One single fact
If you could find out one single fact about every person you met, what fact would you want to know, and why?The happiest moment in their life. I know, that makes me sound like a total sap, but see, I get to know most of the other crap anyway. When you meet people - well, when I meet them, or did during the majority of my life - it's in a fighting
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To: abetterlie@livejournal.com
Subject: Sorry
I've tried to clean this up as much as possible, but I'm sure by now you've seen the papers and possibly the tabloid news shows. I honestly don't know what to say other than I apologize that you and Kara have been dragged into the media circus that is my life. You were wrong about your assumptions regarding my intentions for your sister Kara. I never touched her and I was trying to do right by her, but the fact remains that neither of you would be exploited by the press and dealing with the fall out with your family and friends had you not had the misfortune of crossing paths with me ( ... )
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To: H.Osborn@oscorp.net
Subject: Forget it.
Not Kara. I mean, I still think you're too old for her, but just for the record, I happen to know a guy who fell for a teenager and was several hundred centuries older and it would have been so useful to know that when everyone was freaking out about me and Cordy, but I only found out two months ago, so you're pretty normal in comparison. But forget all the apology stuff because you're reminding me more and more of Angel by the minute, and that freaks me out. It's not your fault that the media is totally insane.
re: Kara: haven't heard from her directly since, but that's normal. She doesn't talk with me most of the time unless she needs to lecture me on how I should behave towards, well, my parents. But I checked out her journal, and she was busy telling Warren what an idiot I was in an unlocked thread, so I figure she's alright. Warren also has the totally bizarre impression I'm in love with her. What part of "I already have a girlfriend, and I'm not into ( ... )
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From: H.Osborn@oscorp.net
Subject: Your first love was Cordelia Chase?
Thanks for the tip about the age difference between a certain centuries old guy and the teenager he was once in love with. I don't think I will be able to use that to my advantage though because it's different when some guy is trying to date your almost daughter. Honestly, if he had been cool about things when we stepped off the plane that would have freaked me out. I don't disagree with what he had to say me. I just didn't see the benefit of debating with him when I had a hangover. I am nothing like him. Well. I think he uses as much gel as I do, but that is about it.For what it's worth, I knew you weren't sixteen and it does suck for both of us that the papers seem to want to assume you are. However they are offering an award for your identity and if you have any enemies or casual acquaintances looking for a quick pay off, they'll probably sell you out. The bonus side of this is that this will clear up your age. The bad side, you' ( ... )
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To: H.Osborn@oscorp.net
Subject: Our Very Secret Affair
I didn't feel like debating with him when I had a hangover myself, so I get that. Though "debating" is kind of a euphemism for the way these things usually go.
Identity: well, so much for my anonymity then. Tucker Wells is the first who comes to mind. Have you meet him yet? Kara's sort of idol - platonic, don't sweat - and he tends to either yell at people or amaze them with moments of actually interesting conversation. Works for Evil Incorporated for a living these days.
Kara's fighting abilities: tactics, man, tactics. I told her she should train with Angel, but does she listen? No. She doesn't train at all. And she really should. Because she has all that potential. I once met a Slayer in her prime, and she was awesome. She would have wiped the floor with me in the hotel. Kara could become that, but she's lazy and she's sloppy, and if she doesn't get her act together that is going to get her killed one day, because vampires don't joke ( ... )
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From: H.Osborn@oscorp.net
Subject: You are my best kept secret (cept kind of public now)
I learned a long time ago it's better to just stand there and take whatever they have to say especially if they are even remotely right. I was impressed though. No one has quite berated my character the way Angel did since my father died.
Identity: No we haven't met. I know that she is fond of him, but I have to admit I'm slightly jealous of the place he has in her heart. Majorly jealous. I have a feeling after he sees our scandal he'll either hunt me down or work over time to make sure our paths continue not to cross.
Kara's fighting abilities: It's too bad you don't live closer. I think you two could spends hours daily kicking each other's asses.
Cordelia: It's good that you guys can still be friends. MJ and I really don't talk anymore. Don't even get me started on Peter. Maybe Bloom will come to his senses and stop screwing things up with her. Cordelia strikes me as a hard woman to let go of ( ... )
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To: H.Osborn@oscorp.net
Subject: Everyone who could write a tell-all as well, it seems.
He's good at that. Even more so when he's lost his soul or you've locked him under the sea for three months. If you've learned how to stand and take it, though, you're a step ahead of me. Until about two years ago, I either got into a fight or just left. These days, I'm working on the verbal confrontation thing.
Tucker Wells: just contacted me and told me he's getting drunk because of the California news. Considering what that resulted in with us, I don't see why he thinks that's a good idea, but hey, I don't get the guy most of the time. He's seriously protective of Kara, though. I first thought it was all an act, but when she was in trouble some months ago... well, anyway, I changed my mind. He's been a really good friend to her. Though now he behaves like a jealous boyfriend, which I don't get, either, since he had his chance and went for someone else instead.Training with Kara: actually, that would be great ( ... )
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From: H.Osborn@oscorp.net
Subject: I'll let you have first dibs on the talk show circuit and radio interviews
There was no fighting back when it came to my father. It was either stand there and take it or have him shut you completely out for weeks or months until he thought you've learned your lesson and decided to bless you with his attention again. I always preferred to be berated as opposed to ignored.
Tucker: Yeah. I haven't met him and I'm all for anyone who looks out for Kara. That said, I don't see Tucker and me ever exchanging emails that border on friendly, you know? I can understand why he would want her, but it's too late. He let her go and I have no intention of stepping aside for him or anyone else. Kara is amazing and I get that it's probably something you don't want to hear, but she's the type of person who has layers and you have to accept all the layers because they make up this girl who is stellar.Training: I really don't understand the slayer thing or the vampire stuff. All I know ( ... )
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To: H.Osborn@oscorp.net
Subject: Renegotiations.
And here I thought between three different fathers and a stepfather wannabe (i.e. annoying hanger-on of my mother), I had it covered. At least none of mine gave me the silent treatment to teach me lessonsunless the getting kicked out because of the three months under the sea and later because of Cordy counts. Sorry, man.
Tucker: I see he's being a dick to Kara now in her journal. Sheesh. He's older than both of us, if you can believe that, and I know I'm not exactly Mr. Maturity myself, but at least I never threw a fit on the lines of "how dare you have a toy when I'm the only one supposed to have one". Look, just give me plausible deniability about you and Kara, okay? I meant it when I said you should marry and retire to the Fijis, because that would be way better for her than hanging around us lot, but that doesn't mean I can encourage you to do that now when she's still sixteen. No matter how many layers she has.Personal soap operas: Cordelia ( ... )
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To: abetterlie@livejournal.com
Subject: Which of your surnames do I take or are you going for Connor Osborn?
It could have been worse and I know this. Ouch on the kicking out. Mostly my father just kept sending me to boarding schools to be done with me and then I'd promptly get kicked out. After five schools he had no choice but to let me live at home and I attended public school for my senior year.
Tucker: I had to restrain myself from commenting to him in her journal because frankly as long as she wishes to handle it on her own, it's her business and not mine. I'm trying to be respectful of their relationship, but there is no reason for him to be a jackass to her. You'd think he was the jilted boyfriend and not the guy who is just sulking because Kara decided to stop waiting around for him to pat her on the head. I really don't like the guy. I'm not going to propose to a sixteen year girl, girlfriend or not. I'm into her, but trust me I'm working on restraint. Kara is worth waiting for. That's all I ( ... )
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To: H.Osborn@oscorp.net
Subject: Why can’t we take a new name altogether, like Summers?
Though I’m becoming somewhat fond of Osborn. No, the first one was kind of an anticlimax, because I was expecting him to kill me. I had dreamt about that all summer. It was the second one that stung. Just out of curiosity, what are boarding schools like? The guy who provided me with happy-go-lucky memories had absolutely no intel on that, and there weren’t any where I actually grew up. Were you trying to get kicked out or did that sort of happen ( ... )
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from: H.Osborn@oscorp.net
Subject: How about Keating just for the sense of irony?
The question is have you grown fond of being called wonder boy yet? I can see why that would sting. I never got kicked out. My father could be in the same room and pretend I didn't exist. He was pretty talented. Boarding schools are like college in a way except you know those rich frat boy types that you probably wanted to kick the shit out of? 90% of the people in boarding schools are that type. I'm serious. Mostly it was a bunch of rich punks with a sense of entitlement and more daddy and mommy issues than you can imagine. I purposely got myself kicked out because I kept thinking he'd want me to stay. It took five schools for him to give up. Point set match to me ( ... )
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I’ll keep that in mind. Maybe the other guys and I should work out a schedule so we don’t crash into each other when we break in your penthouse.
Destiny: is only good for ruining your life. Trust me. I ended up in a hell dimension because a friend of Angel’s thought he’d save me from some stupid prophecy that said Angel would kill me. Turned out a demon named Sahjahn faked that one because there was that other prophecy which said I would kill him (Sahjahn, not Angel). And the kicker? Both became true anyway, but they wouldn’t have if the first guy would have just left well enough alone. So screw what other versions of you did in other dimensions. You don’t have to do the same thing. (How reliable is that Mike person as a source of information anyway? I don’t trust doppelgangers as a ( ... )
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