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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:09 pm
If Jett knew Quinn, it wasn’t like this. He stepped into the room and gave Quinn a look over; there was no denying that she was in pretty awful state, and unless other members of their little group were busy getting the s**t beat out of them, instinct told him to assume he was looking at the civilian form of Leto.
Which meant that he was in the right place—but there was still a very big problem. What the hell was Raven doing here?
“…Sort of,” he answered after a few seconds. Deneb Kaitos’ disappearance into the bathroom—and then his reemergence left little doubt in his mind that he was certainly in the right place. But then, again. What the hell was Raven doing here?
Momentarily avoiding a proper introduction with Quinn, he turned to Raven again and tilted his head slightly, scanning her with his eyes as if summing her up. “Raven,” he said after a short pause. “Which one are you?”
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:09 pm
Quinn waved, still grinning at the drama that was unfolding between Jett and Raven, with Deneb Kaitos standing there henshined. What had turned into an inconvenience of what seemed like a billion people in her apartment had turned into sheer amusement.
"Nope, never met 'im before," she said, peering over at Jett in the doorway. She glanced over her shoulder at Josh as he came out of her bathroom. Quite frankly, even if Quinn DID want to kick his a** for pulling that, it was pretty obvious to everyone in the room that she wouldn't be able to.
"'Ey Josh," she said. "Blond girl is Raven, and apparently blond boy is Jett." She looked at the two. "You two, this is Josh. Now we're a big happy family and I can ask how the hell you all knew that I got my a** kicked and why anyone would think that a girl with a busted up face and a leg in a giant brace would want company? Did someone plan a party in my place without telling me?"
Her arms - one of the few functioning parts of her body - crossed over her chest and her right eyebrow quirked upwards. Apparently being broken made Quinn kinda bitchy.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:16 pm
Raven gave a little sigh as Josh came out of the bathroom...looking like a normal guy again. She nodded to Quinn then smiled. "Hello, Josh. It's nice to meet you. I'm Raven...like she said."
The hair went up on the back of her neck when Jett asked which one she was. Oh. He...knew? Huh...Well..that's...strange...
"Sailor Lesath, and you, Jett? Which one are you?"
She looked back at Quinn then sighed. "We got messages from Sailor Navi...she said you were in really bad shape and told us where you lived...and so I decided to come check up on you and see if there was anything I could do..."
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:22 pm
"Nice to meet you both." He gave a nod to both Raven and Jett, through it seemed the two blondes had known each other beforehand. He vaguely remembered seeing the two of them in the surrounding, but never quite stopping to talk to them.
Well, beside that one time as a ghost, but they wouldn't know it was him, and, well... His memories of the time he'd been dead was a little fuzzy.
Probably for the best.
Again, Joshua nodded at Raven's statement that Navi had called them. "I just wanted to see if there was something I could to to help." And I wanted to see you remained unsaid, but perceptible.
The bag was still held, but it looked like he had no intention to open it since they weren't... well, alone. Embarrassed ? Perhaps.
"And well, we have an asskicking to plan, don't we ?" Yup. If he ever found the senshi who had done this to her...
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:28 pm
Lesath. Boobs. Go figure.
A mixture of stunned and amused, Jett just shook his head. He was vaguely impressed with Raven, if only because he was certain she'd died--and here she was, standing next to him.
He avoided answering Raven's question not because he was uncomfortable with the idea of her knowing who he was, but because he simply didn't want to talk to the girl while he took in the information she'd just given him. "Josh, nice to meet you," he said to the male, giving him a little nod. "And, you too, Quinn. I was in the neighborhood," he explained, "Just figured I'd stop by. See if you wanted me to go grab you anything while I was around. Heading to the store in a minute and your place was on the way. But I wouldn't be against planning an asskicking either."
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:30 pm
"Of course," she said. Why wouldn't Navi tell everyone? She closed her eyes for a brief moment as pain shot up and down her right leg, particularly lingering under her knee. Couldn't the hospital just put her in a drug-induced coma until she was completely healed? Selfish jerks.
When she opened her eyes, she stared at them all as if they were crazy. "What are you talking about? I'm not in really bad shape. In fact, I'm in perfect health." She laughed and shook her head. Alright so clearly that wasn't the case. She wobbled slightly and reached out for the wall to steady herself.
"Thanks guys," her voice was hushed. She should be greatful that people actually gave a s**t about her to show up and make sure she was okay.
She glanced at the bag that Josh had, and then at the one Jett was carrying. "So what'd you bring me? Raven brought me flowers and a teddy bear and a balloon. How're you guys gonna top that, hm?"
She wasn't ready to talk about who kicked her a** nor plan their demise, so she avoided that part of the conversation entirely. Although that part would definitely be coming.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:42 pm
Raven narrowed her eyes at the other blond in the room. "I asked you a question, Jett. Which one are you?"
It should have been obvious...there was only one other blond in the Dark Mirror senshi that she had met...but she wasn't really making the connection very well.
She glanced over when Quinn expressed a word of thanks and just grinned when she began taunting the two boys and asking what they had brought her. Getting to the house first did have its advantages.
She still was having a hard time believing that Jett was a Senshi as well...how strange...but, of course he'd be wanted. He was strong and...seemed to be cunning.
"Yeah, Quinn. I'm excited to do some asskicking too. Whenever you want to. I'll bring you the senshi's heads on a platter..."
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:50 pm
"Remarque," Jett answered to Raven, giving her another look. Aside from the confusion and slight shock that Raven oould have been a senshi, Jett was relatively amused with the whole situation.
When Quinn spoke of gifts, his hand instinctively moved to his bag and he glanced down at it before shrugging. “Unless you want a bottle of wine and some canned vegetables, there’s nothing in here for you. Unless you want, like, a stick of gum or something. Or a twenty, I’ve got some spare change or something,” he said, fishing through his pockets. He pulled out a crinkled twenty and smoothed it between his fingers before holding it out for the girl.
There wasn’t much thought put into the gift--if it could really be called such--but Jett wasn’t going to walk around town holding tokens of sympathy for some girl he had really only just met.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:04 pm
The powered names also helped make some sort of mental 'link', at least. Now he could actually visualize who these two were, in a way he hadn't been able to a minute ago.
That identity-protecting magic was strong juju.
At the question of what exactly was hiding in the bag, poor Joshua looked like a deer in the headlights... But did eventually relent and pull the flower bouquet out of the bag.
Yep. When in doubt, stick to the classics.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:07 pm
She stared at Jett as he rummaged through his bag and pulled out a twenty for her. "Dude I'm just ******** with you, keep your money," she said with a chuckle.
Couldn't anyone have brought her a six pack and some fast food? Nevermind the fact that she probably shouldn't be drinking while on pain medication. When the two blonds mentioned their Senshi names out loud to each other, Quinn pointed at Joshua.
"Deneb Kaitos," then pointed at herself. "Leto.... Obviously."
Then Josh pulled the bouquet of flowers out of the bag and her cheeks flushed a light pink. It was one thing when a girl brought a girl flowers. But a boy giving her flowers? Okay so it was because she got her face busted up and not some romantic gesture, but it was sweet never-the-less and no boy had ever brought her flowers before.
"You're a sweetheart," she took the flowers from him and kissed him on the cheek.
She pushed herself off of the wall and slowly maneuvered her way back over to the couch and sat down, flowers in her hands. "You guys can stand if you want but I'm sure as hell not going to."
She turned so she was sitting sideways on the couch, her right leg resting on the coffee table. "There's beer and other random s**t to drink in the fridge, help yourselves! There's probably something to eat if you rummage through cupboards. Unfortunately I wasn't able to grocery shop before you all showed up."
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:26 pm
Raven sat down on the couch next to Quinn once more, picking up the teddy bear and playing with his well worn ear.
"Really, Jett...you're trying to hand the poor girl a twenty? How unlike you. I would have thought you would have brought chocolates and flowers, elegant things."
She watched Quinn blush with the flowers that Josh gave her, and a wicked grin spread across her face when she kissed the boy on the cheek. Oh, that was adorable. The blonde just laughed quietly.
These people seemed really nice. She could have fun with them...maybe. Like they really were going to become a family. They were more then just comrades, they were real people too.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:42 pm
If anyone thought Quinn had blushed upon seeing the flowers, Joshua was about to prove them all wrong. No, in comparison to the shade of pink the teen turned upon recieving the kiss, Quinn might as well have had no visible reaction.
It was, indeed, hysterical, and he did settle, sitting on the arms of the couch. Beer was a tempting, tempting thing, but it would be kind of rude to drink Quinn's beer while she probably wasn't allowed to drink it, wasn't it ?
Drat.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:50 pm
Jett rolled his eyes at Raven as he pocketed the money. "Like hand-me-down bears are any better. So sue me, I was too busy to go pick out chocolate and flowers. Besides, looks like she's got plenty already," he gestured to the bouquets the girl had already received. "If it makes you feel any better, the next time somebody winds up in the hospital, I promise I'll get them flowers and chocolate, deal?" he asked, though it seemed to be rhetorical.
He hadn't missed the blush from either parties he wasn't speaking to, but found no reason to draw light of it; instead, he merely made a slight mental note of it. While he didn't move to sit, he did drop his bag on the floor--carefully, as not to damage anything he was carrying in it. While there was probably still more than enough room for him on the couch, he wasn't really up to the task of sitting so close to so many people.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:26 pm
After making sure Quinn was tucked safely in bed and didn't need anything, Lydia had left the apartment on a quick trip down to the corner store for a few necessary odds and ends. Clean bandages were the priority, along with gauze and graphic baindaids, but she'd also hoped to find some sort of easily eaten treat for the other girl. It was impossible not to notice her roommate's mood, and Lydia really wanted to do something to improve it.
Of course once she'd gotten there she didn't have a clue what to get, having never really learned what Quinn's favorite foods were. Not only was it inconvenient, but also a little embarrassing.
After a lengthy search she finally settled on a box of ice cream snickers bars on the theory that everyone loved a good candy bar, and adding ice cream would only make it all the more irresistible. Her fingers were crossed.
She was expecting to come home to a relatively empty apartment and a roommate still immobilized in her bed, so when she walked in to find a bunch of people(only some of which she recognized) surrounding Quinn(who was not in her bed for some reason), Lydia wasn't quite sure how to react. It took her a solid minute of staring before she settled enough to clear her throat loudly, hazel eyes narrowing on the injured girl on the couch. "Dare I ask how you got out here?" Wait, she probably didn't want to know.
"I bought you some clean bandages and other stuff you'll need while you heal," she announced as she wandered past the group and down the hall to the bathroom, unpacking all the medical supplies into the cabinets. For the moment she was going to assume everyone in the other room was friendly, and had a good reason for being there. "I also bought you some ice cream bars, but now that we have company, I suppose we can share them."
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:38 pm
"Aw you're cute," she said to Josh, snickering at the deep shade of pink he turned after she kissed him. And in all honesty? If someone grabbed her a beer, she'd probably drink it regardless of doctor's orders.
She glanced over at Jett. "You can grab the computer chair if you're more comfortable with that? Not the touchy feely type, totally fine. And hopefully there will be no further need to buy flowers and chocolate because none of you are gonna end up like this thank you very much." She frowned, her eyebrows knitting together.
While she could handle herself being a big ol' bundle of broken, she didn't want any of her teammates- especially not the newbies- to end up this way.
Quinn straightened up slightly when she heard the door knob to the apartment turning. That could only mean Lydia was back and she probably wasn't gonna be very impressed. She flashed the girl a huge, bright grin (which looked ridiculous with the black eye, swollen and bruised face covered in bandages) and waved.
"Hiiiii Lydia!" She scratched the back of her head. "I'd tell you I henshined and mirrorwalked from my room to here, but that'd be a dirty ******** lie. I walked. If you can even really call it that. More like shambled? Or hobbled, even. The doctor gave me some good s**t so I can manage for the most part. And look! Company! Apparently you called all of them, so this is allllll your fault, my friend."
Her eyes lit up (as much as they could) at the mention of ice cream bars. "******** the bandages, I want ice cream." She reached out at Lydia, doing childish grabby hands at her and the ice cream.
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