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the cloning issue

Sep 03, 2009 12:44

"Come on," Miguel presses, leaning against the kitchen doorway, jiggling the half-off sneaker at the end of his foot in a bored tic, "You gotta wonder sometimes. Everbody's gotta wonder, it's like, it's a fucking rule. If you've got a dick, and you've got a clone--"

( slightly NSFW arguing under the cut )

joe toye, miguel alvarez, shari cooper, johnny storm

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heatedrod September 5 2009, 04:02:13 UTC

Johnny passed the guy in the hall, barely giving him much attention until he walked a few feet down...and saw him again. He looked back, saw the first guy's back, then looked forward again.

"Oh, hey," he said, looking excited, "you're clones!"

The excitement was mostly because of a distinct lack of anything else exciting to do.

number97a413 September 5 2009, 04:09:02 UTC

Giving the guy a look somewhere between offended, and sympathetic toward his observational capacity, Miguel completely loses the train of thought connected to trailing after his clone and bugging him until he gives in. He's relatively sure he could get at least an estimate out of Joe if he just persists. "Uh, yeah, unfortunately. Though I'd call that fucker evidence against the practice, sometimes."

heatedrod September 5 2009, 04:22:56 UTC

"You get mistaken for him a lot? I've apparently got a clone too, I've heard it's weird." There was curiosity more than sympathy in the question. Having a clone of yourself was one thing; having someone who looked just like you but wasn't was another.

number97a413 September 5 2009, 04:48:20 UTC

"Not really," he answers, still wondering where this guy came from and who smacked him so hard upside the head. "Seeing as none of my legs are made of metal," tipping his head back to gesture at Joe's retreating form, limping on the curved attachment, and he frowns at having pissed the guy off so much.

"It is weird, though. I mean, I was just asking the guy, how far you think it goes. Yeah I've got two legs and my tattoos, but we're the same height and all, same eyes and shit. You gotta wonder what else there is."

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broken_brushes September 5 2009, 04:49:08 UTC

I had a batch of muffins in the oven, and was on my way back to the kitchen from the rec room when I was practically bowled over by Joe in the hall. "Whoa there," I began, palm falling flat against the wall to keep myself from stumbling. I peered over Joe's shoulder at where his clone was hollering at his back from the kitchen.

"What, you're not BFFs? I'm shocked," I remarked with a wry smirk.

remnantofjoseph September 5 2009, 05:26:20 UTC

Shari might have a clone of her own to deal with, but Joe sincerely doubts that girl is as big a pain in her ass as Miguel is in his. Not that Shari doesn't have bigger problems in the scheme of things, and the last thing she needs is to be pushed over by some asshole. "Sorry," he starts with, stopping to make sure she didn't drop anything. "He's alright, really," for a dumb kid who couldn't find his shoelaces if you tied his ankles with them. "I don't know, does your clone ever ask you stupid personal shit?"