#slurley

The Adventure Zone Roller Rink and Arcade opened in 1979, and has been struggling ever since. There is really only one thing that keeps the doors open, and that is roller derby.

Aka, the Late-90s-Everyone’s-Alive-Roller-Derby AU that no one asked for but you’re getting anyway.

Chapter 128: Appendix: Petals to the Metal

March 1991

    Hurley sat in her car at 11:30pm on a Friday, eating lo mein out of a paper box with plastic chopsticks, ruminating. Who even was she?

    She jabbed at the noodles. Fuckin’ twenty-something nerdy redheaded lesbian midget with a shit job and exactly two talents: judo and watching too much TV. Useless. Really, she should just go back to Neverwinter. The bus line would probably take her back--she had the highest on-time rate in the city last year.

    Hurley sighed and rested her forehead on the steering wheel. Sure, back to Neverwinter, where she had a different kind of shit job and was surrounded by her family, who expected better of her. Or worse, expected exactly this. She leaned back again and stabbed a strip of chicken with a chopstick. At least delivery driving came with food. And people were always happy to see her. Confused, maybe, that an Irish midget was delivering their Chinese food, but happy. And tips were good. Didn’t get tips on a public bus. Just got made fun of by children.