Austin Caine/Vengeance (from_hell) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-02-19 21:21:00

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inactive - austin caine, inactive - lyta braddock-worthington, sylvia mccoy

Don't YOU feel like a jerk? (Lyta)
Austin Caine wakes up the morning after the Auction, his head full of rocks and his mouth feeling like cotton. He'd gone almost two years without a drunken bender of any kind and he couldn't, for the life of him, remember why he'd wanted to get drunk. He was better than this.

Getting wasted like that was something Tommy would do.

At some point in his musings, he becomes aware of another body in the bed next to him. Austin takes a deep breath, because he doesn't remember meeting anyone last night, though his body quickly informs that, yes he did, in fact, do /that/ last night. He's afraid to look over at the person next to him, because he doesn't know if this is someone he just happened to meet or if this one of "those" type of fans, and if he's about to walk into some kind of lawsuit, all because...

...why? Why did he do this? Austin lies back and thinks over what happened last night that would lead to him trying to blowtorch his life.

He'd gone to the Auction, ladies bid upon him. Someone won. He had conversations with a few people in the audience before he went on stage. After the auction, he'd happened to look at his phone to check the news.

Suddenly, it all came back to him.

Anya got married. To Steve. Austin, unthinking, left the auction and the girl he was supposed to take out.

He'd gone to the bar, started drinking, and even called his mother for the first time in years. Then someone else walked in.

The rest, as they say, is history.

"Goddamnit, Tommy. You've gone and done it this time." he sighs, reaching for his phone. Checking it, he finds that there are fifteen calls and thirty texts from Darren, his agent. He cycles through the texts, each a bit more confused and irritated than the last. Austin knew he forgot to do something. The messages are from Darren, his mother, Sarah, and his brother, Jerry.

He erases them all.

This is not good.

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	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-22 01:20 am UTC (link)
	"People can be ridiculous about accents. You should hear my mother when I use a Cathtillian accent. Drives her nuts. And I don't mind at all, and it's Sylvie, Austin." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie from_hell 2011-02-22 02:06 am UTC (link)
	"Excellent, Sylvie. I'm leaving the house in ten minutes, and I should be there in about an hour. Should I call you when I arrive?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-22 02:49 am UTC (link)
	"Just press the button at the gate. I'll meet you at the door." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie from_hell 2011-02-22 03:12 am UTC (link)
	About an hour later, there is a ring at the gate. Austin had heard of Xavier's school for the gifted, but he didn't really know anything about it except that it was a fancy private school. Translation: Somewhere he'd /never/ have had the money to go to as a kid. He holds the bouquet of hibiscuses at the ready to give Sylvie when she arrives. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-22 03:28 am UTC (link)
	And as soon as he was let into the gate, Sylvie climbed into her chair and met him at the front door. "Austin. Hi." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie from_hell 2011-02-22 04:59 am UTC (link)
	Austin hands Sylvie the hibiscuses and smiles. "Hello, Sylvie. You look great." Austin says, moving behind her to to push her chair back toward the house. "How are you feelin' today?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-22 05:19 am UTC (link)
	"Thank you...Hibiscuses! Thank you!" Sylvie beamed. "Somebody did his homework. I'm very well, thank you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie from_hell 2011-02-22 05:29 am UTC (link)
	"You're welcome, pretty lady." Austin drawls. "Where shall we go? Do you have a garden here?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-22 05:39 am UTC (link)
	"We do. Right this way." She gestured. "Let's just stay away from the school infirmary. That's where my parents work." She grins. "Dad might attempt to be paternally scary, and while it's hilarious, it might be less so if you don't know him." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie from_hell 2011-02-23 02:18 am UTC (link)
	Austin chuckles. "So, he's the overprotective type, then?" he asks. "No worries. I promise to be on my best behavior to allay his concerns." Austin says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-23 02:42 am UTC (link)
	"Not in most things, but with boys, he might try. It's relatively new turf." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Calling Sylvie

from_hell
2011-02-23 03:57 am UTC (link)

"I reckon you're teasin' me on that, Sylvie. You seem like the kind of girl that doesn't have trouble gettin' dates...when guys aren't bein' jerks, at least." Austin says.

They arrive in the garden and Austin looks around, visibly relaxing.

"I always wanted a big house with a garden like this." Austin says.

"What do you study here, if you don't mind me askin'?" Austin asks.

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Re: Calling Sylvie

quadrimanial
2011-02-23 04:01 am UTC (link)

"Well, I graduated the high school program a few years ago. Now I've been taking advantage of the capacity for college courses here. Majors in linguistics and anthropology, minors in biology and nonprofit business." Sylvie grins sheepishly. "Biology was kinda a requirement. Mom's an MD and dad's a geneticist/biochemist. There'd have been sad puppy eyes if I didn't at least do a minor."

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Re: Calling Sylvie

from_hell
2011-02-24 06:02 am UTC (link)

Austin blinks. He knows that all of those words mean sciences he's never heard of and couldn't possible comprehend and Sylvie's studying them earns her a bit more respect in his estimation.

"Wow, you sure you weren't sent to take over the world? That's a lot of college to go to. Did you enjoy it?" he asks.

He never went to college, which was one of his few regrets in life. Not like he'd have been smart enough to get in, but Austin realizes now that he should have at least tried.

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	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-24 06:13 am UTC (link)
	Sylvie laughed. "Beware the megalomaniac of a thousand accents and a dozen Red Cross connections. Yes, I enjoy all of it a lot." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie from_hell 2011-02-25 02:10 am UTC (link)
	"Hey, the Red Cross can be scary. They usually want you to do some kind of publicity thing and they have no qualms about catchin' you on while you're workin'." Austin says. "So, you can really do a thousand accents?" he asks playfully. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-25 02:15 am UTC (link)
	Sylvie giggles. "Less than a hundred, actually, but that has less of a ring to it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie from_hell 2011-02-26 04:02 am UTC (link)
	"Hey, it's all about sellin' yourself. Can I hear a couple? I'll try to match it, if I can." Austin says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-26 04:07 am UTC (link)
	"Do you speak Spanish?" she asked (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie from_hell 2011-02-27 01:06 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, I do. Grew up in Texas and practically had to learn." Austin says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-27 02:58 am UTC (link)
	"Oh good, because, you see, it would be difficult for someone who didn't speak Spanish to distinguish the kind spoken by Puerto Ricans of New York descent, from a kind of Thpanish with more of a Cathtillian accent, from the friggin' kind of Spanish used by a Texan born in friggin Mexico," Sylvie explains, her accents shifting. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie from_hell 2011-02-28 12:10 am UTC (link)
	Austin chuckles at Sophie's accents, noting how dead on they are. "But what if I am Inigo Montoya, and I killed your father? Should I be...prepared to die?" he asks in a perfect imitation of the character from The Princess Bride. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-28 04:22 am UTC (link)
	"I don't know. It would be hard to kill Inigo Montoya. Even though I have much more than six fingers on my right hands" Sylvie, honey, you're wearing a long skirt. He's not going to get it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: Calling Sylvie

from_hell
2011-02-28 04:56 am UTC (link)

Austin didn't know what he expected before meeting Sylvie, but she was nice and funny. He's a little confused at the "more than six fingers" bit because as far as he sees, she's only got five.

Not too many people can make movie references so obscure that even /he/ doesn't place them.

"Your accent is very good. Women who speak more than one language get extra points in my book." Austin says.

"How is your Russian, though?"" he asks.

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	Re: Calling Sylvie quadrimanial 2011-02-28 05:04 am UTC (link)
	Sylvie grins a bit more sheepishly. "Not as good," she says simply, her accent good but clearly limited by her diction. "You would think one of the prince's harem would be better, but I am better at more western languages." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)