MHA #3 - Saturday

[mother_love]

 So this was actually happening. For the first time in years, Billy was doing the apartment life thing. After a couple of handwavey trips to the cove to get some things from his boat, Billy was as working on getting settled in.  Or, as settled in as one could when they were moving into an unfurnished apartment with hardly any possessions of their own to begin with.

Billy stood in the doorway as he set the last load of things down on the ground and looked around the apartment again. It was small by most apartment standards, but compared to the space he had been living in the for the last few years it felt absolutely massive. There wasn't much there to look at. Thankfully the kitchen at least had the basic appliances so he would be able to eat once he did some shopping, and the bathroom was enough that it was functional. 

As far as the rest of the apartment went, well it was looking a bit sparse at the moment. A small mattress lay on the floor of the bedroom alongside a few duffle bags of clothes and personal belongings. Billy didn't own a lot- which was painfully apparent as he looked around the sparse apartment again.  He'd work on it though. If he actually ended up staying here long enough that all that was even necessary.

Shaking his head slightly, Billy picked up the box he had brought in and carried it to the bedroom to begin unpacking and organizing things- such as they were.

(Post open with SP in effect!   Come welcome the new resident if you wish XD )

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[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Since it was Saturday, Tisarwat has been looking forward to her usual quiet day just lounging around the apartment with her tea, pouring over some romantic Victorian novels and practising her piano, but she couldn't help noticing a bit more movement out in the hallway that day. Half-wondering if maybe Summer had stopped by again for a visit, she took her tea and went to investigate a little.

So not Summer at all, it would seem!

"Looks like we have a new neighbor," she said, to no one in particular, it would seem, but loud enough to maybe catch the attention of the latest addition to their floor.

[mother_love]

Billy still had the door to the apartment open from when he had brought the last load of things in. He turned towards the door when he heard someone talking, surprised that someone was there at first.

"Oh hey, sorry if I disturbed you" he said as he ran his hand through the mess of hair and pushed it back out of his eyes. "Just getting a few things moved in...." there was a bit of an awkward pause before he continued. "I'm Billy."

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"Not at all," Tisarwat assured him with a shake of her head, a wave of her gloved hand, before sipping from her mug. "My name's Tisarwat, I live in the apartment at the end of the ," with a small gesture that way, "with my roommate," roommate, "Lucille. She's working at the flower shop today, so the only thing you'd disturbed me from is maybe staring at the fish all day." She smiled. "And maybe saved our other neighbors from my piano practice. So you're already leaving a positive mark on the community.

Then, with a curious look into the arpartment:

"Do you want help?"

[mother_love]

"It's nice to meet you Tisarwat," Billy said with a nod. "I think I've passed by the flower shop before but haven't had the chance to stop in yet. Only been here a few weeks and admittedly, most of that time was spent trying to leave...."

Billy sighed and rubbed the back of his head as he glanced over his shoulder into the apartment. "There's really not much to help with honestly. Don't have a lot of things yet so it's pretty sparse in here."

He stepped aside to show the nearly empty apartment.

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"Good luck with the leaving part," said Tisarwat, with a truly encouraging wry tone. "That one took me a couple years..."

She did look around the apartment that made the quarters at the undergarden practically look over-furnished, and realized that he did seem to have a handle on things. Which just left...

"Do you like tea? I feel it's only appropriate, to offer a new neighbor tea."

Especially with the cheering news she no doubt brought with the first statement.

[mother_love]

Billy started to open his mouth to say thanks but no thanks but then thought about it. He was new- to the island and to this building. If he was already meeting his floor-mates he needed to make sure he kept on good terms with them.

He gave a nod and slight, albeit slightly awkward, smile. "Tea sounds good, thank you."

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat noted the hesitation and the subsequent agreement with interest, and if her smile made it look as though he'd managed to pass some sort of test, well...

"I'll be right back, then," she said and returned, in due time, with two fresh mugs, both with a delicately floral black tea, and handed one over.

"You said you've been here a few weeks?" she asked, to pick the conversation right back up again. "How do you like it so far?"

[mother_love]

Billy took the tea when she returned with a grateful nod. He was far from a serious tea coinsure, but he did like a good cup of tea, and this one of the best tasting teas he had had in quite a while.

"Tea's quite good, thanks" he said before giving a slight, barely discernable sigh. "Island seems decent. Still not quite sure how I got here exactly. And it seems nice but it is definitely not Mexico or the Bahamas" he said with a slight chuckle. "But I have been in far worse places and it's not a terrible place to be stuck in."

Billy took another sip of the tea and then remembered, conversations were two way deals.

"How about you? Mentioned you've been here for a few years?"

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"You're right," Tisarwat allowed, with a sip from her tea, "there are worse places, and, yeah, a few years. My fleet captain back home sent me here for the school, and I was stuck here after that, for a while. It didn't really help that there was a whole...time displacement thing, where versions of my fleet captain and my co-lieutenant were both here, but not from the same timeline. Once that got straightened out and the timelines equalized, we were able to get back and forth much easier, but my fleet captain still things I can somehow serve her better here."

Or, as Tisarwat figured was more the truth, stay out of her way better.

"I'm from space, by the way," she added, as if to get that out of the way, because she knew how these conversations tended to go. "A highly advanced civilization that no one here has ever even heard of. But I've heard of the places you've mentioned. Does that mean you're from this world? Or, at least, a version of it?"

[mother_love]

Ya know, a few weeks ago if someone had told him something like that, Billy would have laughed in their face. But now... he was beginning to accept that this island was just a whole lot of weirdness all balled up into one crazy place. And he was slowly starting to accept that oddness.

"Ah yeah there was evidently quite a time jump for me too..." Billy said with a chuckle. "If my count is right for the years and all... I would be pushing 50 if I had actually aged for the time that evidently passed. So.. yeah, really glad that didnt happen... I'm in no hurry to see what I look like old and grey."

Billy was sure he would look dashing, and the real reason he never gave much thought or interest into his life that far into the future was honestly because he never thought he would live to see it. Hell there were quite a few times he wasn't sure if he would make it to see him next birthday, let alone see the end of the decade.

"As far as where I'm from, as far as I know it is still the same world as this, just a couple decades removed. Had been staying in Mexico for a few years and finally decided it was time for a change and headed out towards the islands. Ended up on this island instead. so... yeah, lots of wibbly wobbly timey whimey stuff going on."

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

A few weeks was impressively good! Some people could be remarkably stubborn on accepting that sort of thing, so that reaction managed to at least earn a few more points.

But, of course, Tisarwat would see something like maleability as something worth noting, too.

She nodded a little. "That happens a lot, I hear. I at least had the benefit of knowing I was being sent somewhere, even if I'm not sure if this was actually where I was supposed to go. And two people in my life who I knew that didn't know me was kind of a surprise. It's an odd place, this island, but, like you yourself said, it could be worse. And coming in with weirdness definitely helps prepare you for some of the other stuff to come."

[mother_love]

Billy nodded slowly, his mind landing once more on thoughts of the one person he would have in his life who he'd ever want to see again... and he didn't even know if she was still alive or not.

"Oh, I've seen weird. Like, end of the world apocalypses level weird. So hopefully the island is a little less 'world-ending' with its craziness."

Billy left it at that, for now. He had found that most people didn't believe him when he told them just a fraction of what he had seen in Racoon City and what the Umbrella Corporation had been doing. even when people outright asked him about what all had happened, few were able to fully comprehend what little Billy usually shared. He'd let Tisarwat approach that topic if she wanted.

"But yeah, so far things seem pretty quiet around here."