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Ray Palmer is the ([info]_atom) wrote in [info]paradisolog,
@ 2016-04-01 11:46:00

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Entry tags:~maria hill (by_the_book), ~ray palmer (_atom)

WHO: Ray Palmer & Maria Hill
WHERE: Outside the camp, but not far from it.
WHEN: After this.
WHAT: Teaching Maria to build a shelter
WARNINGS: TBD
STATUS: Closed, Complete

welcome to my house.



Ray had spent much of his first day in the camp wandering around outside of it. He'd known immediately that he was going to need a shelter and he assumed they didn't have run of the mill rope. So, Ray had gone out into the jungle and started collecting palm fibers to make cords, something he'd learned back in scouts that he'd actually really excelled in making. He'd fashioned a little post out of a branch with a thick twig sticking up from it that he broke off to be a shorter length and, by morning, Ray had damn near a mile of cord to work with, thin but strong. Good enough to hold together a teepee. So he'd asked a fellow volunteer to borrow their hatchet and he'd moved onto the next step, heading into the jungle again to cut down branches he could use for posts as well as thickly-leaved palm branches that he could use for the cover since Ray didn't have a canvas drop cloth, which would've been ideal.

By mid-afternoon, all he'd had left to do was to finish actually hanging the palm branches for cover. So he'd taken a break and gotten on the network, which was where he first spoke with Dr. Jemma Simmons — whom he'd then joined for tea; quite a nice luxury to unexpectedly have, actually. Ray was more of a coffee guy, but beggars couldn't be choosers — and Maria Hill. He'd offered to help Maria with her own shelter tomorrow in exchange for her help with his own. Ray had already done the hardest part of making a shelter in this place, as far as he was concerned, because he'd made so much cord. He'd need to make more, and probably some four-ply, but all the same, that was the tough part, in his opinion. The rest would be easy.

Once he'd gotten back from tea and escorting Jemma to camp, Ray started to scan the faces of the people in the camp at the moment, looking for Maria. He grinned when he spotted her and approached. "Maria? Ray, nice to actually meet you, so sorry about the hiccup," he said, holding a hand out to shake. He'd meant to meet her before heading out to meet Jemma, but at the last minute when he hadn't immediately seen her milling about, he'd headed out to follow the smoke to find the other woman, worried that he would take too long or that she'd be too far out and they would lose the light on their way back. "I try not to be that guy, but extenuating circumstances and all. Should we get started?"

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-01 04:43 pm UTC (link)
Maria still wasn't entirely certain why Fury had wanted her for this mission. Well, she did, but she wasn't certain why he thought she was a good choice. She felt her talents were far better applied to SHIELD and the Avengers Initiative. Fury had been adamant and there was no arguing with him in her opinion. She did as she was ordered.

After getting here and learning that Dr. Banner was here she once again wondered what Fury had been thinking. Scheming, more like. Especially after seeing how many of the males here were quite a few years younger than her. Muttering about meddling directors, she threw herself into the work end of things instead of the camp's version of Tinder.

She volunteered for tasks that she was suited for, stayed out of the way of ones she wasn't, and asked to learn new skills she thought would be beneficial. That was how she met Ray. Learning how to build a shelter would be a very good idea which was her only intention. When he had said he was going to be occupied with Jemma she thought she was interrupting something and had retracted her request, but Ray assured her there was nothing to interrupt. Okay. Maria would take that at face value.

He found her before she found him and turned when she heard her name called. She was still wearing a SHIELD uniform since it was designed for almost every environment. A makeshift knife was strapped to her thigh, and her hair was pulled back. A couple of strands had escaped confinement so she brushed them back before she shook his offered hand, a polite smile on her face.

"Nice to meet you too," she said. Her voice was a firm mezzo. Solid. Good for projection and confident. "Don't worry about it. I didn't want to disrupt anything you already had planned, but sure." She gestured for him to lead the way.

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[info]_atom
2016-04-01 05:47 pm UTC (link)
In spite of the fact that Ray was a lot less interested in the heavy sexual implications of the island and the project for the time being, he wasn't blind. It was impossible to miss the fact that the women here were beautiful and Maria was no exception. "No, no, not at all," Ray insisted with a smile, taking her hand and shaking it. "I'm still sort of wrapping my head around all of this, but I figure the easiest way to start is to focus on what I know," he said, nodding in the direction from which he'd come to indicate that he wanted her to follow him as he started off back toward his shelter. It looked crude, but Ray wasn't all that worried about aesthetics. In fact, he didn't plan on leaving the shelter the way it was anyway. He just needed something quick to tide him over until he could basket weave a cover out of palm fronds. That would take more time and Ray didn't want to go without shelter in the meantime.

"So, okay...this is what I've got so far," he said, gesturing. The structure was already upright and the top quarter of it was covered with lush branches from one of the palm trees. "I just need to finish attaching those," he said, gesturing to the pile of the remaining branches, "to it. I'll make it better later, but this is a pretty quick fix."

Ray looked over at her and lifted his eyebrows slightly. "The structure is actually really easy to erect," he said, "I can help you in the morning; you can use my leftover cord and I'll help you cut down some branches to use for the pillars. You know how to tie knots? Good ones, I mean, strong knots?"

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-01 08:53 pm UTC (link)
"Survival is the priority," she said as she followed Ray. Her eyes never stayed in one place for long. Maria was used to being on duty or in the field. That meant being aware of her surroundings. It was habit, and one she had no intention of getting out of. "Exposure. Native fauna. Just because we haven't seen much more than game animals doesn't mean predators aren't out there."

When they got to his shelter her mind immediately called it a field A frame. It was very much like something she'd been trained to use when caught out in the wilderness. Temporary. Something like this would be fine for now, but she'd want something more permanent and larger eventually.

Her hands were on her hips as she looked over what Ray had accomplished and nodded her approval. "I would try to make one of these and it would become a kite in the first good wind." She chuckled before giving Ray a nod. "Knots I know."

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[info]_atom
2016-04-01 09:13 pm UTC (link)
Nodding to both himself and to Maria, Ray went on walking, but answered her, all the same. "That's a good point. There must be, unless we're meant to be the predators," he said. "Otherwise there'd be no balance. There always needs to be a balance."

He looked back at her and laughed. "No, I'm sure it would be fine! It's just temporary, anyway," he told her confidently. "It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be a roof over your head until we've got some better, stronger shelters in the works, no? Ah, that's what I think, anyway," he said, shrugging his shoulders.

"But good! Knots are the hardest part of making one of these," he told her. "Well. Knots after actually fashioning the cord, that's a little bit more of a challenge for someone when they try it for the first time, anyway," he said. "I can teach you that, too, if you want. Just...you know, not now. Later. Once we both have standing shelters that aren't going to become kites with the first good wind," he joked.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-01 09:25 pm UTC (link)
"This type of environment I'm thinking lizards. Birds of prey. Maybe a medium sized feline. None of which would really look at us as interesting or tasty, but they'd defend themselves." And whenever they start having children the danger level would increase, but she wasn't comfortable with that subject.

"We're all going to need more permanent shelters, yes." A thoughtful frown creased her brows. "Some of the younger set are already jumping on this whole reproduce idea." Which she thought was expected but still somewhat annoying. They all needed to focus on other things.

"Knowing how to make cord would be good," she said with a smile to Ray. "Trade you knot lessons for cording lessons. Later. Like you said."

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[info]_atom
2016-04-01 09:32 pm UTC (link)
Ray gave a semi-nod, not quite committing to agree or disagree with her. "That's a point, although that's assuming that we're in a wholly natural environment. We were all hand-picked by the gods, so it would stand to reason they'd choose their local flora and fauna as well, wouldn't it?"

If he was honest, he was a little uneasy about the ease with which the youth had already accepted and potentially begun the process of reproduction, which put them on at the very least a nine month time constraint to get this community up and running. "Yeah, that's a little troubling, but they're young. They can only learn from it," he sighed. "Anyway. I'm happy to show you how to make the cords. It's actually not that hard, so much as it is tedious and, for a beginner, time consuming. But not difficult to learn," he said cheerfully, bending to pick up one of the palm branches and holding it out to her. "Would you mind holding this for me? Just here," he said, indicating as he reached for more of his cord. "So I can tie it in place?"

He didn't really need knotting lessons, since he'd learned all of that when he'd been in boy scouts anyway, but Ray didn't mention that. It wouldn't hurt to see if she knew any that he hadn't learned back in the day, after all. Every knot had its use.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-01 09:51 pm UTC (link)
"Hand picked?" Maria snapped a solid look to Ray. Her expression just screamed professional and maybe a little scary. "I was assigned..." But was that because these gods wanted her there? Was that why Fury had been so adamant she take the assignment? But...why? Romanoff. Even other female agents were potentially better fit for this.

That thoughtful frown settled more on her face as she nodded in answer of his request. Maria got herself into position to hold the branches where he wanted them, but her mind was running on possibilities behind Fury's reasoning and these would-be parents who were little more than kids themselves. "Learn from it, sure, but meanwhile they set our deadline for getting everything organized and prepared."

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[info]_atom
2016-04-01 09:58 pm UTC (link)
"That was the impression I got, anyway," he said. "I was invited, one of them came to me in a vision." He was a little taken aback that she didn't seem to have had the same experience that he had. That was strange...

As Maria held the palm in place, Ray moved closer, probably a little too close for most people's comfort, and reached over her head to start tying the branch in place on his shelter.

"Yeah, well...somewhat, anyway," he agreed. "But a pregnancy still takes almost a year, so we've got time. We're only a few days in. We can make it work, we just have to keep working as a community."

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-01 10:18 pm UTC (link)
"I haven't met any of them," she said flatly. "They were described in my briefing." She was half bent over to hold the strands in place, but she didn't think anything of it. It was just the best way to hold things securely. "I mean it isn't as if I don't have experience with beings that could only be described as gods so I'm not doubting their existence."

She hadn't even noticed Ray's proximity until the wind shifted and blew in her direction. Maria got a nose full of a pleasant combination of whatever lingered of his soap and the honest smell of sweat. She turned her head and her brows went up to see him that close. He had nice arms, and her opinion was based off of Thor.

"Uh..." Snap out of it, Hill. "My concern was prenatal care. Complications. That sort of thing."

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[info]_atom
2016-04-01 10:43 pm UTC (link)
"I guess I just assumed we'd all had the same experience, but evidently not. Maybe we all had different ones," Ray pondered aloud, securing his knot and working to double its strength by repeating it before he'd cut the cord and move to the next section.

Ray's eyebrows lifted slightly at her filler word and he stepped back to grab another one of the palms. "That one's set, sorry. Didn't mean to get up in your personal space, but I couldn't reach it. ...and actually, I didn't think of either of those things, but those are really good points of concern..." Ray said, looking slightly troubled as he held the branch out to her and indicated where he wanted her to hold it up. "I wonder whether they've thought it out and just have faith or don't care, or if they haven't thought about it at all..."

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-01 10:53 pm UTC (link)
"I don't think it matters, really," she said decisively. "We're here now. How we got here is irrelevant. What we do now that we're here is what matters." It was possible she was saying that more for herself than him.

"No problem." She straightened, dusting her hands off then maneuvering into a position to hold the next one. And no, it wasn't a problem. Maria was just...well, lousy about social interactions if she were being honest. "Well, if they want us to survive and repopulate their Utopia here they'd probably interfere if there were complications. Right?"

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[info]_atom
2016-04-01 11:05 pm UTC (link)
That seemed just as good a conclusion as any, to Ray, so he gave a thoughtful expression that slid into a smile as he nodded. "You're right, that's what matters," he agreed.

Maria's question was a lot more theological than Ray typically liked to get. He typically tended to walk the line between Man of Science and Man of Faith, but he couldn't help wondering whether there was a line to be drawn in the sand in terms of what the gods and goddesses would allow or disallow. "Theoretically speaking," he answered, moving closer again and reaching over her once more to tie the second branch in place. "Unless survival of the fittest overrides the will of the gods, I guess. But I'd like to think they'll do everything they can to make it go smoothly, since this project is their baby. ...no pun intended..."

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-01 11:30 pm UTC (link)
Maria was the same. Until Thor and Loki she'd have said if there was a higher power in the universe they probably had better things to do than worry about one ant farm of a planet.

She was more prepared for his proximity this time so didn't tense up as much as when she'd been caught off guard. His suggestion made her smirk in amusement, and she let out with a quiet snort. "It would be more familiar territory if this place burst into a Thunderdome."

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[info]_atom
2016-04-01 11:44 pm UTC (link)
At her response, Ray chuckled, nodding his head and cocking his eyebrows. "Yeah," he agreed. "Unfortunately, I know the feeling."

But he supposed that was something that came with the territory when one decided to take on a superhero/vigilante persona to help protect his city and, later, the world.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 12:05 am UTC (link)
"Oh yeah?" she asked. Her head turned the fraction it took to look at Ray. He had dimples. Not now! "And what exactly did you do back home doctor engineering and applied sciences that you're familiar with life in the active lane?"

Talking about work put her even more at ease. Fury used to accuse her of being all work and no play until she pointed out it was because he kept her so busy. But even away from Fury she never really stopped working. It was what she knew. All she knew. Familiar and comfortable. Could she relax? Sure! You couldn't spend any amount of time around Tony Stark and not. Did she prefer to? Not one bit.

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 12:31 am UTC (link)
"Well..." he started with a nervous huff of laughter. "There's the mission I was on. I'm on a team...we travel through time and space; we were tracking a man named Vandal Savage, set to destroy the world in the twenty-second century. So, we've been chasing him through time to stop his rise to power." That was safe to say here, right? As long as he didn't name names or get too much more specific than that?

Ray stopped working for a moment and looked down at her a little sheepishly. "I know that makes me sound like a lunatic, but I promise it's true."

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 12:47 am UTC (link)
She took all of that in as if receiving a debriefing from another SHIELD agent. It didn't even make her lift a brow. When he went quiet she looked back up at him and grinned for the meek expression.

"Doc, I helped save New York from an alien invasion with a team that included a super soldier from the past, a Norse god and a man with severe anger issues." She chuckled as she shook her head. "Time travel is the next logical step."

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 01:04 am UTC (link)
Her response made Ray relax. He grinned and chuckled again, nodding. "Fair enough. I'll take acceptance where I can get it. Sounds like you came from a pretty interesting life, yourself," he pointed out.

Finishing up the section he'd been working on, Ray moved on to the next, handing her another palm branch. They were making good time, he thought. They'd finished two in less than the time it had taken him to do one without the extra set of hands.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 01:19 am UTC (link)
"Believe it or not, that seems like just a normal day for me." She huffed knowing that pretty much set her way out of the realm of normal. "I was Assistant Director for a world government agency that operated under the radar. Mainly we focused on the US, but our interested expanded. Before this assignment I functioned as AD but my main assignment was as liaison for said team. It was kind of a twenty four seven gig."

And now that she said it out loud she could see Fury's point. Damn it!

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 01:34 am UTC (link)
Ray understood about being on the clock 24/7. Back in his days as a CEO, he'd had many days like that. "That's impressive," he said sincerely, making a mental note of her leadership skills; having a position like that suggested leadership skills, a good trait to pass down the genetic line. Not that he was planning on telling her that, but it was a mental note all the same.

It didn't take a whole lot longer for them to finish his shelter working at the rate they had been. "...I think we're set!" he said cheerfully, looking back at her, taking a step back to look over their work. "We've got a little bit of light if you want to get started looking for the pillars for yours?"

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 01:49 am UTC (link)
"Thanks." She sounded a little astonished for the compliment. Even her smile reflected that. Usually she'd be getting an odd look as whoever she'd been talking to was slowly backing away. Especially a guy. They didn't typically like being around a strong woman. And just think. She hadn't even brought up her weapons specialties or her black belts.

She stood back to look at what she'd helped accomplish and grinned. "Sure." She didn't mind sleeping under the lean to again if it meant work being made on something more covering. "And if that falls down you can blame me. I'm getting used to it."

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 02:15 am UTC (link)
"You're welcome," Ray said simply, a genuine smile playing at his lips. Ray was impressed by powerful women, whether intellectually or physically. Felicity Smoak and Sara Lance impressed him in equal measure for different reasons. Ray wasn't intimidated by that strength, he was inspired by it.

With a soft laugh, Ray shook his head and started to lead her into the jungle where they could hopefully hack a few decent-sized branches down like he had the day before. "If it falls down, I'm blaming myself, since the structuring was all me," he told her firmly, in a tone that suggested finality but still didn't quite jive with the smirk on his face.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 02:34 am UTC (link)
Maria chuckled. "Right. No arguing." She followed Ray with long strides, immediately on guard. Sure, they hadn't run into anything to threaten them, but she wouldn't feel right now being prepared. Each pass of her leg put that makeshift knife near her hand. Just in case.

"So what am I looking for?" It hadn't been meant as a loaded question, but with the perpetual undertones with everyone here Ray could be forgiven for taking that wrong.

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 02:57 am UTC (link)
Ray, ever the oblivious to innuendo that wasn't coming from him, looked back over at her as they walked. "We're looking for six to eight branches that we can cut down, thick enough to be sturdy. They'll be the base of the thing," he explained.

"Ah," he said finding a tree that looked promising. "Here, hold this for me?" he asked, handing her his hatchet and moving to the tree to climb it.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 03:14 am UTC (link)
She took the hatchet automatically then her brows went up when she realized what he was about to do. "Wow. You're just going to...right up there. Huh?" Maria looked up into the tree as her lips pulled to one side. She thought they'd be looking for dead fall, not harvesting. "You got this whole Mowgli thing going. Your best friend wouldn't happen to be a dancing bear, would it?"

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 01:47 pm UTC (link)
Climbing trees had always been one of Ray's favorite things to do when he'd been a kid. He supposed some part of him had never really grown out of it, which was just as well, since he thought it was better to use fresh wood than fallen timber. That was just his personal opinion.

Ray jumped to grab the lowest hanging branch and pulled himself up with a little bit of effort, hanging onto said branch and using the trunk of the tree to sort of walk up the part of the way his upper body couldn't quite manage to bring him. Then he swung one leg over the base of the branch to steady himself. He could reach the ones he meant to cut down from here, anyway.

Leaning forward rather than to one side or the other, Ray let his arm dangle down with an open hand. "I think my life would be a lot more pleasant and whimsical if my best friend was a dancing bear, but no," he laughed. Truthfully, when he thought about it, Ray wasn't sure he had a best friend at all anymore, actually...at least, not since the break up with Felicity. It was more awkward than he would sometimes like to admit.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 03:08 pm UTC (link)
Maria held the hatchet up into his outstretched hand after watching that bit of gymnastics. It had been kind of impressive and part of her thought she'd like to see him do that again. Without a shirt. Ahem. Not that she'd ever suggest that out loud.

"Well don't look at me," she said with amusement coloring her voice. "My dancing has been described as an epileptic spider monkey." She chuckled as she watched. "And uh...warn me where you're going to cut so I know not to be under it."

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 03:43 pm UTC (link)
"Don't worry, I'm not going to hit you with a branch. This one here," he said, indicating as he started to hack at it with the little axe.

He made fairly quick work of it cutting a few branches down from the tree, warning Maria which he was working on before he actually started, and then he climbed back down the tree after handing her the hatchet again so that he wouldn't hurt himself doing it.

"All right, so those three will be your support beams, now we can just find whatever we happen to find that's already fallen to help round out the structure some."

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Maria gathered up the branches, hoisting them onto a shoulder easily even while holding the hatchet which was handed back once Ray's feet were on solid ground.

"Light's fading," she said as she looked up at the canopy. Even though the sun hadn't set completely yet it got darker sooner in the forest. Maria looked back to Ray. "It's up to you. I'm good walking around in the dark."

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 04:08 pm UTC (link)
Ray took up the other end of the branches on his own shoulder to make it easier to carry the load without having the drag them along, given their length. "Hmm...that's a good point," he agreed. "No, we'd better go back. Walking around in the dark is only worrisome because I haven't been here long enough to assess what kind of potential nocturnal predators might be in the jungle, we'd better head back before we lose the light."

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 04:14 pm UTC (link)
"Agreed." Once she was sure he was ready Maria took the lead and retraced their path. She let an almost awkward silence come between them before she spoke up.

"Can I ask you a personal question?"

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 04:18 pm UTC (link)
The two of them started back toward the camp with Ray behind her, and when she asked her question, Ray lifted his eyebrows.

"Sure, shoot," he replied easily. Ray was kind of an open book for most things.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 04:24 pm UTC (link)
"Why did you volunteer for this?" Her tone of voice was carefully schooled to neutral, and she was not looking back at Ray. Maria hadn't even asked Banner how or why he ended up here. He wasn't exactly the sharing kind, and Maria didn't want to pry. She could guess why the younger set came here judging by their current behavior, but someone like Ray...she was curious.

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 04:34 pm UTC (link)
Ray took a deep breath and let it out softly. It was the question that had led he and Patty down the path of a less than pleasant topic of conversation. Granted, she'd saved the day with a starfish, but...still.

"I recently learned that my life is...completely unremarkable in the grand scheme. I didn't want that to be true, anymore," he said after a few moments of long pause. "I wanted to do something important and good and I don't think there's anything more important or good than a project like this, do you?"

It was starting something from the ground up with the foundations of several decades of learning from bad mistakes; they all came from worlds that probably had a thing or twenty that needed improvement or the offer wouldn't have been so enticing, no matter how altruistic the cause. If people loved their homes without a shadow of doubt creeping in, then they wouldn't want to leave, even for this. But this world, it was theirs. They could make it amazing if they wanted to and they wouldn't have to try to change a world already in motion to make improvements, they could just choose not to make the same mistakes they'd already seen made by world leaders from their own homes. Ray couldn't think of a better way to spend his time.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 05:03 pm UTC (link)
Maria nodded after hearing his explanation, her mind comparing that to her own feelings on the assignment. "There is a lot of responsibility that comes with creating a new society. It's a little overwhelming to think about, but the trust that's been put on us to do right by this is...staggering."

She was beginning to realize that not only did Fury put a lot of trust in her to assign this project to her, but these deities as well. IT was humbling, and Maria was beginning to reassess her approach to things.

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 05:08 pm UTC (link)
"It is," Ray agreed, "but they wouldn't have trusted us with it if they didn't feel they could or should," he pointed out as they neared the camp again. "So maybe if it's overwhelming, don't think about that part so much. Think about it on the smaller scale, how you can help individuals in the camp as it stands now. You know?"

Once they were back to the main camp, Ray helped Maria lay down the branches near the shelter she was currently staying in so that they'd be right there for the two of them to pick up and take to the place she decided to build her new one tomorrow.

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[info]by_the_book
2016-04-02 05:12 pm UTC (link)
Maria was trained to see the big picture. It was why she'd become the youngest and only woman to have been Assistant Director of SHIELD. She would have to completely reprogram how she thought in order to do as Ray suggested, and she knew it.

She huffed in wry amusement. "Food for thought, doc," she said as they got the branches in place. "Thanks." The gratitude might have been for more than just teaching her how to build a shelter.

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[info]_atom
2016-04-02 05:18 pm UTC (link)
With a little smile and an amused huff to match hers, Ray nodded. "No problem. I'll see you in the morning, Maria. Thanks for the help."

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