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Tweak says, "String & kettle = world saved!"

Gabriel Holden (angeloffire) wrote in dalton_rpg,
@ 2011-09-27 12:09:00

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! thread, @ character: gabriel holden, @ character: rose morgan, status: incomplete

In Which Gabriel "Smokes"
Who: Gabriel and someone who will interact with him (Luke? Aaron? Rose? Connie?)
What: Gabe's a little stressed. He goes for his favorite form of stress release.
Where: That old statue of what'shisface, where everyone goes for a smoke.
When: Tuesday evening, 7 PM or so.
Rating: SFW. It's Gabe. Is he ever NSFW?

There had been too much lately. Too many changes, too many memories, too many realizations. It was all too much. Gabriel had come back from dinner, looked at his stack of homework, and then simply grabbed his lighter and a little-used pack of cigarettes from his drawer before heading right back out the door.

Cigarettes weren't ideal, but it had been a wet week, so there wasn't really any dry sticks for him to burn. He needed to set something on fire, though, so this would have to do.

It wasn't hard to find the on-campus spot for smokers. The old butts in the grass around the base of the statue was evidence enough that this was a good spot. Gabriel sat on the base of the statue and lit up, though he didn't bring the cigarette to his mouth. He just sat there, his arm resting lightly across his knee, watching the paper and tobacco smolder.

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rose_tinted
2011-10-06 12:47 am UTC (link)

Rose was pulled up sharp mid-self-pity. "Wow. Yeah," she whispered hoarsely. "That'd about beat mine." Forgetting herself in her shock, she took a draw on her cigarette, then swiftly took in a wheezy gasp of air and burst into a hacking n00b-smoker coughing fit, grabbing the statue's head to stop herself falling off.

"Fuck," she gasped out, gulping down air as the coughing died down. "That's fucked up, dude. There's no proof either way, I'm guessing, and it sucks ass to know even your own memories can't be trusted. Wouldn't mean anything if I said it, I know, but for what it's worth that doesn't fly with me. You're a fucked up guy but that's not your MO. And I'm guessing kiddy-you wasn't exactly a hardassed murderer either. Even less so." She stubbed out the offending cigarette on the old guy's stone head and flicked it off into the bushes.

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	angeloffire 2011-10-06 01:19 am UTC (link)
	"Kiddy-me was a lot more violent," Gabriel pointed out. "'Fuck the world' and all that." He looked up sharply as Morgan coughed, about to reach up to make sure the other student didn't fall, but he stopped himself when Morgan recovered. "What does it matter though? Mine happened ten years ago. Yours happened, what, a month ago? Both in the past." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rose_tinted
2011-10-06 05:28 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah. And here we are right now in the present with blood on our hands and nobody to make it ok, so yeah." Fuck the cigarettes, then. She still felt a strong need to do something as a displacement activity...there was a cola-flavoured lollipop in her other pocket (sugar free, naturally). She unwrapped it with a crinkling of plastic and stuck it in her mouth. "And fucking the world ain't so dangerous," she added around it. "I never did anyone any real harm til I tried to deal with them like an actual human being."

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	angeloffire 2011-10-06 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	"I did," Gabriel said. "I do know that much. I was always getting in trouble for fighting with people." He glanced up at the crinkling, twisting around so he could see what Morgan was doing so loudly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rose_tinted 2011-10-07 11:55 am UTC (link)
	"Me too," Rose shrugged, chewing on the stick of her lolly. "Doesn't mean I killed anyone or hospitalised anyone. Except that one time. And that other time. And actually yeah, hospital was involved quite heavily. But that's beside the point." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	angeloffire 2011-10-07 12:03 pm UTC (link)
	Gabriel rubbed his hand over his knee, feeling antsy now without a flame to distract him. He could pull out his lighter again, but he didn't think he wanted to do that. "What is the point?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rose_tinted 2011-10-07 06:45 pm UTC (link)
	She located a second lolly in the bottom of her pocket and dropped it in Gabriel's lap. "Fucked if I know. But I figure we're a hell of a lot more alike than either of us is willing to admit." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

angeloffire
2011-10-08 12:01 am UTC (link)

As a rule, Gabriel didn't eat sweets. Still, it had been a long time, a very long time, since anyone had ever given him anything (other than Scottie, and Uncle Arthur with the car). But those didn't count. They weren't like this, a gift given for no reason, with no expectation of anything returned. Gabriel rubbed his thumb over the plastic wrapper.

"Maybe we are."

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	rose_tinted 2011-10-08 12:14 pm UTC (link)
	"Fuck me, that's a scary thought. One bad thing in the wrong place and I coulda ended up like you. Or you coulda ended up like me. Neither state's what you'd call desirable. It's sugar-free, by the way, your teeth are safe from me." She crunched up the remainder of her lolly and continued to chew the stick. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	angeloffire 2011-10-08 12:39 pm UTC (link)
	Gabriel wasn't concerned about his teeth, and he knew one lolly wouldn't ruin his body. Nevertheless, he wasn't keen on tempting himself. Instead, he unwrapped the sweet and pulled out his lighter, flicking it open and holding the sugar-free treat over the flame. It wasn't as reassuring as melting things usually was. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rose_tinted 2011-10-08 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	"Ooooohhhhhkay, that works too, I guess." Rose flopped onto the statue's head to stare down at the melting candy. "Whatever floats your boat." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	angeloffire 2011-10-08 02:55 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't eat candy," Gabriel said, by way of explanation. He rolled the stick slowly in his fingers, letting all of the sticky sweet feel the heat of the lighter. "Thank you." It was perhaps a belated show of gratitude, but it was polite. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rose_tinted 2011-10-08 04:53 pm UTC (link)
	"Welcome," she shrugged. "But your hands are gonna end up sticky as fuck, and that's what she said." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	angeloffire 2011-10-08 05:13 pm UTC (link)
	Gabriel simply held the candy horizontally, so it would drip onto the base of the statue rather than risk running down the stick and onto his fingers. Problem solved. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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