Tolliver flopped face first onto his mattress and sighed out in pain.
"I regret many of my past decisions." he muttered into his sheets.
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"Classes are done for the day, idiots are out to play." Tolliver said, more or less to himself as he sat in his gear overlooking the campus neighborhood from a high perch on the ledge of a nearby building.
"Ugh.. morning classes and late night crime fighting is the absolute worst combination." he grumbled as he stumbled into the kitchen of his small studio to make a pot of coffee. He stopped to fill Waldo's bowl before moving back to flop face first onto his bed until the buzzer.
Tolliver woke up to a dog licking his face. He let out a stiff sigh and reached a hand up to pet the puppy.
"Hey Waldo." he said softly as he pulled himself up to sit on his comfortable bed. He'd missed the bed. He looked over at the empty side of the mattress and sighed again.
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"Who's the little guy?" Todd said, taking note of the energetic pup.
"This is Waldo. You don't mind if he stays with me today, do you? I didn't want to leave him alone in a new environment."
"Oh no worries, bro. The boss boss might be by later, but it's no sweat for me."
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Tolliver had only been back a day, but it felt like everything had changed. His routine had come to include her so much that her absence was like a recurring gut punch.
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So he tried to run down the list of things he had to do, hoping the focus would make it some how easier to move on. He took Waldo's leash and hooked it to the pup's collar.
"C'mon boy, let's go meet some new friends for you."
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Approximately 29 odd minutes later, after he'd taken the dog on a full walk of the neighborhood, he reached Edna's diner. It felt good to re-familiarize himself with his "patrol" once more, but the pup seemed happy for the break.
Tolliver sat with Waldo, waiting for @HideWithin
