to tie up loose ends to make amends

[skort]

WHO: supertorso & battothefuture
WHERE: Terry's apartment.
WHEN: Sometime around today-ish? Today being Thursday.
WARNINGS: ... Possibility of some violence.
SUMMARY: Kara and Terry were gonna try again after their failed notadate. But then he got exPorted and never called, so she stops by. SHIT HAPPENS.
FORMAT: Quick to start, can do whatever after.

[ It starts like this: Terry and Kara parted ways and agreed to try again for coffee. But there was never a 'Hey, how does tomorrow sound' from his end and Kara was just this side of shy and worried about this whole friendship with a civilian thing that she wasn't sure she could call him about coffee.

But when she'd seen neither hide nor hair of him on the Network for a while, she got a little worried. She wasn't sure picking up the phone and going 'You're not dead, right?' was the kind of thing one did, so she didn't act on it, instead keeping eyes and ears out should he show up anywhere.

On the other hand, though, if she was just patrolling and happened to be in the area, she could stop by and knock on his door, right? Just... checking in. She could say she lost his number, wanted to make sure he and the dog were okay. And wanted to see the dog again. Yeah, that would work.

Which is how she ends up standing in front of his door, wishing terribly her x-ray vision could penetrate lead. One hand raises and knocks gently, so as not to... accidentally break anything. Because that would be bad. And she'd have to buy him a new door. ]

Terry? You home?

[ Wait a little bit, then knock again, a little harder this time. Maybe it was too soft of a knock. Just because she had superhearing... ] Terry?

[ More knocking. She pauses again and then knocks just a little too hard, knocking the door off its... surprisingly sturdy hinges. ]

Oh, crap! Ohcrapohcrap! Terry! If you're home, I'm sorry I broke your door. ... if you're not, I'm sorry for breaking and entering to fix your door...

[ She moves the broken door aside so she can step into the apartment and... freezes. Because that— that stuff can't be what she thinks it is. It just can't be. ]

Comments

[skort]

What's wrong with that? Means I get the best of both worlds.

[battothefuture]

Pretty sure that's cheating. You can't choose a side and then only go with it half the time.

[skort]

With some things, yeah, but with others you can.

[battothefuture]

That entirely defeats the purpose of choosing a side. You owe me fifteen dollars.

[skort]

[ She hands over the money with a small laugh. ]

I've chosen enough sides as it is. I'd like to be able to waffle over something.

[battothefuture]

Then what's the point of declaring your side at all?

[skort]

... If I'm gonna answer that I'm going to end up getting all serious and philosophical again. Just so you know.

[battothefuture]

Right.

Why do they make the little houses so that you can only fit three of them on your space anyway?

[skort]

Eventually you're supposed to trade them in for hotels, 'cause those make more money.

And if they made the spaces bigger you'd have a bigger game board which would be hard to fit into a box.

[battothefuture]

Yeah, but you're supposed to have 4 houses before you trade up, right?

And slag that, just make the houses smaller. Or stackable, maybe.

[skort]

Slag... now there's some future slang I haven't heard yet.

[battothefuture]

It's a useful word.

Seriously though, what's wrong with building apartments instead? I mean, who can afford to rent a house?

[skort]

It's cool, but I think my favorite is still grife.

I can't, even back home. 'Course that could be because I don't have a job either place, but. [ shrug ]

[battothefuture]

'Grife'?

There's nothing wrong with that. Some days it feels like you could my place back home into a shoebox.

[skort]

Late thirtieth, early thirty-first century slang. It's used kind of as an all purpose obscenity by some people. Others, not so much. I could probably throw some Kryptonian slang at you, too, but that's more past stuff than future.

[ She blinks, but brushes off the momentary weirdness. 'Batman' and 'Wayne Manor and Tower' are so linked in her mind, it's strange to hear of anything different. ]

I'm pretty sure my first place was a shoebox. But, then again, I was practically living off charity at that point and, as they say, beggars can't be choosers.

[battothefuture]

Sounds like about the same type, then.

[Terry shrugs a little.]

It's really not that bad -- I mean, I don't have to share with my brother or anything, which is a good thing. Matt can be a real pain sometimes, especially since Dad- Or maybe before, I guess I don't know. I was pretty bad myself back in the day, and then when my parents finally split, I moved in with Dad. Didn't really pay attention. Still, the point is that if I had to share with Matt, my mom would know that I stay out all night a lot more than I'm supposed to. I'd be permanently grounded, which wouldn't help work or the tattered remains of my social life, and probably any trust that I've managed to get wouldn't be there. Still, it's small for three people.

[skort]

[ She gives him a small smile and then looks down as she fiddles with the dice in her hands. ]

Must be nice to have your family around like that. Back home it's just me and my aunt Lana. She's not really my aunt, not biologically, I mean. But she's the one who took me in and gave me my secret identity and she's the one who whips me into shape when I need it, so she's my aunt in all the ways it really matters.

[battothefuture]

[Terry stares at the wall for a minute, then grabs Lady and starts paying attention to her.]

It can be, when it's not being a pain. My mom thought I was in a gang again for a while, or using, and thinks I'm a flake, but sometimes.... And I guess it's one of those things, where you don't miss something until you don't have it.

Of course, it's not like I see much of my family anyway. Leave in the morning, usually I'll have time to come back but I guess not always. Crash when I can.

[skort]

But they're your family. You've got them nearby when you need them and I be they'll always be there for you when that happens. You're lucky to have that.

[ She's quiet for half a moment before rolling the dice. ]

... And apparently I'm going to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

[battothefuture]

[Terry's quiet for a minute too.]

You don't have to deal much with the secret identity thing, do you? Or the people you love being targeted to get to you?

[But that makes him grin.]

You think they've got kryptonite bars?

[skort]

Terry, the only people outside of Lana that are close to me are my cousin, his clone, Wonder Woman, Grayson and Steph. And apparently Bruce again once he's back from the dead. Four out of five I don't see very often. I don't really have people to target.

[ She lets out a small laugh at his question, though. ]

Red sun lamps. They're a lot less lethal.

[battothefuture]

And all of them can take care of themselves. My brother has been kidnapped because of me. My mom and Matt and my girlfriend and Bruce were all almost incinerated a few months before I got landed here. And I can't tell any of them. Usually that means that everyone is mad at me, when I'm late for something again. More people that you love can make life harder. Especially when you can't tell them.

[Smile a little]

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that my solution would cut down a lot on breakout attempts.

[skort]

I would rather have to lie to the people I love than not have them around at all.

[ LINEFACES. ]

Because we'd all be dead.

[battothefuture]

I'd rather not be putting them in danger because of what I do.

[Grin]

And you have to admit, that would do wonders for the escapee statistics.

[skort]

They'd be in danger just because of the world we live in, Terry. Just a fact of life.

It would, but— [ she frowns slightly and then shakes it off, giving him a small almost-smile. ] I think there are some people who'd take issue with it.