Dinadan Palmer (sonoftheatom) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2013-10-09 02:18:00

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The Story Starts When Your Protagonist...
Dinadan sinks down in his seat, pulling his phone out of his pocket and firing off a text. It's only after he hits 'send' that he realizes that he hadn't selected his girlfriend's name out of his contact list:

To: Jai
I introduced myself as "Dr. Palmer's kid". People still think I have jaundice. Ugh.

He and Jai had mostly been okay after that talk they'd had in the library. No one had failed to graduate from high school and fled into the jungle or thought that they were making someone flee into the jungle, so it was a win all around. They still hadn't talked quite as much as they'd used to, but they'd both also been pretty busy.

Still, it could have been a worse wrong number. And while he'd meant to whine at Petra, there's no reason he can't whine at Jai and see if he gets anything entertaining back. Dinadan fires off another text:

To: Jai
Legitimately considering hitch-hiking home in a huff.

To: Jai
You have five minutes to entertain me, start planning a rescue, or to ignore this message before I move on down the list.

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sonoftheatom
2014-03-02 12:38 am UTC (link)

"My arguments exactly!" Dinadan says, almost throwing the two cartons into the air in excitement. Finally, someone who gets it! "We were the ones who ended up fighting Kobra that time, but you don't just hand funding and headquarters and official sanctions to people without good reason. We've had a couple people join up since, but no one even in flirting range of thirty."

He grins at Jai and sets both cartons back down on the counter. "Hey, I've been busy, you could have declared war on all spinach dishes at some point since we last hung out."

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fastasyoucan
2014-03-02 01:37 pm UTC (link)

Jai nearly laughed at the enthusiasm there. "Okay, so you've got a young, inexperienced on the national stage, team, with a good chunk of them missing some common sense, and people somehow don't agree with you on the issues of that? Wow," he half-laughed in disbelief. "Gotta say man, rather glad I'm not dealing with that mess. Because someone's gonna end up having to keep them in line and lead them, and we all know who that's going to fall on." He pointed the chunk of cheese at Din with a 'good luck with that one bud' apologetic shrug.

"Well actually I did. But limited my scope to the ones in our house. Naturally, I won that war, and now our fridges are emptied of the stuff. Speedster and war on food. Let's not insult our math skills by bothering to do the math, we know how it turns out," he grinned.

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	sonoftheatom 2014-03-05 02:42 am UTC (link)
	"I am going to be bald by the time I'm twenty-five," Dinadan agrees matter-of-factually. "You wanna just grab this stuff and take it to your place so we can start the video games while it bakes?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fastasyoucan 2014-03-05 01:27 pm UTC (link)
	"Easily solved, just hope you can rock a toupee." There's a brief moment where Jai is just a blur and a breeze indicates he's gone. In no time he's back, arms empty and all the ingredients that had been spread out are gone. The stuff they're not using has been put back in the fridge. "Ready to hop on man?" He holds out his hand for Din if he's ready to head off. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sonoftheatom 2014-03-12 03:33 am UTC (link)
	"Once my hair starts going, I think I'll just shave it all off," Dinadan says. He waits until the blur returns and solidifies back into his friend, then flicks a switch on his belt and continues: "I don't even want to know what could nest in a toupee in the rain forest." He clambers up into Jai's hand. "Let's go." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fastasyoucan 2014-03-12 07:31 am UTC (link)
	"Hmm hard to imagine you bald at the moment," he told his tiny friend in his hand. "But the potential for a superhero with a toupee-based colony of things makes a fun image," he grinned before they were off on the run. A short one though, his place wasn't too far from here. In speedster terms that is. Jai set Din carefully down on the floor upon arrival. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sonoftheatom 2014-03-17 12:31 am UTC (link)
	Dinadan finishes shuddering in horror at his theoretical toupee colony of things around the time Jai sets him down. "Your parents or your sister here, or do we have the place to ourselves for the afternoon?" he asks, growing back to human size. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fastasyoucan 2014-03-17 07:10 am UTC (link)
	"Pretty free. Dad and Iris are out, but given transportation in our family, if they want to pop in for something they always might. Mom's tracking down a story, said she'll be late anyway and to make dinner for myself." He grinned over at Din. "Of course my definition of 'make dinner for myself' and yours are very different. Totally going to go with yours for the day." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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