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If there was one thing Jaimie hadn't been cured of at Hillworth, it was a sense of mischief... and because of that, he was down town, looking to find the engraving shop, since he was planning on bringing Parker a nice little award for surviving their time rooming together. ((Especially given Parkers history with his roommates))

The only problem was that he was having trouble deciding if he should have the award engraved with one of the socialistic, anti-rich-family sort of quotes, or if he should come up with one of those sappy inspirational things people put on posters, and that were guaranteed to induce nausea in everyone they were aimed at.

"Well you CAN, but I think that comes with the caviat that you'd really rather not.... Not that I blame you." He raised his eyebrows, taking in the bandages with the awe of someone who has just seen the Mummy rising from it's Sarcophagus. There was something about her that nagged familiarity, and it wasn't the bandages, though Tal, or rather 'Europa', had been sporting a few lately, and he'd recently had his own charming black eye from Lt. Wolframite.
"...That aside, have we met? I'm pretty sure I've seen you before and I know I haven't been to the Egyptian exhibit a the museum."

Well... Apparently he'd have to try screwing around with his phone more... at least when there was less risk of having it confiscated by the staff at Hillworth, and he -almost- surrendered to the urge to pull down his lower eyelid and stick out his tongue when she looked back up.

Almost. His recent phone conversation with his sister had left him feeling a bit vindictively childish.

"Didn't we outgrow the whole 'Boys have cooties' thing in grade-school?" He fired back hotly, before his slightly negligent sense of self preservation pointed out politely that this WAS the young woman who, although she couldn't be that much older than he was, had ordered them to kill in a tone that seemed to indicate she felt nothing on the matter. "If you've got a problem with me doing this maybe you should take it up with Astrea. She's the one that handed me the goddamn pen."
Ego forged ahead, though his angry tone meandered slowly into a discontent grumble. "What's your problem with Boy Senshi?"

This was actually the -least- of the questions he wanted to ask, but it was the first one his irritation had led to, as it petered into a low simmer behind his sulky glower, arms folded and feet planted, with an growing intent to stay -right there- until...

Well at least until she threatened to do to him what she'd do to anyone from the Negaverse. Wolframite's jump rope was bad enough. she had a sword.

"Yeah well..." Jaimie glowered, clearly not intending to put on a padded bra next time he senshined up. "Take it up with the cat. She didn't give me that option." Or any option actually. "Do you want some advil?"

She was a scary girl, he'd still give her that much, but he couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for her obvious discomfort. He'd been healing faster since becoming a Senshi, but she'd mentioned in the meeting that she didn't. Advil was the best he could offer. That and not commenting that, if she was a boy, he'd sure been fooled by her... er... cleavage.

"I was going to mess with my roommate, but then again I didn't expect to run into you. How come you know so much about this stuff anyway? Astrea pretty much only told me what my Henshin pen was and not to suck. Oh and that Negaverse agents were, quote unquote, the bad guys. How come you guy the non cliffs notes version? And whats the deal with the whole earth court and moon court thing?"

Questions almost tripped on themselves trying to get out. "And the whole hospitality of the earth court thing... You made it sound like we dropped from the sky like Superman. I dunno about you but I was born here... I've got a twin sister."

He turned his attention briefly to rooting around in his pockets and pulling out a 'travel pack' of over the counter pain killers, the kind you find in gas stations to keep in the car. He'd been keeping a few since the battle with Wolframite, and had almost forgotten they were there, until now, when he offered them out in her direction.

He started at the idea she was born in the Golden Age, the age he guessed when all this started. Reincarnation? If he didn't turn into a super hero using a magical pen, he'd have called for an I-love-me-jacket, but it also made sense. No wonder she could face down the idea of death like she was buying a ticket to the movies.
"Heh... Yeah. I want to feel like I know what the hell I'm doing." He admitted, with a wry smile. "Although you just answered one of my biggest questions I think. No wonder you're tougher than Chuck Norris. You've got a lot more practice than the rest of us in not being a kid. I'm still working on the idea of hurting people. Don't get me wrong, I know they're out there killing people, but the idea of going to bed at night and saying "I just killed someone" still scares the crap out of me. Hopefully that doesn't make me a 'fail whale' as Astrea put it, but it's true."

He wondered if she'd had to go through that once, way way back. And if she'd been a guy in her previous life as her earlier comment implied.

That would almost have to be weirder than reincarnation. Having memories of being one gender but being another.

"No, that was kind of secondary." He admitted. "I think Fail Whale is more or less her way of expressing that, in spite of awakening people, she's convinced that every senshi out there sucks because they're not the old crew. I'm sure there's a reason for it... but it doesn't make it stink any less." He firmly put the advil pack on the counter and raised an eyebrow, indicating it would stay there, just in case she decided to change her mind after he left. That way they could both pretend she hadn't accepted any help, and that he'd merely forgotten the stuff. "...I was just kind of curious, you know so much more about everything than we've been told... and I was hoping you'd be able to tell me more. I mean... now that I know you're here." Since as he'd admitted, he really had been going to prank Parker, though somehow explaining to someone who was that... old and not old... seemed overwhelmingly immature.
"...You know, by the way, there's these awesome things at the drug store... they're giant stick on pads that heat up in the air... I used them for a week after I tried to jump a fence on my cousins horse, and it doesn't feel like you put acid on your skin if it's dry." He recomended.

"...Yeah. I just... I don't know. I don't like flailing around in the dark."

"Oh boy... that's where it's tough." He admitted. "...Uh... " He looked around, rocking on his heels. "I'm Jaimie by the way. Jaime Leontyne. Hillworth. Don't ask." He'd really really rather not explain Cee to Miriam. He felt dumber just thinking about explaining it. "...What's the story with the Senshi thing? I know we're looking for the 'missing princess' and fighting the Negaverse, who for some reason seem to be out to kill people for reasons that probably make perfect sense to them... but I don't get why Astrea's picking some people and not others. I mean what -really- qualifies someone to be a Senshi? It's clearly not battle experience.
... Or if you'd rather not talk about it... I dunno. If I'd known I was going to run into someone who -actually- had memories of everything we're supposed to be fighting for, I'd have written stuff down."

"Well, Bellatrix and I pretty much got the ultra condensed Cliffs Notes version, like I mentioned... and what she said at the meetings. After that it's only... whatever vagueries anyone dreams about regarding the lost princess."

He was actually surprised Kunzite was irritated by 'Astrea's Abbreviated Guide to the Senshi', since as they seemed to know each other, he was pretty sure she'd have been familiar with the method.

His next question was, he thought anyway, a logical follow up to her last statement.

"All of us? Reincarnation I mean?" He sounded a smidgen disbelieving about this. He after all, was pretty sure the closest thing he had to a 'past life' was when he'd been pretty sure he was just human.

"...Same army or not we're on the same side, from what I can tell. I mean unless the princess randomly decided to go into competition with the Negaverse. That would be awkward." He pointed out, apparently kidding, though joking with Miriam, aka Kunzite, seemed a bit like jokesters roulette. It was anyones guess if she'd get it.