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I'm huntin' wabbit. Er, unicorn.

Oct 21, 2009 05:04

Ever since Stephen got the first ransom note, he had been a little on edge. Having to deal with casual clothing was a pain in the ass, and some of the suits he had acquired on the island were good. He liked them! He wanted them back, dammit. And he had refused to give in to such demands at first, but, well, Stephen was a product of a post-9/11 ( Read more... )

michael scofield, asher talos, frank ginsberg, kate mcnab, danica talos, cassie sandsmark, stephen colbert

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refugeforlosers October 21 2009, 11:43:25 UTC

"I'm assuming you have a license for that." Frank gestured at the paper cone, sticking his finger in between the pages of his book as a mark and giving Stephen the once over. Something told him he didn't want to know what was going on. Stephen had been weird ever since he'd started weening himself off the suits. Which, fyi, Frank approved of very much.

colbert_bump October 21 2009, 18:54:56 UTC

"What? What are you talking about?" Stephen said, perhaps a little more tensely than he should have. He wasn't supposed to get caught doing this! Why did Frank turn up at the worst times?!

refugeforlosers October 22 2009, 02:43:13 UTC

"Your..." Frank loathed to call it a weapon but what other word was there for it? Ooh. "...Dunce's hat?" Or maybe it was meant to be Sorting Hat.

colbert_bump October 22 2009, 04:14:24 UTC

Stephen glanced down as if he had forgotten what he was doing. Oh, right.

"It's a horn," Stephen said, the duh pretty obvious in every syllable.

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new_ophelia October 21 2009, 13:55:40 UTC

At first Kate was just going to walk by. She really was. She's got Sam on her hip and the compound is like half a mile away and she's kind of tired. And it's that guy. That weird guy.

Normally she'd let him go on skulking about in the trees but he's really only a few yards off the path and she's not sure he even realizes that everyone can see him.

"Hey," she calls, sighing as she hitches Sam back up. "Are you okay?"

colbert_bump October 21 2009, 18:52:39 UTC

Stephen jumped a little, not expecting anyone else to be around. He was in the woods, why would people be--oh. She was on the path. Apparently he hadn't gotten as far as he thought.

"Am I okay?" he repeated. Of course he wasn't okay! But he didn't feel like explaining the suit thing just yet, so he just smiled as charmingly as he could, lowered the big stick he was carrying. "Sure! Just looking for a unicorn. Seen one?"

new_ophelia October 21 2009, 19:02:51 UTC

Kate takes a moment with that one. He's actually probably serious even though he's grinning like a lunatic.

"Nooo," she says carefully. "I didn't realize we had them. But, don't you have to be a virgin to see Unicorns?"

Or something like that. It's entirely possible Stephen's a virgin, in Kate's opinion.

colbert_bump October 21 2009, 19:11:43 UTC

Stephen's reaction was pretty much instantaneous.

"Dammit! Are you serious? Are you sure??"

What the hell was that about?! Virgins??

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free_now October 21 2009, 22:57:53 UTC

Of all the things Michael expected to stumble onto this far from what passed as civilization on the Island, Stephen was definitely not one of them. Truth be told, he almost expected to cross paths with Bigfoot before him. "You lose your trail of breadcrumbs?"

colbert_bump October 21 2009, 23:53:47 UTC

"Michael!" Stephen practically hissed, totally ignoring the question. Good, good. Michael seemed like the type to know how to track things down. "Are you a virgin?"

free_now October 22 2009, 00:03:08 UTC

Well, that was one way to greet a person, he guessed. "How is that at all relevant to... whatever it is you're doing all the way out here?"

colbert_bump October 22 2009, 00:22:41 UTC

Michael didn't answer the question. When people did that, it usually meant they had reasons to avoid answering. Hmmm.

"I'm looking for a unicorn," Stephen not-really-explained. "So? Virgin or not?"

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asher_talos October 22 2009, 06:10:03 UTC

Asher had just brought Beau back in from his usual exercise within the enclosure out by the barn when he spotted Stephen.

"Christ, you're not gonna read your fucking book to him again, are you? The horse still does not care if you are America." Asher was pretty sure that statement also went for ninety-nine percent of the Island's current, former and future population. Never mind that the man wasn't actually carrying a book that he could see. But it was his book, he could have had it memorized.

colbert_bump October 22 2009, 06:51:46 UTC

Stephen faltered in his determined stride. Asher wasn't supposed to be there! He hid the cone behind his back.

"No..." Though that was a good idea. And Asher was wrong; Beau had shown a lot of interest in the chapter on animals. "Of course not..."

asher_talos October 22 2009, 15:08:05 UTC

"Well good." No. Bad. Because that still left Stephen in the barn and now Asher had no idea why he was there. So, he asked. "Then what the fuck are you doing here?"

Sure, he was dressed like a fucking stable-hand now that his suits had upped sticks - not that Asher knew anything about that - but Asher doubted he was there to bale hay and muck out stables.

colbert_bump October 22 2009, 20:02:03 UTC

"I can't just be here to visit?" Stephen said, laughing nervously. "You don't, you don't need to stick around. I'm just gonna go say hi... You know, boring stuff. Don't want to keep you."

He was such a good actor.

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vvdanicavv October 22 2009, 07:10:15 UTC

Danica had been following Stephen ever since he left the Compound. Not close enough to be noticed right away but close enough to watch him clearly. And he seemed paranoid, which obviously meant Danica was doing her job properly. At least that was what she chose to believe as she skulked around.

It had always paid to keep an eye on familiars back home and that instinct hadn't vanished just because she was on the island.

colbert_bump October 22 2009, 07:28:41 UTC

Stephen kept glancing around his surroundings as he walked, expecting to be ambushed by...who knew what. He trusted no one, though. He reached the barn and went inside, heading straight to Beau.

vvdanicavv October 22 2009, 14:25:51 UTC

Of course, tiny details like keeping an eye on familiars had usually been left to Asher to take care of and when Danica spotted what looked like a barn, she suddenly wished she'd kept it that way.

Her nose wrinkled in disgust at just the thought of the smell in there. She was determined to go no further, having had absolutely no inclination to go near a horse from five years old and up. The times that she had in the past had been purely from necessity. Thank fuck for cars. Out here, however, she couldn't see what Stephen was doing, which automatically meant no potential blackmail material.

colbert_bump October 22 2009, 20:08:44 UTC

Thankfully the barn was empty (except for the animals, but they didn't count), so Stephen had no problem talking to Beau like he was a fluffy kitten instead of a huge horse.

And because sometimes Stephen could think ahead, he pulled out an apple to let Beau eat while he tried fixing the cone in place.

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