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thief_parker ([info]thief_parker) wrote in [info]omega_reality,
@ 2011-11-20 21:06:00

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Entry tags:*complete, 2011 11, dead: august anderson, dead: parker, dead: spencer reid

RP: Spencer and Auggie, with an appearance by Parker
Who: Parker, Spencer Reid, and Auggie Anderson
Where: Team Center
When: November 20th, 2011
Summary: Parker introduces Auggie to Spencer


"Look watch," Parker said taking a breath to slow down just for a moment and prepare herself before she launched into her next attempt at a card trick. She was still working on the magic Spencer had been showing her and she liked to give him demonstrations periodically to show off how she was doing with it all.

Finishing the trick with a flourish, the correct card in her pocket rather than in Spencer's she grinned, completely pleased with herself. "Tada!" She held her hands out grinning. "What do you think? Very magical right?" Maybe the magic Spencer taught her wasn't real magic, but it looked like it was and she liked that. It was fun. And that was the important part as far as she was concerned.

There were so many people here now that Parker liked, it was a little strange, to actually like people rather than awkwardly stand around them, pretending like you knew what you were supposed to be doing. She was comfortable with Spencer, and then of course there was Eliot and Hardison, and several others. Maybe she'd just been in the wrong dimension all this time, she just needed to be here to find people she could talk to without feeling like she was wrong all of the time.


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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-21 05:00 am UTC (link)
Spencer sat forward to watch Parker do her trick. He knew how it worked, so he caught her movements, but it was good. No, it was excellent, really. He grinned and applauded after her ‘Tada’, glad that something so simple seemed to go a long way to making her happy. “Completely magical,” Spencer agreed, resting his chin in his hand.

Spending time with Parker was so easy; it had quickly become the highlight of his days. She wasn’t complicated and there were no negative feelings or complex pasts to make things awkward. Parker was just Parker and they could just spend time together talking about the things they liked and she didn’t know too much, didn’t know things about him that he liked to keep on the inside and he liked that. Parker was probably the simplest and best thing in his life, which was kind of unexpected really, for someone so eager to chase a challenge or a problem.

Reid shuffled the cards that were on the table, quickly passing them from one hand to the other. “Maybe we should invent our own trick, then no one would know it and it would almost be real magic,” Spencer suggested, smiling as he tossed a card at her.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-11-21 05:50 am UTC (link)
Parker smiled, pleased that Spencer agreed with her. She liked this kind of magic, and maybe a part of her mind was working on how she could use it during a job, maybe if she was like Sophie and did more with people. Still it was fun to know how to do it none the less. She'd already been showing Hardison the coin trick Spencer taught her.

"Can you do that?" She asked him, eyes wide snatching the card he tossed at her out of the air. "Make up magic like that?" She supposed you'd have to be able to do it, sort of like planning a job, you figured out the goal and then worked back from there. Nate would probably be good at something like this. "What kind of trick should it be?"

"Could we turn a card into something else?" She suggested, her mind alight with possibilities now, could they turn a card into a diamond, or money, or gold? That would be an amazing trick.

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-21 06:23 am UTC (link)
Auggie had taken to getting out of the house when he could, when there weren't classes and training and all the other things they had to deal with. He had the layout of the house pretty well sorted so that he could move around there without the use of a cane. He was still working on the team center - so when he wasn't busy he liked to be there getting to know the space. He didn't like having to rely solely on the canes, of course he needed it - but he liked to have an idea in his head of what a space looked like.

Still that evening he'd been working out. Going a few rounds with a particularly surly punching bag, feeling his way around it as he worked out some of his frustrations with this place and the people in it. It was like starting over after he'd been blinded, only here he didn't have the benefit of people who had known him before the injury. People who knew he was capable.

In the end it wasn't nearly as cathartic as he'd have liked it to be, and he showered and changed and was intent on heading back to the house when he heard a familiar voice asking about magic. He couldn't very well go and turn himself into a shut in, he was going to have to rely on these people in the end, so he headed over to say hello. "Parker," He greeted with a small smile. "Do my ears deceive me or are you doing magic over here? You didn't tell me that was among your many skills."

"Spencer is teaching me." Parker said sitting up just a little when Auggie made his way over to them, she smiled - it was strange his being blind too, different than Eliot was, and it just made her curious. "Spencer, this is Auggie, he lives with us now - all the labels I made help." She told him seriously.

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-21 07:23 am UTC (link)
"All tricks start out being made by someone, we could make one up, we're very clever," Spencer said with a wide smile. "I think that sounds great, turning a card into a coin maybe?" Spencer said, all the hows and ideas quickly running through his head.

But he was distracted and he smiled politely, rubbing his hand over his trousers as the two spoke. It was easy to see that the polite smile was pointless, seeing as Auggie seemed to not be able to see it anyway. Although that really wasn't a reason to avoid politeness.

"Your labels were a great idea," Reid said, nodding quickly. "Spencer Reid, good to meet you." He said, flicking the cards again, eager to keep his hands busy.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-11-21 08:10 am UTC (link)
Parker looked pleased when Spencer assured her that the labels she had placed all over their apartment had been a good idea. She was still working on getting Hardison to agree to it, she'd stolen his shoes and labelled them both when he continued to refuse to be labelled himself.

"I could label you too, if you wanted." Parker offered to Spencer, smiling sweetly.

Auggie chuckled and shook his head, "That won't be necessary Parker. I like to get to know the sound of people rather than feeling for names. It will help me out if you don't label him." He told her easily. She was interesting, if he didn't know better he'd have said she was making fun of him, but given the time he'd been there with her watching her (or listening rather) to her interact with others he saw it was just the way she was.

"You're ... one of the profilers, right?" Auggie asked, he'd been doing his best to learn who people were listening for different voices, mannerisms the weight of steps, all things that would let him know who he was approaching and getting to know.

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-21 08:26 am UTC (link)
It was intriguing really, to think about how someone functioned without a sense. To see someone with an impairment function at a level that it was almost hard to tell he was different to the norm at all. People learned to work with all kinds of things, losses of limbs or mental scars that never healed.

"I am," Spencer said as he nodded the affirmative. People always seemed to know you before you knew them and that had taken a little getting used to, but as someone who kept to himself it was always going to.

"What about you? Before you came here that is," Spencer asked, pushing out one of the chairs slowly so it made a light noise on the floor. "Would you like to sit?"

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-21 08:48 am UTC (link)
"Thanks," Auggie grinned as he heard the slide of a chair, when Spencer asked if he'd like to sit down with them. His hand reached out searching for the chair, sliding over the back of it and defining the edges before he sat down. "CIA," He said and sighed, it was hard to just tell people that, even if they knew - even when they'd found out things they shouldn't have been able to easily, like they were looking into his mind or something. It was disconcerting on so many levels. "Head of tech ops for my department." He explained.

He didn't need to get into the rest of it, not yet at least - that was something people could earn if they wanted to be told by him. And it wasn't that he wouldn't tell people, but covers were too much a part of the way he lived his life to forgo them completely now that he was here. Somethings you held on to, even when you didn't need them.

"So what sort of magic are you two doing over here?" He asked, folding the cane up before laying it on the table in front of them while looking between the two, or at least pretending to. Some mannerisms were hard to get rid of and still hung around even now years after his injury.

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-21 09:08 am UTC (link)
Reid preferred the idea of agents joining the group, not college kids, or even younger. At least an agent had already signed up for this, well maybe not exactly this, but they were at least trained. This was no life for a child, it was hardly a life for any of them at all.

"Tech ops," Spencer nodded again. "I've never been very good with electronics, I just don't seem to have the gift," he said with a shrug. "I like numbers though, things I can work in my own head."

Spencer looked down at the cards, flicking them through his hands again. "We started making a coin vanish. Now we're playing with cards," Reid explained. He'd started magic because he liked it but it had proven to be an amazing ice breaker, he wasn't sure it would work here. "Parker is really magic though, I'm pretty sure," Spencer said as he grinned at her.

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-21 10:26 am UTC (link)
"I was a field agent before," He said with a vague hand wave, before everything happened - it was better then, when he could get up and go on his own and he didn't have people constantly worrying about him. "After I came back there weren't a whole lotta options, but you know, the CIA recruited me for my tech skills so it wasn't really too hard to make the adjustment." it was just a matter of getting used to the new way of using the tech he'd had to adjust to.

"Numbers are always good, you gotta look at tech like that too - it's all based of numbers and formulas. Once you' get your head around the pieces it's easier to work the whole." He explained.

He smiled when Spencer told him about the magic they'd been doing. "Card tricks and vanishing coins, sounds pretty great. Working your way up to making anything bigger disappear?" He wondered, turning in Parker's direction.

Her eyes were wide at that thought, making bigger things disappear would be amazing. "Maybe, maybe we could make something like a car disappear, or a person, maybe Hardison!" She said the idea coming to her suddenly. "I need to talk to him, if we're going to make him disappear. Can I..." She trailed off looking between the two for a moment. "Do you mind I if I go?" She asked, she might not have bothered in the past, but then she was becoming more aware of things like polite ways to end conversations.

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-21 10:55 am UTC (link)
Sometimes Spencer wondered what he would have made of himself if he'd never taken the option to join the FBI, be part of the BAU and an agent. Would he have studied further or would he have been like the him from here, the him with a husband, a life, things Spencer had never even let himself dream of. Maybe it was the BAU that had changed him, too much for him to be able to have that. "When I was in college I never thought I'd use my degrees for field work but..." He faded off and you could almost hear the shrug of his shoulders in his voice.

"Numbers and equations, formulas, statistics, all of that. Then you give me actual wiring and I'm all thumbs," he said with a little smile.

Spencer grinned at the look on her face. Making something big vanish was going to take a lot of work, some kind of vanishing box with mirrors. But it wasn't out of the realm of possibility.

"Not at all. I'll talk to you soon, I want to show you how some of our crystals are going," Spencer said as he gave her a little wave. "Then we can talk about making Hardison disappear," Spencer added, although he happened to think it was much more likely that Hardison wanted to make him vanish but he doubted it was his place to say anything at all.

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-21 12:02 pm UTC (link)
Auggie could hear the shrug, so many physical gestures were met with vocal cues, most people didn't even realize the connection half the time, but it was something he learned to hear, and he could form the idea of them in his mind while he talked to people. "I was convinced I was going to end up working with some big corporation, maybe even do my own computer programing with my degree." He admitted. "I never thought I'd have been recruited the way I was."

He just grinned when Spencer suggested he was all thumbs with hardware. "I think you could probably figure it out if given enough time and incentive. Most people can, it's the time that's the issue, it can take patience to figure it all out." And some people just didn't have the inclination.

"Great!" Parker looked eager to talk to Hardison about making him disappear, and she waved at both Auggie and Spencer before she ran off to do just that.

Auggie just shook his head listening to the sound of Parker's retreating footsteps. "She's an interesting one, that's for sure." He said when they were alone again, "I've never met anyone quite like her. The two of you are close?"

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-21 12:25 pm UTC (link)
He found a lot of people didn't expect to find themselves as agents. Okay some people grew up wanting to join the military or be cops but it wasn't always like that. "I really didn't know, I just got degree after degree, I probably could have happily done that forever," Spencer said. Learning was his favourite thing and he had found a way to use that to help people so he knew that he'd made the right choice, the right choice for his universe and his life.

"I usually get there, but I try to stick to things I'm more talented in," Spencer admitted.

Reid watched her run off, smile on his face as he passed the cards from one hand back to the other. The more she seemed interested in magic the more he had to teach himself, to keep fining new fresh things to show her, but it was worth it.

"She is truly unique. Lacking normal social boundaries and ideas about what is and is not publicly acceptable conversation but she's charming in that," Spencer said, watching her disappear around the corner. "We didn't know each other before this but we've got to be close. She's a good person and I like to just... Be next to her." Spencer said, dropping his head down into his hand for a moment. He was tired and there was an ache starting up behind his eyes, too many nights spent restless considering so many things bother personal and professional, sometimes it all got to be a bit much.

"Are you enjoying living with those three?" He asked, eager to make sure that the latest arrival felt comfortable and to check on how he might be integrating with the group.

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-22 04:01 am UTC (link)
"I did like school, but I think I was always more of a doer than anything else." Auggie said lifting his shoulders, he liked school well enough, but he found a lot of it to be stifling, he worked better when he was left to his own devices, he'd taught himself the majority of what he'd needed to create the daemons that had gained him the CIA notice in the first place.

Auggie smiled and nodded, "Nothing wrong with that. Everyone's got things they're better at than others." Whether they wanted it to be that way or not.

It was further interesting to hear Spencer talk about Parker and how he liked to be next to her - it was curious. People were likely forming all sorts of relationships here, he wasn't surprised at all when he thought about it.

"It is interesting," He said with a small grin when asked about living with the trio. "Convenient at the very least, but they're not bad." They could be worse, Auggie wasn't used to sharing his living space, or having so many people constantly underfoot. "I don't think enjoy is really the word I'd apply to much of what it means to be living here though at the end of the day."

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-22 07:57 am UTC (link)
"I started college when I was so young, it started to feel like home," Spencer admitted. Because college hadn't been just a school, he hadn't had friends, sure, but he'd been away from his mother and he'd had space to put himself first for once. It had been freeing.

"It's what I like so much about this group, people are good at so many different things, it's really interesting." Sure it was like that in the real world but people from so many different places who did such different things usually didn't live in such close confines.

Spencer was a little clueless, but after he'd said it he realized how it kind of sounded and he shook his head. "I never had many friends, so it's just nice to get to know new people." That sort of sounded worse but at least it was true.

"I can see that," Spencer said. "I live with three people I worked with very closely at home, we spend so much time together it feels normal some days. But I miss my space, my privacy." His house wasn't anything special but it was his and he missed the silence of it, the familiarity.

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-22 08:17 am UTC (link)
"That's not too strange." Auggie said nodding. "I know plenty of people always talk about their college years fondly, best years of their life and all that." He said and shrugged. "I learned a lot when I was there, don't get me wrong, I think though the degrees I earned give me a legitimacy I'd have never gotten if I'd been self taught though. And that's what I appreciate most about those years."

He gave Spencer an amused look when he said he liked the different personalities and skill sets being brought together by their current predicament. "I imagine that isn't a sentiment you normally mention? Or does that sort of thing go over well?"

"Sure, it's nice when you can connect with people." Auggie agreed, grinning when it seemed like Spencer rushed to assure him he was only friends with Parker - either way Auggie found it amusing. Parker certainly had her own appeal and he wouldn't have blamed Spencer in the slightest, even if she wasn't someone he would have liked to take on romantically.

Auggie nodded, "Yes, it's the issue of privacy I'm having trouble dealing with - I've always lived on my own. Even after the accident, I didn't want to have to give up my independence just because I lost my sight." And being placed in a house with another blind man simply because he was blind felt a lot like losing his independence to Auggie. He chaffed under it, but he could see the reasoning behind it - why it would make things simpler on those in charge, it was just something he'd have to deal with.

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-22 09:26 am UTC (link)
Spencer nodded, he could relate to that. "If I wasn't Dr Reid I doubt anyone would take me seriously at all," he admitted, looking down at his knees. Some people still didn't, he was an FBI agent who wasn't particularly good in the field, he wasn't great with a gun and he wasn't very athletic. Hell Morgan had told him that he wasn't his equal, that they'd never be equals and he doubted he'd ever forget hearing that. He was never going to be head of a team or even the second in command. That was left to the more capable ones, the stronger ones. He wasn't as smart as Dr Sheldon Cooper, or the whole package like John and it was thinking like this that tore at him and broke him down until all he wanted to do was use, just one more time. Just once more, just to feel it and that would be enough. But then he thought about the people he'd helped, the people who were alive today because of him. He wasn't the strongest and he wasn't an equal to the person he most admired. He wasn't the smartest and he didn't have it all. But he'd helped people, he'd given people their lives back and that counted, to him it counted.

He'd gone quiet for a moment and he quickly cleared his throat, rubbing his hand over his face again. "I am famous for saying the wrong thing and having jokes no ones understands. It's a wonder I don't get punched."

"Me too. It's hard to adjust to having everyone underfoot, talking all the time. Drives me a little crazy," Spencer said with a little nod. At first it had been a novelty, he'd been so happy to see Gracia and Morgan that he'd thought he'd be the exception, he'd be the person that was happy to stay here, now he was just like everyone else. "That's impressive, you know. Being so independent like that."

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-22 09:37 am UTC (link)
Auggie raised his eyebrows at the suggestion that Spencer might not be taken seriously without his degrees, he supposed as with anyone who had a degree they did lend you a certain amount of authority you just could not come by without it - but he refused to believe outright that there was nothing to Spencer apart from his academic accolades.

"I think you're probably being too hard on yourself." He told him. "I don't know you, so maybe I'm wrong, but you know Parker doesn't seem to be interested in you because of any initials behind your name, or in front of it for that matter." He said with a small smile. He probably wasn't really in a position to reassure Spencer, but he could give him his honest opinion on the matter at the very least. "Don't sell yourself short, you're more than a degree, or however many you have."

Auggie couldn't help laughing when Spencer suggested he should be getting punched more often. "Nah, there's nothing wrong with a little social awkwardness, it's a part of life." He told him grinning.

"It's not really, I still have to get rides to work, and there's the modified tech that lets me do my job." He shrugged. "For some reason the DPS decided they couldn't let me keep my driver's license, so I had to sell my car." He grinned, poking fun at himself as usual. "It could be worse though, I'm lucky to be alive at all."

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-22 01:47 pm UTC (link)
He was nice, that was obvious and Spencer smiled, he couldn't help it. "Well Parker is different to most other people. I'm pretty sure she doesn't think I'm actually magic, but some times I have no idea," Spencer said. It was kind of nice not to have to make eye contact, he always struggled with how long he should look someone in the eye and it was nice to be free of that. "I've got a couple," Spencer said, the corners of his mouth twitching up.

Spencer knew all about being socially awkward. He understood human emotions much better than he seemed to be able to act them out. "Well I'm glad you think so."

He laughed softly at Auggie's joke, because that was one he did get. "Still, that's being independent. It is impressive," Spencer said simply. He knew what it was like to be lucky to be alive but have so much of that past clinging to him, but nothing like what Auggie must experience.

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-23 12:22 am UTC (link)
"I would bet Parker isn't the only one who likes you because of your degrees, but she is the easiest example to make. Give me time though and I'll make a list for you." Auggie said with a grin. "Just a couple?" He asked, he could practically hear the way Spencer smiled as he said it. "And here I thought you were going to tell me you had ten."

"It's one thing you see a lot of when you're like me." And maybe that was just because people didn't know how to interact with a blind guy, or they didn't understand when he used sight based lingo, or maybe any number of things. But as far as Auggie was concerned it wasn't strange at all for people to be a little awkward in social situations, not everyone could be outgoing and eager to talk to new people.

"Well thank you." Auggie said nodding when Spencer said again it was impressive. He could take a compliment when he heard it. "It took some time to figure it out, and you would not believe the struggle it was to get my mom to understand I could still handle a coffee maker in the mornings," And a lot of other things that he had been more than capable of doing, "I had to make her coffee a few times to prove I could handle it, but I managed to convince her moving in with me was not going to be helpful to either of us. She was always better suited for Illinois than DC anyway."

"So, enough about me, I don't normally go rambling off like that - if you see me do it stop me, seriously." Auggie told Spencer. "It's a terrible habit, and unlike most people I can't see people cringing when I get carried away."

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-23 09:01 am UTC (link)
"I never said people don't like me, you're going to give me a complex," Spencer said with a grin of his own. "When I started at the FBI I was much younger, hadn't been a police officer already, being Dr Reid helped give me some authority when I don't think I'd have had any without it." Spencer said. "Ten, no, no. Only six."

He didn't want to overshare, which was difficult when it felt like Auggie would understand perfectly. Maybe he was another of those people, like Mike who was a little bit different like he was but at the same time managed to be so much more like everyone else. "People don't know how to talk to you? Because you're blind and they're scared they'll say the wrong thing?" Spencer asked.

Being robbed of his sight would be the worst torture Spencer could think of. Without it he wouldn't be able to read, to take in information like he did and he just couldn't think of anything worse than that. He chuckled though as he was told about Auggie's mother and the coffee pot. "Parents are protective like that, I don't think they ever quite understand that we can do things for ourselves. Mothers especially."

Spencer grinned, rubbing his forehead again. "No, it's fine. I'd rather listen to you ramble than talk too much myself," Reid said as he tugged at his hair, still aware of the pain developing in his head. "If you want to come up with a codeword I should say when I cringe, we could do that."

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-23 11:28 am UTC (link)
No Spencer was right, it had started out as him being taken seriously, it was Auggie who had expanded upon it. "I think perhaps in that position you might be right about your degrees giving you an edge you might not have had otherwise." He could see it - just like his experience as a field agent helped give him credibility within the agency despite his handicap. "Only six, well that's almost disappointing." He said shaking his head but grinning just to be sure Spencer knew he was teasing him. Six degrees was nothing to laugh at.

He nodded, "Yes, I think they're worried I don't actually realize I'm blind. Or that they can see." He shrugged. "I try to crack a few jokes, try and help them relax a little, but some people are just uncomfortable with it, and there's not much to do about it but soldier on."

"I think that's just the people who care about us," He said, his brothers had a hard time with his blindness too, especially Daniel. But they'd found a way to work past it.

"A code word, I like it." Auggie said with a laugh nodding at the suggestion. "Though you have to actually use it, you can't just sit there and let me ramble on and on without stopping me just because you think you might talk to much." Auggie warned him. He leaned back in the chair slightly stretching his back and sighing. "Say, you mind walking me back?" He asked. "I'm still learning my way around and I'd like to count the steps again, it'd help if it had a guide along the way."

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-25 01:29 pm UTC (link)
It hadn't just been the degrees, it had been the title, just being a doctor was enough to surprise people when they'd seen how young he was. "It was enough to have people take me seriously long enough for me to prove myself," he said with a shrug. "Six so far, I'm still young." Spencer really wasn't joking about that, learning never stopped just because you grew older.

Spencer nodded, he could understand that. It wasn't out of malice it was simply out of a loss of what to do in a situation they hadn't been exposed to. "People are uncomfortable with things that are different, people too. It's hard to see past the differences of someone we don't yet know how many similarities there are yet."

He'd never had brothers or sisters, or extended family, or friends really until his team. But he really didn't want to think about how they didn't think he could do things for himself either.

"Okay, the codeword is project green. Don't forget it, because I will use it," Spencer said with a smile. Spencer nodded as he stood up, collecting the cards and placing them into his pocket. "Of course," Spencer said as he waited for Auggie to get to his feet as well.

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-25 09:36 pm UTC (link)
"That is a chance many people don't get." Auggie nodded, he knew he had some measure of experience with it himself after his injury, but he suspected it wasn't quite the same. "So ten is well within the realm of possibilities, I'm glad to hear it." He said with a small laugh - he'd been happy with his degrees, and hadn't felt the need to go back to school, his continued education had been in training with the agency, there were always more things to learn there, you just didn't get to tack on initials to the end of your name as you completed more of those.

He liked the way Spencer spoke, clearly and to the point and broaching subjects others might consider off limits almost without seeming hesitant about it. It was just simply another topic of conversation. He rarely met people who could do that. "Yes, you're right that can be difficult, even harder when you feel any similarities you might share won't be seen by the other member of the conversation."

Auggie smiled easy and open when Spencer came up with a code word for them. "That sounds perfect, I'll keep an ear out for it when I'm rambling just in case." He promised. He heard the sound of Spencer getting to his feet and Auggie followed suit, he considered using the cane before he tilted his head. "Do you mind if I hold on to you while we walk?" He asked, it was one thing with people like Annie to just assume, she had seemed the type not to mind, but here everyone seemed so on edge constantly he'd have asked before reaching out to hold on to anyone.

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-25 09:57 pm UTC (link)
"I know, it used to be a very different story," because Spencer had been young once and graduating high school freakishly young and starting college early didn't actually win you any brownie points with kids your own age. Being an adult had been a blessing really, where as being a child was something Spencer tried not to think about too often. "Ten isn't totally out of the picture, no. I'm only thirty, I've got another lifetime." Spencer couldn't help but smile, the other man's high spirits were a little bit contagious.

"It's hard to draw the line between ignorance and hesitance, but I'm sure you get good at it quickly," Spencer said. "I like to think things that make people the same run much deeper than anything you can see. So maybe it's an advantage, you get to skip right past everything shallow and meaningless and right into something that's realer than what most people get," he said with a little smile. It wasn't that he was suggesting Auggie was better off, what had happened was a tragedy, just that maybe in some areas he could be gifted as well as cursed.

Spencer hesitated for a moment, he didn't so much like to be touched, but he was feeling calm and the idea of Auggie holding onto him really wasn't a painful one. "That's fine," Spencer said as he took a step forward, placing his hand on Auggie's and guiding it to rest on his arm.

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[info]auggie_anderson
2011-11-25 10:42 pm UTC (link)
"More than that," Auggie nodded, at just thirty Spencer had plenty more time to earn more degrees if that was what he wanted to do. Well perhaps if they hadn't ended up here, he wasn't quite sure how that would work given their current situation, but at one time it had been completely possible and he could see how he'd want to keep going for more.

"It's easier to see that line once you can't see anything else," Auggie nodded, there were certain things that gave it away and he'd learned how to pick up on them very well over the years. "Silver lining and all that." Auggie nodded, it was easier now to hear things like that - when it had first happened anytime someone had tried to point out some small thing that perhaps wasn't so bad about being blind he lashed out, he hadn't wanted to hear about it. He didn't want to hear about how it could be worse, there were things he could still do, ways to still be useful. All he'd wanted to do was sit in that place and feel just how bad this was, how much he had messed up, see the faces of the men he had failed to save. He didn't want it to be better, why should it ever have gotten better? It took time, and he still struggled with it at times, but he wasn't in that place anymore.

"You're right though, there are things about all people that lie beneath the surface whether you realize it or not - you just never really have to see them until you lose your sight." He shrugged.

"Thanks," Auggie smiled, he kept his touch light, he'd heard the hesitation however slight. "It makes counting easier when I don't have to do all of the guiding myself." He explained, he missed the laser cane, he could use it in the buildings but as at home using it outside just wasn't an option. No need to make himself any more conspicuous than he already was.

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[info]dr_s_reid
2011-11-27 09:28 am UTC (link)
It wasn't the pieces of paper Spencer cared about. It was the learning, being able to know something else and keep his brain working in a positive direction.

"I can imagine it would be," Spencer said with a little nod, although he didn't really want to presume too much about what Auggie's life was like. It was his business and everyone dealt with trauma differently. "Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud, Turn forth her silver lining on the night?" Spencer quoted quietly, smiling to himself.

"You see more when you look for more. Like profiling. It starts with little things but you learn that people aren't just what they say they are, but what they say says a lot about them," it was a joke, but Spencer really wasn't very good with them.

"It's fine," Spencer said with a smile, laying his fingertips on top of Auggie's hand for a moment. "I don't so much like being touched. But this is fine, more than," he said as he walked them back towards Auggie's house.

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