I13DT - Can't Avoid Paperwork
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:43 amRowena was sitting crosslegged on the floor of the common room, papers spread before her as she filled out some official looking paperwork.
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I13DT - Can't Avoid Paperwork
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:43 amRe: I13DT - Can't Avoid Paperwork
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 11:53 amRyan came in, apparently after having gone ten rounds with (one would assume) the danger room. He flopped himself onto a couch with a wince, settling himself to accommodate sore body parts in relative comfort.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 11:55 am"Beaten up by high schoolers?" She asked, glancing at him. "I hear they're a rough bunch."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 12:03 pmRyan looked over at her with a pained, though amused, smile. "Ha. That'd be nice, at least then I'd know they were learning something from me."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 12:10 pm"I'd wager they're learning things, but it isn't cool to let you know it since..." She put on an 'teenager' voice, "... you're not, like, cool and stuff." She returned to her normal tone, "So unless Maldon has suddenly had a rash of superpowered street muggings, I'd have to guess that the Danger Room did this to you."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 5:07 pmRyan thought back on the last day of training for a moment. "Yeah, let's go with that," he said.
"How about you? That doesn't look like homework there."
"How about you? That doesn't look like homework there."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 5:14 pmShe tapped the piles in order, "Transfer papers, internship credit papers, passport renewal..." She looked at the last pile. "I've forgotten what this one is for."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 5:17 pmRyan made a face. "And one more time, I'm glad that I get to skip that," he admitted. "Give me a Sentinel any day, just skip the buerocracy."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 5:20 pm"Have yet to bump into a Sentinel. Dealt more with natural disasters."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 5:24 pm"Sadly I'm not all that useful in a natural disaster," Ryan admitted. "Well, maybe. The labs keep ordering more tests on pseudo-healing possibiliti- oh shit, I am dealing with bureaucracy," Ryan sighed, rubbing his forehead at the realization.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 5:26 pm"You can't escape it. It's everywhere."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 5:33 pm"It was a happy delusion while it lasted," Ryan chuckled.
"So how long have you been back in the country?" he asked, shifting a little onto his back.
"So how long have you been back in the country?" he asked, shifting a little onto his back.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 5:34 pm"A little over a week. Spent some time with my parents before coming here."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 8:29 pm"And what do they think of all this?" Ryan asked, sitting up for the conversation. And not at all to minimize the 'looking hurt and incapable' in front of a girl.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 8:33 pm"They're happy I'm not gallivanting around the world, sorting through collapsed buildings. And that I'm finally getting my education underway."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 8:39 pm"Wow, that sounds... really familiar," Ryan chuckled.
"And I'm really late doing this, yes... but hi. I'm Ryan," he added, offering his hand.
"And I'm really late doing this, yes... but hi. I'm Ryan," he added, offering his hand.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 8:49 pm"Rowena Mohsen," she said, extending her hand through his with a grind before actually giving him a proper handshake.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:32 pmRyan blinked, then grinned. "Show-off," he said, approvingly, giving her hand just enough of an energy charge to make it tingle a little as he shook her hand.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:36 pm"Takes one to know one apparently."
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:40 pm"I've never claimed not to be," Ryan said with a grin and a shrug.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:42 pm"Oh, I'm at least peripherally aware of the much sighed over Ryan Gabriel," she grinned.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:46 pm"Well, when being a show-off pays the bills, you get used to being a show-off," he chuckled, shrugging in slight embarassment.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:50 pm"Hey, whatever pays for the day-to-day. Within reason of course."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 5:47 am"While still maintaining self respect. Or some impression of self respect."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 7:33 am"Some people cover a multitude of sins with 'self-respect', but it's as good a measure as any."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 7:36 am"Are we venturing into a morality discussion now? I'm fine with it, but we can dodge back into safe, idle banter, too," Ryan chuckled.
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 7:47 am"Sorry. Morality discussion happens a lot around my house. My parents always wanted us to think through our beliefs. I'm good with idle banter."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 8:01 am"I'm kind of used to it. Put your life on display and people like to go on about what a sinner you are. Just wasn't sure if that was aimed vaguely at me or at the world in general."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 8:59 am"World in general. I'm in no position to judge other individuals especially ones I don't know well personally."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 9:48 amNot trying to 'save' me, good. Those are always awkward. "My experience is that the ones who say they can't judge tend to do the best job of it," Ryan countered.
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 10:30 am"As my father used to say when my mother wasn't in ear shot, 'Make sure you have your own shit shoveled before you start trying to help other people shovel theirs'. Although he said it in Farsi."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 10:48 am"Although arguably, practice at shoveling a lot of your own shit would make you really good at it to help other people!" He probably wasn't serious.
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 10:53 am"Yeah, but it seems like there's always more of my own to shovel," she said with a laugh. "I think that is his point."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:05 am"Heh... Keep saying things like that and I'm not going to believe that you just got here," Ryan chuckled.
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:07 am"I've been working with X-Corp since high school. I can't imagine their culture is that different from the school's, at least not where the field teams are concerned."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:08 am"The difference being that X-Corp goes to the problems. The problems come to us here."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:09 am"Well, I'm only a reservist here," she said. "At least until I get used to being in school again."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:14 am"It's cute that you think that means you'll avoid the messes."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:16 am"Well, now I have to write on my Facebook page that Ryan Gabriel thinks I'm cute. I'll get all sorts of death threats."
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:33 am"Now come on. I didn't say that. If I say that ten minutes after I meet a girl, she stops taking me seriously," Ryan teased.