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 Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:37 am
It was a miracle: Ever was early.
Zinkenite had said the park, and he'd said eight PM. Briefly, Ever had entertained the idea of running off and leaving the man standing and waiting on his own: there wasn't really anything tying him to the city, after all, and it wouldn't have been that hard to pick up and go. But they had invaded his dreams. Or he'd invaded their dreams. And he'd woken up tired enough that....well, it did seem somewhat inescapable.
So he was early. Got there at seven-fifteen, settled on a bench with his legs stretched out and a book on military ranks tucked against his side, fidgety and uncomfortable. Slowly, he relaxed. And by the time eight came around, he was sound asleep.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:54 am
Zinkenite...or rather his civilian self, had opted instead for punctual over his normal trend of 'early'...though Ever's Early would still have beaten him soundly which pleased him enormously. He did however have a feeling it wouldn't last.
He sat down on the Bench beside the napping Lieutenant and waited for several moments before clearing his throat. "Comfortable?" He asked casually.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:26 am
His eyes still closed and half-asleep, he definitely thought that he'd heard Zinkenite; it made him twitch awake instead of come to slowly, blinking frantically around him to try to figure out where the hell he was. Not fair, when he felt like he'd been up all night, and this was his first chance to really doze. A reply was on the tip of his tongue and....
...and it was Zac. He made a noise, swallowing the comment, still a little twitchy and trying to hide it. "Uh. What, is this one of your usual haunts too?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:30 am
"Yeah...I like to come here and people watch, I thought you -had- a place to crash, don't tell me you ran away from all that home cooking already." He said leaning back in the chair looking more amused than he had the right to.
Zac at least, knew damn well how hard it was to tie civilian self to their 'other life'... he'd spent more than enough time seeing Scheelite haunting his foot steps and at the same time Rooming with Demy to know that it could stare you in the face and you'd never clue in.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:40 am
Ever drew in a breath to answer that, paused, and considered. If he told Zac to ******** up, it was entirely likely that the kid would just stick around that much harder, to piss him off, to be contrary. It was, after all, what Ever would have done. so instead he pondered other tactics.
"...no, I'm just here to indulge in a little light prostitution." Like making him blush purple and retreat. He blinked innocently at Zac.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:45 am
Well the blush part worked, but the retreat failed.
"...You... are a horrible Liar Lieutenant... but tactically I applaud you... a**."
Zac folded his arms and stared as blankly as he could manage with a flushed face at Ever. There was a growing sureness that this wasn't going to go nearly as well as he hoped.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:58 am
For a moment, Ever grinned at him helplessly. Then the implications of that started to kick in and it faded out to puzzled -- and finally stilled him entirely, made him go quieter and serious, the humor gone from his eyes. It wasn't all there; he couldn't be sure, after all, but the word 'lieutenant' was certainly a good way to sap any cheer out of him.
After a moment he shrugged, turning a puzzled expression away from Zac and trying to thing. "Who says I was lying?" It wasn't actually that far from the truth. He'd kind of sold himself, hadn't he?
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:19 am
"... are you incapable of taking anything seriously?" Zac demanded grumpily
"Have you Figured it out yet? I know it's hard to make the connection, I think it's a fail safe so that we can't be targeted when we're not in uniform. I had no idea my former Room mate was part of this either... I just thought I had a crazy terrorist stalker."
It was a pale attempt at small talk and to try and ease him into things. Maybe he should explain his increased temper too... hmm... maybe.
"I'm sure you have questions... but I should say first that, you're really part of something now. The queen can summon you at any time she needs you...from anywhere. It's an odd feeling but it could be a lot worse."
Another pause... this was harder than he thought it would be, He'd never recruited anyone before. How much should he do?
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:24 am
This was probably a particularly bad one, from the way Ever had gone prickly, his arms abruptly folding over his chest, posture a kind of closed-off that Zac had probably never encountered before. Not even in Elysion. Ever drew in a breath, started to answer, bit his tongue -- and then gave up.
"You're an a*****e." It bubbled out, all charm gone now, melted away to nothing but frustration and a goodly dose of anger. He didn't tell Zac that he'd scared the s**t out of him, not that part, but..."Why?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:03 pm
Zac scowled, "You...are a fine one to talk about being an 'a*****e'..." He replied though really, spiking drinks and invading kisses were not technically on par with 'welcome to the negaverse', here are your replacement pants.
"Why -what-...why you? Why Negaverse? Why not leave you as nothing more than a source of energy to try and keep the senshi from taking over the city and making everyone worship their queen like mindless drones to her blond 'can't keep it in her pants no really I know what's best for your world because I'm from the MOON philosophies?"
Ok that was more of a tirade than he had intended when he started talking... he glanced away angry. It wasn't as though he could just walk away from this either... it was show Ever why it was a -good- thing or nothing.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:08 pm
He got silence in reply, and that was bad enough on his own: when Ever went quiet like that, it meant one of two things. Either he was thinking -- really, really hard -- or he was angry. In this case it might have been a little bit of both.
The start of an answer was aborted into frustration. He made a strangled noise and smoothed back his hair. "Christ, aren't you like seventeen?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:18 pm
Zac bristled, he was 16... ALMOST 17 but he wasn't about to tell Ever that, though everything about his sudden shift in posture probably did.
"And your about to make some witty comment about Age...right? Try again, the senshi are pulling in 10 year olds and younger." He snapped remembering the baby talking Chibi senshi...they talked like they were younger than they looked to boot and it struck him as strange and unnerving that they were in a -war-.
Zac folded his arms and tried to hold his tongue waiting for Ever to break first, it was harder than he wanted to admit.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:23 pm
Ever hadn't said anything witty yet, had h? Not really...he leaned back a little fingers still in his hair and not really facing Zac. He did look a bit, well, dulled. Out of it. Some might have said 'broken', but the good news was that Ever didn't actually break that easy.
"So it's all strategy, then." He said it carefully, chewing on the inside of his cheek and trying not to freak out on Zac. He was working to reconcile 'hand in your chest' with 'embarrassed by even the mention of sex'. "It's why you decided where my life would go."
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:27 pm
"It's part strategy...if you mean why we you brought in. You don't just go out and grab anyone off the streets, well WE don't..." He said impatiently and half irritated at himself for this.
Surely other Generals had to have gone into this more confidant and less angry. He'd been so sure of himself when he was facing Castor with nothing but smoke and a nailgun...and then he'd been so sure he'd walk out as perforated as the Queen's hand had been from her own fight with Castor.
"I wasn't planning on doing it then... but I had no way of knowing you weren't a target for the Senshi... I did not want to lose a perfectly intelligent person to their brainwashing. Imagine -you- drooling over your shoes in hope for their Princess's second coming..."
He wanted to turn around and shout 'Stop making me feel bad about this I'm a General god damn it'... but he at least knew enough to know it would just make him look younger.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:35 pm
Ever finally tipped his head to just stare at Zac, quiet and serious and not really looking sad, he wasn't going to break down into tears but...well. It was a rather neat trap, wasn't it? Join or die, and Ever with his terrible commitment issues and certainty that people would turn all around on him...
He didn't offer Zac any consolation, or anything that he could latch onto, just a flat sort of silence, arms folding across his stomach again. It made him look younger than he was, awkward and out of sorts and an outsider. Stripped of the usual confidence that made his situation look less bleak.
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