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Post by nightarcher on Apr 27, 2010 10:17:27 GMT -6
And it indeed take a bit co completely clean off, she was rummaging through her drawers for her cloths wrapped in a towel as she searched for her cloths. A nice long relaxing shower had been just what the doctor ordered to relax. She felt much better now than she had earlier... though that may be also the 2 shots of rum she had taken before the shower too. It didn't matter much really though as she was pulling some underwear as well as a pair of jeans and a plain black T-shirt. Both the jeans and t-shirt were tighter than she liked, showing off her form a little more than her baggy and loose camo pants and tanktop. Her t-shirt was a plain black shirt, and dark blue jeans. The boots were her normal darker combat ones. She didn't have much else for shoes.
After getting dressed, She had to look at her watch for a moment. “20 minutes... great... I just had to be a complete mess and waste all my time in the shower.” She muttered to herself as she attacked her hair with a brush. At least she could get it strait before putting it in a ponytail.
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Post by Jason on Apr 27, 2010 11:32:57 GMT -6
Jax looks at his watch and notice 15 mins to 7. He decides to start heading down now because will probably get lost as usual. Jax runs into old friend he went through boot camp with and stops and talks with him. Jax looks down at his watch after chatting with him for a few and relizes only 5 mins to 7. He tells the friend he has got to go and asks him to point him in right direction to cafeteria. Jax makes it to cafeteria and looks around but does not see her. A quick look at his watch shows still a couple mins to 7. Jax waits at table for her and part of him wonders if she will show up at all. If she does not guess he has got lots of food to eat.
Jax continues to sit there nervously. He does not get nervous going into battle but is now for some reason, he thinks to himself.
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Post by nightarcher on Apr 27, 2010 16:38:19 GMT -6
Alicia took about 10 minutes working through her hair before she got all the knots out of the threads. Once that was done she looked in the mirror a bit at her hair. “Wow, really has been a while since I have done much more than just clean my hair.” With her hands running through her hair a bit, thinking it has been a while since she felt her hair like silk. But to ruin that she gabbed a small black band and tied her hair up in a plain ponytail at the back of her head. This made her hair hang down to about her shoulder blades. She let a couple strands from her bangs frame her face before looking at the clock.
“Hmm... gonna be a little late. He can handle it.” she said to herself as she walked to the bottle of rum she left before having one more shot to add to the dying effect of the previous two before the shower. With that she had two minutes to get to the cafeteria. Definitely gonna be a little late.
Alicia was about five minutes late by the time she walked through the hatch into the dining area. She only had to glace around to see the Jarhead... and he looked nervous. Of course, his dinner was with her. Why shouldn't he be nervous? Hell, Alicia walked strait over to the table he was sitting at, not nervous at all. This was just a dinner that she didn't have to bribe the cook for the really good stuff that was mosey saved for special occasions. No reason Alicia would have to bother with Jax at a later time.
“So what did you bribe him to make for dinner?” Alicia asked as she sat down across from Jax, not apologizing for being late.
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Post by Jason on Apr 28, 2010 11:51:06 GMT -6
Jax continues to wait nervously, he looks at watch again to see its 3 mins after 7. He starts to think she blew him off but then he thinks to himself, women always take forever. Jax glances over and see's here walk in. The first thing that comes to his mind is WOW she looks great. He does not want to push his luck with her, knowing how she is, so does not say anything.
He smiles as she sits down. "Glad you made it. Don't worry I got the cook to make us something good. So you never did tell me your name earlier.."
Jax waits for her reply, wondering if it will be as colorful as her replies earlier.
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Post by nightarcher on Apr 28, 2010 17:41:01 GMT -6
Alicia looks at Jax for a moment, just imagining she knew what he had been thinking when she walked in. instead of reacting to it, Alicia just ignored what he was likely thinking about how she looked. There was absolutely no makup on her. “I was debating on whether or not to come. I had some time to work work on one of my projects. But a bribe usually gets the cook to go into the celebration stock of food.” She said, leaning onto her elbows on the table and crossing her arms.
“You really are dim. You should have heard my name at least twice earlier.” She said with a slight shake of her head. Jax really an idiot.
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Post by Jason on Apr 28, 2010 21:05:48 GMT -6
Jax listens to her as she says she almost did not show up. He thinks to himself that he is not surprised. "Well I am sure glad you did. I know we got off on the wrong foot earlier and apoligize for that."
“You really are dim. You should have heard my name at least twice earlier.”
Jax smiles, "I was wondering how long it take you to insult me haha. Well maybe I am dim but was kind of hard to catch much over you chewing my head off earlier haha. I was wondering how girl like you comes to be a mechanic on this hell hole?"
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Post by nightarcher on Apr 30, 2010 16:55:23 GMT -6
Alicia just sighed and shook her head with a sigh. He didn't pay attention enough even while being chewed out to have noticed Shiva say her name in earshot of Jax, not the couple mechanics say her name also. “How did you survive a combat zone if you don't pay attention to your surroundings?” she said though, didn't sound like she was expecting an answer.
“I volunteered to come out here. This 'hell hole' as you put it is just too interesting. And also it gives me a place to work on my pet project away from governments.” she answered, though not giving any hint that she would elaborate. Hell, most people that read or enjoyed science fiction would want her to scrap her little 'pet project'. Everyone was scared that if an AI like she was working on would go out of control and start destroying the world. Noone understood the things exactly. They all went crazy because people treated them like tools, and not people that AI's are meant to be. “And we didn't git off on the wrong foot, you just have bad timing. I was pissed at management. I vented on you.”
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Post by Jason on Apr 30, 2010 20:29:08 GMT -6
Jax laughs. "There is a big difference between being in battle and anything else. Any well trained soldier works together with the man next to him. Thats what it's about, we use hand signals and just knowing what each other is going to do. There is no time in battle to stop and have a convo haha. It's hard for people to understand unless been there. Anyways don't think you came to here about war stories."
Jax is surprised when hears her say she volunteered to come out here. "Well if you are doing what you want to do. Good for you. I was offered position in Avatar thing and was not so sure at first but really needed to get away from earth and all bad memories. I was hoping fresh start on new place and much better pay be good idea haha."
I look over as here cook come out of kitchen with dinner. He puts plate infront of each of use with nice steak,potatoes and vegetables.*
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Post by nightarcher on May 4, 2010 17:42:16 GMT -6
“True, so they must have been saving your ass more than anything.” She said with his explination. He didn't realize that she had been an army girl. If you relied on your buddies all the time though to pay attention, then you were screwed. She learned that lesson once, and never let it happen again unless she was working on her AI. Even a simple moment not paying full attention to what you had to watch could screw you and your friends over. “Not paying attention can get you killed. That is even more true here on Pandora. But your right, we aren't here for war stories.”
He had been offered a post in the avatar program? Ouch. Well that couldn't be good. A marine is a fighter, that could cause problems. “Hm. Surprised you would take that offer. I get to do what I want, but you got to be an escort and nothing more.” She said before noticing the chef coming over with some trays. The steak she noticed almost immediately by the smell. “Nice. How much did you pay?” she asked as it was sat in front of her. Almost immediately her stomach growled audibly.
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Post by Jason on May 4, 2010 21:37:18 GMT -6
"Your only as good as the man next to you. Paying attenting to surroundings is part of it of course. I don't think catching a name falls under that but whatever haha. After being in so many war zones. I am surprised can hear at all haha. I been fighting 12+ years and only been shot once and the was trying to save my brother *pauses*.. anyways we just do what we are trained to do and get the job done.".
Jax is not surprised as she wonders why he would take a position in the Avatar program. "Well I often wonder the same thing but there is many reasons I did. The first is I needed to get away from all the bad memories on earth and try to a new start somewhere else. The pay is also much better, not that the money matters much to me but can use it thats for sure haha. If shit does go south here then will get my chance to fight guess.
Jax looks over as see's the chef come out and place the dinner infront of them. He looks over and can tell she is happy with it. Jax laughs a bit when she asks how much he paid for it. "It don't matter, was worth it. enjoy.".
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Post by nightarcher on May 6, 2010 10:11:59 GMT -6
Didn't she say there wasn't a reason to continue with his war stories? And here he was droneing on about them. “Yeah, yeah. Shows your buddies were good. Says nothing about your dumb ass.” She said with an annoyed sigh. Was he tryign to be funny with his little laugh in the middle of his little speech? It was really good at annoying the woman. Is being shot supposed to be impressive too? She had been shot a few times.
“Bad place for a new start if you intend to live through it. Your most likely to be dead before much happened on this planet. I assume you read some reports from the last expedition?” She said as the food was brought. The cook noticed who the dinner was with, and was obviously surprised, and then felt sorry for Jax. The marine wasn't going to get anywhere.
“I plan on it.” She said simply so she could dig into the steak.
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Post by Jason on May 6, 2010 11:29:37 GMT -6
Jax laughs a bit more as she goes off insulting him as usual. "You can think whatever you want. I know you must have lots of experience in battle working on machines haha. Jax can tell she was in some form of military but does not say anything, hoping she will open up. He knows one thing, her lack of knowledge of how things work on battlefield is off, cant be Marine, thats for sure.
"Anyways.. I just look at this place as another hell hole. I have been to more of them then care to think about haha. I did not expect it to be nice here by any means but compared to all the shit I left on earth, it's not so bad. "
Jax starts to eat his steak*
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Post by nightarcher on May 6, 2010 18:29:07 GMT -6
He really had no idea. Yeah, she didn't have 12 years of combat, but she had been pulled to do other work. If he was hoping to hear what, he was out of luck. It isn't something she could tell him. And as a Marine, he would not like hearing something she had to say. Well, to keep the conversation there closed, she didn't reply, just added a little of the steak to her mouth. He didn't get the hint from the insult, then this should give it to him.
“You'll be missing earth.” She said simply to his statement when her motuh was empty. “And all your bad memories. At least on earth you aren't eaten by what kills you.”
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Post by Jason on May 6, 2010 18:40:26 GMT -6
Jax eats his steak as listens to her say.
“You'll be missing earth.”
“And all your bad memories. At least on earth you aren't eaten by what kills you.”
Jax smiles and looks up as finishes chewing piece of steak and swallows. "You seem to like to assume a lot and talk about me like you know me. You don't know anything about me or my past but the very little I let you in on which you have jumped to conclusions on."
Jax shakes his head and puts another peice of steak in his mouth.*
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Post by nightarcher on May 19, 2010 19:57:06 GMT -6
“Yeah, I do talk like that. I just voice what I am thinking. I am not gonna stay silent to be all nice. I see no point in staying quiet on my thoughts. It's not like I am talking behind your back.” She said plainly as she ate, as if he wasn't much even though he was a trained marine. Maybe she was just being a bitch because she wanted to, and in truth, he was obviously still feeling bad about something that happened in his past. Yeah, your brother got killed in the combat zone. You knew that could happen as soon as you left your base. She wasn't going to say any of that out loud, he should know that.
Though, now that she thought about it, maybe she was saying these things to make him not like her. As good a reason as any. No need for a Jarhead to get attached when you weren't going to be on Pandora forever. It would be unlikely you would see each other on Earth as soon as you got back. At least that was her opinion. Besides, if what he had said earlier was correct, that alcohol was banned for him, then him and Alicia wouldn't get along very well outside of work if he ever did have to work with her. She continued eating her plate in silence.
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