Frances Barton | Hawkeye (hotshot_hawkeye) wrote,
@ 2013-01-10 21:04:00

Meme: Song prompt.
Look inside, look inside your tiny mindThen look a bit harder'Cause we're so uninspired, so sick and tiredOf all the hatred you harbor

Frances poked around on her phone waiting for Martin to pop up from his meeting and go off for food, leaning up against the side of the office building he was currently in. If the lights flickered or the windows blew out, she'd know the meeting went.... sour and she needed to get in there. Hey, she could be a very believable bodyguard when the guy paid her in gold freaking doubloons. And by the way, she was now being followed by the Archival Squad for more. Looking up, she scowled at the picketers across the way and swarming the train station. Oh look at all the people's days you all are ruining, congrats. She sighed and kept playing Bejewelled, checking the time once more.

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magic_hands
2013-01-11 02:23 pm UTC (link)

Well he'd said meeting, but really it was only because another explanation would be muddled. People came to Dr. Strange for all sorts of things, other heroes especially, and mostly consultation work unless there was something major. Dr. Strange had finished looking into a query for a hero (why did so many of them have to deal in office buildings he wondered), and had given Martin the results along with parts of it written, to deliver. He knew it was to get him into the city and more used to being around tech and crowded places, in addition to practice explaining magic in layman's terms. But with news of protests over things, which meant hostile crowds, Martin hadn't felt quite comfortable dealing with all this very non-magic stuff on his own. Besides, this way they could go for lunch after and it'd be fun!

"Hello," he smiled and tipped his hat as he came up beside her after leaving the building and looked over to see what game she was playing. He'd have preferred to teleport out rather than use the elevator and main entrance, but the person insisted and Dr. Strange would have suggested he get used to containing magic around people. But cramped metal box and being in potentially close quarters with others? Unpleasant at best.

"What are you playing?"

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hotshot_hawkeye
2013-01-13 02:25 am UTC (link)

She looked down and nodded to him. "All set?" she asked and pocketed her phone out of habit. You didn't play with your tech with company around, so she then had to pull out the phone and turned the screen back on. "Bejeweled. Everyone expects me to play Angry Birds, but I like this and Cut the Rope better." Out of her peripheral, the crowds were shifting and moving but she controlled her expression coolly. "Come on, let's get some food." She tried to steer away to the other direction of the city. The city was huge, there had to be plenty of other ice creams places."

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magic_hands
2013-01-13 05:42 am UTC (link)

"Is it fun? I've never tried any of those games." For obvious reasons, touch games were not something he did. "Okay but..." Now he glances over to the crowd with a slightly worried expression. Crowds in general made him nervous, hostile ones even more so, and protesting ones were just...well, best to be very much avoided. Especially anti-mutant ones, those were mob-like. He really really hoped this wasn't one of those. If so, getting away fast would be a good option. "Who are those people? What are they protesting...?"

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	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-01-13 04:15 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, it's mindless fun. Not a really intellectual way to blow time, but no one's accused my of being a deep thinker, huh?" she smirks and winks to play along. Looking over her shoulder, she scowled and herded him in front of her, walking between him and them. "They are assholes and they are just proving their small mindedness to ruin other people's day. Come on." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

magic_hands
2013-01-14 03:40 pm UTC (link)

"Maybe you should surprise them," he half-smiles back, though his mind is clearly preoccupied by those protesters. So of course he freely lets her heard him and put herself in between, it did make him feel a bit safer. Frances was more used to things like this than he was. "Why do they do that stuff then?" He steals a glance back at the loud crowd. "I mean...I can't control if I'm a mutant. And I'm sure other people can't control what they are that makes these guys angry. Why'd they have to be so mean about it?"

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hotshot_hawkeye
2013-01-15 01:55 am UTC (link)

"Nope, then they'll expect me to be responsible and everything. Too much of a hassle, that," she insists as they carry on, winking. Blowing a breath up through her bangs, she thinks through how to explain it. "Short answer: They're idiots. Some are scared, some can't think outside what's told to them, some are angry... and some just like being mean to others. It's how they get their jollies and they suck for it."

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	magic_hands 2013-01-15 04:33 am UTC (link)
	"It's more fun not to be," he nods in agreement. While he doesn't stop walking, Martin does look back to listen closer when she explains. "They like being mean for no reason? Demons do that, people shouldn't be as mean as demons. How come it's allowed?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hotshot_hawkeye
2013-01-15 01:10 pm UTC (link)

"Some people, being mean to others gives them a power trip, proves they are better than someone, anyone, which makes their own miserable lives seem less pathetic. It's a power rush when they have nothing else." She snorts and shakes her head. Wish there was an easy answer for that. "There's a lot of explanation for that, but I think if we had to regulate the way people thought and acted, we'd be tyrants. Road to hell's paved with good intentions."

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magic_hands
2013-01-17 03:41 am UTC (link)

Martin considers her words seriously. "It still hurts people for stupid reasons," he insisted, but knew she was probably right about power trips. "I guess. And there's lots of hells, though you can take a portal. I think a road would take too long for no reason."

Suddenly he stops in his tracks and decides to ask her a question that had come up with people a few times recently and was bothering him. He hadn't even thought to ask her till now. "Frances? ...Do you hate magic?" A lot of the hero types seemed to.

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hotshot_hawkeye
2013-01-17 02:09 pm UTC (link)

She sighed and looked up the street, nodding. "Yeah well, it takes all kinds to make a world. If it wasn't mutants, they'd be after people who aren't like them; different beliefs, different lifestyles, having more opportunities, hell, they'd probably pick a fight with tofu-eaters if they got desperate." She shrugs in apology on behalf of her species. "At least it's reassuring to know that for every asshat out there, there has be some good folks to balance them out."

When he vanishes from the corner of her eye, she thought for a second they got jumped and she'll have to shoot a fuckwit. After making a strangled noise, shakes her head and kneels to be eye to eye. "Martin. Do I understand magic? Not at all. Am I certain it could bite me if I mess with it? Yes. But I don't have to do magic, so it's not my worry." Smirking, she would have ruffled his hair if she could. "But Pip, my mom climbs walls and shocks people, my day care was on a floating fortress and Dr. McCoy, the blue furry guy who likes reciting Tennyson upside down, helped set my broken arm when I fell out of a jet exhaust port. Magic is just another weird I'm used to."

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	magic_hands 2013-01-17 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	He listened to her with his eyes downcast and looking worried, but what she said seemed to have been the right thing because he looks up with a tiny, almost shy, smile on his face. "So...you're not scared of magic? Or me?" That was just to be sure, he was already feeling better. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-01-18 01:08 am UTC (link)
	"It's all Greek to me, but magic looks pretty cool." She smiles to reassure and then shrugs. "Except for the essence of Frances bottles, but we'll let that slide, no? And you? Please, we get milkshakes. Not scary." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-01-19 07:59 am UTC (link)
	Martin finally smiles brightly again, clearly now reassured and then hmphs and crosses his arms, turning away from her all dignified. "I don't know what bottles you're talking about." Pretty much back to his old self. "Oh, and tofu doesn't count as real food. You should know." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-01-20 02:04 am UTC (link)
	She rolls her eyes at the back of his head, because that she'd believe. "Then you won't mind me pouring them in your breakfast," she counters as she follows. Heckling was always a valid game. "Tofu, made right, tastes fine if made right. Now head cheese, I'll puke if I have to eat that." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-01-20 03:07 am UTC (link)
	"My name's not on them so I shouldn't be drinking them of course," he insists. "Head cheese? Is there tail cheese? And I didn't ask, what does your mom shock people with?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hotshot_hawkeye
2013-01-22 12:04 am UTC (link)

"Then steer clear of Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pipp too." Shaking her head, her face is completely grossed out as she explains. "Head cheese is this....vingeary meat-jelly with the face-flesh and organs of either pig or cow. It's ughh-" She shudders before happy ot switch topics. "Oh, venom bolts; it's a bioelectric shock she generates. She can be as light as static shock or really lay it on to cook someone."

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magic_hands
2013-01-22 10:03 pm UTC (link)

Martin wrinkles his nose. "That sounds like instead of making a spell they used the ingredients for gross food." But talk of her mom's powers has him very interested as they speed walk away from the protesters again. "Is she a superhero like you?"

Right after saying that he realizes that may be secret ID faux pas or breaking whatever secret ID concerns were, he wasn't really sure of how those worked. Not like he had a secret ID either way. He looks apologetically at Frances and shoots her a mental message. Oops, sorry.

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hotshot_hawkeye
2013-01-23 02:32 am UTC (link)

"On one side, it's using all of the animal, but on the other, blek, that is a gross way to do it." She laughs and nods, smiling widely at the question and thinking of her mother. "More of a superhero than I am, she's awesome."

He switches to mental-talk and she nods. No problem. It's not like you're gonna blab, but the walls have ears. Anyway, yes, my mom's Spiderwoman, she can fly, lift stuff, zap people even- She pauses and wiggles her eyebrows dramatically. Keep Hawkeyes from making too much mischief. Very tricky task that.

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	magic_hands 2013-01-23 08:00 am UTC (link)
	I hope she isn't too good at her job. Martins like Hawkeyes making mischief. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-01-24 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Naaah, she gave up when I hit college, I think. And Martins and Hawkeyes are fantastic when they put their minds to it. I'm sure she'd give us points for style, she's a sucker for the gentlemanly look. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-01-24 02:57 am UTC (link)
	We are! Because we're lots of fun of course! Everyone should give us style points! I'm sure she'd like our adventures, it's no fun when people try to stop them. Dr. Strange wasn't the biggest on what he considered fun magic. Which is why he just conveniently neglected to mention most of it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hotshot_hawkeye
2013-01-24 01:33 pm UTC (link)

She's given up stopping our kind of fun, mostly she just sits back and waits for the firetrucks to come. She was joking. mostly. Kinda. Milkshake-wise, she's a double chocolate-type.

Frances looked over her shoulder and thought deviously. Say a magical gust suddenly blew and knocked away all those fuckwits' signs away. It would be very sad, wouldn't it? She mock-pouted at Martin.

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magic_hands
2013-01-24 08:23 pm UTC (link)

That's better than stopping it! Besides, the fire trucks come after we're done. Martin nods sagely, the cleanup crew should always come after the fun. She likes milkshakes too! Double chocolate is good but there's even better ones.

Martin looks back to the crowd and considers the suggestion. She had the right idea, there was no need to be nervous about these people, he should just be his mischievous self. Nothing would happen to them. Very sad. Hmm, he also had never heard that term. Fuckwit. It seemed a good one to know.

Taking off his hat and moving a little so Frances was blocking the line of sight between him and the crowd, Martin gave her a small grin as his hazel eyes were looking awfully blue about now. He taps his hat against his nose, letting it cover the whispered latin as the winds in the area picked up a little. The protesters think nothing of it until a freak gust blows through, taking their signs with it and down the street where they all get stuck on top some artsy net-looking sculpture.

I guess they can't protest anymore with no signs, that sucks. Cue innocent young mage looks and a shrug.

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hotshot_hawkeye
2013-01-25 01:46 am UTC (link)

Frances really really wants to look over her shoulder and check the mayhem, just to point and laugh at these idiots being taken down a peg, but that might attract attention to the two. And angry mobs were rather quick.

Martin, you are a maestro, pure talent, she praises with a proud and fond tone. And I think we should put a few blocks between us and them, just to be sure. There's a milkshake or two calling our names, right? Can't you hear it?

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magic_hands
2013-01-25 05:04 am UTC (link)

Luckily said mob was running after their escaped signs and didn't notice the two of them.

At her compliment he absolutely beams and gives a small gracious bow of his head. Thank you! You're right, we should move. Fast walk?

He scrunches up his face in concentration and puts a gloved finger to his temple for a moment. Hmm...at least two. They're definitely calling for us. It's rude to leave milkshakes waiting. More sage nodding, because this was serious stuff, milkshakes in distress and looking for people to appreciate them.