[Day: Saturday, Oct. 21st. Time: 2:00 A.M.] [You are at the office, having retrieved Mikaela! Everyone else has left for the night. It's just you two-and-a-half, though Miranda's bar is open downstairs. Given that you've just come back from Coventry, Mikaela's still only wearing a black leotard. It's a cold night, too. Cold enough to see your breath, but she doesn't seem to care. Wonder why.] (Was figuring I was getting brackets. ^^;) (Aha!) ( That get through? ) (Yep.) (It did) ( Ok then. ) [I think that's all the details, so Session Start!] [Or mini, technically.] * Lukas lets out a little breath and then glances over to 'Kaela. "So, uh." Beat. "You wanna head to my place and rest, or you want to find a place to talk or what?" [Mikaela shakes her head. "I don't know... Anything's fine, I guess."] * Ten stands there and looks cute in her wizard robe while the big people make up their minds. Alys was nice enough to give her back, so here she is. * Lukas chuckles and reaches over to grab Ten. "Jesus, you are fried." Beat, then, "Unless you want to go to Togo's freak bar, I don't have anything for... yanno." He gestures at her face. Blue blue! [She nods, sadly. "It's probably not a good idea."] It's like, five whole seconds after two in the morning! Who's gonna be around? ["The bartender, for one."] Well, yeah. * Lukas opens his mouth to say exactly what Mikaela just did and smirks, instea going "Yeah, Ten." Beat. "Unless you've got a place because of your job, let's head home. Shit, I don't even know what happened to make you send that e-mail, 'kaela." ( Which log is said e-mail in, again? ^^; ) [Mikaela shudders. "It was... something I wish I could forget."] (mchvta34.) ["But I guess I'm pretty lucky, compared to the rest of my team."] * Lukas is quiet, then heads out and towards his bike. "Guess that one bitch wasn't all smoke." You got all kidnapped by the elves and cloned and you're the lucky one? Wow, that musta've been reeeeaal bad. (Was the cloned thing established or just Ten's likely guess?) (Not confirmed, but we know they were making clones.) (Nod. I thought it was a guess, but.) [She nods. "I survived. I'm still hu-" she pauses, then decides instead to end with, "as human as I was."] * Lukas shakes his head as he gets to his bike and picks up his helmet. "God, don't joke about that. They didn't actually get a clone out of you...?" ["I don't know. They could have, but if they did I couldn't recall it. I was drugged up most of the time."] So not cool. But you're back now! * Lukas closes his eyes for a moment, not responding, then just puts on his helmet and pulls out a heavy blanket from the bike. "Here, use this." A weak smile. "My cold resistance still isn't a match for you." [She shakes her head. "Thanks, but I'm fine. The cold doesn't bother me anymore."] (Error. It's that she's colder than he can stand.) (Yeah.) ( Ooooh. Retcon >.> ) [She takes the blanket and wraps it around herself.] (Permanent 20 damage low penetration aura, even if she's trying not to touch him, is gonna be a pain. ^^;) * Lukas nods and puts Ten in da box. After she's in Lukas asks quietly, "How... long did they have you?" ["I'm not sure. What's today's date?"] Oh, the twent...y-first, now. (Mikaela wearing the helmet?) ( I thought Lukas was. ) (Nah, I am.) (It's just not a medival helmet.) (Okay, then she can't hear Ten speaking!) (Yep!) [She frowns. "Three days."] ["God, there's no chance they survived." She casts her eyes downward.] * Lukas nods slightly, is silent a moment, then and thumps down on the bike. "Hop on. I'll find you something to drink at home." [She nods, and sits down in the sidecar.] (No sidecar. Back seatness.) (That's why he gave her the blanket. ^_~) ( Ah. ) [She nods, and sits down behind Lukas.] * Lukas shivers slightly, then cranks the throttle and rides! Rides home. [You go home! This is where Lukas gets to describe!] [No sooner do you get there than Mikaela is scouted as the next famous pop idol and she leaves you for a life of glamor.] [Or maybe not.] * Lukas pulls up to a boring block of flats and parks his bike in the lot before heading up (and taking Ten with him!) He's silent for the awkward moment [Mikaela is, too.] * Brett finally says, "Maki and Demetrius might have avoided capture. I don't know."] ( Erm ) ( Mikaela says that. ) ( Although it is true that I haven't decided yet. ) (Either of those names familiar?) ( Aside from being mentioned in her e-mail, nope! ) * Lukas gets up to his apartment and unlocks. And okay, so it's a mess of electrical and mechanical stuff, including obvious Tenparts, as well as computers. There's a couch and a TV too. And nobody'd want to cook in that kitchen what with all that stuff on it. Who knows what Ten's done to it! (I don't have a cooking bod installed!) (er mod) ( Your bod isn't that great for it either, though. ) (Indeed.) (true) * Lukas lowers his backpack to the ground and runs his hand back over his head. "Coffe? Alcohol? Irish Coffee?" [Mikaela looks around, with interest. "Coffee."] * Lukas chuckles and heads to the SUPERCOFFEEOMATIC, putting Ten down on a random spot as he does. "You sure you don't want a little kick in it? God, I do." * Ten gets put down on the table, which she quickly shimmies down and runs across the carpet to her closet. "I'm gonna go change outta this!" [She shakes her head. "I can't afford to. I need to head back to Paris tomorrow, as soon as possible."] * Lukas nods slightly. "Your memory doing better, at least?" Beat. "The mail was... scary, 'kaela. Fucking scary." [She nods. "I'm sorry for dragging you into it. I didn't want to, but I was so messed up, I literally couldn't think of anyone else to turn to." She blushes, "Well, except the Great White Panda."] * Lukas shakes his head, "No, don't worry about it. I can't do much for you, 'kaela, most of the time..." he trails off, "... Great White Panda?" ["A giant panda who would have somehow solved all my problems, if only he was real."] [She taps her temple. "Messed up in the head."] * Ten returns in a teeny pinstripe suite, compleate with fedora, wingtip shoes and a viola case. "You know a crazy talking giant panada?" * Lukas is silent just long enough to seem surprised, then, "Ah, yeah, I got that." Beat, then he pulls the coffee off and pours some cups. "Anyway, 'Kaela, I'm..." he looks down at Ten. "No, she doesn't know a giant talking panda." Aww, that woulda been awesome. [She shakes her head. "I was stupid about it, too. They caught me at the airport easily. Wasn't as careful as I'd been trained to be."] * Lukas shrugs and hands Mikaela the cup. It's ceramic! "Yeah, well... seems to be going around. I shouldn't have been tagged by that ice bitch, I was just... yeah." He takes a sip. [Mikaela takes a sip, too. "Elsa Cruz... That was my fault. They found my e-mail and knew I'd been talking to someone. Sorry."] * Lukas quirks his head. "Jesus, you're apologizing like it's going out of style, 'Kaela. Weren't you killing deer with your bare hands a few months ago?" [She looks down into her cup. "Deer don't make tentacles sprout from your forehead if you can't kill them."] Yeah, and they don't turn you into 14 year old boys either. * Ten makes a face. "Ewww." * Lukas smirks. "Jesus, I thought our lives were fucked up before." But getting turned human was awesome! Except for that whole pain thing, but still awesome! [She shakes her head. "I know you don't want to hear the whole 'you don't know how dangerous it is' speech, but promise me you'll be careful. These things aren't human. And because of me, they might be after you now."] * Lukas runs his hand back through his hair again. "They'd be after us anyway. I think everyone's fucking pissed at us now." Beat. "God, and then there's getting made, and all our powers being down. It's a bad time to be us." [She blinks a few times. "I didn't know things had gotten so bad for you while I was out."] Soooo, like, is it time to dig out the fake IDs and move to South America again? That'd kinda suck. I mean Alys an Ashley an sometimes Herman's kinda cool you know? I.R.L. stuffs kinda hard to come by, you know? [Mikaela nods, whether that was addressed to her or not.] * Lukas glances to Ten, then sighs slightly. "I know, Ten. It's not like they have any real ties to you, just me. I need time." Then he looks to 'Kaela. "It's been shitty. Kidnappings and power loss and more. Probably not as bad as being conscripted for knighthood, though, huh?" A weak laugh. [Mikaela pauses mid-sip. She finishes, frowning and glances to the side. "I guess it's pretty foolish to think I could have been a knight, huh?"] * Lukas 's weak laugh stops and he looks at her. "What? No, but--wait, you... wanted to?" But, like, the kidnapped and drugged and who knows to you! That's bad right? [She looks down in shame. "It was Asahara that did that. They spared me from experimentation because the faerie queen decided she liked me."] * Lukas is silent a moment, then laughs. "God, right. Of course, I try to do something right and I fuck it up." Beat. "Of course you coulda been a knight, Mikaela, but... do you really wanna work with things like that?" That are on Asahara's side? * Ten nodnods. [She shakes her head. "Of course not. But... I could touch them without killing them. The fae, I mean."] ["And Mab did save me."] * Lukas is silent a moment, then, "Oh. I... I get that." Beat. "God, now I do feel stupid. But it's not like I could ask. Apparently even blinking is instant fuckiong death there." [She shakes her head. "You couldn't have known. It's not like I had time to tell you. And besides, it's probably better this way." She doesn't sound so certain, though.] Like, maybe we could send you back? We can still get to that mirror. I can't. I've got to contact HESO. ( [" "] ) Ooooh, right.... You can do it after! * Lukas shakes his head. "No--I mean, it's not..." he trails off, then, "It'll get better, sis." ["I wish it would. I'm so tired of being alone." She sips her coffee again. "Sometimes I think it would have been best if I never came back to civilization."] * Lukas mms and takes a sip himself. "I sorta know the feeling." Beat. "Look, I know I'm not... I'm still here for you, 'Kaela. Seriously. Use the secure system and e-mail more." [She nods. "I know. I'm counting on it."] * Lukas nods. "Or call. Or something. And if I can get Herman to figure out how to do some sort of shielding..." he trails off. "I'll be looking, now that I'm in this business." An, an, like. We could totaly rig up some artic gear for me and then I could touch you without everything iceing up and not working! [Mikaela nods. "Okay." She's given up on the coffee; it's cold already. "In the meantime... at least I'm not the only freak in HESO. I can do some good there."] * Lukas nods and chuckles a little. "Yeah." A faint smirk. "I guess I was so used to you being the big older sister I missed how this life is a fucking pain. Maybe you can go back to law school real quick." ["Maybe."] * Lukas hands Mikaela his coffee. "Here, trade ya." [She smiles and makes the trade. "Thanks." Lukas loses hot coffee.] * Lukas gains cold coffee and says with a faint smirk, "I do cold coffee all the time." He takes a drink and makes a funny face. "Okay, so it's still cold coffee, but... anyway." * Ten giggles. [Mikaela smiles. "I'll buy you an ice cream next time I'm in London."] (Snicker. And here's where we set up the Spirit Link!) ["That's one nice thing about summer. My ice cream doesn't melt."] (If only Lukas knew about it, which I can never remember if he DOES.) ( I more or less did away with that. ) (Aww.) (I liked it as a concept.) (So Alys doesn't get one with the chibinecromancer) * Lukas laughs a little. "Hey, find the bright side of shit and all." [She laughs. "I do what I can."] (I thought it was neat. But it requires, uh, more NPCs.) Oooh! I didn't get to try icecream. I bet it's good! (And the PCs knowing to do it.) ["And cool drinks.... I can buy milk on a hot summer's day and not have to worry about it spoiling."] Yep! * Lukas nods a little and takes another drink of cold coffee. "Yeah." Beat. "I'll get my bed ready so you can rest up. Feel free to gossip about me while I'm not looking." He says the last with a faint smirk and then heads towards his bedroom. Kaaay! [Mikaela laughs, then turns to Ten. "So, how've you been, Ten? Lukas talks about you a lot."] I'm awesome, kinda broken right now, but I'm so awesome! An an an I've got I.R.L. friends now! I mean besideds you an Lukas and that's awesomer than awesome! [She nods. "Good. I'm glad to hear that."] Uh-huh! And we've been all kindsa awesome stuff, an it's different kindsa awesome than we usualy do 'cause usualy everything we do's inside the computer untill the last bit, an now it's the other way around. Which is kinda weird, but we don't get any advance warnging on jobs anymore so we've gotta make it up when we get there and we're still gettin everything done! [She nods. "We've got a computer guy at HESO you should meet. All he talks about is computers. Way over my head, but you might be able to understand what he's talking about."] Oh, cool! What's his handle? Huh? Huh? It's not lame like Lukas's is it? (;_;) (Shush you, you know know it sucks.) ["It's worse." Mikaela tries to maintain a straight face. "Darkchaosinator. All one word."] (IT does not suck!) (It's succinct yet personal!) (It's a unit of mesurment that's been part of ever electric villians' name ever!) (That's their fault! They suck!) (Also, has Ten ever heard of him?) (Yeah, but the suck has rubbed off on the word!0 (Hmph.) ( She's probably seen the name around once or twice, but not really. ) * Ten tilts her head for a second while she accesses old memory. "Ahh, I saw him onna security forum once!" * Lukas comes out of the bedroom and looks at the two of them. "Okay, whenever you're ready to collapse, big girl." He licks his lips and then rubs his face. "God, we should make up a prayer to Hod or something, just for kicks. 'Try not to make our lives shit today, thanks. [Mikaela shrugs. "It's all greek to me."] (Add a '" and shift it after!) [Mikaela nods to Lukas, yawning. "Wow, I am pretty tired. And I don't think he'd care. He hasn't so far."] * Lukas chuckles darkly, "Yeah, I know, but it's nice to imagine a day where you don't drop something on your foot." Beat. "Go ahead and crash, 'Kaela. I think I'm gonna too. Having your sister kidnapped... not great for sleeping." ["I'll try not to let it happen again, then."] Yay! No more panicking about that and running all over and havin Ashley yell at us! * Lukas snorts. "Hey, don't do that on my account. Do it on yours." ["Right. Needing a rescue's not my style, anyhow."] * Lukas smirks. "There's my big sis." He walks over, grits his teeth, and puts his left hand on her shoulder for a moment. He sucks in a hissing breath as the arctic chill runs through him before saying, "Night, 'Kaela." [Mikaela instinctively jerks away as soon as she's touched. She looks at Lukas awkwardly. "N-Night."] ( End? ) G'night! I've got raids to do! * Lukas smiles weakly. "You got it worse than I do, Mikaela. Least I can do is ease the pain a little. You know I'm dumb like that." He rubs his hand. "See ya in the morning." [End!]