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Tweak says, "I'm so very alone."

Alec Harper (tarnishedcopper) wrote in flippedrpg,
@ 2012-11-03 22:51:00

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ch: xbwl: alec harper, ch: xbwl: melinda bobbin, p: carley, p: christie

Who: Alec Harper and Melinda Bobbin
When: Evening 3 November
Where: Gamma 006
What: Alec meets his wife, or the woman who will eventually be his wife.

Alec still wasn't entirely certain he believed this entire situation, but he had read the entire pamphlet, which said something, because Alec had hardly read an entire anything since finishing hitwizard training back in 2004. It wasn't that Alec was dumb, on the contrary, he was smart enough, but he had never been, and probably never would be one to sit and read. But he had read the pamphlet, and puzzled over it, and it was nonsense, but the person over the book saying she was Melinda and the other one who spoke like a cop seemed to both think he was in for the long haul.

This seemed pretty elaborate for a criminal circuit to decide it was through with him. But Alec wasn't ready to believe it until he saw something he had to believe.

He had stashed the briefcase of galleons and taken time to wash himself in his new quarters. They were finer than he'd expect if someone were just going to dispose of him too. Mr. Gamma, his apparent butler slash gaoler, had not left him much to change into. A red bathing suit and some supplies in a black bag, so he stayed dressed as he had arrived. There were worse, he supposed, to meet his wife or the one that claimed to be her.

But he had to wait. So Alec made the best of the situation, lounging on the bed and going through his wallet to see what exactly he had brought with him.

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day 4

tarnishedcopper
2012-11-04 07:33 pm UTC (link)

Alec inwardly twinged as she pointed out the proof that while time had left her alone, it hadn't been so kind to him. If it were more grey, or he weren't blonde, he would have taken care of it. But in fact, Melinda rather seemed to like it then if not now. He watched her face as she sized him up.

As strange as this was, things seemed very much the same.

Alec moved a hand to steady her waist, it was much trimmer in a teenager who hadn't had two full pregnancies. "You've called it distinguished." His eyes ran up her arm, and his hand followed, grasping the wrist.

He knew Melinda's body. He knew how it had changed. But he didn't know the tattoo on her wrist. "This is new."

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inelegant
2012-11-04 09:43 pm UTC (link)

Melinda smiled more when he said she'd called it distinguished, and nodded a little. That seemed like a good descriptor for it.

She let him look at her wrist and nodded a little. "I got it here. I got some of this temporary ink that you can wipe off with the special sponge, and had Marek put his handprint. He's got mine around his ankle, too." Thinking of it made her aware of the tattoo showing on the back of her neck with her hair up like this, a bow and arrow shining gold. Apollo. Sun and moon was a pretty fitting motif for them, really. Except that the moon was probably supposed to be less reckless than the sun.

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tarnishedcopper
2012-11-05 10:22 am UTC (link)

In the moment, Alec wanted to wipe it off with the sponge.

He knew Marek was, and always would be, important in Melinda's life. Even now, they lived close to one another, Marek and his wife just a jaunt away from he and Melinda, but the children, and Alec liked to think, the spouses, had begun to take more prominent role, for the both of them. He hadn't thought of it until now, but at nineteen, that probably wasn't the case. He was just an afterthought or a booty call or a bandaid in 2001. He wouldn't be one now.

It felt too much like competition. And while he had been alright with it as a fawnish nineteen year old, he was less willing to share as a man. Alec's hand slid up her arm encircling the tattoo as if replacing it with his own hand, rough from work, He placed a kiss on her palm and looked up at her. "Mmhmm."

It might seem like he wasn't listening, but distraction tactics aside, he'd heard every word--even the ones not said.

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inelegant
2012-11-05 07:28 pm UTC (link)

Melinda just watched him. She knew him, surely, but not like this. He was so different. It would eventually take Melinda several years of marriage and children in the toddler stage to actually fall for her husband, and the idea seemed utterly foreign right now. Why was he acting like they were better than friends and fuck buddies? That was all Melinda expected even out of a marriage of convenience and safety, like the one they'd had.

It took her awhile to decide she was ready to speak again, but she eventually did. "Any more questions about the place?"

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