The park, Thursday morning

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Aeryn doesn't like Thursdays in general, thanks to a certain class, and a couple of other conversations from this week mean she's glad to spend her morning doing something besides stressing. If that means dawdling through the park on John's orders on their way back from breakfast at J,GOB, she can deal with that.


[Thread locked to John, Aeryn and someone else. Post is otherwise open for all your parkly needs. In fact, the more public this is, the better.]

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John reaches over and laces his fingers with Aeryn's. "Don't look so glum. Almost the weekend."

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"I always look like this," she says, but lets him take her hand anyway.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"I've seen you look other ways," he says and kisses the top of her hand. "You okay?"

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"Fine. No different than I am any other week," she clarifies, because her last conversation with Angel coupled with her own thought processes in last week's class made her not really fine.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Did you sleep last night?" John asks and squeezes her hand.

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She nods, smiling a little. "I was good," she assures him.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Good," he says and leans closer to kiss her cheek. "I did too. It was a good night's sleep."

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When Aeryn stiffens and stops to turn around, it may have something to do with the unmistakeable sound- to her, at least- of someone pointing a pulse pistol at them from behind. She'd never really realized before that there was a sound to it.

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The woman behind them looks human, though probably less so if you see the side of her face with all the scarring. Her two companions couldn't pass for such.

"Keep walking," the woman says, nodding her head into a different direction, trying to get them to move that way.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Are we being mugged?" John asks. "I got a few bucks and some donuts. Let's be nice about this."

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The woman just looks at him and says, "I don't need you. You're lucky I haven't killed you yet."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel had been on her way to the Perk for a coffee when she noticed the confrontation occuring. She ducked behind a tree to watch, ready to call for help should they need it.

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler was out to replenish his coffee supplies when he noticed the confrontation in the park.

Actually, the thing that set him off was less John and Aeryn talking to an older woman and some ugly dudes, and more Isabel being all lurky. He crouched near her. "Do you know what's up?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"No clue," she said quietly. "But it doesn't look like a happy gathering of friends."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"I think you're right," Tyler said, just as quietly.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'd call for back-up," Isabel said, holding up her phone. "The thing is, Aeryn is the person I'd call."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler ventured another look. "It looks like she knows what's going on, at least. Doesn't look like they want a fight."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"John and Aeryn wouldn't," she agreed. "But I'm not sure about the vistors," Isabel said as one of the aliens started to man-handle John.

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"You're right about them," Tyler said.

And then he went quiet. "Did Aeryn just say mother?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel looked puzzled. "She did but that doesn't make sense. Peacekeepers aren't supposed to know their parents."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"I didn't know that," Tyler said. "Doesn't look like she's exactly the maternal type, either way."

He winced when John shouted. "God, Crichton."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Aeryn told me way back when I first got here," she explained. "It's a military based society. Family isn't important. And no, she doesn't look the least bit warm and cuddly." Rolling her eyes as John yelled, Isabel looked around for something, anything, to use a weapon. She focused on several large rocks near the pond, ready to use her powers to fling them if necessary.

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

He'd been out for a morning stroll, when he heard the raised voices.

The Doctor is normally a meddler, but when he heard the word 'mother' with those big ears of his, he knew exactly not to interfere.

Domestics, even ones this charged, are not his thing. He watched carefully, ready to act in case it got too ugly.

[fandomtroopers]

"I hate Thursdays," Trooper TC-2986 complained to TC-2875.

"It's not like those stupid ducks have done anything since we came here," '75 agreed.

They got interupted by the scurfuffle between the teenagers and the strangers, ready to intervene when the aliens made a grab for the boy. Before they could do anything, though, the woman backed off.

With a sigh, the two troopers went back to their Duck Watch.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie happily skipped through the park and waved at Aeryn and John and the other people from a distance as he went to open Empire Records.