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Markus (jericholeader) wrote in somerealityrpg,
@ 2019-10-31 01:13:00

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inactive: connor, inactive: markus

Who: Connor and Markus
Where: Their Apartment
When: 30th Oct
What: Catching up with added pumpkins
Status: In-progress
Warnings: TBC

It had been a long day at work and though he was enjoying teaching his pupils about the origins of superstitions surrounding Halloween in his English Lit lessons he hadn't expected to come home to a demonstration. Markus had been hoping for a quiet evening preparing his lessons for the following day and instead it seemed as though the apartment he shared with Connor had been taken over by pumpkins.

And to make it more curious, they had faces.

Markus frowned and moved towards the kitchen where he could hear frenetic activity and the occasional grunt. He looked around the door and spied Connor up to his elbows in pumpkin seeds and mush. "What did the pumpkin patch ever do to you?" he asked curiously as he looked at the disaster scene the kitchen had become. "Should I take you to Morgan and get your programming seen to, because I'm starting to think something's gone wrong, Connor. Explain," he said in amusement as he watched his friend.

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jericholeader
2019-10-31 11:29 pm UTC (link)

He could see, now it had been pointed out, that the techniques were all varied and the results were interesting in their differences. "You really went full-force on this, didn't you?" Markus asked Connor with a smile of approval, "it's quite a collection. Perhaps we should offer them to the other residents or decorate the hall with them?" he suggested, feeling they were going to waste simply hanging out in the apartment where no one but they could see them. "Where the Entity is concerned, I think that ship has sailed," he said with a chuckle. "You get this," Markus said handing him a pumpkin seed as though it was a gold coin. "Congratulations on your pass."

Markus was able to get more purchase now that it was closer but it still rather confused him. "You'd think they'd use tomatoes or something softer," he said as he managed to cut out the eye, without stabbing himself in the process. "And they let children do this?" he said as he handed the knife back to the expert.

Connor went straight to the nub of the issue, the heart and soul of which he knew had to be addressed. "I'll always love North," he said hanging his head a little, "but I'm a different person here. I'm not a rebel leader or a freedom fighter," Markus said looking at his friend. "I'm just a man who likes a woman who, I think, likes me too," he said softly. "Life is different here. I'm different," Markus said with a frown.

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rkprototype
2019-11-01 12:20 am UTC (link)

"I did." Connor thought about what Markus suggested for a moment. "We can do that. Someone is bound to enjoy them." He looked at the pumpkin seed and then back at Markus. "And here I thought I would get something better."

Connor listened as Markus spoke. "A tomato wouldn't last very long if it were cut up like this." He nodded at Markus' question. "They do." He took the knife back and then the pumpkin.

"So, do whatever you feel is right." He didn't have any experience in this sort of thing. But it was like any other situation, right? Do whatever feels right. That was pretty much all the advice he could give on this sort of thing.

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jericholeader
2019-11-01 12:39 am UTC (link)

Markus went over to the Hank-kin and picked it up and smiled, "I think this one stays here, don't you?" he asked Connor as he lifted it from the floor and displayed it on the living room table. "He looks good there. He might even approve to watching over us from inside a pumpkin," he said looking over at Connor with a smile.

"It doesn't need to last too long. Just the evening and it would be a lot easier to cut into," though Markus suspected it wouldn't quite hold its shape the same way. "Maybe an apple would be better?"

What was right? Markus couldn't begin to unravel what that meant. "When I'm with Morgan it feels right," he told Connor with a furrowed brow, "and when I don't see her, I think about her and replay the time we spent together." He looked at Connor and shook his head, "she's human and she accepts me for everything I am. How could that be wrong?" he asked quizzically. "I don't want to loose her. I know that. And I don't want to go home," he said feeling as though he was betraying the world he'd helped create back at home.

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