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 Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 11:16 am
Melvin had pod dury after work and left the runic labs with his tablet under one arm and a cup of coffee. Stopping at a vending machine, he got a box of Hot Tamales and headed down to the pod room, the small box of candies shaking like a maracca as he went down the steps. Sipping the coffee and looking at the tablet, candies poking out of his coat pocket, he went to find his usual chair in the middle of the pod room. Glancing up only when he heard someone, he frowned. He wasn't in the mood for this.
"Want back in? I'll help lock the door after you." He asked Lysander.
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 12:15 pm
Lysander didn't mind pod duty, it was one of the few duties he could capably do. What he didn't like was being stuck with other people when those other people were Melvin. Anyone else would have been preferable, he could get along with other people. Melvin he wanted to hit.
"Be quiet." he said to the other man and haughtily walked right past him, making his way past the rows of pods to make sure that Roswell's brother was still there and still alive.
"You are a massive idiot."
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 12:39 pm
He watched him go straight to a pod and slowly walk past him, setting his cup and tablet on a nearby pod and picking uo the clipboard for the one he went to, leaning against the side of the pod as he read.
"Male. Age 25. Yaddayaddayadda. Been here a bit. Huh? Federick Roswell." He paused and then lifted himself up a bit to glance at the pod window.
"Well well. Will you look at that." He said. It actually looked like the violet emo-haired man.
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:10 pm
Lysander gave Melvin a dirty look for prying. "Yes?" he said. "It's Roswell's brother, do you have a problem?"
He was honestly relieved that he was still there, every day filled with an anxious foreboding that he would need to break it to Tom that his brother was gone, that he'd never be coming back, that somehow they'd let him die under their supervision.
"His twin brother."
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:42 pm
"Always surprising how many family members are down here. Did he recruit with you two?" He asked popping the clipboard back into its spot.
Taking his coffee, he looked at the man more fully. "Aside from the face he looks like the punk version of your friend." He leaned back on his pod and blew on the opening of his coffee cup.
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 2:27 pm
"No. He didn't. Roswell and him didn't speak for a long time." he said, hating that he even had to be slightly cordial to the other man. Melvin was still an a*****e and nothing would change that. "So how he got here is a mystery."
Lysander moved to peer through the glass. "I hardly see the resemblance a lot of the time, he's so different. They went in such different directions in life. Roswell said at one point they looked just the same. Weird to think of."
It had been a long time ago he'd met Fred and even then it had been a brief encounter before Roswell forcefully shooed him out of the building and he never got back in again. He wondered what he was like really, if he was like Roswell in other ways.
"Twins are weird." he said.
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 2:28 pm
Melvin regarded the podling for a while. "Deus recruits families. Bloodlines for hunters are valuable. Need to keep that war engine fueled after all. There are a few people I know who had relatives in and out of pods right now. I'd be terrified if any of mine were down here." He admitted, frowning as he thought of his brother and sister.
"If he wasn't in business, what did he do?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:00 pm
Lysander frowned a little bit. "Criminal things. Mafia involvement. I don't think he ever quit, at least that I was able to tell."
"I don't think my siblings would ever say yes to the contract and proposition, it's pretty stupid when you are at the top of a successful job and impossibly rich." He sighed. "So no fear of more people like me just popping out."
He gave Melvin a long look. "I think having more people around like you would be a total disaster, just saying."
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:15 pm
Melvin smiled at that. "Well lucky for everyone, my siblings are nothing like me." He said, frowning at the memory of them. They were probably so different now all these years he was dead.
"Doesn't matter. Dead for years now." He looked over at Roswell's brother, Fred.
"Well the Mafia can't get anyone here. Plenty leave here to get away from it all." He looked over at Lysander. "Just some don't notice it's not a temporary getaway."
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2017 5:18 pm
"No kidding. I bet they are all nicer." Lysander was not much of a fan of Melvin or his attitude. "Not that that would be hard."
"And yes ha ha, it's not temporary I'm here for ever. It's hilarious. I'm sure my daughter thinks its really funny too."
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:55 am
He regarded Lysander, not really wanting to sympathize or feel bad for him in any way, but he did feel bad for his daughter which was something else. "There isn't anything that can be done about it now. She is at least fortunate to have her mother still. I never said that part was funny. That's terrible."
However, he did wonder. "Did you always go on business trips and off on vacations. How often did she see you?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:19 pm
Lysander glared at Melvin. "She saw me when I was around. I saw my dad the same amount and I turned out fine." If there was a sore spot in the man it was that, especially with the loss of custody so fresh and painful in his mind.
"Don't you judge me." he snarled.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 6:26 pm
"Yeah.....fine. Yup." He said, nodding slowly as he looked back at Fred and then back at Lysander.
"Oh you're a little too late to be asking for that." Melvin said, leaning back on the pod and swirling his coffee a bit, moving the stir stick about.
"Must have been nice to prioritize getaways and going off on these little contracts instead of seeing your daughter. Bet she loved that, but it's nice you at least got to bond with your assistant." He said, taking a sip of his coffee. "Bless your ex-wife for being around. She doesn't have an assistant too, does she?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:34 pm
"I saw her plenty, you don't know me, you don't know what my life was like. And no Sandra didn't need an assistant, she didn't even need to do any work!" Because staying at home and looking after a child full time to Lysander didn't count as work at all.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:37 pm
"And get between you and your horses? Never would want to Yoko that." He said, taking another sip of his coffee.
"I know what you brag about on Twitter. Got enough of an idea. You already admitted you went to all kinds of places, took Ros, and no mention of taking your daughter. You had free time and ran off to entertain yourself. Grad A dad material." He thought of his own father and couldn't help but be sick at Lysander's attitude. Even if someone came to justify that being richer meant you had a different lifestyle, that didn't' mean anything to a child who still wanted the attention of their parents.
"Sandra." He repeated her name. "Hope you left her something in your will."
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