The Perk - Saturday morning

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica enters the coffee shop, orders a very large chai latte, and settles in at a table in the corner with her laptop.

She's working on her newspaper article and planning her investigation into Kitty's death.


[ooc: V is interruptable. This is mostly for Marshall, but she'll chat with anyone who stops by. Also open to anyone who wants to play in the perk. Mun is around until 4ish, then is going to drink wine with Phoebe!mun. May be playing FH slightly inebriated later.]

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[flinkmeister.livejournal.com]

Marshall wanders into The Perk, taking more time out in the actual fresh air of reality. The light hurts his eyes, so he's wearing his superswank shades.

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica glances up from her notes and notices Marshall enter.

"Hey, Marshall!" she calls out with a smile. She can use a distraction about now.

[flinkmeister.livejournal.com]

"Veronica. Hey. Um, you remember. Which, you would, cuz you're cool like that. You mind if sit down? Unless, you're like, waiting for somebody else. I know that if I'm sitting in my basement waiting for Mr. Bristow to show up and somebody else does I can get pretty ornery."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

"Have a seat. I'm just working on my article for the newspaper and working on my daily caffeine intake," she says.

"How've you been? I haven't seen you around campus at all."

[flinkmeister.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I don't get out much. I kinda hang out in the basement, work on stuff. I'm developing this really cool device that'll let you recover stuff that you've recorded over. It's like Tivo for the forgetful. Let's say you're like, dumdedum, gonna tape this week's Crocodile Hunter, and you pop in the closest unlabeled tape, and the show runs and you're in the living room and your boyfriend or girlfriend runs in and tells you wait, that had last week's Croc Hunter on it and we haven't watched it yet. Oh no, right?"

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

The PI in Veronica is intrigued by this.

"That sounds very useful," she tells him. "But it can't be healthy to hang out in the basement all day. You should try to get out more."

She remembers the night of the Cam/Crichton switch. "Besides, isn't the basement creepy? I was down there once and there was a weird tentacle monster."

[flinkmeister.livejournal.com]

"I like it. My little bachelor pad of swankery is right next to some stairs, so if I need to go out, and I never do, I can just bolt. Plus, HAL keeps me informed about where all the creepies are."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica chuckles. "Who's Hal?"

[flinkmeister.livejournal.com]

"Oh, HAL 9000. He's my computer. He's, um, kinda semi-sentient, which is a mistake I made when I was programming him, cuz I just wanted to account for every instance of probability so I used polymorphic algorithms which kinda... blossomed into a computer that thinks for itself. He's cool, though. We play Pong together. He wins."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

About half of Marshall's words go right over Veronica's head, but she's intrigued by the idea of a semi-sentient computer. She wishes Mac were still around, because she would love Marshall.

"You created a semi-sentient computer and you're working as the web master for a high school?" she asks, suspecting there is more to Marshall than meets the eye.

[flinkmeister.livejournal.com]

"Well, yeah. Y'know... just sort of fiddling around in my spare time. It's fun and it keeps me from getting bored. I created a device that lets you look like Dean Bristow but he, um, had me deconstruct it once he got here."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica quirks an eyebrow, pondering just how much trouble someone could get into with a device like that.

"Seems like your talents are wasted here," she says.

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(OOC: Is this post open for other conversations or should I start a different one?))

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

[ooc: go for it! should have mentioned that too. *goes to edit post*]

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Aeryn walks into the Perk, orders her usual small black coffee, and sits at a table to wait for Lee.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee comes in and waves at Aeryn before ordering his triple latte with extra foam and then comes over with his coffee and a large slice of cake for them to share. "Hey Aeryn! How you doing?"

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"I'm good so far," she answers. "You?"

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

"Been a long week," Lee says with a sigh and takes a long sip of his coffee and offers her the fork for the cake. "Glad that it's the weekend."

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"Thanks," Aeryn says, taking the fork. "It has. I think I'm still recovering from Parents' Weekend and now there's more."

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee shifts in his seat, "Yeah, I heard that John's dad wasn't the nicest guy in the world. I'd have liked to meet him but..." he turns a little pink, "I was hiding from my own dad all weekend anyway."

He takes another sip. "Now there's more what?"

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Aeryn tries to figure out the best way to phrase her answer. "John's father was... disappointed, I think. Did you see yours at all?"

She shakes her head, trying the cake. "Personal things. Nothing important."

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee looks shocked at her. "Disappointed? How could he be disappointed in you?," Lee hesitates, "No, don't answer that. He must be as frakked up as John said he was. John loves you, Aeryn, and I really think that's all that matters," Lee says LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH kindly.

"I saw my dad. He kinda...well, terrorized me and Kara and left without letting me know. It was all very odd. I thought he always wanted me and Kara to get together, you know, it was strange to see his rather violent reaction to it."

He takes a bite of the cake himself. "If you ever need to talk about anything, you know you can talk to me. To my credit or discredit, you know that John trusts me." He gives her a winning smile, "and I make a great cup of tea if you ever need one."

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"I'm also not exactly from around here," Aeryn reminds him, and after the last few days that's not the least of it. "He's worried about me leaving and taking John with me into a dangerous situation. I can see his point. Though after hearing about yours I'm beginning to wonder if it just isn't a general father thing."

Aeryn smiles because Lee is smiling and that is contagious. "Thanks. I appreciate it."

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee grimaces. "Yeah, I'm not exactly from around here either."

"And it's not like Fandom High itself isn't a dangerous situation," he snorts before sipping at his coffee again.

"How are you enjoying your clases?"

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"At least you're human. You don't have to worry about any interspecies... issues. You are human, right?" she asks after a pause.

"Classes are better than I thought, actually. I don't even think I'm in danger of failing anything."