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Room 218, Sunday Afternoon

Dec 18, 2011 14:01

Karla'd had an excuse why she'd missed the wrapped present on her bed Friday night. She and Warren had been awake for almost twenty- four hours, fought in a battle, had gotten hurled into a bridge, made up, and then she'd performed at the Showcase. Karla counted herself lucky that she'd managed to make it to a bed, never mind her own, before ( Read more... )

where: room 218, door: open, what: mystical bonds, event: baby penguins, can we drama queen this up a notch?, who: cassidy, [kenzi], post: open, linkdrop, this isn't humiliating at all, what: maybe i have problems, who: tony stark, who: karla, who: wesley wyndam-pryce, who: warren worthington iii

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hoorayimrich December 18 2011, 19:20:04 UTC

And behind Tony that poor, frightened penguin ran and ran. It would never again return to the room of screaming again. "Are you okay?"

Because screaming usually meant something was wrong, but there didn't look to be anything out of the ordinary, so...

glacial_witch December 18 2011, 19:33:15 UTC

Bye little penguin.

By now, Karla was feeling pretty stupid. And thinking about climbing under her covers and never coming back out. "I was startled..." she said, a little lamely. "There was a bloody horse's head in my bed."

Or, you know, paint on a marble statue. LOOK. KARLA HAD HAD A ROUGH DAY-WEEK-THINGY.

hoorayimrich December 18 2011, 19:34:10 UTC

Okay that was. New.

"...a real one?"

glacial_witch December 18 2011, 19:44:08 UTC

"...Not exactly?"

Way to point out the flaw in her explanation there, Tony.

"But it scared me. I wasn't fully awake yet."

And she had been having dreams about ashes in her mouth. Ashes that had once been people, Jean.

hoorayimrich December 18 2011, 19:48:23 UTC

Tony nodded very slowly at that before deciding it didn't matter. "I'd think you're pretty awake now then."

Oh, Tony. Don't try to make jokes.

glacial_witch December 18 2011, 20:00:39 UTC

"I think I'm skipping my coffee," Karla agreed. "My heart's already speeding along pretty well."

...She didn't normally freak out about horse heads in her bed, Tony. Just throwing that out there.

On the other hand, this was the first time that had happened. So, who knew?

hoorayimrich December 18 2011, 20:02:01 UTC

Who knew indeed! Unless she got in bad with the mafia...

"You're good?" So he knew before getting into any sort of conversation.

glacial_witch December 18 2011, 20:14:15 UTC

Why would she ever have trouble with the mafia?

You know, unless she started actually talking to someone involved...

"I'm okay," she said, sounding sheepish. "Not how I want to wake up, but I'll live. Sorry for, umm, worrying you. If I did. I didn't mean to."

hoorayimrich December 18 2011, 20:15:44 UTC

Pretty much that, yes!

"Good." Tony smiled once, mostly a reflex than anything else. "We need to talk about Topher, I think."

glacial_witch December 18 2011, 20:40:50 UTC

Because Topher was Tony's friend, Karla bit back her sigh and her eye-roll at the mention of his name. "If you'd like," she said, waving a hand to invite him in. "What about him?"

Was Tony going to promise to keep Topher from running experiments on Warren? After their debacle with cure-darts recently, scientific experiments were kind of a touchy subject.

hoorayimrich December 18 2011, 20:42:05 UTC

Tony leaned in the doorway, arms crossed over his chest. His expression went a little hard before he asked, "Why did you threaten to poison him?"

NFB from here, please! glacial_witch December 18 2011, 21:09:55 UTC

That was so not where she'd thought this conversation was going.

"Because Topher doesn't get it when people tell him to stop doing something or not to do something," Karla said, some of her frustration bleeding into her tone. "It doesn't seem to matter what reason you give him or how nicely you ask. If he wants to do it, he's going to. It doesn't matter how hurt or angry or upset someone gets. He just keeps pushing.Even hitting didn't really work. Just ask Kate. Of course, if Karla had even the least idea about the autism spectrum or Aspergers, she might not have been so quick to judge ( ... )

Re: NFB from here, please! hoorayimrich December 18 2011, 21:11:24 UTC

"Done with your lecture?"

Re: NFB from here, please! glacial_witch December 18 2011, 21:39:20 UTC

"Oh, I'm sorry," Karla said. "You asked 'why.' I'd assumed you were honestly curious and answered you."

Re: NFB from here, please! hoorayimrich December 18 2011, 21:45:14 UTC

"No, you lectured like you know you need an excuse for threatening someone weaker than you with poison. Do you know just when he looked into that information for Peter?" Tony asked, voice low and even. It was possibly the same tone he used when in the suit. Not that she was aware of that.

Re: NFB from here, please! glacial_witch December 18 2011, 21:58:55 UTC

Karla raised an eyebrow at him. "So I should have just stuck with something like 'Topher gets fear. I was scary to keep him away from bad things'? Here, I figured as Topher's friend maybe you'd want just a little more information."

But if Tony wanted sound bites, she could oblige. Simple declarative sentences, go.

"No. He did not say. You tell me now?"

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