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macleod1518 ([info]macleod1518) wrote in [info]tsc_scenes,
@ 2014-02-09 18:40:00

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Entry tags:*calderville, cassandra, connor macleod

Who: Connor Macleod and Cassandra
When: Week 2 Day 1, Morning
Where: Their house, Calderville
What: Talking things over



Connor stepped out onto the porch of the house he shared with Cassandra, steaming cup of coffee in hand as he looked out over the horizon. The sun was barely peeking over the horizon, but it was the fact it was visible at all through the patchy clouds was a welcome sign of good weather to come. The younger of the two immortals on the island took a sip of coffee and pondered the events of the past several days.

He'd give a fortune for a reliable idea of what time of year it was and what the seasons were like in this place. The climate was tropical obviously, but more than that he had no idea. Were they almost done with storm season? Just beginning? How often did hurricanes blow through these parts? As long as he didn't lose his head Connor supposed it didn't matter, but there was an awful lot of cleanup to do and not many people to do it.

And that led him to think about the people here. Everyone seemed to have some unique ability, some (like Micha or Jake) were obvious, others less so. Should he and Cassandra reveal what they were to the mortals or continue to keep their immortality a secret?

He heard the door open and turned to see Cassandra step out. "Good morning? I didn't wake you did I?"


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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-11 09:54 am UTC (link)
Cassandra shook her head, one hand holding a mug of coffee, the other pushing her hair back behind her ear from where the breeze had pushed it across her face. "No, I was already awake," she reassured him, crossing to where he stood and giving him a light kiss on his cheek before leaning against the railing, resting her elbows on it, and taking a sip from her mug. The hot black liquid eased its way down her throat and she tilted her head a little to look up Connor.

"Nice sunrise, thank goodness," she commented, before looking back at the scattered cloud tinged with reds and pinks, then up at Connor again. "Ready for another day of getting this place back into some sort of order?"

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-11 09:10 pm UTC (link)
Connor returned the kiss and returned his gaze back to the sunrise. "The sun's a welcome change, that's certain. I think it'll take more than one or two days to get the island cleaned up again though."

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-11 09:55 pm UTC (link)
She nodded in agreement, taking another sip of the hot coffee. "I would like to try and get up to the hospital today. I hope it won't be needed, especially without any medical practitioners but I would like to think that what we have here will be in working order if ever it's called upon." She straightened and turned, leaning back against the railing.

"Have you any plans? What area you want to concentrate on?"

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-11 10:10 pm UTC (link)
"Making sure the approaches to the hospital are clear." Connor replied with a smirk. Hopefully it wouldn't take that long. "After that probably start working on clearing the main road out of town toward the rings, depending on what John and Derreck want to do."

He took another sip of his coffee and eyed Cassandra, debating whether to bring up what was truly on his mind. "Nearly everyone here seems to have some sort of unique talent that would be considered impossible in our 'reality', it's made me think about possibly revealing our own departure from the norm."

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-16 01:57 am UTC (link)
Cassandra's eyes flicked to Connor's face quickly. Even though they had known each other for over 500 years there were still times he would say something that surprised her.

"Oh?" She lowered her mug, holding it in front of her. She thought about what he said, weighing up the pros and cons, and seeing which side of the argument carried the more weight. A few thousand years ago she wouldn't have done this, even a few hundred ago she might have reacted or responded more quickly, but here, in this strange place, with the even stranger array of individuals, and situations they were facing, she had learned that it was prudent to take a moment and consider the ramifications of actions, as so often they wouldn't even know what some outcomes might be. After all, she would never have believed that one day she would be watching living creatures fly in the sky that were of another world.

"Is there something to be gained?" she asked, knowing that explaining how their knowledge of certain things and activities, including farming and business, could be rather extensive, given their appearances, but also cautious about revealing it to the wrong individual, who may take a liking to the idea of finding out exactly what happens to them when their head is removed.

"I am going to believe you are not thinking of revealing our Achilles along with this longevity?"

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-16 02:20 am UTC (link)
"It would be nice not to have to hide what we are." Connor responded, knowing she was wary about the idea. Thousands (hundreds in his case) of years of experience and conditioning didn't get overthrown overnight, it made sense to be cautious. "I'm not proposing telling them everything, but think about it. Between the big blue people, a mermaid Jedi, and 'time lords', an immortal sounds fairly tame in comparison."

"We don't have to make a decision today, I just wanted to let you know I was thinking about it. If you don't want to then we won't, united front."

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-16 02:40 am UTC (link)
A wry smile twisted one corner of her mouth as she nodded, turning to lean her elbows on the railing again. Already the heat of the sun was starting to warm the air, the humidity something she found difficult to deal with, given the dry, arid regions she had lived in the first few thousand years of her life. She would be testing the air conditioning system at the hospital today, that was for certain.

"Yes, I supposed in the 'big picture' here our Quickening is something less 'fantastic' than it is to those of our world," she admitted, looking across toward the small gap in the hills where the sea was just visible in the distance. It was one of the reasons she'd chosen the house for them, it was one of the few that had any view of the ocean, and she knew better than any just how much Connor loved the sea.

"I was talking with that attractive young woman, Izzy, for a short while during the storm. She tells me she's a techmage I think it is," she told him, "which apparently is someone who has a combination of abilities with magic along with technological skills. I'm still wondering how that all comes together, but she happily volunteered to go and check on the weather station to get it up and running again." She sipped another mouthful of coffee, resting her chin on her hand before adding, "I suppose it is something to think about, if it will make explaining things easier. If the situation arises."

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-16 02:57 am UTC (link)
Connor quirked an eyebrow at the 'attractive young woman' comment, wondering if she was trying to say something. Izzy was what would fall under 'drop dead gorgeous' in just about any culture he'd encountered, but then again he'd yet to encounter an ugly woman on the island.

He filed it away with a mental shrug and took another sip of coffee, staring out at the sea.

"If the situation arises. I don't see any need to go running off and telling everyone now, but eventually it might be a good idea." He suspected the situation would arise, sooner or later. There were just too few bodies on the island and too much work to be done, their skills were too valuable to stay hidden and would raise awkward questions.

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-16 03:05 am UTC (link)
She nodded, thought for a few moments longer then looked down at her coffee cup before looking back at the horizon again.

"There is one who knows already, after I told her. A young woman, Claire, whom I met that night we went to Acoste. She was worried and finally showed me by cutting herself badly with a sharp stone, that she healed almost instantaneously." Before Connor could react she lifted her hand and shook her head. "No, there was no Quickening involved. That was why I was a little taken by surprise, and wondered if this place somehow dampened our ability to sense it, but then I remembered how I can sense yours, and you mine, and I don't think that's just peculiar to us and our closeness," she told him with a sidelong wink.

"It seems she is immortal also, but not of our kind. So again our 'unique' abilities are not exactly so unique here."

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-16 08:18 pm UTC (link)
"Immortal without a Quickening?" Connor stared at her for a moment then shook his head. "I guess that isn't the strangest thing here by far, but that's still almost disturbing." The idea of someone in The Game without a Quickening to give them away was a very disturbing thought indeed. "What have you told her?"

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-23 01:50 am UTC (link)
"Only that I have lived a while," she told him reassuringly, with a soft smile. "She continued to tell me of people from her world who have all sorts of different abilities, including pyroteknics, the ability to shift time, and that made me wonder." She turned to face him, a familiar look on her face, one she always had when she was thinking of 'investigating' curiosities, or even just hypotheses.

"What if it was someone like that, someone with abilities we've never even heard of, who created this place and brought us here? We have no idea who else might be brought here, or what 'abilities' they might have. But there must be more than we know, and this is a large place. Just this town has so much more that we haven't even scratched the surface of as yet. Should we suggest to others that we put together some sort of plan to search out what we can find from whatever source? And those who have all the amazing abilities, they can put forward suggestions as to what they can come up with?"

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-23 02:01 am UTC (link)
"The ability to create entire worlds out of whole cloth and snag people from different dimensions?" Connor snorted. "If they had that level of power why bother with it? They could remake their own world however they wanted."

Still, he couldn't dismiss Cassandra's suggestion though. "Perhaps. It isn't a bad idea, but I think we ought to focus the talk on more short term priorities. Like cleaning up the damage, clearing the roads and making sure we can keep ourselves fed."

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-23 02:19 am UTC (link)
"That level of power doesn't mean they have any greater intelligence," she reminded him. "We have known many with power, and even belief, but neither of those were much use when it came to common sense or the ability to think." She smiled as she reached up and stroked his cheek.

"Of course, the basics are essential, and something to focus everyone's attention on short term, but I also believe that some will become frustrated, and dare I say bored if not given something long term to consider. Plus I suspect there are more than a few who have never had to hunt, and collect, to feed themselves, and will be requiring assistance in the area of perhaps butchering a beast, or even milking, or collecting eggs!" The corner of her mouth twitched slightly at the memory of him telling Trent of having to do that when Connor was a lad in his village, and Trent's expression at the idea of him learning to do the same.

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-23 02:40 am UTC (link)
"I forget how the younger set can be sometimes." Connor nodded in surrender. In many ways there was less distance between the world Cassandra had been born into and his own than those of people born in the 20th and 21st centuries. Technology and civilization had changed greatly and at a dizzying speed.

"Some of them would probably starve to death."

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-23 03:16 am UTC (link)
Cassandra nodded as she laughed. "Young Juliet was telling me that she has never even baked, though spent time as a child in the kitchen with their staff, watching the cook prepare meals. Apparently her mother would get quite distressed if the child was not spending every waking moment in the gymnasium, practicing her tumbles and the like. She was complaining how much she missed the baked goods of where she had been before, and how she was starting to crave them."

She arched an eyebrow as she looked back out to the horizon. "I do admit that I would enjoy a nice piece of steak and was going to suggest we make a time to journey to the southern settlement, Glen Haven, and take stock of what is available. From what Neytiri has told me there is livestock there, sufficient that we need not be concerned about the eating habits of the ikran."

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-23 03:29 am UTC (link)
"I've never been a pastry chef so she's out of luck." Connor commented dryly. He could probably handle the muffins, cookies and the like that everyone knew how to make from box mixes. Anything more substantial than that aside from bread was beyond what he'd bothered to learn how to do.

"And 'young Juliet'? Aside from the one that calls himself the Doctor they're all young. Even by mortal standards."

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-23 03:41 am UTC (link)
She sighed a little, taking a sip of the cooling coffee before nodding. "They are. Which hopefully means they are also still teachable!" she pointed out with a wry smile.

"It's been a long while since I've had to cook, or slaughter a beast, or even pluck a chicken for that matter," she mused, "but I guess some things just never leave you, especially if you've had to do them often enough."

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-23 03:52 am UTC (link)
"It's been close to a century since I've plucked a chicken," Connor admitted. "I still clean and gut my own kills when I go hunting though. Hopefully some of the others hunt too, that'll give us someplace to start." He was pretty sure the big blue people hunted, from the vibes he'd gotten from them the Scot thought they'd have fitted in just fine with his Clan back in the day.

Once you got over them being ten foot tall, blue, and having tails.

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-23 04:01 am UTC (link)
"It will, and speaking of getting started, I must get ready to head up to the hospital. The woman Nikita said she would come and give me a hand there." She paused and thought for a moment. "She's a rather odd one. While her face reflects her relative youth, her eyes carry a weight that belies the rest of her. Like she has lived through more, quickly, than most." She paused, as if about to say something more, then shook her head, gave his arm a light squeeze and added, "I guess I'll have the opportunity to learn more when I work with her today. And to do that I need to be at the hospital!"

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[info]macleod1518
2014-02-23 04:09 am UTC (link)
Connor nodded. "Cassandra." He said as she moved to leave, at her questioning glance he moved in and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. "Watch your head," was all he told her when they parted.

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[info]cassvoice
2014-02-23 04:10 am UTC (link)
"I always do," she told him with a knowing smile and wink.

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