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Octavia Blake [The 100] (okteiviakomskai) wrote in madisonvalley,
@ 2020-08-31 09:32:00

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!closed, !complete, !log, ~2020 august, ~~jake (hadtogetaway), ~~~octavia blake (okteiviakomskai)

Who: Jake and Octavia
What: Jake's arrival
When: Sunday
Where: In town
Warnings: Not likely
Status: Closed

Octavia wouldn't have been anyone's first choice to greet a new arrival, but there she was. She hadn't seen him suddenly materialise on the spot, but she knew no one had been there a moment ago, and now there was someone. Someone who looked a bit like Murphy. Okay, a lot like Murphy. Which was startling, but she wasn't going to let that get to her. She knew about doppelgangers, face twins, whatever they were called, in Madison Valley.

In fact, Murphy already had a doppelganger. Octavia hadn't actually met the guy, but she'd seen him. The resemblance was eerie, and more so with this guy because now there were three of them. Octavia drew a breath, and made her way over to him, to intercept him before the suit from City Hall showed up to give him his welcome packet. She thought it might be a little easier for him to deal if he had a heads up before that happened.

"Hey. You okay, buddy?" she asked him. She didn't know his name, so she picked a random generic greeting. "I know it's jarring to find yourself here. This place is called Madison Valley. Indiana."

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okteiviakomskai
2020-09-02 02:35 am UTC (link)

Octavia pulled out the map, and studied it for a moment. "Looks like this is your lucky day Your apartment is in the building next to mine. Come on, I'll show you." She started walking and since she had the envelope with his other stuff in it, he'd better come with her.

"Do you have cell phones where you're from?" If not, well. Teaching him how to use it might be a process. He didn't strike her as coming from the future the way she had. She hadn't ever seen a cell phone before she came to Madison, but she wasn't unfamiliar with the technology.

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hadtogetaway
2020-09-02 06:48 am UTC (link)

"Good to know."

He hadn't expected her to start walking right away, though. Which has him following her. She had his shit and there was no way that he was going to let her just walk off with it. Besides, if she could show him where this apartment was then all the better. The fact that she was willing to do it was pretty damn good too.

"I know how to use a cellphone. We don't have to worry about that," he tells her with a shake of his head. "Those are one of the easiest things possible."

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okteiviakomskai
2020-09-02 10:01 pm UTC (link)

"You'd be surprised how many people come here that don't know how to work one." Octavia shrugged. "I mean, I'm from the future. 2149 to be exact." Which was weird to her, because it was her norm. She'd never known the twenty-first century.

"Earth was more or less destroyed by a nuclear fall out. A lot of technology survived, but cell phones are a thing of the past. So I had to learn how to use the damn thing." She led him around a corner and down a street, toward apartment buildings looming in the distance. "That's where we're going," she pointed with the envelope.

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hadtogetaway
2020-09-02 10:47 pm UTC (link)

Her saying that she's from the future has Jake stopping mid-step. That was a bit more messed up than he'd like to admit. 2149. That was a good... well, it was way too far into the future. After a moment, he starts following her again.

"They're not that hard to use, if you have the right teacher," he tells her before looking where she was pointing with the envelope. "Outside doesn't look so bad." Didn't mean that the inside would look fine. "So, where you're from Earth was destroyed... By a nuclear fall out. Sounds pretty messed up."

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okteiviakomskai
2020-09-03 10:04 pm UTC (link)

"You could say that. Some people knew it was coming. They escaped to the skies. That's where I was born, in space." She'd just skip over the part about being an illegal birth, hidden under the floorboards for the first sixteen years of her life. "I got sent to ground when I was seventeen. And now I'm here." That was about as simple as she could recount her life story, because she'd left out practically all the important details.

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hadtogetaway
2020-09-04 05:17 am UTC (link)

Just the knowledge alone was giving him a bit of a headache. She was born in space? It takes a lot for him not to look towards the sky. Sent to the ground. That sounded a bit awful, if anyone were to ask him. They hadn't. "Better here then?" The apartments weren't too far off, but he was enjoying her company. So, he didn't care if they managed to get there or not.

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okteiviakomskai
2020-09-06 01:11 am UTC (link)

"Life is better here," she told him. "But there are things I miss about life there," she added. But with Lincoln dead, maybe she was better off in Madison. She was getting used to this life, at any rate. She'd just skip the part about having a child she didn't remember, that Murphy was raising. That was probably a little too much to throw at Jake on top of everything else.

"Do you want me to come up to your apartment with you, or you think you can handle it from here?"

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hadtogetaway
2020-09-06 03:38 am UTC (link)

Life was better. Maybe life would be better in Madison Valley, even for him. There was no island to be stuck on. He also wasn't dead. He could make a life and not have to worry about anything. Not Anna, not being dead and definitely not an island.

"I think I can handle it from here," he tells her with a bit of a smile. "Thank you, Octavia." For taking time out of her day to bother with him. "Thanks."

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okteiviakomskai
2020-09-08 02:06 am UTC (link)

"You're welcome, Jake." Octavia gave him a little smile and held out the manilla envelope with his things in it. "The phone has a town network on it. If you need anything, just send a message to me. Pretty sure I'm the only Octavia in the contact list."

She waved him on, and headed toward her own apartment in the next building. She was glad he was close. She felt like she wanted to get to know him better.

[OOC: Wrap!]

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