chicago ♔ something wrong | with all the plans of my life

[rationalizes]

♬ Killing Loneliness - HIM

WHO || Failboat + Burt [Closed]
WHAT || Various and sundry post-funeral shenanigans
WHERE || Chicago, IL
WHEN || July 6, evening.
HOW || Actionspam

[ This log will cover all events that take place between the funeral and the NOVA Record break-in two nights later, that weren't hit on during the live session. Feel free to make your own threads! ]

Comments

[graveflowers]

[omg gentleman.] Good. 'cause I'm pretty sure I need you on Team Don't Let Vi Make Bad Life Choices. [She pauses just over the threshold.] Are you coming up or are you gonna hang here for a little while longer?

[nothingsodivine]

Eh, I'm done brooding about my car for awhile. [He blows a lock of his fluffy hair out of his face.] We'll see how it goes when I see Tex again.

[graveflowers]

I was about to say I couldn't believe she'd murder your car with a truck but then I remembered we're pretty much talking about John McClane. [Which Vi likes about her, honestly, but she can see why it would get... bothersome. Especially if it was your car being slaughtered.]

[nothingsodivine]

Exactly. I don't consider her incapable of any kind of meaningless destruction.

[KAT SAMCELOT: HUMAN DISASTER.]

[graveflowers]

Did it work, whatever she was trying to achieve?

[nothingsodivine]

Dunno. I only got "there was a giant worm and they needed help" out of her explanation. They're not worm chow, so I guess it worked.

[graveflowers]

[Her dumbfounded expression. Is so nonplussed and bemused. What the actual fuck happened in that graveyard?] Giant... worm... okay.

[nothingsodivine]

You think that was bad? We got a doppelganger. And a dame with claws. [He mimes slashing with his hands.]

[graveflowers]

[STILL DUMBFOUNDED. Though the claws don't seem to bother her because she just shrugs.] Doppelwhater? Isn't that the weather thing?

[Uh-huh, she means the Doppler Rader. Wee lamb.]

[nothingsodivine]

Doppelganger. Shapeshifter. Ask Spike about it. It's a real riot watching the faces he makes.

[graveflowers]

Will do. [Reality? Probably not.] With a camera for posterity.

[nothingsodivine]

[In a mock British accent.] It took his face, Vi.

[graveflowers]

[She snickers.] Did he need a fainting couch?

[nothingsodivine]

No, he just wanted to chase it down and tear it apart like a good little attack dog. Myri talked him down.

[graveflowers]

That's the route he took? I would have picked a different path but, hey, I'm super at bad plans.

[nothingsodivine]

On one hand, I don't blame him. On the other, we were pretty much boned either way. Covert ops ain't this team's style. Especially when the worst member of the team is a covert operative.

[graveflowers]

I don't think we could even attempt covert considering part of the mission was shoving Finnick into stardom. [She shrugs like what are y'gonna do? and grabs an apple from the basket on the reception desk.]

[nothingsodivine]

I could. I talked myself out of getting arrested. I can bullshit my way out of anything. [He shrugs, grabbing an apple as well, because, hey, food. He chomps down on it and speaks with half his mouth full.] But I ain't a part of this team. Fluffy and I are just caught up in this mess.

[graveflowers]

[Adorable.] You've been caught up in this mess longer than I've been in this world. Deal with it, bud, if I'm part of this team then so are you.

[nothingsodivine]

Technically, I've been caught up in this mess since before you were born. Me and that talisman have got a history. [He rolls his eyes.] I'm not a Knight, though. Wynn only wishes.

[graveflowers]

[Why are half the men in her life really fucking old? She's like one more clumsy accident from turning into Bella Swan, age complex and all.]

We could use you, I can see why he wishes.

[nothingsodivine]

Use me for what. [He scoffs and takes another bite of his apple.] I can put a puzzle together. I'm good with a mystery. But Wynn's not after me for my deductive skills. I'm old and I'm smart, but I forget more than I remember. He just likes relics.

[graveflowers]

Probably needs the company, I guess. I know why I'd keep you around, but. [She shrugs, rolling her apple around in her hands.] I doubt I could sway you with fleet week and my glowing company. I'm not all that stellar at the sell, pretty sure Jade said she'd think about it to shut me up.

[nothingsodivine]

You're not so bad. [Another shrug as he swallows- this one accompanied by a grin.]

[graveflowers]

Fleet week always reels 'em in.