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Regina Mills ([personal profile] st_oriedqueen) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2017-06-01 01:22 pm

[GP/EP] Check-In Day

Why Caroline had needed her to help with Check-In Day she hadn't bothered to say. Just, "you said you'd help," and when Regina protested she wasn't good with people, "aren't you a Queen or a Mayor or something?" complete with shooing gestures. While Regina found Caroline more exasperating the terrifying, she did have a point.

So Regina suited up--literally, gathered her files and folders, coffee mug, pens and pocketed the wooden carving of Henry/Roland Robin had made for her, then headed for the cafe. If, polished and politic and patently Busy, she didn't offer newcomers the brightest or warmest smile when they arrived, it was nevertheless confident and quite possibly reassuring.

Caroline did friendly. Regina...did knowledgeable and polite. Dot and Ignis had been asked to provide finger food on catering trays. The still-grieving Miss Pryde had been tasked with samovars of tea and coffee and ice chest of soda and beer. Caroline's welcome baskets sat on the table beside Regina's for easy access. And though she didn't when she was alone in the office, Regina spent the magic to fix her eyesight so she didn't put glasses between her and new arrivals.

Madame Mayor was in.
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[personal profile] st_eadfast 2017-06-13 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Ignis considered for a moment, then asked, "Do you know his feelings on eggs and dairy? If both are fine, I have a mushroom quiche that may suit?"
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[personal profile] st_eadfast 2017-06-16 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
"A duck," Ignis echoed, a little nonplussed. "Very well. There's a fruit salad in the refrigerator there," he gestured, only slightly off, "and I imagine grilled cheese will do well enough until we know all the rules?"
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[personal profile] st_eadfast 2017-06-16 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"As it happens, yes." Ignis started to move around the kitchen, fetching bowls, a plate, the fruit salad, cheese, bread, et cetera, and then returning to the center island to start slicing cheese. "The leftmost pot on the stove is a tomato bisque. I made it intending to use it as a base for other things, but I expect it will suit your purposes."
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[personal profile] st_eadfast 2017-06-16 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"I understand." And while Ignis's only experience with children had been with Noctis when he'd been a child himself, he had very sharp memories of how clingy Noct had been and how desperate he'd been to fill in as much of the gap as possible after the Queen had been killed.

He'd arranged bowl of (probably) brightly-colored fruit salad, a bowl of hot soup, the freshly-grilled cheese sandwich, and a glass of juice on a tray - a solid enough meal to soothe both the child and the worried Ms. Mills. "Unlike we adults, he can't get drunk and pass out somewhere as a method of coping."
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[personal profile] st_rongheart 2017-06-20 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Sora, however, was still sitting where Regina had left him, idly kicking his feet and looking around with interest. It wasn't that he felt the need to obey grownups, or anything, because he truly didn't. It was more that he didn't really have a reason to run around at the moment.

He was stuck. There'd be plenty of time to explore. But right now, he thought it'd probably help both of them if he let Regina look after him. And okay, maybe there was a little loneliness from missing all his friends instead of just some of them.
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[personal profile] st_rongheart 2017-06-20 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's great!" Sora beamed at her. He hadn't thought about eggs, but... well, they were probably still OK. Eggs were in basically everything, like bread. And everybody ate bread. But he hadn't thought about it, and it was really thoughtful of Regina to worry about it. "Thank you!"

Perhaps predictably, the grilled cheese was where he started eating.
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[personal profile] st_rongheart 2017-06-21 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"That was in Neverland. I'm not from there, I was just sort of... well, I wasn't visiting. I was kind of visiting. It's complicated." After a second Sora offered, "Pirates," in a tone that suggested it should explain everything. "I'm from the Destiny Islands. You probably haven't heard of them."
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[personal profile] st_rongheart 2017-06-22 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Sora blinked. If she'd.... "The Jolly Roger was the 'pirates' I meant. Captain Hook took my friends and me and tossed us in his hold with a few hundred Heartless. That's where I met Peter, because Hook had Wendy and my friend Kairi too."
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[personal profile] st_rongheart 2017-06-22 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeeeeah, we're probably going to have to agree to disagree. On Hook anyway, 'til I see it for myself. Anybody with a hold full of Heartless isn't on the right side." He wouldn't argue Peter that hard, because... well, what else would you call taking the Darling kids from their home and drafting the boys into his little army? Never mind that they were okay with it, that wasn't good either. "Plus he tried to kill me." After a minute, Sora added, "He wasn't that good at it, though. Oogie Boogie was worse and he was basically just a pillowcase filled with bugs."
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[personal profile] st_rongheart 2017-06-26 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"They're... monsters, kind of. They come from the darkness in people's hearts. And they're attracted to it. And when you lose your heart you become one, too." Sora had spent a few minutes as a Heartless that way. A pretty weak one, too, which wasn't all that surprising. "People with dark hearts can control them, for a while, sometimes. 'Til they get consumed by them, which even somebody who does it said always happens eventually." After a moment, in fairness, Sora added, "Hook was scared of his, of what they'd do to him. He didn't give'em orders, he just... used'em like walking the plank. Which only worked when it wasn't me. So there is that."
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[personal profile] st_rongheart 2017-07-01 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Sora nodded. "It's harder when you choose it in the first place, but yeah. My friend Riku did it. He lost his body for a while though."
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[personal profile] st_rongheart 2017-07-03 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
"It's good, thank you." Sora had been eating steadily while they'd been talking, in fact. He'd had a lot of practice, in the last while, combining eating with talking about 'what next' - there wasn't always a lot of time, so if you wanted to eat, you had to do something else at the same time. "Yeah, Riku was a special case, kind of. Ansem - kind of, anyway - took his body for a while. I'm not sure how that worked, I wasn't around for a lot of it, but I know it worked out OK."

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