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Quinn Dower (quinn_du_lac) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2014-10-26 11:40:00

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!closed, ~tim dixon

Who: Quinn and Tim
Where: Pub
What: Apparent guys' night while girls' night is going on
When: Backdated to the same time as this (so veeeery backdated >_>)
Rating: TBC
Open: Ask first, probably open to pub people
Status: Ongoing

Quinn sighed softly trying to not look as tired as he felt. He knew Cleo and TJ wanted him and Tim to get to know each other but the elemental wizard couldn't help but wish it had been in a few weeks time. He was still suffering from the worst of the after-effects of death and he wasn't sure how this was even going to go.

Quinn sighed again and let his forehead rest on the table top. God he was tired. And cold. So very cold. But at least he was firmly in the plane of the living right now. He just hoped he stayed there fully for a while, the ghostly plane of this place was... odd. There wasn't the abundance of spirits that he usually saw but there were the people here, some like Cleo ended up with certain auras around them and others, when his vision flickered to the ghostly plane, he saw them change. Like Mitchell. That's why he was glad he was just seeing the realm of the living at the moment, in the pub, waiting for Tim to arrive.

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tim_dixon
2014-10-27 08:22 pm UTC (link)

Tim wasn't entirely sure how meeting Quinn was going to go. He was pretty sure he had nothing really in common with the other man. But there was only one way to find out.

He pushed his way through the door, and spotted Quinn right away. Making his way over he paused only long enough to fetch a pair of sodas, in glasses, with a few flavorings to put in if he was for it. Not that he was a downer, as far as drinking went, but for a man with his head on the table, he figured a pick me up was in order.

"Hey."

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	quinn_du_lac 2014-10-29 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	Quinn raised his head at the sound before he straightened up upon seeing Tim. "Hey. Sorry, I was miles away there." He ran a hand through his hair and made an effort to look less drained. Which was pretty pointless considering how pale he knew he was at the moment. "How are you?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tim_dixon
2014-10-30 08:18 am UTC (link)

Tim shrugged his shoulders. "I'm fine, you on the other hand look like you're dead on your feet." The words might have been poorly chosen, but they were delivered as gently as he could.

"Rough night?" He'd worked bartender at the bar long enough, before he'd come back in time, that he was used to hearing woes and whatnot. He pushed the drink he'd fetched for Quinn in front of him. "Just a cola." he confirmed before he squirted a little dash of strawberry, and a couple squirts of vanilla into his own, and stirred it.

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	quinn_du_lac 2014-10-30 08:32 am UTC (link)
	Quinn winced at the choice of wording but sighed softly. "I'd say I feel like death warmed over but that would involve feeling warm." He sighed again and shrugged at the question. "Rough week but it'll ease." "Thanks," Quinn said, not immediately reaching for the drink. He was glad it wasn't alcohol, that always made the after-effects worse. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tim_dixon
2014-10-30 08:58 am UTC (link)

Tim nodded "Give me a sec, I can help a little." Standing he patted Quinn's shoulder. Moving back behind the counter he snagged one of the jackets he stashed there, for the erratic weather the island sometimes had.

He offered it when he returned to the table. "Mom tends to skimp out on what she wears here in the bar, and it can get cold out real fast sometimes, so I like to stash jackets everywhere. It tends to happen around midnight. And sometimes she's later than that gettin' out of here." He offered by way of an explanation. "Anything you wanna talk about?"

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quinn_du_lac
2014-10-30 09:29 am UTC (link)

Quinn blinked at his own shoulder after Tim had patted it. He knew it had happened but he hadn't felt it. He hated that. The detachment from the world of the living.

He stared blankly at the jacket for the moment when the other man returned before his eyebrows rose in realisation and he accepted it. "Thanks. I'm already pretty layered up to be honest. I'm usually fine with the cold, Cornish born and bred after all, but this particular kind is always hard."

It didn't matter how many layers he put on, he was cold to the bone, the icy tendrils of death still clinging to him. Cleo usually whacked the heating up when they were at home and held him, helping to make him feel alive again. Or gave him something particularly spicy to eat to kick his taste buds back into action and to warm him up from the inside.

"Probably more is it something you wanna hear about," Quinn replied, carefully reaching for his drink and taking a sip.

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tim_dixon
2014-10-31 07:59 am UTC (link)

"It the bone deep sort? Cause I might not be as good at it as My Moms are, but I can cook up some good hot cocoa, if I do say so myself. I don't mind fixin' you some." He got being hospitable from his Mothers. It came easy to him to help others.

"Hey, man, I was raised here, there's not a whole lot that I haven't seen or heard of. Plus, if it's something you need to get off your chest, I don't mind listening." Tim took a deep sip of his drink, and stirred it a bit more.

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quinn_du_lac
2014-10-31 09:15 am UTC (link)

Quinn nodded slowly. "Yeah, well, the soul deep kind really." He managed a small smile of gratitude but shook his head. "I'm ok for now, we're supposed to be.. getting to know each other anyway, aren't we?"

He looked at Tim and his brow furrowed in thought. "Were me and Cleo around when you were growing up? Or is that timeline completely different to now?" he asked.

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tim_dixon
2014-11-01 09:43 am UTC (link)

Tim nodded slowly. "If you change your mind it's no trouble. Mom keeps the makings readily on hand, since she's expecting. She gets weird cravings at weird times." He explained on a chuckle.

He shook his head. "No, but a lot of people who are here now weren't. I mean I haven't been back since I was brought back in time, so things might have changed for me too, I just won't know unless I go back."

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	quinn_du_lac 2014-11-01 10:16 am UTC (link)
	"I'll keep that in mind, thanks," Quinn said with a small nod. He nodded again at Tim's response. "I figured it would be something like that." He sighed softly and ran a hand through his hair. "I suppose you'll find out eventually, especially with Cleo and TJ being best friends." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tim_dixon
2014-11-02 01:10 am UTC (link)

"It changed for Rachel, so... It'll probably do for me too. If I go back. But... I don't really want too? I mean it's cool that things have changed, but I like how things are now." He loved TJ. And though he had a family of his own in the future he wasn't eager to start down that path.

"Well, they're... Like a pair of girls. They keep eachother's secrets." Tim chuckled softly. "So if she told him not to tell, he wouldn't. You don't have to if you don't want to, but if you need to. Need someone to listen. I don't judge." He crossed his fingers over his heart.

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	quinn_du_lac 2014-11-02 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, no, you have a life here with TJ and your family," Quinn said softly. Quinn chuckled softly as well. "Maybe. But chances are it'll happen again." He sighed softly before taking another sip of his drink. "I'm suffering from after-effects." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tim_dixon 2014-11-02 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, my family is a lot bigger now than it was while I was growing up. For the longest time it was just me." Tim confessed softly. Tim tilted his head slightly. "After-effects of what?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	quinn_du_lac 2014-11-03 08:32 am UTC (link)
	"It must be nice," Quinn said softly, thinking of his own family. He knew he had some half siblings from his father's second marriage but Quinn had cut off contact with his father a long time ago to protect the man and his new family. As for his mother... He had no idea if she was alive or dead and he probably would never know now. "Death," Quinn replied. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tim_dixon
2014-11-03 10:20 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, it's great. I mean, Clint and my Mom hadn't even got married by the time I came back. She had the twins, and was expecting another, when I got brought here. Now I'll have the twins, and Bucky, and even little me. Which was weird at first but it's not so much anymore." Tim had always been an open book. Never one to hide anything, unless specifically asked to.

His eyebrows shot up. That wasn't entirely new. And it wasn't something he knew the feeling of. "Let me get you something else then." He glanced back at the stone fire place on the other side of the pub. "And I'll start a fire. And move a table close to it."

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	quinn_du_lac 2014-11-03 10:47 am UTC (link)
	"Can only imagine. This whole place is on the weird side but then I've always been on the side of weird," Quinn said with a shrug. He arched an eyebrow before giving a small shake of his head. "I'm ok right now. It's just the cold right now. Just... if I seem like I'm zoning or not listening, you might have to prod me or something. Blurred lines and everything." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tim_dixon
2014-11-03 09:15 pm UTC (link)

"I reckon most people have. At least here it seems like no one has a real definition of normal. But that also keeps things from gettin' boring." Tim shrugged. He liked the island, but it was his home.

He nodded slightly. "We ain't gotta do this today. I mean are you able to sleep? Would that help?" He was sure that TJ and Cleo was off doing things. Or maybe doing things at Hers and Quinn's place.

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quinn_du_lac
2014-11-04 09:21 am UTC (link)

"Ah, but sometimes a little bit of boring is not a bad thing," Quinn said with a small smile. He had spent his whole life effectively living within two separate communitites - the magical and the normal. When he was a kid he had never understood the need to keep them separate or keep his magical abilities secret and he had to admit, he did like the island for that. He still wasn't the most open of people but at least there wasn't a need for the lies here.

"Tim, it's alright. Honest. I've spent the last couple of days sleeping a lot and it's not the best way to reconnect with the living realm, trust me. This close after reviving... I need to feel... alive again, so talking and interacting with people helps.

"Another couple of days and Cleo will be feeding me some of her spiciest dishes to try and kick my taste back into working." He smiled at that, it was the only time he could manage those partular dishes.

"Just... if I start seeing things and ignoring you just give me a shove or something, it'll just means my vision has switched." He paused for a moment as if realising that probably didn't make sense. "Erm, what I mean is... the lines between the realms of the living and dead are blurred for me at the moment. I'm sort of in both."

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tim_dixon
2014-11-07 05:16 am UTC (link)

Tim held up his hands in surrender, chuckling softly. "Alright, alright. I'll stop. I just didn't want ya to feel pushed into doin' this is all." He took a long drag off of his drink. "My Moms would string me up if I didn't try to be as hospitable as I could possibly be. I would have offered cookies if I had any." He teased lightly.

Rocking back in his seat Tim looked Quinn over a bit. "So mind if I ask how you died?" He was equally as curious as to how he came back. Most people who died left the island entirely, only to come back weeks or sometimes months later. Part of him was slightly envious. His real Dad had never come back.

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	quinn_du_lac 2014-11-10 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't feel pushed, honest and cookies unfortunately would be wasted on me right now. Can't taste a bloody thing," Quinn said. He gave a small shake of his head. "I'm assuming you mean this time?" he asked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tim_dixon 2014-11-11 07:12 am UTC (link)
	"You've died more than once? Here or else where?" That surprised Tim a great deal. He sat up a little straighter. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	quinn_du_lac 2014-11-11 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	"This is my..." Quinn's brow furrowed in thought. "Sixth time. First time actually dying here, although I did turn up dead." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tim_dixon 2014-11-11 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, maybe that's why you didn't leave when you died. Most people go back where they belong when they die." He didn't want to think of what happened to the people that were born here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	quinn_du_lac 2014-11-12 12:09 am UTC (link)
	"Probably because it's not a true death, I was only dead for a little over half a day," Quinn murmured. "I had to anyway, it was the only way to get that bloody git of a god out of my head. At least it was at the time. He was almost responsible for me and Clee breaking up." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tim_dixon 2014-11-12 01:43 am UTC (link)
	"Oh. Yeah, Mom's almost broke up our family." Tim pressed his lips together. It was one time he could say he hated this place. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	quinn_du_lac 2014-11-17 09:34 pm UTC (link)
	"What happened?" Quinn asked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tim_dixon 2014-11-18 06:11 am UTC (link)
	"Loki happened." Tim all but growled. (Reply to this) (Parent)