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Carrick McClennithan is the bringer of storms (theseainsideme) wrote in we_float,
@ 2010-05-17 16:36:00

Current music:	'Life During Wartime' - Talking Heads
Entry tags:	character: alistair icenhour, character: tereska wasserbach

We dress like students, we dress like housewives or in a suit and a tie
Who: Alistair Icenhour and Tereska Wasserbach
When: late in the day Monday, May 17, 2096
Where: Senate Offices of Katherine Athena
What: Alistair and Tereska discuss recent events
Status: Closed, Incomplete

Alistair had an open door policy meaning that when his door was open, anyone could come in. If it was closed, you'd better either have an appointment or a phenomenal emergency. It was open now as he sat at his desk and read the first pass of an appropriations bill; it didn't require much in the way of focus to parse through.

He looked at his bottle of water and sighed - it was nearly empty and he was lazily putting off getting up and walking the fifteen steps to the filter tank. Mondays seem to always be this way even if weekends had lost their meaning. There was just something tiring and draining about a Monday. If he didn't have three interns to drive into the ground, he'd have gone home an hour ago.

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tasteofmetal
2010-05-19 12:07 am UTC (link)

Tereska simply gave him a very old-fashioned look. She knew, even if he didn't, that whoever the responsibility was supposed to belong to, it was going to wind up Alistair's.

After a moment, she added "It's not fouling my plans. She's not likely to visit them, therefore there's no security risk there, and so far they haven't come to see her in a group. If they do," she said abruptly, "I expect she'll be busy." It wasn't quite a question, but that kind of thing never had to be, not when Katherine had a manager like Alistair. She didn't expect that either of them wanted the recruits to have access to the Senator.

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theseainsideme
2010-05-20 03:51 am UTC (link)

He caught the drift and seemed to shrug without moving a muscle. "I can only ensure so much." People weren't so much controlled in his world but nudged. You adjusted the course of things, the people, the narrative until they aligned. Nudging Katherine was a problem - not because the action was difficult, but because the ripples of effect were so much more pronounced. It was easier to respond to her actions than to try and influence them.

Most of the time, at least. Alistair was good at picking his moments.

"I'll know more once they aggregate."

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tasteofmetal
2010-05-20 06:41 pm UTC (link)

"I'd think that between us we can assure quite a lot," she pointed out. "Is there a designated point of contact in this office with them?" She didn't expect there to be - that sort of thing threw deniability out the window - but at the same time, Katherine had given them all contact information for her, and if she didn't respond to that, they were likely, in Tereska's opinion, to simply start showing up uninvited.

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theseainsideme
2010-05-21 12:19 am UTC (link)

He gave her a look that screamed 'you should know better than that,' but then Alistair added, "It's taken care of." He didn't feel the need to elaborate on that point, but he was sure that with the voicemail password in his possession, he could stave off any embarrassing situations that she might find herself involved in due to her band of merry Wild Cards.

"Anyone in particular give you concern?" he inquired.

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