Maria Helena Grayson (crossbow_bat) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2012-03-14 00:26:00

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Girl's Night Out
Between three jobs, two official and one unofficial, Maria didn't have much free time. All work and no play made a very boring life so once and awhile Maria made sure to take some time off and have some fun. Fun tonight involved getting together with Alina and having a Girl's Night Out.

She sent Alina a text with a time and location to meet.

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	crossbow_bat 2012-05-14 12:33 am UTC (link)
	"Works for me," Maria said and dug into her food. "I can set up some cameras, or hack into the city's system so we can watch." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	collateralmagic 2012-05-22 12:39 am UTC (link)
	Alina thanks their waiter as he retreats from the table and digs into her own food. "You can hack into the city's cameras? Really? That must be handy on the job." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2012-05-22 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	Maria shrugged like it was nothing. "Part of the training," she said. "Bats believed in a very well-rounded education." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	collateralmagic 2012-05-28 04:51 am UTC (link)
	"Huh, sounds like!" Alina says around a bite of burger, covering her mouth with her fingers so Maria doesn't have to look at semi-chewed food. "I try to avoid futzing with cameras if at all possible. Electronics are full of small finicky bits that don't like chaos in their systems." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2012-05-28 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	"I would imagine," Maria said as she popped a fry into her mouth. "What kind of things have happened when you did?" Now she was curious and you never knew when something could come in handy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	collateralmagic 2012-05-31 06:27 am UTC (link)
	"Nothing particularly spectacular," Alina says, making a face and taking a swig of water. "They mostly just spark and die. Which is handy when the bad guy brings out the doomsday machine, less when you actually want the automatic doors to open." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2012-06-01 02:35 am UTC (link)
	"Oh," Maria said. "I take it you've run into a few doors. That's got to hurt." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	collateralmagic 2012-06-02 05:56 am UTC (link)
	"Automatic doors are a lesser bane of my magical existence," Alina agreed. "Also, if I never lose another essay due to computer malfunction again, it'll be too soon." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2012-06-02 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh that's got to suck," she said. "Big time." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

collateralmagic
2012-06-04 02:43 am UTC (link)

"Total pain in the butt," Alina agrees, flipping off the top of her burger and extracting the pineapple from the inside, popping it into her mouth and licking the barbeque sauce off her fingers. "Fortunately, I've gotten better at directing things like that elsewhere. My parents were worried I was going to have to live a Dresden Files life of no electronics ever."

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	crossbow_bat 2012-06-04 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	"Writing papers suck to start with and then having to do them over...ugh." Maria blinked. "The what files?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

collateralmagic
2012-06-06 06:32 am UTC (link)

"Dresden Files," Alina repeats, as though that's an actual answer to Maria's question. "It's a fiction series about a wizard whose magic aura messes up electronics, so he has to avoid them as much as possible. Means lots of candles, no computers, and cars that are easy to repair." She drops the bun back on top of her burger and takes a bite. "Fortunately, I didn't end up needing to worry about that. Mostly."

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	crossbow_bat 2012-06-06 01:04 pm UTC (link)
	"That's something I guess," she said. "I still don't like magic. No offense. Just don't like the unpredictability of it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	collateralmagic 2012-06-07 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	"And mine's more unpredictable than most," Alina said wryly. "No offense taken. It's not for everyone -- just something I was born to, like a great butt and a natural tan." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2012-06-08 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Dislike of it was part of my upbringing," Maria said with a shrug. "To eat their own." She took a healthy bite out of her burger. "So how are you and Jon doing?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	collateralmagic 2012-06-14 01:11 am UTC (link)
	"We're doing okay." Alina took a bite out of her own burger. "So far, we've eked by without getting caught in the regular chaos of our lives, and I have successfully avoided a situation where I have to watch him pretend to be intimidated by my father's "so you're the one dating my baby girl" threats." She grinned. "I'd call that a success." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2012-06-17 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Maria grinned. "Good to hear. I know it can be hard trying to juggle the life and a relationship." Maria had a string of ex-boyfriends and not one of them had stayed for long even though they didn't know she was Huntress. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	collateralmagic 2012-07-05 03:12 am UTC (link)
	Alina shrugged. "I've dated on and off, but that was before I joined the team. At least I know Jon will know how to act and who to call if something pops up to try and kidnap me." Which hadn't happened so far, yet. Alina glanced around to try and find something wooden to knock on. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2012-07-06 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	"Jon's good at the saving the damsel in distress thing. First hand experience on that one." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	collateralmagic 2012-07-19 01:51 am UTC (link)
	"I'm sure he does, but anything that comes after me is going to be magic," Alina points out, making a face. "It's always magic things with me. 'New Age of Magic' baby and all that." She shrugs. "So really, I'm just looking for him to fly real fast and get help more than 'take on the video game character magically summoned to reality'." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crossbow_bat 2012-07-21 08:15 pm UTC (link)
	"Ah gotcha," she said. "With me it's usually saving me from the bad guys." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	collateralmagic 2012-08-13 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm not saying I won't need that; just that he should probably have back-up," Alina says, picking at the remains of her burger. "But hey, that's what we've got everyone else for, right?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

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