your_talents (your_talents) wrote,
@ 2011-08-07 20:13:00

AU - This is What Happens When You Don't Keep People Informed
Lisa was enjoying her afternoon off. Julian's secretary had informed him he'd stepped out for a few hours, so she'd taken it upon herself to slip into something less comfortable but a lot more interesting, and wait for him in his office. She made herself comfortable, setting herself up in his chair with the laptop he'd gotten her, and a bottle of good scotch.

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yourtruecolors
2011-08-08 12:25 am UTC (link)

This wasn't an undercover mission. Minnie didn't have time to prepare, to get into character. Didn't even have the absolute certainty that evil liars are evil liars, though she's still clinging to it -- there was now way Julian would honestly tell this tramp she was the only one who mattered to him. Was there?

At the last part, hearing the contempt, as if Minnie had been desperate for a petty distinction she'd never asked for, it was too much. The girl was right in her face, and Minnie started to shove her out of it, yelling "SHUT UP!"

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your_talents
2011-08-08 12:29 am UTC (link)

Lisa staggers slightly, then her gaze sharpens with hell in it. She had every right to be here. She'd let Julian get closer than anyone else in her life. She dealt with the tabloids. With Perez Hilton. With the anti-mutant activists. But this was her ground now, and she wasn't about to let some sidekick just breeze in and call what she was daring to allow herself to have with Julian a lie.

"FUCK YOU!"

She takes a hard step forward, pushing at Minnie's shoulder. Before she even makes contact though, she lets the nerve in her mind go off, and she feeds.

She gasps as the world explodes into colors that shouldn't exist, just a heartbeat before she pushes.

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	yourtruecolors 2011-08-08 12:31 am UTC (link)
	And Minnie's eyes go dull. "My eyes... my eyes! Give me back my eyes you gold-digging tramp!" Minnie bounces back from the near-shove to seize Lisa's wrists. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

your_talents
2011-08-08 12:53 am UTC (link)

"Kiss my ass, and get the hell out, witch!" Lisa screams back, struggling not only against the grabs to her wrists, but to hold onto the power. It's more distracting than helpful right now, but there are few things a sufficiently determined person won't do for spite.

The two of them end up spinning around a bit as Lisa finds her grip surprisingly strong. She ends up tripping over a footrest, and reaching out as she falls, knocking over a pitcher of water from the wet-bar.

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	yourtruecolors 2011-08-08 12:56 am UTC (link)
	"Delusional, borrowing someone's mind control -- I don't care what you are; I'm not leaving you alone with him." Minnie rolled right into the crashing and spilling without letting it distract her, trying to pin the taller, younger girl down. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	your_talents 2011-08-08 12:59 am UTC (link)
	Spitting out water, Lisa twists a leg around the other girl, rolling them over and turning her hands, even if she can't get them free, to go for Minnie's face. "Psycho secretary bitch, I belong here! Where the fuck do you get off barging in? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	yourtruecolors 2011-08-08 01:03 am UTC (link)
	Minnie holds her back for a few minutes, but eventually size wins out -- along with Minnie's sudden problems with depth perception in the face of her visual confusion. Minnie taks a couple of fingernail-scratches to the cheek. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	your_talents 2011-08-08 01:08 am UTC (link)
	Lisa struggles, the two of them rolling again until they bump against the desk. She tries to kick free. "Take it BACK!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	yourtruecolors 2011-08-08 01:12 am UTC (link)
	And those little dancer's legs will contortionally hook around Lisa's, holding things down even as Minnie's back is slammed again into the desk by the larger girl, things falling everywhere. "I'll never believe that nonsense unless I hear it from him!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hellfireprince
2011-08-08 02:01 am UTC (link)

Julian returned to the office after his meeting, feeling better after his latest meeting with the owner of the New York Yankees. They want him to buy into their little baseball team and Julian can't really see a reason not to...even if he's not big on baseball.

He enters the office and notes that his secretary and several people are standing at the door to his office. He walks up behind the crowd and it's only then that he hears the sounds of combat coming from inside.

"Who's in my office?" he asks the group.

Several people turn around and a few of their faces go white as they realize that Julian is now out here.

His secretary, Miss Phillips, speaks up.

"Mr. Howard! Um, Miss Graves showed up to wait for you, and then that other young woman, Miss Marnie....?"

"Minnie..." Julian corrects her, taking a deep breath. He knows what's happening before she even finishes.

"Well, they went in there. First there was some yelling, then screaming, and the thumping just started! No one wants to go in there and try to break them up. People sort of...know what Miss Lisa can do." she says.

"I suppose it's too much to hope for that I'm just in time for a three-way." Julian mutters.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Howard?"

"Nothing, Peggy. Do me a small favor." Julian says, unlocking his briefcase and pulling out a small container.

"Please watch my briefcase." he says, then turns to everyone else.

"Go ahead and get back to work everyone! Nothing to see here!" Julian says, wading through the crowd.

And then he opens the door to his office, then closes it behind him. As the girls are fighting, Julian dumps the contents of the container onto the floor. A hail of ball bearings litters the floor and Julian concentrates, manipulating the metal. He melds several of them together and stretches them out, forming iron bands that float in front of him as he watches the two of them in the wreckage of his office.

One of the irons bands seizes around Lisa's arm and pulls her away from Minnie to the right side of the room. Another band seizes upon Minnie's leg and pulls her to the left side of the room.

Julian looks from one woman to the other, back and forth, several times and the wreckage between them.

"I hate to interrupt this little catfight, but...you two are fighting in my office and on my property.

What, if anything, do you two have to say for yourselves that would sway me from tossing the both of you out on your very shapely asses onto 75th Street?" he asks, waiting for someone to speak.

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	yourtruecolors 2011-08-08 02:04 am UTC (link)
	Minnie's tearstreaked face looks up to Julian for just a moment. Then she looks at the floor. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have lost it like that. But she, she... took my eyes." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	your_talents 2011-08-08 02:08 am UTC (link)
	Lisa sniffs hard, looking about as worse for wear as Minnie, but with bruises on her legs taking the place of scratches on her face. "She called me a liar... called what we have 'ridiculous'." This is humiliating. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hellfireprince
2011-08-08 02:18 am UTC (link)

"So, the two of you thought it would be a good idea to use my office to work out your emotional issues through physical violence?" Julian asks.

"You two are grown women, and both very important to me. I'm disappointed in you both. Rather than one of you, I don't know, picking up a phone to call and ask me who this other woman is, you two came to my office, embarrassed the three of us in front of my staff and metaphorically pissed in a circle around me so that you could each say I 'belong' to you." Julian surmises.

"I mean, Goddess forbid that I was planning to introduce you both tonight over a steak dinner and explain who you are to each other. No, I didn't think that would be an issue because I thought I was dealing with /adults/." he says.

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	your_talents 2011-08-08 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Lisa's first thought is to say 'it's complicated', but it falls apart. She looks over at Minnie, looking just as miserable as her at the moment, if not moreso. She doesn't get any words out, but she lets go of Minnie's power, somewhat relieved to see the world come back into focus. Julian upset is harrowing enough in the normal spectrum. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

yourtruecolors
2011-08-08 02:28 am UTC (link)

The world coming back into focus just makes things worse for Minnie, because it's even more clear that it's Julian.

She's disappointed him.

Humiliated him.

... He Cares deeply for this girl, which might imply that... everything she said was true. That she was his Only One. That he'd forgotten Minnie easily.

...Right now, Minnie is absolutely certain she does not deserve to live.

"...I'm sorry," she says quietly. Everything about her tone and posture as abjectly, submissively contrite as she could get without actually throwing herself on the floor.

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your_talents
2011-08-08 02:35 am UTC (link)

Lisa retreats into snark, even if its at herself, to cope with the situation. "Yeah... we both just sailed right on past that obvious solution, didn't we?" She puts her palm to her face, then shakes her head.

She'll stand, if Julian's little construct will let her.

"I'm sorry... I... I fucked up." Her lips practically rebel against the apology, but she gets it out.

She looks between him and Minnie. "What can I do?"

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hellfireprince
2011-08-08 02:43 am UTC (link)

Julian just looks at Minnie and Lisa and a part of him feels odd about this turn of events. If he'd just spoken up sooner, this might not have happened. Perhaps they both might have understood and maybe they'd have become friends.

Or, if not friends, they would at least learn to tolerate each other for his sake.

Julian doesn't know what /guilt/ is by name, but he knows he could have handled this better. Still, the damage to his office and the spilled Scotch on the carpet make him angry.

He releases the bands from both of them.

"You both need to leave me alone for the night. I need some time to calm down." Julian says, using his powers to start righting a few fallen items. Most of his office is metallic, aiding him in doing so.

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	yourtruecolors 2011-08-08 02:46 am UTC (link)
	Minnie rises much more slowly than Lisa. "Yes, Julian," she says quietly, not looking up, before turning to Lisa, still not looking up. "I'm sorry, Miss Graves. I was... wrong" She leaves for her room. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

your_talents
2011-08-08 02:49 am UTC (link)

"I... I understand." She responds to Julian, before turning to Minnie.

"I'm sorry too... and call me Lisa, if you want."

She heads for the door, looking over her shoulder as she goes. "I'll pick up a bottle for you on the way in tomorrow. G'night, boss." She was so used to calling him that to tease him, but right now it felt... well, desperate.

She draws herself up, and marches out, then through the mostly dispersed crowd, body language daring any of them to comment.

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