lookforheaven (aucontraire_) wrote in remains_rpg, @ 2015-09-14 04:01:00 |
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Entry tags: | # 2018 [09] september, adelaide hawkins, karen sharpe |
Who: Karen Sharpe and Adelaide Lansing
When: September 5, 1:30PM
Where: The Capitol, between the Rotunda and the DoJ offices
What: Laying some groundwork
It isn't that Adelaide Lansing is antisocial, exactly.
There are plenty of people that she likes, once she gets to knowing them. It's just that her relatively private approach to life doesn't exactly have her knocking down doors to become best friends with everyone and everything she meets just like that - she knows other people do it, but it feels intrusive, maybe a little forced unless friendship just happens over time. Adelaide values quality over quantity, in her relationships.
Luckily, though, Karen Sharpe is someone that has been around the Capitol for ages just like Adelaide has, and that repeated exposure has brought them to the point where Adelaide considers the DoR agent a casual-maybe-friend. Ish.
Enough, certainly, that stopping to chat at the coffee stand won't seem strange, at the very least. It won't be the first time.
The coffee stand. Mrs. Hannie Tanaka missed her morning Starbucks so much at the end of the world, that when she and her husband Hank, a high-powered entertainment and real-estate lawyer, moved into the shelter of the Capitol, Hannie started up a coffee stand down on the first floor, just off the rotunda where the different departments branch off into their offices. Having never previously worked a day in her life, Hannie of the four-karat diamond ring and Miu Miu heels has been known to say now that if the world went back to what it was before, she'd still go and open up a coffee shop. It's only one of dozens of stories of people finding their places in a world gone upside-down, and rather an endearing one, Adelaide thinks.
With Charlie fast asleep in his stroller, Adelaide chats easily with Hannie over a cup, black with an excessive amount of sugar, until in her peripheral she sees just the person she's been waiting on start from the far end of the DoR hall. Confident and efficient, Adelaide can appreciate Karen's no-frills appearance. As someone who looks small and soft and doesn't always want to, Adelaide understands the button-ups and denim. Adelaide admittedly uses her femininity to her advantage more often, but the armor is definitely something she understands. She says goodbye to Hannie and begins to turn with Charlie's stroller, just as Karen rounds the bend.
Adelaide offers a smile finding herself in Karen's way. She wheels Charlie back a bit. "Hey Karen, how's it goin'?" she asks easily. "Keeping busy?"