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Tweak says, "Here's lookin' at you, kid."

Colin Hammond (cloudedwaters) wrote in darkdividerpg,
@ 2014-08-30 14:46:00

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character: eli lasko, character: max lasko, date: 08.14.14, type: group scene

Look at Little Sister
Who: Colin, Eli, and Emma, later Max
What: Visiting family
When: August 14th, Thursday Evening
Where: The Stumble Inn
Warning: Language

Emma had been ridiculously busy for her lack of commitments. Which had Colin even more interested in what was going on his youngest sister's life. While he was the most understanding in the family of Emma's need to make her own way in the world, she could get carried away. Often.

He'd given up on trying to get a call back to schedule time to meet with her and just decided to choose a slower weeknight evening to show up at her place of work. Dressed casually in jeans and a button down shirt, he headed straight for the bar when he spotted his sister's black dyed head. Sitting down at an empty stool, he waited until she came over. "You are a hard woman to pin down, Emma," he teased her. "Did I make inadvertantly make you mad enough not to return my calls or were you just trying to make me play hide and seek?" His littlest sister loved to play games. She swore she hated politics, but there was a set of politics that had to be played with her to keep her from shutting him out the way she had the rest of the family.

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cloudedwaters
2014-08-31 02:57 am UTC (link)

Trying to dump a glass of water over a water elemental was a bit of an exercise in futility. But then, so was trying to reason with Emma when she was in this kind of mood. Why she was in this kind of mood he had no idea, but she certainly wasn't going to tell him now.

Considering how infantile she was being about the whole thing, Colin was done with her. "Shall we?" he said to Eli as he inclined his head towards an empty table across the room. Then started that direction. There was no way he'd get the man to actually talk to him honestly with her acting like a three year old two feet away. He indulged Emma only so far. And he was a bit hurt she was acting like he was some kind of horrible threat to her boyfriend. He had no reason to be. Her lack of trust undeserved, considering he was the only member of the family who didn't criticize her need for independence.

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followthevision
2014-08-31 03:03 am UTC (link)

Eli was faced with a choice that would likely get him into a lot of trouble lately. He took his beer and sighed. "Yeah," he said. What was the worst that Colin could do to him, really? If Emma was so afraid of them being alone together, Eli kind of wanted to find out why. He doubted she'd be happy with it, but he let Colin lead him to the empty table across the room and sat down across from him. Emma was just going to have to get angry about it. The more she tried to keep them apart, the more he wanted to know why, so really her reaction only pushed him more towards Colin and the unknown.

He sat down at the table and took a sip of his beer. "I don't know if she's afraid you'll say something I don't like or the other way around," he sighed.

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middlem
2014-08-31 03:10 am UTC (link)

Emma was furious, and she excused herself from the bar for a few minutes so she could try and calm down. This was not what she wanted. This was not how she wanted this to go. It hadn't even been a week yet, Emma wasn't ready for other people to be brought into her relationship yet. It was still weird for her to recognize the fact that she was in a relationship at all.

She wasn't ready for her family to know about it yet. It had nothing to do with Eli or Colin, and everything to do with her personality. Emma was very strict on controlling what she did and did not share. It was important to her. That control meant everything to her, because it was the one thing she had and that she could control. Colin had taken that away from her without batting an eye, and what's worse is that Eli went with him. Eli took her control with him, too.

Emma went outside into the alley behind the building to get a bit of fresh air. She needed to push the anger and the anxiety down into the put of her stomach. When she'd been ready, Colin would have been the first, and probably only, member of their family she told. Right now, though? All she wanted to do was clobber both of them over the head.

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