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Tweak says, "It's called a lance. Hello?"

MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-10-31 12:41:00

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:mary wesson, :mingle, aidan reilly, aigis, charlotte charles, felix gaeta, ianto jones, jack harkness, jezebel mephistopheles, jim kirk, john constatine, kanji tatsumi, kitty pryde (aoa), lelouch vi britannia, malcolm reynolds, martha jones, nico di angelo, pavel chekov (au), peter parker (stnas), ryou kurokiba, sarah williams, spencer reid, spike, suzaku kururugi, the doctor (ten), ton phanan, wade wilson

Day 400 — Spooky Anniversary Mingle

(( OOC: Happy Halloween - sort of! EVENT INFO ))

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Dance

foreverjack
2016-11-04 01:26 pm UTC (link)

[He's been aware of Kirk on the network and around the Dome, but they've never actually spoken yet. Tonight, that's going to change, because there's no way Jack's going to ignore someone in a costume like that!

And so after a while of watching Kirk work his way around the dance floor, he waits until he's dancing by himself and then eases up to him, trademark filmstar smile at the ready.]

Now that is a costume!

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	universal_charm 2016-11-05 01:18 am UTC (link)
	_{[ Please don't bring up the raptors, Jack. It is not one of his prouder moments - he is a better captain than all that! His own smile is an equal for Jack's, throwing an arm out so the cape flared behind him for a heart beat. ]} If there's a time to indulge your dark side, it's tonight, am I right? I think the cape is what makes it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-11-05 01:00 pm UTC (link)
	[As if he would be that mean! (Well, before he actually gets to know the man, at least! The smile lights up the man's entire face, and Jack is loving the flare of the cape too.] Absolutely! And I am loving the cape. I'm a little disappointed I didn't spot that costume in the shops myself! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	universal_charm 2016-11-06 12:19 am UTC (link)
	Must mean it was meant for me then. _{[ He steps in closer to Jack and slides his arms around his shoulders, tilting his head in a coquettish sort of way with a glimmer in his eyes. ]} And I assume you came up looking for a dance? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-11-07 03:11 am UTC (link)
	I guess so! [One eyebrow quirks slightly as Kirk moves in, amused and pleasantly surprised, because he's yet to meet any man here as forward as he is. He grins, his own hands settling on Kirk's hips.] That was the general idea, yeah. I mean, the image of my coat and your cape twirling together... it'd be quite a sight, wouldn't it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

universal_charm
2016-11-08 01:25 am UTC (link)

_{[ Oh, Jack, you are in for a treat. Kirk was, if nothing else, quite forward. His crew often despaired of that fact, though he did manage to keep it in check around them.

He doesn't push away the other's hands on his hips, keeping his own around his shoulders and settling into the form of the dance, clearly not bothered by taking the following roll. ]}

Planning on making everyone stop and stare? Like the prince and the belle of the ball?

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foreverjack
2016-11-08 12:45 pm UTC (link)

[He smirks a bit.] Has to be done, really, doesn't it? And I do enjoy making people stop and stare!

[His smirk grows wider as the music segues into something in waltz time, and he slides his right hand up to Kirk's left on his shoulder and guides it down into a ballroom hold so he can lead him into a few of those twirls that make their respective coat and cape flow out behind them.]

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	universal_charm 2016-11-09 01:01 am UTC (link)
	I was getting that impression, yes. _{[ He laughed as he was spun, hearing the flap of their respective cape and trench coat. He's not sure what sort of image they make, but he is sure it is an impressive one. ]} I dare to say this is not your first time sweeping a man across a dance floor - Mr...? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-11-09 03:14 am UTC (link)
	[He chuckles, thoroughly enjoying himself, and slows them down enough that they can talk.] Captain Jack Harkness. [Accompanied by another of those trademark smiles] And no, it really isn't. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	universal_charm 2016-11-15 12:23 am UTC (link)
	Captain James Tiberius Kirk - but Jim will do. _{[ It's going to be a war of the smiles isn't it? Well, Kirk's been in far less pleasant fights than that. ]} Good - because we simply must make a show of it. It would be a shame to let cape and coat go to waste, wouldn't it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

foreverjack
2016-11-16 11:19 am UTC (link)

Ah, yes, of course - you're Chekov's captain, aren't you? [He hasn't spent much time socially with Chekov but they're both on the investigative team in the Defence Force so they have spent time together.

And that suggestion makes him laugh merrily, and pull Kirk in close for a quick, spinning two-step, making cloth flare out behind them and necessarily clearing quite a path across the dance floor.] You know, I feel we've just hit on a new way of clearing the dance floor!

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	universal_charm 2016-11-22 01:44 am UTC (link)
	Oh, he's spoken of me then? I hope he hasn't told to many embarrassing stories. _{[ A delighted laugh leaves him at the motion, holding Jack tighter and taking the daring motion of brushing their foreheads and noses together. ]} Better than my previous way which was starting a fight with someone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2016-11-24 03:16 am UTC (link)
	He's never said anything but good things. [Because he's a polite young man. He lets himself be pulled in, mostly because he's so very unused to being with anyone even more flirtatious than he is and it's taking him rather by surprise. He still lifts an amused eyebrow at the last part, though.] You started fights just to clear the dance floor? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

universal_charm
2016-11-27 12:41 am UTC (link)

_{[ It's true, he is very polite, even if Kirk has given him plenty of things to complain about over the years. What? Not everything can go smoothly in space, that's crazy talk.

He chuckled, keeping his face close to Jack's, breaths puffing against his lips. ]}

It was practically tradition in little old Riverside, Iowa. It wasn't a good night at the bar without one.

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foreverjack
2016-12-02 10:05 am UTC (link)

[Perhaps Checkov and Ianto ought to get together. They both must have umpteen things to complain about regarding their respective Captains!

Jack grins a bit, chuckling.]

Yeah, been through my share of those too. I didn't usually go looking for them, though. Usually they started because someone didn't like the way their girlfriend or boyfriend was looking at me!

[A hint of his usual smirk accompanies this remark, although Kirk may be too close to see much of it. He can't actually remember the last time he had someone this close to him. Other than Ianto or Spike, of course - or Kitty, because they've had quite a few close encounters too. But somebody new, anyway. It's... causing him a quite intriguing conflict of reactions. He's totally into the flirting, and yet, for possibly the first time, he's very aware of Ianto and how much Ianto might hurt if he were to pursue anything more than just flirting. It's rather interesting.]

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universal_charm
2016-12-03 01:10 am UTC (link)

_{[ It might not be a bad idea. Or it might be a horrible idea. The secrets they might tell... ]}

That's how it always starts with me, but that's never quite how it gets told to the boyfriends, or the police.

_{[ He pouted at Jack for a second before breaking out in a warm laugh. It felt good to flirt again - not that he didn't anyways, but to flirt with the possibility of something actually happening? That was not precisely new, but it had been awhile. One couldn't rightly expect things to happen with one's crew members - it was bad manners, to say the least, and improper.

His head titled slightly, because he could tell the other was enjoying the flirting as much as he was, but he wasn't taking that final step. Maybe he liked the long game?

Kirk's voice was a touch lower now, adding a husky undertone. ]}

I suppose it's a good thing for a pirate to have a record, no? Reputations and all.

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foreverjack
2016-12-09 11:12 am UTC (link)

A pirate, huh? That's how you describe yourself?

[One eyebrow quirking in curious amusement.] I feel Chekov would describe you more as a kind of Robin Hood...

[And then, because if they stay this close any longer he's not going to be able to fight temptation any longer, he gently but deliberately slips out from Kirk's intimate embrace under cover of smoothly grabbing Kirk's hand in order to twirl him beneath their joined arms.

Which also rather conveniently causes the blue band around his left wrist to slide out from under the wide leather of his wrist strap, for Kirk to see. He assumes Kirk's been here long enough to know what a blue band means and that he's not warning him off, per se, just... explaining why he's not going any further with what could otherwise be such a fun little flirtation.]

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universal_charm
2016-12-16 12:28 am UTC (link)

Well, I am in costume right now. Robin Hood though... I don't hate it.

_{[ He lets himself be twirled, recognizing the motion for what it was, if not why. It was disappointing - Jack was good looking, and he had thought he was clearly interested. It would have made for a fun evening, to say the least. Not that he wasn't having fun, it would just be a different kind of fun.

He comes back to Jack, less close now though, even if he did hope Jack would change his mind. His eyes flicker to the band, not having remembered seeing it before and didn't think it went with Jack's current attire, per say. He seemed a man that was put together, so something out of place wasn't so easy to just pass over. ]}

Interesting bit of jewelry there. A lovely color.

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foreverjack
2016-12-18 08:21 am UTC (link)

((OOC: Doh, too long between tags and too much going on in my head and I completely forgot about the costume! Silly me! Still, easily enough covered, for Jack!))

Ah, you just meant the costume? Right! [He grins.] Perhaps Robin Hood could be an option for next time you need a costume. After all, he could wear a cape too!

[And well, Kirk's next question at least make it easy to bring up his unavailable status. He chuckles, turning his wrist as if examining the band for the first time.] I suppose it is. I never really thought about it as pretty, more what it stands for. [A faint quirk of his eyebrows.] You're not acquainted yet with the sex bands system here? Or have you just not seen one in person yet?

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universal_charm
2016-12-20 02:48 am UTC (link)

And he gets to wear tights. But I bet you were already thinking about that part, weren't you?

_{[ The tease flows naturally until Jack answers his question about the bracelet. But at the name of it, blue eyes widen a fraction and there is a touch of both disbelief and even worry. That did not sound like something good for him, not at all. Not with the way he liked to play things. ]}

I've only been here just under two weeks. No one's mentioned anything like that.

_{[ Oh Jack, you're crushing his heart right now if those mean what he thinks they mean. ]}

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foreverjack
2016-12-20 03:04 am UTC (link)

[He laughs out loud at the tights comment, delighted by the flirting, but sobers abruptly at Kirk's reaction to the sex bands stuff. His movement finally slows to a complete halt, because this is a conversation that's too serious - and potentially devastating, if Kirk is as much like him as he seems to be - to have whilst dancing. He draws the younger man to the side, his gaze sympathetic.]

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. You can't have sex here without a sex band. And you can't have casual sex with penetration. A red band means you can get it on with as many people as you like, but only as far as third base. If you want to actually fuck someone, you need a blue band, but then you're effectively restricted to that person and up to one other.

[He quirks a rueful smile.] You're pretty lucky you haven't got into trouble already. I got black-banded my first day here!

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universal_charm
2016-12-20 03:16 am UTC (link)

_{[ He's not that young. He's thirty. But all right, compared to Jack that was practically a teen. He follows Jack, not dazed so much as shocked and yes, quite frankly, a little upset.

It wasn't that he couldn't live his life without sex. He could. He had been going without it for quite a bit back home. A captain does not fraternize with his crew - it ran to close to a potential abuse of power, and he didn't want to even begin to toe that line. Ever. Only about three or four people would he trust that he was not doing so, but those people were either taken or that simply was not what their relationship was about as it stood.

But even though he could live without it, it didn't make him celibate, or mean that sex didn't play a role in his life. An important one, perhaps. It was a real, tangible connection for him to the world of the living, a reminder of his own humanity and that brief, beautiful flare of being connected with someone, of not feeling quite so alone and alien. He liked to hear heart beats thundering and taste sweat and feel his skin bruising, take all those things and sear them into his being to remind himself that death had not been so very permanent.

He manages to give Jack a smile of his own back, but it is dimmed as he processes the information, wondering how to order his life to achieve that sensation, that necessary part of his own therapy even three years removed from the event. Some habits you just didn't grow out of after an event like that, especially with no one to really talk to and understand it. ]}

That's insane. This is just some digital prison, isn't it? Why would they care if we go around having one night stands or if we're committed? It makes no sense. Bad enough they steal us from our worlds, now they're putting rules on our love lives?

_{[ He huffs, irritated, crossing his arms over his chest and glaring at the blue band on Jack's wrist as if it were personally responsible for this development. ]}

Let me guess - black band means no touching anyone?

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foreverjack
2016-12-20 03:02 pm UTC (link)

[He watches Kirk absorb it all, knowing this is probably exactly what his face looked like when he first heard about all this. They're as alike as he first assumed, it seems, at least in this. He even feels he might be getting that there's something a little more to it than just a sheer love of physical intimacy, with Kirk as there is with him, but that's probably a conversation for another day when they haven't only just met.]

I know. It's ridiculous. I never have managed to get a real answer from them about that. The most they'll give me is that they don't want relationships getting messy when we're all stuck together down here, but that doesn't really hold water, if you'll forgive the pun!

And yeah. Black bands mean you can't touch anyone. At all.

[His shudder and the look on his face make it clear that that is possibly the worst kind of hell for someone like Jack Harkness.]

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universal_charm
2016-12-29 12:56 am UTC (link)

_{[ True, another day would be best, especially since he hadn't even spoken of that particular reasoning with Spock and Bones. He simply didn't discuss things like that with other people. He never had. He had learned, early, to repress those things and work through them. Speaking them... well, it wasn't worth going into. ]}

Even if you don't have sex, relationships can get messy.

_{[ He's rolling his eyes very hard, but shudders when his fears are confirmed. ]}

Guess it's a good thing I didn't go in for a kiss earlier.

_{[ And he had been very tempted to, make no mistake Jack Harkness. ]}

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foreverjack
2016-12-29 06:31 am UTC (link)

Yep. [He knows all about messy relationship, although to be fair most of his have involved sex, or at least UST!

He frowns a moment.] Actually, sorry, black bands don't mean you literally can't touch anyone at all. They just react if you get at all excited and fling you away from each other. [Which, with the way he'd felt about seeing Ianto again after watching him die in his arms before he arrived here, had been pretty much the same thing as not being able to touch anyone.]

And you don't get them for just kissing. Kissing's virtually encouraged here, really, given the Mistletoe Bot day we get every fifty days or so! They just don't want you doing more than fooling around unbanded. You're okay as long as you don't get anywhere near orgasm.

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