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Anita "Needy" Lesnicki (hellisagirl) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2010-03-01 01:52:00

Entry tags:

cal leandros, needy lesnicki

Who: Needy and Cal
What: Going out for chili cheese fries.
When: Evening, September 28th
Where: From the apartment lobby to a random restaurant.
Warnings: Uh. Probably language. I don't know what else there would be.

Needy hated to be the one to have to break it to Cal that he was apparently in some books, but he should probably know. Plus, was probably for the best if he heard it from her and not some random person that could show up at any point, having already read them before arriving there. She knew it sucked to have your life thrown out there for everyone to know when it really wasn't their business in the first place.

And no, she wasn't delusional. Or, well, maybe she was sometimes. But that wasn't anyone's business either. So what if she saw people that weren't there sometimes? She'd learned how to ignore it since it started happening, just like how she ignored the non-existent Colin as she walked down the stairs to meet Cal in the lobby. But she wasn't quite delusional enough to think that a heaping plate of fries was going to make everything all fine and dandy again.

When she saw he wasn't down there just yet she plopped down in one of the chairs to wait patiently.

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aupheling
2010-03-06 09:00 am UTC (link)

He laughed at that, that quiet, honest laugh that she was probably the only person who'd actually heard it, shaking his head, "Don't have to pay me, just as long as I get dental." A shrug, settling back in his chosen seat, "Otherwise I just might have to go and join the minon's union. They've got one of those, right?"

He also perused the menu, but really just to make sure they had chocolate shakes too. Nothing better for a plate of chili cheese fries than a chocolate shake as big as his head.

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hellisagirl
2010-03-06 09:09 am UTC (link)

Needy was fully aware of how rare a real laugh from Cal was, so it always ended up making her smile in return. "Dental, huh?" she perked a brow, setting the menu aside before turning to look at her best friend. "Yeah, not so sure if I can swing that one. But hey, if you want to try going to a dentist with less than real records, then be my guest. I want to see how that would turn out for you."

And the next thing she knew, there was a waitress standing over their table. With a grin, Needy looked up at her to quickly ask for a vanilla coke and an order of the chili cheese fries.

Dear god, months later and she was finally getting them.

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aupheling
2010-03-06 05:17 pm UTC (link)

Cal ordered a plate of fries and 'the biggest chocolate shake you're legally allowed to sell me', which made the waitress smile and shake her head, jotting that down as 'bucket of chocolate shake'

Cal shrugged once she'd gone on her way, "Okay, fine, no dental, how about accident insurance?" Not that he was a particularly clumsy individual, but he was amused by the conversation as it was, so he was going to keep it up.

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hellisagirl
2010-03-07 03:49 am UTC (link)

Once the waitress was gone Needy turned to Cal again, a grin on her face. "Please. Like I'd bother giving you any sort of insurance around here. We've got our own doctor, plus one guy that can heal you with a wave of his hand, plus a girl that has already healed you with her blood."

It didn't take long for their drinks to show up, and Needy was happy to slide her soda closer to herself and sip at it. "So, name something aside from insurance. I'll see what I can do."

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	aupheling 2010-03-07 04:01 am UTC (link)
	He shrugged at that, "Okay, that's fair too." A head shake as he slurped at his shake, "And I don't know, what do regular employees usually have besides insurance? Retirement benefits? Pfft, like I need that." Granted, this was because he was figuring he'd be dead before retirement age, but he didn't figure he had to say so out loud, she probably knew it anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hellisagirl
2010-03-07 08:27 am UTC (link)

Needy shrugged, smiling. "I have no idea. The bar is the first actual job that I've ever had. Babysitting in high school and middle school didn't exactly include benefits or anything." And that was the truth. She had sort of built-in benefits for a while there, when she was locked up, but that wasn't exactly the best thing to reference when it came to something like this.

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aupheling
2010-03-07 09:07 am UTC (link)

He shrugged, "Guess I'll have to ask Niko sometime, since he's the one of us with an actual job, or Robin, since he's got employees." Then, remembering that neither of them were around, he fell silent again, shaking his head and gnawing at the straw in his shake, he had nothing else to say about it, really, so he diverted the conversation once more, "So even if the fries suck, the shake's pretty awesome."

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hellisagirl
2010-03-07 09:24 am UTC (link)

It didn't take much for Needy to figure out what had probably made Cal suddenly go quiet. She bit her lip for a moment, shrugging a bit before speaking again. "Hey, you never know," she started, leaning back in her seat. "One of them could show up at any time. Or Promise or Georgie. And hey, you can officially never say that I don't listen when you talk." Otherwise, she wouldn't have remembered those names.

"Is it? Pass it here, let me try." she added with a bit of a grin.

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	aupheling 2010-03-07 09:48 am UTC (link)
	He handed over the glass with, "Damn, going to have to step up my game, I don't remember a word of what you've told me." This was not, in fact, strictly true, it was only marginally close to true, he actually listened, and he even retained some things. The shake was pretty awesome, actually, obviously quality ingredients. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hellisagirl
2010-03-09 11:33 am UTC (link)

Needy took a long sip from the glass once Cal slid it over to her. Partly because yeah, it was really good, partly just to be a jackass. Once she was done, however, she actually gave it back instead of keeping it for herself like she considered. "You're right, that is pretty good," she said with a smile.

But at his comment, Needy perked her brow. "Hey, you'd better listen to me when I talk to you. If I remember your shit you'd better at least listen to me when I talk." And with that, she added reaching over to shove him playfully in his shoulder. Obviously, she didn't go as far as to use all her strength, or even most of it, but it should be enough to have gotten her point across.

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aupheling
2010-03-09 04:10 pm UTC (link)

"Ow." He whined, rubbing his shoulder, mostly though he was trying not to laugh, "Kidding, jeeze." He shook his head then, "Okay, you caught me, I listen." Which was true, did he retain any of the information? Maybe. But that was his problem with everyone, even Niko.

He slid the glass across the tabletop from one hand to the other, "Think I'm finally going to get around to replacing my baby." He added, "Just as soon as I can find a place with something similar."

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hellisagirl
2010-03-10 05:58 am UTC (link)

"Please. That didn't hurt, you big baby. I did not shove you hard enough for that," Needy said, chuckling as she rolled her eyes. "And good. You'd better be kidding about that."

But at the second part, she perked a brow. "And you know, I'm really hope you're talking about replacing your gun. Because if it was an actual baby, I wouldn't be helping you with that one at all. No way am I ever having kids," she smirked a bit, knowing full well that he was, in fact, talking about that gun. "Plus, that would have been a pretty major thing to leave out."

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aupheling
2010-03-10 06:32 am UTC (link)

He actually twitched at the mention of children, a wave of revulsion he couldn't quite suppress completely, he almost managed, but only almost, shaking his head like a dog trying to get water out of its ears, "No, not an actual baby, God no." Another, firmer, head-shake to clear that thought away, "But yeah, my gun." He shrugged, "My glock at least, since I don't have a clue where Nik found the canon." He shook his head, almost sadly, "Loved that gun."

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hellisagirl
2010-03-10 07:21 am UTC (link)

Well, if nothing else, it looked like Cal and Needy could agree on the baby front. She didn't know what her demon powers would do to a kid, of if a kid would end up with things from the demon that Needy didn't have. Like needing to eat people. Yeah, a cannibal kid, that wouldn't be so good.

"You know," Needy started, tilting her head to the side just slightly as though she were thinking about something. "I still haven't actually ever shot a gun. How weird is that? I'm from the midwest, Lt. of Kicking Ass, and I've never shot a gun."

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aupheling
2010-03-10 07:44 am UTC (link)

Niko had once drawn Cal a diagram, with stick figures, this is Cal, this is a girl, this is their demonspawn baby gnawing on the doctor. Cal hadn't needed that talk again, ever.

"If you're that hung up on not knowing, I can teach you." He paused, "Probably. Have to actually get ahold of one first, not as many dark alleys with people making dubious sales propositions in them here as there are in New York."

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hellisagirl
2010-03-10 07:53 am UTC (link)

"Hey, if you can get your hands on one, I wouldn't mind learning," she said with a bit of a shrug. "I mean, it's not really the single most important thing ever or anything, but still. If it means I'd be able to take some creep out without having to get close enough to stab the fucker, it might be pretty handy." Because that was what Needy was good with so far. Knives. And, you know. The every day punches and kicks, that sort of thing. Physical stuff.

But she had no idea what it would take to actually kill her, and she had no way of figuring it out. In the comics, people that could heal fast could get shot in the head or the heart and survive, but Needy had killed Jessica by stabbing her in the heart, so there was no way of knowing if that would work for her, too.

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aupheling
2010-03-10 07:58 am UTC (link)

He nodded, "Sure." A shrug, "I'm sure there's probably more patient teachers around at the compound, but I'm not against teaching you myself, I mean, you're the same way with people that I am." Which was the further away they were the better.

He very nearly grinned when the waitress returned with the plates, and he made a contented little growling sound just at the smell, "Yeah, that's the right stuff."

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hellisagirl
2010-03-10 08:11 am UTC (link)

"Hey, I'm not quite as bad as you are. I can probably list off more people around the complex than you can," Needy said with a bit of a smirk, followed by a shrug. "But it seems like we've got more people there offering to teach people how to shoot bows and arrows, which would be handy if the world was completely overrun with vampires, but it's not."

At the sight, and smell, of the chili cheese fries, Needy couldn't help smiling. She'd been craving them for months. Since way before she even landed in Kansas. After all, they didn't exactly offer them in the asylum, they weren't healthy enough for that. Or so the nutritionists said, Needy had her own suspicions about the food they were given there.

"Oh man," Needy said, still grinning, after she took her first bite. "Yep. These are fantastic."

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aupheling
2010-03-10 08:15 am UTC (link)

"Depends on the bow, really, and the composition of the arrow, granted, plain old wood isn't going to do much, Promise is pretty handy with a crossbow though, titanium quarrels." A shrug as he dug into his own plate, making another happy grumble as he very nearly melted into his seat, nodding because he'd momentarily lost his entire vocabulary other than: "S'good."

Maybe it was because he'd wanted them for a while, maybe it was because they really were that good, maybe it was some combination of the two, but they were delicious.

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