http://ihavenocodename.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2010-01-12 07:19 pm
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The Perk, Tuesday Evening

After a handwavey morning spent jogging around the island with Bruce, Jean was so very thrilled to meet him up for coffee. It was totally a date. And he wasn't even going to try and grope her!

Probably.

Look, it happened a lot in Fandom.

She ordered the least coffee-like coffee on the menu and sipped it while thinking herself oh so mature to be drinking coffee in general.

Yeah.

[[Expecting the Goddamn Batman, but open before!]]
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[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
BRUCE IS THE BEST AT CRAMMING THINGS IN HIS CRAM HOLE.

"It's one of the biggest cities in my world," Bruce said. "But it doesn't seem to exist on most Earths. I don't understand it."

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.

"That's really weird," Jean agreed. "I'm from Bayville. No one has heard of that either." Because it wasn't Westchester. "It's... near New York City."

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
YOUR FACE IS WHAT SHE SAID.

"Really?" Bruce asked. "Gotham's not far from New York, either. How big is Bayville?"
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[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
YOUR MOM.

"It is pretty small." And yet large enough for the most random things. Oh, cartoons. "But that's pretty cool. Someone else from New York."

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess you lucked out in meeting me. Apparently it's in New Jersey and Illinois in other worlds," Bruce said with a certain distaste. He didn't like the thought of Gotham not being where he knew it to be.

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"That would be way too weird for me," Jean replied before taking a sip of her not-coffee. "So... what else should I know about you?"

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
"There's not too much to know," Bruce said. It wasn't a lie so much as it was THE BIGGEST UNDERSTATEMENT EVER. "I'm an avid reader. I have a butler. And I beat up a teacher in Fight Club. AND MY PARENTS ARE DEEAAAAAAAAAAD!"

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
"You have a butler?" Oh yeah, that's what she picked up on.

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
"He's actually more like a second father to me, but yes," Bruce said.

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh," Jean said in a way that someone would coo over a kitten. "That's kinda sweet. The teachers at my old school are like that to a lot of the students."

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Was it another boarding school?" Bruce asked.

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Jean nodded. "It wasn't actual school. We went to the local highschool for that. It was more for... gifted students."

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"It's--you know how people here can be different, right?"

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm becoming more aware of that all the time," Bruce said.

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, the people who went to that school all had powers of sorts." Magical, shiny powers.

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Bruce had pretty much figured that out during the build up. "Really?" he asked. "What kind of powers do you have?"

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Just two," Jean replied, like that made it better. "I'm telekinetic and telepathic."

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
The fact that Bruce was mentally cursing the fact that he had never had an opportunity to figure out how to defend himself against telepaths didn't show on his face. The only positive thing here was that either Jean was respectful enough not to read people's minds or she had the world's best poker face, and he was reasonably sure it wasn't the second one.

"So you can read minds?" Bruce asked.

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, yeah, but that's rude." And she totally wasn't Emma. "Mr. Dayspring, the mayor, he's helping me control them."

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
The mayor could read minds too? Great. Bruce's face still didn't change.

"So you have a group of teenagers with powers and you're extremely dedicated to training," Bruce mused. "Are you training to be a superhero?"

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
"...no. Mostly just to be able to use our powers safely." A beat. "And protect people with them if we can."

TOTALLY NOT A SUPERHERO.

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I understand," Bruce said. She was a superhero. And that was kind of hot. He wasn't going to admit that right now, though. "With a school like that helping you, how did you end up in Fandom?"

[identity profile] ihavenocodename.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Jean sighed. "People found out about all of us and the school was destroyed, so my parents freaked out and sent me here."

[identity profile] willbethenight.livejournal.com 2010-01-14 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds horrible," Bruce said with some genuine sympathy. "At least this school is... friendlier to that kind of thing."
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