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Office Hours, #7, Wednesday

Jan 05, 2011 14:29

... Aw, shit. It had been so long since Reno had spent time in his office. He'd gotten kinda familiar with it, what, back when the parents were on the island, way back? But he'd gone and told the Rookie's Rookie that he'd be here today, in case she wanted to talk. And anyhow, there was always shit to do ( Read more... )

what: office hours, what: oh yeah i have one of these, people: romeo, people: chloe saunders, places: office #7

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awakestheghosts January 5 2011, 19:27:44 UTC

And look, there was the Rookie's Rookie knocking on the door. She poked her head in and gave Reno a shy but game smile.

"Is this a good time? I can come back later."

raspberryturk January 5 2011, 19:30:40 UTC

"Ain't no better time than now," Reno replied, quirking her a little grin. "Come on in, yo. Dust off a chair."

Or stand. Whichever you preferred, Chloe.

awakestheghosts January 5 2011, 19:36:38 UTC

Chloe smiled again and nodded as she came in. She made sure to shut the door, because she trusted Reno, but she wasn't so keen about someone accidentally overhearing what they would talk about.

"Thank you, Reno, I appreciate you being here to talk to."

raspberryturk January 5 2011, 19:39:11 UTC

Reno shrugged a little, leaning back in his own chair a little.

"It's my job," he noted, idly. And if he was referring to his job as a teacher, a Turk, or just the guy who looked after the Rookies, the world might never know. "What's up, Chloe?"

awakestheghosts January 5 2011, 19:45:01 UTC

"So, Tori told me that she told you that I was in trouble and that people wanted to kill me. I figured that it would be a good idea if you knew the whole story." She sighed. "And to be honest, I'm tired of being scared all of the time that someone is going to show up here. I'm tired of worrying that one night I'll just disappear and no one here will have any idea what has happened. I've told Ino and Karla that people want to kill me, and I've told Mitchell some of why people want to kill me. However, I haven't told any of them the full story."

Mainly because she was a little bit worried about what anyone was going to think about her when she did. Which didn't explain why she was risking telling everything to Reno, now did it?

raspberryturk January 5 2011, 19:56:00 UTC

Well, Reno was nothing if not open-minded. He gave Chloe a smile that was a little softer than his usual, and nodded a bit.

"Well, I'm all ears, if you feel alright tellin' the full story to me, yo."

There was no promising that after he heard it, he wouldn't catch a portal to the mainland and shove his baton up someone's ass. But that was totally a normal, well-adjusted response to things like this, right?

NFB awakestheghosts January 5 2011, 20:24:56 UTC

She chewed on her lip.

"See, these people run this place where they like to play games with people's lives and they messed with mine long before I was born. There's something that runs in my family. We see ghosts. It drove my uncle insane and he killed himself long before I was born. These people contacted my mother because they knew that she wanted a baby but was afraid to subject me to insanity." Yes, she knew all of this probably sounded insane anyway. "They told her they could help with that... that they knew what gene to turn off when I was conceived to prevent that from ever happening." Her eye twitched. "They lied. Oh, they were correct about the gene, but they didn't approach her to help her. They wanted to experiment with her genes and see what would happen. So when she was pregnant they did these experiments on her to mess with me."

Re: NFB raspberryturk January 5 2011, 20:30:19 UTC

Reno was nodding as he listened, his face a very careful mask of serenity. Or, well, as serene as Reno ever got.

Really, this didn't sound like anyone he knew of at all.

Like, say, his co-teacher. Or either of his co-teacher's BFFs, Angeal or Sephiroth.

"What happened to her?"

Re: NFB awakestheghosts January 5 2011, 20:40:33 UTC

She took a breath. "Mom was fine until she was killed in a car wreck when I was little." Okay, younger. "We didn't know for a long time that they had done anything to me because when I first started seeing ghosts and being afraid to go near things, I was a toddler. Therefore, it was easy to think I was just having imaginary friends. For awhile it stopped, but then about three weeks before I came here last year, I was attacked at my old school by the ghost of someone who had dies years before. I was freaked out and screaming and because I tried to go through a window to get away from him, I was classified as suicidal and schizophrenic. I was sent to a home for juveniles with problems." She took a deep breath. "I'm not crazy, Reno. I'm not. I thought I was and I even took their medications like they told me to. They didn't work because they had made me into something that they couldn't control... just like they have done to several kids. When my first friend there lost control of her pyrokinetic powers, they..." Chloe swallowed ( ... )

Re: NFB raspberryturk January 5 2011, 20:46:08 UTC

"I believe you, Rookie. I've seen plenty weirder than kids who can talk to the dead, yo."

And now, Reno was biting the inside of his cheek hard enough to draw blood. Well, fuck. It stank of ShinRa, up and down.

"That friend of yours, is she from that place, too?"

He kind of figured it would be helpful, knowing if they were both on the run, or if it was just Chloe. And if it was two of them, then he'd have twice the reason to find someone to beat to death with a baton, wouldn't he?

Re: NFB awakestheghosts January 5 2011, 21:01:22 UTC

"Tori? Yeah, I met her there. See, they thought that they could rehabilitate us ones who manifested our powers while out of their care. Her mother is one of those people. We escaped when I found a list of names of kids... and they had notes that they weren't sure if they were going to terminate me or not. Because, I could do more than talk to the dead, and they didn't expect that. Reno... I can raise the dead. I can't make them come back to life, but I can raise their bodies and force their spirits back into them no matter what condition they're in and they have to obey me. I can't control it, yet, because I don't know enough about it. When they realized that I could do that and that I couldn't control it and that they might not be able to control me..." Well, she was sure Reno could do the math on that one. "Derek decided that we had to get out because I could disappear at any point ( ... )

Re: NFB raspberryturk January 5 2011, 21:14:47 UTC

Family. Damned if you got 'em, damned if you don't. Reno was flat-out scowling, now, furrowing his eyebrows as he worked over her words.

"But here'll only do you any good until you gotta leave again," he noted, almost casually. Almost. "You know what you're gonna do then?"

Re: NFB awakestheghosts January 5 2011, 21:27:52 UTC

That was the messed up thing. She could only stay here at most until graduation. Then, well ( ... )

Re: NFB raspberryturk January 5 2011, 21:41:27 UTC

Reno nodded faintly, his expression taking a slightly odd cast again as Ino's name came up.

There was another Rookie he was going to have to talk to, some more.

"I... ain't very good at that meditation stuff," he noted, his tone a little slow, like he was carefully picking out all of his words. "But I can tell you you're safe, here, yo. I know for a fact, I ain't the only one who'd stick my neck out for you if they ever figured out where you were, yo."

Re: NFB awakestheghosts January 5 2011, 21:49:02 UTC

Chloe gave him a small smile.

"Andrew is the only adult that any of us thought we could trust, until I came here, so that's why Tori threatened you immediately. Tori is a witch, Simon is a sorcerer and Derek is a werewolf. So, they've kind of been in a 'Chloe needs to be protected most' thing since we all became friends. I don't have their powers and I'm just trying to learn to fight. I know that it would have been dumb, but she really would have tried to set you on fire or something if she didn't know that I already trusted you and felt safe here." She pulled at a strand of her hair. "I know that, and it's why Tori and I agreed that I needed to tell you everything. Because if something happened if I were to visit Tori and the others and I was supposed to be back here and never showed..." She swallowed because the idea was a possibility. "We agreed that someone besides Ino needed to know ( ... )

Re: NFB raspberryturk January 5 2011, 21:56:33 UTC

"If I tell anyone at all, it'll be because I think somethin' happened, and I'm callin' for backup," Reno replied, his tone even. He was already thinking of people who he could grab, if ever it came down to it. Mitchell wasn't a bad start, even if Reno didn't know some of the more... colorful points of the man's history.

"I only got a few requests, if this knowledge is what you're handin' to me," he said, thoughtfully. "First, whenever you're gonna go visit these friends of yours, I want to know when you're expectin' to come back. If you don't got a cellphone, I'll get you one. That way, if you ever step in it, you can call. I'm faster'n I look, yo."

At least, when Portalocity was being cooperative.

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