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iStoleYurVamps
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 Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:47 pm
He knew that in a past life, Miriam had been male. He knew that Past Miriam was called Kunzite and worked for the negaverse. He knew that now, Miriam Jacobs was free game, being a guy in a girl's body and not having denied having the hots for his prince.
One of those facts, was based on nothing but Elzo's opinion.
Even if the idea of making out with the hott girl and knowing that on the inside was a guy...hey. Tits were tits and Elzo wasn't one to judge. Besides, if you ignored the past life thing, she was still easy to mess with. Point being-
"I'm here to pick up Miriam Jacobs." Elzo was busy trying to get into Crystal gates through the intercom.
"Do you have an apo-" He hit the call button, shutting the woman on the other line out.
"I'm here to show her a good time."
".....What?"
"Give her what she needs."
"Pardon?"
"Make her scream my name."
"EXCUSE ME?"
At this point, Elzo gave up on the intercom. People just couldn't take a joke. That and a gaggle of girls were giggling in the corner by the enrty at him. He brought flowers! He was from Hillworth! He was kind of cute! OMG! HE'S LOOKING THIS WAY! OMG!
Crystal, what could he do?
Oh, right, jump the fence. Which wasn't that hard with the well tended trees growing on the side of the stone walls. As he climbed over, staff were getting close and Elzo had begun to chant-
"Miriam oh Miriam~ Why has thou forsaken me? I thought what we had was special! Didn't our night together mean something?"
He was going to be killed one day. Astraea would find his body with a bunch of little holes in it and a cavalier would be busy cleaning her sword.
"I SWEAR TO GOD MIRIAM I TRIED TO CALL BUT YOU REALLY NEED TO PICK UP YOUR PHONE JESUS." That and she had agreed it would be today, at four, at Crystal. She had agreed basically to subject herself to Elzo's torments until she showed up and shut him up.
Elzo did love to torment.
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:53 pm
A second-floor window opened just as security started to close in on Elzo, pushed open by a clearly baffled Miriam Jacobs in her school uniform. Rather than calling off the dogs, however, she merely gaped at Elzo, gaped at security, gaped at Elzo again and said nothing. Meanwhile, Crystal staff caught up to him and grabbed him by the elbows. Other students had opened their windows and were staring between him and Miriam, who was turning an interesting shade of pink -- an interesting and quickly shrinking shade of pink, as he was dragged away in the direction of the guardhouse.
To her credit, though, it took her a scarce few minutes to make it there after he'd been shoved in and plunked down in a chair; the guard gave her an odd look but she said brusquely, "He's a friend," then, "He's here to visit me," and then more sharply, "He's a friend." Miriam pulled out her student ID, in case the security guard needed more proof, glared briefly at Elzo, and then turned her back while the guard filled out some forms.
They were out within the next ten minutes, Miriam's arms crossed over her blazer as she power-walked fast enough away from Crystal that it more appeared that Elzo was running after her like Pepe le Pew than that they were walking together. "I don't understand why you do the things you do," she was saying, sounding more baffled than furious. In fact, fury had not crossed her face at any point. Apparently she'd resigned herself to some things about Elzo. "I actually do not understand."
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iStoleYurVamps
iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:37 pm
"I've made it my goal Miriam." He held up the yellow roses to her. Half were broken due to the tussle. And his general flippancy. He held them out at her as if they helped explain EVERYTHING. "My goal is to torment you because you seem to run on ice cubes, your work, and the fact you're a guy in a girl's body and I'm STILL highly confused if that means I want to bang you or not." This was said well out of possible attacking range.
Supposed, possible attacking range.
"Naw, you're just one of those people." He shrugged. "You've got buttons. Buttons that you try to hide. I want to find them, and push them and see what happens." His smile hadn't faded since they'd left the school. "So long as the end result isn't me looking like a form a swiss cheese."
He was keeping what he assumed was a safe distance between them. "Maybe a rumor will start up. Part of my goal was a rumor. Other part was drawing out some reaction." He obviously didn't get the reaction he wanted.
"I still need to get you new sheets." Elzo would get her sheets and hide something in them. He seemed like the type.
"So...." A few more blocks till the cafe.
"....Still gay for your missing prince?"
Supposed, possible attacking range.
Supposed.
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:09 pm
Miriam heaved a sigh and, rather than attacking him, kept on walking straight ahead, eyes fixed on some point on the horizon: possibly some far-off place that contained no Elzo Xanis. She was a fast walker, as was generally to be expected from a person who worked out some of the time so she would be able to fence most of the time, and who had topped out at an even 5'8". She cast one look of assessment back at him, appeared to consider something, then with the most laborious of sighs slowed down so that he could fall into step next to her. It was some kind of concession.
"You know, in the interests of accuracy I feel like I should inform you that I'm not actually a man," she said with her fingers to her temples like she was battling a migraine. "I told you that in hopes it would stop you hitting on me. Clearly it hasn't worked. Are we headed for Shufflepuck's or some other destination, Lothario?"
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iStoleYurVamps
iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:29 pm
That was not the right thing to say to Elzo. Then again, nothing Miriam could say would be taken the right way by Elzo at this point. "So, fair game. Mmm hmmm." His eyes held no shame in running her up and down. "You would look good in...a few things." He curbed his words. Miriam had an icy glare.
"Well Miss Daggers-For-Eyes, Shufflepucks should be quieting down round this hour, so It's still cool. Or we could go somewhere else." Cue eyebrow wiggle. From the movement, one could safely assume Elzo did this eyebrow wiggle a lot. "But seriously Miriam. Seriously." He put on a serious face. "I've got questions by the s**t-ton. Mostly about us...lunars. Some about you guys too." The next words were slightly quieter. More reserved. "Some about...them." Elzo sounded sad.
Elzo also walked into a pole. This made anything he said seem very, very irrelevant.
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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:31 pm
The pole let out a clang, or rather, the collision between Elzo-head and pole let out a clang. Miriam blinked and glanced over her shoulder. "Are you all right?" she asked, and gave him a once-over designed to check for obvious swelling or bleeding; finding none, she merely halted a moment or two for him to catch up to her and then went on power-walking. She gave him a couple sideways glances, though, with the general air of did you seriously just walk into a pole?
"Look where you're walking," she said, clipped, before going on: "A lot of people have questions. I don't know what's possessed Luna to be so horribly unprofessional -- a summary hatred of all mankind, I suppose. Oh, well. Reincarnation is unkind to some people." It was telling of her that unprofessional was the most scathing barb she could think to level at Luna, she looked tired: tired, perhaps, of explaining, tired of picking up pieces. "What do you want to know? I don't know everything. All I know is a memory of a war a long time ago and a battle about two decades ago."
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iStoleYurVamps
iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:39 pm
Elzo let out a single "Ow" before rubbing his then jogging to catch up to his companion. He moved to walk on the other side of her this time. The side without the poles. "Well, from the look of things, reincarnation was most certainly kind to you, that's for sure." His eyebrows might have been caterpillars with the way they moved. "And hey, I like war stories. You can give me a sparknotes version. Or the version that is so detailed that I fall asleep and you make your escape from Destiny City to avoid me forever." He mock pouted.
"But, mostly, I want to know about what we're up against. Like the youma. What are they? Really? And Beryl. You said she was just a figure head? And then..." The flowers in his hand seemed like dead weight. "Well whatever. Just, tell me what I need to know. What I should know." He realized something.
"Oh, and question: Do you like chocolate?"
Questions. Some were better left unanswered.
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:23 pm
"Chocolate? I like vanilla better, why?" Questions. Miriam was not very good at telling which ones. "Okay, I can tackle these in order while we walk -- though a corner table at Shufflepuck's might be better for anything in-depth." Oddly, she sounded like she'd lightened up considerably; she was speaking at more of a normal register, rather than the tight monotone she usually sounded trapped in. Whatever Elzo was doing, something was working (though it probably wasn't his judgment of reincarnation's relative level of kindness or unkindness). "Youma are monsters created from Chaos: the corruption which gives Beryl, Charonite, and their lieutenants their power. Beryl is a peasant girl, she became imbued with --"
She glanced over her shoulder and frowned. "Corner table," she said again. "So you want some kind of senshi rundown? What you didn't get from your leaders?"
They were approaching the coffeeshop. She appeared to consider it for a moment.
"Okay," she said. "I can do that."
It was definitely the most affirmative set of words she had ever spoken to him. Then she added, "But the coffee's on you," which was definitely the most joking set of words she had ever spoken to him.
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iStoleYurVamps
iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:58 am
"Hmm...You're a vanilla type girl then. Well, I guess I'll have to change my plans then..." This was muttered to himself, (as in, loudly). "But. So. Chaos. Sounds nasty, if it's where youma come from. Also would explain the level of batshit you get with some of those officers." He looked at her. "Not that all of them are batshit! Just, some of them?" He smiled weakly. How did you comment on a force of evil when you were talking to one of it's former members?
"And by 'coffee is on me', I hope you don't plan to dump it on my head like my previous dates have!" He had usually deserved it, but Miriam had sounded joking.
He hoped she was joking.
"But, yeah, I dragged you out here for a game of 20 questions, so coffee and whatever is on me." A level of tension seemed to have vanished. This may have been Elzo's perception, but, he liked to think so.
The arrival at Shufflepucks was boring. Old people sat in one corner, occupying the handicap table and then an additional table, (Old ladies went in packs, just like their teen counterparts). Some hipsters, (or were they just school dropouts?), were busy taking up the overly stuffed chairs off to the side. The corner table remained empty.
Sweet.
"Shall we order together, or, do you want to give me your order and while you call dibs on the table?"
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:28 am
Miriam squinted at the menu behind the register. "I'll have -- a mint chocolate mocha with whipped cream, please," she informed him, and then nodded awkwardly and sidled off to their chosen table. She claimed it by sitting down resolutely and giving surrounding people looks in case they were thinking of challenging her claim; while he ordered the coffee she crossed one leg primly over another and sat with her hands in her lap. She was good at waiting, it looked like. She was capable of being extremely still.
When he came over with the drinks she scooted her chair in a little so he could squeeze past and sit down. "Thanks," she said. "Okay, so you want to know what you're doing here and what's going on." She sounded more sure of herself now; she'd probably thought it over while he was ordering.
"The Golden Imperium was what the kingdom that spanned the whole Earth used to be called," she said in a low voice, "a long time ago. There was also the Silver Millennium, which was the empire of the Moon and the planets Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto. That's where the sailor soldiers came from. But there weren't this many of them."
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iStoleYurVamps
iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:43 am
He had also bought scones. Blueberry for him, plain for her. If she asked he would trade, he was just hungry. If she didn't want her's, he'd eat it later. So far, he let the scone sit as he took a sip of his coffee. Ah, now this was coffee! Caffeinated and bitter, just the way he liked it.
Listening to Miriam talk, Elzo found himself actually paying more attention to what she was saying then her in general. It was a rare event indeed. "The nine planets." He nodded, it did make sense. He looked thoughtful for a moment or two. "Wouldn't come to reason that there is a Sailor Earth then? I mean, Earth is a planet last I checked." He sipped his coffee again. "Sorry if I interjected. You can totally hold me off until you're done. But then I will hit you with questions Miri." He smiled. he'd given her a nickname. He felt happy to do so. "I will hit hard, and I will hit fast, just as a warning."
He also seemed to be able to have the magical ability to be serious yet not serious when addressing her about a matter that really, she was going out of her way to help him with. Elzo figured she must be used to it by now.
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:36 am
Miriam blinked several times and then, briefly, afforded him a tidy smile, the kind of smile a wallflower made when they still weren't sure if venturing out of their social hidey-hole was going to get them burned or not. It was gone after a moment. "I think I can take it," she said. "The Earth didn't really produce many soldiers of that kind: I guess it's a matter of society," she said. "Earth magic worked differently and Earth society was patriarchal -- which still bears out today, I think. Back then only women were senshi and only men were Cavaliers."
Considering the two of them sitting together, this was a bit of a funny statement. Miriam cupped her hands around her fancy-sounding coffee drink. "Obviously things have changed," she said.
She quickly marshalled the conversation onward. "Anyway, the two great empires lived in uneasy peace until the Crown Prince of Earth courting the Crown Princess of the Moon set off a chain of political unrest, including the Prince's highest-ranking Cavaliers betraying him and trying to put an Earth witch named Beryl on the throne as his Queen. That would be me. That would be Charonite. That would be the Negaverse. That would be their Queen Beryl. That would be the people the Lunars fought in Tokyo in the '80s," she grimaced, "and who we're apparently not rid of."
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iStoleYurVamps
iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:10 pm
Miriam was rolling with his jokes. +10 to cool factor. New goal: Get Miriam to laugh. This was to replace the old goal of 'Get a rise out of Miriam'. "magic keeps blowing my mind. Teleporting. Calling hail out of the sky...monsters. Crazy s**t. Part of me wonders if it's like Star Wars. We're just infected with some alien micro things that give us awesome powers. In a way, Senshi were aliens though. But still." He shrugged. "Science seems pointless when you've got us running out breaking the laws of physics."
Elzo took another sip of his drink. "Sorry, tangent again. Anyway, the 80s? Thats...recent." Elzo looked outside, clouds were coming in. "I assume things ended badly back then, and it's why we're here now?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 12:35 pm
She furrowed her brow and took a sip of her drink. "I don't know," she said. "All I remember is it ending pretty -- un-badly -- for the senshi. The 'Negaverse' was just me and three of my Cavaliers. We all died. I think Beryl died. I don't know what happened," she reiterated. "The Lunar Court were reincarnated along with the Moon Princess and they fought Queen Beryl's forces, and to my knowledge they won. So I don't know what we're all doing here, or why she's here. Or why there's so many of you now," she gestured, "or who this Nehelenia character is, or anything."
Miriam rubbed her forehead. "I don't know a lot of things," she admitted. "But I do know that if the Prince was here he'd know what to do."
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iStoleYurVamps
iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:56 pm
He was spinning the coffee in his cup around, half looking at the table, and half looking at the liquid. Elzo was just keeping on eye on the coffee so he didn't spill any. The table was what he seemed focused on as Miriam talked.
"What would happen if we found your prince? Would Beryl just give up? I mean, if she had a hard on for the dude, wouldn't she back off if he told her to?" That was how relationships worked in Elzo's mind. A girl would bend to a guy's wants.
Well, most of the time he thought this was perfectly acceptable. Elzo got the feeling if he shared that view Miriam might hit him.
"So, all I know about us 'lunars'", Elzo was making finger quotes in the air, "is that we need the princess to kick negaverse a**. But, Princess has pulled Houdini with her BFF the prince." He also said B-F-F. "Chronos, some other princess, said that ninja princess is still alive. I believe her. Why? I have no idea but I do." It was strange, to feel you owed allegiance to someone you'd never met, never known.
As he took another sip of his coffee he recalled something and snapped his fingers. "Oh, you said you and other cavaliers. Does that mean your old pals will come back from the dead to? And if they come back will it be in zombie or non zombie form?" He was smiling. "Or will they just change genders?"
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