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Tweak says, "WHAT??"

matt donovan (stuck) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-06-10 08:33:00

Entry tags:

buffy summers, caroline forbes, damon salvatore, dawn summers, elena gilbert, korra, malcolm reynolds, matt donovan, peter parker (tas), rebekah mikealson, rogue, sam winchester, spike, stefan salvatore

day 223 | i » video → open.
When I said I wanted to get out of Mystic Falls for a while, this wasn't exactly what I had in mind. Ruins of some ancient prison in Italy or China, maybe, but not underwater and in some alien dimension, or however the hell that's supposed to work. [ if he's getting the gist of this right. he's going by video game logic here. ]

And what happened to a trial by a jury of your peers? Is that not a thing on Planet X? Too human a concept for you? Is throwing eighteen-year-olds in prison for skipping a couple of classes back in high school [ and eradicating an entire vampire bloodline via staking finn mikaelson, but shhhh ] just something you do for fun around here?

[ just when things had calmed down and the world was returning to normal (or as normal as the world was capable of getting after everything that happened back home), this happens. it's just his luck, too. nothing ever stayed good for matt donovan. his life sucked, and it looks like graduating from high school meant it was only going to get suckier from here on out. ]

So much for the world tour.

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	Re: action; easily 2013-06-12 07:30 am UTC (link)
	Well, the appalling footwear ruins it a little. [Seriously, Matt? Flip flops? She's judging.] But otherwise? Yes. Very dashing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; stuck 2013-06-12 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	[ ...what's wrong with flip flops? (other than everything.) ] Fine. [ he kicks them off. ] Find me better shoes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; easily 2013-06-12 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	[She smirks a little at that before going over to where the shoes were.] If you insist. [She looks around for a while before finding a pair. She grabs a bag of socks for him as well, handing them both over to him.] These will look much nicer. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; stuck 2013-06-12 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	[ he plops down on the floor for the length of time it takes him to pull on the socks and shoes, standing when he's finished. ] Okay, now do I look dashing enough for you, Miss Mikaelson? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; easily 2013-06-12 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	[She gives him a look over before nodding in agreement, a smile on her lips.] Why yes, Mister Donovan, you look just dashing enough for my approval. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; stuck 2013-06-13 01:31 am UTC (link)
	Now I can say I officially have the approval of an Original. [ you can stop flirting back any time, donovan. he glances around him, looking for a clock. he finally spots one hanging up on one of the nearby walls. ] Well, I've got about... thirty minutes or so before I have meet Elena at some place called Merlotte's. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: action; easily 2013-06-13 02:06 am UTC (link)
	You had my approval long before now. [But that's pretty much a given. If she's hurt that he's ditching her to go see Elena she doesn't let it show -- it's not surprising, especially with Elena being human here.] It's a nice bar, run by one of the other inmates here. Reminds me a little of the Grill. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; stuck 2013-06-13 03:26 am UTC (link)
	I know. [ said quietly, almost shyly, as he directs his gaze elsewhere. because wow, isn't that rack of really ugly ties suddenly the most fascinating thing in the world? ] So, that would make it the place we're going to be busboys at. [ a joke. he smiles a little at the throwback to prom as he returns his attention to her. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; easily 2013-06-13 03:34 am UTC (link)
	[Yes. Those ties are totally fascinating, Matt. Totally. She laughs a little.] Well, I don't think you'd like working where Caroline does -- the Blood Shack. [Name kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it?] So I guess Merlotte's it is. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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2013-06-13 03:50 am UTC (link)

...Blood Shack. [ please don't tell him the name's literal. ] Yeah, let's just go ahead and not have me work at the same place as the ex-girlfriend that might decide to take this ring for a test drive.

[ he wiggles his fingers at her. ~~hey, the outfit actually makes the ring work~~ someone called caroline shallow and hung up on her earlier. deliberately pushed buttons he knows are sensitive for her, because... well, when you grow up with tyler lockwood, a couple things rub off. ]

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2013-06-13 04:04 am UTC (link)

[It kind of is. It's run by a vampire Matt. One she's friends with. Whoops.]

Don't worry, the blood they serve is supplied by the wardens, I think. Which is...strange in a lot of ways but sometimes it's best not to ask question.

[Rebekah why do you think this would be comforting to him at all.

Still, it's hard not to smile as he waggles his fingers at her so cutely. She'd probably smile even more if she knew he had defended her to Caroline.]

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	action; stuck 2013-06-13 04:14 am UTC (link)
	So, does this place have a lights out for what time we need to be back in our cells? [ yeah, he's not telling her he's in the doghouse with his ex because he was defending her. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; easily 2013-06-13 04:20 am UTC (link)
	It does not. Though there are a lot of rules curfew is luckily not one of them. [Probably for the best, it might go to her head.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; stuck 2013-06-13 04:22 am UTC (link)
	What kind of rules are there? [ a lack of curfew is nice. it sucked when bonnie's dad put one in place. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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2013-06-13 04:25 am UTC (link)

Well for one, they don't like when you drink in public. It's best to keep it in the bars or in your home -- but on the plus side they won't card you in said bars. [So it's a bit of a trade off.]

Property damage will get you in trouble, as will hurting someone enough to need medical help -- or being hurt enough to need medical help yourself.

[There's another one that's probably important but she debates mentioning it all, still, he might want to know -- :]

You can also get in trouble for having sex without having applied for the proper sort of sex licensee.

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	action; stuck 2013-06-13 04:30 am UTC (link)
	Let me get this straight. If someone who knows what this ring does decides to kill me, I'll be punished for being dead? And if I want to sleep with someone, I have to get a card that says I can? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; easily 2013-06-13 04:49 am UTC (link)
	Yes. On both accounts. Though on the second it's not so much a card as a bracelet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; stuck 2013-06-13 05:01 am UTC (link)
	Bracelets that say what, "I'm sleeping with Rebekah," on them. [ JUST USING THAT AS A REFERENCE REBEKAH. JUST AN EXAMPLE. DON'T READ INTO IT. probably should've said amanda seyfried or something. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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2013-06-13 05:14 am UTC (link)

They don't say anything. They're just bracelets. So if, for example, you and I went to get said license, we would both have blue bracelets on. But no one would know who had the matching one. It could be anyone.

[She's totally not reading into it -- except maybe she is. Either way she is going to run with it.]

And since you'll be wearing long sleeves anyways, it'd be easy enough to hide.

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2013-06-13 05:27 am UTC (link)

[ having sexual tension with rebekah -- suddenly, he's well aware of it. not that he hasn't noticed it before (the grill when the veil knocked the power out, standing on that bomb, prom), but right now it's... yeah, definitely should've used amanda seyfried. ]

Thank God for long sleeves. [ and he keeps making it worse, like his mouth and brain aren't agreeing on what he should and shouldn't be saying. ]

So, uh, do we have to sleep in cells or is there a dorm thing going on here?

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2013-06-13 05:39 am UTC (link)

[She notices how quickly he changed the subject, but she'll let it slide for now. It's a small victory in it's own way.]

Actually, there are various apartment buildings you can stay in throughout the different sectors. Free of rent much like everything else here is free.

I live in the Tier Apartments in Sector 3. [Though she's been debating moving.]

I have empty rooms, as the people who shared my apartment have all left. [She lets the offer linger. She doubts he'll take advantage of it, but it's there.]

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2013-06-13 05:56 am UTC (link)

Rebekah...

[ the offer's tempting, but not for the reasons she might think. matt's been alone at home since vicki died and his mother left town after making out with his best friend. sure, living with jeremy for a while had been fun and filled with too much pizza, video games, and beer (sometimes pot, lbr), but it hadn't lasted. and then he was back to living alone in a house that was even bigger and emptier than the one he grew up in. living alone really sucks. solitude is nice and all, but sometimes you just want to know that there's someone else in the house other than yourself. ]

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2013-06-13 06:00 am UTC (link)

I didn't mean it like that.

[And she didn't, mostly.

She gets lonely too. She spent a thousand years almost never living alone. And even though Nik was often far from good company he was still company. But he disowned her and now she has the memories of the months alone in that house in Mystic Falls she claimed for herself when she left the mansion.

She remembers how empty this big apartment feels now. Without her brothers (not that she'd ask Nik to live with her again, knowing what she does now -- and Kol -- well she doesn't let her thoughts linger too long there). Without Quinn. (April had stayed with her a while back home, before she had been daggered. The concept of friends is still a new one but one that continues to grow on her).]

It's just a big place for one person is all.

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	action; stuck 2013-06-13 06:06 am UTC (link)
	[ a big place for one person. like the mansion. he's probably going to regret this, but... ] Considering we would've been sharing hotel rooms all summer -- [ he shrugs ] sure. Why not. At least until I've got this whole prison deal figured out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	action; easily 2013-06-13 06:17 am UTC (link)
	[She's trying to hold back how excited she is about the idea but let's be real, she's really terrible at hiding her feeling.] Fantastic. [There's a moment, and then because she can't resist teasing a little:] I promise not to spy on you changing or anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)