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Rebecca Crane (needmymp3) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-08-22 16:53:00

Entry tags:

:4th wall, :mingle, aidan reilly, euphemia li britannia, jack harkness, kitty pryde (aoa), miranda lotto (au), rebecca crane

[390] open beach mingle;
[Welcome newbies and today-only newbies alike, while you're getting accustomed to the sights and sounds here's a few more. Rebecca opens a channel on the communicator with a bright sunny view of herself on the beach, water in the background and bright blue eyes focused on the lens. While she talks she'll swing the view around, letting snippets of the set up of a volleyball net be seen as well as a few tables worth of baked goods (thank you Chuck) and a sexy redhead boyfriend working grill.]

Hey guys. If you're looking for something to do or want some free food, come by the beach in sector one. My name's Rebecca to make introductions short and we're having a fun get together that's open ended, mostly so I can work on my tan. [She winks. There's more to it than that but she can elaborate later to the people honestly interested. And with a hopeful bite of her lip:] If you remember me from any time before, let's catch up too? We've got some drinks and when it starts to get dark I'm going to try and dig a fire pit. No wardens are around to tell me not to light things on fire so that's exactly what I'm going to do.

[OOC: Rebecca's network replies will have their own thread down below, and you're totally invited to make whatever you'd like of the post in your own comments as well. It's something of a beach party/ mingle with food (pies and the like, courtesy of Chuck), drinks, beach sports and tanning and Becca digging a fire pit later on for people interested. The beach has barbeques (also one manned by Aidan), huts and cabanas and a few harmless fish in the water as well.]

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	redclayheroics 2016-09-08 05:59 pm UTC (link)
	I think you have. Not that... not that it changes anything. 's just that where I'm from, you haven't been born yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redcurls 2016-09-08 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	So you've never met me before? [But-- you are giving her a piggy back and you let her hug you and are overflowing with Dad Love...] You don't... know me? [Slight quiver to her voice.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-09 07:25 am UTC (link)
	Hey, hey... [ Nooo don't cry then he has to set her down and hope she doesn't run away before he can talk to her properly. ] Maybe I don't know who your third grade teacher was but I know you. Y'know? I know you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redcurls 2016-09-10 12:45 am UTC (link)
	[There's a small sniffle and watery eyes going on but she rubs her nose with the back of her hand, eyes downcast but reluctantly peeling upward again to look at him every few seconds.] You're my dad. [She has to reassure herself.] Do you know my name? Or... do you know mom? Have you met her? You don't have any kids yet? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-10 03:05 pm UTC (link)
	I'm your dad. [ Prematurely, but whatever. ] I don't have any kids yet, but I always wanted you, ever since I was little. You know that? I've been waitin' for you all my life. What's your mom's name? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

redcurls
2016-09-11 03:43 am UTC (link)

[Hiccup but alright, alright. She can handle this-- should she tell him? Could that mess up the time space continuum and make her not exist? But...

It's so hard -- because:] Mom's name is Rebecca. Rebecca Crane. But I never call her that so it's weird to say it... But that's why I'm Evie James Reilly-Crane. It's a lot but it's even more when you say it all full, like Evelyn James Reilly-Crane.

Alex always complains about having two last names. I kind of like it. Even if it never fits on my homework. [That burst of talking perked her up and distracted her out of her Sad, though her nose is still running.]

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	redclayheroics 2016-09-13 04:27 pm UTC (link)
	[ Is she still here? She feels like she's still here, all warm and small on his back. He really can't help but smile when she says all that stuff. ] In that case, yeah I know your mom. She's here — we've been datin' for three months. [ Oh man what can he ask. ] You know who's idea it was to name you James? Cause that's my name too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

redcurls
2016-09-13 11:08 pm UTC (link)

Yeah. [Large sigh, she loves you Papa. She leans her cheek against the back of his head and takes a breath-- a breath you'd recognize if you were her dad-- that signifies she's about to go on a long tangent again. She's prone to those. You'll realize soon.]

Well, you and mom had other kids first. But it was my sisters, they're twins, and so you didn't name them James but then my brother came along and you didn't name him James either. Because mom said that it was kind of stupid... and sexist? To reserve the name for the first boy, when you'd already had two girls, so he got to be Alex. But then finally I got to have the name James in my name because well... you guys wanted to make sure it passed along in the end. And you only had girls after him. I don't mind it though. I wouldn't have minded it if was my first name instead of Evelyn, too. Everybody's used to it. But I broke Peter Johnson's nose for making fun of it the first day of school. He was a stupid jerk. Nobody made fun of me after that.

[...] You don't know who Peter Johnson is, do you.

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redclayheroics
2016-09-14 09:15 am UTC (link)

[ Maybe this is something that he finds annoying in the future but right now he really can't keep himself from enjoying the way she talks, the long tangent and her breath against his neck. This is his kid. He knows it in his heart and the way she talks and her weight on his back. He knows and no one can tell him anything different. ]

No, but I'm pretty sure I who his dad is. He was a jerk too. [ Asshole, more like. ] You did good. I'm real proud of you.

[ He pauses for a beat, scared to ask but when else is he going to have this opportunity? ]

How's grandma and grandpa?

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redcurls
2016-09-14 03:38 pm UTC (link)

[She's quiet for a beat, a little happy that Dad calls the Johnsons jerks too.] You and mom told me that already. But I still had to apologize about his nose.

Gran and Gramps are good. Gramps and me were supposed to go fishing today but instead I'm here. I'm a little worried because I have homework I was supposed to do too- do you think I'll get in trouble for not having it done tomorrow? [Steer the conversation back to your parents if you want, Aidan. She'll give better answers, promise, but the homework really is weighing on her.]

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	redclayheroics 2016-09-15 06:04 am UTC (link)
	Nah. I'll write you a note. If they still give you a hard time for it, tell me, alright? I'll give 'em a real talkin' to. [ No one messes with his kids and seriously, who needs book schoolin' anyway. He did fine. ] So they're really okay? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redcurls 2016-09-15 12:45 pm UTC (link)
	[Papa you're the best.] Yeah? Are... are they sick or something? [Why else would you keep asking? Is there something she doesn't know about Gran and Gramps?] I mean... They seem okay. Gran needs new glasses and mom made Gramps a knee brace last fall but that's about it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-15 12:47 pm UTC (link)
	No, no... 's just been a real long time since I saw 'em, that's all. A really long time. I miss 'em, y'know? I miss home. [ Maybe shouldn't dump that on a- what, ten year old? Then again, he'd wanted to hear it when he was a kid. ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redcurls 2016-09-15 12:55 pm UTC (link)
	Oh. [That's sad. Why didn't you go home?!] Mom said you guys traveled a little before you had us. That's how you met. Did you meet here? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-17 04:40 am UTC (link)
	Uh-huh. Weird, huh? [ Underwater prison, you get why they apparently didn't tell the straight truth about that one. ] We've known each other for awhile. She taught me how to make tofu burgers. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redcurls 2016-09-17 03:13 pm UTC (link)
	[She wrinkles her nose a teeny tiny bit.] I don't like tofu burgers. Mom called me the problem child. She always had weird cravings when she was having us but I made her eat bacon a couple times. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-17 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	[ Yeah he can't keep himself from laughing at that. ] That's my girl. Tell me about your siblings? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

redcurls
2016-09-17 04:34 pm UTC (link)

Well. The house is really cramped but Noelle and Molly might move out soon. They're my oldest sisters an' they're twins. Molly's thinking of going to study somewhere else, I don't know where. [Too young to care about details. What is post-secondary education abroad?] But Noelle's got engaged last summer. I was going to be the flower girl but I have to share my basket with Delphie, you and mom said. She's one year older than me. Emma is two and a half years older. I'm eleven and she's gonna be fourteen.

And then there's Alex too. [Her favorite but shut up apparently she's not his.]

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redclayheroics
2016-09-19 02:13 pm UTC (link)

[ Maybe if you were less of a nerd, gawd Evie. ]

So there's... [ Hang on, math. ] Six of you? An' you're th' baby?

[ He kind of likes that. His little girl, proof that he's going to get exactly what he's always wanted. Also did they name one of their twin girls after his mom? Will he survive long enough to make these babies or will he die from happiness before then? ]

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redcurls
2016-09-19 06:11 pm UTC (link)

I'm not a baby. [But yes. She's the baby.]

I'm old enough that mom said I can hang around when Noelle has her baby, if I want. Delphie thinks it's gross but she didn't like helping birth calves either, but I've done that with Grandpa lots. He said real babies aren't much different. But mom also said I should make sure Alex doesn't get sick if he helps out too. [Small smile because it's cheeky but also, oh, you were hoping not to die of happiness, weren't you.]

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	redclayheroics 2016-09-22 04:33 am UTC (link)
	[ Y'know, it's nice to just listen to her talk about home and siblings and birthing calves (of course she's good at that, of course she is) and then suddenly there's a scratch in his brain like a record skipping- ] Hold up. Noelle as in your sister? She's havin' a baby? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redcurls 2016-09-22 01:00 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. She'll be due soon, just after the wedding. [Doesn't that sound familiar? Oh wait, yes, you don't know about that 'tradition'.] She's not that big yet but you can kind of tell. [Blunt shrug.] She's fatter. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	redclayheroics 2016-09-23 05:15 am UTC (link)
	[ Oh my god he's dying. He's also setting her down so he can fix her up a burger, rather than walk her around the entire dome for no reason. ] Wow. An' is she... okay? Is it okay? [ Why are you doing this to him? ] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

redcurls
2016-09-23 08:49 pm UTC (link)

[She fixes her dress a little, sticks close next to Aidan as if fearful she'll get separated. It takes willpower not to reach out and hold on to the side of his pants like she used to when she was smaller.]

Yeah, the baby's good. I think. It's kicking an' everything. I got to feel it. It goes like... brmrprhm. [Hand motions to illustrate bumping.] But I hope it's a boy because I want to have a nephew. There are already too many girls in the house.

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	redclayheroics 2016-09-27 01:12 pm UTC (link)
	Sorry 'bout that. [ As if he actually has any power over the amount of girls there are in the house. Feeling the need for some time to process this, Aidan decides to switch the subject over to something more mundane. ] How do you like your burger? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)