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Tweak says, "The sky is so green today."

Tom Sturbridge (timestoodstill) wrote in we_float,
@ 2010-06-20 22:14:00

Entry tags:

character: maxxie delacourt, character: tom sturbridge

Who: Tom Sturbridge and Maxxie Delacourt
When: Sunday, June 20, 2096
Where: Anhalt Building
What: Just talking, as far as I know...
Status: Closed, Complete

Tom had had to get up early to meet his family for Father's Day breakfast. He didn't know why they couldn't do brunch like normal people, but apparently overachieving was so ingrained in his parents that they even had to be up before everyone else on a holiday Sunday. Although the line when they left had been long enough Tom had had to acknowledge there was a method behind their madness.

It had been good to see his family, even though he hadn't been able to say much about what he was up to. There was a part of him that, with his mother's research, hesitated to mention what he'd been hired to do. So it was a relief to be able to leave before they really started to dig at him with questions.

He knocked on Maxxie's door. "Maxxie, I brought you food!" he called cheerfully through the door.

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	timestoodstill 2010-06-24 01:06 am UTC (link)
	"I'm human," Tom said. "Don't you dare try and say I or anyone else who happens to draw a wild card and not die instantly isn't human." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maxblinks 2010-06-24 01:44 am UTC (link)
	"I didn't," Maxxie said plainly. "I said it's an argument against us that's hard to refute biologically. I'd say we're as human as anyone else." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timestoodstill 2010-06-24 01:46 am UTC (link)
	"It's an inherited genetic mutation," Tom said. "If they want to argue that we aren't human, then neither are people with Downs Syndrome, muscular dystrophy, and dwarfism, to name a very few." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maxblinks 2010-06-24 02:00 am UTC (link)
	"And that's why we have you," Maxxie smiled suddenly. "You've got the right arguments to fix things up." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timestoodstill 2010-06-24 02:08 am UTC (link)
	"We'll see," Tom said. He forced himself to smile back. "Do you want the bear claw?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maxblinks 2010-06-24 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Oh right. Breakfast. Maxxie picked up her danish and started picking at it again as she shook her head. "One's enough for me. You should eat it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timestoodstill 2010-06-24 02:40 am UTC (link)
	"Are you sure?" he asked. But he'd already broken off a piece and popped it into his mouth. "Hopefully it'll all start coming together soon." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maxblinks 2010-06-24 02:50 am UTC (link)
	"Hope so. I think I'm going to try to pull something together, maybe tomorrow if I can figure out what I want to say. I mean, I guess someone's got to poke people and see if we can be coordinated, right?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timestoodstill 2010-06-24 02:58 am UTC (link)
	"And who better to poke than you?" Tom grinned. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maxblinks 2010-06-24 03:04 am UTC (link)
	"If people are going to dislike me anyway, I might as well give them reason, right?" Maxxie grinned back. Then she wrinkled her nose. "Is it totally odd that I'd actually rather live here than the dorms. It's not just that there are fewer people to not like, but most of them are harder to not like." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timestoodstill 2010-06-24 03:08 am UTC (link)
	"I don't think it's that weird," Tom said. "I mean, most of the people here are pretty cool, and more mature than a lot of the people in the dorm. For the most part, anyway. And they're more likely to leave you alone, too." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maxblinks 2010-06-24 03:23 am UTC (link)
	"And everyone's a little screwed up, in ways that are understandable. They're not all just... drunk." Maxxie scrunched her nose. "And noisy, and annoying. I actually like living here." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timestoodstill 2010-06-24 03:28 am UTC (link)
	"I'm glad," Tom said. "Maybe now you'll be less cranky all the time," he teased. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maxblinks 2010-06-24 03:38 am UTC (link)
	Maxxie rolled her eyes, although she was smiling. "Please, are you actually asking me to be nice? Isn't it enough that I'm test-driving words like like and friend?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timestoodstill 2010-06-24 03:45 am UTC (link)
	"All right, all right! Baby steps." He tossed a pillow at her. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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