Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:31 pm**

Nick was sitting under the shade of a tree, strumming some freestyle melodies on his acoustic guitar. Every now and then he stopped to write one down in his music notebook.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:37 pm**

Alexander stopped for a moment to listen and then asked with a humorous tone, "Is this the part where I'm supposed to shout 'Free Bird'?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:59 pm**

"Gee, I've never heard that one," he smirked.

"Besides, if we're going with Skynyrd, 'Simple Man' is the better song anyway."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:02 pm**

"I must admit to not being much of a Skynyrd fan. I only know the concept of shouting "Free Bird" is popular and they're where it started."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:07 pm**

"Yeah I'm not really one either, with the exception of maybe 'Simple Man'," he admitted.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:08 pm**

"Alexander Kokinos," he said, extending a hand in the rough direction of Nick.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:12 pm**

He shook Alexander's hand, finally noticing the cane. "Nick Varkan."

Eesh. That must suck.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:22 pm**

"Pleasure to meet you. I was just walking by and had to stop and listen."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:41 pm**

"No problem. If I didn't want an audience, I wouldn't be a music major."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:51 pm**

"Or sitting out in the Quad, I'd guess," he said, lowering himself to the ground.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:55 pm**

"Yeah, that too," he chuckled.

"Been here long?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:59 pm**

"Just a few days. Learning my way around the school before it becomes urgently necessary to be getting from one place to another in a timely manner."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:20 pm**

"Never a bad idea," he nodded. "Lord knows I got turned around a few times in there."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:22 pm**

"At least you don't have to worry about someone rearranging the hallway furniture on you," he said with a chuckle.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:39 pm**

"Dude... ow..." he winced sympathetically.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:42 pm**

"One reason I'm living in the campus apartments and not the dorms. I need a space I have complete control over."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:55 pm**

"Makes sense," he nodded. "Roommates are a bit too 'luck of the draw'."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:07 pm**

"Not that I'm opposed to a roommate, but I'd have to be able to trust them not to move my stuff or to at least put it back where it was if they had to move it."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:19 pm**

"Yeah, 'not a dick' is a big roommate qualification."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:25 pm**

"Had one roommate in Rome briefly that I had to threaten with rewriting his brain into pretty princess mode before he quit moving my stuff. He didn't stay long after that."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:28 pm**

"Awesome," he laughed.

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:33 pm**

"I did get a talking to for that one though. My telepathy tutor wasn't very happy with me."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:52 pm**

"Well yeah. Not a threat anyone should follow through on."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm**

"Yeah. I normally wouldn't have said anything of the sort, but it was just a last straw sort of situation."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:18 pm**

"You handled it better than I would have. I probably would have just decked the guy."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:24 pm**

"We all work with the options open to us."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:35 pm**

"Damn man," he chuckled, "That's the most Zen thing I've heard all month."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:37 pm**

"Zen does have it's appeal every now and then."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:54 pm**

"That it does," he said, "So, a telepath huh? The whole Teep Teek package or just the one?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:12 pm**

"Just the one unfortunately."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:15 pm**

"Just the other half here."

Posted: **Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:19 pm**

"At least we can focus on what it is we do," he chuckled.

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:27 pm**

"And do it better," he smirked.

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:29 pm**

"Some days. There's always a bigger fish though."

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:01 pm**

"Yeah, but they're old and lame," he joked.

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:16 pm**

"Some are, some aren't. Depends on the person, like most things in life. Like Miss McManus. She seems pretty cool."

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:36 pm**

"Yeah. She's cool," he said, "Already followed her to Hell and back once."

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:39 pm**

"Now there's bound to be a story there, unless you're the type to use that phrase lightly and you don't sound like you are."

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:53 pm**

"She recently disappeared into an alternate universe. A real fucked up one where pretty much everyone was evil. I went with the rescue team," he explained.

"...it was a miracle we all came back alive."

Posted: **Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:58 pm**

"Sounds like it," Alexander said. "Did everyone there have goatees?"

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