"O List, O List!" for What's my line?

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Challenge: What’s my line?

Title: “O list O list!"

The prompt: “When it rains it pours…”

Author: mrua7

Word count: Approximately 1,000

Illya Kuryakin was sitting in a chair he’d turned around, leaning his hands and his chin on the back of it while he stared out the hotel window.

The skies were dark grey, and it was pouring rain; sending anyone from the neatly appointed cobblestone streets below to the safety of the indoors. The street lamps barely cut through, shining weakly on the sidewalks; the historic  buildings, with their white-washed facades seemed dull, and weather-stained from the passage of time; strangely giving them more of a ghostly look from a bygone era.

Only the reflection from the neon lights let any color break though.

At times it wasn’t just raining as the skies would give over to torrential downpours, with the winds driving the torrents to near horizontal.

Periodically bits of flowers, an umbrella or other human detritus would go flying by.

“To use your vernacular, it is raining cats and dogs,” the Russian announced to his partner.

“Hey as long as it doesn’t reindeer,”Solo quipped as he

walked into the room carrying two cups of tea on a tray along with some pastries.

lllya chose to ignore him.

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A Trouble Shared - What's My Line - August 21st

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This is the follow-up to ‘A Hard Lesson’ and ‘Worry’. It’s fairly dialogue heavy.

A Hard Lesson http://section7mfu.livejournal.com/706115.html
Worry http://section7mfu.livejournal.com/708764.html


What's My Line Prompt - When it rains, it pours.

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Two weeks had passed since Illya’s ordeal in the THRUSH torture class. Despite being passed as medically fit, he still hadn’t ventured out of HQ, other than to go home. Napoleon had told him that Mr Waverly was giving him four weeks to decide whether he wanted to leave the field permanently or not. Illya had no wish to leave the field and the thought of losing his partnership with Napoleon scared him more than he thought possible. It was because of this that Illya took himself to a place he usually avoided. He knocked on the psychiatrist’s door and entered.
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