Lissa Dragomir (littlequeen) wrote in wariscoming, @ 2014-12-08 15:24:00 |
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It felt like things were looking up in her world here. It felt like maybe she’d feel busy enough to figure it out. Or well... maybe that she could feel as though she had enough to do. Lissa struggled with feeling as though she didn’t have enough to do without well… running her people. Lissa was just Lissa again here, there was nothing special about her, she was no longer the ruler, she was no longer well… important. She was just Lissa, no title, nothing special, she was just Lissa. So, in being just a normal, or well as normal as Lissa could be… she well found herself at a coffee shop getting a drink before class. Rose was going to be angry that Lissa actually well went somewhere without making sure one of the guardians was with her, but really she was safe and she could take care of herself, sort of… It wasn’t like anyone was trying to attack and eat her! She was a nobody here, so she didn’t need to worry as much. Besides that it was bright outside and the coffee shop she was walking in was very bright, big windows and rather welcoming. “Just a latte please.” She said adding on a small size when asked. Lissa had noticed the man who’d ordered before and headed to wait for his drink, as she paid and followed. Lissa was typically graceful in her movements but as she tried to get her messenger bag to sit on her shoulder better the strap started to slip, which caused her to drop it and a couple books on foreign diplomatic policies fell out, one looking as though it was going to hit the man who’d been standing in front of her in line… “I am so sorry.” Lissa said quickly as she dropped down to try and gather her books as quickly as possible. She hated feeling awkward, and she did in that moment. ~~~~ Becker was really working on getting out more. Being social was another matter, but being cooped up in the TARDIS, if cooped was even possible in that ship, was starting to get to him. He missed Jack, so much that it hurt, but he was also starting to look like some sort of grumpy ghost haunting the time machine and not actually doing anything. So, small steps. Going out for coffee. Seeing actual daylight. It was progress, kind of. Being around people who weren’t from home or the TARDIS. It had seemed like a great plan, until he was bumped by books. Years in combat had given him quick reflexes, at least for a human, and he managed to catch one of them before they hit the ground. “It’s no problem,” he offered a half smile to the blonde girl, crouching down to help her with the rest of the books. Turning one in his hands, he raised an impressed eyebrow. “Diplomatic policies, heavy stuff. I usually go with glaring at it until it goes away.” Hey, it worked with some dinosaurs! “But I hear talking about it all usually works better.” He handed the books back before he looked at her properly. “You seem oddly familiar, have we met?” He didn’t add the part about possibly on the network. If she was one of the displaced, she would know to think of it. If she wasn’t, well, probably best not to mention things like alternate realities, demon possession or dinosaur fighting. People might take that badly. ~~~ This was horribly embarrassing, between running into Belle yesterday, and now running into this guy. Good looking guy at least, she felt horrible about it. Still he didn’t seem too angry, or even that annoyed. That made her feel a lot better about the whole situation. At least she hadn’t dumped coffee all over anyone, that would have been a lot worse. Laughing at his comment she nodded. “Glaring has it’s time and place, even when talking it out.” She said with a small shrug. “Yeah, I guess it is kind of heavy stuff, sort of.” Lissa commented as a twinge of missing her life back home hit her. She really did miss everything, more than she thought she would. Studying him for a moment she nodded. “I don’t think we’ve met, but you do look familiar.” She said trying to play along more than anything else. He seemed like he was someone from the network. “I’m Lissa.” She said. “And thank you, for helping me with the books.” She said as she put a few back into her bag ready to take the ones he’d gotten to put in her bag too. ~~~ It was the most words he had spoken outside of the TARDIS in weeks. So in a very weird way, Becker was actually thankful to Lissa for bumping into him. And he was more than able to handle a few books knocking into him. “See, now I need to convince some of my friends about that, I swear they think I’m just being antisocial, but I’m productive with my glaring.” And, okay, maybe a bit antisocial. Sometimes. Little bit. He gave her a small smile, pretty sure he knew where she was going with her train of thought. “Maybe you’ve seen me on a network of some kind?” There, that was easy enough for him to back out of on the off chance he was wrong, but he was reasonably sure he wasn’t, that this girl was Seal-napped just like he was. “And I’m Becker, and you’re welcome. You going to be okay carrying all of those to wherever you’re going?” ~~~ Lissa surprised herself as she laughed at his comment about that. “Well, I think it depends on if you’re glaring at nothing or glaring at something.” She said in a very friendly light hearted kind of way. It felt nice to say something light and something that actually made her feel like just a person, not a person trying to remember she wasn’t a Queen anymore, just a person in a coffee shop talking to someone that she was pretty sure was displaced like she was. At his comment about the network she nodded. “That must be it.” She could see how his line of comments and questions could be easily swept away, or they could make it clear they both weren’t from here, or from this world. She wasn’t sure where he was from, but she knew it wasn’t here in that moment. “I’m still pretty new around here.” Lissa said with a small nod of her head. “It’s nice to meet you Becker.” Lissa shrugged at the comment about her books. “I probably should invest in a better bag shouldn’t I? I’m just headed to campus.” Lissa said as she thought about it for a moment. “But if you’re not busy, you’re welcome to join me and make sure I don’t send books flying at anyone else standing innocently near by.” ~~~ “You mean glaring at nothing doesn’t count? Damn,” Becker smirked a bit, the first smirk he’d actually offered anyone since Jack. “Could I get away with saying it’s my natural expression?” Except it wasn’t, really. His face was normally fairly blank, but with a glint of humour in his eyes that stopped him from being completely intimidating when he wasn’t being the soldier. “New and you’re already getting into the books?” His tone was clearly impressed. “There are some people who have been here ages and still not gotten any sort of life together.” He was a Hunter now himself, if that counted, taking jobs when Bobby had them going. “Think I’ve must have been here nearly two years now.” That was a weird thought, and he actually blinked for a moment. “Nice to meet you too, Lissa.” He hesitated just for a split second before he nodded with a smile that was actually genuine and not put on for politeness. “For the safety of the general population, I think I could come along, help you carry those things. After all, my mother did raise me to be a gentleman.” ~~~ Laughing she shrugged. “I don’t know.” Lissa said as she took a look at his aura for a moment. “Glaring isn’t your natural expression.” Lissa saw too much life in his aura, it kind of reminded her of a guardians aura in a lot of ways that didn’t surprise her at all, there was a hint of sadness in it too, but she wasn’t going to tell him she could see that, at least not yet. Smiling a little bit she responded easily. “Well, just because I ended up here doesn’t mean I can stop college, or stop trying to learn. It’d be a waste to let the opportunity to learn at a larger school, and a different… place drift past me.” Lissa was not going to just sit around and do nothing. It just wasn’t in her nature to let things pass her by. “Two years.” Lissa blinked a few times. “It still surprises me when I hear how long some of been here.” It did surprise it, it surprised her more when she heard how many times some people left and came back. It just sounded sort of emotionally painful. Lissa probably could have managed just fine, but it was nice getting to know new people here, especially people who knew what it was like to be taken from their home worlds and dumped here. Grinning, although still hiding her fangs Lissa nodded. “Thank you, and it looks like she did a good job raising you.” She added. “So, what do you do here? Other than help those of us who have too many books?” Lissa was lucky, Becker ended up helping her with the books while they walked and chatted until she had class and they left it with the possibility of a new friendship starting. ~~~ |