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Application for Mordichai Black: Julie Kenner's Aphrodite series

Apr 14, 2010 18:12

Being unexpectedly transported to an unfamiliar castle wasn't the most inconvenient thing that had ever happened to Mordi, but it was going to put a crimp in his afternoon plans ( Read more... )

chance silvey, mordichai black, arya stark, china sorrows, sunflora, simon tam, application, billy brennan, vislor turlough, demyx

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chance_silvey April 16 2010, 00:11:57 UTC

Chance didn't get so far as to read the application. She saw Simon, in the sorting room, wearing a flowing cape and binoculars.

"What the fuck? Have you finally had a psychotic break?"

Immediately she regretted saying this to him. However she might feel about him in general, once upon a time Simon Tam had been very good to her when she'd undergone some mental trauma herself. Not that he remembered that, or anything, but it still mattered to her.

shifter_mordi April 16 2010, 00:22:35 UTC

"Um. Yes."

Mordi had now been clued in to the fact that the Council had nothing to do with this, and had written sensitive information on a form that had conveniently magically replicated itself for everyone to read. It was by no means as bad as some of the incidents he'd been in (fireballs at SeaWorld, anyone?) but he needed to cover it up. If his dignity had to be sacrificed, so be it.

"I'm insane. That stuff on the form is all made up. Pay no attention to it. Or me."

chance_silvey April 16 2010, 00:37:12 UTC

For a second it looked like Chance was about to do just that -- pay no attention: turn around and leave. She did turn around ( ... )

shifter_mordi April 16 2010, 04:08:45 UTC

He'd completely forgotten that he was wearing his favorite propulsion cloak. Since flying unassisted was not one of his powers, the propulsion/invisibility cloak made spying unseen from high locations that much easier. Since he wasn't about to soar through the New York skyline anytime soon, he looked like a loon with it on.

Mordi took the cloak off and started folding it up. "That's what it looks like, doesn't it? As a matter of fact, I was birdwatching, and I was cold." Gods, that sounded stupid. "I'm fine, really. You can go."

chance_silvey April 16 2010, 18:31:32 UTC

"You were birdwatching, and you were cold." Chance repeated the words with clear skepticism. "Yeah." She crossed her arms. He was acting ... weird was an understatement. Uncharacteristic, she thought. That was the word.

shifter_mordi April 16 2010, 23:10:45 UTC

"You've got it."

Obviously she didn't believe him, but maybe if he stuck to his rediculous story she'd stop asking questions. Go away, he thought, but suggestion wasn't one of his powers, either.

chance_silvey April 17 2010, 04:24:50 UTC

Of course she didn't believe him. When she'd seen him in here at first, he'd been wearing a lost look that made her think of the way she felt after one of her damn-near-trademarked trilobite-induced fugue states. That seemed to have quickly changed to a self-conscious defensiveness. She couldn't blame him for that, really, either.

"You don't want to talk to me, that's fine. I ought to go get Brennan or something, then. Don't insult my intelligence by pretending everything's normal, okay?"

shifter_mordi April 19 2010, 03:20:03 UTC

"Look," Mordi said running his hand through his hair and looking a bit weary, "I don't think you're stupid, but I can't tell you what's going on. Go get whoever you want. I'll tell them the same thing. It'll be a lot easier if we pretend that I'm telling the truth."

chance_silvey April 19 2010, 03:37:13 UTC

"Yeah, okay." Chance didn't have to deal with the attitude. (The un-Simon-like attitude, actually; when had he ever been this pissy? Well ... all right, Simon could be pissy. And obstinate. And a pain in the ass. So, maybe not so un-Simon-like. She just wasn't used to being on the receiving end of it.) Doctor Tam was someone else's problem these days.

Let him deal with it.

She left Simon where he was, and went to go find Billy Brennan. Odds were pretty stellar that he'd be with the dinosaur skeleton he'd gotten for Christmas.

shifter_mordi April 19 2010, 04:01:12 UTC

She finally left, and Mordi breathed a sigh of relief. Until she came back with a beefy guy who looked concerned. Great. Save the Council one headache and get committed. He should have just said to hell with it and let the Mortal Liaison Office deal with the fallout.

"So Chance tells me you've gone insane," the man said. He picked up an application, read it quickly, and turned to Chance. "I'm not sure if Simon is creative enough to come up with a name like Mordichai."

chance_silvey April 19 2010, 04:11:10 UTC

Chance hadn't even looked at the application -- hadn't even noticed it was there, before. She scowled. It wasn't unheard-of for a person who already lived at Hogwarts to fill out a Sorting application, she was sure, though she couldn't think of any specific examples. But Mordichai?

"That's awfully biblical for spacemen," she admitted. "It's like something off a tombstone in --" Ugh. She put a hand to her temple. "Never mind." Old North Burial Ground? Best to let Billy take the lead, she decided. "You know him better than I do."

shifter_mordi April 19 2010, 04:50:59 UTC

"Hello?" Mordi interjected. "Can I say something here? Mordichai isn't that unheard of." In the Protector world, at least.

"You're getting me mixed up with that doctor." He'd been holding out hope that the man was a mimic of some sort (he was definitely an ass, but that wasn't a superpower), but this seemed to confirm that he went around looking like that all the time.

"I'm Mordi. Your friend already came and left."

bone_not_rock April 19 2010, 05:00:11 UTC

Oh. Well, that explained a lot.

Billy's first introduction to doppelgangers had been a lecture along the lines of thou shalt not talk to Damien Thorn. This time the resemblance was much more striking, down to the fancy clothes.

Billy would regret having missed the cape when he found out about it.

"So, Mordi," he said. "How's that pyrokinesis working out for you?"

chance_silvey April 19 2010, 05:12:22 UTC

Chance's eyes flickered from face to face. She thought, vaguely, that she ought to be embarrassed. Instead, she was relieved, and also a little annoyed, irrationally enough.

"It's bizarre," she said. "You don't just look alike, you talk alike." That was not the case with Grant and Thorn and Sidney Reilly, all of whom Chance knew, all of whom had a distinctive style setting him apart from the others quite definitely. "And hold yourselves the same way." Something to do with the way they wore their clothes, or their clothes draped on them. Something physical, she supposed, and therefore stupid to talk about.

"Sorry," she said to Mordi. "Honest mistake. Simon's ..." She shrugged. "Not my friend. His friend," she tilted her head to indicate Billy. "Around here, strange things sometimes happen, that's all. I don't think you're even the first pyrokinetic we've seen." Thinking of Gillian, there. She missed the girl.

shifter_mordi April 19 2010, 05:18:36 UTC

Mordi facepalmed.

"I'm not even the first," he muttered. He'd just made himself look like a complete fool for nothing. "So if this isn't Council business, and I'm not the first Protector to come through here, what in Hades is going on?"

bone_not_rock April 20 2010, 03:27:28 UTC

"Birdwatching in the cold, apparently." That was too good to pass up. Even the real Simon was going to hear about that.

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