How Did I Get Here? (open)

[Penny Narum]

Penny stood across the street from the building for what seemed like ages, arms crossed over her chest. She'd asked about the place when the man in the bar started talking about it. After he slipped her the address, and his cell, Penny had walked by, but never worked up the nerve to go inside. Instead she decided to ask those she trusted just what was up with the Descending Angels. After the person she looked up to most told her it would be a good place for her she decided to actually suck it up and apply. Penny had never applied for anything in her life, and had not a clue what she was doing.

The last two weeks of her life were pure madness, and she wasn't sure if she'd stepped out of the strange dream of it all yet. Sire, gone, clan, gone, childe, gone. The last cut, oddly, had been the most painful, but as soon as the bond was back, with her as his childe, her world seemed to right itself again. She spent her time in the 'burbs, which was how she'd gotten to be where she was standing. That and her insane best friend.

Penny had been relaxing, taking it easy at the bar, being social (which was hard for her). When White Fang came bounding over, ordering that Penny get off her back side and actually apply Penny had debating trying to sneak out the back door. Instead she went to Brom, making one last check before actually doing something for herself. New sire, new life. New rules. She was allowed to think for herself, which was scary and new. With the power of that in the front of her mind Penny moved from her spot on the pavement and walked across the street, her head locked on the front door. She pushed the door of the building open, entering this clans home.

She wondered if she should have called someone first, gotten the okay to just walk inside. But now that she'd done it there was no turning back, so to speak. Looking around the room she was within, Penny pulled her ear buds from her head, listening to see if she could hear anyone around. Greeted by silence she wrinkled her nose, Penny let her eyes move over the walls slowly. She found the bulletin board, her besties hand writing already there. With a shake of her head, a solid laugh coming out and breaking the quiet, Penny dropped to the floor, tugging her messenger bag open. Pulling out paper and a pencil, she tried to write with her best hand writing.

I was told to come here and post my application. I've never applied for a clan so I'm not sure what exactly to put. My name is Penny Pussycat. I've been in the city for a bit over a year. My blood stupidly low because hunters taste good. I'd really like to kill some stuff dead.

Moirai I think has my yahoo, but its xpennykittyx since I'm pretty sure I need to put more information here

The note was small and lacking in many ways she was sure. But after signing with with a smilie face Penny stuck it to the board with a hello kitty pushpin. Tapping her finger on it she grinned big. Second thing she'd ever done for herself. Patting her own shoulder, Penny giggled, then turned to find a seat, figuring she'd keep her very little note a bit of company till someone else showed up.

[Kenosha_Vamp]

Kenosha entered the Descending Angels headquarters to do some spring cleaning. The public areas looked ok, but the staff rooms were getting cluttered and unorganized. She stopped by the bulletin board and noticed there were 2 new applicants for employment. One she was familiar with, but she knew nothing about the second. She had left a cell number and Kenosha made note of it.

She turned to look around and make sure nothing in the common areas needed cleaning, when she saw a very small unsure looking blond sitting in one of the seats, a messenger bag with what looked like a gasmask hanging from it at her feet. Kenosha walked over to her, "Hi, I'm Kenosha_Vamp, Second in Command of the Descending Angels, is there something I can help you with?"

[Penny Narum]

Penny had found a seat, happily letting her feet dangle from the chair. She let her eyes move around the room for a bit, but felt hugely nosy doing it. So she'd pulled her ipod out of her pocket, flipping through play lists. She could feel the butterflies in her stomach fluttering around, chewing at her lip as she tried to keep distracted. She was so focused on electronic device that when she heard the woman's voice. Penny looked up, her hand dropping the ipod in her bag.

"Hi, I'm Penny," she said, bounding out of her chair. She held her hand out to shake, her eyes moving up and up to find the woman's face. Holy god, she was taller the Penny's mate. Swallowing hard, she tried to find her voice again. "Nice to meet you. I put up in an application. I guess I'm just sort of um... loitering now? I didn't really know if I had given enough information or not. So I just sort of... stayed."

Her eyes stayed on the amazons face, meaning Penny had to keep her head tilted back to be able to look up at her.

[Kenosha_Vamp]

It amused Kenosha to see how her appearance startled the girl but she kept a straight face. The girl dropped her ipod in her bag and jumped out of her seat with a guilty look on her face and offered a shaky hand.

"Hi, I'm Penny, Nice to meet you. I put up in an application. I guess I'm just sort of um... loitering now? I didn't really know if I had given enough information or not. So I just sort of... stayed."

"Nice to meet you. I just got your number off your application and was going to give you a call, but since you are here, I may as well interview you. Follow me."

Kenosha led her to her office and opened the door. She noticed a business card on the floor and stuck it in her pocket without looking at it. "This is my office, excuse the dust, I haven't spent much time in here lately." Kenosha made a mental note to make sure her office got included in the cleaning later.

She sat at her desk opposite Penny and asked her all the basic, boring interview questions, taking notes so she could post a report in the staff room later. Penny seemed to calm down after her initial case of nerves and the interview went well.

Kenosha led Penny back to the waiting area. "I have some cleaning to do, but you are welcome to stay and look around if you like, maybe more of the staff will come in and you can meet some of them. We will give you a decision in a few days. Good luck."

Kenosha shook Penny's hand one more time and headed off to the employee area.

[Penny Narum]

Considering she had nothing to compare it to, Penny felt like that was the least painful interview ever. While the woman looked like she could put her fist through a wall as easily as Penny could crumple a piece of paper it didn’t make her totally scary (just, mostly totally scary). And while it did give Penny worry that she wasn’t big or bad enough to make it into the clan, she did feel like she’d at least met another person she could pepper with annoying questions when they popped in her head.

“Thanks, totally, a lot,” Penny babbled at the woman, her eyes going wide again as her hand disappeared in Kenosha’s. Holy crap baskets, Penny was going to take a while to get used to just how small she was in comparison to the people she kept finding herself around. “I think I’m gonna chill here? But, if you want help sweeping or whatever, come poke me?”

As the amazon moved back towards the offices Penny crawled back into her chair, tucking her legs against her chest. Digging in her bag she brought the ipod back out, carefully twisting the headphone wires through the straps of her gas mask.

[Kenosha_Vamp]

Kenosha finished her cleaning and looked around, satisfied there was nothing more to do, (at least at the moment). She looked at the clock. Midnight was approaching, time to post the "One Day Only Holiday Hit" for Easter.

The new applicant, Penny, had been very eager to help when Kenosha explained how it worked and had stayed behind after her interview helping Kenosha search the phone book for targets. It was actually Penny who found Peep after pages and pages of nothing. She asked if she could participate and Kenosha told her she could.

Kenosha posted the targets and descriptions and headed for the door. As she was going through the waiting area on her way out, she noticed Penny, still there, asleep on a chair in the corner, gasmask on and ipod in her hand. Kenosha was going to wake her, but thought better of it, let her rest. Instead, she wrote her a note in case she woke up, telling her where the targets were and told her she could come if she wanted.

Kenosha placed the note by her messenger bag where she would be sure to see it and entered out into the night. She had just finished smacking 2 of the targets when her cell rang and an excited voice yelled in her ear, "I'm going now!!!" and hung up.

Kenosha had barely made it back to her office to finish up some paperwork when Penny called her back to report that she had gotten Peep. Kenosha told her to make a note of it and post it with her application. She smiled as she hung up the phone. At least the girl had ambition.