[open] funny how fast things change

[5055034455]

Date & Time: April 18, morning/afternoon
Location: The Hold, the police station
Characters: Saul & you!
Summary: It's not laser tag, but at least he gets to shoot something. Pissed off as Saul may be, he knows he has to go get Jesse's records. First, though, he's going to blow off some steam and finally get acquainted with his weapon.
Warnings: n/a at the moment.

[Early morning finds Saul, surprisingly enough, in the Hold.

He doesn't like this place.

Then again, that can be said about this whole place, not just the Hold.

Anyway, there he is, down in one of the training rooms with his weapon and a box of cartridges that look just like the ones his weapon is meant to use but aren't quite. They're not electrified, these cartridges — he doesn't see the point in firing those at a training dummy. It'd be a waste.

And because someone made the mistake of telling him this thing is supposed to be sentient, he's talking to it.

The dummy he's been firing at has few cartridges sticking out of its torso. The rest? Stuck to the wall behind it.]

Come on, you piece of junk. Be sentient, or whatever. Aim yourself. God damn —

[He aims, fires off another round. This one winds up jammed at an awkward angle in the floor.]

Son of a bitch!

[Here's the thing: he doesn't know how to fire a gun like this. He also started the day off mad — actually, he hasn't stopped being mad since he talked to Lisbeth — and he's just getting madder. Mad enough that he almost flings his weapon across the room, but stops himself before he lets go, so all he really manages to do is tweak a muscle in his arm.]

*

[Luckily, being angry takes a lot of energy, so by the time he finishes off the box of rounds and changes into a suit (a suit that's in dire need of tailoring and a splash or two of color, but beggars can't be choosers) for his field trip to the police station, he's much more subdued.

Still mad, though.

He has no idea what he's going to come up against, once he gets there. What he'll find out, what will change as a consequence of him finding out, yadda yadda, blah blah, shit sucks. And while it's true that he wanted the chance to do his job again, he wasn't really hoping for this.

After pacing on the steps of the station for a solid three minutes full of fidgeting with his briefcase and tie, he passes through the door and assumes as cool an exterior as any, then strides up to the front desk.

And smiles.]

Comments

[5055034455]

[Now there's a question. After firing off another round—this one catches the dummy in the thigh, but just barely—Saul turns to face his company with an impressively annoyed look.

Yes, he could be more pissed off.

And oh, look! He is. It's no fault of Kerrigan's, though. He was doing an okay job of distracting himself from thinking of Jesse by shooting things, and now he's not shooting things, so. Jesse. Again. Ugh.]

Survey says: yes.

[worldswillburn]

[She can very literally feel the anger just sort of radiating from him. One of the many 'benefits' of having her powers come back.

Part of her wants to know why he's just so mad. In fact, part of her will just take a quick peek and... Yeah, she really has no idea who Jesse Pinkman is. Might be a name to remember but as of right now, she's not all that concerned about it.]

If you're gonna be that mad, maybe you should do it without a loaded gun.

[5055034455]

Or maybe doing it with a loaded gun is exactly what I need to do.

[It's this or... or he doesn't know what, to be honest, but he knew he was boiling over and had to take action before he punched a wall, or something. His knuckles are too fragile for that.]

Don't worry. I'm not gonna shoot any moving targets.

[He probably couldn't, even if he wanted to.]

[worldswillburn]

[Yeah let's... not bringing in moving targets into this. You're having a hard enough time as it is with the stationary ones.]

How long have you even been using a weapon like this?

[Please don't be a total rookie.]

[5055034455]

Uh.

[Saul looks at his watch.]

About an hour.

[worldswillburn]

Really? A whole hour.

[w e l p.]

Alright, listen. I'm only to tell you this once, so listen up. If you want, I can show you how to use your weapon properly.

Interested?

[5055034455]

[Well, when she puts it that way...

He takes a breath and exhales with a defeated sort of sigh. What else can he do? Keep doing this wrong and hope he somehow learns through osmosis or whatever?]

Yeah, okay. Just be gentle with me.



[saul no]