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Mar 21, 2011 21:45

Brennan's normally immaculately ordered office at the Jeffersonian Institute is anything but ordered today. Several books have been pulled down from the bookcases and stacked on the floor in rows, a few chairs have been lifted on the table, the cushions and pillows on her couch are askew. Nothing is ever askew in this room. The anthropologist ( Read more... )

(day), { corwin barimen, { temperance brennan, { angela montenegro, @ shelley, willow rosenberg, { liz parker

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[Visual] patternal March 21 2011, 21:46:29 UTC

The expression on Corwin's face as he watches everything unfold filters through indifferent, then intrigued, before finally settling on amused. He can't even understand what it is that even makes him keep watching, but for some reason, he finds himself fascinated enough to keep right on spying. Maybe it was some of the more...rare things that she evidently keeps in that room--that mummy certainly qualifies as "something interesting."

"Lose something?"

[Visual] bonescientist March 22 2011, 09:11:50 UTC

The unexpected voice causes Brennan to jump slightly and to glance towards the door of her office, but upon finding it empty of visitors, she's quick to realize what has happened. Yet again. Those damn tablets were a nuisance and she really should know better than to keep hers anywhere but stowed away where it couldn't record things on a whim.

"My iguana," she replies tersely as she lifts herself on her knees and brushes her hands off on her blue lab coat. Brennan isn't burdened with too much regard for polite smalltalk on a normal day, and her current distress is making her even less inclined to entertain strangers - not to mention she's somewhat embarrassed at having been caught turning everything in her office over like a madwoman.

[Visual] patternal March 22 2011, 23:34:19 UTC

That didn't help with the amused expression at all, and, in fact, might have made it worse. At the very least, it probably wasn't going anywhere for a long time. Of all the things that she could have been looking for... Corwin certainly wasn't a stranger to the odd, but then there were some things that were just plain weird.

"You lost a lizard?" he asked after a few moments to mull over the hilarity of the idea and with just a little bit of incredulousness behind his words. It couldn't have been that strange to misplace a pet--especially one of that size--but the whole thing was very nearly approaching laughable. That's what she was worried about?

"Good luck with that."

[Visual] bonescientist March 23 2011, 12:17:27 UTC

Brennan frowned in confusion as she considered the man's tone. She had notoriously bad social skills and more often than not, she tended to miss the point by miles. She suspected that this might be one of those occasions where she missed the punchline of the joke.

"Yes," she confirmed after a moment despite her confusion. "Well, technically I didn't lose him, he escaped his terrarium. I must have neglected to properly close the hatch after feeding him."

More hesitantly, even a touch warily, she questioned, "Is there... something amusing or unusual about that?"

[Visual] patternal March 23 2011, 21:45:17 UTC

"Unusual, no, amusing yes." But then, he had always had something of a strange sense of humor, if all of the thinking he'd done at his tomb was any indicator. Something twisted and dark occasionally. "Actually," he continued after a short pause that he continued grinning right through "it's so awkwardly mundane that it's pretty damn hilarious. I didn't think there was such a thing as 'normal' around here."

[Visual] bonescientist March 24 2011, 10:07:07 UTC

"I see," Brennan said, although truthfully, she really didn't entirely. For someone who didn't really understand sarcasm, there was a distinct undertone of just that in her voice as she added, "Well, I suppose in that case I'm glad that I could provide a source of amusement for you with this predicament."

[Visual] patternal March 26 2011, 03:00:13 UTC

"Yeah, I'll bet you are." It wasn't the first time he'd been accused (directly or indirectly) of having a strange sense of humor. And it wouldn't be the last with how incorrigible he was. "I'd offer suggestions, but I'm guessing you've already looked anywhere I'd tell you to."

[Visual] /latest tag ever, i'm so sorry bonescientist March 30 2011, 10:18:26 UTC

"There's a good chance of that, yes."

Even if she hadn't, Brennan sure as heck wouldn't admit to that now. Despite normally approaching things with a cool head and a mostly unbiased point of view, she also had heaps of stubborn pride in her that came out to play more often than she realized.

"Do you often consider the misfortunes of others as resources for personal hilarity?" she asked, more curious now rather than offended. "Psychologists might have some insights about that, you know."

Never mind that Brennan tended to discredit psychology altogether. It was a soft science.

[Visual] Pfffft not even. <333~ patternal March 30 2011, 22:16:44 UTC

"I've seen a few," Corwin admitted without so much as a whisper of hesitation. It was even the truth, never mind who they were. She wasn't likely to believe him anyway if he told her who exactly had tried to untangle his mind. "And they weren't able to sort me out either. I've never denied having an interesting sense of humor, but it's not the worst that I could have."

[Visual] <33! bonescientist March 31 2011, 12:15:02 UTC

Brennan thought about this for a moment, before pursing her lips slightly and nodding her head.

"Fair enough. I've always believed psychology to be an undependable soft science based purely on conjecture and guesswork rather than any quantifiable evidence, anyway."

[Visual] ^____^ patternal April 1 2011, 00:59:33 UTC

Corwin shrugged at her rather obvious distaste for the subject. That was far from the reason that the "greats" had had a difficult time figuring him out, but he may as well just let her keep right on believing what she did-no reason to ruin a perfectly good view of the way the world worked when it wouldn't affect him any one way or the other.

"That's one way of looking at it."

[Visual] bonescientist April 1 2011, 18:41:33 UTC

Brennan raised a brow, the corner of her mouth pulling into a tiny, somewhat indulgent smile. The prove me wrong, then goes unsaid but is implied.

"What's the other?"

Re: [Visual] patternal April 1 2011, 21:42:30 UTC

"Either that it's some miracle godsend to cure all problems, or an interesting theory that may or may not work," he shrugged again. "I'll try anything once, and I've had my fill of psychoses for now."

[Visual] bonescientist April 2 2011, 19:59:24 UTC

"Well, it's certainly not the former one," Brennan scoffed in what was basically a knee-jerk reaction, half-amused and half-affronted by the idea. Her gaze sharpened a little as she scrutinized Corwin more closely. "Are you saying you have been diagnosed as psychotic?"

Blunt as always.

[Visual] patternal April 4 2011, 04:26:53 UTC

Corwin shrugged off the accusation indifferently. Not the worst thing he'd been called. "Psychotic is in the eye of the beholder," he shot back. "But hey, if they're all quacks in the first place, it can't really matter whether I was or I wasn't, since it would be a false-diagnosis under a 'soft science,' I believe you said."

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