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 Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:22 am
School had never been a priority for Gabriel Blake. Recently, it had become even less so. However, as long as he was living at home, he was sent to school every day, and he dragged himself through class. Lunchtime was his break, and he sat in the cafeteria alone, with his preferred reading material piled around him. No one sat near him, mostly because no one really wanted to be associated with that crazy kid with the weird books.
It suited him just fine, really. There was no one he could trust in the civilian realm, not anymore. He preferred powered encounters. There was a certain honesty to them. He knew who his enemies and who his allies were.
Here, at high school? Anyone could be a Senshi or a Knight in disguise
Damn it, now he was creeping himself out.
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:35 am
The fact that Gabriel was that crazy kid with the weird books made him all the more interesting to Esme Blanchard. In fact, she'd already penned two stories about him: poor nerd kid getting beat up, the handsome knight running to the rescue of the poor cute nerd kid. Ahhh~ Good times. But she'd never actually approached him. It wasn't that she was afraid of him. Nor that she cared what the harpies would say or think if she sat next to the geek kid. Esme was above and beyond school cliques. All people were interesting. In other words.. Everyone was fair game for her little shipping circle. Gabriel Blake included. Especially Gabriel Blake. Gabriel Blake looked like Gabriel Blake needed a friend. Esme would gladly accept that role. And he was cute, no less! So it was on this fateful day that she stopped right next to him in the cafeteria, hovering over him with a big smile on her face, her tray of inedible school food almost directly over his head. "Would you mind if I sit here?" <3
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:39 pm
Poor Esme, really. Gabe had managed to work himself up into a paranoid frenzy, and all of a sudden, there she is-some crazy ponk-haired chick he'd only ever seen in passing, asking to sit with him.
His first thought was that surely she was a Senshi and had figured him out and was going to trick him out behind the building and then eat him or whatever Senshi did to poor Negaverse Lieutenants they got in their grasp.
Okay, so his paranoia was running away with him a little. "...Sure," he said. "Go ahead." He considered himself lucky that his fight or flight activation had involved freezing instead of jumping, or they would both be covered in food and his precious books might get damaged which would be awful.
He really had no idea he had a place in her shipping fantasies. He was, in the long run, happier not knowing.
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:34 pm
Probably everyone was better off not knowing that they were an object of her fantasies.
Esme beamed and jumped a bit on the balls of her feet. That went well enough! "You always seem so lonely," she started as she moved some books aside so she could set her tray down next to his. And so she could sit next to him in close proximity. Like, next to him.
Once settled, she glanced at the books and papers she had set aside. Hmm.
"You like aliens, huh?" Her eyes still read over the titles of his books. "Or no?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:25 pm
Gabe was eying her with pretty open suspicion. People did not simply approach him at lunch at random. It did not happen. "Nobody's seemed too bothered by me looking lonely before," he grumbled. He definitely did not like this.
Also she was waaay too close. He scooted over a little, feeling even more nervous. This was not going to go well.
"Interested enough," he said, "but 'like' is a stretch." No, he did not like them. He hated them with a fiery passion. Damn space invaders in frilly skirts.
"Why? Got an interest yourself?" Maybe he could trip her up!
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:41 am
It was hard to tell whether Esme didn't mind the weird suspicious looks he gave her, or just didn't notice. Either way, she just went right on smiling and getting comfortable where she sat. Lucky for him, she didn't move closer, so he got the space that he so desperately needed.
"Do I like aliens?" She paused for a bit, mulling it over. "E.T. was pretty cool. Tribbles are cuuuuute but dangerous. Mmmn.." Another pause. "I can't say I like the scary aliens from those movies with Sigourney Weaver, though! They're freaky."
Esme glanced down at the books again. "But people say that you really believe in them, huh."
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:14 am
Gabe stared at her, eyebrows floating slowly upwards. Okay, yeah, he was beginning to think that she was probably not an alien invader in disguise.
Unless it was all a multilayered trick to lull him into a false sense of security. Well! That certainly wouldn't be happening.
"I certainly do. It really shouldn't be a matter of believing, I mean, the evidence is everywhere." He said. "I mean, just look at the Nazca lines. They only make any sense if viewed from the air, otherwise they're just rocks."
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:12 pm
Esme raised her own eyebrows as if in surprise. "Really? The Nasdaq lines?"
No one said that she was a smart one. She was just trying to make a friend.
"Can you show me? Is it in one of your books?" She let out a little nervous giggle, started to swing her legs. "I'm Esme, by the way. Esme Blanchard. I promise you that I'm not an alien."
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:27 pm
"Not Nasdaq, Nazca...here, let me show you." He dug out a book from the stack, and flipped it open in front of them to a page with an aerial shot of the Nazca lines. "They're in the middle of the desert in Peru and they're thousands of years old." He said. "It's crazy, they've gotta be some kind of signal for something form space..."
He blinked. Her suspiciously specific denial seemed to come apropos of nothing, but well, perhaps he should take her at face value for now. "Gabriel Blake," he said.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:10 pm
"Hmmm." She rested her chin against the palm of her hand as she looked over the book. "Like the latest Indiana Jones movie."
Esme tapped her tray of food with her free hand. "That's interesting. Like, do you think the aliens could've come thousands of years ago and taught us everything that we know?" She raised her chin up to the ceiling. "And we're in some ancient debt that we'll have to pay back REALLY SOON like.. like.. oh my God.. isn't the world ending in a few months?!?!"
Oh s**t.
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:00 am
Gabe nodded. "Kinda like that, yeah," he agreed. Oh, Indiana Jones. Such excellent movies.
He watched her expression change, and his changed to match it, went all starry-eyed.
Oh my god.
Fellow True Believer!
"Yeah, the ancient aliens theory, put forth by Erich Von Daniken in his book Chariots of the Gods, it's one of my favorite reads." Gabe ate that stuff up. Ancient Aliens was his favorite show ever. "I dunno about the end of the world, but we're definitely due a return visit."
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:49 am
This.. certainly had gotten Esme all worked up. Then again, lots of things got Esme worked up, and apparently the subject had become one of them.
"Oh noooo. What do you think will happen?" She grabbed Gabe's arm and stared hard into his eyes, starry-eyed like he was. He was the alien expert. If anyone would know anything about aliens, Gabe would! "What's the plan?!"
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:03 pm
Gabe liked being the center of attention for his theories, really he did. It was the best thing in the world for him. "Well, of course, no one can know for sure...but there are so many possibilities. Ideally, they'd come in peace, introduce us to a galactic Federation, Star Trek would occur, universal harmony, et cetera, et cetera. Or perhaps they'll try to take over, which I think might just be more likely." He looked left, right, then back at her, and dropped his voice to a low whisper. "I think they're already here."
He knew they were. And he knew what they were doing. He just...couldn't tell her. Curses.
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:47 am
Esme's jaw dropped slightly. They're already here.. That sounded scary, maybe even a little exciting. Never had she given invading aliens a thought except in the stories that she wrote. And in those cases, they were usually pretty amorous aliens. Ahem.
"Oh nooo..." She glanced left and right along with him, to make sure no one was watching. Even if they were, she was fairly oblivious as she leaned a bit further in. "How do we prepare?"
Her new friend was so awesome and smart. He just opened a whole new world for her.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:29 am
Gabriel found himself an. Very special and exciting role. Namely, that of Imparter of Secret Knowledge. It was a nice place to be.
"First, you have to learn." Gabe tapped her forehead lightly. "And you've already taken that important first step, so that's good!" He said. "Knowledge is power in this game. Just knowing that they're here puts you ahead of most other people."
He dropped his voice further. "but you have to be careful, because they can be anyone. You never know who might be a collaborator." Or a Senshi, an alien hiding under the guise of an ordinary high school student.
Terrifying. Was it any wonder he was so paranoid?
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