thefolder | Darling you've got to let me know, should I stay or should I go?

Who: Jinx and you
What: Preparing for the journey ahead. (Three prompts open)
Where: Hospitown
When: Before Sakuyamon leaves.

There was plenty of free space around Hospitown, which made things a little less fun but Jinx would make do with what she had.

The journey from Terminal to Hospitown had been dull, and Jinx had no one to blame but herself on that. She knew it, but ultimately she'd just felt listless and uneasy.

What am I even doing here?

She wasn't a hero, she was barely a villain. Sure she had accomplished some things since arriving but on the whole she was just another face in the crowd around here.

So there was this new group forming, would it pay for her to be on the ground level?

Could she leave if she didn't like it?

"What do you guys think?"

Noir and Charm glanced up from their breakfast of muffins and juice.

"About the group Sakuyamon is putting together."

The Digimon exchanged thoughtful glances, they did this alot and Jinx was starting to get irritated by it.

"Well the way I see it she's a real goody goody on the outside, but she probably can't be trusted." Charm reasoned casually throwing a muffin into her maw. She chomped down on it happily.

"You think so?" Noir tilted his head and flapped his wings once. "She seems on the level to me. But maybe not a good fit for us. I mean do you really take orders from others that easily?"

Jinx sipped her juice considering the options.

"Well let's poke around a little, see what we can dig up. Beats hanging around here."

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The gasp caught her attention despite his best efforts and she spotted the braid. Amused and not remotely afraid or embarrassed at being caught she sauntered over as quietly as she could and gently ran her fingers over his braid.

"I do love a boy with long hair~" She purred teasingly.

The moment Jinx touched his hair, Duo pulled back and frowned (okay, okay, it was a pout). He had been caught. And here he thought he had done good hiding out of sight.

"Don't touch my hair." He huffed and played with the tip of his braid some. "No one's allowed to touch my hair." And now that that was out of the way...

"I saw what you did. You're good," he said in a hushed whisper, in case someone decided to walk by.

Jinx's smirk of amusement turned to a smile of pride speaking softly, her lips barely moved but the words found his ears.

"I was trained from a young age. And I take great pride in my work." And it was so nice to meet someone who appreciated the finer art of petty theft.

Petty thief? Meet street rat. Duo definitely had an appreciation for lifting things, especially when it came to surviving.

"Solo taught me. I had to steal before I lived in the church." He smiled back at Jinx before he moved closer. "Whatcha get?"

"Oh just some things here and there. I'm thinking of going on a trip so I wanted some basics...still one can never have enough art supplies." She displayed a rainbow of colored pencils with a flourish, fanning them out in her hand before they vanished down her sleeve.

"And it's so much easier since the D-Terminal stores things in it."

He covered his mouth quickly to keep himself from giggling at the display. Oh, she was good! Of course, the thing about the device catches his attention. THAT'S RIGHT! He knew they could store things. That's how all his stuff managed to come with him to HospiTown. But he never thought that it would be great for stealing.

Duo's eyes went wide before he did a swift glance around to see if anyone was watching. After determining he was safe, he grabbed what looked like a tiny porcelain duck. His own device was pulled out and it scanned the item duck. When it disappeared and reappeared on his screen, a smirk touched his lips.

"I wish we had these back on the colony..."

She offered him a grin worthy of the Cheshire Cat.

"I bet you would have been ALOT more comfortable if you did. Or gotten into alot more trouble." She teased and helped herself to a box of cookies which joined her other ill gotten goods in the D-terminal.

The only downside was this was the only store in town, so they couldn't take too much without giving themselves away. Thankfully there was so much stuff in the store it balanced out somewhat.

Oh! Cookies! Duo hadn't thought of that! He stood in front of the shelf, and acted like he was trying to look at something above his head. Really, though, it was just a cover for him swiping a thing of cookies of his own. Once trapped inside his own device, he settles back down and beams up at Jinx.

"We wouldn't have had to raid the Alliance's warehouse, that's for sure." He stopped and settled down some, his gaze dropping to the floor. He would have had an easier time getting things for everyone, including the medicine for Solo. And if they had been able to hold enough, he could have gotten a mobile suit quicker and then the church...

Sensing he was losing some of his spunk and cheer Jinx put a hand on his shoulder and lead him towards more food. A pineapple here, a watermelon there. She was going to ha wonderful fruit salad tonight if it killed her.

"What sort of stuff does an Alliance warehouse have in it?"

He let Jinx lead him around, following in her footsteps by taking a few small things here and there as well. The fruit his partners would like, for sure! The small bit of thieving, and Jinx's question, seemed to perk him up a little bit.

"They got lots of stuff. It's all military things, right, so they got food and clothes and things like that. We got shot at, though, and then the adults tore down our place and sent us to the church."

"Ah it always sucks being caught." She lamented thinking of her many...many visits to jail.

"But you kids must have been pretty good to stay ahead of military trained adults that long. Good for you." She encouraged taking a moment to put a scarf around her neck and check herself in a mirror. Apparently she liked the style because into the D-terminal it went.

"Yeah, we did good with Solo. But..." Duo fell quiet again and knelt down to look at a stuffed Patamon on a lower shelf before yoinking it.

"The church wasn't so bad, though. Father Maxwell and Sister Helen were nice enough. They kept me when all the other kids got adopted."

"Being adopted is over rated."

There was a knowing smile on her face as she knelt down next to him.

"Families can hold you back from being totally free. Sure if you get a good family they lift you up, make you strong. Support you. But I was adopted and all they did was make me feel like a freak and a burden. It wasn't until I was ten or eleven that someone came along who made me feel like I might have a future worth having."

"...I kept getting sent back." It was a quiet admission, and he stopped before he made to take another stuffed toy. "No one wanted me. But Sister and Father kept me. Took care of me. Even when I beat other kids up."

He looked down at the device in his hands before held it up to take a stuffed Gatomon off the shelf.

"Hey!"

Jinx's head snapped around as the shopkeeper had apparently finally broken away from Charm and Noir and had caught them in the act.

"Aw nuts." Jinx pouted, looking for a quick escape path.

Darling you've got to let me know, should I stay or should I go?

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