http://behisgirlfriday.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] behisgirlfriday.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2010-03-30 10:38 pm

[ closed log ] [ all the lonely people ]

WHO: Pepper and Cole
WHERE: Outside the Porter building
WHEN: Backdated to Monday
WARNINGS: sob Tony sob
SUMMARY: Pepper is back! Tony is gone. Cole gets to tell her. REACTION.
FORMAT: quicklog



[ Pepper runs her fingers through her hair and straightens her suit for what has to be the tenth time. The pit of her stomach is still connected to the nauseous knot in her throat, two days' worth of overcaffeination and worry about her husband and employer layered unhappily over this startling new development.

She hates that her reaction to stepping out of the Porter wasn't fear or anxiety or dread. Just annoyance, stress, and a dull sensation of great, this again.

In her life, it's always been one thing after the other. Combing her fingers through her hair again, she scrunches her eyes shut against her growing headache.

Think, Pep. Tony's still here. Everything is going to be okay.
]

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucky Cole, he had to be the one to patrol that area in particular. He didn't want to bitch about his job. It wasn't a job worth bitching about, and he was grateful to have it as opposed to being a bike messenger back home. Then again, he'd gone from delivery boy to super-powered lightning rod just as quick, but that was a whole other issue...

Either way, he was on patrol, walking around, mind somewhat blank. Cool superpowers came with completely stupid limits, such as not being able to drive a patrol car. Or any kind of car for that matter, seeing as any car he tried to sit in would explode.

Then he spots someone familiar in the distance.

... Whoah, wait.

He approaches closer. Now it's REALLY familiar.

Cole doesn't say anything quite yet, but he's coming he's coming, he's coming.

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Pepper?

[The name is said quiet at first, not really sure if it is her. As he approach, though, soon enough right next to her, he's more certain.]

Pepper.

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
[That's a voice he didn't think he'd hear again. Especially the voice one of his first actual friends around here.]

That's me.

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... O-kay, he's picking up on that. Hand still at his side, it goes up slightly in a way that looked like the beginning of a "whoah" sort of mock-defeat gesture, but it stays back down.

He was being serious, but he was honestly suprised she even remembered him.]

I won't get too upset if you don't, trust me.

[pause.]

... Hi.

[Well, what do you even say?]

Besides what I... can figure, are you okay?

[Cole was referring to any BODILY harm, compared to those "god dammit, I'm back here"s he could take a guess at.]

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[It takes him a minute to answer. He knew people got ported back, but anyone he ever knew that left never came back. This was a first. He shook his head, as if shaking that thought out of his head.]

March 29th, 2010--almost April.

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-04-01 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, whoah. Deep breath here, you--

[Then he stiffens at the mention of Tony. Tony. Of course she's got to mention Tony.]

...

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-04-01 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He eyes the phone quietly for a moment. Shit. How could he say this?]

Pepper, there--there's something you need to know.

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-04-01 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Cole sucks in a breath. He couldn't screw around and hesitate and he knew it.]

It's about Tony.

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-04-01 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks at her straight in the eye. He's told people these kind of things before. But just because he knew what to do didn't mean he liked it.]

Tony's dead.

I'm sorry, this is the only "sad' icon I have.

[identity profile] imonabike.livejournal.com 2010-04-01 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Neither did his. He didn't say anything--just looked back at her with that same, solemn expression.]