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 Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:34 pm
She gives Joli a nervous smile, staying near the open door while watching Joli move to the armchair. Lily frowns ever so slightly at the mention of the vacation, and clears her throat.
"That's actually what I came to talk to you about," she says finally, her voice lowering a bit when she continues, "I'm not on vacation- er- I wasn't here on vacation, I mean.."
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:36 pm
"Oh I know, you worked with serums in the lab" she said in a calm voice pulling her small laptop into her lap atop the folded paper. opening it and powering it up
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:41 pm
Lily starts when Joli bluntly tells her she already knows that she worked in the lab, her expression somewhere between surprise and disappointment, "O-oh... well..."
She couldn't even tell Joliette herself, how fast does news travel here? Lily takes a step back toward the door, considering just leaving before she has to face another round of interrogation and accusations, more justly from this person than from the others.
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:45 pm
"A question for you Lily" Joliette says tapping away at her laptop "What did you think when that insane doctor wanted a combination of a grizzly, a wolverine and a tazmanian made?" she has yet to raise her voice, it was more... journalistically sound mind to keep calm in these situations, her experience led to further cooperation from the people she wanted information from
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:49 pm
She stops in her backing away when Joli suddenly asks her a question, and an unexpected one at that, in an unexpected tone of voice. Her expression changes to a more curious one- is this what she normally does.
"W-what?" she stammers, "I don't know-"
Her mind bounces between wondering at Joliette's reaction and what she'd thought about making a serum that's a combination of three different animals.
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:53 pm
"Surely you must have had some opinion about that project, it had to be different from working on any just ordinary serum that passed through your hands" her voice stayed even and she looked up with her eyes though her head remained tilted down and her hands still typing.
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:58 pm
"I-it was," Lily says cautiously, still not sure how she should react. Something had to be important about this serum, she can't remember any mention of the recipient of said serum by Joliette, though.
"It was a challenge, I guess," she says slowly in the same cautious tone, "It sounded impossible..."
Maybe being honest now would make up for being dishonest before? But why is Joli asking her these questions? She can almost predict a bad outcome from answering them, for most journalists don't just do 'interviews' for no reason, do they?
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:01 pm
"Honestly, I personally would have thought everything happening here was.. impossible" Joliette stops and leans on her elbows which she puts on her legs then rests her hands under her chin "Did you have any predictons in your own mind how it would effect the subject it was given to? you know, like behavioural or the like?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:11 pm
"I thought so too when I found out," Lily says, shifting her weight on her legs a bit. After her experience with the others, it's unsettling to be dealing with such a calm reaction. Admittedly, they were less accusing kinds of questions than she had before, but so unexpected from bother her own imagination and the experience earlier.
"I didn't really think about that," she responds, again honestly.
"Is this how you normally react to this kind of thing?" she asks suddenly, only brave enough to ask instead of answer questions because Joliette hadn't gotten visibly angry, "By asking questions in that calm way? Is it a habit from being a.. photographer-journalist or whatever?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:18 pm
She noded and then pondered the returned question for a time... "I'll admit I would have prefered to have learned it from you, and yes calmness always has gotten me answers faster then yelling, I think the saying goes something like 'you atract more flies with honey then vinegar'. I'll also admit that I'm not thrilled about hte factor you worked for that insane man, however to bring people here, or to trap them here was not your doing, you were just crazy enough to go along with making those serums. I hate what I'm becoming, but yelling at you isn't going to answer that, I can't say David will like it or react the way I did when he finds out one of hte persons who made his serum is our neighbour though"
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:25 pm
"I tried," Lily murmurs quietly when Joli says she'd have prefered to hear it from her, though she knows that even if she had word would have gotten to her one way or another and she'd know why she decided to tell her. She nods along with Joliette's explanation, easing considerably when she says she knows that yelling won't help anything despite the statement that follows it.
Someone has some degree of understanding, thinking more rationally, not asking why she didn't have moral issues with her job. She could almost start crying, after being so stressed out and then meeting this.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you," she says finally, stepping back to lean against a clear wall, then reconsidering what she said, "No... I'm sorry I lied to you."
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:33 pm
"You aren't the first person who lied to me here, somehow I doubt you'll be the last, I don't understand how any of the doctors or labtechs here justify all this, though I'm sure hte git would simply shrug it off, I suppose money has a way of making someone turn and not see. I didn't see Komodo on the list of serums you worked on, so I personally don't believe I have anything directly to hold against you.." she wasn't going to speak for David though "But I'll tell you this so your curiousity can be satisfied... Grizzly, wolverine and tazmanian lend to a rather scary temper... I should know" she reaches up and pulls her shirt sleeve aside showing the still fading but nasty bruise on her upper arm and shoulder
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:38 pm
Lily bites her lip at Joli's statements, knowing that she's probably right about the lying and she considers explaining her own experience with it but holds back for now. She thinks about the money- money she'd made and would now never see. Her gaze is away from Joliette by the time she explains the temper the combination serum has given Chubbs, and it's a fit distraction for a moment as she looks to the bruise on her arms and winces.
Then what Joli said hits her. A list of serums?
"Wait," she says, "You have a list of what I worked on? That's how you found out? Where'd you get it?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:43 pm
Joliette sits silently for a moment and then puts the laptop bck on the desk beside her arm chair and lifts the folded paper, pulls the envelope to the top "Lily Deleny, Duplex 25... you'd think people of that rank aruond here could adress things to the right duplex..." She holds the pepers towards Lily "You got paid hansomly, I can see why a job here would be... attractive"
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:51 pm
Joliette lives in Duplex 25? That is much too convenient, and she considers commenting on reading other peoples mail but thinks better of it. She reaches out and takes the papers from Joliette, with a nervous laugh about being able to address a letter.
"I'm sure it got where they wanted it to," she says, knowing it wouldn't be beyond Moreau to do such a thing intentionally after showing up by the river with so many people around- especially when he mentioned how he knew the letter didn't go to the right place.
"The money," she hesitates, "is why I came, I guess- but I didn't know what I would be doing until I got here."
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