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Tweak says, "Tweak does it better"

Alice (inadvertently) wrote in indarkness_logs,
@ 2010-09-03 07:04:00

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!complete, 2032 09, bella swan, john allerdyce

RP: Where the Line Used to Be
Characters: Bella, John
Time/Date: Mid-morning, September 3
Location: Where the line used to be behind the hotel
Warnings/Rating: None
Summary: Bella is curious but untrusting
Status: Complete

There'd been a lot of posts on the network. None of them had been really funny - at least by content - but the Dave guy's post did make her grin. While she had the vague idea to go get milk to put it in the fridge in the kitchen, when she checked to see what else they might need, she saw that there really was plenty of it in there. So clearly he'd just been doing it for laughs.

But, it had worked. She'd laughed.

Since she was downstairs, she decided to go see if it was true about the line. Letting herself out the back door near the library, Bella made her way past the garden growing there (and wow, was it ever growing. Some of the plants were huge). She moved to the scuffed-looking spot that had always been just a foot or so from the line ... which really was gone. Or, invisible. Which wasn't the same thing, because if it was invisible, it was still there. She thought about stepping across where it had been, but it wasn't exactly like she trusted these people not to say it was gone and the traps were gone, and have that not be the case at all.

She was fragile and prone to accidents even when there wasn't a killer line on the ground.

So Bella crossed her arms over her chest, peering over the line and kind of hoping someone a little braver than her came along to walk across the non-line with her. Or a little ahead of her.

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down_in_flames
2010-09-04 09:49 pm UTC (link)

Well, not ancient was ... better, he guessed. He wondered what it was about girls and old guys. Rogue had kinda been into Logan, after all, even if she never came out and said it.

"I guess," he agreed, reluctant to admit that anything about Jaime was nice. He managed not to snort when she said it wasn't difficult to make friends here. He didn't think he'd have to work very hard to prove her wrong. As far as he could tell, he was already off to a good start.

"Where was home?" He wasn't sure if 'was' was a little pessimistic on his part, but who knew if they were ever getting back. People had died here, apparently, which he thought was all kinds of fucked up.

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inadvertently
2010-09-05 01:01 am UTC (link)

"Well. It. I was ... I was ... supposed to be moving to Forks, Washington, to live with my dad, but I was in Phoenix, Arizona before I was ... kidnapped." She shrugged and glanced over to him. "What about you?"

Bella slid her hands into her hip pockets as they walked along. Nothing had jumped out to bite them, so it was a little easier to relax slightly. She looked around as they drew closer to the shoreline, and she peered past it to see if she could see anything besides water stretching out on the horizon.

She didn't exactly expect to be able to see another island or anything like that, but if she could have, she might've encouraged some people who wanted to try swimming to see if they could reach it.

But she guessed that their kidnappers wouldn't have let them past the line if there was anything for them to reach from where they stood.

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down_in_flames
2010-09-05 01:58 am UTC (link)

"New York. I was in the middle of a move too," he replied with a light smirk, gazing towards the water. "Hey, you think if they send people back, they'll put us where we left off or... will we have missed a bunch of time?"

They must have had some weird time machine type thing or else how did they pull all these people from different times? Maybe that was why he'd seen Jaime just days before he was taken. It sort of got confusing even in his head, though, so he decided not to elaborate on his thoughts.

He bent down to pick up a rock, intending to throw it into the ocean when they got closer. In the meantime, he tossed it lightly into the air, catching it, and then tossing it again.

"I'm not going for a swim, just so you know."

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inadvertently
2010-09-05 02:03 am UTC (link)

"I don't know. We must, I guess. People from different times that knew each other before ... they say that they saw the people here ... you know, while they were ... like." Bella waved one hand and wondered if she could explain.

"Like people who were taken from a later point remembered seeing the people who've been here, just yesterday in their own time. So I don't know if ... they really do just return us to the place in time they took us from.

"I guess we'll find out ... if we get home." If. If, not when, because people died here, and ... she couldn't honestly see their kidnappers returning them home. No matter what they said.

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down_in_flames
2010-09-05 02:33 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, that's how it was for me and Jaime. I saw her a couple days before I got here but she said she's been here for months," he confirmed, shaking his head lightly. He didn't miss the if and he agreed, even though he hadn't been here long enough to 'know' the scientists.

Suddenly, he cried out, "Oh god, they're all over me!" As he spoke, he frantically began to hop around, brushing his hands over his clothes as if he was being covered by bugs or bitten by things unseen.

Just as suddenly, he stopped, his hands in mid-swipe against his shirt. A slow grin broke out across his lips as he regarded her and he shrugged, "Just kidding."

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inadvertently
2010-09-05 02:42 am UTC (link)

Bella shrieked when John started hopping and brushing at himself. She clapped her hands over her mouth, staring, but she couldn't see anything and then ... he stopped.

She dropped her hands and kind of glared at him before she shoved his shoulder. "Jerk," she muttered. Her heart was pounding, and she could feel adrenaline or something making her kind of tingle, and she kind of wanted to kick him for that stunt. "That was ... that ... you're a jerk," she decided as she crossed her arms over her chest.

Maybe he wouldn't have such an easy time making friends.

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down_in_flames
2010-09-05 02:47 am UTC (link)

He grinned, and okay, maybe he felt a little bad, but things had been mostly serious the whole time. He thought they could use a little excitement or something.

"Oh, come on. Not even a little funny?" He asked, raising his brows and doing his best to look innocent. It was never a look that he was very good at, to be honest. He had dropped his rock in the process of that stunt but decided it wasn't worth picking it up again.

He rubbed his shoulder where she had shoved him, even though it hadn't hurt at all.

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inadvertently
2010-09-05 03:07 am UTC (link)

"No. Not even a little. I mean, people have almost died out here, and ... and how do we know they didn't set something closer to the shore, just to ... to mess with us?" Bella looked away as she tried to calm herself down from the scare. For all she'd known ... John really had had something happen to him. She didn't trust these people as far as she could throw them, and really, she probably couldn't even push them very far.

She looked at the water, wondering if there were things in it. Nets or traps or currents or sharks or something? If someone tried to swim it, would something bad happen? She wouldn't, but ... someone might. Like Chase.

Not that she'd care if he got himself killed. He wasn't exactly a friendly sort.

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down_in_flames
2010-09-05 03:48 am UTC (link)

"Well, I was just trying to be funny," John shrugged awkwardly. He supposed it was a little different, being an ass to Jaime or Bobby; they already knew his 'sense of humor.' Shoving his hands into his pockets, he glanced at her before shifting his gaze to the water.

He wasn't going to apologize though.

"I'll try harder next time," he added, his lips twitching slightly. But whatever. If she was going to be uptight about a little joke, well, they'd walked far enough. They'd probably go back and part ways soon anyway.

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inadvertently
2010-09-05 04:07 am UTC (link)

"Sure," she agreed, nodding her head slightly. She glanced over to him, then glanced to the water, and she decided she'd had about enough of the other side of the line. "Think I'm going to head in," she said with a slight gesture toward the hotel, which suddenly seemed impossibly far away.

Bella had a moment of wondering if they would spring traps on the way back, if they'd start trapping people on the other side of where the line had been, and while she doubted it, she had learned not to assume anything at all about these people.

Maybe they would. There really didn't seem to be any lines these people wouldn't cross anymore.

"Coming?" she prompted. "Or are you staying out here?"

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	down_in_flames 2010-09-05 04:14 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, I'm coming," he agreed, still feeling a little off about his joke, but pushing those feelings away. While he didn't really expect anything to happen out here at this point, he wasn't inclined to hang around and he imagined she didn't want to walk back on her own. With a final glance at the water, he turned to fall into step beside her to head back to the hotel. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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