The Sea of Raging Emotions Ebbs [Closed]

[technokinetic]

WHO: Naoe Nagi (technokinetic) and Dr. House (causticguy)
WHAT: probably a lot of discussion between the Doctor and an irritated Prodigy
WHERE: Crimson Dragon -> Schwarz HQ -> House's place
WHEN: wee morning hours of Day 40 (backlogged by 27 days)

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[causticguy]

Any way you cut it, "No" was the wrong answer. When someone asked if you'd run into the mascot for the St. Louis Cardinals on your way home late at night in a city where-well, okay lets face it, if the mascot of the St. Louis Cardinals actually did turn up in Rivelata it wouldn't have been the strangest thing to have happened in the last five weeks-but that wasn't the point. The point was that "No" wasn't even really an answer. It was more like posting six feet of razor wire and a flashing neon Keep Out sign.

The problem with neon was that it attracted things: gnats, moths, breakdancing street kids from 1985….nosy, shut-in diagnosticians with bum legs…. If Nagi wanted to keep him out that badly, then House wanted to know why.

Of course Nagi had had six feet of razor wire and a neon Keep Out sign around him since the first time House had met him. What was different was that tonight something was up, and whatever it was had illuminated what might just be a way in through the barricade. Or at least a chance to get a few steps closer to it. House had been keeping his proverbial wire-cutters on hand, just in case, anyway.

He watched Nagi's eyes travel to his journal on the countertop beside him, to the slide under the microscope, to the feathers. He glanced down at the handkerchiefs stained, it appeared, with something that might have been lipstick.

"So, either you've been out hunting exotic game or else you've been trying to get it to come eat out of your hand." The double entendre was heavy and only thinly veiled-probably, House thought, the kid was clever enough to pick up on it; he just wasn't sure if he was worldly enough to. He fixed his clear blue gaze on Nagi and looked at him appraisingly, "Something got away from you tonight."