Building a family [hella open]

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

 Slobo had been puttering around the ship for an hour, thinking and looking. He quickly found that if you looked hard enough, between W&P and the City itself, you could find anything. In the end, he was standing outside a Courtyard by Marriott hotel about a click outside of "Escherville" with spraypaint and a very large block of stone. At first he had thought about the Vatican, but it was too wrecked from the zombie fight. Plus, this place had an indoor pool. He spraypainted a large message on the wall next to the door, red with black outline.

"OUTSIDERS
COMMUNITY SERVICE
FIELD TRAINING

PEER COUNSELING" 

 

On the sandwich board tucked near the door, he wrote "12-21? Info and Tryouts inside" and left it out in front. Now, he took his large rock into the lobby and began carving. And waited.
 

 

 

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[grayaura.livejournal.com]

The knife which Mai had been twirling idly in her hand, went still, Mai's hand clenched around the hilt. Her eyes flashed dangerously for a moment, although the only evidence of anger in her face and frame was a slight tensing of her body and the slight down-turn of her lips, "I said I don't train people."

She glanced up at him, fixing him with a glare, "And I made the shot, so that question is pointless. By the way..."

Her wrist flicked, the knife spinning out of her hand, heading straight for Static's coffee cup.

"...don't try to emotionally black mail me ever again."

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

Slobo stepped in between them.

"All right, so she don't train folks." He looked at her. "Ya still up fer exercisin' with us?" He turned to Static and began mouthing words at him.

Smooooooooooooth one, Shocky.

[static-shock68.livejournal.com]

He jumped back a little as the cup shattered and got coffee everywhere. But still, Static smiled as he wiped his hands off on his plansuit. The coffee was hot, but he was going for the grain-and-deal approach.

"That wasn't emotional blackmail. That was just a hypothesis. My point still stands, having more people with abilities like yours would be a good thing. But, I won't force you to train anyone. Hell, I won't force you to do anything, interest of the crew or not." He stood up and walked back behind the wall again to get an all-new, probably-still-hot coffee.

"Welcome to the team, by the way."

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

Mai eyed Static with an expression of vague distaste. Call it what he wants, she hated having her emotions and feelings for Zuko being used to manipulate her, "Whatever you say."

Her gaze flickered back to Slobo, "Sure. I can do that."

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Cool." He began to walk to the statue, then turned around again. "And uh... yer buddy... Zuko... Ya think he might wanna hang? If somethin' goes down, I could see his skills bein' useful."

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

"He's my boyfriend," she responded curtly, "And I'll ask but I'm not going to try and convince him for you."

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Fair enough, askin'll be fine, I can do my own pitch if I gotta." Just don't knife Static, please, Slobo thought.

"Just if he's interested, it might be good. He seems like he needs a place to hang an' unwind as much as the rest of us."