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 Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:50 pm
"The cops already found them, though," Dari continued. He was fiddling with a coin, focusing on the feeling across his fingertip ridges. "Apparently the bar down the road had a camera."
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:08 pm
"Oh, good!" Cody had been concerned the guys who'd attached Toby and Maia would strike again. "I'm glad they're alright, too."
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:11 pm
"Part of me feels like we should be carting our guns around," Dari said with a sigh. Not for their own safety, either. He and Toby could survive almost anything. It was their lovers who were in danger.
"Anyway. Everyone's safe. That's all that matters." He smiled to Cody and reached over to touch his hand.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:18 pm
Cody closed his hand around Dari's and gave it a squeeze. "With the luck we've been having, I can't blame you," he said. He brought Dari's hand to his lips and kissed it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:25 pm
Dari laughed at a memory and decided to make light rather than remember their attack.
"I'll just come out of the cafe waving a gun at the strange woman at the table." He snorted, dropped his head, and closed his eyes. "What's even worse is that I could, as a Federal agent."
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:35 pm
"But you wouldn't," Cody said, smiling softly. He leaned and kissed Dari's cheek. "And that's important. It shows how good of a person you are."
He stole Dari's lips. "I love you, Mr. Secret Agent."
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:41 pm
Dari grinned and then returned the kiss. His heart felt weightless. This whole romantic love thing, how had he ever lived without it?
"I love you too."
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:26 pm
Cody smiled warmly. There! That seemed to have cheered Dari up some. He had the feeling his fiancée was more upset about the attack than he was acting. "When do I get to see where you work?" He asked.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:27 pm
Dari shrugged.
"I don't know. Soon, if you'd like. We work the midday shift, so you could come after school if you'd like, I'm sure nobody would mind. You're just going to need to prepare yourself for what you might see..." Centaurs, spirits, dead people...
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:32 pm
"Soon sounds good," Cody grinned. "I'm still on summer vacation, so school shouldn't be an issue." He gave Dari a wink, and then paused. Things he might see? His fiancée was an alien and his friends were straight out of Lord of the Rings. "What things?" He asked.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:55 pm
"Well, a lot of our peers are human,but the same amount are not," Dari said with a shrug, "You know, people with animal parts, people of inhuman color, the occasional inhuman entity, ancient spirits... and a dead guy. We do have a dead guy, and he is just behind me on the list of People Who Make Their Coworkers Uncomfortable. ...or maybe just before." Dari shrugged again.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:06 pm
"Like centaurs, fauns, kitsune?" Cody guessed. People with animal parts, he thought he'd be okay with that after finding out about Maia. She was a seal part time, wasn't she?
"...a dead guy." Cody echoed, eyes widening. This seemed to make him uncomfortable. "Like...a ghost?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:10 pm
Dari nodded. Humanity feared ghosts. It was better to warn him now than have him get there and find himself the focus of Michael's ire.
"He died in eighteen forty-three at twenty-two. He's actually an ambassador to the, uh... passed spirits."
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:15 pm
Cody gapped for a few seconds before seeming to realize what he was doing. His mouth snapped shut. "You work with an ambassador to ghosts?" He asked, with a slight choke.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:16 pm
Dari turned his head slightly as if thinking, eyes narrowed and lips formed around what looked like the beginning of a letter.
"...yes. He... yes? Spirits are technically entities, technically 'living' or not. It used to be that Toby and I were the go-to agents for hauntings but it's much easier with him."
He paused.
"Our last field mission was for a haunting..."
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