http://el-escarabajo.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trans_92009-10-08 09:44 pm

The Call

Jaime Reyes voice sounds over the comm-rings--all of them--and it sounds very urgent.

« Everyone on the ship, listen up! This is Jaime Reyes, your local 'Blowing this pop stand' coordinator and escape facilitation engineer. I need everyone on the ship to come to the City, in front of the Precinct, immediately. Grab people who don't have their comm rings with them--and tell them to grab their comm rings, people who are sleeping, whoever you find, and try to make sure everyone on the ship knows to come. This is very important. This is "getting the heck out of here" important. »

When they arrive, they arrive to find the Command Staff waiting, and a tiny, tiny young man standing on stone ledge from a fountain, waiting for them.

Here goes nothing.
birthmural: (smile)

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[personal profile] birthmural 2009-10-09 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Daimon had not known what to expect from her, but it was certainly not that.

He gingerly touched the hand over his cheek.

He wanted to tell her that for so much of his life, he had been alone. There was a wall between himself and others, even in his so called friendships. Others had tried to break them down, Linda, Saripha, Father Gossett, he struggled against all of them

Yet when he spoke to Patsy Walker, for perhaps the first time, he found that he wanted destroy the barrier between them. He wanted to reach out to her.

But how could say such a thing? She would think him a fool.

"I am honored to have your company. You are a remarkable woman."

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[identity profile] patsy-walker.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
As much as she might have wanted to tear her eyes away from his and break the intensity of the gaze, she found herself unable to. She did lower the hand, although she didn't loose grip of Daimon's hand in the process. It felt...comforting.

"I'm just a woman trying to do the right thing, Daimon. There's not a lot that's remarkable or amazing about that." And yet, when he said those words, she believed it. The way he looked at her made her feel as though she could do almost anything. "You hold me in such high regard, and I don't know that I'll ever be able to actually embody the woman you see me as."
birthmural: (smile)

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[personal profile] birthmural 2009-10-09 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Daimon smiled and did not pull away his hand from Patsy's.

"I see you as you are, Patsy Walker. In time, you will see as well."

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[identity profile] patsy-walker.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Patsy found herself speechless at that.

And very, very humbled.

And confused.

What was it about Daimon that pulled her towards him so much when, by all rights, she should've been running screaming in the opposite direction. It's not that he was dangerous - Patsy knew full well that he was, and there was nothing charming about it. It was something far deeper than that, and she couldn't wrap her mind around what it quite was.

"I hope that, one day, I can return whatever it is you feel for me, Daimon. I don't know when or if I'll ever be able to, but I hope I will. Because it's very clear how you feel about me, and I feel terrible for not being able to reciprocate right away."
birthmural: (Default)

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[personal profile] birthmural 2009-10-09 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
The small smile left Daimon's face and he slipped his hand out of Patsy's.

"Do not be sorry. It is my fate to be apart from others. I shall treasure whatever time we spend together, even if it be as friends."

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[identity profile] patsy-walker.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Patsy furrowed her brow and thought hard for a moment. Somewhere, she'd said something wrong, because that wasn't quite the reaction she'd been hoping for. "What I'm trying to say is that...I want to get to know you better. And, you know...see what happens. I know the circumstances aren't ideal, and for you this is some weird kind of deja do over, but I'm drawn to you in a way that I don't fully understand, and I honestly don't even care, because you're the only person here who I feel safe and protected around, and I know that sounds something stupid and hackneyed and like I'm some lame damsel in distress from the 1950's, but I kind of can't help it because with you at my back, I almost feel like I could do the most difficult thing and still come out on top and then there's that way you look at me with that intensity - see you're doing it right now too - and it makes me all wobbly in the knees even while it makes me wonder what it is that you know that I don't, and if I'm supposed to be with you, it doesn't really matter if it's here or back home does it?"
birthmural: (lust)

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[personal profile] birthmural 2009-10-09 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)


"As you wish."

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[identity profile] patsy-walker.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Patsy chuckled. "Only if it's what you want too. It can't just be as I wish, Daimon. That seems a little unfair. But it's what I would like, yes. That's not to say that I wouldn't respect your opinion, though, whatever your opinion may be."
birthmural: (smile)

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[personal profile] birthmural 2009-10-09 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The corners of Daimon's lips turned up in an ever so slight smile.

"I would like to get to know you better as well, regardless of having what you might call a 'headstart.'"

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[identity profile] patsy-walker.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then after whatever's about to happen is over, I'd like to ask you to join me for fake coffee in the Sensoriums one day. My, uh, treat," she said, matching his smile with a brighter one.
birthmural: (smile)

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[personal profile] birthmural 2009-10-09 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Daimon would have mentioned his natural distrust of the Sensoriums and his wish to spend as little time in there as possible unless it involved fighting demons that were entirely illusions.

He would but he "forgot" all about it.

"I would like that very much."

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[identity profile] patsy-walker.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Great!" Patsy exclaimed, squeezing his hand and kissing him quickly on the cheek. She brought her mask up to tug it over her face but paused and grinned impishly at Daimon. "And about that thing I overheard earlier? Don't worry about it. I promise to be extremely gentle," she winked.