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Jaime Elizabeth Davies ([info]finder) wrote in [info]silverage,
@ 2011-08-12 23:40:00

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Entry tags:!log, jaime davies, zack fair

Snow!
Who: Jaime, Zack
What: Snow! Snow forever! and some fliers
When: Saturday morning
Where: Central park
Rating: Low
Status: Complete




So, the moving-out discussion had been a bust. Well, no. It had been a 'think about it and make a grown up, responsible decision' discussion, which was somehow worse. She was still moderately grumpy at Erik for having played the 'remember your past' card, because she struggled so hard to forget her past. Her past sucked.

Her past also bore a strong chance of repeating itself, if she wasn't careful. That, really, was what pissed her off about the whole course of the discussion. She couldn't argue when he was right. If the wrong people caught wind of it, if she wound herself into a position they could take her again ... there was every chance she'd wind up in a lab. There was also every chance she wouldn't make it out again.

She'd thought about that on the train ride down to the city. She was safe at the mansion. She was sheltered at the mansion. There were people like her there. People who understood the particulars of their unique situation. But the city was huge, and why shouldn't she be able to hide in it?

It wouldn't hurt, she decided, to see what was for rent -- and what kind of jobs there were around. On a lark, she had some fliers made up and decided to plaster them around town. They were simple, plain things that just announced her finding service. She hadn't put her number on it, but she thought if she stood near where she could see most of them, she might find some interested parties.

Then again, she had a feeling the snow was keeping most people in. After managing to nail a few fliers to a few posts, she rolled up the remainder and shoved them into her jacket pocket before she looked around. All the snow, and no one to fight with. With a shrug, Jaime swapped her gloves for mittens and set about creating a snowman. Maybe some adventurous kids would show up to help, or someone else would be along to chat. Either way.



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[info]herosheart
2011-08-14 12:54 am UTC (link)
Building snowmen hadn't been on Zack's to-do list for the day, but he was nothing if not spontaneous. His friendly grin broadened and held his hands out at his sides as he shrugged, saying, "I don't have anything better to do. Besides, I've never built a snowman before. I think it might be a required skill in a place like this, so I should probably learn."

He was largely oblivious to Jaime's examination of his person. The light coat and jeans he was wearing along with his combat boots said that he was someone who didn't mind the cold much, and were also knew enough to shout "not a vagrant" to anyone who was worried about that. That was about where the normal for the area vibe cut off. His skin was just a touch too pale, his hair a touch to wild, and his eyes a little too blue, though the brightness of the snow helped to hide the Mako glow unless someone was really looking for it.

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[info]finder
2011-08-14 01:08 am UTC (link)
"All right. Pity company," Jaime replied with a quiet laugh. "The winters here ... yeah. We definitely get snow. It doesn't usually start in August, but with all these people falling in from other worlds ..." She shrugged. "Guess anything can happen. We assume it was one of them, anyway, because other places don't seem to be having freak weather."

She paused. "Never? Did you live in California?" She grinned and then wondered if maybe he'd lived in another world entirely. It wasn't impossible, these days, but some people were more open to admitting their lack of nativeness than others.

"I'm Jaime," she introduced herself. "I live up in Westchester. The north end of the cage," she explained. Native or non, he'd probably know about being trapped here. The fact that most people just accepted it was ... well, part of this place's charm.

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[info]herosheart
2011-08-14 01:54 am UTC (link)
"Zack." He offered his hand before stepping back and regarding the portion of the snowman Jaime had already assembled. "I'm from Gongaga. You wouldn't have heard of it. It's a jungle town on the Western Continent of a planet you've probably never heard of either." His smile became a bit sheepish. "I'm one of those transplants you were talking about. I don't have some sort of super power that lets me make snow in summer, though. If I did, I might have learned to build a snowman by now."

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[info]finder
2011-08-14 02:05 am UTC (link)
Jaime nodded as she shook his hand. She wasn't honestly sure she would have guessed right off he was from another planet. Then again, she'd been talking with him for, what, all of two minutes? So it wasn't like she knew anything about him. Maybe she would have worked it out eventually.

"It's probably rude to ask if you have any other sort of super powers, huh?" She grinned, and she knew she'd possibly take offense on principle if someone asked her that. Not that she thought anyone would, because she didn't look like the sort who had powers. Just a normal girl who looked a little younger than she actually was.

"How long have you been here?" She asked instead. She knew it couldn't have been more than a few months, since that was -- apparently -- when all of this had started.

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[info]herosheart
2011-08-14 03:13 am UTC (link)
Zack for one was just glad Jaime seemed to know about the visitors. It was easier when he didn't have to pretend he was from the area or at least from the somewhere else in the country.

"Not really," he said in answer to her question about super powers. "It's kind of obvious to people back home what I am, so I got questions sometimes. Sometimes I didn't. It really depended on how they felt about the SOLDIER program. What about you? Are you an exception to the rules?" The way he asked was so friendly, it would take an especially nasty individual to take offense to the question.

"I've been here a few weeks, now. It's a huge improvement over where I was. Have you always lived in the area, or did you get sidetracked, too?"

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[info]finder
2011-08-14 03:19 am UTC (link)
"I'm an exception to everything," Jaime replied cheekily before she shrugged. Why not? If he was admitting things ... and he wasn't from around here, it wasn't like he was going to rush to cart her off to a lab. "Mutant," she admitted quietly. "I find things. It doesn't sound like much, I know, but it comes in handy every once in a while." It also wound her up in a lab for experimentation, but that wasn't anything she was in a rush to share. "There's ... a bunch of us. All very hated because we're weird and different and some of us have blue skin or can ... you know. Blow things up with our minds. Not me, personally, but ..." She shrugged again. "Anyway. If you could keep that under your hat, I'd appreciate it." She winked at him before patting the base of the snowman.

"What's a soldier program? Like ... boot camp or something?" Well, in fairness to her, the only connotation of soldier she was familiar with was military.

She grinned a little. "You're probably one of the few to think that. Everyone else seems hell bent on getting home. I'm a native. I was born up near Boston, and ... wound my way to Westchester a few years ago." Wound her way on a very convoluted path, but wound her way all the same. "It's better now, where I am."

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[info]herosheart
2011-08-14 03:29 am UTC (link)
Zack was definitely in no position to hold being a mutant against anyone. He supposed he might be a mutant, too, after a fashion, although he hadn't come by his differences naturally. What was a mutation, anyway? He wasn't clear on the actual scientific definition. He wasn't clear on science in general. Not that he wasn't smart, but he didn't spend a great deal of time in deep thought or poring over heavy reading.

"No problem. Your secret's safe with me. Do you think you could return the favor? Don't tell anyone about SOLDIER unless I give you the all clear? It's a big deal back home, but no one in this area seems to think anything like it is possible. At least, not the people I've met so far."

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[info]finder
2011-08-14 03:46 am UTC (link)
She laughed quietly. "I couldn't tell anyone what I didn't know," she pointed out. "For all I know, all you told me was that you spent some time in the army, and hey ... who hasn't?"

Shrugging her shoulders, she let her pale blue eyes drift around the park before she refocused on him. "But cross my heart and all that, I won't tell anyone about the cute guy I met in the park who was a soldier." Jaime grinned lightly.

"So hey, what're you doing like, for work?" She cocked her head slightly. "Just curious. I mean, I heard a lot of the new people are kind of ill-equipped to fit into this place and time and whatever, and it's just interesting to me to hear what kind of jobs they wind up picking up.

"That, and I'm fishing for career ideas. I was thinking about moving here, but my ... Erik kind of talked me out of it."

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[info]herosheart
2011-08-14 03:50 am UTC (link)
I won't tell anyone about the cute guy I met in the park who was a soldier. The words hit Zack harder than Jaime could have known. They recalled a lazy day beneath the plates spent at a battered playground with a beautiful girl who wore a bow in her hair and had a special way with flowers. Zack wondered where Aerith was now, how she was doing, and if he would ever find his way back to her. He hoped so.

"Odd jobs," he told her in reply to her question about work. "Or I was. A friend of mine is here and has his own business. He's offered me a job, so I'll be going to work with him soon. I'm not really sure what else is around here."

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[info]finder
2011-08-14 03:57 am UTC (link)
"Oh, that's lucky," Jaime said. "Having friends here, I mean. 'cause you have to wonder, how many people show up here all alone with no one besides the welcome center people to help them out. No friends, no family, nothing like that."

She grinned. "Well, you're a white guy, so you have a lot more options than a woman or a ..." She shrugged. "Well, colored person would." She felt nothing but sympathy for people who faced discrimination for factors beyond their control. Like their gender or the color of their skin. It sucked, being different. At least she could pretend to be normal if she wanted to. "I mean, seriously, you could do anything you could pretend you had the skills for, probably."

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[info]herosheart
2011-08-14 10:53 pm UTC (link)
"Really?" Zack was taken aback at how limited the options seemed to be for anyone who wasn't a man or wasn't white. Sure, there'd been discrimination back home, but it was more economic than anything else. Well, except for Wutai. The people of that island had Shinra to thank for the bad press, something that made Zack feel guilty every time he thought of his part in the war.

"What kind of work are you looking for?" he asked, trying to get a feel for what was apparently expected of someone like Jaime in this world. She seemed like a nice enough girl, and Zack was a nice enough guy that the idea of not helping her never entered his mind.

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[info]finder
2011-08-14 11:55 pm UTC (link)
"I don't know. Here, in the city, I'd probably have to wind up as a secretary or ... something. I'm working at a library and a theater right now, but ... commuting an hour for two part time jobs means I may as well just stay where I am." She gestured vaguely with one hand before she shrugged. "I could maybe look into theaters around here." She looked thoughtful, wondering if maybe she could catch a job as an usher or something at a live theater. That might pay enough to split rent with someone.

Or the museum. She wondered if they'd hire females. To do what, she wasn't sure. Tour guides maybe? It was worth checking out while she was here, anyway. Maybe that would be what she did for the rest of her weekend -- snatched up a bunch of applications, filled them all out, and then see if anyone bit.

Then, she'd deal with Charles and Erik and the lack of safety being on her own.

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[info]herosheart
2011-08-15 12:03 am UTC (link)
The only think Zack knew about theater was that people back home spent way too much time discussing how to properly state LOVELESS, a performance he had never seen but could probably quote verbatim with as many times as Genesis had enjoyed springing portions of the script on him.

"You could try," he said, hoping to be encouraging. "It doesn't hurt to ask around, does it? I mean, if that's something you'd really like to do."

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[info]finder
2011-08-15 12:10 am UTC (link)
"I don't know what I want to do. Not really. I mean, I'm probably supposed to be thinking about finding a man and getting married and popping out some kids, but ... I don't know. It's just not really my thing. It's not where I want to go with my life right now.

"But since I don't know where I do want to go, it's leaving me in this weird place where I'm not actually going anywhere, just for lack of direction." She grinned. "I can't imagine how that sounds. Like I have no aspirations or ambitions but still don't want to be stuck in the mold most women get shoved into in these times."

She patted the base of the snowman and shrugged. "Which is part of why I want to move to the city, so I can be more ... exposed to things and maybe get some ideas that I wouldn't get at home. Erik said I could stay there and help them run the place. Teach or something, but ... I don't know."

Jaime really didn't know, which was kind of sad. It wasn't that she was against the idea of staying at the mansion and helping to build and run the school. It was more a matter of principle, she guessed, but since she couldn't really articulate that, she opted not to even attempt to.

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[info]herosheart
2011-08-15 12:30 am UTC (link)
"You should try things while you still can," Zack advised. "Trust me. Throwing yourself into a career too early and making it your whole life isn't everything it's cracked up to be. I did that, and I wouldn't change it, but there are other things I could have done, maybe even things I could have done better."

He smiled and spread his hands out. "Who knows? Maybe you'll meet Mr. Right while you're at it. You know, a guy who doesn't think you should get married and start having kids ASAP. Do people really expect women to do that around here?"

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[info]finder
2011-08-15 12:57 am UTC (link)
"Yeah. It's just a matter of finding the proper motivation to do so. I mean, I am trying things, doing all those stupid things you just can't get away with when you're older." Though she was starting to verge on 'older' and approaching the point where people were going to start scowling at teenage antics. It was just hard not to take advantage of it since she could, given that most of her teenage years had been spent ... well, not doing teenage things.

She grinned. "Maybe I will. I'll just have to keep wading through the Mr. Wrongs until then," she teased a little before she nodded to his question. "Pretty much, yeah," she agreed. "I mean, women can't really get any big careers, and when they do, they're ... mocked. Not paid as well as men. They have to work twice as hard to keep their positions, and ..." Jaime shook her head slightly. "Most of them are housewifes, and the ones that do work, well, a guy just assumes she's a secretary or something like it."

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