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 Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:57 pm
_______ New York┊
Jaqueline's eyebrows furrow at the question, wondering why someone she didn't know would suddenly ask to join her. This was a very strange restaurant.
Momentarily, she wondered if this was some kind of ploy.. but she dismissed it quickly. No one here would possibly recognize her while she was disguised as her alter-ego. There was simply no way that mild-mannered, nerd-girl, Jaqueline Patel would be mistaken for Estrella.
So she nodded, and realized with a small smile that having someone sitting across from her would give her ample opportunity to continue keeping an eye on the suit without giving herself away. "Sure, I don't mind." She said, gesturing across from her. This might even give her an alibi if she needed to change costume later.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:59 pm
_______ Small Town Vermont┊
Lamont's response is immediately and excessive, a panicked knee-jerk reaction born from both lack of control and fear.
When Daisy touches his mind, he pushes back with everything he has and drags thoughts of the ladyscientist and his locket deeper into himself. Even he's not quite sure what he's using in defense, but memories of sanitized rooms with the smell of formaldehydes burning through his nose and blurred shapes, sharp questions, a small room with a cot and an aslyum but there's a waterfall in there too, and he's surrounded by the forest and this is his peace mixed in with all his fears so he can't find one without the other.
"No!" Lamont shouts loudly. "No no no!"
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haphazardly parked Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:07 pm
_______ Small Town Vermont┊
With a wince, Daisy recoils. Just the once, and then she reasserts her control (self first) and then over her powers. For a moment, she is overwhelmed and surprised at the sudden force that barreled into and against her own mind, but she is trained and, for what it's worth, touched, and then she is back to the present.
Trying to ignore the sensation of her nose burning and the too-sweet smell that comes with it, Daisy re-adjusts her approach. She does not reach out to him physically, not here in public for fear of what kind of response that would trigger, but again through only empathy. Whatever he's so afraid of she is sure that she doesn't want to know, so she doesn't look. His reaction, though, is serious enough that she needs him to calm down before she can talk to him... if talking is an option.
"Listen to me," She tries, turning fully to face him and ignoring his outburst to the best of her abilities, "I'm trying to help" As she speaks her empathy is outreaching, embracing his emotions and trying its best to soothe. There's no taking, or opening or prying, only a gentle, guiding hand to the calm that she's sure he has inside of himself.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:15 pm
New York City:
"O-okay, cool..."
Dave looked back toward the host to make sure he understood he was sitting with her, and then turned back toward the beautiful, young girl before him.
"Thanks."
David sat down across from the girl and leaned forward towards her. He hesitated before speaking.
"You were just... Outside, right? Did you see what happened to those guys?" David asked. "In the alley?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 2:28 am
_______ Small Town Vermont┊
Lamont jerks away from Daisy as if her touch is physical, and like fire.
-"Go away," he tells her in a harsh voice, sounding almost lucid but not quite; he's struggling for those elusive moments understanding, but now it seems to slip out of his grasp. All he can think about is his secret, and how he needs to keep it safe. "You can't have it - go."
She can't have the secret- it's Lamont's from the scientist to give to someone nice, but Lamont hardly thinks anyone who can do, do this kind of terrible, awful and awfully terrible thing (read minds, it's unnatural) can't possibly be good and nice.
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:53 pm
_______ New York┊
Jaqueline fiddled with a menu before her as the man sat before her, blocking her sight of the mysterious well-dressed man that had caught her eye before. She wondered if it was deliberate, pursing her lips slightly as he made himself comfortable across from her, and took a moment to scrutinize him while he looked to the host. He wasn't dressed akin to the other man, and he didn't carry himself with the same confident swagger either... it didn't mean that they couldn't be working together.
When he looked back to her she dropped her eyes to her lunch and then, as if she had only just become interested in his presence, she looked up with wide eyes of surprise at his question. "No.. I wasn't aware that anything had happened in the alley. What did you see?" She asked casually, trying to mask the real interest that was beginning to grow. If something had happened outside shortly before the appearance of the mysteriously well-dressed fellow.. well, then that was almost worth a gander. It would need a little more substance if Estrella were to be the investigator, though.
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:58 pm
_______ Small Town Vermont┊
"Alright," Daisy replies curtly, her own mind ringing with the backlash of the stranger's resistance. Pain leads to frustration - not really her own, but increasingly that of the smallest portion of the being responsible for her abilities - and frustration nearly leads to an outburst of her own, but she breathes instead. Forcing slow breaths and concentrating fully on herself for a moment, she reigns in the last of the darker influence that coloured her own thoughts, and then leans back.
"I'm sorry," She offers, too little and too late, but still it hangs in the air, "You seemed like you could use some help. If you want to be alone then I can do that too."
Though, she's really not about to abandon this small town to whatever is going on inside of his head. If she can't calm him down then.. then what? She hesitated, trying to remember how long it had been since she'd been in combat of any kind. She didn't like tapping into those abilities to that extent, which was why she'd taken up wandering too far and too long for the League to involve her in these types of things. Which was another reason she was starting to wonder why she'd even bothered in this situation.
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