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Noah (oilthewheels) wrote in commandhq,
@ 2018-05-17 18:33:00

Entry tags:

jp allen, noah anderson, p: mena, p: mj

Who: Noah Anderson & JP Allen
What: Two old friends catching up
When: Sometime after this
Where: Noah's room
Rating: TBD

Noah wasn't really messy, couldn't be messy as a marine, but his room was a little chaotic as inbetween working in the garage and helping out with the renovations he hadn't really spent enough time in it to really tidy up. Now that JP was coming over he'd made a concentrated effort to make sure it looked good enough for company.

He was worried, especially as he knew how close JP and Julian had been, and so he'd done what any good friend would do and that was to reach out and check in. As expected JP was bummed so Noah was both happy and relieved that JP still felt comfortable enough to reach out to him even if they hadn't figured out where they were at in their friendship.

The whole Noah being an employee of the Regiment which was holding JP was a huge wedge between them and it was sort of like the elephant in the room, the very same they were both doing an admirable job of ignoring it. Not that they could ignore it for much longer, they would definitely need to address it at some point.

Maybe not today though all things considered.

He picked a couple clothes off the floor and tossed them into a laundry basket before he scrubbed his hand through his red hair.

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hotbloodedone
2018-05-17 08:59 pm UTC (link)

JP had forgotten that technically, the staff quarters were out of bounds for agents. That being said, he'd managed to sweet-talk Gabi into letting him in on the basis that he was going to see Noah and it was a hundred percent less weird for him to be here than tall and red wandering up and disappearing into JP's room. Regardless of the fact that they'd grown up together since Noah had arrived in Limbo, they'd done a remarkable job of kind of pretending like they didn't know each other.

He didn't understand why Noah had chosen this career even if he hadn't known what it entailed, JP just didn't get it. But he supposed things changed in, god, nearly ten years? Six years was closer to ten than it was to one.

And on top of it all, the weirdness with the one person in his life that JP had hoped he'd never drift from and had spent the last few years convinced that maybe Noah had forgotten about him... on top of that, the only other friend he'd made here that truly understood him - because Raven was awesome, but she was also quite different and that was a good thing, it was, but at the same time she was so different - had been transferred out. He wasn't too proud to admit that he had been fucking devastated when Julian had swung in before leaving, telling him he'd been told to pack his shit up. JP had helped him, but it had sucked. After that he'd withdrawn a little bit, it seemed safer to just mope on his own for a while, not inflict it on anyone else.

But Noah had checked on him and it just confused him more, but hey, here he was. And he was glad for it if he were honest because it told him that as much as some things had changed, one thing wouldn't: Noah was still a fucking labrador disguised as a person.

As he approached Noah's room, he tugged off his hat, pushed his hand through his hair and then tugged it back on before knocking on the door.

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oilthewheels
2018-05-18 08:46 pm UTC (link)

Noah turned his head as the knock he'd been expecting came and he hurried over to open the door and greet JP with a smile not too dissimilar to one he'd given him when they were much younger. Soft, caring and concerned. He knew how difficult it had been for JP to make friends when they'd been kids and even though he was much more confident now he couldn't imagine that much had changed.

"Hey, come on in," he said with a welcoming gesture before he shut the door after him.

Noah rubbed a hand through his hair before he dipped into the small mini fridge he kept in his room and offered JP a beer. He also had some cold pizza but he might come to that later.

	oilthewheels 2018-05-24 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Not the only reason," Noah argued with a shake of his head. "It just happened to be an added bonus." He snorted as his foot was not knocked once but twice and he hadn't even had a chance to retaliate to the first one before the second one happened. He rolled the can between his hands and lifted his gaze to rest on JP. "You're would've what?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hotbloodedone 2018-06-09 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah," JP agreed, nudging Noah again with a small smile. "That's good." And maybe, he thought, from here they could move on. Get back to where they were before and then... see where the future took them. "But now we're properly talking again, you gotta let me see plans for a tank." (Reply to this) (Parent)