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 Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:41 pm
"Of course." she replied with a grin. "I make sure I get what I want." she added, following after him.
...even if it was wrong for her, she got what she wanted. Actually...this felt pretty nice. Food, new clothes. No freaking super-hero stuff to worry about. Luke could totally take care of himself.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:15 am
"Really, now...?" Lucas said with a grin as they went down into the lobby and out of the hotel. "Well, ma'am, I'm the gentlemanly sort, so... You'll get no complaints from me," he said to her as they began walking out into the street.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:41 am
Alex grinned as she followed after him. "Good. I'd hate it if you put up a fight and made things difficult."
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:32 am
Lucas smiled wider, and walked around the city until they reached a clothing store, which was, conveniently, next to a fast-food restaurant. With a nod to Alex, Lucas stepped inside the store, nodding to the cashier and moving to the men's section.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:43 pm
Alex smiled and made her way straight for the women's section. Then it was off to the shoes because, well, given what happened to her first set of good boots, she didn't want to risk having to run around on broken ones again. Better to have a spare set.
It wasn't Spencers or any of the places she usually shopped for clothes, but with any luck, this place would have something close to her preferred style.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:54 pm
Lucas didn't take a lot of time in getting a new set of plain clothes to change into, which was pretty much identical to his previous outfit except that the shirt was dark blue instead of olive drab green, and it had a small breast pocket.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:05 pm
Alex was a little less satisfied with her find. She didn't have shopping access all the time like she did at home, so she was trying to think as practical as she could. Which...was finding something that could semi-double over as a costume. At least something that kind of, sort of, was reminiscent of her last costume. She wasn't even going to try and find one like her usual one. Seriously...where was she going to find a cape and fire-resistant material in here?
She came back with a pair of black jeans, a black sleeveless tee and a red long-sleeved shirt she'd pulled from the discount rack. A small black backpack hung from her arm, and a shoebox was in her hand with a pair of black glasses lying on top of it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:10 pm
Lucas took his and Alex's stuff up to the checkout area and charged it all on his credit card. Then as the duo walked back outside, he asked: "So, what now? Go back and change really quick?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:20 pm
Alex grinned a bit and looked over at him. "Yeah, actually. I tried to wash these out the best I could, but they still smell like burnt garbage and everything else."
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:43 pm
Lucas was about to respond, when his heightened senses picked up a being coming in hard, and fast, from the air. He looked up, following the new scent that was reaching him, and spotted what looked like a hobo of a sort swerving dangerously through the air, almost like he was drunk. (This was confirmed to Lucas as he caught a whiff of alcohol intermingled with the scent of the being.)
He stopped and stared for a moment, before getting an "Oh crap" look on his face and running away, dragging Alex with him. The reason: The being was heading right for them. Lucas got sufficiently far away to watch the man hit the pavement hard and make a crater, before he stood up, bottle of beer in his hand, and gave a slurred: "Oh, s**t... Sorry!"
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:02 pm
Alex let out a bit of a yelp as she was jerked back and dragged off by Paragon. She stared wide-eyed at the crater, and the alcohol basted man that stood in the center of it.
"a*****e!" she hissed under her breath. Idiot could have killed someone. If he hadn't already.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:10 pm
The man, even though he was drunk, still seemed able to hear what Alex said, because he looked at her and said in a low, dangerous voice: "Call me an a*****e... one. More. Time."
Lucas, sensing danger, stepped over to the man. "Hey, man, come on, calm down. To be fair, you kind of were being an a*****e--"
The next thing Lucas knew, he was flying up into the air, having been grabbed by the man and hurled upward. The man shot up after him and grabbed him.
"I told you not to call me an a*****e!" the man hissed drunkenly, and Lucas had to punch him to get out of his grip. This, however, didn't last long, as the man grabbed him again and flew straight into a building at a high speed. Lucas somehow managed to not only remain conscious, but also score a few solid hits on the man before crashing into the ground.
He groaned and stood up, while he noticed the other guy didn't seem fazed at all.
"Yo man, just chill--!" Lucas said, before he was cut off by a punch to the jaw that sent him into another building.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:17 pm
"HEY!" Alex growled. She immediately regretted screaming out like that, remembering that Paragon could take a heavy amount of abuse and still stand. But, she stood her ground. She wasn't sure what all powers this guy had, but he was practically sweating booze. And she KNEW how to cripple guys with that symptom.
"Either calm your a** down, or I will sober it up so ****ing fast you'll eating from a tube for months."
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:26 pm
The man looked to Alex with a deadpan look on his face. "Shut up, girl, or I'll shove your boyfriend's head up your a**!" he shot back, flying to Lucas, grabbing him by the scruff of his neck, and hurling him into a fire hydrant, causing it to become dislodged. Lucas rolled over onto his side and got onto his feet, grabbing the hydrant and attempting to hit the man with it.
The hydrant, quite literally, broke in half as it hit the man's head, and the guy only stumbled.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:28 pm
  Watching from up in the sky, floating in the air. John shoot out of the sky towards them, the way these two were fighting. People would be hurt, some might even die. He couldn't watch this one.
Moving at his cruise speed, he floated in front of the drunk man and Paragon. Who had just hit him with a very deadly object.
"Hey how about we talk this out, get you a good beer or something?"John said holding his hand out in a stop sign.
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