Avia Free (ms_miracle) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2013-11-12 20:11:00

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Help a Gal Out?
Avia was currently booked on a fairly length stay in Vegas (easy commute when you had a Mother Box), but was making regular trips back to Chicago to see Will. It was nice to have someone to come home too. Different than the way she used to fill her bed with an endless stream of partners. She'd tried loving everyone, but now she just wanted to love one man. Funny how life changed sometimes.

The Vegas shows were going well, but she was always creating new tricks. And right now, she had a pretty good budget to come up with a few more. She was no slouch in the technology department, but sometimes, there were engineering tricks she could use some help with.

So she Boomed herself to San Fran to go see Max.

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	semievilgenius 2013-11-15 01:38 am UTC (link)
	"Okay, just this once, I'm going to hold off on all the joke ammunition you just gave me with that statement." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ms_miracle 2013-11-15 01:46 am UTC (link)
	That got a giggle. "I appreciate that." "And what about you?" she asked. "Don't get me wrong, you're one hip scientist, but the save the world thing... it don't exactly seem like it'd fit with you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

semievilgenius
2013-11-15 02:02 am UTC (link)

"I've heard myself described in a lot of ways, but hip is a new one on me." He thinks on her question. "You're right, it doesn't," he admitted. "I had a lousy childhood, a deadbeat dad, people judging me because of who my grandfather was, growing up at a school with some of the most self-entitled and self-adsorbed jackasses, took my share of beatings, and even had school faculty trying to sabotage me. By all accounts I was likely on the road to following grandpa's footsteps. Except something happened the day of my graduation."

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	ms_miracle 2013-11-15 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	This got her attention. "Lay it on me, man. What happened?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

semievilgenius
2013-11-16 12:17 am UTC (link)

"As I was standing up there, my so-called peers standing next to me, biased teachers sitting in front of me, the only thing that kept me from thoughts of bitterly lashing out against them all was my mother sitting in the third row. Still," he admitted. "Those thoughts kept creeping up. You know the kind that fester until you almost stop differentiating between one person and another? Then I saw this man in the back I had never seen before that day. I looked over at him a few times, and that's when I realized that he was wearing a sophisticated disguise."

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	ms_miracle 2013-11-16 12:43 am UTC (link)
	She had a pretty good idea where this was going. But this was his story to tell. So she'd let him continue without interrupting. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

semievilgenius
2013-11-16 12:52 am UTC (link)

"I waited until after the ceremony was over and went after the disguised man. I caught up with him outside and he revealed he was my grandfather in disguise," Max revealed. "Turns out he had escaped prison in order to be there for my graduation, but that's not what changed my mind. He looked me in the eye and told me 'walk a different path than I did.' Then he told me to give mom his best and then he ran off."

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	ms_miracle 2013-11-16 12:58 am UTC (link)
	Avia's eyes widened a little. "Will's talked about your grandfather before. Says he used to call himself "the World's Most Sinister Scientist." I wouldn't have thought he'd give that kind of advice." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-11-16 01:06 am UTC (link)
	"Mom said that maybe he was starting to think about his life in his twilight years and didn't want that legacy passed on or something to that effect. I didn't up and forgive all the crap i went through, but if grandad was willing to break out of prison to tell me that, then I at least owed it to him to listen," Max stated. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ms_miracle 2013-11-16 01:18 am UTC (link)
	"Makes sense," she agreed. "And trust me... where you're from doesn't matter as much as what you do. Look at my mother." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-11-16 01:23 am UTC (link)
	"True enough," Max agreed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ms_miracle 2013-11-16 01:50 am UTC (link)
	"Makes sense, though," she said. "And from everything I've heard, you're doing pretty good here." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-11-16 01:54 am UTC (link)
	"Heard? I have a rep?" Max asked, curious. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ms_miracle 2013-11-16 01:58 am UTC (link)
	"From Dinah mostly," Avia said. "But she speaks pretty highly of you. Even if she thinks you're pretty cynical." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-11-16 02:14 am UTC (link)
	"I prefer the term realistic," Max clarified. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ms_miracle 2013-11-16 02:40 am UTC (link)
	That got a little laugh. "Dinah's Bat-family. If she says you're cynical, you're cynical." She grinned. "But I'll take your word for it. World's full of dreamers like me. Nice to have a few people with their feet on the ground." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-11-16 02:42 am UTC (link)
	"Well..some appreciation? ..Thank you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ms_miracle 2013-11-16 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	"Welcome," she said. "Speaking of the show, you should come see one of mine. You're one of the few people in my social circle who hasn't. I can get you tickets." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-11-16 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	"Hmmm," he thinks on that for a moment. "You know what? Yeah, I think I'd enjoy that." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ms_miracle 2013-11-16 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	"Groovy, baby," Avia said. "I'll talk to the box office and get something set up. You like Vegas? I can probably get you something sweet at the hotel too." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-11-17 12:21 am UTC (link)
	"Never been there." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ms_miracle 2013-11-17 12:57 am UTC (link)
	"Helluva town. Lot more family friendly than it used to be, but still one hell of a good time. Booked out there for a couple months right now." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-11-17 01:21 am UTC (link)
	"Family friendly Vegas? Sounds like an oxymoron." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ms_miracle 2013-11-17 01:54 am UTC (link)
	"You'd be surprised," Avia said. "Families are big business. And yeah, there's still plenty of seedy stuff too. But the big hotels and casinos are all about a good vacation time now." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-11-17 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	"Huh, makes sense come to think of it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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