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roy harper. ([personal profile] shotup) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2013-04-11 11:50 pm

A constellation of tears on your lashes

WHO: Roy Harper & Laura Kinney
WHERE: Dallas BBQ Restaurant
WHEN: Friday night
WARNINGS: Discussion of non-con/abuse.
SUMMARY: Roy takes Laura on an ill-planned date and talking happens.
FORMAT: Tagger's choice.

Their brief encounter at the auction left Roy with more questions than answers about Laura, though one thing seemed certain: she didn't at all strike him as the roller rink type. It took a little thought, but he'd come up with the barbecue place as an alternative, figuring that there would be good food and tasty frozen drinks, and if they decided to go elsewhere after dinner, it would be a fine preamble.

He'd arranged to pick her up at 8pm and had arrived casually dressed in jeans and a plain red teeshirt. He seemed laid back, much like the establishment. It was busy, but not overwhelming, with the smokey scent of babyback ribs wafting through the air and the laughter of college kids tipsy off daiquiris filling the room. It was fun, and Roy sincerely hoped it would translate to his evening with Laura.

"You gotta try this one drink they've got," he said, pointing to the list of frozen options on the menu.  "It's called Miami Vice.  It tastes like how being on a vacation feels."
girlverine: (This is going to end badly for you.)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-18 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
She had expected him to push, everyone was always curious, so when he didn't she was relieved...if a tad puzzled. But she could work with that, and she took another moment to sip her drink before she answered.

"Mostly reality television. Or dramas. Whatever Jessica wishes to watch," Laura didn't care. Unless she missed an episode. Which no one would ever know. "Jessica is my roommate, and Jason is her boyfriend. Although he is in prison at the moment, so she has mostly been at home." Or moping.
girlverine: (Frustrated.)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-18 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Laura would have laughed if she...ever did that. Instead she just nodded and sighed slightly. "Yes." Despite her better attempts at making it not happen. "For a while now."

"I prefer to watch the news, if I have the television on at all," which she didn't, really, unless Jessica was home or she was in one of those occasional funks she got where she would lay around doing nothing.
girlverine: (Hmm?)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-18 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
She just nodded. "Yes. They're...relaxing," she wasn't entirely picky about what she'd read. She'd even been forced to read a terrible vampire book by Jessica. "Mostly fiction," she added after a moment's thought. "Or history books."

Or war books, but she wasn't going to bring that up.

"What do you do?" And now to get the topic off herself. Somehow.
girlverine: (Knows you're there.)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-18 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
"I've never tried to do any of those things," though she could use a computer, she had basic hacking skills from the Facility.

"Do you fight?" It was bound to come up eventually, right?
girlverine: (A rare smile.)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-18 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm. I did not do so until I was fourteen," was her answer, although her heroing in new york had mostly been protecting other prostitutes. Which was one thing she preferred people not know, she wasn't even certain she had ever told Jessica.

"I would like to see you fight sometime," she added. There weren't many people who started that young, Laura wanted to see how it effected someone.
girlverine: (Hmm?)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-18 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"You may use whatever weapons you wish," she said, and she meant it. Laura was nothing if not confident, and it wasn't even overconfidence, not when you had her background and her training and her abilities.

"If you like, I will not use my claws regardless. I would not wish to permanently injure you."
girlverine: (Determined)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-19 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm," a thoughtful pause as she considered him, her head tilted slightly to the side, her green eyes narrowed.

"We shall just have to see how it goes, then." Assuming the date went well enough that either of them wished to speak to the other afterwards.
girlverine: (Storming off.)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-20 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Another question about herself. She supposed it was inevitable, but it still left her without much in the way of an out. "I was raised in a laboratory," she finally answered. "My mother helped me escape when I was fourteen. I lived in New York and California after that, until I was brought here. That was almost two years ago."
girlverine: (Leap!)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-20 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
Laura was quiet at that question, not upset, just...thinking about it.

"I like it here," she finally said, smiling faintly into her drink. "This was a second chance, I believe I have..." She wasn't quite certain what she had managed, but it did not feel like failure.

"I would not wish to return to my old world, if the option arose."
girlverine: (The Distance from Everyone.)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-20 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
She just shrugged. "My mother is dead. I don't have any family," except, maybe, wolverine and daken but that was such a mess. "Some of my friends are here, and I have made others."

And she wasn't really certain how many of the X-men back home were even her friends, at this point. Man her life was crummy.
girlverine: (Frustrated.)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-20 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Well in Roy's defense, Laura's life was basically awful.

"I believe most people would return, if given the choice," she agreed with a faint nod of her head. "I am just not one of them."
girlverine: (Prepared to go.)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-20 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Laura was honestly a bit startled at that sudden change, but after a moment of thinking it over she nodded, setting her half finished drink down as she stood as well. She smoothed her skirt as a way to buy a moment, considering what he had asked and trying to decide what to say.

"I know how," she finally said, looking up at him. "Jessica goes sometimes." She hesitated. "I would not mind going dancing." It was as close to a yes as he'd get, probably.
girlverine: (Lurking)

[personal profile] girlverine 2013-04-20 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Laura tugged her jacket off the back of her chair as he paid, and pulled the leather garment over her arms as she stepped outside of the restaurant, drawing in a breath of the cool air. "Thank you," she said when he held the door.

"I was professionally trained to dance," sort of. It wasn't really the same kind of dancing, but what she had been taught by the Facility was certainly still applicable. "But I will overlook your mistakes."

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