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 2013-02-10 11:09 am UTC (link)
	"So...no then? Okay. I don't know anyone that can really cook except Wong." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-10 02:42 pm UTC (link)
	"Well of course I know how to cook, bachelorette-hood taught me well. How else do magicians eat, if you guys don't cook? Isn't just like... potions and stuff?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-10 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	"Ah, so you can! What can you cook? And we have Wong," he explained as if this was the blanket solution to sorcerers without culinary skills. "Potions would do funny things to anyone. Especially Frances ones." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-10 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	"And what if Wong decides to peace out? Has a sabbatical?" She lifted her eyebrow, because usually her culinary expertise is not called into question. "...Well, Dad taught me Mex-Tex, and I love me my garlic noodles, I'm good with Fridge Stew every now and then." She squinted at him suspiciously about the Frances potions. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-10 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	"There's takeout. Wait...isn't it Tex-Mex? Not Mex-Tex? And do Orlen and I get to try the garlic noodles? Or cinnamon rolls?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-10 11:26 pm UTC (link)
	"Mex-Tex, Tex-Mex, same diff. Someone might have the rights to one of the terms," she shrugs. Dear God, Orlen and Martin living off delivery for weeks. She hrms, weighing the choices out. "Maaaaaybe. Depends." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-10 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	He slurps more of his milkshake with an innocent look. "On what?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-10 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	She checks her nails idly, thinking. "Well.... For Orlen;s a completely different set of rules, but let's see... Clearly I'd need an afternoon or so to make them up, bottom line. ...Maybe some help with hexes or pranks on Orlen, or trick arrows when the muse descends..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-10 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	She gets a bright smile back. As if he wouldn't have helped prank Orlen, or give her more trick arrows. "Okay! I can do all that. What kind of trick arrows this time? Were the last ones good?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-10 11:51 pm UTC (link)
	"The fire arrows are pretty awesome and the ice ones too. Very Linkish, all I need is Epona and a teeny little fairy telling where to go." She shrugged. "I've learnt, it's better to let the sorcerers think things up and not limit them with suggestions." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

magic_hands
2013-02-11 12:31 am UTC (link)

"I can lend you one of my floating blue lights if you want! Complete the set?" He takes another thoughtful sip of his milkshake as he considers arrow ideas. "Well I've been working on improving the portal arrows, I can make more fireworky explosive ones, maybe a good magic trap arrow, ooh! Maybe one where when you shoot it-bam! Magic disc in the face. It's easier to put spells I'm good at in arrows. The ones I'm not so good at are harder," he explains.

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hotshot_hawkeye
2013-02-11 01:19 am UTC (link)

She snickers, being very familiar with his messenger lights. "I'll look great for Halloween, no one has a little Navi following them." All the suggestions sounded good to her, and she was sure she'd think of something to do with them in the heat of battle. "Hey hey. any trick you add makes my arrows that much cooler. No one expects an arrow to ice them thigh-high when it hits, after all.

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	magic_hands 2013-02-11 04:13 am UTC (link)
	"Only thigh-high? Hmm...we can make it higher. Maybe add some cool effects. Be the most stylish hero person with the best attack effects! Then they'll think you have magic powers too." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-11 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Hey now, why don't we just pull back on the enthusiasm. Let's go more for efficient and less Final-Fantasy, okay?" she bargains, very worried about having to do a Sailor Moon dance to make her arrows work. "The flashy ones we can use for fun around the Sanctorum." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-11 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	"Magic can be very efficient! No reason it can't be flashy and efficient," he insisted. If he knew the Sailor Moon worries and got the reference he'd have looked into how to make an arrow that did the Sailor transformation effect. Just to see if he could. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-12 03:15 am UTC (link)
	She gives him a pleading look. "Flashy magic on magicians is cool. Flashy magic on a sharpshooter is like.... Orlen, or Doctor Strange, renting a polyester turquoise suit, with ruffley shirt, to a fancy dinner. It just doesn't work." She hopes the visual would sell her point. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-12 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	"That's silly, they have normal suits, there's no reason they wouldn't use those." But he pretends to consider her request, tapping a finger against his chin and making hmmm noises. "I suppose it doesn't need to be too flashy..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-12 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	"Remember, the flashier my attack is, the easier it is for the bad guy to find me and take me out," she adds to help her case. "Both bows and sarcasm are lousy for deflecting bullets or cars sailing through the air." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-12 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	He tsk tsked at her. "No no, it has to be flashy when it hits not before it gets there." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-13 12:32 am UTC (link)
	She shook her head. "No flashy. Sneaky. Strike from above, leave them bewildered." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-13 12:34 am UTC (link)
	"I can be sneaky," he said a little defensively. "I can." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-13 12:45 am UTC (link)
	Frances looks at Martin, at his hat, at the milk shake the size of his upper arm and lifts her eyebrow to rests her case. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-13 12:51 am UTC (link)
	Martin huffs and pouts at her, clearly feeling like he had to prove himself. So he glances around, rather empty place and nobody looking, and then with a dignified sniff retorts back in latin. Or, well, it sounds like a retort. But there's a slight swirl of blue magic after it, nothing all that flashy, and suddenly he's not there. Told you so. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hotshot_hawkeye 2013-02-13 01:13 am UTC (link)
	She smirks at his proof, because sneaky is totally invisible. She makes a point of look around, sucking a breath through her teeth. "Well if he's not here," she says out loud and steals a spoonful of his unguarded milkshake. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2013-02-13 01:16 am UTC (link)
	To him invisible was the height of sneaky. But he had to remember you needed to keep quiet for it to work. The milkshake shuffles away from her and there's an invisible glare aimed at her. Hey! Cue slurping sounds and the milkshake level slowly going down even though the drinker was nowhere to be seen. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)