn't taken the actress for someone who liked speed, but would add that to list of things to add to the notes for the drama. Watching the other cars disappear as they zoomed past, Skylar slowly relaxed the grip she had on the seat. Now that the blonde was sure they weren't going t die in a horrible fiery way, there was no need to worry.

"You'd get along great with my older brother if that's how you normally drive," Sky said when they stopped at a light, noting distantly that Inane had a cute giggle.

DuskRaven · May 15, 2012

((Gosh I'm reading back over my reply and I am so sorry for the horrible typos >< Normally i re-read the posts before I post them to catch them but last night you caught me right as I was starting to mentally shut off it seems))

Inane looked at her hair in the mirror and couldn't help noticing just how frizzled the hair had become from their run down the freeway. She'd have to fix it she decided when they got to the restaurant. "I drive like that when I can get away with it," she admitted with a sheepishly blush. She turned and opened a compartment in between the front seats and pulled out a hairbrush. Her eyes flicking from the light to brushing her hair in the mirror, she dropped the brush when the light turned green. As she drove forward, a phone went off in the glove box and she sighed.

"Probably wondering what I'm going to do with my life or some such thing," she mumbled as she made a sharp right into a parking lot. Just as quickly she made a turn into a parking spot and parked. Then she leaned over across Sky and pulled out the phone she had stuffed in there before the meeting.

Cosmic Fey · May 16, 2012

((Sorry it took me so long to respond, I couldn't think of anything yesterday.))

"I've never liked driving slowly myself," Sky said with a grin, watching as Inane brushed her hair while waiting for the light to change. It wasn't all that messy, really, just windswept, but it seemed to bug the redhead.

At Inane's comment at the ringing phone, Sky wondered if it was Inane's parents calling; it seemed likely. Sky's own parents called twice a week to ask their youngest child what Skylar was planning on doing in life, even though the blonde had already been a writer in several successful dramas. It irritated Sky to no end and judging from Inane's mumbled comment, the same thing bothered her.

DuskRaven · May 16, 2012

((Tis fine. I can understand that concept.))

Inane quickly got out of the car and silenced the phone with a quick 'Hello'. Leaning back against the car door she'd just shut she spoke in quick Japanese. She was equally talented in speaking both languages from years of living in Japan. She had shocked most of her high school friends in the states when she would go off on long tirades about the injustices put forth by racism in the United states--in Japanese. The only people she talked to in Japanese any more were her old friends from Japan and her Father who treated her like some precious cherry blossom and wanted to check up on her once a day. By the time that she was done she felt like she'd rolled her eyes ten times or more. Sighing, she pushed herself up and walked around to the front of the car, looking up at the ornate Chinese restaurant that stood before them. "I hope you don't mind Chinese," she said, "Their sweet and sour chick and pork is truly the best thing ever." She started to walk forward, smiling up at the restaurant as she felt her stomach rumble softly in anticipation.

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