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Nathan Ford ([info]nate_ford) wrote in [info]omega_reality,
@ 2013-01-21 20:11:00

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Entry tags:*complete, 2013 01, character: april kepner, character: eliot spencer, dead: nathan ford

RP: Nate and Eliot
Who:Nate and Eliot
Where:Their home, Nate's apartment
When:January 21
Summary:Nate talks to Eliot about this plans

From the moment they'd moved in, April had started decorating and making sure the apartment downstairs was 'home' and not just a house. Nate, on his end, had not. It wasn't that he didn't have any furniture, but the place was sparsely decorated, having nothing but the necessities. A bed, a table next to it, a sofa, a coffee table and a TV. He'd not even bothered with a dining set, knowing that he'd rarely if ever eat at home. So far he was right, and either ate out, or downstairs with Eliot and April. Today had been one of those days, and while there he'd asked Eliot to come upstairs later.

At present they were sitting in the sofa, Nate with a glass of whiskey in his hand, Eliot with a beer in his. He was relaxing, leaning back in the sofa in a way he didn't when anyone else was around. This part was the best part of his days, when he got to sit back, think, drink and just be himself. He took a sip of his whiskey.

"You know how I was in Chicago this weekend?" he started, knowing that Eliot not only knew but probably had a good idea about when he'd left and when he'd come back too. "I ran into someone there. Someone who needs our help." He paused and looked at Eliot, waiting for his response.


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[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-25 02:21 pm UTC (link)
"What kind of help?" Eliot asked cautiously. Nate's taking off whenever was fine by Eliot, so long as Eliot knew were he'd gone in general in case of emergency. Eliot had known it'd only been a matter of time before Nate went crazy with the small town-like life and sought out something else. Nate was a big boy and he knew the drill. But Eliot had settled into life in LaPorte and he wasn't too keen on having that shaken up.

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[info]nate_ford
2013-01-25 06:08 pm UTC (link)
"Our kind of help," Nate answered. "In a way, at least." It would never be their kind of help when the team wasn't intact, but it was helping someone who needed something the law was failing to supply, or couldn't supply perhaps.

"It's the sister of one of the victims of the serial killer that's been plaguing Chicago. The one April mentioned had powers." He took a sip of his drink. "Since her sister died, she's been going out, trying to attract this killer, thinking she'll be able to kill him before he kills again. She has no clue what she's getting herself into, and definitely no training to help her. If she does manage to attract him, she's dead unless she's got help."

"I want to help her find a way to predict him, to lure him into a trap without her getting hurt. Most of all, I want to keep her from self destructing or getting herself killed. Back her up and put a stop to a serial killer at the same time."

If they could find him. Without Hardison it would be difficult, near impossible, to find all the information they could have use for.

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[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-25 06:20 pm UTC (link)
Eliot took a slow drink of beer, weighing his options. "You can't get her to back down?" he asked, though Nate wouldn't be bringing it up if he'd been able to do so. And from the way Nate sat, and sounded, he'd already made up his mind to help this woman.

"What's your plan? We don't know who this guy is, where he is, or what his power is. We don't have Sophie, Hardison, Parker. You really want to lure a serial killer into a trap using an innocent person? Even if that doesn't get her killed, how do we trap him? What do we do with him?"

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[info]nate_ford
2013-01-25 06:38 pm UTC (link)
"But we do know his power," Nate answered. "Or I'm hoping we do. That part depends on how much April remembers about the details. His methods will tell us things we need to know, we'll go through news papers for additional details, look at maps for his victims, try to make out a pattern - either way, it will tell us something about him."

"To be honest, I don't know if we can get enough information to do this. If we had the others we could get the police rapports, find out all the details which have been kept from the media, but with the resources we have now, it will be hard. What we do know is that it's about time for him to kill again. It was a long time since last, he's not very good at hiding his victims nor does he seem to even try. He uses the same kind of environments - dark alleys with poor visibility. Still, that means he's out in the open, that means he can get caught - if we can just find the right alley."

"As for using Sarah for bait, no I'm not comfortable with it, and yes I have tried to talk her out of it but- She's got into her head that it was her fault. She won't rest until he's caught or she's dead. If we can predict him, maybe we can stop it from being the latter."

"As for what to do with him, there is no option. We need to kill him. There is no cop we can hand information, no one who would be able to handle this since they don't know about him having powers. Either we kill him, or failing that, we contact Vance and have them send someone to take him out." He'd never killed someone, but there really wasn't an option in this case. He'd need to spend more time at the range.

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[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-25 06:48 pm UTC (link)
Nate was going to do this whether Eliot helped him or not, and the solution to kill the killer wasn't something Eliot would willingly let Nate do.

"April's not going to be happy," Eliot said, "but I'm in."

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[info]nate_ford
2013-01-25 06:58 pm UTC (link)
Nate snorted. "Now that's an understatement about the same size of the holes in this so called plan." He wasn't a man who liked not having his plans in order, by now he was supposed to have it all done, but he just didn't have the facts he needed to create one. Not even a plan G.

"So now we talk to April, see what she remembers. Do you want to bring it up with her first or do you want me to take the major part of her displeasure?" If he could protect Eliot, he would.

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[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-25 07:01 pm UTC (link)
"You definitely get to bring it up. She'll chew me out enough as it is for going along with you."

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Nate, Eliot and April
[info]nate_ford
2013-01-25 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Once Eliot and Nate moved downstairs, they'd spoken about how to put it to April, but they both knew that no matter how they worded this, she'd hate it. Still they had to tell her, though Nate would have happily suggested lying if they didn't need her information.

She as sitting in the sofa reading when they came downstairs, but put the book down when she saw the two of them.

"Why do I get the feeling that something is wrong?" She looked at Eliot, but Nate wouldn't let his friend take the brunt of this.

"Because things are, and we need your help, or rather an innocent girl in Chicago named Sarah needs your help. She's the sister of the third victim of the serial killer you mentioned, and she's putting herself in danger, believing she can stop him."

April frowned. "How would you even know that? And if she does she's as dead as her sister. She can't go up against powers like that."

"Like what?"

"What are you doing?" April asked warily, turning towards Eliot again. "What's he up to, and how involved are you?"

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Re: Nate, Eliot and April
[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-25 08:04 pm UTC (link)
"We're gonna help Sarah stop herself from getting killed," Eliot told her, and he knew he was going to be sleeping with Cody for weeks. "We need the information you have from the autopsies of past victims."

He didn't go into further detail. The less she knew, the better - though he highly doubted that'd last for long.

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Re: Nate, Eliot and April
[info]april_kepner
2013-01-25 08:54 pm UTC (link)
"And how exactly are you going to do that?" April asked them, crossing her arms and looking at both of them.

It was Nate who spoke, though she would have wished it to be Eliot. Moving closer he sat down on the coffee table so that he was facing her.

"By predicting his next move and stopping him before he makes it," he answered. "And before you ask, yes I know how hard it will be, and I know there is no way to guarantee that we'll even be able to do it, but we need to try," he told her. "We can't let her kill herself, April. She's a person, like you or me, and she lost the one person she cares most about and now she's self destructing."

"Then talk her out of it," April said. "Don't encourage it by helping her out! Besides, I only examined the first victim, the rest it was just the rapports, and then the attack cut me off. He was just getting started still and he would be much more powerful today than he was back there."

"Getting started? You don't think he did this back home?"

"Not like this, I don't." She closed her eyes, then shot Eliot an annoyed look when she opened them. "He freezes them, then burns them. My guess, is that he burns them alive while using his power to slow it down, but then it's impossible to tell from the remains. What's little there is left of them. What I can say for sure is that there are still ice crystals in the burned bodies, meaning not only are they frozen while he burns them, once he's frozen them, they stay frozen. He doesn't need to keep on using his power to freeze them, which means he's free to turn it on someone else - someone else meaning you two."

"So what are you going to do? Shoot him? What about when someone sees? Our covers aren't good enough for something like that, we'd be on the run, and not just from this government but from Vance too. You really think he's going to let us take this big of a risk and put them in danger? Then you don't know him at all. He'll never let you do that, and that's not even considering what he'd do to you if you revealed our powers-"

"April, stop!" Nate said calmly. "We're not going to reveal anything, we'll tell Sarah that he drugs them not that he freezes them."

"I don't care what you tell her besides talking her out of this. Get her in contact with a good psychiatrist so she can deal with this instead of risking her and our lives."

"You really think you can predict his movements? Then you're better than the cops, but fine, do so and then call Vance. Don't get involved!"

She looked at Eliot. "Don't risk what we have. Please?"

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Re: Nate, Eliot and April
[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-25 09:06 pm UTC (link)
"Nate's gonna do this with or without me. I'm going to have his back," Eliot said, and he didn't hesitate to say it, either. "This guy's one of us. No cop is ever gonna stop him, and I don't see any of Vance's people doing anything.

"Someone needs our help. If this guy hasn't been caught in years, there's little chance we'll do it, especially without Hardison. That don't mean we're not gonna try."

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Re: Nate, Eliot and April
[info]april_kepner
2013-01-25 09:20 pm UTC (link)
"Of course he'd do something if he knew were the guy was," April snapped. "I know you don't like him, but even you have to see what a huge risk to him, to the team, it is having people like this guy out there. Sooner or later he or the others like him will expose their powers to the world bringing trouble to Vance's doorstep. If you don't believe he'd do it to protect the innocent, then at least believe he'd do it to protect his team." Personally she thought he'd do it for both reasons, just like he'd offered the government that attacked them to go to New York after the attack on the towers.

"You still haven't said what you're planning, or how you're going to go about it." She turned towards Nate. "You're the planner, so what's your big plan."

"To try to see a pattern of where he's been, find alleys that would fit his needs, figure out which he's likely to use-"

"And stake all of them out at once, oh wait, you're only two men so you can't, which means you'll have to settle for one or two, two means splitting up and then no argument about keeping someone's back would be valid because you wouldn't be, so then one. Now I'm sure the police have had similar ideas, so why haven't they, with a lot more numbers managed to cover the right alleys? Maybe because there is no way to know when he's going to strike again?"

"Do you even see the problems with this, or are you just that-" she stopped herself before she said something she couldn't take back, not even sure what word would have been next. Drunk, stupid, suicidal - they all fit. Getting up, she moved away from the both of them, her arms clutched tightly around her body.

"You're leaving me here, alone, while we're still hunted by the government to go off to Chicago and help a grief-struck woman use herself as bait for a serial killer who might or might not be in the area she's going to in the hopes that you what? Stop him before he freezes her? Stop him before he freezes and kills all of you? And what if you can't? What if he freezes her before you get to her, then what? Even if you kill him, she's still frozen, what are you going to do then? You can't bring her to the hospital, moving a frozen woman through town is definitely going to arouse suspicion but you can't leave her either or she'll die or expose us all."

"Do you even hear how bad this sounds?"

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Re: Nate, Eliot and April
[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-25 09:42 pm UTC (link)
Eliot looked at Nate and shrugged. "Told you she wouldn't be happy."

This was Nate's gig, not Eliot's - without Hardison, they had a chance in hell of finding the guy - but he wouldn't leave family hanging in the wind. "I ain't gonna let him do it alone, April. Ya'll can fight over the what ifs and how tos and the ups and downs, but if Nate's going to do it, I'm going to be there for him, end of story."

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Re: Nate, Eliot and April
[info]april_kepner
2013-01-25 10:11 pm UTC (link)
"Not happy?!?" April nearly shrieked, several of the small delicate flasks she'd bought to put in the windows like Sam had taught her imploding without her noticing. "Not happy doesn't begin to cover what I'm feeling! I think you're being reckless, stupid, careless and a whole lot of other things which you can't say in polite company. I think you're gambling with all of our lives, not just your own, not to mention our covers which won't be worth the papers they're printed on once you're through with this."

"Oh shut up!" she continued, cutting off Nate before he had time to interrupt her. "You don't speak right now, not if you have any brain left to think with. And you," she turned on Eliot. "You can move in with him since his opinion and safety seems to matter so much more to you than mine. You're welcome home when your brain started working again and you've decided the off chance of catching a serial killer isn't worth endangering your family for!"

She glared at the both of them for only a second before turning on her heal and heading for the bedroom door, but before she went through it she turned back and looked at Eliot again. "And don't even think about bringing Cody with you. He stays here with me. That way I'll have the company of someone with his intelligence still intact."

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[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-26 03:11 pm UTC (link)
Eliot got rid of Nate, which was pretty easy considering he looked as he wanted to be anywhere else but there right now. It was doubtful he'd even go back upstairs, to avoid the continued fireworks.

Once gone, Eliot went to the bedroom. He didn't stop to knock at the door - she wouldn't open it for him and he wasn't going to talk through it, either. The death glare he received was potent, and deserving. It didn't change his mind, though.

Shutting the door, he leaned against it. "There's a snowball's chance in hell he's going to actually catch the serial killer, you know that, right? Without Hardison, Parker, and Sophie, this is him tilting at windmills and I need to be his Sancho Panza."

Eliot's tone was even and calm. He had no reason to be angry, to rise to a fight, because it wasn't as if he didn't agree with April. "If you think I'd knowingly put you in danger, you've got another think coming. I like our life here, and to keep it I can't be letting Nate go running around Chicago by himself seeking a killer. That is what will put us in danger, and short of hogtying him, if he's set his mind to doing this he's going to do it."

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[info]april_kepner
2013-01-27 05:48 pm UTC (link)
April was still so angry she was shaking, which was probably the one reason she wasn't curling up in bed crying her heart out. She felt betrayed and scared and furious and too many other things all at once and it took every bit of her strength to keep her power under control or the house would be a mess to clean in the morning.

When Eliot appeared in the door she almost wanted to give in, to let every little piece of glass fly at him until he left her alone. She'd never felt more betrayed in her life, but right now she couldn't let the pain of that betrayal sting her - no it was easier to focus on the anger.

When he spoke she crossed her arms in front of her hard, staring at him. "Don't you get it?" she asked. "It's not finding him that's dangerous, it's looking for him. You're messing up our covers. Normal people don't go looking for serial killers. Normal husbands don't run off to Chicago every weekend leaving their pregnant wife back home. Leaving to go wit him is blowing our cover, so no you shouldn't be his Sancho Panza, you should stay at home."

"Do you even know half the amount of gossip there is around here? People keep track, people talk, especially at church. You work Sundays, but I don't, I'm in church and I hear them talk. It's why I know that Mr. Johnson's husband has a drinking problem or that Mary Hodgins is suspected of having an affair. You're leaving me and Eve alone to run off to Chicago to chase a ghost - and you think you're not putting our covers or me in danger? What about Eve? I'm do in six weeks. Six. And we haven't even ogt any plans for where to go yet. What if I go into labor? Kensi, Savannah, they were both early. What if something happens to me or Eve and you're in Chicago?"

"Don't tell me you're not putting me in danger, because you are. What's worse is that you made this decision without even asking my opinion, without ever giving me a say in the matter. And that's not even getting into the sheer stupidity o the entire enterprise. You're hoping a serial killer with powers far more offensive than yours will strike a particular girl, in a particular bar, and preferably make sure it's on a weekend when you can be there to protect her. It's not tilting at windmills, because in comparison, that would seem sane."

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[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-27 06:37 pm UTC (link)
"Then what do you want me to do? Let another person in my family get killed because I wasn't there?" Eliot said. "You're as safe as you're going to get here. His running around alone isn't, if it isn't obvious enough already that he decided to do this in the first place. I didn't have to ask because I already knew what your opinion would be, and I don't disagree with it, but that's not gonna stop him once he sets his mind to something, so I'm going to be there.

"And if you think you'd go into labor and have Eve less than two hours later, you've been reading fiction. I know exactly what we're doing when it comes to Eve's birth, when she decides to get here. I haven't been sitting with my thumb up my ass these past few months. We just haven't gotten around to talking about it yet."

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[info]april_kepner
2013-01-27 07:13 pm UTC (link)
"We'll all be killed if he keeps doing this, whether you're there or not," April said. "If not by the serial killer then the government." Or Vance. She couldn't know for sure, but she'd seen the way they'd locked Abby up, the way she was treated when she was considered a threat, she didn't think he'd let them live for a minute longer if they were deemed a threat to the group.

She rose an eyebrow. "How many pregnancies have you handled? How many have I? I know what I'm talking about and it's not about normal labor, what if something is wrong. What if I can't get to a hospital?" Turning, she looked out the window, staring at the calm suburban street outside.

"One trip," she finally said through clenched teeth. "But you do it my way not his. He says he can predict him? Let him, but he does that from here. He predicts when he thinks he's going to strike again, he picks out alleys that he thinks he might hit, but he only gets one attempt. You don't involve this Sarah girl in this, or any other girl for that matter. You focus on the alleys and only the alleys and you use your power to do so."

She turned back and stared at Eliot, her eyes determined. "Rent a car, drive around between his chosen alleys. After you're done, you return home and Nate will have to face that he failed to predict this man. He gets one shot, one only, no more. If you by any means of miracle do come across someone burning a woman in one of those alleys, you face the fact that the girl he's burning is already dead. There is no way to change that. There is no way to save her. You don't try to stop him, you don't kill him, you follow him and when you know where he lives, we call Vance and let him know where to pick him up."

"If you can't accept those terms, then I do mean it and you stay upstairs with Nate from now on, because I need you here with me completely, not running around with Nate."

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[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-27 07:30 pm UTC (link)
"Of course I accept. Trouble is, will he? And what do we do if he doesn't?" Eliot rubbed his forehead, starting to get a stress headache. He didn't want to have an ultimatum, to choose between April and Nate, because if he did Nate was a dead man walking.

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[info]april_kepner
2013-01-27 07:47 pm UTC (link)
"You make him accept it," April said, relaxing now that he'd agreed, her hands falling to the side of her body as she stopped hugging herself. "You persuade him, you speak to his ego if you must, challenge him to do it, I don't really care how you do it, but you do it, because I can't live, we can't live, with this hanging over our heads."

"He needs to understand that, but more importantly, he needs to find some stability of his own. He's bored, Eliot. His drinking has gotten worse since we got here and he keeps going off on his own. He's endangering all of us and what's worse, doing this, it gives him ideas. This is just the starts, trust me. Once this is over, he'll find a new cause, and another, and another. You can't protect him from himself forever. He needs to find the will to protect himself."

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[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-27 08:22 pm UTC (link)
Eliot sighed, and walked over to her. He wrapped his arms around her. "I'll do what I can," he said. "M'sorry I made you angry. Not so much at Nate, because he needed to hear it, but with me."

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[info]april_kepner
2013-01-27 08:37 pm UTC (link)
"You needed to hear it too," April said, placing her hand on his cheek so that her arm was in between them, making it impossible for him not to look her in the eyes. "You're giving him too much control, too much influence, too much faith."

"He's not well, Eliot, and you need to see it. He's a drunk. He acts like he's in control but he's not. He's morning all of you, what you were, what you did, and he's restless. But his restless puts us all in danger and it needs to stop and it won't as long as you trust him to know what's best. He might have been your mentor, but in this world, you're the one with the experience. You need to step it up, or he will only get worse and sooner or later, we're all going to be on the run because of it."

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[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-27 09:24 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah," Eliot sighed. It was not what he wanted to do, but he didn't want to lose the freedom they now had to live their lives. "I'll do what I can."

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Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]nate_ford
2013-01-28 07:55 pm UTC (link)
They'd both expected April not to be happy about their decision, but Nate had to admit that her reaction had been somewhat more...explosive than he'd thought. Quite literary.

He tended to forget about her power, or any of their powers, when April and Eliot didn't make him train, but seeing her levitating things and moving them back and forth was not the same as seeing thing explode behind her when she was angry. He was rather glad that hadn't been something Maggie had been able to do.

He'd stayed up a while after returning to his flat, waiting to see if April would make real on her threat, but as their voices died down and Eliot didn't come up, he himself went to bed. He still wanted to make sure they were on the same page however, so the first chance he got in the morning, Nate went to seek Eliot out.

"Hey," he said. "So how did it go last night? Managed to avoid the couch?"

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Re: Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-28 08:16 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah, no couch," Eliot said. "She wasn't wrong in anything she said, you know. Doing this puts us in danger of losing our cover more than anything. So you get one chance after all the research is done. We get one alley to scope out, two if you want to divide your time in one night, but that's it. If nothing happens, we have to drop it. No involving Sarah, either."

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Re: Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]nate_ford
2013-01-28 08:28 pm UTC (link)
Nate rose an eyebrow. "I take it this was April's terms?" he said and it wasn't a question. It wasn't what they'd discussed, and if Eliot avoided the couch he'd given her something.

"One alley isn't going to be enough, neither is two. This is hard enough to do with time and the help of a team. Picking one alley would be impossible." It wasn't as if this wouldn't be hard enough as it was.

He picked up his coffee cup (though there was as much whiskey as there was coffee in it) and took a sip. "I don't mind not involving Sarah, I never did like putting her at risk, but how do we protect her without being there? Also what did you mean by scoping out? Ambushing him if he shows up with someone? That's pretty risky, especially if the one with him isn't in on it."

He really missed the rest of the team right about now. They especially needed a grifter.

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Re: Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-28 08:36 pm UTC (link)
"You said you'd from the research perhaps you can pick up a pattern or deduce a location, or something," Eliot said. "The terms are you get to go out looking for him for one night and one night only. How you want to do it is up to you, but a long-term investigation isn't in the cards. If we find him, we'll follow him. If we don't, we're done. We'll think of something to do with Sarah to convince her to drop it."

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Re: Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]nate_ford
2013-01-28 08:49 pm UTC (link)
"Follow him?" Nate asked. "Yesterday you agreed with me that he needed to be stopped. You know the police will never be able to catch him, you heard what April said about his power."

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Re: Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-28 09:10 pm UTC (link)
"Vance gets to do the dirty work. If he doesn't, then I'll do something about it that won't get us on anyone's radar." Eliot folded his arms. "We're going to do everything we can not to draw attention to ourselves, including confronting or even getting close to the guy. Do I think he needs to be stopped, yes. Do I put his being stopped over April and Eve - not a chance. I have your back because I don't want you to get killed, but we're not a crew anymore, Nate. I'm a cook, you're in sales. Your name is Tom and mine's Chris. They may be covers, but they're permanent ones as long as we don't mess up. I sure as hell don't want to go back to Vance and them."

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Re: Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]nate_ford
2013-01-28 09:23 pm UTC (link)
The idea of this being permanent shouldn't make him want to crawl out of his skin the way it did. The small town life wasn't one he liked and the only thing making it bearable was the fact that it was easy enough to get drunk or go to the city.

Still he would not, could not, argue with Eliot when it came to his wish to protect April and Eve. He had failed to protect his son, he would not deny Eliot the right to protect his daughter. "You're right. Of course you're right. I don't want to put your family in danger either." He might think April was overreacting, but he did see Eliot's point of view.

"Okay, I'll get cracking on predicting him. I'll let you know when we're leaving."

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Re: Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-28 09:41 pm UTC (link)
Eliot nodded, and he started to leave but paused. He knew April was right in that Nate was drinking too much, seemed to bored, to antsy. Eliot had seen it himself. He'd hoped Nate might settle but, as she'd said, it was only getting worse.

"You know, there's other things you can do. Go back into insurance fraud. Become a private investigator. Take off and see this world. I'd like you to be here for Eve's birth, but you're not tied down. We're free of Vance. You've got solid documents. You have your power under control. You know what not to do to get yourself noticed by the government.

"April and I intend to buy a ranch and settle where we're at, if possible. Have more kids. Live our lives. Uncle 'Tom' is welcome to stop by and visit any time he wants, but he doesn't have to be stuck with our dreams. Think about it."

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Re: Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]nate_ford
2013-01-28 10:02 pm UTC (link)
Nate smiled a bit, because he knew what Eliot was trying to do, though he wasn't sure it was going to work. He did appreciate the effort however.

"Of course I'll be here for Eve's birth," he said. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."

"As for the rest, we'll see if and when I move on and where to." He missed Sophie, more than he could say. "But for now, I'm staying a while longer." He smiled. "After all, someone has to ease your mind when you're panicking over something or another that Eve is or isn't doing."

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Re: Nate, Eliot - morning after
[info]_eliot_spencer
2013-01-28 10:07 pm UTC (link)
Eliot smiled. "Well, yeah, there is that. Just remember that family is still family, no matter where they are."

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