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

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*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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Re: Nate, Eliot and April

_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

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

_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

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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