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 Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:40 pm
"Alive? Alive!" Adrian snorted, and he held up the plants that he was holding, gesturing to the cut stems. "Flowers aren't alive, at least not these kinds. Maybe those potted ones, but these are pointless. They start dying the minute they're cut! And then you're supposed to give them to someone as a declaration of love. Flowers are useless, who cares what happens to them?"
He sighed, tossing said flowers on the ground, somewhere where the management would be able to pick them up. He didn't even comment on Anastasia's other point: Being kicked out of a store didn't really bother him. It was Amryx's fault for dragging him along.
"Why do you care so much for insignificant things like these anyway?" Adrian looked at Anastasia with genuine curiosity it seemed, as if he couldn't contemplate how other people could possess basic feelings.
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:48 pm
Ana sighed and shook her head.
"Because," she said, picking up one of the flowers Adrian had wrecked and smoothing out the petals it had left. "I have an emotional span beyond a rock, for one. They're not insignificant, they represent an idea. You're not giving someone a flower and expect that to make a point, because, yeah, flowers are temporary. It's the idea behind it. You use them to represent love, congratulations, mourning..."
Realizing who she was talking to and all she would receive would be snark, Ana flushed rosy green and put the flower back into a bouquet. Its stalk was bent and it stuck out awkwardly.
"It's the idea, not the thing," she said, coolly. "Why you can't respect that...eh. Not my problem if you understand or not."
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:00 pm
Halfway through her explanation, Adrian started yawning. He didn't expect her to just start blabbing, jeez. Anastasia lost him when she started talking about emotions and ideas or something.
"Too long; didn't listen," Adrian mumbled lazily when he realized she finally stopped talking. Although Anastasia really did annoy him, he got a sort of perverse joy in knowing that he was bothering her just by being there and being himself; he had the feeling that Anastasia was in a much better mood before she met him.
Letting out a loud yawn, Adrian suddenly kicked the display stand behind them. The violent shuddering caused all of the potted plants that Adrian had been wrecked earlier to crash down on the floor behind them.
"That's what I think of those stupid 'ideas'."
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:06 pm
Ana gaped at what Adrian had done, loathing roiling sick in her stomach. Her hands glowed so bright they were blinding to look on, and unthinking she raised a fist and was about to strike him right in his nasty mouth when Evie tapped Adrian on the shoulder.
"Hi there," Evie said, smiling. "How the hell are ya. I'm Evie. And this is my pepper spray. Say hi, pepper spray."
And Evie sprayed it right into Adrian's face.
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:27 pm
Now that was the reaction he was looking for! Adrian grinned and rolled up his sleeves, obviously not fazed by the upcoming fight. If anything, he was looking forward to finally getting his revenge on the hippie br-
"Huh?" He turned around, and saw the end of a metal can and knew that this wasn't going to end well.
"AUUUUUUGH!"
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Amryx heard the screaming, and she knew that something had happened. It probably was horrible, but the woman was thinking of how she was going to apologize for this mess instead of whether Adrian was OK.
What Amryx saw when she arrived on the scene was Adrian rolling on the ground screaming, a strange looking girl (seemed like a fellow Scent - smelled like Kiwi) who looked extremely upset, and another woman holding a can of pepper spray. With the ruined display behind them, Amryx put two and two together and walked over to the other woman.
"I'm sorry, whatever he did, he probably deserved it," She gestured to Adrian, seemingly indifferent to his pain. "He didn't hurt your Scent, did he?"
"WOMAN! STOP CHATTING WITH THE ENEMY!"
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:31 pm
Evie planted a foot directly between Adrian's legs.
"Hush while the big kids are talking."
"Ma!"
"I have no qualms kicking a man when he's down."
Turning to Amryx, Evie stuck out her hand.
"That one there on the floor must be yours," she said in a monotone. "My purest sympathies, I assure you. Ana's fine, arentcha, hon?"
"Well, yeah..."
"See? No harm done. Sorry for what I just done but it was needed. Didn't have a right, being such a p***k, if you'll please excuse my language. I'm Evie, by the way. Treat ya to a muffin?"
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:56 pm
There was no more noises of protest from Adrian after that, only a high pitched whine that didn't sound very human-like. Amryx, once again, took no notice; it was actually really nice to find someone who was willing to stand up to him for once.
"Amryx. And he's not mine, I just live with him." She sighed. Any "mother-son" relationship they could have forged went out the window when she joined that hippie commune, so Amryx couldn't help but feel guilty for what she had unleashed upon the world.
"Can I treat you to some coffee? I should apologize for causing you trouble," Amryx offered, feeling that she owed them something. "That is, after I help him. Unfortunately, I think I'm still responsible for his safety."
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As it so happened, Amryx had gotten Adrian to the bathroom to wash his eyes off and invited him to join them for coffee, but the deathglare that she received suggested that Adrian was going to find something to kill them with first.
So she took Evie and Anastasia to a nearby coffee shop, in the hopes that she could at least make peace with them. At least, Evie didn't seem to care that she was talking to the guardian of the Scent she just pepper sprayed and incapacitated.
"I'm sorry about Adrian, he..." Amryx sighed, letting her head tilt forward and hit the table. "I don't know."
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 6:04 pm
Ana, watching as Adrian lay incapacitated on the floor, plucked a fresh flower from a bouquet and laid it on him.
"Feel better soon," she said pleasantly as she walked away with Evie and Amryx.
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"Hey now, it's no big deal," Evie said mildly, patting Amryx on the shoulder. "No fault of yours he's a giant walking d**k. I got a taser on backorder, you can borrow it if he gives you grief."
"Ma," Ana rebuked patiently, sipping her tea. "C'mon. She's not gonna tase him."
"I would."
"Which is why we'll be keeping you away from him."
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 12:08 pm
A taser? That sounded useful. Amryx looked like she was seriously contemplating it, but she only grinned wider when Evie said she would tase the brat. But, of course, Amryx knew it was a useless endeavor.
"No, I think he's the Antichrist or something. No amount of punishment will convince him to change his ways," Amryx grumbled, taking a bite out of her muffin after she was done complaining. "I didn't even want him. Got him by accident; I broke a burner, and Olivia said I could pay it off, but they come in a set so I had to get the oil and the candle with it, and then I got him."
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 12:53 pm
Evie cringed in sympathy.
"God, you poor thing," she said. "I got Ana on purpose. My friend C-" she choked on the name, then cleared her throat. "My friend brought me to the store and helped me pick out an oil. Scared the crap outta me when she popped out of the burner."
Ana stuck out her tongue and then gave Evie a hug, glowing like a lightning bug.
Ruffling Ana's curly hair affectionately, Evie turned back to Amryx.
"Have you thought'a trying for another? A nice 'un this time, to counter that p***k."
"Ma."
"Just tellin' it like it is, hon."
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 1:24 pm
Amryx blinked when Evie choked. It sounded like she was trying to say a name, but... Amryx had the feeling she knew what it was referring to (at least, if it had anything to do with that letter Olivia received), so she kept quiet about it.
"Oh, heavens no," Amryx shuddered at the thought of having another Scent. "I'm... actually rather unlucky, you see, so I know if I light another burner I'm probably going to get someone worse than Adrian next time. No thanks."
She could go on, and on, and on, but Amryx refrained. She didn't think Evie would believe her if Amryx even mentioned that she wasn't from this world. "But, I'm glad that you and Anastasia are happy. In fact, she's glowing with happiness. How do you do that?"
Amryx had heard that once the Scent children reached a certain age, they started showing off powers of sorts. Adrian himself didn't seem to have any, but Amryx chalked that one up to a high power having mercy on her.
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 1:33 pm
"Yeah, that might happen," Evie said. "Murphy's Law and all that. Better not to risk it..."
She blinked when Amryx mentioned the glow. She'd gotten so used to it herself she rarely thought about it anymore.
"Heh. Hell if I know, really. Once Ana had her growth spurt, the lights turned on."
"I can control it, too," Ana said proudly. "Lookit!"
Seemingly without effort, Ana made her hands glow to that blinding degree again, lighting up half the coffee shop flourescent green. She laughed when conversation screeched to a halt all around them, and then dimmed until the light was barely visible. Then she relaxed, and the glow 'turned up' a bit again.
"Only problem is, I can't turn it off."
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:01 pm
The bright glow from Anastasia nearly gave Amryx a headache, but thankfully, the girl stopped glowing soon enough. Now that, that was interesting.
"That's really cool! I don't think it's something that you need to turn off," Amryx observed, leaning forward a little. There were more to these Scents than what met the eye, huh? "It's a good thing Adrian can't do anything like that, he'd use it to annoy the hell out of everyone."
"It's nice to see that you think so highly of me."
Adrian didn't say anything else when he arrived, he only took a seat next to Amryx and then scooted himself backwards. Anything to make distance between him and that crazy woman and her equally crazy hippie of a Scent.
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:59 pm
"Back so soon?" Evie said uninterestedly, sipping at her coffee. "Not that I wouldn't mind going another round. You make such entertaining noises."
She looked expectantly at Ana for another scolding, but the teen just shrugged and downed a gulp of tea.
"Anyway," Evie continued, as though Adrian's existence had only been just barely worth noting for that brief moment, "I've been wondering how many other Scents there are out there. Ana seems to meet most of 'em, but I've been bettin' there are people who just buy oil and get oil, y'know?"
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:08 pm
Adrian made a very interesting noise at Evie's remark, something between a whine and a growl, but he still didn't move from his spot. At least, the fight was over. For now.
Amryx nodded along to what Evie was saying, pausing to think. Well, she actually worked at the shop, so she could already tell that not every oil sold becomes a Scent, or else she would have been dealing with a lot of angry customers. At least, more than she usually got.
"No, you're right. I still work there, and we don't get a lot of people coming back with children in tow. I mean, I can't tell which oils turn into kids, but it's true that not all of them do, and it's not always the exotic scents." But other than that, Amryx really hadn't given much thought about the nature of the Scents.
"Though I don't know why people are so weirded out about this, stuff like that used to happen back home. In fact, some people bought items expecting people to pop out of them."
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