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 Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:46 pm
The hug startled a burst of genuine laughter from the doctor. Placing a hand at the small of her back, he whispered in Candace's ear, "No matter what you've heard, my plum, about what we've faced, and what we will be facing..." he pulled back slightly to lift her chin. "None of it changes who you are."
Tucking a piece of hair behind her ear, "And that is <******** E-10, a woman more than capable of taking the matter of survival into her own hands."
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:50 pm
When Sasha's arms were suddenly around his neck, Jerry could do nothing but suddenly put his own arms around her waist, holding onto her as long as she would allow. He remembered to breath again once they were face to face again, and with his face red, he hesitated before lowering his hands from her hips. People were probably watching. He swallowed, "You... you have your runic weapons? Anything and everything you have clearance for?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:59 pm
Robert looked away from the two of them, because even he wasn't dense enough to understand that hug was between two people, and meant to stay that way. Jerry had completely ignored Robert's worried glance, which just meant Jerry was an idiot - but, then again, the fact he'd all but had to walk in on H and Candace to know he was being cheated on had already proven that fact. There wasn't a thing left that Robert could do for that moron, at this point. If he was going to keep losing women to H..
A delightful distraction to his morbid thoughts blossomed into view, as Petra hung back all aloof and secret-agent like. It was a shame, really, that she was marrying someone that shattered that image just by being around her. In fact, he was about to do some shattering right about now.
Two fingers lifted to his lips and he whistled, loud and obnoxiously, to get Petra's attention. "OI! YOU THERE. SEXY LADY TRYING TO LOOK COOL. C'MERE." He bent in, even though he'd just chosen to keep himself from interrupting Sasha and Jerry's hug.. and interrupted Sasha and Jerry's hug. "Hey, Sasha. Wanna meet my fiancee?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:02 pm
He laughed and she hugged him tighter for a moment, relaxing as H touched her and began to whisper in her ear. She was still his plum. Candace didn't fight it as he lifted her chin to see her face, rubbing her lips together and still looking somewhat nervous. Well, no. Of course it didn't change her. She refused to let it change her. But that didn't mean she wasn't still scared. Candace was quiet as he toyed with her hair and continued on to say...the funniest damn thing that could be said to her right now. She was <******** E-10. The fact that he was able to recall that so easily flattered her. He did wake her up, he'd made it clear he liked what she'd done during the trial. Candace laughed, a much less heartbroken and terrified laughter than when Molly had sung so cheerfully for her. "You're right! Haha!" She smiled, toying with the man's hair and looking up at him with a sigh.
"Thank you." Candace said quietly, moving a gloved hand to lightly trail a finger along the man's jaw line. "I needed that..." There was a pause, and then she stood on her tip toes to catch the doctor's lips for a sweet kiss. She also needed this. It would be the first time she'd ever shown him any kind of affection in public, she was well aware that it would wreck any knowledge people who were unaware of her and Jerry's situation would have on her feelings toward the man, but frankly she didn't give a s**t anymore.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:06 pm
"I've got everything, Jerry," Sasha reassured the man softly, smiling up at him. She just wanted to hug him again - to reassure him that everything was going to be fine. Sasha had a clear mind for the first time in what felt like months. First the music club.. and most importantly, some mysterious benefactor returning her flute to her.
She'd have to investigate that upon her return to the island.
"Robert, of course!" Sasha beamed at the large man, bouncing on the balls of her feet. Hesitant to let Jerry wander away just yet, she looped an arm through one of his. "Where ... where is she?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:28 pm
Tedan overheard Aleister's admission of not being cleared for Runic weapons and flinched a bit guiltily. He'd been perhaps just a liiiiittle lazy on training lately and he hadn't exactly technically been cleared either. Whoops. Sidling up close to Allan, he cleared his throat. "Uhm. I've used a trap-gun before but ah. I'm not. Exactly officially cleared for Runic weapons either. Do you think I could have ....?" He trailed off, standing there a little nervously.
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Interesting Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:29 pm
The whistle that pierced not only the air, but likely interrupted every single hushed conversation drew Petra's attention immediately, midnight-blue eyes snapping immediately in his direction to focus, perhaps a little startled, on her fiance. After the quiet hum of murmured conversations, which had lulled her easily into her own thougths, the sharp sound had completely startled her from reverie. Then again, Robert did have a knack for breaking the mood, especially when the mood was nervous tension with an undertone of fear. In fact, she wondered at times whether he did it on purpose, knowing for a fact that the tank of a man was not at all as oblivious and dim-witted as he lead everyone to believe. It was better to be underestimated than overestimated -- it lent the element of surprise, and Robert took it one step further, leading you to believe you knew exactly what he was capable of until it was too late, and his blades were slicing through your jugular. If he could keep this close to the vest, manipulate people into thinking him merely a fool, she had no doubt that he was capable into purposely breaking the tension with his antics.
Even after fourteen years, it was even still effective on her.
Letting the muscles in her shoulders unclench, the moon trainee moved automatically to wander through the crowd towards where her fiance and his conversationalists were standing, pausing every so often to twist a little, slipping between the other hunters with a murmured apology. Petra's entire body jolted a little as she saw Candace kiss Dr H out of the corner of her eyes, flicking them to the Good Doctor for half a second with moderately intense dislike before pointedly returning her gaze to Robert. And, subsequently, Jerry. The other man had his arms around another girl she did not recognize, piquing not only her curiosity but her bewilderment, however she let it remain unspoken as she stopped before the group, allowing it only to touch her eyes as she came to stand next to her fiance. Reaching up to touch his arm in an almost shy show of affection, the moon trainee tilted her head a little to one side as she shifted her attention not unkindly to Jerry and Sasha.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:34 pm
"P-petra!" Jerry stiffened for a moment before relaxing a little. His arm tightened around Sasha's as he gave another sideways glance the way Petra had been looking... Yes. That. He cleared his throat, "Er, this is Sasha. I er... assume Robert's been ah... mentoring her at Life? Or fattening her up, I can't quite tell." He tried to force a laugh.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:40 pm
Aleister tried not to squeak as he was nudged by Wilson, and then pulled to one side and pushed forward. He nodded quickly as the Sun Lead handed him a set of basic bandages. "Y-yes sir. Thank you." He said nodding again. Allen-Taichou wasn't as scary as Caelius, thankfully.
He was staring as Wilson came up, and said... that was nice. "Yeah.... he's no Caelius." He said watching the sun hunter whistle. As he fumbled to put the bandages into a safe pocket. He looked at Wilson, "I hope we don't run into more dead bodies..." He said lowly.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:50 pm
Robert waited, rather impatiently, for Petra to make her way to him. He'd half-expected her to ignore him completely, so when she actually started coming closer, he looked like a kid about to get some candy. He was working very hard to keep from hopping from one foot to another, so he just kind of shifted his weight happily in impatience. But when she was within arms reach, he took advantage of it by reaching out and snatching her up in both of his hands, enveloping her in his big, meaty grip. His arms said This. This is mine. Without having to say a word. He kept Petra facing Jerry and Sasha, which meant her back was to him, but no less against him. Then he leaned in and blew a raspberry in the crook of her neck, before resting his chin against her shoulder and grinning giddily at Sasha and Jerry. "Petra, meet Sasha. She's new to Life. Sasha, this is my sunshine, Petra." Somebody was goofy when he was in love.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:53 pm
He smiled into the kiss, and murmured against her lips, "Terrible creature." The following kiss wasn't gentle in the least. "Marvelous woman."
A nearby lab tech cleared their throat and he let go with a sigh, "I suppose there is a world on the brink of destruction that needs my expert attentions. You'll do well, Candace."
He left her with no goodlucks or take cares, just the confidence that she didn't need either.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:54 pm
If Candace was cuddling up to Dr. H openly, that must mean that she and Jerry were finally and officially over; Jordan wasn't sure what to feel about that. Jerry had said he still loved Candace, but the way he looked at Sasha now spoke volumes; and, Jordan thought a little guiltily, Sasha was probably a better match for Jerry anyway. Candace - well, her taste in relationships might be somewhat questionable, but at least there was more honesty in this. The tired squeeze of pain for what had and hadn't been might never go away, but it would fade in time, he hoped. Jordan looked away, studied Ofelia again. She was pale and unsteady, still bandaged. "You sure you ought to be out of bed?" he asked her. "You look pretty shaky."
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:01 pm
Sasha couldn't help the smile that spread across her face. It gleamed in her eyes, glowed in the pink of her cheeks, and even deepened the dimples at the corners of her mouth. Oh, just seeing them together brought a warmth to Sasha's chest that she couldn't explain. They were beautiful, and seeing Robert just encompass Petra just made Sasha ... happy. Poking her elbow into Jerry's side at his comment about fattening her up, Sasha gave a breathless laugh. "I like doughnuts," she whispered conspiratorially, still beaming. "And it's ... it's so nice to meet you, Petra."
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:03 pm
"'m not sure, but when the text came in they got me outta bed an' sent me here." Ofelia looked at Jordan and shrugged, the motion stiff. "Ah was under the impression Ah didn' really have a choice." She wouldn't have missed it though, if she was allowed to say so. This was the big adventure, something everyone was looking forward to, and if everyone was going off to die then she wanted to be with them. It was better to die somewhere and have her body left there than to die and be left in a grave. "Ah'm okay ta stand. . . Ah think. Ah'll probably be really useless fer all of ya, 'm sorry. Got careles an' this happened."
She didn't mention how it happened. Maybe Jordan wouldn't ask.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:12 pm
Huh. Allan really needed to talk to H later about how to better treat all of his nakama: and by later, it probably meant the Life Division lead was about to get approximately five texts covered entirely in emotes and whatever language keyboard he had installed in his cellphone at that time about how uncool the doctor was being.
Tedan's request distracted the Sun lead enough that he pulled a few Moon Hunters, who were preparing what looked like an intricate set of barrier daggers - ones that alternately matched in red and blue hues - to one side, muttering something very quickly to them followed by his signature smile and something something friendship nakama something.
A few moments later, he returned to the trainees, all of them, with a whole box full of basic runic bandages, though the Moon Hunters behind him seemed mildly annoyed at the favour, shaking their head at the trainees from where they thought the Sun Lead couldn't see them.
"All right fellow shinigami, I think this mission is important enough to warrant these, they are unfortunately one time use, but better than rushing in unprepared." He placed them on a corner of a half-occupied table, on top of several rather intricate looking maps. "Now, one per person please, make sure there's enough for everyone."ALL TRAINEES - If you do not already have basic runic bandages, Allan is offering ALL TRAINEES a special one-time use set. Even if you have them you can pick one up, that means you can use these ones on top of the regular ones. These ones are one time use, instead of the basic roll, you will roll 2d20 to determine health/Fear Shield regen. Once used, they cannot be used again
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