Comments | weldedtomyspine: El Paso, Texas [Monday evening]

weldedtomyspine

El Paso, Texas [Monday evening]

Dec 19, 2011 21:39

The mission had been a success. It had been long, and busy, and incredibly demanding. He'd barely had time to sleep, worked himself into exhaustion every day, and managed not to think about anything but fighting alien invaders for a whole week ( Read more... )

the nothing, dinah, jaime reyes, momoko, powers, el paso

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heromaniac December 20 2011, 02:45:38 UTC

Unfortunately for him, that was exactly when the door opened and he walked right into the bag of trash.

"Ooof!" Momoko stumbled and grappled with the bag. Wait... "Oof?"

Something was in the way?

SOMETHING HAD BEEN TRYING TO GET IN THE DOOR?!

She pushed the bag of trash forward and took a step back into the house.

weldedtomyspine December 20 2011, 02:48:02 UTC

Jaime reached out and grabbed the bag of trash before it could hit the ground. "I just got back," he half-heartedly whined. "Couldn't Milagro take out the trash?"

Because, obviously, his mom had used her special mom-powers to detect his arrival and decided that Jaime should do some chores.

heromaniac December 20 2011, 02:57:39 UTC

"Ah! How do you know Milagro, Thief?!" Luckily it only took a moment more for Momoko to recognize the voice and she didn't actually complete the punch. "Jaime?"

weldedtomyspine December 20 2011, 03:01:45 UTC

...

Momoko?

Jaime didn't actually manage to say the name. He was too busy staring and trying to get his brain to start working again.

...

No luck so far.

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Later... heromaniac December 20 2011, 18:44:55 UTC

At some point later in the evening, Momoko managed to get up the nerve (and find an excuse) to talk to Jaime away from the others.

"Uhm. I just want to apologize. For coming here without asking you first, I mean. And for staying while you weren't here. I totally didn't think about it when I came, that you'd be gone."

Re: Later... weldedtomyspine December 20 2011, 19:05:53 UTC

Jaime blinked. "Apologize? What for?"

Because that stuff she'd just said didn't sound like the sort of thing you apologized for doing.

Re: Later... heromaniac December 21 2011, 02:34:56 UTC

"For bothering your family. For being here without letting you know. It's your family." She scratched her cheek, embarrassed. "I had no right to just show up and totally shouldn't have stayed."

weldedtomyspine December 22 2011, 02:26:16 UTC

Again, Jaime didn't really understand what she was apologizing for.

"Hey, you showed up at my door, right? There's no way my mom was going to just let you leave, you know." He shook his head with a fond grin.

"Besides," he said more softly, "you needed somewhere to stay for a bit, didn't you?"

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