Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:44 am**

Callie heads into the bar in the evening, finally arriving after wandering around town for quite awhile. Sitting at the bar, she orders a beer and listens to the local band playing while she waits.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:39 am**

"Goddess, I need a drink," Victoria sighed, making a gesture to the bartender, who started mixing her a drink. "Time to drink away everything we learned this week..."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:44 am**

"Victoria?" Callie says, sounding surprised.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:00 am**

Victoria blinked, looking over. "Callie? Oh my goddess, what are you doing here?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:06 am**

Callie laughs, suddenly wrapping Victoria in a crushing bear hug, "I was just transferred here! Cheese and crackers, it's been forever!"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:13 am**

Victoria... blinked. "Who are you and why do you look like Callie Shaw."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:20 am**

"Shah," Callie corrects out of reflex, as she lets Victoria down. As the bartender sets down Victoria's drink, Callie puts some money on the counter and then hands it to Victoria, "I don't even know where to start. Machines were mice and men were lions, once upon a time. That sort of thing."

"C'mon," Callie says, picking up her beer, "Let's get a table and get caught up."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:31 am**

Oh. My. God. "I... all right," she said, letting herself get pulled along, seeming... rather off-balance for once. Idly, she pinched her arm to see if this wasn't just a weird dream.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:44 am**

Callie takes a seat in one of the booths, smiling at Victoria.

"God, it's been too long. How's it go? 'Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea?'" Callie says, "...Something like that. How have you been?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:48 am**

Victoria took a seat, opening her silver cigarette case. I think I liked her better when she was calling me a degenerate... "Oh, you know. A lot like boarding school went, just with more Sentinels and people trying to take over the world," she said. 'Idly,' she started drawing a design on the table in the condensation from her glass.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:53 am**

"That is absolutely amazing," Callie says, "Back in boarding school, I always kind of thought you'd end up knocked up or living with some psycho dude that thought he knew magic and owned a disturbing number of knives."

Callie shakes her head, "God, I was such a nasty, hypocritical bitch, right?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:10 am**

To her credit, Victoria didn't squeeze her glass hard enough to shatter it. "And back then I thought that you'd end up having an existential crisis over killing and maiming a bunch of your friends and spend years unloved enough that you'd start assuming that even people you were shitty to would be good company," she said, smiling sweetly before she took a sip of her drink. "Crazy, huh?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:16 am**

"Actually, it's pretty spot on," Callie says, sipping her beer, "I am glad to see you though. I know it's weird and we hate each other, but there it is."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:20 am**

"Well if you're going to take the fun out of it by copping to it," Victoria sighed, lighting the definitely-not-tobacco cigarette.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:25 am**

"Sorry. Six years of intensive therapy kind of covered up that sore spot," Callie says, leaning forward a bit, "But I promise to be emotionally devastated if you lend me one of those."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:35 am**

"Ohhhh, if you insist," Victoria said, smirking as she slid one of the cigarettes across the table. "So, how're your folks," she said, 'conversationally.'

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:37 am**

"Embarassed and absent," Callie says, tapping it down and then lighting it, She takes a deep breath and then coughs for a moment, "...How's yours?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:44 am**

"White-trashey and bigoted as ever. I think they were protesting someone's funeral last weekend. How about your old roommate... what was her name, Cindy? The one that swore up and down she was straight until every time she got drunk enough and ended up with her face between the closest set of legs?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:51 am**

"Dead. A good large chunk of wall separated her spinal cord from her brain," Callie says, "What about that one friend of yours? Ember? The girl with the piercings who spent the night with the Pre-Calc teacher?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:55 am**

"In a convent after she spent senior year being molested for cash and ended up too afraid of the world to face anyone in the general public again. How about... oh, which one of the twins was it that sent naked pictures of herself to the football team at the highschool up the road?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:58 am**

"Melissa," Callie says, "Died in a meth lab explosion with the coach of the same football team."

Callie took another deep hit from the cigarette, "I'm starting to think my therapist was right. I have a terrible, fucked up peer group."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:00 am**

"Mmm, like gravitates toward like," Victoria said, taking a long hit off her cigarette and serenely flipping off the bartender who was giving her a dirty look.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:04 am**

"Then we must be mirror images," Callie says, "'I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions..."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:06 am**

"...Except when someone has short hair and you tell the school counselor that she's a lesbian and tried to touch you inapropriately."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:11 am**

"Well, I don't know about the lesbian part, but she did touch you inappropriately," Callie says, "Along with about half the school, if I remember right."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:14 am**

"And you always were so cute when you felt left out."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:20 am**

"Awww, thank you," Callie says cheerfully, "You were always cutest with duct tape across your mouth."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:25 am**

"And you were always adorable when you were jammed between two naked wrestlers. Who may or may not have ended up being gay, you must have given SUCH a stellar performance..."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:30 am**

"What can I say?" Callie says, sitting back a bit, "I love bringing people together."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:31 am**

"Mmmm... oh, like the English teacher's husband? Was that you?"

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:36 am**

"You don't remember?" Callie says, "You were wasted."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:39 am**

"Mmm, what did that school get closed down for, anyway?" Victoria asked leaning across the table to tap out her cigarette in the ash tray.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:43 am**

"Mmm," Callie says, taking another drag, "Ethical violations and criminal endangerment."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:45 am**

"Called it, seventh grade," Victoria said, taking another drag and then putting the cigarette out. "Some things never change," I guess.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:48 am**

"And some things fill out rather nicely," Callie says.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:52 am**

"Mmm, you know without a bra on, it's even more obvious how much more it turns you on when you don't know if you want to slug someone or rip their shirt off."

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:54 am**

"And it also becomes obvious that no matter how much you despise me, you can''t stop staring at my tits," Callie says with a smirk.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:58 am**

"Well for goddess's sake, they're just so perky and squeezable and you're sticking them out right there. And it's not like your eyes have met mine for the last five minutes," Victoria said leaning back and stretching her arms over her head and apparently stretching out a cramp in her leg.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:05 am**

"Why on earth would I be looking at your eyes?" Callie says, settling more comfortably into the booth. Apparently cramps are contagious, because Callie also had to stretch out her leg a bit.

Posted: **Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:07 am**

"Don't you even touch me with those dirty barefoot toes," Victoria mused. "You know all about what happens when you don't worry about hygene, after all."

Issue 1 Downtime

Rose and Crown: I Too Am Not A Bit Tamed

Rose and Crown: I Too Am Not A Bit Tamed

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