First days
Disclaimer: I in no way own Yu-gi-oh or any of its components. I do however own Robin and this original plot.
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Téa's
It dawned a bright and sunny day, Téa woke bright and early and danced around as she got ready, she dressed smart and as a backup she packed her favourite dancing costume in her bag. Nothing was going to ruin her day! She thought to herself as she bounced out the door.
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Tristan's
The alarm buzzed fiercely at 7.30 as always. Tristan growled at it but pulled himself out of bed and got ready. Today would be different, and now Tristan had had time to think about it, the police force seemed like a good idea for him. He liked rescuing and protecting people, even if he couldn't do so against the shadow magic that Yugi got involved in.
He walked out the door with determination, this week he would learn and learn well.
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Joey's
Joey's wake up call didn't go as smoothly. The alarm went off, sounding tinny, and Joey woke up enough to throw something at it. The poor clock was knocked off the table and lay on the floor; where it continued to make the motions but with much less noise.
The second alarm also went off, about 30 minutes after the first. Being a radio instead of a clock it wasn't so easy to shut up, but a pillow covering it seemed to work quite well.
The third alarm wasn't one Joey wanted to count on. His father, still hung-over, started crashing around downstairs. Joey woke with a start and, when he looked at the time, a panic. He practically ran out of the house, and with a half-formed plan to grab breakfast on the way to work he took off at high speeds.
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Yugi's
Yugi however hadn't slept, and when his alarm went off he was still staring at his bedroom's ceiling, wondering what sort of horrors were in stall for him. Yami was of little help since he had no idea what would be found in an undertakers.
Yugi mechanically got dressed and was just sitting down with his toast and a cup of coffee when he heard the news crews pull up outside. He looked at his breakfast and quickly decided he couldn't eat anyway and sneaked out of the back door before they thought to block that exit.
Believing that nothing could be much worse than facing the crowds of reporters today, Yugi managed to look forward to whatever nightmares might face him.
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Téa's
Téa arrived at the Dance Studio with plenty of time to spare. She studied the building intently looking for some clue that she had arrived at the right place. Fear briefly settled into her heart, the grey towering block of a building looked nothing like she had envisioned a Dance Studio would appear.
Finding the door she read the small bronze plaque that read: "Jazmino's Dance Studio offices." Still a little intimidated but the building Téa entered and smiled as she saw that the interior shamed the exterior. Plush carpets lined the floor while the furnishings appeared worn but comfortable. The walls were lined with photos of past performances, most were fairly modern.
A receptionist rearranged the papers on her desk as Téa walked up.
Téa spoke before the receptionist could, "I'm here for career week Miss. Would you know where I should go?" She asked politely.
The receptionist "Ah"ed knowingly. "You would be Miss Gardiner then, I have your file 'round somewhere." The receptionist said as she began to again go through he paper work. "I know I have your timetable here somewhere." She asserted. "Ah-ha!" She said eventually. Téa nodded eagerly. "Here you go, just follow the corridor along and go into the room marked Supplies. Freddy should get you started." She handed the piece of paper over. "Have fun dear" She called after Téa as the girl bounced down the corridor.
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Tristan's
Tristan arrived promptly at the station, and entered. It seemed rather like chaos within, but Tristan wasn't put off. Various uniformed people were dealing with the un-uniformed. He marched up to the desk with a almost bored police officer sitting behind it.
"Sir," He began, "I'm here for work experience."
The officer looked down at him. "Work experience? Never heard of it. Shouldn't you be at school staying out of trouble?" The man looked down at him, seemingly thinking that Tristan would start making trouble right under his nose.
Tristan considered making a sly comment, but… "My school organised it. Domino High? They said I should present myself at 8.30 sharpish."
A second man, in a brown suit, came up to the desk. "Don't worry about it Richard, I'll take the boy from here, Johnny was meant to meet him but I can see he must have gotten involved." He said with a quick glance over to where an Officer was trying to calm down a woman in tears.
"Right Sergeant." Officer Richard said. But as the Sergeant turned, Richard glared at both him and Tristan. Tristan just hoped he wouldn't have much contact with Officer Richard.
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Joey's
Joey arrived at "Donny's Burgers" out of breath and sugar coated. The bag of donuts had somehow exploded on him as he had tried to eat and run at the same time so he was also cursing between breathing.
He was shown into the supervisors office, (it was more like a janitor's closet, including mop), where he was stared/glared at until he had somehow gotten his breath back.
The supervisor was a older woman, who had greying blond hair and a military bearing. Joey felt increasingly smaller as the silence lengthened.
"Joseph, you will not start every day here like this. Today you will make up the time at the end of the day. Tomorrow you will be prompt, or…" and again the silence crawled.
"Now you will learn the tills. Jackie will show you the ropes and your uniform." She waited.
"Um, thank you." Joey said, uncertain what to do.
"Joseph. Go." And he left, quickly, with his anger raising.
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Yugi's
Yugi was staring at the building. It seemed bright and new looking, sort of classy. He didn't know what he had expected but it wasn't this. Yami said in his serious voice, "It doesn't look like the building will eat you alive, but who knows about the people." Yugi gave a nervous laugh, and entered the building.
It seemed light almost cheerful, not the doom and gloom he had been expecting. Yugi realised he had been expecting something out of a horror movie to happen today, didn't it always happen to him?
An elderly lady was staring at him through her spectacles. "You must be young Master Moto; you look so much like your grandfather when he was a young man, and such a good soul he was. I hope you take after him little Yugi."
"I hope I do too ma'am." Yugi replied.
She nods at this, "Now you just go through to the back room. It's surprising but children don't tend to want to work here so we don't get many coming, but this year," She tuts suddenly, "well they do say it never rains but it pours."
She doesn't seem to expect an answer so Yugi enters the back room, almost expecting to now see the ghoulish effects missing from the entrance room. Nothing. Well, there was a bookcase with a skull acting as a bookend, but it wasn't human.
There was also a girl about Yugi's age standing looking at the collection of glass ordainments that littered the desk.
"Um, Hello? I'm Yugi." The girl turned suddenly, looking surprised.
"Sorry, I wasn't expecting anyone…" She began, then changed mid-sentence. "I'm Robin, Robin… Nemo. So if you are Yugi who is the guy standing beside you?"