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Tweak says, "p.s. i love you"

_eliot_spencer (_eliot_spencer) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2013-02-04 09:22:00

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*complete, 2013 02, character: april kepner, character: eliot spencer, dead: nathan ford

RP: Eliot/April/Nate
Who: Eliot/April/Nate
When: Monday 2-4-13
Where: The apartment
Summary: Right after Vance departs.

Eliot was angry. Angry at Vance. Angry at himself. Angry with Nate and April. Once Vance and the others had left, Eliot lashed out in his anger at his family. "Let's hunt a serial killer. Let's call Vance," he said snidely. "All I try to do is protect you both, and what do I get for it? Threatened with death, kicked out of my home, and completely failing in safeguarding you. I wanted to give us a life and freedom, and blew it."

He ground his teeth. He needed to go outside and cool off. But first, there were things to attend. "April, call work tomorrow and tell them the doctor put you on bed rest, so you have to resign. Tell them I'll pick up your final paycheck as soon as it's ready. You can tell our friends that we're in witness protection and being relocated, or tell them nothing. It doesn't really matter.

"Nate, get out of your job however you want. I'm not going to leave John and Billie high and dry, so I'll give notice and stick around longer if need be. We have to get out of our lease, get our deposit back, get a moving truck, sell the car, and sterilize the house. We're also going to take advantage of these IDs while we still got them and amass some quick cash. Nate and I will take care of that, and Nate, you'll have to set up a P.O. Box outside the area for it. Use the rental ID for the moving truck. We'll buy a new car with the new ID whenever we get to wherever we're going. April, you get to handle picking our new location."

Eliot snapped for Cody. "I'm taking the dog out in the yard. I'll be back in as soon as I stop wanting to kill someone."

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april_kepner
2013-02-05 08:39 pm UTC (link)

If Eliot had been pissed off when he went upstairs, things were worse when he returned. Even when he left Nate's she could hear from the sound of his feet and the slamming of the door that things hadn't gone well, but when he returned to their apartment she waited, knowing better than to push.

"I'm not," she said, looking up from where she sat packing. "I know it's not what we wanted, but we'll make it through this. We always knew this could happen." Well maybe not this as much as them leaving.

"Help me up?" she said, reaching for him. Once up, she took his hand and brought him over to the couch. "I was thinking about Kentucky," she said, gesturing towards the screen on the computer where the pictures of a beautiful horse ranch were opened. "It's a out of our price range now, but not by all that much. It's not that far off."

"We'll still have our dream, Eliot. It just won't be here." She might hate this, but right now, her husband needed some hope back.

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_eliot_spencer
2013-02-05 09:11 pm UTC (link)

Eliot snorted. "It won't be anywhere with Vance pulling the strings, and since Nate decided that we can't make our own way we're stuck as that man's marionettes."

He leaned closer to the computer, taking another swig of beer as he looked at the sites. "We should get out of the states. No US government to worry about, clinics instead of hospitals, better chance for isolation. Mexico's easy to get into and stay." They could even live under their own real married names. Sure, they couldn't get back with nothing more than drivers licenses, but why would they want to return?

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april_kepner
2013-02-05 09:20 pm UTC (link)

She took Eliot's face in her hands, making her look at her. "He left us alone this long, didn't he? It was what we did that brought him here, and now he'd said flat out that he wants nothing more to do with us as long as we don't do something like that again. We live the way we did, the way we want to live - the way you told me the other day that you want to live, then he won't bother us again."

"Besides, I don't speak Spanish, remember?" she added with a small smile. "I want to live somewhere I can make myself understood. Somewhere I can be a part of a community. Not have Eve at some clinic with doctors speaking a language I don't know with medical training I have no clue about."

"We can't go to the hospital, but we can manage her birth at home. It will be safer anyway. We don't know what she might do when born."

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	_eliot_spencer 2013-02-05 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	"I speak Spanish," Eliot grumbled, though she was right about the questionableness of the doctors in some of the more remote locations. Vance upending their lives was really eating up Eliot, more so than it should considering they could have to leave at any moment because of an attack. He told April the same, adding, "I don't know why, but I hate it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

april_kepner
2013-02-05 09:36 pm UTC (link)

"Because you never liked him and you thought you were free of him," she said. "Because you haven't been happy or felt appreciated or in control since arriving in this dimension until now. Because on some level you blame him and the other leads for not allowing you to protect Parker and Hardison. Because for the first time you were running your own life, in stead of following orders. Because for the first time you were doing what you wanted to do, living the life you wanted to live, being the person you wanted to be. You feel he's taken all of that from you, but he hasn't. He can't. He can drive us away from here, but he can't change who you are. He can't change who you want to be. Only you can do that."

She smiled at him. "Knowing you might have to leave, and actually being forced to, they're two different things. You might have known it here," she said brushing his hair from his face, before moving her hand down to his chest. "But you didn't know it here. You have settled into this community as much as I have, and we might call it covers, but we both know that's not entirely true."

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	_eliot_spencer 2013-02-05 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	Eliot grunted at her. She could read and interpret him so well it was scary. It was a good thing he married her. "So... Kentucky? Nate's gonna hate it. They have some dry counties there." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

april_kepner
2013-02-05 09:54 pm UTC (link)

"Kentucky," she confirmed. "And I'm sure we can pick one of those dry counties too. It will be good for him whether he likes it or not." And them. She liked Nate, she really did. He was caring and smart and intellectual - at least when he was sober. His drinking, his melancholy and his restlessness wasn't just hard to cope with but put hem in danger. In her mind the less Nate was able to drink, the better off they all were.

"Come on, help me find one of those dry counties, and we can start looking for rentals and jobs. And I know we don't need to be out of here before Thursday, but the sooner we can leave the better. We'll start over, and this time we won't make the same mistake."

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