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Tweak says, "Macaroni & Cheerios!"

ikindalikeit (ikindalikeit) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-08-14 13:44:00

Entry tags:

daniel osbourne, rogue

Action | Closed to Oz
[ it's a date. Rogue's first official date with Oz, and she's nervous. Butterflies are starting a riot in her stomach, she's second guessed the outfit she bought for the date a million times, and she's still worrying that it's too 'naked'. There's a lot of shoulder and knee to mid thigh showing, but it's a date. That's the sorta thing that's supposed to be showing on a date, isn't it?

Clearly she's got very little actual experience in this area. She has decided to leave her hair down, feeling that it provides a little extra protection against her naked shoulders. There's a knock on the door, just in time to stop her from running back into her room to put on tights that it's really too warm for anyway.

She opens the door with a nervous smile. ]

Hey.

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ikindalikeit
2013-08-24 09:45 pm UTC (link)

[ She's happy to let him open the door. She likes that he does little things like that. Once they find a table, she speaks. ]

That's awful. I had no idea that sorta thing happened. Occasionally we got people who experiment on mutants, but far as I know, it ain't usual. I guess difference sorta gets treated the same everywhere, no matter the where or the difference.

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	taciturnbeast 2013-08-26 11:11 am UTC (link)
	People are afraid of what they don't understand. [ He pauses. ] And I don't know about your world, but in my world the Government keeps trying to get involved. The military with super secret task forces. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ikindalikeit 2013-08-26 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	[ Rogue nods in agreement. ] Back home, they're tryin' to make mutants register. They say it's for everybody's safety, but that ain't how it works. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-08-28 11:36 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, they do a lot of things in the name of safety. [ He pauses. ] The government locked me in a prison one time. There were... experiments and drugs. It was not a good time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ikindalikeit 2013-08-28 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	[ Immediate concern and sympathy sweep across Rogue's features. ] Oh Sugar, I'm so sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-08-29 09:42 am UTC (link)
	The government might be doing it where you're from too. [ He doesn't like the idea of Rogue in a cell. His brow furrows. ] There... are some things I need to tell you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ikindalikeit
2013-08-29 12:35 pm UTC (link)

I ain't rulin' anything out where that's concerned.

[ She knows some sort of experimentation happened on Logan, but she's not entirely sure from the flashes she saw in his head if it was voluntary or the government or a private organization.

At his announcement, she sits up a little straighter, dread crossing her face. Her stomach drops. She's not entirely sure this is a good thing. ]

Okay. I'm listenin'.

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	taciturnbeast 2013-08-29 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	[ He can see that dread on her features. He can smell it. He's worried too. But his face remains neutral for the moment. ] First. I think you're pretty cute. [ His eyes smile a bit. ] Pretty and sweet and everything I... There's lots of attraction. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ikindalikeit 2013-08-29 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	[ She blushes at the compliment, dread disappearing for the moment. ] I like you an awful lot too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-08-29 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	Gladness. [ He thinks back to his conversation with Buffy. And continues. ] You make me not wanna be lonely. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ikindalikeit 2013-08-30 12:00 am UTC (link)
	[ She looks up at him, a soft smile on her lips. ] That's the nicest thing anybody's ever told me, I think. You make me not wanna be lonely too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-08-31 10:37 am UTC (link)
	I probably should have saved that for last then. [ Cause he was about to make it complicated. ] Cause there are complications. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ikindalikeit 2013-08-31 02:05 pm UTC (link)
	[ Her brow furrows and that sense of dread and worry comes back. ] Oz, you can't kiss me without the risk of goin' into a coma. Sex is sorta off the table or really creative. I think complicated is sorta theme with me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-09-01 09:52 am UTC (link)
	And I do that wolf thing... apparently more here than I have at home in a long time. External forces. [ He nods slowly, looking down to the top of the table. ] I uhm... I've been here in the prison a long time. We've been dancing around each other for a long time, you and me. Not literal dancing, just metaphorical. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ikindalikeit 2013-09-01 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	I think yours are a lot easier to deal with than mine. [ She says that even with scars on her shoulder, ribs and hip from an attack. ] Literal dancin' would be nice sometime, but yeah. We have. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-09-02 11:25 am UTC (link)
	And I don't know if you remember that several days ago I left and returned with more memories from home. [ He's pretty sure they had talked about that, if not in specifics, in the fact that several years had been shoved into his brain. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ikindalikeit 2013-09-02 01:46 pm UTC (link)
	[ Rogue nods. ] Yeah. You seemed sorta...more thoughtful than usual 'bout it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-09-03 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah... [ He smirks the word out so it's more air than voice. Then he continues. ] So uh... when I came back, I had more memories of home. And... I had my own pack there. My own... family. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ikindalikeit 2013-09-03 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	[ Rogue leans forward, worry and concern etched on her face. By family she's assuming he means a family like the people she has back at Xavier's, like Logan and Professor X and Storm. ] Well that's good, ain't it, Sugar? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-09-03 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	Oh. Yeah. It's good. I never thought... I mean... I was lone wolf for a really long time. [ And then he'd found his place, something he'd yet to do here. But he was trying... getting closer. And from his perspective, she's taking this way better than he'd thought she would. ] Her name is Bay. And my son is Kelden. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ikindalikeit 2013-09-03 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	[ Okay. Wait. Rogue is staring at him in shock now. It's probably more the reaction she expected. ] You've got a family. [She's going to have to have a minute to decide how she feels about that. Right now she's confused and shocked and wondering where the hell that leaves her and him. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taciturnbeast 2013-09-04 12:52 pm UTC (link)
	[ He didn't need his wolfy senses to catch that shock as she's registering this information. So it's a few seconds more before he speaks again. ] I didn't plan to like you as much as I do. And when I got back from home you were with someone else. And I set it to the back-burner. But I can't deny I have these feelings. You make me feel... things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ikindalikeit
2013-09-04 02:16 pm UTC (link)

[ It's a lot to take in. She knows that they all have lives they leave behind when they come here. She's certain that Oz isn't the only one with a spouse and a child. She's just never had feelings for someone that had either. Oh, she supposes at one point Logan might have had a wife, but that was always more of a crush than anything that could be a viable relationship; She'd thought that was what she and Oz were building, as much as they could anyway given her power.

For the moment she's going to put the wife and child thing on the backburner, at least until she figures out what Oz wants from her. There was no sense in spending time brooding over it until then. ]

What--what sorta things?

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	taciturnbeast 2013-09-06 11:52 am UTC (link)
	[ He knows it's a lot to take in. He knows it is. And he's honestly waiting for her to walk right here and now. ] The sort of things that happen when a boy likes a girl in more than a platonic way. [ He pauses. ] I get if it's too... complicated. It feels really complicated. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ikindalikeit
2013-09-06 02:47 pm UTC (link)

[ She's not ready to walk out yet. She's really not. She's just trying to deal with two levels of things: Their relationship and his relationships previous to this.

She takes a deep breath and shakes her head. ] It ain't--it's...[ she presses her lips together. ] I guess I'm sorta afraid of bein' a homewrecker. I'm also, selfishly, sorta afraid of what happens if...[ sharp breath in and definitely not looking at him ] I let myself fall in love with you here and she showed up. I couldn't blame you. I'd even encourage you.

[ She blows a breath out between her lips. ] Then I'm sorta thinkin' it's all pointless and dumb. I can't ever...it's always gonna be sophomore year at high school relationship wise with me and I know that's gonna get old eventually so I don't know why either of us are worried about gettin' in too deep 'cause I'm all shallow end.

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