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sam_mm ([info]sam_mm) wrote in [info]morningstar_mnr,
@ 2010-07-10 21:28:00

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Entry tags:cleo, emma, gregori, icene, jane, manny, marek, memphis, ota, spencer

Multiple Pups, all in the Gardens, late afternoon, All OTA/MW
Emma had put the phone down after a long chat with Ang, and yes, Alec too, even Gavin had gurgled at her, and finished her cup of tea, then fetched up both dogs, and headed for the gardens. They needed a longer walk tomorrow and she was thinking of taking them out for a long hike, but for now the gardens and a dozen or so laps, along with assorted fetch and tug of war games would have to do. So for a while she was settled on the lawns, throwing tennis balls in various directions and laughing as Faith and Lily raced each other to bring them back.

Spencer was hiding out in the Gazebo, he was fairly sure his mother was likely to call, so had left his cell upstairs, and instead bought some paperwork with him to read while he sipped on his coffee. A whole batch of papers had just slipped from his grasp though, and were now drifting about in the breeze as he tried to catch them without spilling his drink - if only he'd thought to put it down.

Icene was basking in a secluded corner that had sunshine, not working on her tan as much as trying not to burn, but then, she had plenty of sun cream, at least on the bits she could reach. An ice cold, and staying that way, bottle of white wine sat next to her, along with the one glass she'd poured and was currently sipping. She had a veritable picnic in the bag by her feet, but, so far, no-one to share it with.

Jane was not too far from her apartment windows, in a more shaded spot, wearing a large floppy brimmed hat, and a long-sleeved but very cool loose cotton kaftan type thing. She'd bought it on a whim because the pale blue fabric was covered in little white daisies with yellow centres, but she really wasn't sure even now that it was a good choice. Bare feet peeked out from under it as she struggled to keep her attention on the book she was trying to read. Any distraction from a childcare textbook would probably be more than welcome!

Gregori was just outside the Mocha doors, on the phone to his builder, and slugging down a bottle of water fresh from the Mocha's fridge. He was not in the best of moods, but the sunshine was helping, along with abject apologies and promises of cost reductions... after a few more exchanges he hung up and sighed, then rolled his head on his shoulders before leaning back against the sun warmed wall and almost, but not quite, wishing he smoked or something.

Cleo was in the tenant gardens, admiring the plants, and occasionally pulling a random weed out of a plot here or there... and if she pocketed a few leaves of bay, or a sprig of rosemary, well, nobody would notice right? She did draw the line at pinching strawberries though, leaving those well alone in the plots where they were, just, oooh, garlic chives! Those would be good. She wondered how difficult it would be to get a plot, then she could maybe grow her own herbs outside, they usually tasted better than indoor grown...



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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-10 09:52 pm UTC (link)
"He sounds like a younger version of me," Manny said. "Or a new version of a younger me."

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-10 09:56 pm UTC (link)
"I think you'd like him, not sure if he can see ghosts, but hey, it's worth a go, he's the nephew of that whiny wine expert up on twelve, but he, the whiny wine guy, is dating Jazz, who's the older sister of my friend Cleo who's on second. It's going to get complicated sooner or later, but then, this is the Manor, what else would you expect?" Emma laughed, "I really have missed you two, it's been awfully boring just lately. Well, apart from the pool roof crashing in, that was so not nice, oh, you haven't seen Schnozzle on your side have you? He um, well, died in the pool house crash."

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-10 10:15 pm UTC (link)
"I know," Marek said. "No, he wandered straight on. We keep away from where they're going, you know. If it opens, it sort of pulls at us."

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-10 10:21 pm UTC (link)
"Ooh, are you not tempted then? To just, go? Not that I want you to, but, I'm kind of curious in a fashion to find out what happens after all this." She waved an arm, and almost flailed as a soggy ball was again dropped in her lap. "Then again, I'm kind of happy being here right now, what with everything else."

She threw the ball again, harder this time, and both dogs hared off again, barking and running shoulder to shoulder as they chased it down and then bickered over who got to bring it back. "There are still down days though, I know we had another one of those weird weeks again as well, I couldn't stop drawing my parents for days afterwards, in case I forgot again?"

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-10 10:29 pm UTC (link)
"Oh yes, we did," Manny said. "This time, it was other people's turn. We had this do-gooder peacenik hanging around I'd never seen before. I wonder where he belongs in the normal world."

"Either mouldering dead in a ditch in a dry faraway country, or one of those crazies like the colonel in 'Apocalypse Now', I guess. And there was that hysterical cocaine-guzzling model who's really sensible in the real world and works at the museum."

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-10 10:46 pm UTC (link)
"Now there's a contrast!" Emma chuckled, "Could have been worse though, there's this madman chopped up a woman here and dumped her all over the city in small pieces." She poured water into a bowl as the dogs came running back, tongues lolling and dropping the ball in her lap again. "Then there's this mad heatwave, which is nice, but I could do with a holiday to somewhere cooler for a few days!"

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-10 10:48 pm UTC (link)
"Oh yes, it must be quite hot for mortals," Marek said, airily. "What do you mean, all over the City? Here, too? And Abrams isn't up in arms yet?"

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-11 07:53 am UTC (link)
"Well according to the papers they found bits in various parks, even in her dad's limousine apparently, but Lucas found one bit, it got left outside the Flamingo and one of the girls thought it was a meat delivery." Emma shuddered, "He was kind of shocked, I'd not seen that side of him before, it was almost, cute how, well, vulnerable it seemed to make him feel."

She frowned slightly, "I hope he doesn't do it again, the killer that is, and I'm not sure if any was found on or near the Manor, if it was they kept that out of the papers!"

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-11 10:50 am UTC (link)
"That's quite revolting," Marek said, shaking his slightly transparent head. "Especially the part with the meat delivery. Who uses meat that's just lying about instead of having it delivered to the cooler as it ought to be?"

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-11 01:30 pm UTC (link)
"Absolutely Marek, which is probably another reason Lucas was so shocked, but then it turns out to be human, just completing the horror." Emma didn't want to think about what might have happened if nobody had noticed.... because of course you would notice something like that, right? "It's put me off anything meat for a while at least, been living off of jacket potatoes and stuff ever since, and in this heat salad is always good!"

"Of course, you guys could find out if any was delivered here right? I might avoid the Mocha sandwiches for a while as well, just in case, I wouldn't put it past Joy to list pork steak sandwiches knowing it was human, sometimes that woman seems so very cold and lifeless."

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-11 01:33 pm UTC (link)
"Oh, but she isn't," Manny said. "She's quite human. Jack used to get quite a reaction out of her, before he took up with that journo."

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-11 01:51 pm UTC (link)
"Jack? You mean Jack in Maintenance? Ye gods he was um, how is that phrased again, scraping the barrel? I think I've seen his bloke around, he's kind of cute, never met him though." Emma grinned, "He does have some serious advantages though in that he's not Joy."

She hadn't thrown the ball for a while, so instead tried to interest the dogs in playing tug of war with each other, a somewhat clever idea that backfired since neither wanted to anything other than flop down on the grass just then, "So apart from being really quiet, is there anything new in the Manor's ghost world? No new tricks or pranks, not been spying on anyone lately?"

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-11 02:03 pm UTC (link)
"It gets old," Manny said. "There are only so many things women can do in the bath or in the bed. However, what I still marvel at is the infinite variety in the shape of their..."

Marek cuffed him in the side. Hard.

"Ouch," Manny said. "What did you do that for? I was only going to say 'boobies', was I?"

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-11 02:21 pm UTC (link)
Emma laughed, "Oh you two are still just as funny as always, I would say don't ever change, but even you might get bored of that. Not unlike these two have become bored with playing games, still, it's nice to sit out in the sun and just, get smothered in hot dog right?"

She nudged Lily, who'd flopped down right up against her, "Get off you daft thing, I'm already half baked, I don't need any help from you. Go over there with Faith or something."

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-11 02:23 pm UTC (link)
"Aww," Marek said. "It must be awful to be forced to wear fur in this heat. Let them lie, poor things!"

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-11 02:37 pm UTC (link)
"Oh I will, just, please not right up against me!" Emma chuckled, "There's shade in that shrubbery you daft mutts, go lie in there or something!"

She shook her head as they both just looked at her, "I dunno, I might struggle to give Faith back when Alec and Ang come home, they tell me Gavin is walking on his own now, proper toddling he does, and I'm missing all of it! Still, sounds like Julie is doing all right, and Ang is having fun running the two homes again for a bit."

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-11 02:53 pm UTC (link)
"Nice to hear they're doing all right," Marek said, a bit bitchily.

Manny sniggered.

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-11 03:32 pm UTC (link)
"Don't be like that Marek, and you're just as bad Manny, Julie is having cancer treatment and had to give up work, so Ang went back to make sure the children's homes were still run properly." Emma sighed, "I'm hoping Julie makes a recovery, but you never know with that cancer stuff, it's pernicious and awful and it just deprives you of everything in the end." She looked down, "I should know, it took my mother, and I'd really rather it didn't take Julie too, she was very nice to me when I wasn't prepared to accept nice, and she just kept on being nice regardless."

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-11 03:33 pm UTC (link)
"That's very sad for you, Emma," Marek said, "and I'm sorry to hear it. But we're not required to suddenly start liking Anghara and Alec, are we?"

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-11 10:41 pm UTC (link)
"No, but then, I can't really think why you wouldn't anyway, I mean, apart from that storm in a teacup one weird week, what on earth have they done to make you not like them?" Emma was puzzled, but not worried, after all, it didn't really matter did it? But she was kind of curious to see what reason the ghosts had, if any, to not like two people she was very fond of, and who she'd thought they liked.

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-11 10:46 pm UTC (link)
"Alec punched me," Manny said. "And Anghara is just -- well, pretty but ugh."

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-11 10:50 pm UTC (link)
"Storm in a teacup, as I said, and ugh? That's a rather descriptive term for you, but hey ho, each to their own huh? I know she can be annoying with some things, but, she means well most of the time." Emma smiled, and leaned back on her elbows, "Besides, I have to confess I'm still not entirely certain how to take some of the things they say myself. But, I generally don't worry about it much. They love me, and make sure I get what I need, so I can worry about getting what I want."

She looked round then grinned, "And it's not all firsts either these days, oh no, I get to have some fun too!"

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-11 10:58 pm UTC (link)
"This is where I ask you how Lucas is in bed, and you are all shocked?" Manny suggested.

Marek cuffed him in the side.

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[info]sam_mm
2010-07-12 09:01 pm UTC (link)
"Not yet I'm not, although, we are getting closer, I just, I think he's holding back, and although I don't mind making some moves, well, he does seem a little slow on taking the hint sometimes." She snickered softly and shook her head, "Either that or I am so not making the right moves!"

She looked at the pair of them, "I don't suppose you could just whisper in his ear, you know, like that crab in the Little Mermaid with that reggae number about kissing the girl? I might even let you stick around after so long as you don't go in the bedroom?"

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[info]mm_maru
2010-07-12 09:15 pm UTC (link)
"Crab??" Marek asked. "Reggae??" Manny asked.

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