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_eliot_spencer (_eliot_spencer) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2012-11-29 08:15:00

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*complete, 2012 11, character: april kepner, character: eliot spencer, dead: nathan ford

RP: Eliot/April/Nate
Who: Eliot/April/Nate
When: 11-29-12
Where: Cool Springs Inn
Summary: Time to settle in

Eliot sat at the small table in the motel room, eating the remaining fries from their take out dinner. April was across from him, laptop open, scrolling through rental sites. Nate sat propped against the headboard on his bed, legs crossed at the ankles, watching WGN News.

Eliot had worked his first day as a line cook at B&J's American Cafe. He'd been hired full-time on the spot on Monday after his interview. He'd be working around the Pappas' niece's college schedule, as she was the alternate cook, giving him Monday and Wednesdays off weekly until May. The hours at the diner were great, in Eliot's opinion, from 0600 to 1400. The early afternoons allowed for him not to have to find time to cram in his akido/kempo workout.

It had been a pleasant surprise that April had been able to find a job quickly, too. Eliot hadn't been concerned about Nate; by Tuesday, Nate had already obtained a full-time-with-benefits job in advertising sales at the local WCOE-FM radio station. April had gotten hired that morning as a part-time receptionist at Medspa Women's Healthcare.

With jobs in hand and salaries known, it was time to find a place to live and get settled. Three adults and a collie in a small motel room wasn't the ideal situation. Eliot slipped a fry to Cody under the table and hid a smile behind his hand when April gave him a look.

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	Eliot/Nate _eliot_spencer 2012-12-01 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	Eliot was outside with Cody when Nate returned. He wouldn't deny he'd been lying in wait, nor would he beat around the bush. "What changed your mind?" (Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: Eliot/Nate

nate_ford
2012-12-01 07:49 pm UTC (link)

Nate was still annoyed. Unlike Eliot a walk didn't really help. Whiskey did but the bottle was in the room. He looked up when he heard Eliot's voice, and he rose an eyebrow at the question.

"You didn't catch what she did in there?" he asked. "Pulling the baby-card? How Eve's safer if I'm there, meaning that I'm risking Eve's life if I'm not there?"

"I have to admit I haven't seen it before, but in the right circumstances she would make one hell of a grifter." He just didn't like being played.

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Re: Eliot/Nate

_eliot_spencer
2012-12-01 08:08 pm UTC (link)

Eliot stared at Nate for a moment before laughing, deep and true. "You think she played you?" That was priceless. Eliot clapped Nate on the shoulder, still chuckling. "She's an 'honest woman' remember? You even pointed that out to me. She doesn't have a manipulative bone in her body. She believes what she says wholeheartedly. At most, she'd butter you up by making you your favorite meal." Or with sex, but that was for Eliot's benefit only.

Eliot shook his head with a smile. "She doesn't trick people. She's not like us. She's not like anyone I've ever met. She's not devious, or duplicitous. It's one of the reasons I trust her implicitly. Our non-dead friend might be a good person at heart, but she's definitely a puppet-master. My wife is just a truly good person with bad taste in men."

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Re: Eliot/Nate

nate_ford
2012-12-01 08:23 pm UTC (link)

"Oh please," Nate answered, glancing around before lowering his voice and making sure he was talking in down wind so that Mrs Russell couldn't hear him from the house. "She's been playing everyone in town since getting here. Oh she's basing it in her own personality but then that's what a good grifter does."

"I still think she's an honest woman, and I'm certainly not calling her devious. I don't doubt that she wouldn't do half the things we've done, but she plays people when she needs to protect her family, and if you can't see that then you haven't watched her since we got here." She hadn't played people at the school or in New York, but Nate was more and more realizing that this kind of society was her stage. This was where she had grown up, this was what she understood, even without thinking about it she knew what to say when and to whom.

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Re: Eliot/Nate

_eliot_spencer
2012-12-01 08:47 pm UTC (link)

"It's what regular folk do when they move to a new town; meet people, integrate. She'd do the same thing under normal circumstances. She's not playing anyone. She's being herself." Eliot got where Nate was coming from, because Eliot lived there, too. "We're so used to people not being what they are that everything's suspect. Yeah, there are certain things that aren't the truth, Thomas, but this is as real as it gets."

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	Re: Eliot/Nate nate_ford 2012-12-01 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	"Yes, she is, but she's also protecting what's hers," Nate said, but he left it like that. Eliot was too in love to see it any other way. He patted Eliot on the shoulder. "I already agreed to take the apartment upstairs. It's decided. It's fine." He might not like it but he wasn't one to back down from his word, he also wouldn't put Eliot's child on the line. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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