Ch. 50 (!) Beach House Regrouping (all but Alice)

[doc]

Again, Tom keeps pace. "OK....so, what next? It's been like, two days since I've met you people and my life has been turned upside down."

[shiivster]

*Sierra looks over her shoulder at Kristian and grins at the first part of the conversation. 'don't worry about it. i'm sure with the running about and stuff we're gonna have to do soon, you'll work it off' *she sets plates and the tray of cutlery out for the others to help themselves.

'its upstairs, but i don't think she''ll handle wearing it. it was kinda sized for my lower jaw. who knows, once the excitement wears off she'll be the silent type ... ?'

*she goes quieter as the others move closer. 'just one of them i couldn't pick up on. hope she's not a spy ... that aside, sorry that our time got messed up. we can try another beach blanket time ... ' *she leans over and touches his forehead with her's, then moves to the counter and hops up so she's sitting on it and watching the others as they enter

[foxx]

Angel watches Deci leave the room with the rest and she looks to Avi, back to propping her chin up.

"My condolences, its never easy losing anyone, but you have to see my point. Something wrong with the system that being used to put these teams together. Two teams down and another not making any forward progress in why the Mayor has goons running around grabbing up Meta's. I am Suzy come lately here in all this so I don't know whats been going on.

"Other then, yeah I was working for the Mayor and now I don't know about going back. Hate to wind up like the rest he's been grabbing."

[sasqaricious]

Deci stands off to the side and watches in envy as the rest dish up what smells like delicious food, heck smells like food. Something she misses since that fateful accident with the meteor. She still fights to remain silent instead of her usually chatty unless someone decides to talk to her.

[jeflint]

Sasha listens for several moments quietly weighing her options. "Well you know me Avi, I retired from a long history of police work. Twenty years of service before opening my bar," she says. "I just want the place safe for my patrons and my staff. I'll help where I can. I'm modifying the bar for a speak easy and hideout for our kind. But if we have to keep coming to my place to heal others or hide it's going to bring a lot of attention."

Her face expressionless she pauses a moment. "And you know basic cops like me aren't trained to take on folks like your radiation man. I'm not sure what help I can be in the field. I can be your cipher I suppose there isn't a language I don't know, and I can fly. Aside from my immortality and regeneration there isn't much use I can provide."

[dakota]

" Yeah, but your police training is more than most of us have, Sasha." Avi replied before turning back to Angel. " We haven't been trying to find out what the Mayor is up t, so that's why we haven't made any progress. And as for the other teams, Ryne upstairs was manipulated and turned against the others and tore the team apart. Luckily members of our team convinced him it wasn't his fault and brought him back before he could do anything stupid. Would you like to tell him the same things you just told me?"

Kristian looked over at Deci as he leaned against Sierra," You not eating? Sierra's a good cook."

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" Don't be blaming me, I had nothing to do with you getting dragged into Mac's mess." Tyler replied, stopping mid move. " My plan is to piss off Dylin before heading for home to wait for my wife to bring the baby home from her parents. You should prbably be getting to know the newbies. Before they eat everything."

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" You're such an optimist tonight." Ashley looked up at Isamu with a grin. " We'll need to come up with a plan then. How to infiltrate one or more of us into city hall. We should wait for Alice to get back though, right?"

[doc]

"I guess. Any idea if it's stopped being Three-Mile Island in there?" Tom asks.

[shiivster]

*not having been upstairs earlier to hear Deci's comment about not eating, she simply figures that she's already eaten and is full

'ahh leave her be Kristian. she's probably still full from earlier. its cool, so don't pressure her .. alright?'

*she looks at Deci now and comments "hi, I'm Sierra. i'm like the others, but unable to do anything real fancy. other than copy people's ability and it seems i can kinda stop bullets. guess i'm younger then the others, but was home schooled and got a business degree'

[sasqaricious]

First Deci looks over at Kristian "No thank-you as delicious as it smells since the incident that changed me to what I can do I have not been able to eat at all. My apologies I am not trying to be rude at all."

Deci responds back to Sierra a little more quickly as it seems not like someone wants to talk to her. "Hi Sierra! My name is Deci. I am not sure how much older or younger I am but I have just finished school as well. I have a Bachelor of Science specializing in Marine Biology with a minor in physical education. I can not mimic powers or stop bullets but I can create Ice and cold, fly and wait a minute if you can mimic, you can just mimic me and find out for yourself!"

[foxx]

"Don't do that." Angel warns, rubbing the side of her head with her fingers. "You play that emo-shtick with me and I'll hurt you. Crap happens, its the nature of the job we do; well I do, anyway.

"But I didn't come here to give emotional support. I came to find out answers about the Mayor and his boy Wraith. Ya know, the guys recruiting me to go after the Meta's in the area. Seeing they have the legal right to pursue wanted felons dosen't seem to make your jobs easier because I don't see where you get to say no to them? You can't get them on bad manners and lack of sanity when they got the law backing them up."

Angel was getting tired of trying to massage the headache away, "You got any aspirin. I've been nursing this headache all damn day long."

[Dome]

"We should see how her situation is developing. She may need assistance. I am sorry I am seem so pessimistic today. It has been a long day."

He waves his hand over a spot and a brings up a small pillar of earth, "Do you want to sit for a while?"

[dakota]

" Only if you're going to hold me close, Isamu-san." Ashley grinned despite two of her symbiotes crawling acrossed her neck in view. She obviously felt it as her grin faded and her hand moved to rub her throat. " Maybe you should call Alice."


" As long as it's not Chernobyl, we'll be okay." Tyler stopped, glancing in the windows. " Looks like most of them have gone in the kitchen for something to eat. Hey," he shouted to the upper level of the deck," you two better not be making out up there."

Trevor leaned over the edge with a smile and flipped off Tyler. " You said we can do what we want in our free time. Besides, that isn't our arguement."

Tyler turned back to Tom, " See what I put up with instead? you've got it easy. I'm going in, want to talk to Ryne before we leave." He started for the door. " And it wouldn't hurt for you to be a little social with the people who's lives might be in your hands someday."

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" Lady, you can't do anything that I can't heal out." Avi replied to Angel. He scowled and was about to continue when he instead held out his hand and touched Angel's. The headache lessened. " There, don't say I never did anything for you. Come on, Sasha. Let's get something to eat."


Kristian gave Sierra a look with a grin as Deci was speaking, then grinned as he helped himself to supper.


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[shiivster]

'can't eat? .. jeez that's gotta suck bigtime .. sorry' *she ponders something then grabs a glass of juice for now. she'll eat a little later. since its smorg style and the others will trickle in, she'll wait for things later.

'what do you say if you're at a family gathering or birthday party or something?' *her mind simply can't figure out how to get about that little obstacle. in time maybe, but the mind is noisy now. then the cheeks go pink* 'oh jeez .. sorry .. you don't need to answer that .. i'm just being fude. my bad .. sorry'


''you know .. i used to think i was a voicebox. i blurt at times. most times its cause i don't think first. its kinda nice to know i'm not the only one that talks a lot. i was gonna talk about how i got this way .. but it can wait a while longer. saves me telling it over twice. or maybe just Mac needs to know. maybe i'll talk to him privately about it"

[foxx]

Angel shakes her head and gets up, muttering, "Don't worry, you didn't."

Instead of heading where the food is she heads for the back door. She didn't go far, just to the back porch. Not exactly her best moment, but its hard to force a size large congenial atmosphere into a size small crappy day. Her first opportunity in working the private sector and it turns out they are dirty. Dirty in a big way that makes some of the work she did in distant shores look minute.

"And whose standing in the way of that; a bunch of kids." Angels shakes her head. First she draws the pistols and dumps into a nearby garbage bin. Next she takes the radio and squeezes it. It dosen't take much to turn the communicator into so pulverized garbage. She continues to wad the device up till nothing remains unbroken.

"Guess this means I quit..."

[Dome]

Isamu reaches up and removes her hand from her throat, knowing what she is thinking. He says, "we can sit for a while."