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Tweak says, "My name is Tristan."

Corrine Fisher (just_a_guardian) wrote in ipswich_rpg,
@ 2010-02-13 08:59:00

Entry tags:

!complete, 2010 02, aurora marshall, corrine fisher, roland fisher

RP: Tired ...
Who: Corey, Roland, Rory
Where: their house
When: late morning, Feb 13, 2010
Rating/Warning: None?
Summary: Corey is tired from all her healing activities
Status: Complete

Outside of the house, Corey kicked the walls to knock the worst of the snow from her boots before she unlocked the door to let herself in. She was still convinced they needed to get a dog. A big one, like a St. Bernard that could come bounding up to the door to say hi when she got home. "Rooooooolaaannnd," she called out as she toed her boots off, making sure not to step on the melting snow.

Shrugging out of her coat, she wiped the worst of the snow from her hair. "It's snowing out," she announced to him - wherever he was - before she started to move deeper into the house to find him.

Because, you know, it hadn't been snowing all night or anything.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-18 06:55 pm UTC (link)

Inside her house, Rory frowned. Reaching for the remote, she muted the TV and listened. Definitely a noise outside.

It sounded like ... someone shoveling her driveway.

Swinging her legs down from the coffee table, she shuffled her beslippered, robed self over to the front door.

Unlocking it, she leaned out and waited for the gust of wind to die down before she called out. "I was going to do that, you know."

She looked dressed for it, too.

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witchhunter
2010-02-18 07:11 pm UTC (link)

Roland paused when he heard her voice and turned to face her, burying the tip of the shovel in some snow as he regarded her, trying not to smile. "Dressed like that?" He asked doubtfully.

His eyes briefly swept down her robed body before returning to her face and he held the shovel out towards her, a look of mischief spreading over his features. "You can take over if you want," he offered helpfully before he shrugged his shoulders and lowered the shovel once more, "but you do a lot so ... and I wasn't doing anything."

He squinted slightly and shifted his weight. So far, he didn't think he was very good at this. Whatever this was.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-18 07:30 pm UTC (link)

Rory quirked a brow at his question before she smirked. "Was going to put some boots on," she shot back.

She really had been planning to get around to it ... eventually. But the day had seemed better spent on the couch in her robe watching daytime TV.

At least it looked like the snow was letting up.

Opting to ignore the comment about how much she did - she'd resigned herself to it, sure, but she didn't like to be reminded of it - she simply nodded.

"Come inside when you're done. I can at least give you some coffee or hot chocolate or something."

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witchhunter
2010-02-18 08:57 pm UTC (link)

Roland grinned in response to her putting boots on, a light nod dipping his chin. He thought shoveling snow in a bathrobe and boots would be more amusing than it should be.

"Thanks," he replied to her offer of coffee or hot chocolate. "Coffee would be great. Should I ... knock or just come in?" He asked, managing not to make a face at himself.

He realized he was very out of practice being social with anyone who wasn't Corey, but he'd never really had time for it before. They had really only had each other and trying to step outside of his comfort zone was proving to be ... interesting.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-18 09:07 pm UTC (link)

A laugh parted her lips. "Just come in. Might not hear you knock if I'm upstairs or in the kitchen," she pointed out.
She studied him a moment longer before she ducked back inside. Making sure the door was unlocked, she headed to the kitchen to start the coffee before she went upstairs to change.

It was probably rude to entertain guests in her robe, after all. Sliding into a pair of jeans and a sweater, she didn't bother with a bra.

Heading back downstairs, she dropped back onto the couch and unmuted the TV to wait.

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witchhunter
2010-02-18 10:05 pm UTC (link)

"Okay," he agreed with a little grin. It did feel strange making nice with an FBI agent, considering many of the things he had done as a hunter, but he wasn't hunting anymore so he tried not to think about it. Sometimes, though, he gave thoughts to becoming a police officer and he wondered what his dad would have thought of that.

Shaking his head, he went back to shoveling until her driveway was cleared and he salted any icy areas that needed it. By the end of it, he wasn't sure if he was hot or cold.

Leaving his shovel on her front porch, he stomped snow off his boots before letting himself into her house, trying to act like he didn't feel just a little bit weird about it. "Hello," he called as he pulled off his coat, looking around curiously.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-18 10:29 pm UTC (link)

"In here," Rory called. She'd stood up when she heard the door and moved to the doorway of the den.

Gesturing for him to have a seat, she flashed him a little smile. "So what possessed you to randomly shovel my driveway?" She inquired as she moved to the kitchen to put together a tray for the coffee.

As an after thought, she laid out some Chips Ahoy cookies on a plate in case he wanted a snack, too.

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witchhunter
2010-02-18 10:57 pm UTC (link)

"My sister said it might be a nice thing for me to do," he answered honestly as he followed her into the den and then took a seat on the couch.

Glancing towards the kitchen while she put together a tray for coffee, he grinned and rubbed the back of his neck, "I should have come up with a better reason, huh? Maybe something about what a honorable and helpful guy I always am?"

Honestly, he didn't really know why he'd done it. Maybe just because he didn't have anything to do today and he liked to feel productive. He was pretty sure he was one of the few people in the world who didn't really mind shoveling snow. He kind of liked physical labor; it made him useful and normal.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-18 11:18 pm UTC (link)

"Ah," she said, and realized she'd suspected as much. "She seems nice. Your sister," Rory clarified as she set the tray on the coffee table.

"She was doing a lot of good for the ... people they rescued. Nice that the coven got all put together just before all this happened," she continued.

Her dark eyes searched his for a moment before she gestured for him to help himself. "You're their shadow, right?"

Corey had said as much, but Rory was kind of curious what Roland thought of it. All things considered.

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witchhunter
2010-02-18 11:59 pm UTC (link)

"Right," he agreed, busying himself with fixing his coffee. Though it didn't take long for him to add some sugar to it.

Wrapping his hands around his cup, he leaned back against the couch and shrugged his shoulders, "It's weird to talk about it. I've never been able to talk about anything related to witches with anyone outside of my family and now it's ... common knowledge."

It wasn't a bad weird, but it did take some getting used to. Everything about this place did and it was about time he started actually getting used to it, instead of just thinking about it. "Were you familiar with ..." he waved one hand in a vague gesture and grinned, "the supernatural before all of this?"

She just seemed sort of ... used to it, to him.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-19 12:15 am UTC (link)

Rory nodded. "I'm officially part of a sector of the government that deals with it. Which is why I was assigned here when we got the first reports of something suited for our department in the area."

It still did strike her odd just how casual the witches were about it now, though Caleb had assured her it hadn't always been that way. Still, when you're the one who knows what's going on, it only seems right to share, and Rory figured that was Caleb's reasoning.

"How were you familiar with it? How did you know about this side of things?" Rory regarded him before she prepared her own coffee, stirring it slowly before taking a sip.

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witchhunter
2010-02-19 12:25 am UTC (link)

Roland almost laughed. Obviously the reason he shouldn't take to people was because he gave away too much. Usually, though, he didn't. He liked to think he was pretty good about not saying things he shouldn't, but he'd slipped right up there.

"My father was a hunter," he settled on. That was true and didn't immediately incriminate himself. He didn't know what the FBI thought of hunters, if they were even aware, but he was assuming it wasn't favorable.

"He was killed," he added to circumvent any questions about where their father was now. "Do you guys deal with hunters? Or is that secret FBI business?" He asked, trying to keep his tone light and not suspicious.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-19 12:38 am UTC (link)

Rory shrugged. "If it comes up. For the most part, we only police the non-human side of things. Hunters murdering witches usually wind up as straight murder cases." And more often than not, went unsolved. No one really wanted to get into the supernatural things, so a lot of evidence went undocumented.

"What sort of hunter was he? The kind who killed witches just for being witches, or the sort that only attacked when provoked?"

She imagined she could guess - if Roland and Corrine had fallen into the coven so easily, it wasn't likely their father had been out to destroy any and all traces of magic.

Or they just hadn't followed after him. She had no doubt Roland was a hunter - or had at least hunted - because Corey was one.

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witchhunter
2010-02-19 02:42 am UTC (link)

"Are those the only two sorts of hunters you know?" He asked, brows arching as he regarded her. All right, it was kind of a teasing question, since he really knew what she meant.

"He didn't kill witches just for being witches," he answered with a shake of his head. Though, he doubted, really, that she wouldn't guess that he hunted also. If she was in the know of things, she would probably just assume that since his father hunted, he had.

Or someone around here had told her. The witches and guardians knew, after all. Nothing seemed to be a secret anymore.

"Anyway, I can't imagine the government likes anyone taking the law into their own hands, but ... this is sort of a different world." Most police wouldn't stand a chance against witches.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-19 02:53 am UTC (link)

She smirked, and shrugged. "No, but what sort of middle ground is there?" She sipped at her coffee again as she studied him. "Did you run into a lot of covens?" It was more curiosity than anything else, and she really didn't expect an honest response. She wondered a little if they could be tied to any of the open cases. Not that she'd follow through on it.

Rory was perfectly aware that some covens needed to be policed, and she understood that hunters were a necessity. She was also aware that accidents happened. She certainly wasn't going to report them ... if it turned out they were part of something.

So she shrugged again to his question. "Officially, no. They don't like it. On personal, individual levels ... it varies. When you've got boys who can do anything and don't give a fuck about consequences, you've got trouble on your hands. Sometimes they need hunters to keep them in line. It is what it is. The magic world has its own rules ... and it polices itself."

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witchhunter
2010-02-19 03:30 am UTC (link)

"We ran into some," he confirmed with a nod after taking a sip of his coffee. He didn't really know what her definition of a lot was. Running into one sometimes felt like a lot, depending on what happened.

"It wasn't really ... a life that either of us wanted, but, well, it was all we knew," he shrugged his shoulders, holding the coffee cup in both hands once more, not only to keep his hands warm, but also just so he had something to do with them. "Of course someone has a really interesting sense of humor, involving us with a coven."

And really, what was a shadow but a different sort of hunter? He was just hunting for the other side if it came to that. "Are you stuck here until a solution is found?"

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agent_marshall
2010-02-19 03:56 am UTC (link)

She nodded slightly. "But it's hard to pull away when your father and his father and so on have led the life, right?" she guessed.

"It is ironic," she agreed. "Corey seems to be taking to it well enough though," Rory offered. As far as she could tell, Roland was handling it all right as well. It had to be difficult though ... from one extreme to the other.

"More or less, yeah," she agreed. "Until we or they find a way to fix this. At least they've given me more people to pretend to boss around," Rory admitted with a wry grin. "I don't ... honestly think we'll find a way to fix this though. This is far beyond our mundane skills. If this fixes, it'll be because someone found the right kind of magic to do it."

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witchhunter
2010-02-19 04:27 am UTC (link)

"Pretty much," he agreed. They had been old enough to go out on their own, he supposed, but it felt like abandoning their father. He shook his head at himself. "But yeah, Corey's doing really well. I was worried for a while."

When they first arrived in this town, they had both been a mess and he was afraid she might never come out of it. She seemed to be doing so much better, though, so all in all, he couldn't be too upset over their new situation.

"Yeah, I've got my doubts too," he admitted before he grinned, "no offense." He probably didn't give the government enough credit, but he didn't see how they thought they could fix this without magic or something along those lines.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-19 04:33 am UTC (link)

Rory grinned. "None taken. This isn't New York, but it's starting to grow on me." Unfortunately, though she wondered if that was simply a survival mechanism. She had to like living here, or she'd go crazy.

"Heard from the witches that when it isn't snowing, it's raining. So hopefully you like wet weather," she teased him a bit. "At least it's quiet down here ..." Though she realized if she was here through the summer, she may have to surrender the house to the owners. The hazards of renting.

But summer was still months off, so she wasn't going to worry overmuch about it now.

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witchhunter
2010-02-19 04:43 am UTC (link)

"New York, is that where you're from?" He asked with some amusement, mostly about the talk of the weather. He'd heard the same thing and while it wasn't really good weather to go on trail rides, they were more or less stuck here.

"Luckily, I don't mind the rain. I even like the snow, but I have to admit I'm getting sort of sick of it," he tipped his head back slightly as he finished his coffee, leaning forward to set the cup back down on the tray.

"Thanks, by the way," he added as he snagged a cookie, holding it up briefly to indicate what he meant. Well, he meant for the coffee too, but still. He knew it was just because he'd shoveled her driveway, but he thought it was a nice gesture anyway.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-19 04:57 am UTC (link)

"Where I was from last," she agreed. "Had a nice setup there, close to the office and everything, but then they decided I was good for fieldwork." She paused, a wry grin sliding over her lips. "Could have something to do with the fact I liked to argue with my supervisor. He's probably glad to have me out of his hair."

One shoulder lifted. "Suppose that's the hazards of dating your boss and having it not work out."

Waving off his thanks with one hand, Rory smiled. "Well, it would have been rude to have let you wander back to your own house all cold and worn out."

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witchhunter
2010-02-19 05:31 am UTC (link)

Roland almost choked on the bite of his cookie he'd just taken when she threw in that part about dating your boss, but he grinned as he swallowed and shook his head. "Yeah, I can see how that might have the potential to go ... badly."

He wondered if her boss had really sent her out here for that reason or if it was just a coincidence. He wouldn't really be surprised by either.

"It's not all bad, is it? You get to meet a lot of ... colorful people," he pointed out, sucking in his cheeks as he tried not to look too amused as his rather dismal attempt at a bright spin on things.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-19 05:42 am UTC (link)

"Colorful's one way to go," she admitted with a soft laugh. "Some of them aren't so bad, but ... then there're the others."

Rory set her cup on the tray before taking one of the cookies. Breaking it in half, she nibbled on one point of it before she shook her head at her thoughts. She wondered if she was keeping him here, or if he really didn't mind staying to chat, but she figured if he wanted to leave, he could.

"So are you working anywhere, or ... school?" She thought he might be a touch old for school, but maybe not.

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witchhunter
2010-02-19 05:56 am UTC (link)

He chuckled quietly, shaking his head. He didn't really use the journals much (or at all), but sometimes he read them and some folks did seem quite ... interesting.

"Working. I'm a security guard for Spencer's," he shrugged, "but I've been thinking about police work. It's something I've thought about before, but we've never really planned on living in one place long enough for it to be worth it."

Not to mention, some of the things he'd done as a hunter, but he didn't have a record. "I don't really know how well that would mix with being in a coven, though," he admitted, unsure why he was sharing all this with her.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-19 06:02 am UTC (link)

"Suppose you've got to stick around here now, huh?" Rory said. Which she supposed was a dumb question - of course they did, if they were part of the coven.

Maybe she'd be stuck here indefinitely as well. Or maybe she'd actually want to mo-- no, that wasn't happening.

"Well, if you do want a leg up into the local police force, I could drop a good word or two for you," she offered. "Like, he's my neighbor. Doesn't have loud parties. Already experienced with handguns."

She shrugged a little. "Don't see why it would be a problem. Might even be an asset, to have someone on the inside to smooth over any bumps," she continued thoughtfully.

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witchhunter
2010-02-19 11:03 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah," he agreed. Though, none of the coven was really used to being a coven and he didn't know if they'd ever be as close as some were, but who knew. Maybe they'd all bond or something.

"I can't decide if I think that would help or hinder me, but I appreciate the offer," he replied teasingly, a light grin on his lips.

But maybe he'd look into it seriously. If Rory didn't think it would be a problem, well, surely that counted for something. Suddenly he wondered if he was bothering her and he scratched the side of his neck, "I... should probably go. I don't want to ... impose and all that."

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agent_marshall
2010-02-19 11:11 pm UTC (link)

Rory oh so maturely stuck out her tongue at him. "I'll have you know, the local police force likes me just fine. I've never keyed any of their cars." A wicked grin tugged at her lips.

When he mentioned imposing, she gave consideration to pointing out that he wasn't ... but she really should get some work done. Now that her driveway was clear, she had no reason not to pop out to the field and see what was going on out there.

"Sure," she agreed. "You're more than welcome to shovel my driveway the next time it snows, too," she generously offered.

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witchhunter
2010-02-20 06:10 am UTC (link)

Roland grinned, pushing up to his feet. He realized he wouldn't have minded her making up some excuse for him to stay, but it was just as well. He didn't want to overstay his welcome and he had to work later anyway.

"I might follow through on that, but now you've got me trained to expect cookies in return," he pointed out as he put his coat back on.

"I'll see you around," he hesitated, "Rory? Or do you prefer Agent Marshall?" He finished with a teasing smile.

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agent_marshall
2010-02-20 06:13 am UTC (link)

"I'll be sure to have some on hand then. I might even actually bake them instead of just buying the kind that come ready made," she teased back.

A grin tugged at her lips. "Rory's fine. If you called me Agent Marshall, I might have to gear up to kick you or somethin'. Usually the only people who call me that are my bosses when they're about to tell me all about how I didn't follow the book again."

It was a surprisingly frequent occurrence, though never really bad enough to get her in any serious trouble.

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witchhunter
2010-02-20 06:29 am UTC (link)

"Rory it is," he agreed with a grin, not that he really expected her to kick him. Well, maybe she would; he supposed he didn't know her well enough to assume if she would follow through.

"I'll see you later," he murmured, his chin dipping in a light nod before he made something of an awkward motion towards the door and then began to show himself to it.

Glancing back at her, he smiled and let himself out if she had nothing else to add.

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