|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:34 pm
Admittedly---Sedna got distracted a lot of times when she set out to patrol. Or she told herself that this was 'part of patrolling'. Since it was after Thanksgiving, everyone was getting into the swing of Christmas decorating in full force. The senshi was camped up on the top of a roof corner overlooking a shopping plaza square. The sun had set and the grounds crew was busy setting up and decorating a large Christmas tree in the center of the square. The lights and side decorations were already up, and Sedna was just enthralled with the ambiance. Sure, they decorated back at home and at the nearest little town where she was from, but it was never so extravagant and there was never quite as much as there was right here. She was kneeling, her chin resting on one knee while her hands were laced together around her leg. At the moment, she hadn't sensed any disturbances in the force--- Oh wait. There was one! She immediately perked up, turning her head in the direction it seemed to be coming from. It was an Order, and it seemed to be a higher level than her. Her interest piqued, Sedna stood, and leapt from the roof to the nearest one in the direction of the source.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:02 pm
Eurydike did and didn't miss New York. The merits of Destiny City won out in Tolliver's sheer presence alone, but he still missed it here and there, felt pangs of what might have been something like homesick. Christmas decorations kind of bought it out of him a little. They were nice and all, but they really had nothing on the kind of elaborate displays that used to be a subway ride away back home.
Still, time may change that. Who knew? It wasn't like he'd really paid a whole lot of attention to the decorations last year, too wrapped in the process of moving and settling into not one but two new jobs. Maybe Tolliver knew where the really impressive lights would be? He'd been here longer, but...
He was kind of more of less wandering the streets, wreaths lining the lamp posts decked with their lush red bows, when he felt the p***k of an order signature heading his way. Well, that was new. Usually he was the one that did the chasing.
So he stopped walking, crossing his legs over his chest as he leaned back against one of the lamp posts, an eyebrow arched upwards as he waited - outwardly he might have looked like a badass, but inside he was debating if they'd be quick or slow enough for him to smoke before they got there.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:40 pm
She hopped another roof, and found that the signature was pulling her downwards. Sedna scanned below, looking in the direction of the pull, when she spotted a figure leaning against one of the decorated lamp posts. A wide smile pulled her lips, as the other appeared to be waiting for her. It was a safe assumption, since the other could feel her too, right? Sedna leapt from the roof and landed on an awning. She then quickly leapt from there and reached out to snag the lamp post that was near the one Eurydike was leaning one. The senshi hung from it, finally getting a good look at the other--- Her eyes went wide. It was Toga Party Frat Guy--- Eurydike! Granted, he looked different than the last time she had seen more, more advanced at that, but she assumed that maybe he had powered up between then and now. The senshi had a special place in her heart---he did have a serious part in her rescue after all---on top of knowing her name, despite the fact she hadn't met him before...HRM. "EURYDIKE---" Sedna exclaimed in glee, but now that she was distracted, her grip on the lamp post slipped. The senshi dropped with a surprised sound, and landed on her feet---for only a moment before she fell flat on her bottom on the sidewalk. Oops.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:44 pm
He knew whoever it was had to be close, could sense them bearing down on him. (The temptation to just go ahead and light up anyway was still there. Maybe cigarettes wouldn't bug them? - maybe they even smoked?)
Eurydike did not, however, expect to hear his name bellowed gleefully from above before a senshi in a big hat dropped down before him and promptly fell straight on her a**. His eyes widened almost comically and he stood there staring for a second or two longer before he sighed heavily. Well. That was, uh. At least she'd been excited to see him for some reason, he guessed. He pushed away from the lamp post and going to extend a hand to her.
"You, uh, okay there?" Why'd he get the feeling he was going to need that cigarette after all? More importantly though - "The hell are you? - the ******** d'ya know my name from? - you friends with Pistol or somethin'?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:41 pm
That sharp pain that went up your bottom---yeah. Sedna grimaced briefly, but the sting vanished in favor of the senshi before her. She happily took the offered hand, and pulled herself up with gusto. She was sparkling down at him as she stood to her full height. "Oh, I'm great! Thanks!" Sedna fixed her hat, making sure it was sitting on her head just so, and then was beaming wildly at him, very much unable to contain herself. "I'm Sedna---Senshi of Ships----ah, no, I don't know a Pistol----" What a cool name, though! "But I know you because you saved me!" Her beam turned into a fox eyed grin. "You saved me from---" Here she paused, eyes opening as she then peered around, as if they'd suddenly be overheard. She, thankfully, managed to lower her voice a bit. "You saved me when I was a civilian in a tight spot---at an abandoned carnival from the Negaverse!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:56 pm
Eurydike felt a pinprick of annoyance that he'd been increasingly reeling from the last couple of weeks. Seriously. Why the ******** was everyone taller than him? This just didn't seem totally fair. If she was just going to fall on her a** anyway, she really didn't deserve all that extra height; just saying.
Ships. Explained the hat right off the bat. The ******** was she grinning at him like that for though?
Saved her? "Huh?" he grunted roughly before she dropped her voice and offered him a little more context. Then, his eyes widened, and for the second time in a very short span of time, they were as wide as saucers. He drew back from her a step or two, disbelieving, there was no way, there were - kind of really only two people he'd actually legit helped at the carnival, and unless Tolliver had grown a few inches and a pair of tits to go with it -
"OL -- ?!" he choked out, a few pitches higher and louder than he really should have, then promptly snapped his mouth shut, because right secret ******** identity Hitch ******** learn your s**t. "Who the - how did you get a - what the ******** least she was okay.
Yeah, but for how ********' long now that she's like that?!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:32 pm
Sedna's own eyes widened to the size of saucers as she heard the first syllable of her not-powered name, loud, and in a higher pitch from the senshi. She then laughed, loudly, once she got over the initial surprise. "Shhhhh----shhhhhhh---" She tried to coo, but ended up snorting and laughing. She waved her hands at the senshi. "The talking Guardian cat Nicodemus!" She explained with a grin. "He sensed that I was a senshi and gave me a pen!" Sedna explained this all with bubbling happiness. "But---" She had stopped snorting and laughing. "How do you know me, huh? That's what I've been dying to know, ever since the carnival!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:39 pm
Her attempts to quiet him were met with a twitching brow and a tight jaw. "Don't you ********' try an' shush me, I swear to ********' god!" and he flailed his hands in the air too, because Eurydike just had a forever penchant for speaking as much through his hands as through his mouth. (Or in Tolliver's case, with both, but they weren't getting into that right now.)
The ******** was Nicodemus, and why the ******** would they ever give Olga a goddamn pen?! "********' talkin' ********' alien cats, " he grunted irritably, sighing and running his hand over his face before he turned to her again with an arched brow.
"Maybe I know everyone's names. You even think 'bout that? Maybe I'm the goddamn senshi of names or some bullshit like that." Except he was salt and he was wearing pink. Sigh. "My day job's in a ********' deli an' I got a cute a** boyfriend. That good enough for you?"
He pointed very deliberately to the scars on his cheeks, just in case that wasn't clear enough.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:54 pm
Sedna just couldn't help but laugh more, both at his reply and his hands flailing at her hands. "Wait what---" The senshi stared at him. " The cats can shoot lasers!?" Clearly the most important thing to be concerned about right now. Sedna had her priorities. She was also about to open her mouth because he was right, maybe he was the senshi of names---but then he really told her, and she froze--- Hey, wait a minute--- Deli---cute boyfriend--- scars--- Sedna immediately pointed at him, her eyes going wide once more as her mouth hung open. Unlike Eurydike, she, fortunately, was not in the business of shouting their secret identity names. No. Luckily she was just really expressive about her surprise. "PLOT TWIST!" She cried. "I didn't see it coming! Oh my gosh---I can't believe--- it's you!" Her fox eyed grin was then back in full force as she zipped closer to him, rocking lightly on her booted heels. "It all makes sense now! Gosh---" She was just over the moon. "It just makes me even more happy and grateful that you came to save me! Thank you!" Her grin then disappeared as she leveled a serious look at him. "I gotta ask you something though---" She pointed at his skirt. "Do you wear anything under that or is it like---you know like a kilt thing--- commando?" She had been wondering about this a lot when laid awake in bed at night.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:07 pm
Eurydike crossed his arms and bit back, "Yeah - an' you don't wanna get hit by that s**t, lemme tell you - thankfully not talkin' from experience - " he added in a grunt, thinking back to the dude in the bathroom. Didn't look like a fun experience.
At least he got a moment of smugness as she put the pieces together, smirking and holding his head a little higher, although a light splash of color lit his cheeks at all her gushing and praise. "It was nothin', really. Like hell I was just gonna leave you there with those ********, though, she got serious, way too serious for Olga, and he looked at her a little wide-eyed (annoyed that he had to look up to look at her - did she ******** have heels too?!). "Hm?" he blinked once or twice, questioningly.
At the question, red promptly flooded his face, and whether he was mortified or just that pissed off was anyone's guess really. "******** off! None of your goddamn business, Sedna!!" he snapped, slapping both hands over the bottom of his toga to secure it more firmly to his thighs and shooting her his most impressive glare.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:20 pm
"Holy cannoli--- I'm definitely asking Nico about that the next time I see him." CATS SHOOTING LASERS! She grinned a bit sheepishly at him, reaching up to rub the back of her neck. "I don't like to think about what would have happened if I got left with them---well, I'd definitely be dee-eee-dee." Ded. So ded. She grimaced, briefly, before she let out a soft sound of disappointment. "Awwwww!" But she wanted to know, Eurydike--- she wanted to know what was under the toga. "Please? Pretty please with sugar and a cherry on top?" She tried to bat her lashes at him. "You're so adorable!" She grinned at him. "You're blushing and so modest!" Her lips curled up into a 'C' shaped smile as she cupped her hands underneath her chin. "Say, Eurydike---how long have you been a senshi for?" Because now that she had a good grasp on where she knew him from, she could ask him all the other important questions. She could hopefully gleam information from a more experienced senshi and apply it to her practices.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 4:31 am
The sad part was, Eurydike took a solid few seconds trying to puzzle out what she meant by that - D-E-D what? Was that slang for something? Whatever. Olga was weird, he knew that already.
His hands pressed more firmly agains the fabric as he exhaled loudly and rather indignantly through his nose. "No Sedna! I don't care how many ********' cherries you pile on, the goddamn answer is no!" As if somehow that made his point more strongly, he even went far enough to press his legs more tightly together, grumbling under his breath as he finally fished for that pack of cigarettes, because yup -
- only he nearly crushed it at the 'adorable' crack, blushing that much harder and all but hissing out through clenched teeth, "<********. OFF. SEDNA." 'ADORABLE' HIS a**!
Then she went on to ask a normal-ish question, to which Eurydike continued to grumble and click his tongue for a minute or two as he fumbled for a cigarette. "Uhhh. ********, I uhm... " Days had sort of blurred together more back then, before Tolliver had come into his life in a lasting way. Not like he was about to come out and say that. "Think it was like a month after my birthday...?" and he said (more like mumbled) that quietly, more to himself than to Sedna; his birthday wasn't exactly something he went spreading around. "I dunno. Sometime in April, I think? - so like nine months ago?"
He made a face. "Could've made a totally rockin' baby in the time it took me to get this far, I guess. Times flies when you're havin' fun." Could he have sounded more sarcastic? - at least on the senshi front. On the personal front, yeah, it was totally true.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 8:29 am
"Awwwwww! Come on, Eurydike! Please?" She batted her lashes at him and tilted her head more. "Boxers, briefs, or are you commando?" The more he denied her, the more she wanted it. She then couldn't help but let out a peal of laughter as he told her to eff off. Something just told her that he didn't really mean it, and thus she wasn't bothered or worried about. She did clap her hands excitedly though, as he turned red. Ahh! Someone else who did so too! Yay! Sedna leaned in as she listened. "Ooooh! Your birthday!" She repeated, loudly. "When's your birthday!? Oh! That's a good amount of time, yeah!?" Nine months was nothing to scoff at! The senshi blinked, eyes going a bit wide before she snorted, and then laughed. "That's kinda scary when you put it like that!" She tapped her chin. A baby, huh? "Don't really think you'd want one of those when you're out trying to be a senshi though!" She paused for a moment. "Say, uh---you look different than the last time I saw you!" She made a sweeping gesture over him. "Like more detailed...? Elaborate? What happened?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 8:40 am
She was annoyingly right about that; Eurydike didn't really mean it at all. None of this stopped him from bristling like a goddamn cat at her prodding. "How many ways I gotta say no here, huh?! My goddamn skirt, my goddamn business!"
Never mind he'd just called it a skirt. His fiery comeback wavered at that, but he tried not to act like he was blushing even harder because <******** he'd called it a goddamn skirt goddamn you Sedna.
Goddamn, how many tangents could someone go on in the span of like, ten seconds?! - right, this was Olga - he went ahead and lit up his cigarette, and felt better for taking a good long puff of it. "February 30th, " he grunted in response to the 'birthday' bit, knowing she'd just push him if he had he wasn't going to ******** tell her - and really, he felt rather secretly smug for that comeback and wondered how long it'd take to catch on.
As for a baby - he paled visibly and made a sound in the back of his throat that sounded like choking. "God, ******** no. Even if I wasn't a goddamn senshi I wouldn't want one of those screamin' loud a** money grubbin' s**t machines, " he grumbled, flicking some ash to the fall breeze before glancing at her again. At least this was one thing he could take some small measure of pride in. "Cat upgraded me. We senshi get three stages; I'm at the second now, super. Eternal comes last. Think, uh, everyone gets three stages, but they're called different s**t. - try not to ******** with people stronger than you unless you got back-up, or you'll end up lookin' like me."
He tried to say it like it was a joke - except no, it totally ******** wasn't.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 8:51 am
"No is just a yes upside down!" She replied, and then giggled behind her hands. Eurydike being so flustered was adorable. "Oh!" She grinned at him excitedly. "I'll make a note of it then!" February 30th. She beamed at him, and then choked with a bit of laughter. "Aww, but aren't babies kinda cute? With their little toes and their little fingers---and equally little socks---it's little socks that really kill me." She tilted her head, curiously utterly piqued and excited to be learning more about senshi things. "Oooooh!" She hummed appreciatively, feeling incredibly enlightened already. "So cats do upgrades, huh? What do you have to do to get upgraded?" He did have some good advice at that though. Don't mess with people stronger than one self. "But maybe I wanna look like you!" She gave him a fox eyed grin. " Rugged and handsome and distinguished with scars---" Sedna cupped her own chin with a thumb and forefinger, and struck a mighty pose---before she blanched as something mentally struck her. "Hey!" She exclaimed, eyes going wide as she stared at him and pointed. "There's no February 30th!" Her cheeks then burned a bit red, because it had taken her that long to realize it. She'd gotten caught up in other things...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
