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Evan Vang ([info]artifacthunter) wrote in [info]lost_world,
@ 2013-07-26 21:59:00

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Entry tags:!status: complete, evan vang, jack oat

Testing (Jack)
Finding Max's place was as easy for Evan as just thinking that it needed to be found. He didn't even have to pay attention to where they were going. Evan just continued the conversation that they were having, the same type of banter they always had. It felt like they were faking it just a little bit, not wanting to talk about whatever it was that Jack had in mind.

Evan could only imagine what she was planning to put him through. He'd read things in all kinds of books, ancient texts, ways to test for vampirism and voodoo curses. Archaic things that were painful. To find out if somebody was a witch, you had to essentially drown them. He could only hope that she had some more modern tests. Some things that weren't invasive and horrifying to his flesh.

He let Jack in, got her a drink, let her have a look around the place. He took off the tie and the suit coat, tossing them onto a chair, had his own drink, and waited for her to start her explanations and experiments.



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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-27 05:24 am UTC (link)
"Shirt off. Towels, or if you have a tarp lying around." Jack wasn't trying to scare him, but she wasn't going to leave a huge mess either. She also wasn't going to be tucked away in a bathroom if whatever he was decided to come out. She liked her chances in the more open space of the rest of the apartment, not that there was much of it.

"I'd like to test holy water, silver, holly, birch, garlic. I know a few chants." Jack took a sip from her own drink then started pulling things out of her bag. A flask, a small throwing knife, a slightly longer blade, a small firearm that didn't fit in the time period, a very rough stake, and sprig wrapped in a circle. They were smaller and fewer things than he might have seen her pull from her old Army jacket pockets, but they weren't too far from that.

"No garlic." She was all business. She was also currently taking off her shoes; they weren't exactly something she wanted to run and fight in should she need to. "I'll check for the garlic." She trusted him enough to leave everything on the table where she'd put it.

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-27 05:34 am UTC (link)
Even if he hadn't shared naked times with Jack in the past, he wouldn't have been shy about taking the shirt off. He stripped it as he made his way to the bathroom to look for towels. He wasn't sure tarps were even invented in the 40s. If they had been, Evan had no idea if Max would have one, or where it would be if he did.

He returned to the living room with a small pile of them, and vowed to make it up to Max if anything was destroyed. By the sound of Jack's list, they would all be destroyed.

Evan eyed the items that she had pulled out of her bag, hoping none of them was going to be actually impaled into his body at any point. There were a lot of things that he could withstand, and a lot of stuff he'd endure in the name of sex, but this didn't fit into any of those categories at all. This was new territory, and he wasn't entirely sure that he wanted to endure it.

In the name of knowing, though.
Answers.

"Max seems like a garlic guy." Evan said, looking at the pile of random items.

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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-27 05:49 am UTC (link)
"The holy water is the easiest, though imbibing would be better than splashing. Just wait until I get back." Jack turned toward the kitchen, making herself at home to see if the detective really was a garlic kind of guy. He was cute, and she could see the attraction. Who didn't want to have a go at Sam Spade sometime? But, Jack had her own artifact hunter.

"So, how'd you meet him? Max." The volume of her voice rose a little, so that he could hear her. "Drinking buddy, old cop buddy - though the guy doesn't strike me as a cop. What?" It was idle chitchat while she looked. She stopped when she saw the container of salt. It wasn't garlic, and Jack didn't exactly believe in the power of garlic outside normal human health. Yet, she thought she'd give it a try.

"Fuck." She sighed softly as she came back in. "Well, I've got salt, but no garlic. Not sure it'd do much other than make you smell like a bad Italian restaurant. I like garlic, but there have been times I wonder if it isn't piped in to some of these chain places like supermarkets do cinnamon bun smell for bakeries.

"You may not want to bounce me, Bucko, when this is done. You may want that sweet little gal you've got." She didn't mind if he got angry with her; being tested was a real pain, and it brought up some very strange feelings sometimes.

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-27 05:59 am UTC (link)
"Drinking." Evan said, answering her question. "I liked his hat. We got drunk. Friends forever."

He had to admit that he wasn't in a real chatty mood. He didn't want to reconstruct the night that he'd met Max for Jack. He just wanted all of this to be over with.

Because of this, he ignored her comment about garlic. And almost ignored the one about sex.

"Now is now. We'll deal with later if it ever comes around." For all he knew, she'd shoot him. Then there would be no later. Evan had no idea why she was even worrying about what was going to happen after the testing. He had to live through it first. They both did. Considering they had no idea if he was even something other than human, that they were just going off of what he'd said, which might have been alien implanted memories, it all might be moot.

"Just. Do it. Whatever you're going to do, do it."

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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-27 06:07 am UTC (link)
"You handle your stress your way, I'll handle mine mine." Jack was chatty. She could start humming, but some people didn't like that any more than the talking.

"Now is never now. Now is the then we thought was now or maybe even later." She opened the flask and offered it to him. "Have a seat and then take a good swig. But, don't drink it all. I'm not torturing you, but it'll feel that way.

"This is the only test that I think you can fake somehow. Not saying the others don't have work arounds or hacks, but this one is the easiest, given certain information. Also give me your arm." She didn't go for the blades first. Instead she claimed the circle of what had to be holly.

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-27 06:14 am UTC (link)
"Don't go all zen on me now." Evan smirked up at her. He didn't know what else to say to her on that front. He wasn't going to argue the semantics, she knew what he meant. She had to. She was just being difficult.

Evan took the flask and sat down on the couch. He looked Jack in the eye and swallowed a giant mouthful. He wasn't sure how he was supposed to fake whatever was meant to happen. Considering he wasn't sure what was supposed to happen. It tasted like water. Maybe slightly stale water.

He shook it as he held it out so that she could tell there was more in there.

"You know that I don't know what any of this is, right? I can't fake it if I have no clue what's going on."

Evan held out his arm.

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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-27 06:28 am UTC (link)
"You may not, but if you are something else, you might." Jack knew it didn't make any sense. She just took the flask back and poured more of the water on over the curving wood. She'd been nice enough to toss a towel down at her feet. She then sprinkled a little salt over the wood, said some very soft words that could have been a spell or a curse, and wrapped the pliable wood about his wrist.

"I love making this shit up." It wasn't a joke. Sure, it could have been, but she was using what she'd learned over the years to make up a few tests, seeing as she had little to work with here. She couldn't go to an occult shop and ask for wolfsbane. And it wasn't the easiest to find without color sometimes.

"Leave it on." She had twisted the wood/twig into a bracelet of sorts and let go of his arm. Jack didn't think she had to tell him to lower it. "Other arm." She could let one test run so to speak while starting or doing a few more with quicker results.

Truth was, she was holding off on the one she really didn't want an answer to. These were build ups to it. She claimed the other piece of wood, the stake, and looked at it.

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-27 06:33 am UTC (link)
"If I am something else, I'm going to magically know what's going on?" Evan shook his head, that didn't make any sense. He was pretty sure that knowledge didn't just materialize from nowhere. Even alien implanted knowledge came from somewhere.

He watched the actions, looking at the strange bracelet he now had on, and held up his other arm for her to do whatever to. So far, everything seemed pretty mundane, but that meant nothing in the long run. He'd seen the blades, he'd seen the gun. Something was going to hurt him at some point, he was sure of that.

"What's supposed to happen, then? My skin reacts? More? I spin my head around, vomit pea soup on you, and tell you to let Jesus fuck you?"

His own jokes were falling flat to his ears.

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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-27 06:43 am UTC (link)
"You could pretend to be ignorant. It's been known to happen." Jack shrugged, glancing at the holly/salt/holy water bracelet. It was a charm, and the chant had gone along with it - a cleansing and protection. It would have been done a little differently given time and supplies, but she thought it wasn't a bad bit of MacGyvering.

"Always wondered about that. Was it a dead Jesus or the crucifix Jesus or the returned one?" She shrugged, taking his lifted arm by the rest. She didn't like this one, nor did she like what came after this.

"There's only one test that can tell us what we are both thinking you could be, and I'm holding off because the fixes for it are a real bitch." If there was a real fix at all. She set the sharp tip to heel of his palm and pressed the sharpened tip into it. It would take a great deal of pressure to break skin. Birch. A tree of power and renewal. It could jump start a reaction, maybe set things right or start them that way. She softly chanted as she made sure blood was let with the end of the stake.

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-27 06:49 am UTC (link)
"I would think that any reaction that I would have would burst through any attempt at indifference I might try." He shook his head. She was putting a lot of faith in his ability to hide things from other people when he wasn't expecting them.

"Well, she was fucking herself with crucifix Jesus, so I'm going to go with that." He shrugged and followed her eyes to the bracelet.

"What's the test? And how would it need to be fixed?" Evan winced as the wood pierced his hand, but that was the only thing that happened.

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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-27 06:59 am UTC (link)
"I'll explain when I'm done." Jack rolled her eyes at how he was being difficult, but then she wasn't surprised. She kept an eye on the charm and on the blood. Nothing. The blood didn't react, nor did his skin - birch and holly were more magical than some knew. Then again, there were a few sacred woods she couldn't have gotten in an "American" town. Again, not unless she could find an occult shop.

"Last one more." Both blades should have been silver, if they were indeed the blades she thought they were. She'd start with the short throwing knife; the handle made it a good punch.

"Possibly." She turned the knife quickly in her hand, claimed the wrist she'd just let go of before he could move, and made a slow, determined, yet easy cut the meatier part of his arm. She didn't have to cut deep - if there was a reaction to silver, there was a reaction to silver.

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-27 07:04 am UTC (link)
"Oh, good. I love going into things blind."

It wasn't the first time he had, but it didn't mean he had to like it. Jack would do whatever it was that Jack was going to do. They'd have answers, or maybe they wouldn't. Who knew.

Evan didn't know what she was looking for, so he couldn't help her. The bracelet felt vaguely itchy, but he figured that was probably more to do with the scratchy wood part than the he might be something unnatural part.

He made a face as she cut him. Doing his best to not curse her out. He'd signed up for this. He didn't outright ask for it, but he'd said yes to it. This was as much his doing as hers, and she was just trying to help. Just trying to help. Just trying to help.

"How much blood do I get to lose?"

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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-27 07:12 am UTC (link)
"Shut up." Jack grabbed another towel and pressed it to the cut after cleaning off the knife. "Nothing. No reaction."

She sounded a little surprised and a little disappointed. Using one hand to hold the towel to the cut, she loosened and removed the holly with her free hand. This wasn't at all what she expected. There should have been something. Anything.

"Well, as far as all this goes, you're not a demon, shifter, werewolf, or all round oogie boogie." Note, she didn't say she agreed with it. "You ever feel a connection to an animal?" Sure, she was reaching a little, but it was one possibility, wasn't it?

"Felt like if you were still long enough you could share its mind?" It would explain the familiarity with the area and the lack of reaction. It was also jumping to a possibly ridiculous conclusion. Without asking she turned to sit on his lap as she kept pressure on the cut. She'd have to bandage it, but for now, she felt like being close to him as they talked. He hadn't attacked her, not yet.

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-27 07:45 am UTC (link)
Evan could feel the disappointment wafting off of Jack. He didn't know what to tell her to make her feel better about what was going on. If he had answers, he wouldn't have needed the tests.

"I suppose... that's good, right?" He shrugged. Except it wasn't, not really. There had to be something.

"Connection to animals? No. I mean, I like animals. I've owned dogs. But no, I can't say that I ever felt like I could mind meld a poodle."

It wasn't that Evan was making fun of her, she had a purpose for asking, it just sounded completely absurd. That he would have some pet psychic ability and had seen the whole farm incident through the eyes of whatever had done it. Wolf. He knew it was a wolf. He'd smelled it. He knew.

"I think we've hit a wall, Jack."

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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-27 07:55 am UTC (link)
"It doesn't make sense. And, no, it's not good." Jack sighed, slipping from his lap. "Put pressure on it. We'll get you fixed up."

The hunter started to put things away in her bag before making her way to the bathroom to find the bandages. It didn't make sense. There had to be an explanation - people didn't develop psychic abilities. Unless they were dipped in toxic waste, flown to other realities, or manipulated by some outside force. Well, two out of three were possible. Maybe even the third one.

"This doesn't make sense." She was stating an obvious, but it had to be stated all the same. She settled down beside him on the couch with all she needed to patch him up. "Least your boy's prepared."

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-28 04:27 am UTC (link)
Evan held the pressure when she directed him to it.

"I don't know. I think I'm pretty content with the idea of alien implanted memories." Evan shrugged. "It's a lot better than the thought that I might be something other than what I've spent my whole life being."

He was actually a lot calmer now that he'd passed all of her tests. He sat back against the back of the couch, and present his hand to her when she came back with bandages to wrap him up with.

"Why are you so sure that I'm something else? Why do you sound disappointed that I'm not?"

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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-28 04:52 am UTC (link)
Jack didn't answer him right away. Instead she put a little "monkey's blood" on the cut before moving on to the next step. She knew the substance was actually Mecurochrome, yet the other name had stuck. She was amused that the stuff was sitting as pretty as it pleased in the medicine cabinet among other things.

"I don't think you'll need stitches." She hadn't cut him that deeply or at a great length, but it seemed that the cut was smaller than she imagined it should have been. Perhaps he was just a bleeder. She didn't think so, but...she put a small bit of padding to his arm and taped it up quickly enough. The spot on his hand seemed to be almost gone. Again, there should have been more of a mark.

"Because you're not reacting like you should. And, I don't think I'd want implanted memories. I don't like people messing with my mind." She rubbed the spot she'd poked the stake into, making sure the artifact hunter didn't have a splinter.

"Because if you had reacted, I would have a way to answer for the memory that wasn't something artificial." She glanced up at him, his hand still in hers. "Because I'm pretty sure that guys like you don't just disappear and forget about unless you had that in mind to begin with."

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-31 09:50 pm UTC (link)
"No." He agreed about the stitches, looking at his hand, confused. "It sure as fuck felt like I was going to need stitches."

Evan looked at Jack, shaking his head. "So you'd rather actually be some kind of monster than have aliens make you think you might be some kind of monster? That makes no sense to me, Jack. I'd rather deal with aliens fucking with my head. I'm a guy. Just a guy. Yes, I can find anything you want me to find, but I'm a human being, and pretty happy with that. I don't want to be anything else."

He smiled at her a little bit. "I was with the aliens. They didn't want me to remember the awesome party they threw in my honor, because it would make the rest of you jealous. What can I say? I'm cool like that."

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[info]masterofnone
2013-07-31 10:44 pm UTC (link)
"I know how to deal with monsters, Evan." Jack gave him a slight smile, knowing her reasoning may seem a little strange, but it made sense to her. "Aliens as much as we've been proven to the contrary didn't exist where I'm from. They were jokes, lies, pranks. They're the unknown - monsters, not so much."

She looked over her handiwork and soon tossed the stuff leftover to the nearby table. Her attention was finally on him, or more his face. She leaned in and pressed a kiss to his lips.

"Or you were such a bad drunk, they decided you didn't need to remember just how badly you embarrassed yourself." She smiled against his lips before kissing him again. "So, going to let me look you over for any marks, or are you going to fight me on this?"

She hadn't forgotten that he could have some serious issues. That things could go south, but she didn't seem to mind. It could be much worse, couldn't it?

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[info]artifacthunter
2013-07-31 11:02 pm UTC (link)
The mood, the conversation, the focus of everything shifted the moment that Jack kissed him. None of it mattered. This was the welcome back that he really wanted. He leaned into her, pressed into her, really, returning the kiss.

Sure, there was somebody else that he might have wanted to do this with more than Jack, but there were complications on that end, and Evan was really not in the mood for complications of any kind. He wanted freedom and fun and simplicity. Jack promised all of that.

To answer her question, he took his shirt off and tossed it aside.

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