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Cori Tibbits ([info]colormecori) wrote in [info]genome_project,
@ 2012-05-15 00:27:00

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Entry tags:coraline tibbits, david bacchus, may 2012, prompt table 1

Who: Cori and David
Where: WYA - outside
When: After this
Rating: Low


Cori folded up the paper that her and Dakota had been going back and forth on. It was kind of childish but it was the easiest way for them to communicate since he wasn't the best at signing and she wasn't always the best at reading lips. She'd make sure to put it somewhere that no one would find it - even the girl who she shared a room with, not that she was smart enough to look through Cori's belongings to get to know her at all.

With the paper safely tucked away in her book bag, she headed over to Mrs. Elwood's office. It was about time to go out to the track, or at least get a new work out that she could do on her own. She liked to run but she was sure put to the test with these work outs. Cori was about to phase through the door but stopped herself and knocked on the door instead. After a few seconds, no one came to answer it so Cori knocked again. Was it loud enough? She had no idea so she pounded harder with the second round of knocks.

When the door opened, a man was standing there. Not just any man though, that weirdo who gave a speech earlier. Cori gripped her bag a little tighter, as if he had some way of knowing that she had just shit talked him in the conversation she had had with Mr. Hopkins. For a minute she stared at him and then remembered that saying hi to him was nice, so she smiled curtly and saluted him.


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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-15 05:07 am UTC (link)
There were two options on how to end the day. One was to go back to PS118, and relieve his sub for his last few classes. Option two involved borrowing Natalie's office for a bit and taking a nap. Obviously he chose option two. Except his nap was being rudely interrupted by a loud pounding on the door. Someone had better be dead.

David frowned a little at the girl who had been banging on the door, "I'm sorry. Mrs. Elwood isn't here right now." what was he supposed to do? He was a teacher, too. Did she need homework help? Should he take a message, "What did you need her for?" He eyed the girl with a strange look on his face. Something about her looked astonishingly familiar, even though he he had never seen her in his life.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-15 05:56 am UTC (link)
Cori stared at David's mouth when he started talking. She didn't make out all of what he said at first and thought about it for a minute before giving up and try to look into her office and see if she was in there. She thought for a minute about what she had seen his lips mime after she realized that Natalie wasn't in there and pieced it all together.

Her brow furrowed when he was so blunt with his question. It wasn't like it was any of his business asking, even if it wasn't important. She sized him up, taking in his appearance and trying to decide if he was worth leaving a message with. When her eyes fell on his hair, she couldn't help but notice he had nice hair that was about the same color as hers. Cori obviously thought her hair was better though.

Cori tried to think of how to get across to him that she was deaf. She pointed a finger at him, touched a hand to her forehead and then signed the letters 'ASL.' She looked at him a little hesitantly, hoping for the best but assuming that he probably had no idea what she had just signed to him.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-15 02:07 pm UTC (link)
David was somewhat annoyed at the lack of response. He didn't appreciate being ignored, but he didn't work here so he couldn't really bllame her. Instead he pinched the bridge of his nose as she peeked into the office. "Satisfied?"

Some of that annoyance melted into that weird feeling he was having when she started sizing him up. It was a little thing, but the way she did it seemed very familiar. It was almost as if she was deciding if he was worth her time. It was something he did on a daily basis.

There weren't more than a handful of kids who used ASL in his school since he started working there. They usually hired a translator for that purpose, so David didn't know ow to sign, but he was familiar enough with it to know what she was doing. He had to be ESL certified to teach, and had picked up a little of other languages, here and there (mostly swears and vulgar things said by the students to each other) but the translators did a better job than he ever would. But still, it clicked and he shook his head, but held up a finger to signal her to wait a minute and pomed into the office for a pen and a pad of paper and handed it to her.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-15 04:03 pm UTC (link)
Cori ignored David when he started speaking. She didn't know what he had said but she could see his lips moving and she could tell he was annoyed with her just by his body language. 'Tough shit, old man,' Cori thought to herself.

She heaved a sigh out when she realized that he had no idea how to sign. Go figure. When he turned around and went for a pad and pen, Cori quickly balled up her fist and hit it lightly against her forehead. 'He really thinks I'm dumb enough to not carry it with me?' She thought to herself. Cori took the paper and pen from him and put it against the door frame to write a note on it.

Came by for a new work out schedule but Bachass was her instead. I'll do last week's work out instead. - Cori Tibbits Cori folded it in half and handed it to David and motioned to Natalie's desk. She knew how to spell his name full well but fudged the spelling. She'd probably hear about that tomorrow and play it off like it was a typo.

Cori grabbed another piece of paper and scribbled on it. 'What'd you talk about today?' Was that rude to ask, since she was there the whole time and should have been paying attention? She didn't care. She passed the note to David and gave him back the pen and pad of paper too.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-15 07:13 pm UTC (link)
David noticed her gesture of frustration when he turned back around, but chose to ignore it. He wasn't working here for a reason. It was too close to home and he would never hear the end of it if he was annoyed bysomeone's kid because they were so-and-so's precious baby. Whatever.

He obliged her and left the note on the desk. He wouldn't read it. He wouldn't hear the end of that either. Besides, he tespected Natalie enough to leave her things alone.

Just when he thought he was done with her, she wrote something else and handed it to him. Initially, he was annoyed that she wasn't leaving. But it was a legitimate question, knowing she couldn't hear him. He had sort of made the whole thing up, however. He didn't think he was incredibly successful. So, he was going to be honest. What did it matter anyway. He wasn't going to see her again. He took the pad of paper from her and scribbled down a reply. "A lot of bullshit. You didn't miss anything."

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-15 08:52 pm UTC (link)
Cori took the pad back and smirked when she saw what he had written. She laughed a little and took the pen back. 'At least you're honest about bullshitting all of it.' She paused for a second and debated formally introducing herself to the guy. Initially, she didn't like him but he didn't seem so bad after he was honest about his speech. He was okay in her books.

'I'm Cori. I guess it's nice to meet you.' She handed the pad back to him and held out a hand to him. That was the nice, civilized thing to do, right?

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-15 09:33 pm UTC (link)
David smirked when he received the pad back from her. He shook her hand first before scribbling a note back, "It's how I make my living. You can call me David." Mr. Bacchus was what his students called him. And he didn't work there. Besides, he was starting to think she wasn't too bad. A little sassy, but who as he to judge.

"So," he wrote, "Which of the Frye Island freaks do you belong to?" He knew she had to belong to one of his former classmates, or someone he knew, he just was stumped. Once finished writing, he handed it back to her.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-15 09:47 pm UTC (link)
Cori shook his hand and took the pad back. She gave him a confused look when he referred to everyone from Frye Island as a freak. She rolled her eyes at him though instead of objecting and just knocked her fist against her temple again. The teachers here liked to tell them they were special and different, not freaks. Cori liked to think she was just living her version of normal.

'I don't know,' she scribbled back. 'I guess no one since my mom's dead.' She shrugged as if it wasn't a big deal and passed it back.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-15 10:53 pm UTC (link)
He used the term with affection, since obviously he was counted in that number.

David nodded as he read. While he had grown up with two parents, there was only one that he actually belonged to, so in a way he got that. A few from the project were like him in the sense that one or both of the parents they had known weten't actually theirs. Except that her one parent was dead. She was nonchalant enough about it that he didn't feel too sorry.

Still, the timeline dictated that he probably at least knew of her. And he was curious now. He wanted to place some features in her face. Some mannerisms that belonged to someone else. 'Who was she?' He wrote, and then passed it to her.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-15 11:45 pm UTC (link)
Cori debated for a hot second whether she should tell David who her mother was. It didn't matter in the long run if he knew, right? Her mom was dead, after all, and she probably didn't know this guy when she was alive. At least that's what Cori was banking on. The last thing she wanted was some older guy going all crazy on her because of something her mother may have done to slight him when she was alive.

'Lexie Alexandria Tibbits - did you know her?' She'd always heard her being referred to as Lex or Lexie but Cori figured that was probably just a family nickname.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-16 12:56 am UTC (link)
David's eyes grew wide at the name. Lexie had a child? With who? She didn't exactly sleep around. The notion that he could be the father didn't exactly occur to him, since they'd only been together on two separate drunken occasions. It must have been one of her boyfriends. He couldn't remember seeing her pregnant, though he did vaguely remember her being off island for a while. Whatever.

'You're joking.' He wrote, not bothering to cross it off when it occured to him that she couldn't possibly be. 'Lexie? Yeah we knew each other. We hung out a few times. Had a few classes together.' He haned the paper back to her.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-16 01:07 am UTC (link)
Cori stared at David when she saw his reaction. Apparently he did know her mother. Maybe he was just shocked that he didn't know she had passed away. It seemed like a lot of the people who lived on Frye Island had all gone their own ways and then decided to ship their kids off to Wyrd Haven when it came time for schooling. Cori saw the old classmate reunions every fall when a new batch of kids came for the school year and she saw how shocked everyone was when they all caught up with each others lives.

She took the paper back and gave David a look that screamed 'are you kidding me?' Cori quickly scribbled down, 'Why would I joke abut something like that?' She paused but then went on. 'I don't suppose you've got stories of her..? Everyone else seems to have a story or two that they like to share.'

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-16 01:57 am UTC (link)
He had probably heard about it, but forgotten until now. He had enough connections with people in the know (Elwoods and Sullivans mostly) to have heard, but it obviously hadn't stuck out in his mind, or he might have guessed Lexie was her mother. Something in her face stuck out as being Lexie like. But anything that might have identified her father were still escaping him. So maybe he's a little slow.

David actually laughed at the face that she gave him, 'Sorry!' He wrote back, 'I just don't remember her having a baby." She had to be about fourteen or fifteen years old. Why didn't he remember this? To be fair though. Lexie had not spoken to him after that New Years Eve debacle when they had both ben heartbroken and trying to get back at someone else. Probably hated him again or something. Well, he'd never know now.

He raised his eyebrows at her as if to ask of she really wanted to go there. 'I'm not sure I'm the one you want to ask.' He wrote finally. Diplomatic answer.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-16 02:15 am UTC (link)
'If it's any consolation, I don't remember being her baby.' Cori shrugged but smiled sheepishly. The first memories that she had cared to keep were of living with her Aunt Annie and Uncle Jacen after her mother passed away, and even then she was just barely kindergarten age. Her memories of her mother consisted of what others had told her and the pictures on the fireplace mantles.

A big grin spread on Cori's face when she read David's final sentence. 'You've got dirt on her. Spill.' With that, she phased through him and into the office, getting out a few more pieces of paper. She pulled one leg under her and the other to her chest when she sat in one of the chairs, waiting for him to join her.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-16 02:41 am UTC (link)
Well if that wasn't just weird. If he'd been wondering what her power was--which he hadn't--he certainly knew now. But he followed her into the office and took a seat in another one of the chairs.

David smiled and shook his head, not to indicate no, but because he was now thoroughly amused. She certainly had inherrited none of Lexie's timid personality, but all of her persistance. Reluctantly he took the paper from jer and tried to decide what to write. He tapped the pen against the paper as he thought. 'She always liked to try and fix things.' He was avout to hand it to her when he stopped, took it back and scribbled, 'Especially me.'

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-16 02:53 am UTC (link)
Cori tried to hold back laughter and snorted a few times after she read the note but then just let it all out. 'Clearly she didn't succeed.' She went to hand the paper back to David but then pulled it back and scribbled beneath that, 'Just kidding.' She giggled a few times and went to hand it over to David and pulled it back one more time and wrote below that, 'Not really.'

Cori finally handed the paper back over to David and reached for another one since the one they'd been writing back and forth on was pretty much covered in conversation. 'What'd she do to you to try to fix you? Where'd she start, at least?' Cori smirked and handed the second piece over.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-16 03:24 am UTC (link)
Alright so maybe it was a little bit funny. 'Clearly," he agreed when she finally gave the paper back.

He had to think pretty hard about what he should tell her and how he should word it. But then he gave up. Se wasn't a baby, and her mother wasn't around to defend herself. Besides, Cori had asked for dirt. 'When we were in college she wanted to be my girlfriend. We got along fine until then. I guess she just wanted me to be a better person than I was.'

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-16 03:42 am UTC (link)
'So... what happened? You broke her heart or something?' Cori's mood turned more somber now that David was talking about where him and her mother had gone wrong. Maybe it was for the best that they didn't work out. He seemed pretty cool so far but from what Cori knew about her mother, he didn't seem to be her type of guy.

'Are you at least a better person now?'

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-16 03:56 am UTC (link)
It was difficult to explain what really happened. You didn't just tell someone's daughter that their mom went nuts, fell down some stairs and sort of turned into a bit of a... Well... She wasn't exactly a wilting flower after that. David shrugged and wrote, 'I guess you could say that. I suppose I was in love with someone else.' It was mostly true. And Lexie rebounded quickly anyway.

'Not really.' He snorted when he wrote that and gave the paper back.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-16 04:30 am UTC (link)
'At least your honest about it.' Cori made a mental note to scratch David off the list of her potential fathers. He was certainly on the island when she was conceived but clearly he wasn't with her mother at the time. Plus, the timing didn't match up, especially since (according to Cori's rough math skills) David would have already been done with college by the time she was conceived and he had said this all happened when they were in together college.

She chuckled at the last two words. 'That's sad. For an old man like you, I would have thought you'd be a bit of a better person.' Of course she was just teasing but that didn't exactly get expressed on the paper.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-16 04:57 am UTC (link)
What Cori didn't know was that David was a professional college student at the time. Meaning he was there well over the traditional four to five years. Bouncing around and ot declaring a major will do that for you. And he even went back after leaving the island. Also, she didn't know about New Years.

'Not really,' he admitted, 'Hind sight is 20/20. But I don't think it would have worked out anyway. She was too nice for me.' Or too good for him. However she wanted to interperet it. He glanced up from the paper and quirked an eyebrow at her, 'And I would have thought Lexie Tibbits' daughter would have better manners,' he scribbled, 'But here we are.'

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-16 05:09 am UTC (link)
'You make it seem like any girl is too nice for you.' She smirked up at David when she wrote that sentence and then looked back down at the paper. 'Even me.' Cori knew how big of a bitch she could be and was using herself as a means of comparing, not suggesting anything. He was way too old for her, not to mention it was illegal.

'I'm her daughter, but she didn't raise me. Plus, it takes two to make a child. Who says I don't get my manners from my dead beat dad?' Cori passed the paper back to David, almost like it was a game they were playing and she had just raised him one chip.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-16 05:27 am UTC (link)
'That might be true.' He wrote with a sage nod. Although, Cait Baines was back with a vengence and a new name. If anyone wasn't too nice for him, it was her. But that wasn't the point, 'I haven't decided about you though. You might be even less nice than you let on.' He knew she was just kidding and not insinuating anything, what with the way she kept calling him old. He wasn't that old. Yet.

'Maybe you did,' he agreed, 'Or maybe it was from your grandma.' He liked Mrs. Tibbits when he had her in high school, but he wasn't so sure she liked him much after things with Lexie. Anyway, she definitely had more sass than Lexie ever did.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-16 08:34 pm UTC (link)
Cori laughed a little. She knew she wasn't the friendliest person and there was no sugar coating it. 'I believe I'm what they call rock bottom. You should see me with kids my own age. The claws all but come out some times.' That was a bit over dramatic but still.

She raised an eyebrow when David suggested she got her attitude from her grandmother. 'You've met her?' Cori knew that she taught on Frye Island at one point but there were a whole slew of teachers and even at that, how would she know if her grams had an attitude like Cori did? Wasn't she supposed to be nice to her students?

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-16 10:35 pm UTC (link)
'I belive it.' David wrote back with a smirk, 'I used to know a girl like you.' Noelle Baines. That girl didn't keep her claws to herself.

'Of course. Don't you know she's completely in love with Shakespeare? I was probably in all of her classes.' She was a pretty nice lady, but she definitely didn't take crap from her students. He had seen enough of that to know she could be pretty snappy with a comeback.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-16 11:21 pm UTC (link)
'Clearly it wasn't my mother.' Cori looked at David for a minute and then back down at the paper, grinning. 'You sure knew your fair share of ladies. Were you a 'playa' when you were young?' She laughed as she entertained the thought.

Cori nodded and shrugged. She knew her grandmother's obsessions with Shakespeare and pretty much all literature, hence why she preferred to read than socialize with kids her age. 'Causing problems for her, I assume?'

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-16 11:39 pm UTC (link)
David laughed again at the paper. She was funny, he'd give her that. 'No, you got me there. Her name was Noelle Baines. But she was just a friend. Or a nuisance, really.' He snickered at her use of the word playa. Did people still say that? 'I guess you could say that.'

'Me? I don't think so. Only when it came to your mom.' He replied, handing the paper back to her.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-17 02:51 am UTC (link)
'What'd she do to bother you? Try to make you be a worse person than you are?' Cori laughed when he said that he was something like a player. David was an interesting person, to say the least. He was someone that was kind of growing on Cori but she would never admit it. After all, the likelihood that she'd ever see him again was slim to none especially since he proclaimed his speech bullshit and some administrator must have caught on to all of the bullshit.

'I'd pay to see my grams yell at you.' Cori giggled and gave the paper back to David. She glanced down at her watch and noticed that about a half hour had gone by. It wasn't a substantial amount of time but she still had homework and her workout to get through. It could wait though; David was more interesting.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-17 01:18 pm UTC (link)
'No, she had a stick up her ass, and she was always fighting with my best friend.' David always thought Evan should have banged her and gotten it over with. Maybe it would have shut her up. 'But she was funny, and witty and didn't play well with others.' Like someone else he knew.

'I bet you would.' He was about to hand the paper back to her when she glanced at her watch, 'Somewhere you've got to be?' He added before handing it back.

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-17 04:58 pm UTC (link)
'You seem to attract only the finest of ladies,' Cori smirked and then looked at her watch again. 'No where in particular. I just have stuff to do.' Should she just say good bye and have a nice life? That seemed kind of rude but so did checking your watch constantly while having some weird pseudo conversation.

'Don't you have a wife and kids to get home to anyways? Stop being a creepy old man, hanging around a high school.' Cori chuckled at the thought, as she teased David.

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[info]iheartwine
2012-05-17 06:27 pm UTC (link)
'Naturally. Is it that obvious?' But it was true. Well, Nat was a pretty fine, classy lady, but she ended up with Evan anyway, so there you are. 'Well if you've got stuff to do, by all means don't let me keep you. I'm just enjoying having a reason not to go back to work.' Or pretending to anyway.

David shook his head at her question before even writing anything, 'None that I know of.' He replied, 'I was going to take a nap before you pounded on the door.'

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[info]colormecori
2012-05-17 06:46 pm UTC (link)
Cori chuckled and rolled her eyes at David's comment. Her mom didn't seem very classy in his eyes, just overly persistent and that was never an attractive quality to Cori. She debated whether she should keep talking or leave. It'd probably be best if she left though, considering the time and all of the crap she had to do before dinner.

'The world is probably a better place without your spawn in it.' She laughed a little. 'That was mean. Sorry.' She wasn't entirely sorry, but it was the thought that counted. 'Excuse me for being deaf. I can't tell how loud that shit is.' She shrugged, 'But I guess I'll let you get back to your nap.'

Cori stood up and wrote one last thing. 'I guess I won't be seeing you around these parts any more. Good luck with your career in professional bullshitting, Bachass.' She grabbed her bag and headed for the door, looking over her shoulder and smiled before she waved bye and closed the door behind her.

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