artofcreation (artofcreation) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-11-29 13:24:00

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A different kind of dance
Rita had been keeping busy. Winter was really starting to hit them and she was enjoying the fact it was getting chillier out. She loved the cold!

What she didn't love was hearing about trouble. The kind of trouble she wanted to nip in the bud.

She was sure it was the kind of thing that would leave her terrified but she wasn't going to let a little fear stop her. So she hoped on her bike and went to track it down.

It took some work trying to pin it down because she was rubbish with directions.

Then by the time she found the area she was going to check out it was dark so she shivered just a little and hid her sword under her coat and slung her bag over one shoulder and started walking. She had to play up the poor innocent girl act a bit.

Too bad her hair and boots don't help capture that image very well.

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artofcreation
2011-11-30 03:06 am UTC (link)

"Your teammate Andrea, right? If I was a mundane engineer I'd be more um... Fascinated. I do like she and her father are their own persons. I don't like seeing bound sentient lifeforms." She feels her lips back slightly. "Yes but if you look at d'Cannith's latter work you see he was going mad. Heard it was a nasty death curse."

She pauses at that and shivers. "I can't do patrons. I mean.... some people do. But if you can't trust the god or whoever? It's trouble."

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quitethecharmer
2011-11-30 03:32 am UTC (link)

"Yes. Her skin was actually my own design." He seems a bit smug. "Even if he was going mad, his notes always got right to the point, with none of the philosophizing in the way."

He goes quiet for a few moments, as their orders come up and he looks for a table for them. "I have ten patrons, and I trust all but one of them unflinchingly. The other one... he chose me, not I him. Not for the first time, either." He scowls a bit, but then shakes his head.

"My life has been rather complicated, but probably less so than most demi-gods'."

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artofcreation
2011-11-30 03:50 am UTC (link)

"Cool."

She had ordered a bacon, mushroom, and Swiss double decked. She needs the food because when she does hot the road she is planning on doing some heavy traveling.

"Life is what we make it, hero," she tells him and lightly bumps one of his hips with one of hers. "Don't worry. And you should know better than most because you're a demi-god that the gods can be..... Tricky. They have plans that span millenniums while mortals can only plan in decades at the most."

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quitethecharmer
2011-11-30 03:58 am UTC (link)

He smiles and returns the gesture playfully when she bumps into him, pulling out a chair for her before sitting. "Used to be one. Got eaten by an elder god, and he spat out the part he didn't like. Now I'm not so much a supernatural being as I've got a job with really good benefits." He bites into his burger.

"It's been a rough run, getting used to becoming the proverbial squishy sorcerer." He shrugs. "It's felt somewhat liberating too. My name isn't anywhere in the Prose Edda. My future is my own."

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	artofcreation 2011-11-30 04:08 am UTC (link)
	"Hey. I'm squishier than you." She sticks her tongue out in his direction playfully as she sits. "I mean you have science on your side too. Think about it Vincent." She chuckles rolling her shoulders. "I get nothing for this. I just know that I'm doing it for a good cause." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quitethecharmer 2011-11-30 04:10 am UTC (link)
	"That was a pretty short bike ride, Rita. I can't really make any estimations on how squishy you are." He smirks and raises his eyebrows at her. "'Good' is the best good cause." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	artofcreation 2011-11-30 04:16 am UTC (link)
	She blushes very faintly. "I don't know.... you were very good about keeping your arm just around my waist." Now she's smirking. "How could you even tell?" She has no idea where that came from. But Vincent seems like an okay guy. Flirting is just fine. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quitethecharmer 2011-11-30 04:19 am UTC (link)
	"Of course. I'm a gentleman... unless someone requests otherwise." He grins wolfishly, before taking another bite out of his burger. As for 'how could he tell', he just gives her a very slow once over again, not hiding his approval at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	artofcreation 2011-11-30 04:22 am UTC (link)
	"So if I were to tell you my normal clothes are only slightly more conservative than my bait clothes....?" She raises an eyebrow at him. Then she can't help but smirk and take a healthy bite of her burger. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quitethecharmer 2011-11-30 04:24 am UTC (link)
	"Then..." He wipes his mouth. "-as a scientist, I'd have to do a comparative study." His eyes twinkle. "For science, of course." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	artofcreation 2011-11-30 04:31 am UTC (link)
	"If you play you cards right.... sure," she says with a chuckle. "I might even let you help me lace up in the back." Now that gets him a saucy wink. She's flirting way more than she usually does. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quitethecharmer 2011-11-30 04:35 am UTC (link)
	Vincent hesitates for a moment, then smiles, slowly. He leans forward, and lowers his voice an octave, pausing where appropriate for emphasis. "And what cards do I have to play... to help unlace you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	artofcreation 2011-11-30 04:40 am UTC (link)
	Oh that gets a smirk and a raised eyebrow. This is far too delicious right now. "The interesting ones Vincent." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

quitethecharmer
2011-11-30 04:46 am UTC (link)

He chuckles to himself and sits back to work on some of his fries.

"Just to make sure we're both on the same page here, we are artfully dancing around the topic of finding somewhere to satisfy one another to our intense mutual satisfaction, with no particular verdict on anything more than that, yes?" He gives her another smile. Not especially flirtatious, just a genuine happy smile.

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artofcreation
2011-11-30 04:58 am UTC (link)

She finishes off another portion of her burger while she considers what he's saying.

It could be fun and she knows that them hooking up for more is so unlikely. Just one night though? She can do that.

"We're both adults. And we operate on different sides of the country.... even with magic? Unlikely I'd be interested in more than just.... friendship after tonight. But I would be interested enough to let you pick the location of this.... Encounter."

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	quitethecharmer 2011-11-30 05:13 am UTC (link)
	"That sounds like a perfectly good plan to me." Vincent nods, then pauses. "We can finish dinner first, right?" He smirks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	artofcreation 2011-11-30 05:20 am UTC (link)
	"I plan on it," she grins. "It's a good burger." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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