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The Sea of Raging Emotions Ebbs [Closed]

May 25, 2008 16:25

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)

( Mini Timeline of events. )

Ω naoe nagi, Ω gregory house

Comments 12

causticguy May 25 2008, 21:34:28 UTC

Romantics and mothers tended to dub the kitchen the warm center of family life. House was neither a romantic nor a mother. And he wasn't terribly interested in family, especially because he didn't have one ( ... )

technokinetic May 25 2008, 21:57:51 UTC

Nagi frowned up at the man. Naturally, the boy did in fact miss the reference but was far too used to that from hanging around Schu for so long.

"No," he replied flatly.

It was his every intention to just keep walking and not say another word to the man; he was a mundane - a person who, especially tonight of all nights, he'd never spare a second thought on - but... this was also a man who was supposed to be their ally - Schwarz's ally - for however long it took to get Schu and Faru back and perhaps longer.

He stepped softly to a halt near the door and looked over at where House was working. Underneath the microscope was... blood? A bloody book?

His journal... the bloody page... Kuja was acting strange today, making bloody kisses all over his journal...

Lost in his own thoughts, Nagi held up the feathers closer to his face, looking at them again. They did indeed remind him of what he'd seen when Kuja had been confronted with Nagi's telekinetic attack in the clothing store.

causticguy May 26 2008, 01:18:44 UTC

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 ( ... )

technokinetic May 26 2008, 01:43:22 UTC

House had basically pinpointed the problem with making jokes and using entendres around Nagi - for all the time Nagi spent on the internet learning about worldly things, he simply had not experienced them himself; hadn't had any practice in hearing about them in conversation. It was that subtle difference between intellect and wisdom. True, the mascot of the St. Louis Cardinals was a foreign creature to the young Japanese boy, but the 'exotic game' that House was actually referring to... well, that was universal, wasn't it ( ... )

causticguy May 26 2008, 07:03:26 UTC

There were things about Schwarz that House tried not to go too near. Like the assassin thing. He knew, of course, what these men did. No one had tried to disguise or prettify it. And House wasn't the moral outrage sort-he wasn't going to get all indignant about it in the abstract. He was, however, still a doctor which, if you looked at it close enough, put him a bit at odds with his current co-conspirators ( ... )