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Natalie Godfrey (bornincrossfire) wrote in nevermore_logs,
@ 2013-10-05 18:53:00

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natalie godfrey, the red baron

WHO: Natalie, Conrad, and Natalie's parents.
WHEN: 18th of August, evening
WHERE: Natalie's apartment
WHAT: Meeting the parents, oooooooh

In the kitchenette, the chicken in the oven was roasting and Natalie's wine glass on the bench was only half empty. She was smiling at Conrad through in the living room and said, "you look great."

Soon her parents were going to be here. She hadn't seen her folks for years because, even as a pilot, London was far and time off was sparse. This would be the first time they'd seen her in America as well, the country that she'd come to make her own over the last decade. They'd refused to let her greet her at the airport, instead wanting to retire back to their hotel after the flight and then meet her for dinner. Natalie had made sure to make the apartment spotless.

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the_red_knight
2013-10-06 09:37 pm UTC (link)

Conrad greeted them with the proper shakes and formalities. It stilled his nervousness for a bit when Stephen broke the ice with a little joke. "It's true Natalie, normally your taste in men is quite atrocious." He teased settling an arm around her middle. "I've known you for eight years now?" He looked to her father with a little ease in his eyes. "Friends for the longest time until my good charms finally won her over."

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bornincrossfire
2013-10-06 11:31 pm UTC (link)

At the comment about her taste in men, Stephan looked at her with a raise eyebrow of question and interest and she just shrugged at him a little, her expression easy going. Inside, however, she prayed to every single god there was that Con wouldn't say anything more about previous boyfriends. A discussion about her taste in men running to the violent and bastardly was not what Natalie thought her parents needed to know. She had been very careful to keep any of that from getting back to them. They'd had enough reasons to worry about her when she'd moved so far away from them.

At Con's comment on his charms, Natalie made a sound of derision and and elbowed him gently. "Dream on, soldier. Just for that," Natalie teased him, "you get to stay here and make small talk, while I check dinner." She give Conrad a beaming smile as she left him.

Elaine smiled at the young man in front of her and said, "Conrad, you're a pilot like Natalie?"

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the_red_knight
2013-10-08 11:00 pm UTC (link)

At Natalie's disappearance, Con found himself in a room with people he'd never met that he needed to appease in the best of ways. He needed to keep this impression a good one. Some of his soldier training could come in handy about now as he left his anxieties at bay to tackle what was right here in front of him. Like a man.

"Yes, sir I am." He also couldn't let that little bit of losing his license a few years ago and just recently attaining it again affect how this conversation went. "There is no place better than in the sky." His German did start to make a trickling effect the more he talked about his love of flying and the fact that there was nothing else like it. Man was born to fly.

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bornincrossfire
2013-10-11 08:43 pm UTC (link)

"Obsessed as her, it sounds like," Elaine said with a smile towards her husband.

Natalie returned then with all four of their wine glasses on a tray. She put it down on the coffee table and led her parents to sit on the couch, passing them the full glasses and passing Con's his own with a smile. "We met working together. The company I'm still with, actually. Con's originally from Germany," she added, looking to her parents.

"Lovely," Elaine said. "Oh, look at you, dating a German pilot. Who ever would have guessed?"

Stephan laughed softly. "You've probably noticed our girl and her feelings about German fighter pilots. Her last years at home her bedroom was a shrine to famous pilots. I notice those posters haven't made their way up all over these walls?" he said to Natalie, taking a look aroumd.

"I'm pretending to be an adult now I'm here," Natalie grinned.

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ive been sick :(

the_red_knight
2013-10-21 06:13 pm UTC (link)

"Oh yes, who can forget Natalie's obsession with German fighter pilots." Con gave her a wink. She had her very own hero right there. He seemed a little embarrassed when her father continued about Natalie's poster fetish. "Oh, I never saw the photos. Did you have a Red Baron poster on your wall?" He took one of the wine glasses drinking it down. His nerves were still a bit jittery, but her parents seemed genuinely lovely people.

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bornincrossfire
2013-10-27 09:27 pm UTC (link)

"I might have had a framed photo," Natalie smirked at him, taking a sip of her wine.

"It's a beautiful place you both have here," Elaine said, giving the living room a glance around.

"Oh," Natalie said, correcting her quickly, "we don't- we're not-" She took a breath and smiled, realising she was going to work herself up. She squeezed Con's hand. "We don't live together. Not yet," she added, giving Con a little smile.

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the_red_knight
2013-10-27 11:01 pm UTC (link)

Conrad paused setting his drink aside finding he was a little dumbfounded by Natalie's remark. It was no surprise that he wanted to finally ask her to move in, he'd been thinking it for months, but with Natalie there came some guidelines. He didn't want to move too fast just yet and scare her away, it had taken them a long time to get to this point. She had almost lost him for good to her own foolishness, and then his own had also nearly put them both on the chopping block. It was an uphill battle and he didn't want to jump the gun too soon. But, to hear her even suggest it as a future possibility in those two small words, maybe it was the time.

"Do you need some more wine?" Conrad asked Eline, giving him an excuse to get up to fill his own glass with something a little heavier. The nerves were starting to set in. Bolting through the sky was easy, even his bad car habits, but being in such a normal setting with Natalie, it was a tad surreal.

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bornincrossfire
2013-10-27 11:06 pm UTC (link)

She noticed the expression that passed across Conrad's face for a moment and knew that it was something they could talk about later, once her parents were gone.

"That would be lovely," Elaine said, holding out her glass. "I'm so glad you're happy here, Natalie. You're so far from home and I always worry."

"I am," Natalie said. "Living here has been a dream come true." It was better not to mention all the things that had gone wrong, because that was life in the end and her parents could do nothing about it now.

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	the_red_knight 2013-10-28 11:33 pm UTC (link)
	Getting up he downed a fresh glass of his own out of view from her parents before refilling the glass and her mother's as well, tucking the wine bottle under his arm as he returned to the couch to take a seat. "She's safe here, I promise I take good care of her." He had been since he met her. Natalie was a special girl and he knew that from the very beginning. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	OOC spiritofsong 2020-04-28 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	oh my gawwwd, I've been rereading their scenes and remembering how much i looooove theeeeeeem (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: OOC better_than 2020-04-28 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	I love them together, we should bring them back. Where did we last leave off? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: OOC

spiritofsong
2020-04-28 07:30 pm UTC (link)

So this scene of him meeting her parents was basically the last one. (there was another more recent one with ghosts but it only has three comments and i don't quite remember the whole deal with the ghosts thing, i think everyone was seeing them??)

I just reread the one after he'd crashed the plane and she thought he was dead, then she came over and made him shower and stuff and then was all- hang on, lemme find the bit!

Natalie wanted to growl and yell at him, but she knew if she'd taken down a plane of passengers she'd have been impossible to shift from bed. (Hell, she'd probably have thrown herself off a building and never let anyone convince her it wasn't her fault.) But, dammit, she knew in that case that Con wouldn't have give up trying to get through to her. So Natalie wouldn't stop either.

So instead Natalie unbuckled her own belt with determination and then yanked down the top of her jeans just enough to remind him of the tattoo there. "Manfred," she said, repeating that freaking amazing name because it was his, because those words etched into her flesh were his. "Read it. You read it and don't you dare tell me that it's not true anymore."

Natalie leaned forward and pressed her forehead against his. "'To the last beat of the heart'," Natalie whispered, eyes closed. "Mine beats for you."

Natalie was doing exactly what he would have for her in a time of need, he would have been persistent and reminding her of how to keep going. His eyes had yet to meet hers when she peeled down the jeans on her hip far enough for him to read those words.

His fingers drifted against the skin, soft and feathery, taking in each word. It made his eyes sting. He felt his heart pump again, actually skipping a beat at her last words. It was perhaps the most affectionate thing Natalie had ever spoken to him. His breath caught in his throat, forehead against hers, eyes closing.

I DIE.

Which is to say, yes, I am totally going to play Natalie again. Having read all her scenes again, I can feel her voice returning.

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	Re: OOC better_than 2020-04-28 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	😍😍 I’m gonna update the Baron! I’m guessing they live together now??? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: OOC bornincrossfire 2020-04-28 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I think when we'd left them they were just about talking about moving in together, so maybe that should be what we do with them next? She can move into his place :) I don't wanna jump them ahead from where they were too much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

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