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Gabe Wilder (afterwedie) wrote in we_float,
@ 2010-06-20 18:36:00

Current music:	"The Manual" : Travie McCoy
Entry tags:	character: gabriel wilder, character: matt cavanaugh

"Now we all make mistakes..."
Who: Matt Cavanaugh and Gabriel Wilder
What: A couple postponed meetings finally result in the real thing.
When: Monday, June 21, 8 pm (forward-dated, takes place after a yet-to-be-posted rp)
Where: Beth's Cafe, Seattle
Status: Open; in progress

What Gabe liked the most about Beth's was that it was one of the few places in the city that had gleefully embraced the lifting of the smoking ban. Most Seattle restaurants still clung to the idea that smoke tainted food or disdained the small pockets of ash that seemed to float to the bottom of Beth's floors but this cafe had gone as far as to place an ashtray on every table the moment the ban was lifted.

He ashed his cigarette in the one at his table, then slowly took a drag, staring at the ember at its tip.

He should have been home by now. Gabe knew it and yet he was sitting at a table, pulling out his notebook and sketching out the faces at a distant booth. Waiting for someone to come and tell him that the impossible was possible. His mind kept running over everything that had happened over the weekend. He wondered where his other self had gone after he'd locked him out. Wherever it had been, he was gone now.

Not for the first time, Gabriel felt guilty about leaving him in the cold. Them. He shuddered, wondering, and then went back to his idle sketching as the waitress set a second cup of coffee down in front of him. He smiled at her, ordered a piece of pie and went back to the drawing.

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palehorses
2010-06-21 06:47 am UTC (link)

Matt shrugged, but at the same time, he mentally laid some cards on the table. "We've got to get off the government tit," he pointed out. "Means rent, food, transportation, utilities, at the basics. No one's got a really good job - it's a bunch of unemployed and half-employed people who could be fired at any fucking minute for their genes. Same time, if we don't get away from the government, I don't see how to turn this group into what it needs to be. And if they won't come, fuck them, I'll go find the people who will do it, you know? So we need cash to stay alive."

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	afterwedie 2010-06-21 06:49 am UTC (link)
	"That makes more sense," Gabe said. "But dude, you take what you can get now and you hide that shit. Train people on the streets or what the fuck ever- that's where you're doing this, yeah?" He thought about the problem for a moment. "So why'd everyone say yes? Do you know that part? You need that to make it all work." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

palehorses
2010-06-21 06:56 am UTC (link)

He grinned again, and it was sharply dismissive. "Course I'm not doing this, let alone on the streets. Again, point taken, and I like it, but you're not seeing what the situation is. Right now, and seriously, this is my best guess, people see the house as protection, and they're hiding - most of them - behind the idea that Katherine hands them fucking orders when she wants something done, you know? Until she says hop, most've them are fine not figuring out how to jump on their own. Same time, it's a bad fucking idea to be out in the wild if you're an ace or a joker, so Katherine's offer came at a great time. But I don't think the ideological underpinnings are fucking there - I know they're fucking not. And until that's in play, training won't happen. Hell, until it fucking does, I might not be in play. Don't want to spend the next six months beating my head against entrenched fear and laziness when I could walk right the fuck now and set something like this up with people who want to make the change that needs to happen, you know? Not saying that I think everyone in the house is a fucking loss, just that right now, I don't trust them as professional heroes any further than I can fucking piss in a hurricane, you know?"

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	afterwedie 2010-06-21 07:05 am UTC (link)
	"Then call them to order. Take whoever signs on, maybe." Gabe wasn't grasping the difficulty, not entirely, though he knew part of it was simply knowing none of them. "Um... can't you just, like, pull a Bangaro and fake an enemy?" Bangaro had been five presidential terms before- the first president to have been caught manufacturing his own war. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

palehorses
2010-06-21 07:07 am UTC (link)

"Fuck no," Matt said. "If they don't believe the Acts are enemy enough, I'm not fucking making shit up." His voice twisted with repugnance. "I'll work with what I've got. And I hope you're saying that you're part of it, because if not, this is one fucking disappointing conversation. But I won't lie to convert someone to something they don't believe is right, you know?" He smiled. "I'd make a fucking terrible politician, man."

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	afterwedie 2010-06-21 07:10 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, you're right. You sound pretty fucking desperate though." Gabe bit his lip, considering it. "Yeah. I think I could be in. I don't want on the payroll. I've got a place to work." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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