[open] you say goodbye and i say hello
[originally, I was going to have actual situations set up so that people could interact with my characters and say goodbye. now, I'm thinking it's a better idea to have some situations, but if you want to have a personal, private goodbye with a character (like Josef and Kat, for example), just IM/PM me and we can figure out the logistics of the
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She takes a beer for herself even though she's never been a huge fan of the stuff. It reminds her of her brother though this beer's nothing like what they had in London. After she has one in hand, she seeks out Sunshine afterward. For whatever reason, she's having some trouble opening her beer. It's stuck, and she doesn't have one of those fancy bottle cap openers on hand.
"This is quite the party you're throwing," she says to Sunshine once she's found her, still trying to open that bloody bottle.
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She reaches out, pinching Martha's cheek. "It'll be a pity, leaving you behind, what with your cute ass and all, but Sunshine's gotta roll out at some point or another, and I figured I'd do it with a bang."
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There is a part of her that already has an answer. Why not?
Why not anywhere but Chicago?
She laughs a little at the cheek pinching. "It's sad to see you leave. It is though I am grateful... you're leaving of your own choice and not... It is sad to see you off though," Martha says, sincerely, drinking down the beer as a sort of farewell to her on her journey whether Martha likes the stuff or not. "This is certainly a bang, the kind that the city can use more of as opposed to the kind that it gets more frequently."
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She knocks back her own beer, thinking about Martha's words. "Yeah, I figure people deserve a party, especially after what happened lately. Reason to enjoy themselves, rather than cower in fear. I'd stay if I could, help out, but I've got to keep on moving."
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She shrugs and shakes her head. "You can't stay simply out of want to help. If you've got restlessness, wanderlust, you have to follow that wherever it leads. I was only able to do that traveling thing one year, but I can see the appeal. I get hit with the want to get on the road again frequently here, but that feeling never lasts for me."
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"But no, you're right. I can't press myself to stay, even if sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who realizes what a threat the Barnams are in town. Stayed too long, I fear. Don't know how I'll recover." Wanderlust is a good way to put it. She's always had to move on, even when things didn't go south. Just, with the way she acts in public, things tended to go south pretty quickly. "If you ever get the need again, the need to just get the hell out of here, send me a journal, and we can party again, yeah?"
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It's just foreign.
"I think that we've honestly got so many threats that we can't-- it's impossible to prepare for all of them at this point, running out of resources and trying to fight against everything at once. If we obsessed over every threat, no one would ever live. But I know." Martha knows that they're a threat. She's been around long enough to see how dangerous they can be. She knew Tay. "Yeah, course. I'd love that."
She'd have to drag Wes along, but she doesn't think Sunshine would mind that at all.
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"So yeah, don't be a stranger, if you have time, considering everything that's going on." This conversation is sobering her way too much, so Sunshine cracks open another beer, chugging half of it. "And you know, I wouldn't be so opposed to you playing bad cop before I leave. As long as the outfit's sexy enough. Not that there's much you could put on that wouldn't be."
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She smirks at Sunshine. "Thank you. It's the same for you. I haven't felt much like... role play lately or I might take you up on that offer."
Last time she was grieving, sex was what she wanted. Meaningless sex. Long, drunken nights. It's much different this time, and she hasn't figured out if that's better or not.
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