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| okkie dokkie | Jan 11 2006, 09:16 AM Post #1 |
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Emily never before had eaten lunch at the lunchroom so she decided to try it. Upon reaching the lunchroom she looked around for a place to sit and eat the lunch she brought with her. Looking around she saw many different groups of kids eating lunch. She didn't know which group if any she would belong to. Never did she think this would be so hard. After standing around looking for about three minutes she decided to sit down at a table by herself. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 11 2006, 11:31 AM Post #2 |
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The bandages weren't as comfortable as he had thought them to be, but then again, were there ever comortable bandages? Anything that pressed against a knife wound would make it hurt. Jack sighed as he spotted his sister grabbing some food. His sigh stopped halfway when he spotted somebody familiar. Even though he had picked a seat he still had the chance to change his mind. so he walked towards Emily. "And is there a reason you are sitting all alone?" Jack asked as he placed his tray across from Emily's. Seemed stupid to some people to ask why but it always added a caring feel to the person who asked it. another mind trick learned in the military. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 11 2006, 11:47 AM Post #3 |
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Lupis glanced around the lunchroom, looking for a table that was at least mostly empty. He didn't precisely dislike sitting with large groups, but he always felt a little bit like an intruder when he joined one that was already rather established -- especially if it was made of people he didn't know. He really prefered small groups in any situation, since you could usually be assured of A, getting the occaisional word in and B, being able to hear your own thoughts. A lot of the tables were actually rather full, and he was heading for one of the few that were empty when his eye snagged on a couple people he knew. He recognized Emily, and the other student sitting across from her looked familiar, though he was unable to place when and where they had met. It was possible, of course, that he had just seen the boy on campus somewhere, but he didn't think so. He shrugged a little mentally, and decided to head over. There was only the two of them, and they didn't have the closed-off look that most people got when they wanted privacy. He heard the boy speaking as he drew near. "And is there a reason you are sitting all alone?" "If I had to guess, I'd say because most of the other tables are full," he said, setting his tray down. "Hi Emily." |
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| okkie dokkie | Jan 11 2006, 08:47 PM Post #4 |
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"Well, hello you two!! Your welcome to join me. The more the merrier." Emily smiled and she started to take her food out of her lunch bag and put it on the table. She had a turkey sandwich, chips and an apple. It ment so much to her that people had come to eat lunch with her. It was never fun being alone. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 12 2006, 10:27 AM Post #5 |
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Lupis couldn't help but laugh a little at Emily's reaction -- her mood was rather infectious. He sat down on the same side of the table as her, though he left an empty seat between them. Even on the rather rare occaisions that he joined a group, he liked at least a little bit of personal space. Enough that he wouldn't be in danger of bumping the person next to him with his elbows, at least. As he settled into the cool metal of the chair, he almost thought he got a whiff of something almost undefinable... but then it was gone, and he almost thought he had imagined it. It had a general sort of familiarity to it, but -like the dark-haired boy sitting across the table- he couldn't place it. He gave himself a small mental slap as he cracked open the small container of salad-dressing that he had gotten with his meal at the counter and poured it over his large salad. It was nothing, he told himself. Probably nothing, anyway. "So how've you been," he asked, sticking his fork into the mass of lettuce. "It's been a while." He hadn't seen the girl since their first meeting, and that had been weeks ago. It had seemed like weeks, anyway. Lupis was not, admittedly, the best at keeping track of time. Most gaps longer than two weeks tended to sort of merge together inside his head. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 12 2006, 10:46 AM Post #6 |
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Jack turned towards lupis to start talking but he stope before sputtering out any words. He closed his mouth when his sister sat beside him. With a fake smile he barely turned towards her. "Why Melissa, what would you be doing here?" Jack asked through his teeth. Melissa smiled and gave him a small hug. Juack grunted as the hug pressed against his injuries from the other night. "Im here to sit with my brother and his friends, why else?" she replied as her grip grew tighter. Jack's grunting became longer and louder as she did so. Finally she released him allowng him to move over a seat and rub his shoulder a bit. |
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| okkie dokkie | Jan 12 2006, 09:44 PM Post #7 |
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"I'm doing really good, how are you doing?" She started eatting her sandwhich when she saw a girl sit down at their table as well. It was so cute, he had a sister. She had never had any family but she wished someday to actually have a family. "Hi" |
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| Deleted User | Jan 13 2006, 10:05 AM Post #8 |
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"I've been good," he said with a small grin. There had, in fact, been a week that he wouldn't have described as 'good', but that was something he was hoping to convince himself was a dream. It wasn't really 'bad', per se -he had been through worse, at least- but it was still one of the weirder things he had been through. And frankly 'I've been good, except for that week I spent inexplicabley in a girl's body' didn't seem like a good topic of discussion, even for AHS. "Things have been pretty quiet, so I've been working on a personal project. Nothing too exciting." He shrugged a little as Jack's sister sat down -- it seemed pretty obvious that they weren't exactly close, and it looked like it perhaps went beyond the usual sibling rivalry. He couldn't be sure, though. And either way, he decided not to mention it. Emily apparently had not noticed, and he didn't feel like interrupting her apparent enjoyment of the moment. Just hope they don't decide to escalate things... Lupis had been witness to one other fight in the lunchroom, during his first stay at AHS, and it had been pretty chaotic. Admittedly, Jack and Melissa didn't look like undead supervillains with a grudge, but he knew that even a small fight could -and likely would- spin wildly out of control very rapidly. This place needs more chaos... Lupis shoved the demon back into his subconscious even as it's thoughts reached him, not bothering to respond. It had been sounding more lucid lately, and he didn't feel like dealing with it at the moment. |
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| okkie dokkie | Jan 16 2006, 12:56 PM Post #9 |
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"It's good that your good. I have not seen you in so long it seems. I have been really busy lately. You need to tell me everything." She ate more of her sandwich. Emily really hadn't been good but the last thing she could do was tell him. |
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| Deleted User | Jan 16 2006, 09:14 PM Post #10 |
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"Like I said earlier, it's been pretty quiet," he said with a small grin. "Though given what things can get like here when it's *not* quiet, that's probably a good thing." Lupis had, through a small streak of good timing, only been present for one of AHS' rather infamous bursts of activity. His memories of that particular event were admittedly fuzzy, but he seemed to recall ending up pinned to the floor with a sword pointed at some of his more sensitive internal organs. He had gone home shortly after that, and so had not been present for the fight with the SAEMH that had left Russia a radioactive crater. He had, in that respect, been lucky, he supposed. Of course, I nearly had my soul sucked out after that... He mentally shook himself off that line of thought, not wanting to revisit the memories. It was turning out to be a fairly good day, assuming Jack and Melissa didn't start tearing each other apart. A quick glance across the table told him they had not, but he still kept one eye in them as he cracked open the bottle of Pepsi he had gotten with his salad. They had every right to settle whatever problems they might have however they wanted, but if they decided to try anything in the middle of the crowded lunchroom... He didn't know what he might be able to do, especially if they started tossing fireballs or whatever. He did know, however, that he didn't intend to let them do something that would potentially hurt Emily or any other bystanders. He mentally shrugged that off too -- he was probably just being paranoid. "A little noise can be good, of course," he said, still grinning a little. "But large groups of teenagers are always volatile, and when you add superpowers to the mix..." He let his sentence trail off, taking a sip of his Pepsi. He glanced over at Jack and Melissa, partially as if warning them to keep their fight to themselves, and partially because the boy's familiarity was bugging him. He usually had at least a passable memory for people, so his inability to place Jack was a small itch beneath his skin. "Sorry," he said. "But have we met? 'Cause I would swear I've seen you before, but I have no idea where..." |
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| Deleted User | Jan 18 2006, 12:10 AM Post #11 |
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Jack glanced away from a small booklet he had laying next to is tray. "Oh, yeah, library..." He said as he looked back at the booklet. "...you were the fellow who was paranoid about the spider bomb." |
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| Deleted User | Jan 18 2006, 12:54 PM Post #12 |
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"Oh, right," he said as Jack's face finally clicked into place somewhere in his head. "Yeah, I tend to get like that when people bring explosives into places full of highly inflammable paper. I'm weird that way." He stabbed a few leaves of lettuce with his plastic fork, briefly replaying the scene in his mind. He seemed to recall Jack saying that the little bombs followed his orders, so there wasn't any real danger. He believed the student, if only for lack of evidence to the contrary, but any sort of AI program, however simple or complex, with access to weaponry made him just a tad cautious. He didn't think they would all suddenly decide to model themselves after The Terminator, but where there was even a basic intelligence there was choice. And while a really stupid robot might not be able to comprehend that it could choose to, say, ignore orders, it would also almost certainly lack the ability to know that blowing up random people might be wrong. "I'm not saying that you would do anything," he said. "But machines are always capable of malfunctioning somehow." |
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| Deleted User | Jan 18 2006, 07:40 PM Post #13 |
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Jack was still reaing his book when Lupis had spoken to him again. This time he replied without even looking up from his booklet. "Well, the programming is designed to tell it if it should or shouldn't blow something up. If the systems that prevent it from disobeying orders breaks, then so does the power source...." He then took another bite out of his food and continued to read the booklet. "They're plenty safe, besides, I've hardly put them to use yet..." He then placed his hand under the table for a second. Before anybody noticed he pulled it back up with a handful of three different colored spider bombs. One was gold, much ike the one he had pointed to, the second was silver, and the third was Black. Silently Jack pointed to the black one. "That is incindiary, dangerous around falmmable objects," |
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| Deleted User | Jan 28 2006, 11:48 PM Post #14 |
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"Mm-hmmm," Lupis said noncommitally as Jack showed off the spider-bombs. He could rather easily have pointed out several problems with taking the bombs into the cafeteria -or anywhere with lots of people, really- but he didn't feel like turning his lunch into a huge argument that would leave nothing actually changed. Besides, he supposed, it wasn't all too different than someone with explosive powers going out into public. The difference, the more cynical part of his mind countered, was that the metahuman didn't have a choice in the matter. He silenced the internal debate entirely. If the other student felt the need to carry his bombs with him, there wasn't anything Lupis could -reasonably- do about it. Not until something actually went wrong. And if Jack was right, there wasn't too much chance of that. If he were right, of course. "If you say they're safe, I'll believe you, if only for lack of any other evidence," Lupis said, taking a drink if his Pepsi. He disliked explosives on principle, and held the same general opinion robots. When a person did something, there was motivation, thought, a whole cauldron of reasons in theor head. A machine was only capable of doing what it was told. "So," he said, turning back to Emily. "What have you been up to?" |
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