Douglas Hammond (doug_hammond) wrote in omega_reality, @ 2012-10-30 12:58:00 |
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Entry tags: | *complete, 2012 10, character: douglas hammond, character: thomas hammond, character: travis marks |
RP: Doug and Travis
Who: Doug and Travis
Where: the apartment
When: evening, October 30, 2012
Summary: Doug has a few concerns
His days tended to be long. He tried to do his work out in the morning, before work, but that only worked when it was cardio and not self-defence. Then there was wor, and finally back at home for dinner, then the range. It wasn't bad though, because his days at State were much longer and stressing than this. The one negative factor was that he rarely got to see his brother unless Travis was around, or vice versa for that matter. The only time was one or the other was showering, much like now.
"You need to stop taking TJ with you," Doug said when Travis sat down, not taking his eyes off the computer.
"I don't 'take' him with me. He wants to come with me, but I'll take the bait. Why?" Travis asked, trying to understand Doug as much as he was getting to understand TJ.
"Look at the news. Allen is in her second term. Elections are coming up. Best case scenario, things stay the same. Worse case scenario-" He finally turned to look at Travis. "it's never a best case scenario in poltics. There is this saying that politics is the art of postponing decisions until they become irrelevant and that works if you're in Congress and plan to stay there, but if you're President, you want to make an impression, especially in your first a hundred days, and what a better way to find the people responsible for the towers."
"It tooks us ten years to find Bin Laden," Travis said.
"Yeah, I know that, you know that, but the people here don't, and if they find the right people with the right powers to blame. Or if you want to send a message to other mutants of what can happen. I don't know what's going to happen, but I can come up with plenty of scenarios that can happen within the first a hundred days, and if something happens, we can't leave my parents alone, which means whatever TJ wants to do, should happen before those a hundred days happen."
Travis took a sip of his coffee and put the mug down. "What about what you want to do?"
Doug raised an eyebrow. "Are you high? I got a job."
"I didn't ask that. I asked about what you want to do. You were talking about this and that and now you're working as a personal assistant. Is that what you want to do? Because if it's for the money, we'll find a way," Travis said.
Doug looked straight ahead, but after a moment he turned to Travis. "I'm... good. I know what I said, but I like this. I enjoy solving problems and conflicts, even scheduling ones. Do you know that top assistants get almost eighty thousand a year there? I could make it up the ladder so fast."
Travis chuckled. "Inaguration is on January 21, a hundred days. You want to make that much by May 1st. A little ambitious."
Doug rolled his eyes. "No, I wasn't planning on doing that, but I could do it. I've been there a week and I can see the impressed looks. My boss even joked that if I keep working like this, one of the higher ups will steal me away."
"You sound surprised," Travis said, calmly. "You did run state. I think one construction company should be a breeze."
"Yeah... I know, but at State, I was still the boss' son. I was my father's son. I never knew when it was me and when it was their influence, their friends, their knowledge of blackmail material," he finished with a tiny smirk.
"But now you're doing it by yourself." Travis clapped his back. "If it's what you like, then we need to get you books on military strategy, police tactics. It won't be the same as experience, but if you study them, memorize them, when we go back, you might just make a good second once you get that experience. And okay, I'll see what I can do to get TJ to look for a job. Anything else."
"No, that's it." Doug got up, going for coffee, but then stopped. "On second thought. How about a gag? I don't need to know everytime you fuck."