| "I've lived all over the world" |
[28 Jan 2014|02:14am] |
" -- So then Dad spend the next 45 explaining the whole situation to Silver herself -- with Mom interrupting to correct him. And that was my first Christmas in Symkaria." Vernique grinned.
"My turn. Weirdest vacation?"
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[10 Jan 2014|12:01am] |
The Hulk.
Her baby had fought the Hulk yesterday.
Yes, he was an eighteen-year-old sun god. Hush.
Vernique knocked on the door. "Solver, sweetie?"
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| Cashing a Rain Check |
[04 Mar 2013|01:58am] |
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"The term 'Hurricanes' just doesn't seem right for a hockey team," Vernique admits as they arrive at their seats.
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| Some time when the world's not ending at all. |
[14 Jan 2013|03:00am] |
Room service. A glass of water at her left hand and of wine on her right. They'd had a lovely time, but Vernique had been quiet for a minute. Not the preoccupied, melancholy quiet that had overtaken her so often on so many date nights these past few months. Not an entirely sanguine quiet, either, though.
"Something I wanted to talk about, Jordan. You can stop the conversation at any point if you really have to. Okay?"
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| Her Daddy Gave Her Magic; I Can Tell By the Way She Walks. |
[08 Jan 2013|06:08pm] |
Mom's latest line was coming out soon, using some of Nevell's latest highly-specialized fabrics, and Vernique helping out talking to the techs and models for fashion week.
One of the models... now that girl was downright preternatural. Something in her catwalk strut was extra predatory. Beautiful girl, though.
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[07 Jan 2013|03:01am] |
What with everything, she didn't even call until she'd already reached his hotel with a bottle of very red wine and an Ella Fitzgerald CD.
"Sorry to keep heaping things on in this visit, but you're pretty much standing between me and ... well, deicide's not the right word, but there's not a handy concise classical term for punching a divnity in the nose."
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| Future: Age 60 |
[28 Aug 2012|03:46pm] |
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Arthritis or not, she pinned on her nice Asgardian dress with the little matron-brooches. "I still love these things, hon" she admitted. "And I totally rock them. So, I swear I'm not losing my memory yet, but whom did Solver beat the living daylights out of that we're celebrating now?"
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| Meme Date: Sipping Vodka and Juice, Laid back. |
[27 Jul 2012|02:43am] |
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Vernique had her namesake drink as she waited at the bar for Buck to get there, having arrived fashionably early herself. Yes, when she did it, it was fashionable.
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| Futurestuff. |
[18 Jul 2012|11:52pm] |
She had to stay calm. Of course. Nothing to panic about. Just one of the world's most powerful mental patients going toe to to toe against her baby boy.
Yes, yes, Solver was a teenager now. Like that was supposed to help.
She was helping Solver's Little Friends -- or, rather, the New Avengers; it was hard to remember sometimes -- with crowd control. And at around the ninth starstruck girl wearing S-rune accessorites, Vernique wanted to shake her and say that no one was worshipping her son while wearing tacky Flamingo lipstick.
Finally, when it was all over, and all emergency concerns were dealt with... "Sweetheart, can we talk?"
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| AU: Three's Company |
[02 Feb 2012|07:35pm] |
Kael had been living with and fighting beside them for quite a while. He and Vernique enjoyed enjoyed the... benefits package she'd extended to him some time back.
While the little family was happy, Svalin continued to 'live like a battle-oriented nun,' as Vernique tended to put it to herself. One day, while Solver was out for the day with Sydney, Zoey, and Marlow, she managed to corner her wife. "I want to talk about something."
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| Loopholes. |
[21 Jan 2012|07:05pm] |
Vernique had had a rough day. A very rough day. Solver was finally to bed, but she was tense and unhappy desperate to feel like herself again.
Which made it all the harder to fight a longstanding temptation. Until she gave up, marching outside, where she knew he was, with her jaw set and her eyes clear.
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| Date Night. |
[22 Sep 2011|01:44am] |
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It was a lot like Mom and Dad's traditions, actually. Where Dad had used telegrams and faxes, she used e-mail. Vernique told Jordan that she'd be in the appropriate area that weekend and would like to have dinner, maybe some dancing.
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| Finally! |
[15 Aug 2011|09:33am] |
Vernique had been dealing with business in New York. Several functions of Nevell, with her about-to-be-debuted product line. Sigurdur had come along. She still worried about his fretting about things with Svalin.... and other things with Svalin.
At the end of the day, she brought him back to the New York penthouse. "You okay with ordering delivery food?"
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| Meme |
[27 Oct 2010|11:33pm] |
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For this meme, choose one character of yours and one character of mine-- and then I will write out how they hook up, settle into a long term relationship and/or marriage, and describe their firstborn child/children, if any. Crack pairings and old characters are acceptable.
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| Flashback: 14 years ago. |
[23 Oct 2010|04:20pm] |
There was a solemn frown on Vernique's face.
"Daddy. Surely you realize what's wrong here."
"What is it, sweetheart?" Paladin was earnestly concerned.
"You still have your Kevlar on. At a tea party. There's a time and place, Daddy."
"Sorry, sweetie. I didn't have time to change."
"I can wait. Tie and vest, please. Ask Mommy if you're not sure about something."
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| Possible Future: Six Years from Now |
[09 Sep 2010|05:28am] |
She held his hand as they walked. The click of her new flats syncopated with the sound of his adorable new boots (Svalin had been of the opinion that Solver should have boots. Vernique had made sure they were adorable) against the sidewalk.
"Mommytwo's only going to be a in the meeting a little while. Now, remember, the man with the curly gray hair and glasses is Mr. Lloyd, and he's the one you need to tell that you want cocoa, and how many marshmallows. I'll tell you right now that it probably won't be as good as Jarvis's cocoa. That's because there's only one Jarvis. But that doesn't mean it isn't good cocoa. There's plenty of people in the Nine Worlds who are good at things but not great, and they'd rather somebody mention the first part of that than the last part. Since they still count, that's what we do when we can. So remember to thank Mr. Lloyd for the cocoa, and tell him if you liked it and just that, right?"
When he nods, she crouches a bit to hug him.
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| Semi-OOC: What I Want to Teach My Son |
[24 Feb 2010|01:36am] |
((This isn't actually appropriate yet, but I wanted to get a start on it; it was on the brain.))
I. There is a time and a place for everything. Except rhinestoned parachute pants.
II. When in Rome, you don't have to do exactly as the Romans do, but you better darn well remember the place is full of Romans.
III. Always know where you're aiming.
IV. There is such a thing as subtlety
V.There is such a thing as <i>style</i>.
VI. Language is a tool that should be used well in the right circumstances.
VII. Money is a tool that should be used well in the right circumstances.
VIII. Always try to recognize beauty, of any kind, when you see it.
IX. Always try to recognize talent, of any kind , when it's demonstrated in any capacity.
X. Walk softly and wear good shoes.
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| Some of Vernique's Favorite Quotations |
[16 Feb 2010|02:42am] |
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"They’d saved the city with gold more easily, at that point, than any hero could have managed with steel. But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever—provided, naturally, that you don’t go and look. This is known as Finance". ~ Terry Pratchett's Going Postal
"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess." ~Edna Woolman Chase.
- "Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it." ~Cheryl Tiegs.
"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth." ~ Rex Stout.
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