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Tweak says, "What if god was one of us?"

Gabriel Reed (matchesmade) wrote in doors,
@ 2013-03-31 19:44:00

Entry tags:

emma swan, emma woodhouse, fantine, nightwing, red hood, rose red

CIA crew, Eloise M, Jack C
[CIA crew]

[Left on the desks of all those working the vacation weekend: special delivery. Because Gabe is too.]

[Voicemail, Eloise M]

click 'Lu? Let me know when it's all right to come by. It looks like I cleared out a candy store here. Love to Phee and Ernie. That's [...] all. Happy Easter'. beep.

[Comm: Jack C]

Pick up, kid.

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	[Voicemail] ex_roses104 2013-03-31 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	[She listens twice, and she almost rings back, but she's a few glasses into a bottle, and she replies via email instead.] (Reply to this)

	jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-01 03:46 am UTC (link)
	[A click. No wind and no other noises, so likely inside.] Yes? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-01 09:22 am UTC (link)
	[The lack of static that is inevitably the office and the dead lack of noise that comes with it] Checking in. It's the holidays. You're only a good asset as long as you're not half-dead. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-02 02:42 am UTC (link)
	You may have guessed this about me, but I'm not much of a partier. [A faint grunt as he sits down on the bed. He spent most of the afternoon tailing someone and he's fairly well beat.] Doing anything fun? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-02 05:16 am UTC (link)
	You strike me as the constant partier, buttercup. [A pause, the rhythmic click of keys at a computer] Oh yeah. We've got a definite party here in HQ. [Pause] Downtime, Corvus. Take some. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-02 05:29 am UTC (link)
	I don't need any. Not right now. [Difficult enough, juggling things between the door and work.] I'm done for the day anyway. All I have planned for tonight is sleep, honestly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-02 05:32 am UTC (link)
	[Easily] Everyone needs downtime, sport. Or we start having problems. I'm putting the intel you picked up on that last run through to the liaison. Should have something to go on soon. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-02 05:49 am UTC (link)
	I guess I need a hobby. And good. I'm looking forward to having something fresh to start on. [...] Downtime. What do you do? I don't seem to very well these days with free time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-02 06:07 am UTC (link)
	[A laugh] Anytime someone says they need a hobby, they're overdue. I read books, sport. I see my kids. [Neatly ignoring the request for work] What do you mean, you don't do very well with free time? [Cautious but oh so relaxed-sounding. He's read the damn file] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-03 04:53 am UTC (link)
	I help take care of my friends' son. That's what I spend most of my free time on, helping out here. You're probably right about being overdue for a hobby. [A pause.] I play guitar, but it's a little difficult to do that publicly when you're supposed to be keeping a low profile. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-03 05:26 am UTC (link)
	Ah. [Hadn't pictured Jack with kids, but there's a sort of sense to it.] When I need a hobby, I look one up. Even low profile ones. They've got books. On that sort of thing. [Thoughtful] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-03 05:37 am UTC (link)
	[Jack actually chuckles at that, if tiredly.] You really find your hobbies by reading books about finding hobbies? That doesn't seem like a great way to find a passion for something, but maybe it's just me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-03 05:39 am UTC (link)
	[Pause] Do you need to be passionate about something to enjoy it, sport? I like diners, and art. [totally comfortable putting those two together] And theater. There's got to be something aside from guitar and your friend's kid that counts as downtime. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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thelazarus
2013-04-04 04:06 am UTC (link)

[Quietly.] I always have before. [Something's held back there, since it's not the sort of thing you lay on someone you only recently met.] Not recently, no. I don't think there is. I don't remember the last time I went to a movie. A few years ago, I think. With an old friend. [And the mention of her stings, so he goes quiet for a half-second.] Is that sort of thing really required to be a good asset?

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matchesmade
2013-04-04 05:26 am UTC (link)

[Simply] Yeah. It is. You don't spend enough time away from the job, you forget what it is to be one of them. And then you don't blend. You can't. And then you get dangerous. [It sounds like experience] We all need things to ground us, sport. So go see a movie with old friends and try out some of those books. Maybe you're not passionate about it. Maybe you learn to be.

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	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-04 05:46 am UTC (link)
	You mean one of the people out on the street? Normal people? It's been a lot longer than my term with the CIA since I've been one of them. ...Maybe. You might be right. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-04 06:02 am UTC (link)
	[Quietly] Sometimes the only way we can do what we do is to sound, talk, look, feel like one of them. We fuck up, buttercup, but then we're dragged back. Same way people out there are. [A laugh; brief but real] I know I'm right, sport. It's why I'm the voice in your ear. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-05 04:58 am UTC (link)
	...I imagine so. [There isn't a lot of conviction in that, though.] They wouldn't give me a handler who wasn't infallible, I guess. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-05 05:16 am UTC (link)
	Trust me. [Entirely convinced. There's a warm sound to it - and then a bark of laughter] I wouldn't be walking around on three legs if I was infallible, buttercup. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-05 05:21 am UTC (link)
	[Warming again.] I'd forgotten about that. Maybe this isn't such a good idea after all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-05 05:23 am UTC (link)
	[a mild huff of laughter] Stuck with it now, sport. You been much to good diners, lately? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-06 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	Not much. Someone I know told me about one on the other side of town, but I haven't had a chance to visit it myself, yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r matchesmade 2013-04-06 10:06 pm UTC (link)
	I think I've got them all mapped out about now. You'll have to let me know about that one. I'll take you for eggs to my favorite; good coffee. Even better than the fancy shit Main keeps making in the kitchen. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: jack c/gabe r thelazarus 2013-04-07 12:04 am UTC (link)
	Sure. It might be good for us to actually meet in person, and good coffee tends to make everything better. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Gabe R/Max M ex_ideals961 2013-04-01 06:18 am UTC (link)
	Stop trying to fatten me up, Reed. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M matchesmade 2013-04-01 09:19 am UTC (link)
	How else am I going to get you to stay in the gingerbread house, Main? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M ex_ideals961 2013-04-01 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	You're not. Consider it a blessing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M matchesmade 2013-04-01 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	Do you have a problem with donuts, Main? Before you answer, I wish to remind you there is surveillance on that box left in the kitchen each week. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M ex_ideals961 2013-04-01 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	Beer and wings. I thought we'd gotten that clear on your first day. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M matchesmade 2013-04-01 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	I'll buy you beer and wings same day I see you go a morning without coffee. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M ex_ideals961 2013-04-01 05:59 pm UTC (link)
	Why would I want to do that to myself or to anyone else, Reed? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M matchesmade 2013-04-01 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	Proof of the possibility. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M ex_ideals961 2013-04-01 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	Probability of collateral damage too high. Abort mission. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M matchesmade 2013-04-01 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	You're cracking jokes about your own coffee consumption? Good grief, Main. World's ending? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M ex_ideals961 2013-04-01 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	I always crack jokes, when you aren't trying to make me be serious. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M matchesmade 2013-04-01 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	It's a bad habit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M ex_ideals961 2013-04-01 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	Are you here to work, or to play father and shrink, Reed? Because I have the first, and I don't need the second. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M matchesmade 2013-04-01 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	My bad habit, Main. Not yours. I don't feel the need to parent anyone extra, sport. Just working. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M ex_ideals961 2013-04-01 08:24 pm UTC (link)
	It's Main, Reed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Gabe R/Max M matchesmade 2013-04-01 08:25 pm UTC (link)
	Happy Easter, Main. Don't eat all the sugar at once. (Reply to this) (Parent)