Setting is a local diner, modern day | Canon: The Booth at the End

[themaninthebooth]

There is a 24-hour diner. A diner that serves a variety of normal treats from coffee to cream puffs to pastrami sandwiches. The waitresses, the cooks, the owner have all lived normal lives and serve normal people.

Today there is a Man in the diner. A Man that you only heard about in rumors. A Man heard of in joking tones, but with eyes that said they were deadly serious. Some call him a manipulator. Some call him a mentor. Some call him an angel. Some call him a devil.

He is The Man sitting in the booth at the end of the diner.

He appears to spend his time writing down things in a large, black, leather-bound notebook. He orders whatever seems to suit his fancy at any given moment, but his attention remains on the book.

He's waiting for you. Waiting to make a deal to help get you what you want. All you have to do is sit down... and ask for it.

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[themaninthebooth]

He raises an eyebrow, an unspoken suggestion that no, he doesn't know how it is.

"What would you like to fix?"

[nakamura_sensei]

She sighs and gingerly shuffles a folded piece of paper from her coat's side pocket. "I would like to fix it, I said, but it's more like I want to redo it from scratch.

"These are useless now." She opens the paper on the table and stares at the plans she drew up for a radio-controlled 'UFO'-inspired device. She gives him an appraising look.

She motions at it and says, her hands leaving it, "Since you asked." Go ahead and look.

[themaninthebooth]

Nodding somewhat politely, he glances over the plans. He takes a small moment to write a quick note in his book before closing it once again. His attention returns to the scientist.

"so what you desire most of all for this to operate correctly?"

[nakamura_sensei]

Selective hearing has her reacting with shock to the first half of his sentence. "What-" kind of a question is he asking me?

Calm down. He's asking about Peace-kun. "Uh...yes." The telltale signs of apprehension hadn't quite left her body language, however.