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fjordicswagger) wrote2016-07-06 04:34 am
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An Irish Pub in Baltimore, Tuesday Night
Okay, so sue Tamsin, sometimes she liked to be reminded of home. Specifically, to be reminded of the Dal, with that wonderful vibe of a-bar-fight-could-break-out-at-any-minute coupled with our-drinks-can-probably-kill-you-if-you're-not-careful.
This place fit the bill. More or less.
She'd gotten sucked in here for dinner, wound up in an arm-wrestling match with someone shortly thereafter, and somewhere in between, she'd texted Jessica to meet her here.
At least beating that big burly dude at arm-wrestling had done wonders for her mood.
[[ for jessica! ]]
This place fit the bill. More or less.
She'd gotten sucked in here for dinner, wound up in an arm-wrestling match with someone shortly thereafter, and somewhere in between, she'd texted Jessica to meet her here.
At least beating that big burly dude at arm-wrestling had done wonders for her mood.
[[ for jessica! ]]
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She nodded at Jessica. "So what's your drink tonight?"
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"So make like a Smurf," she said, immediately proving the narrative's point. "But without the little white hat."
She waved the bartender off. "... Though I guess I just cheated us out of finding out if he has little white umbrellas tucked away," she mused.
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She took a sip from her own drink - Bloody Mary, of course, so it went through a straw - and looked at Jessica. "Smurfs aside," she said, "How've you been?"
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Yeah, Tamsin, she was saying you were better than not going insane. So sweet!
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"So I rank above nerdy life-and-death stuff," Tamsin parsed, sipping her drink. "I'll take it."
There was a lot of nerdy life-and-death stuff at Stark's.
"Do you even find time for a hobby with that stuff going on?" Half-joking.
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So, in other words, no.
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She waved vaguely at the dart board.
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"How about you? You have to be able to beat me when it comes to doing stuff in your free time."
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Though sadly, this version of Tamsin had never gotten to knock-out punch a werewolf. Woe.
"Mostly I come home after work, grab a beer, and watch that bad TV you mentioned," she said wryly, dropping some of the attitude. "Super exciting."
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Said the 20 year old. Who had only actually existed for like five years.
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"Yeah, I only get killed about every century or so," Tamsin said, which sounded distinctly like a joke but wasn't. (She was banking on it sounding like a joke, anyway.) "How did you get into all that stuff?"
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No, she wasn't. Of course not.
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"We actually kind of had our act together as a world before everything literally blew up."
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"I'm great at time management."
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Which Tamsin appreciated, even if she wasn't terribly great at saying so.
"Have you ever thought about doing something else?"
Damn it, she was actually curious.
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"I have the strength, the training, the intelligence... I have the legacy of truly great people on my shoulders. I'm not saying any of that to brag, not out of ego. I'm saying that so you get a picture of the kind of responsibility I feel. And I'm strong enough to bear that responsibility. I refuse to let that go to waste," Jessica said. "So, no. I do what I have to do. I'm doing it on a smaller scale than I have in the past, but I'm doing it."
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"So that's how career good guys are born," she said. "Cute."
That would've sounded more sarcastic if she hadn't sounded so subdued about it. Stupid guilt.
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Well, that was technically accurate.
"Most of my family growing up were military. Nurses or soldiers," she said. "So I went into service. Military first, then private sector." Which, again, was at least an accurate if misleading way of summing up the past over-a-thousand-years. "When I got the opportunity to join the police force, it just seemed more useful, I guess."
Somewhat to her. Mostly to the Morrigan.
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She took a sip of her drink. "I don't hate all people, by the way," she said. "My p-- family is just not very huggy awww-emotional. Tough love."
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