whenshewasnice: (Also this whole thing reeks.)
Envy Adams ([personal profile] whenshewasnice) wrote2013-09-30 07:30 pm

Natalie's Apartment, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday

To her credit, Natalie had not actually stuck around Seattle forever (or even until Sam would wake up), although she'd had a long day of sitting by his door yesterday. He'd be fine. She'd check on him later. He had everyone else watching over him.

Although right now she was wishing she'd never left.

See, for some random reason, on her way back, she had had a layover in Fandom in the early morning. It would've been fine – she'd grabbed a coffee from the Perk and taken a brief walk around the park – but she was feeling the effects now. There'd been something in the air on the island again, and now it was in her system, making her twitchy in a way she was pretendng wasn't familiar.

Also, about equally randomly, someone at the Haiti end of her Portalocity trip had told her she looked like an old lady. So now she was both distracted as well as vaguely offended. But mostly just distracted. It wasn't very conducive to getting back to work, but she was trying.

And definitely not scrolling through any pictures on her phone.

[ooc: NFB, but open for texts/calls/visits. You can thank a random person on IMDb for that random insult to Nat's face, oh em gee.]
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[personal profile] lockestheway 2013-09-30 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
And now her phone was ringing.
lockestheway: (peter: one day hegemon)

[personal profile] lockestheway 2013-09-30 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good," Peter said immediately. "You have an appointment with a Nigerian dignitary in one hour. After that, you'll be interviewing some interns. I'm mailing you your schedule for tomorrow. Chop chop."

Who had two thumbs and wasn't happy about the time she was wasting? This guy.
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[personal profile] lockestheway 2013-09-30 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"He's sixty-three and he's got a giant pot belly," Peter said, rolling his eyes.
lockestheway: (peter: haggard)

[personal profile] lockestheway 2013-09-30 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not punishing you," Peter said irritably. He really wasn't. At least, not going by his worldview. "You can't just run away and expect not to come home to a backlog of work."
lockestheway: (peter: one day hegemon)

[personal profile] lockestheway 2013-09-30 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"I told you, I'm mailing you your schedule for the week-- now," Peter said. "I'll be by next week. I have some more campaigning to do. Hope you like South Africa."
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[personal profile] lockestheway 2013-09-30 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you can manage that without disappearing randomly somewhere in the middle," Peter said.
lockestheway: (val-peter: the devil on her shoulder)

[personal profile] lockestheway 2013-09-30 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good," Peter said. He resisted the next kick he badly wanted to give - about her disappointing him by being unreliable - mostly because his parents' last visit was still fresh on his mind and he didn't want to inflict that on someone else. "I trust you're in one piece and you didn't accidentally throw yourself off any cliffs."

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[personal profile] pursuedthestars 2013-09-30 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Jim was actually grateful to have gotten Natalie's message since it meant he could get off the island for a little while and, possibly, work some of this out of system.

He had no idea Natalie had stopped by and he wasn't going to let on, if he could help it, since this seemed to be about Moxy and he knew the cat was important to her.

So, he got himself a portal and packed a bag and was now knocking on her door quietly.
pursuedthestars: ([hap] casual)

[personal profile] pursuedthestars 2013-09-30 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey," he said, glancing down and immediately noticing the skirt. Okay. She was apparently into showing off her legs today. He could handle that. "You rang?"
pursuedthestars: ([hap] cheese it)

[personal profile] pursuedthestars 2013-09-30 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Figure of speech," he said as he stepped inside and smiled back at her. And her legs. Again. He breathed out slowly and glanced around. "So, we're learning how to take care of a cat tonight?"

Not what he'd want to be doing but again, he was trying to behave because he knew what the cat meant to her.
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[personal profile] pursuedthestars 2013-09-30 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"And here I thought I'd just use my massive amounts of charisma and charm to get by," he said, turning around to look at her.

He smiled. And imagined her doing so many different things to him in that skirt.

Okay. He swallowed but kept smiling.
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[personal profile] pursuedthestars 2013-09-30 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"He hasn't dealt with me," Jim said, watching her move closer. It was torture but he held back because, well, she was Natalie and he never knew what was really on her mind. "We'll be fine."
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[personal profile] pursuedthestars 2013-09-30 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay," he said, nodding again. "So, show me what to do. I came all this way, after all, to learn how to take care of your cat. Show me how to be perfect."

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