Elliot had heard a lot of things about X Company. He hadn't been sure about getting in bed with them at first. It'd caused more than a few arguments among his own group when they'd discussed it. The final decision had been up to him and together they'd started hatching out a plot. The first step was to erase debt, level the playing field for everyone.

The thing that Elliot knew, was that many facets had to be addressed in person. As much as he hated it. So he had set up a meet and being that he was the leader of the small band of societal rejects and rebels he went to meet their contact. Why was it a coffee shop? The coffee was lousy and he couldn't smoke in here. It wasn't even one of the shops with good wifi.

He had his laptop out anyway. It was mostly too look busy. To keep anyone from talking to him in case the black hood over his head wasn't enough.

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Elliot was in a good mood. He still kept his hood up, blocking out the majority of the world's sights and sounds and narrowing his focus to what was in front of him but he didn't feel so pressed in. It was a good day for him. He had those sometimes. The really good day where he was sure that what he felt was something akin to true happiness.

And this was the first time he'd been spending one of those days with TJ. TJ had seen him at some of his worst so he figured, he was worth sharing this sort of day with. Between the subway and the walking it'd taken about an hour to get to TJ's place after the last text.

When he got inside and up to TJ's floor he lightly knocked on the door, before he pull down his hood. His face was relaxed and even a slight smile accented his resting expression today.