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Agatha Prenderghast ([personal profile] ghost_holder) wrote2016-03-05 08:17 pm
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Well I've got thick skin and an elastic heart

She'd been playing with the idea ever since Mardi Gras, when Aggie hadn't been able to stop looking at all the beautiful and opulent jewelry. More and more in Darrow, she's becoming aware of the things that other girls her age might accept as a given that, for her, had been unforgivable vanities in Blithe Hollow. Now it's a source of curiosity and something she wants for herself, especially after one of the girls at school had actually taken a seat with Aggie at lunch, wearing delicate earrings she had made by hand with beads and wire.

Getting her ears pierced requires a guardian's signature, which is what brings her to Krem's door. There's money in her bag and a carefully rehearsed list of reasons in case he objects. Knocking on the door, she waits.
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-16 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"We absolutely can, of course," Krem said with a nod. He collected Aggie's cup and put it into the kitchen to be dealt with later, then collected his wallet and shoes at the door, smiling at her. There was a thread of excitement in him, mostly for Aggie, but for himself as well. It was different than the tattoo, which had been healing for him. This was a just because, a solidarity, a something else and a change. He rather liked that.

"Let's go stick ourselves full of holes, shall we?"
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-17 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
He smiled, pleased mostly with Aggie's enthusiasm. She was, he knew, a relatively enthusiastic girl but she tried very hard to keep her maturity and reserve to a maximum at all times. It was good to see her act more like her apparent age from time to time.

The walk over to the tattoo and piercing parlor didn't take overly long, though because they were walk-ins and didn't have an appointment they had to wait to be seen. It gave them a chance to look at the jewelry some, though they wouldn't be able to put anything so extravagant in until after the initial healing process was completed.
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-18 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Not a stud or simpler ring?" he asked softly. The beaded ring seemed momentarily outlandish to him, when thinking of Aggie, and he was sure it wouldn't be what they put in her at the start. But he hummed and looked over the case quietly.

"I think I'll have to start off with a ring like that too," he said softly. The ones with the beads on them did look awfully nice, relatively modest and simple. There were a couple brightly rainbow colored ones that he looked at enviously for a bit, before his eyes drifted back to the more plain silver and black.
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-19 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, no, not too flashy," he assured softly, shaking his head. "I just haven't seen a lot of people wearing those in their ears, except when they're bigger. Uh, the thicker rings."

"Gauged," Mo, who'd done his tattoo and was handling their piercings, supplied, coming around from where she'd been preparing the piercing area for them. She smiled and nodded her head a little to gesture them back. "We normally start with studs for ears, because the backs can be taken off when you're cleaning. But we can do a ring instead if you want. The problem with capture beads is that those beads like to go missing sometimes."
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-20 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Aggie was given the earrings and rung out for them and the piercing cost, which wasn't too expensive--only a little more expensive for the price of the different jewelry. In the room that Mo had set up for the piercing, she waited for them to come in.

Krem didn't get himself any jewelry yet, content to settle with the starter jewelry for now until he was healed up. He paid for his piercing and ushered Aggie into the room, smiling softly at her and thanking Mo for fitting them in to the schedule.

Mo smiled at the both of them. "Who's up first?"
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-21 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Krem smiled, sitting on the lower waiting bench in the room as he watched Aggie take the seat. He bit the inside of his lip lightly, managing not to chuckle as Aggie's eyes went big with surprise as her ear was pinched and pierced, watching with a sort of morbid fascination as Mo slipped the ring into the fresh new hole.

The second one went just as quickly, and then it was done. Mo offered Aggie a mirror so she could see how it looked, easing her off the table as she cleaned it off quickly and gestured for Krem to take her place.
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-22 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Mo had Krem lie back on the table, and Krem looked over at Aggie, lifting his eyebrows at her in quiet anticipation. He'd never done anything like this before. The tattoo had been one thing, and he'd sort of known what to expect with that from watching Tris get hers. Even though he'd just watched Aggie get hers, he didn't really know what to expect.

"Deep breath," Mo said, taking Krem's lower lip between her fingers and adjusting it out carefully. "Three...two...one--"

Krem made a soft, startled noise as the needle slid into his lip.
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-23 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
"The tough looking ones are always the biggest babies," Mo assured Aggie with a grin while she slid the ring into the fresh hole. As Krem was sitting up, she went over the procedures on cleaning the piercings with Aggie first. Hers were the easier instructions for now.

She gave Krem a little card that went over the fine details of his dos and don'ts, and he went a little hot at the ears as Mo laughed and went over how to clean his piercing, and that he'd be able to switch to a different piece of jewelry in about a month.

"Any other questions for me right now?"
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-23 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Mo nodded and shooed them both out of the room so that she could clean up after them. Krem tucked his rule card into the pocket of his jeans as he trailed out of the room after Aggie, back to the front counter to get some salt and saline spray for himself. He got an extra bottle of the spray to have at his house, in case Aggie was over and needed to use it.

He smiled at her, a bit lopsided for the way that he could already feel his lip swelling a little bit. "Not too bad, right?"
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-24 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Krem laughed softly at the way that Aggie deliberated over her choice in words, as if she'd either never heard swearing before or was uncertain of the particular word she wanted to use for the look Krem had achieved. He kept his smile in place and reached over, ruffling her hair gently.

"Come on. Let's go celebrate our new looks. I'll buy you some pizza."
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[personal profile] krempuff 2016-03-25 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll get a salad," Krem said. It was a lie. He wouldn't get a salad, and they both knew it. But it would be worth it, he was pretty sure. Pizza tended to be worth it in the moment. Most things did. He wrapped his arm around Aggie's shoulder and gave her a gentle squeeze, smiling at her. It was a good day, and they deserved a nice treat to go along with it.