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Adelia Van Helsing (OC) (i_haz_a_raven) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2010-04-02 15:57:00

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adelia van helsing, logan

Who: Adelia & Logan
Where: The Bantam & Badger in Chicago
What: Bonding through alcohols
When: shortly after this (aka: backdated to a couple days ago)
Warnings: They might get sweary?

Adelia really adored the B&B, mostly on account of the sign over the bar, it was the original sign from when the place was founded, a rooster in spats and a top hat, with a monocle popping off his eye as he was yelled at by a badger in a crinoline dress and a broad-brimmed sunbonnet.
At that particular moment she was perched near the end of the bar where she could watch the door and didn’t have any open walkways at her back. She might not be one of those Van Helsings, but she still had the familial paranoia from time to time, and it had never steered her wrong. She was halfway through her first beer, just keeping an eye on everything, her hair loose for the first time all day, she had to keep it pulled back at work and always had a few minutes of scalp-relaxing glee when she finally got to let it down. She hadn’t totally gotten over that just yet, running a hand through her hair to scratch at her scalp, smiling and nose-wrinkling in relief

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	hasapoint 2010-04-03 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	Atmosphere didn't really make a whole lot of difference to Logan. A bar was a bar. As long as the beer didn't taste like piss, he was satisfied. There wasn't much variety in his wardrobe: tonight he wore jeans, a black shirt and his brown leather jacket. On his head was a battered cowboy hat, which he tipped to Adelia as he sat down next to her at the bar. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	i_haz_a_raven 2010-04-03 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	Totally lost in head-scratchy bliss, Adelia didn't notice right away that she had company, but she smiled when she did, an entirely-amused, half-wry expression, because she was usually amused at herself just as much as she was amused by anyone else, "Well hello there, didn't see you come in." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hasapoint
2010-04-04 12:41 am UTC (link)

Logan snorted and motioned the bartender over. "Yeah, I'm real sneaky like that." He ordered a beer then took off his hat and set it on the bar next to him. "How long you been here? Don't remember you my first time around." Logan wasn't exactly a social butterfly, so it was entirely possible he had missed her. At least he was attempting small talk.

He pulled a cigar out of the inner pocket of his jacket and offered it to the lady. "You smoke?"

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	i_haz_a_raven 2010-04-04 02:12 am UTC (link)
	"Couple months, maybe three." She said, shrugging and resting on her elbows on the bar, shaking her head at the offer, "No, thanks. Dangerous in my line of work." What exactly her line of work was was anyone's guess, since she was fairly well covered in tattoos, all of them protection symbols of some kind. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hasapoint
2010-04-04 02:48 am UTC (link)

Logan nodded a bit. So she'd showed up while he'd been.. not here. Made sense. He raised an eyebrow at her explanation. He shrugged, putting the cigar in his own mouth. "Suit yourself. Mind if I do?" He pulled out his lighter just as the bartender delivered his beer.

"No smoking, sir," the bartender said, pointing at a sign behind him.

"You've gotta be fucking kidding me," Logan grumbled, pulling the cigar out of his mouth.

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	i_haz_a_raven 2010-04-04 03:07 am UTC (link)
	"I don't mind." She replied, shaking her head, though at the bartender's statement she added: "It's a nice night. We could head outside, been inside all day for work anyway, fresh air might be nice." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hasapoint
2010-04-05 02:36 am UTC (link)

Logan grunted at that and gave a nod. "Sounds good." The place had a patio, which seemed like as good a place as any. It wasn't cold, and they served drinks out there. He grabbed his beer and followed her out to the back door.

He'd been trying to piece it together.. She said she worked inside, she couldn't smoke, and those tattoos didn't exactly say '♥ Mom'. That, along with her last name, made him curious. "So what do you do?"

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	i_haz_a_raven 2010-04-05 02:40 am UTC (link)
	"I'm a barista." She said, her smile gone completely impish. She shrugged then once she'd settled, "Well, that's the official job, and I'm good at it, but family business is what it is and I have to be ready when the call goes up." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hasapoint 2010-04-05 02:51 am UTC (link)
	Logan rose an eyebrow at that, but shrugged. "I hear ya." He knew what it was like to be 'on call', as it were. This place was a lot quieter without the Brotherhood around, but he didn't consider himself retired just yet. This universe through crazy crap at people, and Logan liked to think his reputation as one of the good guys wasn't completely undeserved. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_haz_a_raven
2010-04-05 06:04 am UTC (link)

"How about you?" She said, head tilting, "Or is that need-to-know basis kind of thing?"

It was right about then that a large raven landed on the edge of the table, regarding Logan solemnly a moment before side-stepping its way up Adelia's arm to settle on her shoulder as if it belonged there, causing her to roll her eyes, "Right, Poe, Logan, Logan, Poe, now you've met, play nice."

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	hasapoint 2010-04-05 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	He shrugged, lighting up his cigar. "Was part of the X-Men. I help out now and then, when things get outta hand. As for my day job.." It wasn't exactly macho to admit that he had basically been a trophy husband, until recently. "I just got back. Just have to see what comes my way." He quirked a brow at the bird, but gave another shrug. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	i_haz_a_raven 2010-04-05 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	"Good work, if you can get it." She said, nodding and taking another pull at her beer, eyerolling as the raven leaned across her to beak at the bottle, "Not for you." A shrug then, one-shouldered so as not to disturb the bird, "And there's no shortage of new jobs around here, from what I've seen." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hasapoint 2010-04-06 10:45 pm UTC (link)
	"Eh," Logan said. "Team's not really here. Few kids here and there, but most of 'em are gone." He shrugged, not looking too torn up about it. It was weird, not having to save the world. "This place is too boring for me." He shook his head, a hint of a smirk at one corner of his lips. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_haz_a_raven
2010-04-06 10:51 pm UTC (link)

She actually laughed at that nodding, "I know exactly what you mean." And she did, she wasn't one of the more active members of the family, but there was still the occasional emergency situation that needed her attention, or assassination attempt that required her to move house, but there wouldn't be any of those here, at least so far as she could tell.

"Kind of weird knowing that the stuff I usually deal with is all kind of self regulating, or already has somebody else in place to take care of it."

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hasapoint
2010-04-06 10:57 pm UTC (link)

Logan nodded. It made him edgy, is what it did. He wasn't the type of guy who could just sit around. Well... Six months ago he hadn't been running around all the time. He might've thought staying in one place like that would drive him up the wall, but he had actually been really content, taking care of his family like that. Emma, Rose, Esme.. even Sophie. But now.

"Weird, yeah," he echoed before finishing off his beer.

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	i_haz_a_raven 2010-04-06 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	She shrugged then, settling back in her own chair, moving easily and carefully so as not to dislodge the bird still on her shoulder, "But I guess that means I'm free to make my own fun. Haven't had a chance to do that since I ran away to go live with the pirates, and even that was work. Kind of." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hasapoint
2010-04-08 07:50 pm UTC (link)

Logan's hat was back on his head, now that they were outside. "Huh," was his monosyllabic response to the pirates thing. This place was really something else.

"Yeah, I guess that's one advantage. More time to wander." Logan didn't spend much time on the bike or out in the woods when he'd had a family at home. Occasionally he'd taken Rose camping, which he loved to do, but he knew camping wasn't his daughter's favorite activity. Some time outdoors would probably do him good.

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i_haz_a_raven
2010-04-08 08:41 pm UTC (link)

She smiled crookedly once more, "And in an amazingly hilarious twist of fate, the pirates that I ran away to live with back home beat me here by a year or two. Maybe longer, it's hard to tell with them how long they've been anywhere, they put down roots faster than anybody I know."

She shook her head then, sighing once, "Wandering might be nice, actually, just as long as I don't have to worry about slogging through swampland to keep out of the way of one of the hideous progeny."

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hasapoint
2010-04-11 11:15 pm UTC (link)

Logan quirked an eyebrow. "Didn't know pirates had roots." Not that he had much experience in the area. He preferred to stay on the ground. Swimming wasn't exactly a walk in the park for a guy with a metal skeleton.

"Swamps aren't so bad," he said with a smirk. "Speaking of progeny. I've run across D. a few times myself." Adelia didn't seem to be from the same universe Logan was, but sometimes people crossed paths in weird ways. "You don't have a sister or anything, do you?"

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i_haz_a_raven
2010-04-12 01:25 am UTC (link)

"Nope, no sisters, whole bunch of cousins though. And if you've been here before, or been around a while you've probably heard of my pirates, Jack Sparrow and Bill Turner, so far everyone I've run into has either met them or knows of them, always amazes me how quickly those two get around for a couple of homebodies." Her tone was utterly fond, and she was wholly amused at the prospect of pirates being homebodies.

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hasapoint
2010-04-12 03:29 pm UTC (link)

Logan waved down a server and ordered a couple more beers. He shrugged. "Vaguely. Might've crossed paths a couple times." He hadn't had any direct dealings with the pirates, but they might've cleaned up a disaster or two together.

"You know a Rachel Van Helsing?" Logan wasn't sure if he wanted her to say yes or no. He wasn't sure what Adelia would think if she knew the whole story. He took a swig of his new beer.

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i_haz_a_raven
2010-04-12 08:44 pm UTC (link)

"I know we've got one." She said with a shrug, "I'm kind of a recluse by the family's standards, most of them go off after any and all vampires, some of them go off after all sorts of other critters, I just deal with the Dracul line and sometimes not even then."

She shrugged again, settling back, amused when Poe shifted from her shoulder to the back of her seat. She took a healthy swallow of her own drink, "I don't mind being shunned though, it works for me."

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	hasapoint 2010-04-13 04:11 am UTC (link)
	He nodded some, nursing his beer. He could understand that. He thought of himself as a loner, but somehow he managed to end up on every team in existence, it seemed. "Just be careful," he said. "I don't wanna have to stake another pretty Van Helsing girl." In some universe, that was the line that would get her into bed with him. It probably wasn't this one. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	i_haz_a_raven 2010-04-13 04:17 am UTC (link)
	She laughed at that, just once, shaking her head, "You're lucky I haven't had more to drink." She said, pointing at him with the hand that was still holding her bottle, "Or I might've had to ... I don't even know what right now." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hasapoint 2010-04-13 04:39 am UTC (link)
	Logan chuckled dryly, amused by her laugh. "Rough me up a little?" he supplied. "Break a bottle over my head or shove garlic down my throat?" He waved the server for another round. They weren't quite finished with this one, but he wanted to keep it coming. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)