The Perk; Monday Afternoon, after 4th Period.

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Considering that he had a promise to introduce Beauty to ice cream tomorrow and coffee shops were generally more conducive to pretentious artsy types like himself, anyway, A.J. had handwavily left a message of Charlie to meet him at the Perk instead of Chilly Boulder like their last jam session. This might have been a potentially bad idea. He was already charged up from using pastels in the art class that had just finished and was now drawing some stylized versions of the scenes in their graphic novels with the little pack he had brought with him. Adding such volatile creativity to caffeine, massive amounts of it, no less with lots and lots and lots of sugar, could be more creativity than one little coffee shop could handle once Charlie got there. But only time would tell.


[[ post is open for all your coffee-nated needs; A.J.'s here to meet with girl_zippo, but feel free to catch him and say hi before she gets there! ]]

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Charlie certainly couldn't. "No, it's okay! I always need more stuff. And you should be in there." She grinned. "And this way, you can draw yourself in! With really cool hair!"

She shook her head. "I need to do an outline," she admitted. "Something to connect everyone up, and leave space for new characters, but still have an ending, you know?" She frowned, then added, "Then again, the best comics never do seem to end, do they?"

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"Psh," A.J. said, tossing his head a little. "I already have cool hair. And, yeah, who needs closure? But, on second thought, maybe I don't know if I'm cool with having to draw myself. I don't know; maybe if you get something, sure, I guess I could. I get to make myself buff, though. And you should, uh, put Troy in, too; he was my sidekick for Superhero class, after all."

Yeah, that's it. Sidekick.

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"Oh, cool. What would Troy's superpower be? Your guy's would be something like secret messages in the art, or moving murals. You pick," Charlie suggested.

Okay, so she had:
Elisabeth
Sean
Derek
A
Bobbi
Jimmy
Ildiko

And of course, the villain; the pirate; the guy based on John Rainbird.

Not that she'd ever explain that to anyone.

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A.J. shifted in his seat a little to better lean over excitedly to see Charlie's work. "Actually," he said, "my super power was to use art as a distraction. I'd super quick paint something and then the bad guys would be so intrigued by it that they would be powerless to do anything but stand around and pretentiously discuss it like art critics. And, uhhh, I guess Troy's could be..."

No, A.J. Dirty.

"Um. We could incorperate his basketball stuff, maybe? Like, he's good with...balls. Basketballs!"

....Nice. A.J., for some reason hopefully unknown to present company, rubbed his eyes a little as if that would scour the dirty from his brain.

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Charlie giggled. For lo, she is a teenage girl, and sometimes her brain goes to silly, glittery places. And she's had a lot of espresso.

"Ahem! Okay. Um. Maybe... Ooo, basketball grenades?" she suggested, looking hopeful. "They get armed after he hits a little button and throws them? He can be Super A.J's look-out man. For while he's exchanging information. And I like the super-fast art and distraction idea." She snickered. "Mesmerizing art, right before your eyes."

She could practically *see* it happening, A.J. wielding spray guns like a pro, and finishing them off with a roller of extra pastels.

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Oh, God, she was giggling. She was giggling, and that meant that she was totally picking up on all the dirty in A.J.'s head right now. His face was a very noticeable shade of red and his lower lip was getting chewed on a little to much. "Heh, yeah," he said. "Basketball grenades sounds cool. Explosions and stuff...Definitely..."

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"But not taking out the murals," Charlie said hastily. "Because art is forever." She grinned at the redness of his face, and wondered if he was thinking the same kind of naughty things she was. And okay, great, now she was blushing.

"Annnd, um, maybe they can meet up with A and Ildiko when they make planetfall," she said randomly, then squeaked. "Oh! Oh oh oh oh! And! Rodney's the scientist who tracks their crash!"

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A.J. laughed a little and took another swig of coffee. "And that, my friend," he said, "is why you're the author and I just draw the pretty shinies."

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Charlie grinned and elbowed him, then said, "I think the coffee is giving me way too many thoughts. Hey! When you're ready to, you can put your new person in the comic too. Unless you think they wouldn't want to be. And oo, you have to meet Rodney, so you can draw him. And Turtle! I have to put Turtle in here!"

Yeah, that caffiene is reaching critical mass in Charlie's system.

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A.J. bit his lip against a grin against that first suggestion. "Uh, yeah, I'll work on some designs, maybe, but, yeah, definitely yes on the meeting Rodney for his design, because, I mean, just look at Ildiko. Works really well when I already know what I'm shooting for."

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Charlie nodded hard. "That'll give me time to figure out how he got into the resistance, and what they're resisting, and ooo, I *really* need to think of what Turtle's doing. Or she'll be really disappointed." She finished off her espresso. "And maybe I can give the Nomadic Celtic Chef a cameo."

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"I already have designs for the Nomadic Celtic Chef," A.J. pointed out with a laugh, "so he'd better be making an appearance, missy."

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Charlie giggled again. "This is going to be so. Awesome! Graphic artists extraordinaire!"

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"And I've got....so much more material to start working on now, too," A.J. smiled. "We totally got to do these jam session more often, Charlie."

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"Totally! We could have a real book by Christmas, if we keep going like this," Charlie enthused. "Any time you're in the mood, gimme a call. And I'll call you any time I've got new ideas too, okay?"

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"Sounds perfect," A.J. beamed.