destinystrings | A Week in the Life of a Part Time Job Slave

Who: Yu, and yu, and yu, and especially yu. :D (yes, I'm punning; it's open to everyone)
Where: Virgo, Aquarius, and Taurus Districts; any given week.
Summary: The jobs Yu applied for called back... all of them. He chose two willingly, because how bad could they be? The third... well...
Warnings: ...may be some Nyx in here. :|b

[Yu was always one to work hard if he wanted something. All those books he owns? Yeah, they didn't pay for themselves, you know. And right now he had extra motivation for working hard: Nanako was here, and he needed to look after her and her comfort -- after all, his uncle would probably hang him if he didn't.]

[So when all those jobs called him back at once? He had some things to think about. Accepting the job at Mays wasn't that hard to decide; it was the highest paying one in the long run, and if he was lucky there would be an employee discount. The second choice was a little harder, but ultimately a good idea; working in the kids section of the library would be an easy job, and he could always bring Nanako with him if she wanted to spend time with him. A win-win situation either way.]

[...and then he got that call. Again. He almost rejected it outright, but... well... he really wanted to make sure Nanako wanted for nothing...]

[S I G H; it was going to be his summer vacation all over again.]

[MONDAY-WEDNESDAY; MAYS GROCERY STORE CLERK, 5:00-11:00PM]
[This was probably the lesser of the evils Yu would ever have to do. He was slightly familiar with grocery store work, thanks to Yosuke asking for a favor at Junes every now and then. It wasn't really that bad at all, just... hectic, and some customers were flat out rude.]

[If you want to talk to him, Yu can be found servicing the grocery area; he's responsible for stocking shelves and promoting sale items as needed.]

[THURSDAY-FRIDAY; AQUARIUS DISTRICT LIBRARY, 5:00-9:00PM]
[Yu really did love kids, he really did. After all, when you had someone like Nanako as a cousin, it was hard not to love kids. The hard part was... remembering not all kids are as sweet and innocent as your baby cousin. Especially the little brat that thought it was a good idea to throw half chewed gum in his hair.]

[...he loves kids. He loves kids.]

[Yu can be found in the children's section of the library; he's responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of the area, helping children find books, and making sure the books stay in the proper order.]

[SATURDAY; NYX'S NIGHTCLUB, 10:00PM-4:00AM]
[...your big brother loves you, Nanako. Just remember that.]

[It should go without saying that Yu really didn't want this job. The farther he stayed away from the Taurus district after that first mission, the better. But Nyx was pretty insistent, especially when she started throwing numbers at him. All he had to do was think of how quickly he would be able to get a comfortable apartment for himself and Nanako, and he ended up agreeing... with all the reluctance in the world.]

[He just hoped Nyx remembered her agreement of no pictures. He didn't need pictures of him popping up on the network, where he was pretty sure he'd be recognized, especially by those that had been there that night.]

[Yu can be found on stage, part of a crossdressing act that runs in cycles. When he's not on stage, he's in the dressing room resting and getting ready for the next cycle. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll also be able to catch him sneaking out of or into his apartment with a duffle bag of women's clothes.]

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[Aziraphale wasn't very good with kids. That isn't to say he didn't like them. He honestly admired their innocence, their potential, and even their wisdom-- for he knew better than most that children could often be wiser than adults, even adults who were several thousand years older than them. But despite liking kids... they really didn't seem to like him.

Never would he forget that one birthday party

So he avoided the children's section whenever possible, extremely grateful for Yu's help in keeping them in check and keeping the place organized. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to matter much when a child insisted on yanking a book from the reference section- it had a pretty picture on the cover- right out of his hands and running away with it into the children's section. The exasperated angel follows after the child, calling after him to hand back the book, rather worried for the book's well being.]

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[Fortunately, Yu had already heard the commotion, and was there to catch the run away munchkin before he could get too far with the book. He managed to get the boy to calm down, talking him into handing him over the book, before letting the boy go to join others sharing a picture book.]

[He turned as Aziraphale approached, offering him the book back.]

Sorry about that.

[Aziraphale watches Yu convince the child to hand the book back over, and takes it from him gratefully. He checks the book over carefully in his hands before sighing with relief. It was undamaged.]

Thank you very much. A child damaged a rather old book's spine earlier this week, I was afraid this one might share a similar or worse fate. Broken spines are easy to repair, ripped pages much less so. [Despite being a miracle worker, even he couldn't restore lost text if he never knew what the text had been in the first place...]

I honestly can't seem to work with them. [The angel nodded to the children engrossed in their picture book.] They don't really like me.

They take some getting used to. It helps to have a younger sibling, though.

[Which would explain why he was able to sense doom running in his direction, and side step a little over excited child before he turned him into roadkill. Yu offered Aziraphale a slight shrug after.]

Getting used to... I suppose. [He doesn't think it's possible... Being old made it hard to connect with people whose mindset was far less mature than his own. But this guy seemed nice enough, and really good with the kids. Aziraphale smiles at him.]

I suppose you could say that I have a lot of younger siblings myself... [At least Gabriel was considering him to be his younger brother, so he supposed he could count his fellow angels as siblings as well... despite viewing them more as co-workers.] I never really talked to them, though.

[Yu blinked at that, curious.]

Why not?

Ahh... [Aziraphale rubs the back of his head awkwardly, pressing the reference book close to his chest.]

Different jobs in different places, we were often too busy to speak with one another... and I didn't care for them very much, either. [He hopes that doesn't sound too weird... clearing his throat, the angel awkwardly holds his hand out to Yu for a handshake.]

My name's Aziraphale, by the way.

[Yu gave him a sympathetic look, before accepting the handshake.]

Narukami Yu. Pleasure.

The pleasure is all mine. [The angel looks past him at the playing children curiously.] I take it you have a younger sibling then...?

My cousin.

[He smiled faintly.]

We may as well be brother and sister, though.

Ah. [Aziraphale nods, understanding.] That does explain your knack with children... [A soft sigh escapes him, though.] One of the last encounters I had with a child involved acting as a magician for his eleventh birthday party... Unfortunately, I was a little rusty with my prestidigitation and.... let's just say the disaster ended with cakes being thrown, guns being fired, and a deceased dove.

That's...

[...wow, how does one even respond to that?]

[Aziraphale laughs and shakes his head.]

Don't worry, the dove's alright now.

[...Aziraphale, what even. Yu's still at a complete loss of words. Seriously, you broke the badass proswag. How did you do that?]

[Oh dear, did he frighten him too much...? Aziraphale waves his hands in apology.]

No, honestly it wasn't as bad as it sounds, the guns turned into water guns and were completely harmless, the bird was perfectly fine- the cake was still ruined- but nothing else went wrong!

[Is he making it worse? He's making it worse, isn't he?]

[Little bit, Aziraphale. Little bit! Still, after a moment, Yu just shook his head.]

...sounds complicated. Maybe you should stay away from the children's section.

It's... an incredibly long story...

[Aziraphale looks over at the children and cringes a little.] If I have to sort returned books back into the children's section, I have little choice...

You could just call me over when I'm working. I don't mind.

[He has to reorder everything every five minutes anyway...]

I appreciate that, really. Unfortunately you don't work every day that I do... so I'm afraid that four out of six days I'm working, I'm a little helpless with any children related catastrophes...

[>Dare you help him with his old man troubles? God forbid any teenagers give him issue.]

...oh, I see...

[Yu frowned in thought; he really kind of felt bad for this guy, and he wanted to do something to help him...]

I suppose I'm just going to have to ask the other librarians for some help, it shouldn't be much of a problem. I'm simply unused to it. I used to work a bookshop, library work is much different.

[He looks at the book he's holding with a bit of a sigh.]

It's a bit more stressful, worrying for the state of books and how people will treat them.

A Week in the Life of a Part Time Job Slave

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