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st_igmatized ([personal profile] st_igmatized) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2018-05-15 12:18 am

[GP/EP] Check-in Day

It was a musical day at the Madonna Inn, both inside and out. Curnen had taken her usual place up on the roof and was singing charms to the sky to keep any wanderers from getting lost (though that part of it was not immediately obvious). Unrelated to that, Sunny was on the dance floor in the bar, summoning songs of her own with her knife to keep her moving before she went to do her shift at the library later. It was one of those days where if she thought about it too hard she’d start thinking about that empty bed in her shitty room and the person she most wanted to be there.

This of course eventually seeped into her magic. She knew better. Maybe she’d even wanted that to happen.

Because just once, between different pop hits and dance beats came a rather unexpected French love song. She sighed and rolled her eyes, but the exasperation didn’t last. Before the lyrics started up she was waltzing. By herself and not caring how it might have looked. And for those three and a half minutes, she dared let herself hope for the slimmest chance that Orlu might come through that door.

She didn’t let herself hope too hard, though. There was admitting to feeling things and there was setting yourself up for certain disappointment. She’d lived too long with disappointment to do that to herself.
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-11 02:00 am (UTC)(link)

"You'd have to ask him." Especially since Quill arrived. Alec was pretty sure Peter would prefer to room with Star-Lord than him, though he didn't voice it. "But I've been told before I'm a pain in the ass." He smirked.

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-13 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah? Funny, me, too." Clarice's smirk mirrored his. "Well bitchy gets added to it sometimes, but that's usually by people I'm trying to irritate." The pain in the ass are for ones she doesn't make an effort.
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-13 03:52 am (UTC)(link)

"Bitchy just means you're probably doing something right." Max got called that from time-to-time too. It was definitely solely a label for women - Alec was mostly called an 'asshole'.

"You ever do any training?"

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-14 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Training like fighting?" Clarice asked and shook her head. "Nope, my super power when it works, is pretty much running away. Usually my skill is open a portal and walk through it or let others walk through to get behind or above whatever they're fighting."
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-14 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)

He thought about that. "Sounds pretty useful. The perfect infiltrator." Or open a portal and shoot at something from the comfort of somewhere else. "I guess you could re-direct something running at you too, huh?" Alec couldn't help but to think tactically - he was basically programmed that way.

"Probably a good thing I don't have your power." He smirked a little. "Otherwise I'd probably open a portal for d-bags and close it when they're halfway through."

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-16 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
"You wouldn't want to close it halfway, they'd literally be split in half." Clarice shook her head, but then added with smirk. "You can portal them in front of a moving truck though." Sure the end result might be the same, but they'd at least have a chance with the moving truck - depending on their reflexes.
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-16 12:50 am (UTC)(link)

Alec didn't see why splitting in half was a bad thing if the point was to kill them, but he let her had her addendum. "Sounds like the words of experience." Alec winked. He liked Clarice a lot. It made him feel like he was at home, or at least the good parts of being at home.

"Which room is yours?"

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-16 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Clarice made a face, "it's a Buffalo room." Complete with a head of a buffalo. If her powers had worked, that would be the first thing she teleported out of the room.

"Room 205. Which room is yours and the kid's?"
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-17 01:47 am (UTC)(link)

"Looks like we're on the same floor. 215." He wasn't going to mention that he had the smaller room out of the two of them. "It's not so bad. Not like some of the other ones here. I don't get the need for all the rooms that look like caves."

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-18 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Caves? They have rooms that look like caves?" Clarice shook her head. "This Inn is seriously messed up."
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-18 02:31 am (UTC)(link)

"Right? I'm just glad both rooms I've been stuck in aren't so bad. But it's all made like some sort of torture zoo or something. I have a hard time believing people would choose to stay at an in like this in the real world." At least that's what Alec thought.

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-19 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
"You think there's a place like this in the real world?" Clarice glanced around them. It wasn't so bad from the outside, it was just the decor that was a bit eccentric and eclectic.

"I figured this was from someone's tortured mind."
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-19 02:14 am (UTC)(link)

"I actually think this is all a set up for some big experiment, but most people don't agree with me." He shrugged. "But sure, why not? Humans are weird."

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-19 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Humans are weird." Clarice agreed. "But this kind of goes into the bizarre." She grinned at him, "says the girl that spends most of her time before here in an abandoned building sleeping on a cot."
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-22 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)

"Hey, me too." He offered her a slightly sardonic smile. "And we're all housed in an area that's biohazardous to regular humans. We call it Terminal City. Cute, right?" He didn't think it was cute, but it was the name for it.

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-24 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well at least that keeps them out." Clarice chuckled lightly. "It is what it says on the tin. All of you are immune to biohazard? Nice." She actually wouldn't mind a place like that. The mutants would be left alone but they would also be an easy target. So, a double edged sword.
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-24 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)

"Yeah. Can't be a good soldier if we're taken down by a simple biological weapon." He winked

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-24 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay, gotta ask. They equip you with like a fail safe button?" That was something the government would do. "In my world, their experiment with binding mutants together has them dependent on a drug so that's their fail safe. And it's fatal. Government, gotta love 'em."
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-25 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)

"No. And you think they would after some of the earlier batch escaped." Instead, they had tortured and 'reprogrammed' the twins and the rest of the unit. "But I did have a bomb inserted at the base of my skull once as insurance for something. Thankfully we took it out before it exploded." As if it was his idea all along to remove it. "I think Manticore was just confident we were obedient enough. I mean, they raised us so we knew nothing better."

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-25 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Shit." Clarice breathed out. "That's worse than the Hound program. And I can see how they'd think you'd be loyal when that's all you knew." She liked that they'd got their independence despite that.
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-26 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)

"Yeah, well, they were wrong, that's for sure." And Alec was okay with that. Now that he had his freedom - he was going to keep it. "People like them or like yours, they'll never actually win. They forget that strong fighters mean we're also stubborn as hell." And Alec could tell just by spending the short amount of time with Clarice that she was both a strong fighter and stubborn as hell.

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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_rongernow 2018-06-26 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
“Yeah, I love shooting them the bird, figuratively and literally.” Clarice smirked. “And you’re right, they’ll never win even when they think they do.” She just didn’t like that so many innocents get caught in the crossfire, but unfortunately that is how the world worked.


[ooc: Fade them there?]
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Re: Clarice/Alec

[personal profile] st_x5_494 2018-06-26 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)

(ooc: Sounds good to me ^__^)