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Tweak says, "i don't do kissing."

Richard Heller [24] (dontusemyphone) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2009-08-01 21:46:00

Entry tags:

arkady, richard heller

Who: Arkady and Richard Heller
What: Meeting
Where: LA
When: This afternoon/Richard's Arrival
Warnings: None likely

Richard had looked at the website the other woman had linked him to, and even though he had read it all, he still didn't know what to think. Alternate universes only existed in movies and TV and comic books. But there had been a vortex, and he had been drop kicked into the middle of the city, when he'd been sitting around at CTU, waiting for Audrey to come back and take him home.

It just didn't make sense, and trying to make it make sense made his head hurt. And then she was there, and he had no idea where she had come from because she wasn't there a moment ago. he jumped back, hands up, as if to protect himself.

He didn't think this day could get any weirder. Hell, for all he knew, he was still at CTU, still being tortured. Manning had called it Sensory Disorientation. Sense of time was the first thing to go, sense of reality had to be second, because Richard didn't know which end was up anymore.

"Are you...Arkady?" he asked, tentatively. If he was dreaming, it was a crazy, whacked out dream. Did people dream, when they were being tortured? He wasn't sure.

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	justalilmental 2009-08-03 03:16 am UTC (link)
	Her brow creased slightly at that, head tilting again, curious mostly, shaking her head once he'd settled again, "You're welcome. That's terrible. I'm sorry." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-03 03:36 am UTC (link)
	"Why are you sorry?" Richard took a bite of his sandwich. It was better than he'd anticipated. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-03 05:30 am UTC (link)
	She shrugged, picking at her own sandwich then, "Sometimes people are terrible. I didn't mean to remind you." She shook her head, "Shouldn't have to remember things like that." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-03 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	"Remind me?" Richard was going to play innocent. How could she know what he'd been reminded of? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-03 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	Sadly, the innocent act worked with Arkady, because she was easily distracted. She shrugged, "I guess I don't remember. Good sandwich?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-04 12:26 am UTC (link)
	Richard was just as happy to drop the whole thing. "Oh yeah. The best," he nodded, and took another bite. "Thank you, for bringing me here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-04 02:38 am UTC (link)
	She beamed, "You're welcome! I like it here, sometimes I go and get KK lunch from here when she gets tired of all the junkfood that we don't have at home, like you know, fried bits of meat that we don't know what bits they are, or tacos, or pizza with enough grease to lube an engine in it she says!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-05 12:48 am UTC (link)
	Richard laughed out loud, at that imagery. He shook his head after a moment. "The trick is, don't get meat on it. That's what makes the pizza greasy." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-05 12:59 am UTC (link)
	She nodded, "That makes sense I guess, but KK won't eat it if there's no pepperoni on it." She shrugged, talking around a bite of sandwich, "Blame it on not having any at home I guess." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-05 01:06 am UTC (link)
	"There is something to be said for pepperoni pizza," Richard nodded. "I like it, too. Vegetables ruin a good, greasy pizza." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-05 02:03 am UTC (link)
	She laughed brightly again, shaking her head, she really had a total little sister vibe, just one of those things, really, "Good greasy pizza ruins perfectly good vegetables." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-05 02:37 am UTC (link)
	Richard laughed. "That too. You can look at it both ways." He took another bite of his sandwich. He was getting full, but he was enjoying to food, and the company, and didn't want to end the meal. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-05 02:40 am UTC (link)
	It wasn't long before Arkady had finished her own sandwich, tilting her head to watch the rain, neck bending far enough that she could see the cloud, "Should blow over soon, I think five more minutes." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-07 01:44 am UTC (link)
	"That's not too bad. Good for the flowers and the trees." Richard nodded, as if this was a secret to world peace. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-07 02:10 am UTC (link)
	She nodded, elbows resting on the table, chin on her hands, "Mmhmm, and the ducks out in Hyde Park, they like the rain too." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-07 02:23 am UTC (link)
	"We should go and see them." Richard suggested. he couldn't remember the last time he went to see ducks. if he ever had. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-07 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Arkady beamed, "Really? Right now? Even with the rain?" That was one of the endearing things about Arkady, she had a child-like glee in the simplest of things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-07 02:29 am UTC (link)
	"Why not? I'm not going to melt in the rain." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-07 02:30 am UTC (link)
	She shrugged, somehow this managed to be a full body movement, "Some people don't like it. Don't know why, little water never hurt nobody." She shook her head, "Takes a lot of water to do that." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-07 02:40 am UTC (link)
	Richard shrugged his shoulders. "I don't mind it so much." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-07 02:45 am UTC (link)
	"Me either, I like it, makes everything all clean again. Even the sky." Another grin, unfolding from her chair and offering him a hand, "Let's go before it stops!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-07 03:02 am UTC (link)
	"Even the sky," Richard nodded. He'd never thought of that before. "Let's go!" He was up and moving toward the door already. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

justalilmental
2009-08-07 03:10 am UTC (link)

She laughed brightly again, catching his arm and just teleporting them off to the park, sure, they could have walked, but where was the fun in that?

The space between point A and point B, the actual space they occupied while teleporting was full of stars, speckled pinpricks and longer trailing lines as everything stretched out only to snap back into place again at the edge of the duckpond in Hyde park.

She dug through the bag at her hip before coming up with a package of crackers, which she handed to Richard, "Here, you'll be their new best friend."

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	dontusemyphone 2009-08-07 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Richard took the crackers and split the package open. Ducks were already moving toward him. He threw some of the crackers out and watched the ducks dive for the treat. "Do you come here often?" He held the crackers out for her to take some to giv eto the ducks, too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-07 03:34 am UTC (link)
	She nodded, taking some of the crackers and crouching, not caring at all about the puddle she was mostly in, sitting still enough that the ducks came to snap the crackers right out of her fingers, "Sometimes. Sometimes I go other places, sometimes I don't go anywhere at all." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-08 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	"You should. Go out more, I mean. I mean, why not?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-08 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	She tilted her head, apparently thinking that over as she patted one of the ducks on the head, giving it another cracker, "That's a very good question, I guess I just don't sometimes." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-09 01:24 am UTC (link)
	Richard nodded. "I don't either, really. I mean, you know. I like to stay home." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-09 06:54 am UTC (link)
	She nodded at that, "So do I. It's where the heart is, or where I hang my hat. I've got a hat, for when I go out in the garden, it's a straw hat." She shook her head then, tapping a knuckle to her forehead, "Sometimes I just go places right up here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dontusemyphone 2009-08-10 02:50 am UTC (link)
	Considering that was what Richard thought he was doing right then, he nodded. "Yeah. That's good. I mean, you know. You can do anything, be anything you want, up there." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justalilmental 2009-08-10 03:23 am UTC (link)
	She laughed brightly, it was a full-belly laugh, the kind that was sheer amusement and that usually only the very young and the very old were capable of, "I can do that out here too, sometimes." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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