QL-Slow ride! Take it easy! /bom bom man_geniusSeptember 15 2010, 19:38:48 UTC
[A very busy Genius is in mid bite out of a donut when he sits down at his desk. Because Qi hasn't been around lately, he's forgotten his new habit of checking under the desk for his 'complicated' friend-who-is-a-girl. So of course, the laws of comedy demand that when Qi touches his hem, a piece of donut goes down the wrong pipe. He jumps up, hacking away and the donut goes rolling across the floor]
QL--Cause it's not gonna be a quicklog more like a slooowlog?man_geniusSeptember 15 2010, 20:50:06 UTC
[Ew. Somebody gets a glare for eating his donut off the floor and for ALMOST KILLING HIM! The thoughts are loud even if the man is still coughing]
S-sorry! That was the last donut!! [all that is punctuated with several coughs] I could have DIED just now from choking--that is not a death I want! Anything that deprives the brain of oxygen is not the way I want to go. Instantaneous death ok! Lingering 'seeing it coming' death via bff?! NOT OK!
QL - could be worse, could be the lion songman_geniusSeptember 15 2010, 21:08:46 UTC
It would be highly ironic to die in Medical.
[Oh great. Sharing of the dirty floor donut. That's just...oddly sweet. In a kindergarten way. He takes it and gives her an eyebrow raise before he blows on it and pops it into his mouth]
'S ok, we ust wash'd the flwoors. Hey where haf you been all dis time? You missed all the drama from the latest mass murdering spree. It seems like we have one every two months, must be synced with the cycle of the moons. Luckily this time I didn't have to do much--Lezard took all the autopsies and I just did my lab rat thing. ...You ok?
[He had no idea waht to do now. Did he hug her? Tell her he was sorry? What good did that do? And why now? He was fairly certain Fracta couldn't have been one of the victims he'd seen in Medical because the woman never left the safety of Qi's home. But the timing was horrible.
But now...this meant that Qi was all alone. She'd just lost one of her best friends and Genius knew what that felt like. But even as he felt this rare surge of empathy, he remained a distance away from Qi, unable to bridge the gap between how he felt and how he should act. He had no clue how to show people he cared.]
QL - They're pretty coolenchainementSeptember 16 2010, 05:19:36 UTC
[ It takes her a minute to decide to move and a moment more to actually do this, but eventually she's out from under the table in a movement that's no less grace for her distressed expression and inability to really connect with her environment.
Once she's up, however, it doesn't take very long for her to simply go over to Genius and hug him. ]
[For a minute Genius forgot that his lab was in the middle of a very busy and heavily used building. He sighed and pulled Qi to him tightly, as though she were in danger of disappearing at that moment. He put his head on hers lightly and closed his eyes.]
I know. Just that...even if she wasn't the girl from my past...I still thought of her as someone important. She was important. To you.
[ It's busy, yes, but how often do people actually bother to poke their heads in here to see what he's up to? Probably not terribly often, and it's not like anyone knows she's here today.
Small sneaky girl is small and sneaky. Besides, it's nice to be hugged. ]
I miss her. [ Qĭ isn't going to cry, she's done a lot of that already, and Genius isn't really equipped to handle it if she were to start now. So instead she just shuts her eyes tighter. ] All her things, I saved them. Notes and notebooks, all of it.
[Genius really really isn't equipped to handle crying so it's probably a good thing. He tightens his grip slightly, a small part of his mind marveling at how freak'n TINY Qi is, skinny and small in his arms and he is NOT a very big man. It's strange.]
Can I see them sometime? You should save them. Case she comes back.
There really isn't any good way of informing him that she's there, so she settles on tugging at the hem of his pants leg when he sits down. ]
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ARGH!!
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That donut, however? All hers now. Om nom nom. ]
Sorry. [ Quiet voices for quiet people? Oh wait, Genius is in this QL. ]
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S-sorry! That was the last donut!! [all that is punctuated with several coughs] I could have DIED just now from choking--that is not a death I want! Anything that deprives the brain of oxygen is not the way I want to go. Instantaneous death ok! Lingering 'seeing it coming' death via bff?! NOT OK!
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[ Serious girl is serious and hands him back exactly ½ of his original dropped donut.
Sharing is caring or something. ]
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[Oh great. Sharing of the dirty floor donut. That's just...oddly sweet. In a kindergarten way. He takes it and gives her an eyebrow raise before he blows on it and pops it into his mouth]
'S ok, we ust wash'd the flwoors. Hey where haf you been all dis time? You missed all the drama from the latest mass murdering spree. It seems like we have one every two months, must be synced with the cycle of the moons. Luckily this time I didn't have to do much--Lezard took all the autopsies and I just did my lab rat thing. ...You ok?
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[ To say the least. Qĭ just watches him slowly talk about autopsies and all that fun stuff. ]
No.
Fracta is gone.
[ She feels like she should be talk more, somehow, but...not yet. Getting here was hard enough, thanks. ]
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[Somebody was a little jealous of that.
Genius clearly doesn't get Qi's comment right away. He's still licking sugar from his lips as he stares at her in confusion.]
Where'd she go?
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...I don't know. Where do the faded ones go?
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[Genius had fun with Simon in Hogwarts so he wasn't too keen to remember the things about the older man that annoyed him]
Faded?
[Like a lighting bolt, the realization hit Genius hard, right in his chest. He took a sharp breath and two steps backwards.]
No. No, she's gone? She disappeared?! W-when? Wh--oh. Qi.
[Genius doesn't know if he needs to comfort her or needs it himself. She's gone. The girl that was almost (but not quite)from his world.]
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[ She normally would've shrugged at that point, but someone was still hiding, sort of, under the desk.
She only nods in response to his question. Somewhere in her head she's wondering if this conversation is even real. ]
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But now...this meant that Qi was all alone. She'd just lost one of her best friends and Genius knew what that felt like. But even as he felt this rare surge of empathy, he remained a distance away from Qi, unable to bridge the gap between how he felt and how he should act. He had no clue how to show people he cared.]
I'm sorry.
For many things.
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Once she's up, however, it doesn't take very long for her to simply go over to Genius and hug him. ]
Not your fault.
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I know. Just that...even if she wasn't the girl from my past...I still thought of her as someone important. She was important. To you.
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Small sneaky girl is small and sneaky. Besides, it's nice to be hugged. ]
I miss her. [ Qĭ isn't going to cry, she's done a lot of that already, and Genius isn't really equipped to handle it if she were to start now. So instead she just shuts her eyes tighter. ] All her things, I saved them. Notes and notebooks, all of it.
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Can I see them sometime? You should save them. Case she comes back.
[They could hope. Right?]
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