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Tweak says, "Come inside...*leers*"

Rebecca Crane (needmymp3) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-02-24 23:28:00

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kitty pryde (aoa), rebecca crane, spike

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[Private to Kitty Pryde]

Hey Kitty. I just wanted to let you know I'm going to take some time off from dispatch. Been doing it a while and I think I just need a break. I'll probably still drop by HQ every now and again and if you need me in a pinch chances are I'll be free to help out. But I've just got some stuff to sort out right now and get my head squared back on my shoulders.

[Private to Spike]

You still up for shots, popcorn and maybe some nail painting? I've got a load of bad rom-coms and a stack of horror flicks if you're interested. I promise no blood smoothies. Though seriously, you have to wonder what they'd come out like.

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	needmymp3 2016-03-09 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	Is this 19th century chivalry? If only more of the living had a similar approach. [There'd be less fuckboys in the world. She reaches up to try and pop popcorn into his mouth.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-03-09 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Nah... 19th century chivalry was a lot more... [ He makes a gesture, picking up the popcorn from her hand in the meantime. ] ...curtseying and poetry and absolutely no shagging whatsoever until you've gotten married and probably not even then. Except for the pervs, of course. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needmymp3 2016-03-09 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	I'd be such a 19th century perv. [She says, eyes drifting off in thought. Okay, loose woman would probably be a more period apt term even if it wrinkles her nose.] Poetry though, that could be cool. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-03-09 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	[ Whoa whoa whoa what did you say? ] You serious? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needmymp3 2016-03-09 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	That I'd probably be ostracized by 19th century circles for getting frisky more than a proper girl should? [Is this such a shocker? Obviously that's what you're asking, right?] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-03-09 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	Well, when you put it that way... [ Obviously that's what he's asking. Nothing else. ] Bet you'd bring in a pretty penny though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needmymp3 2016-03-09 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	Are you saying I'd be a good prostitute? [Half flattered, for some reason. Damn well would be.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-03-09 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	No Ripper would dare cross your path, that's for sure. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needmymp3 2016-03-09 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	Psh. [She snorts though, if only her timeline was on the update she'd have more to say about that.] What else was the 1900s like. Anything missable? It's not every day you get to hear the details from a person who was there. Storybooks always tend to lie. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-03-09 11:14 pm UTC (link)
	You're asking me to summarize a whole century? That's a tall order. At least narrow it down some. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

needmymp3
2016-03-09 11:19 pm UTC (link)

Was it... beautiful? When I think of it - more like am told about it - it always sounded a bit stuffy. Even what you said just now about there being a lot of rules and decorum. Maybe it's just because I don't see myself fitting in that it feels stale and uptight. I'd just like to hear that at least some parts of it were fun, fresh and exciting.

Or was it all just... balls, marriage proposals and poetry on scented paper? [She knows she's asking the vampire but part of her still wants the human answer.]

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	chipswiththat 2016-03-10 10:06 am UTC (link)
	Oh, the 1800's. [ That's easier. Stupid years being weird. ] Probably one of the worst times you could be alive, if you ask me. Lots of colonization and syphilis... China was more fun. Opium dens, revolutions. Better than Britain by a long shot. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

needmymp3
2016-03-11 03:47 am UTC (link)

[I could go "bleh years" but let's just play it off like Rebecca's gentle ignorance on stuffy boring topics. She sucks her teeth, amused.] Oooh, syphilis.

So Britain's not the be all, end all? My teammate used to make it sound so. [Snorting at what is about to go full circle back to STIs.] He used to go on about how it would tolerate Europe like you'd tolerate herpes.

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	chipswiththat 2016-03-11 09:42 am UTC (link)
	In full honesty — and I'm saying this as someone born and bred in London — brits are bloody wankers. You think vampires are bad, you should take a closer look at what those gin-swilling, self-righteous, stuffy merchants of destruction did to the world as a whole. If he thinks Britain is the be all, end all, he needs to get out of her Maj's basement. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needmymp3 2016-03-12 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	The more you validate my opinions in an unfinished argument with Shaun, the more I love you Spike. [She has great fuel for that fight if it ever starts up again. 'Gin-swilling'. It's perfect.] So you traveled a lot? We've got that much in common. Last place I was before here was Italy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-03-13 08:35 am UTC (link)
	[ Good God he hopes Shaun shows up here. The arguments that could be had. ] Wasn't really a good idea to stay too long in the same place, so yeah, I traveled a lot. China, the US... Prague was a shitshow. Spent some time in Europe in the 40s. Ate a nazi. [ Yep. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needmymp3 2016-03-13 08:39 am UTC (link)
	How were your travels? Mine were mostly in thin ass sleeping bags on cement floors. Bet you got beds half the time, though I guess vampires don't need shut eye as much. Do you? [Has she asked this before? It seems like something that could be annoying, really. Being awake all the time. Amazingly useful just as well.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

chipswiththat
2016-03-13 08:47 am UTC (link)

No, we sleep. Best way to pass the daylight. [ If you're safe enough to not set fire to yourself or get staked while you snooze. ] Dru was always keen on a four poster bed, but when I was on my own I slept wherever. Basements, sewers, cemeteries, abandoned factories... can't be too picky.

[ Vampires live lives like homeless people more often than not. Nesting isn't a good idea. ]

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needmymp3
2016-03-13 08:52 am UTC (link)

Eh, the Brotherhood does that too though - safer to be on the move than anywhere people can get you in the night. [Yeah she's had enough booze to divulge her weird home life.

She seems to realize the words are coming out of her mouth as they do, blinking before deciding on more booze. What's he going to care?] That's right - did I ever tell you? I am - was - an assassin. Feels like years ago.

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	chipswiththat 2016-03-13 09:12 am UTC (link)
	[ If she did tell him, he's forgotten it by now. Sorry not sorry. ] You serious? And here I took you for a basement dweller. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needmymp3 2016-03-13 09:14 am UTC (link)
	[One more swig of booze before she offers it back to him.] Well, I kind of am. I run tech support for my team. What we're doing is complicated and pretty isolated lately, so... less killing and more staying on the run. All your years, you ever hear of the Templars? I wonder if they're still assholes in your universe. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-03-13 09:42 am UTC (link)
	Only in relation to nutty conspiracy theorists. Plenty of real mystical sects out there though, usually tied up with some primordial evil or other. [ He takes a swig. Much better. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needmymp3 2016-03-13 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	Well, Templars are real assholes back home for me. [Huff.] Vying for universal control and the death of free will. They're totally fun to deal with. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	chipswiththat 2016-03-14 11:35 am UTC (link)
	Oh yeah, we've had a few of those too. Most of them are more on the total destruction route, though. Opening hell dimension and what not. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needmymp3 2016-03-14 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know what these guys think. But Assassins just fight for free will. [Which may be a big reason she's trying to look at herself and her actions here in regards to the DF and him.] Hell dimensions though. Those sound... terrifying. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)