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6th Floor And Up The Stairs, Thursday Evening

May 30, 2013 16:55

Not everybody had just come home after the strip club last night. Atton figured he could stick around for another round and then see if maybe he could, ahem, talk to somebody ( Read more... )

marasiah fel, james t. kirk, emily thorne, cassidy of dharo, gertrude yorkes, atton rand, 6th floor common room, stiles stilinski, victor mancha, alexandra udinov, jessica drew

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Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] ultron_junior May 30 2013, 23:24:20 UTC

"No, no," Victor reassured her. "In my world she has to go into space to take care of family business. But she comes back."

Just ... engaged. And not in time to save Gert.

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] arsenicmauls May 30 2013, 23:47:25 UTC

"Oh." Well. "So... that's good?"

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] ultron_junior May 31 2013, 00:49:04 UTC

"It was," Victor said, and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Look, I really hate being cryptic. Also I'm really bad at it."

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] arsenicmauls May 31 2013, 00:50:57 UTC

"I don't love it either," Gert said truthfully. "Look, do you want to just tell me if there's something to expect?"

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] ultron_junior May 31 2013, 01:33:05 UTC

"Yeah, but people here get really weird about you ruining the future for anybody else," Victor sighed. "So, like -- if Nico was dead where I'm from, or Chase turned out to be Thor's kid, or something huge and crazy like that, you'd want to know?"

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] arsenicmauls May 31 2013, 01:38:22 UTC

"Yes and yes." Not to emphasize the Chase thing over Nico's hypothetical death, but there were reasons that she would want to be aware of either one. "I mean, don't spoil a punchline from the future for me or anything, but if it might traumatize me, then yeah, I'd want to know."

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] ultron_junior May 31 2013, 01:56:13 UTC

"Right." And then a long long pause, because how did you say this. "So, where I'm from, you die right after Karolina and her new ... girlfriend thing get back from outer space. I'm sorry, I don't know how you tell somebody ... that."

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] arsenicmauls May 31 2013, 02:07:34 UTC

Yeah, that was... a hard thing to react to.

"O...kay." Well, all righty then. "Uh. Thanks for letting me know."

She crossed her arms over her chest, mostly just for something to do. She died in his world? Even if that version of her did, there were ways around that now that he had warned her, right? Kind of the opposite of a self-fulfilling prophecy? And... maybe her world would just be different. In general. She was here now, right?

"I could have sworn it was going to be something like 'we accidentally pick up another vampire again,'" she added. Because levity was totally appropriate in this situation.

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] ultron_junior May 31 2013, 02:13:05 UTC

"No such luck. Based on the vampires here, I'd take one of them way before Xavin." Yep. Tooootally a moment for levity. Vic waved a hand to forestall any questions. "You'll ... see when you meet her."

His eyes darkened in concern. He'd said what he'd had to say, and he was glad to have done it, but -- "Are you gonna be okay with this?"

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] arsenicmauls May 31 2013, 02:17:42 UTC

Gert wrinkled her nose. "Maybe the version here will make it work with that Liara girl."

That was not the main topic at hand, Gert. At all.

"Yeah, I'll live." Oh, oops, that was more punny than she'd meant it to be. Slight surprise at that accidental pun showed on her face for a moment before she shook her head and moved on. "It's not like our worlds are necessarily exactly the same. And even if they were going to be, now you've warned me. So it's not set in stone."

It pretty much was, though, was the thing.

"Was it worth it? Whatever I was doing when I...?"

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] ultron_junior May 31 2013, 02:24:10 UTC

"Oh, are she and Liara actually --?" Victor had hoped that was the case, but it wasn't like he quizzed either girl on their makeout sessions.

Either way, not the main topic.

"And yeah," he said more softly. "You go out saving Chase. It's actually amazing. But I still hope you don't have to go through it."

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] arsenicmauls May 31 2013, 02:32:17 UTC

"That... sounds like me, I guess," Gert said, though in reality she wasn't willing to think about it hard enough to be completely sure. "But yeah, I'd rather pass on the early death if it's an option. So thanks for the tip. Seriously."

Anyway.

"And I think they are," she said, bouncing right back to the gossip because it was less, well, openly upsetting. "Kar told me so. They went on a date in town a month or so back, and they're both total catches, so I can picture it progressing."

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] ultron_junior May 31 2013, 02:47:14 UTC

"Anytime," Victor said, hoping he'd done the right thing. He felt like he had. "And if you ever want to know more about -- anything, just ask."

Of Liara and Karolina, he added, "Yeah, I can see them together. They'd be cute."

Re: Arrive/Baffle [NFB] arsenicmauls May 31 2013, 03:14:31 UTC

"Will do," she promised. "But I think I'm good for right now. Chase isn't here and hasn't answered my texts in months--" and congratulations to Victor for being the first person to know about that, which was actually really stressing Gert out, for the record-- "so I don't see myself running to save him from anything anytime soon. I'll get back to you if it looks like that's changing."

Also, she was going to get drunk tonight, so she probably wouldn't wind up remembering any details. But that was totally unrelated.

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