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 Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:23 pm
(( Takes place after Murder on the Mountain and after Hayes visits Faleen and gets caked. ))
Things had not been well for Nikki since they had gotten back from that disaster of a mission in the blizzard.
The girl had minor injuries, which was miraculous considering she had survived an avalanche and completely astounded the medical team. However, she did have minor hypothermia systems and suffered frostbite to her toes. One of which had to be amputated. The rest they were able to save, but the flesh was still healing.
Having to get around on crutches, Nikki hobbled through the halls. She was due for her bandages to be changed. Her body still ached all over, and she had come down with a cold.
Feeling utterly miserable, Nikki was being followed by her one bodyguard who insisted on staying with her. Displeased that all of this had happened and he'd been unable to do anything.
Darkfeather stalked after his trainer, the Pidgeot looming and glowering at anyone that even looked at them the wrong way. He was allowed in here, if only he behaved, which he was so far. The big black bird did look rather out of place though, taking up half the hallway.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 5:04 pm
A nurse had been thoughtful enough to pass the agent a towel, but the most it could do was keep him from leaving a steady trail of chocolate as he walked back down the hall. His shirt was stained and uncomfortably sticky to move in, which he tried to do as little as possible of while still scrubbing one-handedly at his blond hair, which stuck together in wet, darkened spikes.
Hayes glanced down at Switch, who was following him closely, and half-smiled. "Opportunist."
The Pikachu flicked an ear at him and caught a drop of chocolate on his tongue.
His glasses hung on the front pocket of his shirt; in some ways it was less irritating to see the world as a blur rather than see the world through a thin brown film. It didn't make much difference as Nikki's Pidgeot came into view ahead of them, just softened the edges of the large, dark shape dominating the hall. The Pokemon was unlikely to be out and about without his trainer, so Hayes glanced sideways and uttered a "Oh, hey," as he came alongside the blonde blur that was probably his partner.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 5:21 pm
As soon as Hayes came into view, Nikki paused and had to blink a few times to make sure she was seeing what she thought she saw.
Darkfeather's feathers immediately raised, making him look extra poofy as his beak opened to let out a deep threatening hiss. He didn't like this guy one bit. But then he typically didn't like anyone that wasn't his trainer.
"What the hell happened to you?" Nikki then asked as her partner stopped to greet her. The girl looking him up and down. "... Is that chocolate syrup?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 5:37 pm
Hayes opened his mouth to reply, looked thoughtful, and shut it.
There were several possible answers to that question, most of which would provoke further questions that he didn't really feel like answering right now. The agent opted for the simplest, and perhaps the one closest to the heart of the matter.
"Girls." He said this with a certain finality and kept moving in the direction they were both going, slowing his pace to match Nikki's for now. "And uh, yeah. It is." There was a pause. Then: "How're you?" Hayes asked in normal tones, as if his state merited no further comment.
Unimpressed by the display, Switch gave Darkfeather a look. "Piiika," the 'chu lazily muttered.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:01 pm
The display wasn't meant for Switch anyway. The Pidgeot glared down at the Pikachu as it muttered. "Geot!" he snapped back.
Nikki however... didn't move. She was instead giving Hayes a very odd look when he answered.
What... kind of man was he?! She suspected many things of her partner... but being a sexual deviant with strange fetishes had not been one of them!
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:09 pm
After a few steps it occurred to Hayes that Nikki wasn't moving. He stopped, turned, and when he saw her expression, blinked. The hand with the towel in his hair paused.
"..what?"
He sounded genuinely confused.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:20 pm
Darkfeather seemed to notice the odd behavior as well and was now glaring venomously at Hayes.
"What the... how many... why would you... NEVERMIND! I don't want to know!"
With that, she quickly hobbled past Hayes. Darkfeather following and hissing at him again when he went by.
To think she'd been alone on a mountain with this guy! Perhaps he had deserved that knee to the crotch after all.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:00 pm
The blond's brow furrowed, his bewilderment deepening. "Why would I what- wait- what do you mean, 'how many?'" he called after her, crumpling the towel in his fist. "How many what?"
Switch held out a paw and caught a piece of frosting falling off Hayes' shoulder.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:06 pm
"Get away from me you, perv!" Nikki called back to Hayes, still hobbling down the hall as fast as she possibly could go... which wasn't fast at all.
Darkfeather kept one red eye on Hayes as he followed after her.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:25 pm
Hayes looked utterly dumbfounded as Nikki stalked away. What did she think he- oh.
Oh.
For Arceus' sake.
Switch watched realization dawn for his trainer like a slow sunrise, then followed him as he started down the hall again, shaking his head.
"That's the first thing you think of? Really?" the blond asked when he overtook his partner again, trying to hold back an incredulous half-laugh.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:51 pm
Nikki stopped and turned around to jab a finger at his face.
"Wouldn't you?! Besides... you're a MAN. That's reason enough!"
Clearly Nikki was being irrational, but he did kind of set himself up for that sort of speculation.
"Honestly... I find you wearing cake and syrup and you mention girls. Its cause for the imagination to spawn all sorts of crap!"
Was he really that dumb?
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:08 pm
Hayes looked at the finger that was very close to poking him in the eye for a moment, unflinching, then past it to its owner who was considerably less in focus. "Or maybe someone - a girl, let's say - threw cake and syrup at me," he suggested with a mild half-smile.
"I'm a person too," the blond continued in an even tone. "It's not always about sex. Anyway-" He glanced down at his shirt. "It's on the outside of my clothes."
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:12 pm
Nikki lowered her arm to fold them across her chest, glaring at her partner. He was so infuriatingly reasonable sometimes.
"Right. What sane person would do that?" She paused, narrowing her eyes a bit. "Nevermind. Stupid question." Remembering this was Team Rocket and there were all sorts of stupid people here.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:30 pm
"A really angry one." Chocolate was running down the bridge of Hayes' nose; he reached up with his left arm to wipe it away, which didn't do much good. The right had been oddly still all this time, hanging immobile at his side. "There was some miscommunication."
His eyebrows lifted and his mouth moved; translated to his whole body, the movement would be a shrug. "So. How are you?" The blond slung the towel over his shoulder and pulled his glasses from his pocket, unfolding and holding them up to have a look at her.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:34 pm
She didn't really care who would be angry with him and why. It really wasn't that difficult, for her at least.
"Whatever. I don't give a damn."
Nikki then eyed Hayes irritably at his question. "Fine. Not that its any of your business."
The Pidgeot next to her heaved a sigh, looking more than mildly annoyed at the hold up and having to remain around this guy and his Pikachu.
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