[Someday she'll explain it. It'll be a very angry conversation. Fuck 1909.]
This wasn't precisely how I wanted to begin work at the Institute, but it serves as a jumping-off point well enough, I suppose. At least the equipment here is advanced, though I could live without the constant naysayers.
[Good, though. It's not as if this illness is deadly, but she's pleased he's all right. That's a minor worry crossed off her list.]
People give up too easily here. They lament it's so similar to the flu-- which, like the common cold, is incredibly difficult to stamp out for good because each variation has slightly different mutations, thus rendering a cure impossible-- that we can't possibly /ever/ find a solution, we ought to just give up, there's simply no fighting biological terrorism, on and on and /on/.
I believe so. Rather like the common cold: basic contact, fluids being shared, that kind of thing. Try not to let anyone get too close to you right now, if you can help it. I'm aware people get fussy when their loved ones get sick, but no one will benefit if everyone ends up bedbound.
Though I think soon I may have a way to stop it from spreading.
[ he recalls athena, glassy-eyed and unfocused on the ground; clary, urging him to wear a mask when visited her. bit more than the common cold, innit? he'll certainly do his best to avoid further contact, especially with harry worrying over him. ]
really? i knew you were clever, but that's beyond brilliant
[That'sa joke; she already has one the size of a flying city.
(Because she built one. That's the joke. She built a flying city and she'll never let anyone forget it, ever).
But it's always nice to hear a compliment.]
Beyond carrying people to safety and acting the hero: what have you been up to? I imagine the royal guard has been busy; I spent some time with one of your cohorts and got to watch him arrest two thieves, and that was the least of the looting I saw.
Ah, I see. I'm relieved, really: it'd be a bit too odd for two tailors from England to be here and not know each other.
[It's kinda weird there's one, frankly, but she keeps that to herself. Not everyone can be an immortal genius scientist, Ros, sometimes people are just ordinary.]
You can help me egg him on next time, then (please don't make a joke about your name). He seemed tempted to go into the ring at that fight club; I'd like to see if I can get him to do it.
sure anti-social behaviour drunk and disorderly got into plenty of fights stolen a few cars and then driven one of those cars backwards on the motorway while giving a dickhead the finger
[ he doesn't say that most of the fights were instigated by others, that his stepdad's mates riled him up at every turn, or that he couldn't go home some nights so he stayed out clubbing and drinking and taking the piss on london bridge. it sounds less fun, with all the context. ]
Terrified. Though for the future, if you want to get a woman to take a drive with you, "I've only crashed once" isn't entirely the right way to go about it.
I'm afraid that might have to wait. Though I was forced to learn how to ride a horse; I don't suppose you could be persuaded to that instead?
[Yeah, no, she has no idea how to drive a car. Which is a little odd to admit (which is why she doesn't do it directly). It's odd to not have knowledge in how to do everything.]
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This wasn't precisely how I wanted to begin work at the Institute, but it serves as a jumping-off point well enough, I suppose. At least the equipment here is advanced, though I could live without the constant naysayers.
[Good, though. It's not as if this illness is deadly, but she's pleased he's all right. That's a minor worry crossed off her list.]
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what are the naysayers naysaying?
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i'm glad you ain't like them
[ meant entirely sincerely. a beat. ]
two of my good friends were hit in the attack
[ he hadn't been worried until he found athena just as her knees gave out. ]
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None of the cases have been fatal thus far, and given the volume of scientists working on them, it likely won't take much time to come up with a cure.
[Which is her rough, clumsy way of trying to be comforting, believe it or not.]
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yeah of course
do you know how it spreads?
i sorta had to carry one of the first people affected by it
[ because of course he did. Bloody hero type, even though he saw John's post, which mentioned close contact as dangerous. ]
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Though I think soon I may have a way to stop it from spreading.
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[ he recalls athena, glassy-eyed and unfocused on the ground; clary, urging him to wear a mask when visited her. bit more than the common cold, innit? he'll certainly do his best to avoid further contact, especially with harry worrying over him. ]
really? i knew you were clever, but that's beyond brilliant
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[That'sa joke; she already has one the size of a flying city.
(Because she built one. That's the joke. She built a flying city and she'll never let anyone forget it, ever).
But it's always nice to hear a compliment.]
Beyond carrying people to safety and acting the hero: what have you been up to? I imagine the royal guard has been busy; I spent some time with one of your cohorts and got to watch him arrest two thieves, and that was the least of the looting I saw.
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i'm afraid the guard thing was simulation only
just got a job at the tailor shop
sooooo not feeling overly helpful rn
[ he feels a bit useless, honestly, but he can't show off his kingsman moves without raising brows. ]
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[THAT SOUNDS SO RUDE, she realizes after a moment, and while she doesn't mind being rude, she hadn't meant it like that.]
You're the second tailor I've met this month. I don't suppose you know Mr. DeVere, do you?
Though I should think with all that training, you could switch jobs if you truly wanted to.
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i'm a bit out of shape
but maybe
[ Uh-huh, sure, Eggsy. ]
small world
[ Wheezes about his scandalous liaisons interacting with Harry Hart. ]
back in london, henry got me a job at the ritzy tailor shop where he worked. he's [ The best person Eggsy has ever met? A dear friend? ] my mentor.
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[It's kinda weird there's one, frankly, but she keeps that to herself. Not everyone can be an immortal genius scientist, Ros, sometimes people are just ordinary.]
You can help me egg him on next time, then (please don't make a joke about your name). He seemed tempted to go into the ring at that fight club; I'd like to see if I can get him to do it.
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if someone as persuasive as you can't get him in there, i doubt i could
he normally leaves the reckless business to me
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Or does that extend to everything in both your lives?
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freerunning, racing, trouble-making
though a skewed hem is a thrill of its own kind
[ LAUGHS oh god being an actual tailor is boring ]
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anti-social behaviour
drunk and disorderly
got into plenty of fights
stolen a few cars
and then driven one of those cars backwards on the motorway while giving a dickhead the finger
[ he doesn't say that most of the fights were instigated by others, that his stepdad's mates riled him up at every turn, or that he couldn't go home some nights so he stayed out clubbing and drinking and taking the piss on london bridge. it sounds less fun, with all the context. ]
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/Backwards/? Good god, the things are nervewracking enough going forward.
[And how would she know that, Miss 1909?]
At least you survived it.
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i've only ever had a proper crash once ftr
if you're worried about getting behind the wheel with me, that is
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[ i'll take unlikely scenarios for 500, alex. ]
course you could always drive
i ain't picky, as long as we're going fast
[ testing how retro the madam is: she knows about cars, but can she drive? ]
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[Yeah, no, she has no idea how to drive a car. Which is a little odd to admit (which is why she doesn't do it directly). It's odd to not have knowledge in how to do everything.]
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Surprisingly enough, not the horse-riding type. Try Henry for that sort of thing.
[ the posh sort. ]