This is a silly place...

[devils_bargain]

Who: Dorian Gray and Hayley Stark. Then, Dorian and Adrian Veidt.
When: Tonight.
Where: Seventh floor, though perhaps he will venture further.
What: Dorian is meeting Hayley so she can explain his comm to him.
Warnings: None.
Note: COMPLETE. This ends with Dorian going away angrily to read Dorian Gray, so he isn't lingering about after Adrian's thread.

Comments

Fff. Sorry I forgot about this. >>;

[victimofnoone]

Hayley arrived at the common room not long after she had told Dorian that she was on her way, laptop tucked under her arm. She forgot there were two common rooms per floor, but luckily he was located in the one near the stairs and she was able to spot him easily enough. He was unfamiliar, fair in his features and relatively attractive, but also staggered in a way with a sort of wisdom that suggested he was a little older than he looked. Then again, so was she.

"Hey. Dorian?" She offered him a smile as she entered, not moving forward to shake his hand or anything. Helpful as she was, she still preferred to keep some distance between herself and whoever she was meeting, her old friend the taser tucked safely in her back pocket and hidden beneath her jacket.

No big. :) Nice thing about LJ is shiz don't get lost.

[devils_bargain]

Dorian turned as he was addressed, and smiled reflexively, however as he took in this young woman's appearance, the smile quickly faded. She wore short hair and strange pants. It was a most unbecoming look for a woman. He wondered what strange sort of profession would require this of a woman. Perhaps she was a maid and this was her uniform, or she might be a freshly escaped child laborer. He had heard the conditions were harsh. Perhaps her hair had been cropped for her safety. It was a shame, in his opinion. She could have been pretty. Indeed, he might too have found the strangeness of her accent charming, but he had already decided he didn't quite like her. There was something not right about her. This was not to say that he didn't find her interesting. Interest and liking were two very different and separate things

My brain has been shit and you're an intimidatingly good writer. I apologize.

[victimofnoone]

"Hayley?" She asked with a skeptical tone, as if he was meeting any other girls in the common room at this time. Hayley couldn't decide if he was arrogant or paranoid and she wasn't particularly fond of either personality trait. The tone he used in addressing her only supplemented this theory, but unlike him, she tried not to judge so quickly. His clothing spoke to the approximate period of time he came from, though she had never been good at remembering styles of particular eras.

"Did you want me to show you how to use your communicator thing still?" The girl loitered near the doorway, content to leave at any time. He was not so personable as the last couple people that she had offered to help and the way his facial expressions contorted felt as if his eyebrows himself were moving against her.

Nonsense.

[devils_bargain]

It was not that he didn't know who she was, or that he had forgotten, it was that he had decided in that instant that he wasn't fond of her and therefore would be difficult and politely rude.

"Ah, yes," he said, as if her repeating her name had jogged his memory.

"I would, yes," he said, his tone perfectly cordial and polite and yet... it seemed as though he was addressing her as one might address their valet or other members of the help, or perhaps even a shop hand. He approached her and held out the device.

I warned yooou that I'd be wanting some CR. :X

[triggered_it]

Adrian had been on one of his many long, meandering walks around the Barge. Eavesdropping was one of his favorite hobbies, and he was not a man who often made his presence known when it would not be beneficial. It was interesting, the little bits of conversation that could be picked up and the rest could be inferred. This, combined with the network, was helping him to rapidly gain information on just about everyone. He had his few friends or allies and now he was ready to begin weeding through the rest of the muck to find the ones who truly interested him.

Standing on deck, leaning against the railing and staring outward into empty space, he gave the impression of a man lost in his own thoughts, but he was very well aware of the new comer approaching, the one with a penchant for decadence and Wildean witticism. It was useful that Hayley was with him as well. He just needed to wait for her to point him out, and then proper introductions could begin.

[devils_bargain]

Hayley had given Dorian a brief rundown of the layout. Below deck, the floors were all similarly set up. Two common rooms, cabins and what have you. After following the stairs up, Dorian purposefully went off on his own. He fancied himself one who lead, not one who followed, however incorrect he was in thinking so.

It was dark, and he was sure he could make out the shape of a person here or there, but once Hayley disappeared somewhere, there was only one person he was sure he could see. Not knowing who this person was, he did not approach him. His conversation earlier with Hayley had been interesting. The kind of interesting he did not quite want to repeat. Dorian walked in the opposite direction as this man. He wanted to locate the exits, or perhaps find the Admiral or whoever it was that ran this - from all he'd gathered from others - massive hell-bound ship.

[triggered_it]

Oh, pity. Haley had somehow disappeared, but the other had wandered off on his own and was now going in quite the opposite direction than the one he was supposed to be going. New plan: Adrian retreated back into the shadows, silently, following the young man for quite sometime. Yes, he was aware that his actions could be considered strange, but this was how he operated

[devils_bargain]

Dorian had not been aware that he was being followed. However, he was made aware of such when Adrian spoke. Dorian turned, not sure what to expect from this interruption. After all, the last time he'd turned on board this ship, he had been not so pleasantly surprised