Looking for a Job Is a Job in Itself

[Pietro Maximoff]

::Pietro was not a man with whom to debate philosophy or psychology. He was stubborn in his world view, which made philosophical discussions uncomfortably abstract, and as for psychology...he had his bitterness. She deserved an answer, one which he hoped would not come off as too flippant.:: "Why are some children beaten by their parents, Emily?"

[Aqua]

It was a peculiar question, and Emily didn't really make a connection between that and what she said. The only thing that came to mind that, perhaps, Pietro was giving her another example of someone who was a victim of the circumstances and not really themselves to blame. "For a dozen various reasons, I suppose," she shrugged. "Though all of these because of the parents. Why do you ask?"

[Pietro Maximoff]

"People can be callous and inconsiderate," ::Pietro repeated. Perhaps it wasn't the most helpful way for him to get a point across, but it was what he could do.:: "You've yet to meet enough people to be worth your time."

[Aqua]

Emily nodded, digesting his words in silence for a moment. "And I'll busy myself with studies in the meantime," she said. "Which reminds me why I came here today."

[Pietro Maximoff]

::Working at the Hellfire Club was so far from Pietro's prospects that it did not occur to him that she could possibly seek a job here.:: "To drink before classes begin?"

[Aqua]

"Not this time," Emily said. "I was just looking for some part-time job..."

[Pietro Maximoff]

"Here?" ::Pietro knew that she had answered the question already, and he was not one given to disbelief generally. However, Emily was shy and innocent, and to work at a tavern...::

[Aqua]

Emily shrugged. "I'm trying everything. If only you knew how many job interviews I've had already..." she drank some more of her cocktail; it was almost finished. She was gradually starting to lose hope in her own ability to get a job. Probably the reason for her lack of success lay mostly in the fact that she needed a part-time job for very random hours that remained after she cleared out her university schedule, still, it wasn't encouraging.

[Pietro Maximoff]

::Not that Pietro didn't trust Gambit to keep his employees safe on hours, but elsewhere, and at such later hours, she was at risk. Pietro did not like that.:: "Doesn't your University have..." ::He had difficulty remembering the English term; it had been a decade since he had last needed it.:: "...work study?"

[Aqua]

"I'm not sure what you mean," Emily said. "Working on campus?"

[Pietro Maximoff]

::That was a better phrasing for it, and Pietro nodded slightly.:: "Yes. A job on campus."

[Aqua]

"Ah, okay. That's plan B," Emily said. "I first want to see if I'm able to handle a normal job 'out there' plus studying." She hadn't challenged herself in anything in quite a while; she felt it was time to do so.

[Pietro Maximoff]

::Pietro had difficulty understanding what defined a "normal" job from a campus one. Working to earn one's pay was working, as long as it wasn't illegal or prostitution, and equally respectable. Then again, it had never been a concern of his.:: "A job is a job."

[Aqua]

"It is," Emily agreed. "Well, I won't argue. For the first time I'm trying to do something without consulting anyone, completely on my own, so I'm just curious myself where my decisions will lead me."

[Pietro Maximoff]

::The need for independence was something to which Pietro could relate, and he nodded slightly.:: "It is satisfying that way."