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Brian Kinney (b_kinney) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2012-09-03 12:29:00

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*complete, 2012 09, character: alexis castle, character: april kepner, character: brian kinney, character: bud hammond, character: claudia donovan, character: derek morgan, character: derek reese, character: dominic vail, character: douglas hammond, character: elaine barrish hammond, character: eliot spencer, character: emily prentiss, character: g callen, character: john connor, character: margaret barrish, character: marty deeks, character: nell jones, character: robert callen, character: sam hanna, character: savannah monroe, character: sean hanna, character: thomas hammond, character: tim riggins, character: travis marks, character: troy bolton, dead: eric beale, dead: jenna hanna, dead: leon vance, dead: mike renko, dead: nathan ford, dead: nick green, dead: sheldon cooper

RP: Labor Day
Who: Everyone
Where: Outside the school
When: September 3, 2012
Summary: It's another federal holiday

Once upon a time, holidays meant a chance to stay out late at night, fuck more people, take more E, drink more beer. Nowadays, he felt like he was living some suburban nightmare, or Michael's dream, but Brian did everything the best that he could, even nightmares.

The grills were set up. The food was the best you could and should have during a federal holiday, which meant burgers, hot dogs, steaks, chips, dips, veggies and fruit and most importantly a keg. He had also scored some other stuff at the village on Saturday night, but that wasn't something that he shared and not for lack of want, which was the reason why so little went so far.

The day was spent outside. There was football. There was Savannah playing the cheerleader. There were blankets with babies. There were dogs all around, including Nakita, Derek's new dog. All in all, it was the all American picnic.

Brian needed a lot more beer to deal with that.

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Re: Nate and Elaine

nate_ford
2012-09-04 06:21 pm UTC (link)

Nate looked up at the sound of the new woman's voice. Even if he hadn't known that she'd been a politician on her way to becoming the President she carried herself with the kind of self confidence and determination that only came with power. "Only if it's the Superbowl," he admitted. "I'm more of a baseball fan, although with any sport it's all about context."

"Nathan Ford," he introduced himself, offering her his hand.

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Re: Nate and Elaine

elaine_hammond
2012-09-04 06:29 pm UTC (link)

Elaine mentally groaned. Baseball was even more boring than football, but she said nothing. People could enjoy their little games, while she played the real ones with international repercussions. "I must admit that I'm not much of a sport fan, but I am a worried mother."

"Elaine Barrish Hammond." she had stopped using Hammond with the divorce, but here people wouldn't know who they were and the last name became important once more. "It's a pleasure to meet you," she added, shaking his hand.

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Re: Nate and Elaine

nate_ford
2012-09-04 06:50 pm UTC (link)

"Not many here are of that disposition," Nate answered. "But at least some of us find art, culture or politics more entertaining than football."

"I can understand being worried, especially in this crowd. Though your sons look clever enough to stay away from the ones who takes this game a bit too seriously." Which were most of them.

"It's a pleasure to meet you too, even if I wish circumstances were better than this." Finding Eliot alive as a bonus, but he would have preferred them all being back home the way things used to be.

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Re: Nate and Elaine

elaine_hammond
2012-09-04 07:12 pm UTC (link)

"Really?" Elaine answered. "I was under the impression that a great many of those people were federal agents. In my dimension, they usually need a college degree, speak a few languages, and then they have to take courses continuously. Even then, they only take the best and brightest. They just come with a gun and very high competitive drives. Things must be different in your dimension."

Turning her head, she stared at him. "Forgive me, but I must have been in politics for too long to see anything entertaining in them. When every decision you make determines who lives and dies, who gets the money to survive or not, the entertainment value disappears."

She smirked. "Again, if they are federal agents, I would expect all of them to take everything they do too seriously. It's how they think and my boys have been around agents long enough to know it."

She nodded. There was no point in mentioning that under normal circumstances, they would have never met.

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Re: Nate and Elaine

nate_ford
2012-09-04 07:41 pm UTC (link)

"I meant not interested in sports," Nate clarified with a laugh. "A lot of people who speak a number of languages and qualify as the best and the brightest do still find sports interesting."

And now he knew she was lying, but then so did every politician. You did not become - well nearly become - the president if you did not have a vast interest in politics, whether you chose to use the word entertainment or not. He did not say so however, just gave her a small smile. "Call it interest, if you prefer. You were on the verge of becoming president?" he asked though he knew the answer.

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Re: Nate and Elaine

elaine_hammond
2012-09-04 07:47 pm UTC (link)

"Yes, but that doesn't mean that they don't fine art, culture or politics more entertaining than football. Just that they do everything the best they can." All right, so she was a little protective of the federal government and its agents, but she had relied on them for decades.

Elaine nodded. "Interest, maybe. Entertainment, not so much." She'd butted too many heads, fought too many battles, seen too many pissing contests to find anything entertaining about politics, done too many campaigns, and fought too many battles to enjoy it.

"Yes, I was. The Democratic convention is this week; then the elections in November," she said, "but it's all gone now."

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	Re: Nate and Elaine nate_ford 2012-09-04 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	"I never said it did, just that out of the crowd here there are only a few who does not have an interest in sports. I said nothing for their other interests, just my own." "That must be though. I won't insult you by saying that I understand." He did understand enough to know that for a politician, the loss of power must be the greatest loss of all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Nate and Elaine

elaine_hammond
2012-09-04 08:23 pm UTC (link)

"No, I believe you did say that. You said and I quote 'but at least some of us find art, culture or politics more entertaining than football', and that would imply that they find football more entertaining than art, culture and politics. Or is English different in your dimension?" she asked with a smile. She hadn't been the youngest law student on moot court without an ability to eviscerate what people meant and use it to rebut their own arguments. "My contention is simple. They don't view football as more important, but they will still give everything once they commit to playing."

"It is. I can't even begin to imagine what the party must be going through. The country for that matter. First our president dies, then the presidential nominee disappears." She shook her head. The impact on the nation was too great to even imagine, and now Fred would try to take over, use it as an excuse to keep control. It was a constitutional crisis with terrible emotional consequences on the country. She took a deep breath. "We are a strong country. We'll go forward; we always do."

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