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Jenny Schecter (dont_f_withme) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-05-08 10:57:00

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!dropped, !incomplete, day 06, experiment, jenny schecter, location: theatre, locke lamora

Day 6: Expirimentation
Who: Jenny Schecter & Locke Lamora
What: Day 6: Experiment
When: Early Afternoon
Where: The Theater, on stage
Rating: PG-13 (to be safe - language probably, non-sexual nudity)
Status: Active

Jenny felt so warm. Deliciously warm and she smiled even before she thought about opening her eyes. She wanted to burrow down beneath the covers even further and forget the entire nightmare she'd had of the glass cage and the strange people. She must have dozed in her trailer in between takes because she knew she'd already woken up this morning. She felt well-rested and comfortable, drowsy and perfect. Beautiful golden sunlight streamed across her face and she turned from her back to her side in a languorously fluid movement.

Then her fingertips grazed skin. She smiled and snuggled in closer. "Mmm, you stayed," she murmured to Nikki and realized that the two of them must not have gotten up at all today. She was surprised that Tina hadn't burst in blathering about responsibility. This was heavenly and Jenny was not about to give it up just yet. "What time is it?" she purred, her eyes fluttering open slowly to the sight of her blanket-covered sweetheart turned away, sleeping still. She smiled and leaned up slightly to kiss Nikki's neck to awaken her and then froze. "What. The. Fuck."

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dont_f_withme
2009-05-15 10:14 pm UTC (link)

Jenny felt herself automatically react in the old, familiarly girlish way when he called her kind and expressed his appreciation for having had her there if they had to be there at all. Her cheeks flushed prettily and she swung her hips from side to side once in embarassment. "Thank you. You're so sweet. I'm glad that if we had to go through this, you are at least a gentleman. I'm sorry that your time is long gone. I have a feeling mine is too," she said, trying to hide her face in the edge of the blanket before offering it to him.

"Don't shoot me but I'm kind of glad that everything is missing if only because I had this horrible brown bottle marked with the words biohazard and antidote. I figured it must be important because nothing is accidental in this place, but I really didn't want a biohazard on my hands. You know?" she asked, her tone belying the fact that she her mind was really focused elsewhere. Like where her clothes might be. As nice as he was, being naked with Leocanto was not her idea of a fun time.

"Oh!" she said, processing what he'd added. "There are dressing rooms. They were down a hallway behind a locked door. I'd gotten in through a window. Maybe we can force the door or something if we have to." She didn't relish the idea of roaming the halls of this place and doing anything that required giving up her blanket for the sake of finding clothes but it was better than being uncomfortable staring at each other for who knew how long.

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richercleverer
2009-05-15 11:44 pm UTC (link)

"I always make an effort to be as gentlemanly as possible and I am glad that, if nothing else, we can find solace in each others company." Leo found himself somewhat charmed by her girlish reaction to his words and, this time, it was no effort on his part to offer her a smile. "If nothing else, this place does seem to disregard all times and places when it chooses its victims; it's no consolation but it does make one feel just a little less lonely and upset."

Leo would have been content enough to continue on with the steady pattern of his banter but his words seemed to dry up as soon as Jenny mentioned the fact that she had a small bottle marked with the magical word 'antidote'. He had been wondering if the ones who had taken him intended for him to die or if they would manage to produce the tonic he needed to be granted a few more weeks of life - and here was proof that the powers knew of his need and were willing to grant him a brief reprieve. "A small bottle marked antidote, you said?" He managed, trying so damn hard to make his tone as casual as hers had just been. "I don't suppose that you looked inside the bottle, especially if it was marked so?"

"It wouldn't hurt to have a look," he agreed more than readily enough. Though the blanket was a bit of help, the idea of actual warm clothes was very appealing to him and the idea of them being hidden behind a locked door seemed only a small concern. "I'm sure we can find a way to open the door, one way or another."

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dont_f_withme
2009-05-17 03:07 pm UTC (link)

He was such a charmer. Jenny wondered if he did it on purpose or of it came naturally to him. At that moment she wished she didn't think that way, questioning other people's intentions, but she'd survived Los Angeles only because she knew that most people had ulterior motives. It would be so much nicer to just accept the fact that he really was a gentleman and enjoy the company. If she could do that, she would, she decided.

"Yes, you are right about that. I do feel less lonely and upset right now. It's not an ideal situation but at least neither one of us is a serial killer or worse."

Jenny's jaw almost dropped, molding her face into a withering look when he asked if she'd looked inside the bottle. Had he not been listening? Hello, biohazard? It was enough to make her want to shake him but instead she recovered gracefully with only a slightly sarcastic smile. "Look inside the bottle? It was a biohazard. I didn't want it anywhere near me. I wanted to throw it away but like I said, nothing here is accidental."

She shifted her weight from foot to foot a bit anxiously now. She wanted this whole thing to be over with and soon. She was getting cold now that he was in the corner of the blanket and it wasn't completely covering her anymore. Her skin broke out in goosebumps and other parts of her reacted to the cold as well in very unwanted ways. She was tempted to scoot over and press against him for the body heat but could not bring herself to do it. She wasn't cold enough yet for that.

"No, it wouldn't hurt," she agreed with a smaller smile than before. It would be a lot easier for them to make their way to the hall with the locked door if they both had clothes but it was better than nothing, she supposed.

"So we have to go back there to find the dressing rooms I'm sure," she added, pointing toward the dark hollow to the left and right of them at either side of the stage. That didn't look like a lot of fun either. Walking in the dark, naked. What a horrible place this was.

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richercleverer
2009-05-17 05:42 pm UTC (link)

The concept of 'biohazard' was another of those slippery ideas the meaning of which Locke found that he could half grasp - he had the general idea that biohazards were things which most normal people chose to greatly avoid but he wasn't entirely sure what sort of hazard the bio implied. Even so, he did feel an immediate sense of relief when Jenny stated that she hadn't thrown the vial away but it seemed that he would have to be a bit delicate if he wanted to earn those few additional weeks. "You still have it on your person, then?" He asked the obvious question then paused when he realized that the antidote could well be wherever their clothes had been left. "Or was it left with the rest of your things?"

Her shifting from foot to foot brought his thoughts back to their current situation and, though he was doing his best to be gentlemanly about it, he couldn't help but notice that she was obviously quite cold. Not to say that he couldn't do with a heavy sweater and some thick breeches about now but he supposed he could suffer a bit longer.

"Here. I think it might be a bit difficult to make our way back through the halls with both of us sharing the blanket so why don't you wrap yourself nice and warm and I'll see about leading the way?" He offered with raised eyebrows. It was obvious even from the stage that the passage would be dark and perhaps difficult but he thought that he could stumble along without too much trouble - and better for him to stumble or fall than to let her get herself injured.

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dont_f_withme
2009-05-18 09:10 am UTC (link)

"I-" She giggled lightly when he asked if the bottle was on her person. She glanced down at her naked self behind the blanket and shook her head with a silly grin. "I left it in the dressing room with my 'survival' kit and some other things I collected for myself." Which hadn't been much. Just a few things that looked warm, a hideous Mexican mohair bolero, a horse's middle and the fuzzy hoofs, a tiara that she wished heartily he would not see when they got back to the dressing rooms.

Thankfully, Jenny took back the blanket and pulled it around herself. It felt good to not be shivering anymore and it was almost warm immediately. She smiled gratefully and a bit apologetically at him. "Thank you. Let's get our clothes quickly..." Her voice trailed off as she fought a pang of guilt for being so happy to have the blanket to herself. It didn't seem right to make him run around naked but that wasn't really her fault. It was the fault of whoever the sicko was collecting them here.

Jenny's mind was mulling over everything as it usually did and it suddenly occurred to her that he was asking a lot about this bottle she'd had in her survival kit. What could he possibly want with a bottle marked biohazard? Did he know what was in the bottle? She tilted her head to look at him curiously, her voice shrewd when she spoke again. "Why are you so interested in it?"

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richercleverer
2009-05-19 01:07 am UTC (link)

It was only after the words had been spoken that Leo realized just how stupid his question had been and he laughed lightly in acknowledgment of this fact. "Oh, so you did keep a hold on it." He did his best not to let his relief at this fact show in either his face or his demeanor - even if the task of somehow getting her to give the antidote to him without divulging his secret still lay ahead. "Hm? And what other interesting things did you manage to gather for yourself? I can't imagine much of use would be easily found in this place."

"Well then, why don't we see how well I can navigate blind," he murmured to himself as he crossed his stage to the dark passage beyond. As he carefully felt his way ahead, Leo found that he was rather grateful for the dark - not that he was nearly as humble or modest as he was making it seem but he had rather enough of having to perform naked for others after the humiliation which had earned him passage on the Orchid. And then it had at least been warm. "Do you remember which door it is? Or are there a series of doors?"

Leo felt himself stiffen under her shrewd questions and he scrambled briefly for some reasonable answer as to why he kept asking after the biohazard bottle. It did come to him that the truth could possibly work but he found that he really didn't want to have to answer a series of questions about why he had been poisoned. "Oh, it just seems quite an odd thing for one such as yourself to be handed upon your arrival. Though I haven't talked to everyone, I believe you must be the very first to be given a biohazard."

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dont_f_withme
2009-05-19 10:56 am UTC (link)

Jenny tilted her head, trying to make him out. He was so laid back and easy-going that it almost unnerved her at the same time as it soothed her. She had never known anyone other than Shane who could be so calm in the face of the stress they were both being put under right now. But even Shane would probably be doing some silly trick to make her laugh in spite of herself right now. Which was why Shane was her best friend and why it suddenly occurred to her that she might never see Shane ever again. The thought made a lump rise to the back of her throat and tears began to burn in the corners of her eyes but she was not going to let them go. No way in hell was she breaking down in tears in front of Leo over something that was beyond her control. Instead she coughed once to clear her throat and answered his question.

"Oh, just odds and ends to keep me warm mostly. There were costumes and other leftover things down there. Nothing you'd want to wear in public unless you had to. There was a lot of junk but I had a lot of time to myself last night."

Jenny made a face in the dark that she was grateful he couldn't see. She felt caught because she hadn't actually seen the theater from this side. Only from behind the door in the hallway. She hoped it would be easy to just find a door to the hallway marked "Dressing Rooms" or something like that. Which is exactly what she did see in what meager amount of light there was from a crumbled away part of the roof. "I think it's there," she said and pointed which was completely ineffectual considering it was almost pitch black back here and he wasn't looking at her.

She wasn't fooled for a minute that he was only generally interested in the biohazard bottle. It had been a pretty good save on his part but her own interest was already piqued. She would let it go for now though because it wasn't as important right now as finding their clothes or any clothes for that matter.

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