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Post by Leslie on Apr 16, 2012 1:53:33 GMT -5
Victoria quickly jolted out of her 'trance', and turned to face Jake. "Do you have mind-reading powers?" She asked jokingly. "I was just saying I should of brought a book..." She muttered. "Mostly I was thinking about my past. And how I'm scared to go home" She said, swallowing deeply. She lowered her voice and said, "Have you ever felt like you wanted to get revenge on someone? I hate this feeling inside of me, this feeling to get revenge on my family. I hate it. I don't want this feeling of wanting to take someones life away as revenge, but it just won't leave me and is haunting me" She said, swallowing even deeper now, and looking slightly teary-eyed. She rubbed her eyes, then closed them as if trying to fight back tears. She was pretty much out of words to say.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Apr 16, 2012 19:53:49 GMT -5
Tabitha shrugged to Nathan and said "Suit yourself." and gave him a slight smile. She kinda shrugged at what he asked and said "Well I don't quite know, I'm not even quite sure if you can go back. You might have to get used to this life rather than your old one. I am sure we could use the help either way." she then looked at his shotgun and said you know my cousin loves weapons, her family even owns weapon production facilities, maybe you could help advance our tech a little, I mean we could make you very wealthy." she smiled and added "If you want to contact her tell me, her name is Greta Hyperion, my mom's sister's kid. Maybe you have heard of Hyperion Arms, they do make some nice guns."
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Post by Edenecho on Apr 16, 2012 20:36:15 GMT -5
Nathan smiled back at Tabitha when she smiled at him, mainly just to be nice and not just sit there frowning when someone is smiling at him. He did frown when she said she wasn't even sure if he could go back. "But..." He sounded like he was about to say something, then shook his head and sighed. "I wonder which is weirder, getting used to living in the past, or getting used to living in the future. I'd say getting used to living in the future. I mean, In the past you know what it was like, whether from stories or from your parents. But the future, You know nothing about that," He seemed to kind of just be babbling about it for no particular reason. Not that there was anything weird about that. "I think I'd rather not. I mean, I could change the future by helping out," He then blinked and kind of started at her when she said that her cousin's name was Greta Hyperion. "That is just weird," He muttered with a sigh.
Jake smiled at Victoria,"Nah, you've just said before how you should bring a book with you, and yet, you never do," He said. He sat down next to her and said,"Why are you scared to go home? You know, if you wanted, I bet Hawke would help you out, and kick the arse of whatever you're scared of. I mean, he just gives like this, badass aura," He said jokingly,"Or maybe it's the cape." He frowned slightly, then shook his head,"No, I haven't. But you regret those feelings. I'd be a lot more worried if you enjoyed them."
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Post by Leslie on Apr 16, 2012 21:10:34 GMT -5
Victoria looked a bit embarrassed for some reason, and looked at the ground at what he said. "And it's not like I don't have books I can bring to work. There's a fair amount I have that I need to read" She said with a sigh, and she looked back up at Jake instead of staring at the ground. "I've been scared to go to my home for the last 3 or so years, in fear that they would come back....come back for me.....I know, it's silly. They've been gone for 3 years, what's the chances of them coming back?" She said, shaking her head at herself. She laughed at what Jake said and smiled at him, then on a more serious note, said, "I don't want to get anyone else involved". She frowned again, at let out a sigh. She couldn't even think of anything to say to the last thing he said, and just shook her head again.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Apr 17, 2012 2:57:17 GMT -5
Tabitha continued to smile at Nathan and said "You don't have to smile back, I'm sure this is hard for you." she frowned slightly at his 'but' and quickly said "I'm not the one who knows about the rift though, probably the cute tech girl would know. I'm the sexy Swedish doctor." she said sexy in a joking way. She kinda thought about what he said and nodded to him nicely and said "I agree, the future would suck adapting to. No offence." she smiled slightly at him "Unless the future depends on you telling people in the past things. Like if the only way you guys had like, I don't know, lasers, in the future was that you allowed my cousin to look at your shotgun and make the laser from that." she raised an eyebrow and asked "Why, does Hyperion ring any bells? She promised she would get her granddaughter named after me. Tabitha Hyperion, kinda sounds badass." she thought and quickly added "Maybe it has something to do with those Swedish biodomes you mentioned."
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Post by Edenecho on Apr 17, 2012 3:43:52 GMT -5
Nathan just continued smiling and said,"I've dealt with a lot of crap in my time, and I keep smiling. This will be no different. Being pouty doesn't get you anything." He then glanced at Victoria, then back at Tabitha. He could see that something was bothering Victoria, and he would ask her about it later. He looked at Emilia, then at Jake, then back at Tabitha. He had a thoughtful look on his face. "I think boss guy," He looked at Jake pointedly, "Would know more then the tech girl." There was just something about Jake that seemed different from the others, he just couldn't place what. "None taken," He said when she said that the future would suck to adapt to. He shook his head,"Hyperion didn't make the first laser weapons," He said,"How did you know that my gun was a laser gun, anyway?" He sighed and put his head in his hands,"I probably shouldn't tell you anything."
Jake nodded,"What kind of books do you like, anyway?" He asked, mainly for something to talk about, to keep Victoria entertained. He frowned slightly in a thoughtful way. "Who's 'they'?" He asked,"If you don't want to talk about it, then that's fine." He shrugged,"If three years later you're still scared of whatever happened, maybe it's time you got someone else involved. You can't just live in fear the rest of your life, and you shouldn't deal with it on your own."
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Post by Leslie on Apr 17, 2012 16:06:41 GMT -5
Victoria heard a little bit of Nathan and Tabitha's conversation, and said, "I think it really depends. I mean, imagine being forced to adapt to medieval times, where people years younger then any of us were perfectly allowed to rule whole Kingdoms, and so on. It'd be a very odd change. Come from this tech to like none?" She said, letting out a sigh and just shrugging.
"All sorts of novels. Though I'm not sure I have ever liked an entirely romance novel. There needs to be more substance to it then just one dumb romance story. I like the His Dark Materials series, the Harry Potter series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and so on" She said to him. "Though I have only read the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire, and some of book two" She said. She took a deep breath and exhaled, then rubbed the back of her hand for no particular reason before speaking. "Some gang that broke into my house in the middle of the night and killed my parents and brother right before my eyes. They specifically brought me into the room where they brutally murdered them in front of me" She said, pausing to control herself from losing it into tears. "Following that, they let me live so I would have to live in misery with the images of them playing over and over again my mind. And clearly me being terrified to even go to my own home" She said with a sigh, and her eyes started to well up. She nodded to the last thing he said, but couldn't speak anymore due to losing it in tears, no matter how hard she tried. Without really thinking, she leaned against Jake's shoulder and just started crying into his shoulder, clearly wanting just some form of comfort.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Apr 21, 2012 19:34:48 GMT -5
Tabitha looked kinda concerned and asked "So is the future earth like really crime filled?" she looked over at Victoria and said "Well if we were in medieval times I think things around this office would be quite different as to who is leader, given how one of us is a Graff, and the rest are scum class." though she said scum class in a joking way, but at the same time it was clear that she felt kinda superior to them. She looked back at Nathan and said "Well I guess, but tech girl is cute." she half blushed at what she just said. She tilted her head when he said Hyperion didn't make the first laser weapon and she jokingly said "Well she isn't actually looking into that, she is looking into plasma based weapons and rockets." she shrugged and said "Lucky guess, like all the scifi of this era have laser weapons so it was the first thing I thought of." she shook her head and smiled "Come on, I won't tell anyone."
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Post by Edenecho on Apr 27, 2012 17:57:46 GMT -5
Nathan snorted slightly, then sighed, but didn't say anything in response. He listened tow hat Tabitha said to Victoria, and wondered if this office would even have existed in medieval times. He knew that an office exactly like this would have been pretty hard to make back then, considering how deep it went underground. He looked at Emilia, then back at Tabitha when she said that the tech girl was cute. He pretty much just shrugged in response to that. He disagreed, but he never really thought any girls were cute, so...."I know," He said,"I don't think Hyperion was the first to make plasma weapons, either, but I don't really remember." He tilted his head and kind of looked at her for a bit,"No. Just telling you could change something."
"That makes sense," Jake said,"I don't think I'd get into a romance novel, either. I don't read a ton, but I don't think I've read a book that I haven't liked yet." He frowned at her story and put his arm around her in a comforting way. "That's horrible," He said quietly. When she started crying, he just let her cry and gently rubbed her arm. He noticed that Nathan was looking at them both like he was debating asking what was wrong.
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Post by Leslie on May 1, 2012 21:53:19 GMT -5
Victoria narrowed her eyes at Tabitha quickly, but then just spoke what she wanted to say next. "If it was medieval times, this office would likely not exist" She pointed out, but moved on. "I kind of got to the age where I started to analyze things more, so I try to pay attention to how good the writing is a lot. Or the plot. There's a lot of books that are good, but nothing special though. Like ones that have, you know, a story that has been done a lot. I haven't really read a whole lot of books though, and every book I have actually payed attention to seemed to of been well-written" She said. "I do the same with movies now too, and music" She added. She tried to smile when he put his arm around her in a comforting way, but just couldn't seem to muster a smile, and just huddled closer to him to feel more safe and comforted. It was like she was afraid of the criminals right now, just talking about it, and being close to Jake made her feel safer.
"Looks like Jake and Victoria are getting all lovey dovey over there" Aaron chimed in with a grin, and a chuckle. "I knew that this day would come. Just by the looks that Victoria gave Jake, I knew it was true love at first sight" He added with another chuckle, followed by Victoria shooting a crying glare at Aaron.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on May 4, 2012 3:22:32 GMT -5
Tabitha looked at Emilla and said "Well, buzz kill, I'm sure your right." she thought the responce was kinda lame. She raised an eyebrow at 'I know' and asked "So Hyperion does make Plasma weapons?" then smirked saying "Come on, you just being here could change things, it wouldn't hurt to tell me something, I mean now that you have told me about Luna I'm going to convince my family and Hyperion to relocate there once we have a foothold. I mean like Hyperion could be the biggest manufacturer of weapons on the moon." what she was saying was starting to get uncanny accurate, to Nathan's reality anyway.
When Aaron was being a dick she stood up, walked over and headbutted him, with her helmet. She didn't use the spike, but just getting headbutted with one would hurt like hell. She then yelled at him "Does it make you feel like a man to make fun of a crying girl? You sick basterd." she then looked at him in a sickened way and added "For the record forget about ever getting to sleep with any of the people in this office. You asshole."
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Post by Edenecho on May 4, 2012 19:51:10 GMT -5
"I was saying 'I know' to you saying that she wasn't working on laser weapons right now," Nathan said. He seemed to kind of ignore her asking if Hyperion does make plasma weapons. "No." He replied rather bluntly,"I'm not going to tell you something unless it is on accident." He showed no response whatsoever to what she said, even though it was quiet close to being correct, if not completely correct.
At what Aaron said, his eyes flashed with anger, and he muttered something about "No wonder Earth goes to hell. I'm meet one group of people and one of them is an asshole." He was kind of thinking that Tabitha seemed like not the nicest person ever at times, too, but he didn't really know either way yet.
"I don't think I analyze things like that THAT much. I know I do more then I used to, though," Jake said, "I tend to read a lot of books, when I find one that sounds interesting and I have the free time, which isn't a lot with this job. I know I do analyze movies a lot more then i used to, probably music, too." He said. He smiled slightly when she snuggled closer to him, then shot Aaron a death glare. "Why did I ever hire you?" He asked, sounding like he really sincerely wondered why.
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Post by Leslie on May 4, 2012 20:48:11 GMT -5
Victoria nodded to what Jake said in agreement. "I love reading, but I again don't read a whole lot. Especially now with this job instead of a job at that grocery store bagging groceries...." She muttered and sighed. She kept snuggling closer to him until Aaron decided to be a dick.
"Ooowwww! What the hell?! That hurt like hell!" Aaron yelled at Tabitha, rubbing his head that was now throbbing with pain from the painful helmet. He just glared at Jake asking why he hired him, and went back to being pissed at Tabitha. "What's the big deal?! Does nobody these days understand a little fun?" He asked Tabitha in an annoyed way. "You people just love to over react" He muttered. He had nothing to say to the last part, and just asked, "I was just being nice and saying that you guys like each other. What's the big deal?".
Victoria pretty much had no response to anything except to glare at Aaron some more. Now she pretty much stopped crying, because it was replaced with anger. She stood up and rubbed her eyes, then went back to glaring at Aaron. "You were not being nice about it. You were being an ass about it" She commented, continuing to glare at him. After that, she just walked off from the group for now to go talk and argue with herself alone, in some more empty part of the room. Though, she wouldn't mind if Jake followed her. Of course he didn't know that.
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Post by Alan Haskayne on Sept 15, 2013 13:41:42 GMT -5
Tabitha rolls her eyes a little to Hawke and murmurs "Stupid Temporal Prime Directive." knowing that it was 'wrong' for people from the future to talk about events that hadn't taken place.
Tabitha growls at Aaron before grabbing him by his shirt collar, she then told him "Listen to me, stop being an ass or you will really regret it. Stop mocking, and being mean to Victoria, or I will make you regret it deeply." she then pushed him back, standing tall and thinking of herself as the knight in shining armour, and with the quasi medieval uniform she wore she almost looked the part. She gives a glance to Hawke and furrows her brow "I doubt people from your decade are that much better. How much has human nature changed on the Moon? or Mars? or.... Wherever else you colonized."
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Post by Edenecho on Sept 19, 2013 23:38:33 GMT -5
Nathan got up from his bed and placed himself between Tabitha and Aaron. "Both of you, stop it. And you," He looked at Tabitha,"I don't like it when people make threats, and I would advise refraining from doing so while I'm here. I also would refrain from doing anything to hurt him, as that's against the law," He then looked at Aaron,"You, stop being an ass. You may find it funny or entertaining, but no one else does, so keep it to yourself, OK?" To what she said about doubting people from his decade were much better, he raised an eyebrow. "I never said they were better. I said that I'm not surprised things went to hell. If anything it's worse in my time."
Jake was kind of surprised that Nathan stepped in to stop Aaron and Tabitha, but he was glad he did. Maybe it would be nice having another authority figure type around here. One with a kind of commanding stature and nature, but was kind and caring, as well. "He's right," He said, speaking up. "I won't allow my people to threaten each other, Tabitha," His gaze moved from Tabitha to Aaron,"But I also won't let anyone be an ass to the other for no reason. So...." His gaze went back and forth between the two of them,"Both of you cut it out, and don't do it again." When Victoria wandered off, he let her, deciding that she might want to be alone for now.
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