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Alexis (alexis_castle) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2011-10-15 12:48:00

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*complete, 2011 10, character: alexis castle, character: april kepner, character: derek morgan, character: dominic vail, character: emily prentiss, character: g callen, character: robert callen, character: tim riggins, dead: maurice keelson, dead: michael westen, dead: mike renko, dead: mike ross, dead: nate archibald, dead: penny hall

RP: A Brunch turns into more
Who: Alexis, Nate, Maurice, ICIS responding team
Where: NYC
When: October 15, 2011
Summary: A fun trip to the city ends in an unfortunate end.

Alexis liked spending time with Nate. He was... normal. He belonged to the same social circle as she was, and sure his family might have been old money as opposed her dad's fortune, but those things tended to be overlooked with there was fame to go with the money. They had grown up going to the same places, doing the same things, knowing the same families, even if Nate was older than she was.

Today, they had decided to have brunch at Alice's Tea Cup. Alexis loved the atmosphere there, but she knew no one else would understand why you'd spend $10 for eggs, but Nate got it, and they went there, and afterwards, they walked around. This part of the city was the most different. Gone was the Metropolitan and Central Park, replaced by the heart of the federal government with its buildings and the many restaurants, delis and cafes that sprang around it to deal with tourist and employees alike. However, there were some places that were still familiar.

As they started to walk down 5th Avenue, Nate tensed. "What is it?" she asked.

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Re: Robert and Mike

mike_renko
2011-10-16 02:46 am UTC (link)

Bad enough that the kid had gotten himself killed, but Robert was till acting like an idiot on top of it all. Mike had so very little patience left for these sort of things. But he focused on the job, what they were there to do. He'd worked with plenty of people who couldn't get their heads out of their own ass before, he could do it again.

"Stay close," Mike told Robert, they didn't have to stand right beside one another, but they were partners they worked together Mike needed to have Robert's back and that meant he needed to stay where he could see him. He would be the one having a cow if Robert went and got himself lost around here. They could go back to being pissed at each other later.

They didn't need to talk to each other to do this.

"It's just standing in the street together, I think we can handle a little proximity." They'd survived the car ride over after all, sure they'd shoved Ross between them and the kid looked like he was waiting for one of them to start shooting, but no one had died.

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Re: Robert and Mike

r_callen
2011-10-16 02:52 am UTC (link)

"Gee, I didn't know you cared so much." Okay, so maybe he should have kept going with the pretense of being a nice guy, but he really couldn't help it, and it wasn't like Mike didn't know he was an ass. Pretending wouldn't change his mind.

"There's four of us and four sides. You can see why I asked, right? I'm perfectly capable of staying near you." Hell, he was staying near Kensi and hadn't slipped once, always smiling and playing the caring father-to-be. Except for that congratulation from Hetty that had caught him off guard, he'd done a very good job at remembering that it was a good thing. "Why exactly are we wasting our time? The techs confirmed that he walked away and got into the subway. Coming back here would be so stupid."

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Re: Robert and Mike

mike_renko
2011-10-16 03:14 am UTC (link)

"Yeah well you wouldn't believe the paperwork they make you fill out when your partner gets killed on the job." Mike replied dryly. It actually helped that Robert wasn't pretending with him, Mike watched him pretend with everyone else - he might have had to shoot him if he started with the polite act with him too.

"Yeah I see it." Mike nodded. He did get it, there was just a way they worked and while they might be in another dimension Mike didn't just forget how to be an agent.

Mike shook his head, you'd think Robert hadn't been to any of the classes for training when he asked things like that. "It's not about him coming back here, he'd not going to do that." He told him. "It's gathering information it's making sure we've gotten all we can here, and finding what we can so we're more prepared next time." They never had very good clues as to how all of this worked, and they had to look for anything they could at the scene of the crimes, no matter how much it felt like wasting time.

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Re: Robert and Mike

r_callen
2011-10-16 03:19 am UTC (link)

"Damn, I knew there was a reason why my brother insisted in partners, so he can give us the paperwork if something happens," he answered, without even skipping a beat. This was the reason why they usually got along. They could just shoot the breeze, and neither got upset.

Robert snorted. "Oh, please, people are notoriously bad witnesses. They can't remember, perception is altered, and the one with the information is currently having a make-out session with another so called agent. God, they are both kids." He sighed. "We'll get more from the cameras than anyone around here, at least cameras are objective and God bless Manhattan for having more cameras than traffic lights."

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Re: Robert and Mike

mike_renko
2011-10-16 04:03 am UTC (link)

"He's really just a dick who doesn't want to deal with paperwork." Mike replied. That easy rapport was still there between them, it just took a little more work to get it to come out, to put forth the effort to actually get it started in the first place.

Mike raised an eyebrow glancing at where Riggins had his arms around Alexis, not quite the make-out session Robert claimed it to be, "Yeah they are kids, I think we can cut her a bit of slack." It was never easy when someone died, especially when she was just a kid. "We might get more from the cameras." Mike agreed, "It's part of procedure, we go over the physical scene just in case." Mike was used to the things like this though, and here it kept them busy, it was better than feeling completely useless.

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Re: Robert and Mike

r_callen
2011-10-16 04:25 am UTC (link)

"I'll be sure to put a formal complaint against him when we get back. I'm sure there's some kind of union that protects our rights," he answered, although he was pretty sure that if they complained to Hetty, they'd end up getting more paperwork.

"I'm not criticizing her. They shouldn't be here at all, either one of them. They should be in college, drinking beers, smoking weed, having sex and throwing parties. That's what they should be doing." Just more proof of how shitty this life was, and considering Alexis's family and background, this had to be even harder.

"You have to admit that ten people is overkill." They were about double what they needed to be. "Don't tell me that's how many people showed up at home, because then I'll know why we have such a deficit, it all goes into the agents' budget."

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Re: Robert and Mike

mike_renko
2011-10-16 07:47 am UTC (link)

"Oh yeah, they definitely have unions." Mike snorted, a grin pulling at the corners of his mouth as he shook his head. He could just imagine how something like that would go over - the look from Hetty alone would be enough to make anyone regret it.

Mike sighed and nodded, "You're right, they shouldn't be here." None of them should, but there they were none the less. They all had to deal with this insanity and it didn't matter where they were supposed to be because this was where they were. This was just another reminder of the very real situation they were in. "None of us should be here."

"It is possible ten is a bit much." He could understand the reasoning though, why so many had come out. "Back at home we've actually got trained agents, it doesn't take quite so many to do the same job." And that was the problem, they had agents, but they had so many civilians, people who got the basic training and then were given a badge and a gun and called agents.

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Re: Robert and Mike

r_callen
2011-10-16 02:27 pm UTC (link)

"I'll make sure to register a complaint when we get back," he answered, snorting. "You know what's funny? There are unions for federal agents. I'd love to see the reaction if we registered with them." Not that he had any interest in rocking the boat, but it'd still be interesting to see how the government would react.

"Right, but we are and we should enjoy life, or some shit like that, right? Would you like to tell them that? I'm sure they'll be thrilled to hear it." Fuck this pretending business. They were sheep sent to the slaughter. There was nothing to enjoy here and the moment you forgot, you ended up dead.

"We're all trained, didn't you know that. Got the nice badge and the fake history to go with it." Except that that girl was still a teenager, not even eighteen, and having to face this. "Hey, Ross," he called out. "Get them into a car." There was no reason why they should stay there with the body of a friend lying not to far away. "What about now? Do we send her to a shrink like every good agents is supposed to? Oh wait, we don't have one of those either."

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Re: Robert and Mike

mike_renko
2011-10-18 03:13 am UTC (link)

"I'm sure they'd just love it if you started telling them just how unprepared our agents are." Mike said shaking his head. It would have been just too perfect, it wouldn't be getting the girls pregnant that got them killed it would be someone complaining.

Mike rolled his eyes, "You know one day you're going to actually listen to what people say to you instead of putting words in everyone's mouths." They were stuck here, they couldn't change it - but complaining about it, spending all their time focused on the things they couldn't change wasn't going to fix anything, and it wasn't going to make it better.

He really was going to shoot Robert one day, or maybe he'd end up with a power to shut people up - that would be useful. For the time being though he was stuck at least making an attempt at playing nice while they were working and Robert kept right on being an ass.

Mike Ross was completely lost, he didn't know what he was doing there. Oh he knew in a general sort of way, in a text book sort of way, but like law the practice of being an agent wasn't quite as easy in reality. And sure his partner was there and she was a mess, but she seemed more interested in clinging to Riggins than talking to Mike, so he found himself at something of a loss. In the end he was all too happy to to have Callen telling him to usher the two into a car and off the street, it gave him something to do and he didn't have to keep on trying to look anywhere other than the body.

"Now we do what we can for her, we talk to her - we listen when she's ready to talk about. We let her do whatever she's doing with Riggins, and we don't go around pretending like everything is fine because there are rules we have to follow and we might not like them." So maybe that last bit was aimed more at Robert, but Mike wasn't exactly feeling forgiving.

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Re: Robert and Mike

r_callen
2011-10-18 03:36 am UTC (link)

"I didn't say that they weren't prepared, only that the man in charge forces us to do the paperwork." Robert kept a polite smile on his face. "Or maybe I'm not the one who doesn't listen."

Robert barely looked at Ross after speaking to him. "Right, because we're such a paradigm of sanity. The kid is better off never talking again." In fact, that didn't seem a bad idea at all. "Rules are temporary and often broken here, but since we don't seem able to understand each other, we should stop talking, too. No danger of putting anything in anyone's mouth." He was perfectly happy to stay quiet until they got home, especially since he spent enough time talking to Kensi and pretending that he gave a shit about all sorts of nonsense.

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