Date: 2018-07-17 05:08 am (UTC)
11calls: (26)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
[It was well known when it came to Alex that she didn't take steps of logic, she took giant, olympic sized leaps into the worst possible scenario. Like she was now, like she always did. Maybe that's why she was trying to go back to when fights between them were easier to control, and when they didn't hurt so badly. Oh, Alex would deny that they had hurt back in the earlier parts of their relationship, like when he told her that she was basically being a tabloid journalist, but his words had stung. They always did.

Richard Strand found a personal way under her skin in many cases, normally now it was in good ones, but back then his barbs were sharper than her armor. This was one of those barbs, and Alex was having a difficult time taking it out without retreating to lick her wounds in private. But leaving would be acting further like Coralee, and Alex wasn't going to do that. She couldn't. Alex had fucked up, and she was here to deal with it, even if this was annoyingly new with the two of them.

So she just looked up at him as he was next to her and sighed softly.
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I don't want to fight with you anymore. I hate fighting with you. [Her voice sounded small and tired, but there was no bite in it.] I do love you, Richard, and I am sorry. And I'd say I wouldn't do it again, and I'll try not to but... [A beat.] I'm me. And I'm going to keep trying to protect you from this whole thing if I can.

Date: 2018-07-18 05:16 am (UTC)
11calls: but i can't decide if it's good or a shitty one. (empathy is my superpower)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
It doesn't feel like I am though. I mean back home...

[Back home Alex was useful and Alex was fearless, going to straight up ask Thomas Warren things. Meeting with the woman who had been Howard's Watcher before he'd been taken. Diving into every bit of mythology and history and everything else that she could in order to untangle the gorgon knot that they were in. But here, she couldn't do that. There was nothing new to uncover other than the actual evidence of her black tape when it showed up. Maybe that was one of the reasons that she dove into it with such vigor.

Letting out a soft sigh, she just nodded for a minute. Granted, she had advantages and skills that Richard didn't, especially back home, but maybe he was right in that something like that didn't exist. Alex wanted it to exist so badly she could taste it. She wanted a fucking giant dues ex machina to be able to save them from wandering into certain doom. But maybe in the end he was right and there wasn't one.

Maybe the two of them being together, something that Warren couldn't have planned on? Maybe that was it. So Alex just said what she had before, only this time more firmly, and without the anger that had been present.
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I am with you in this, Richard. You and me at the center together. I mean it. I mean. I'm here, right?

Date: 2018-07-19 12:23 am (UTC)
11calls: (lol really)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
[Alex just watched him for a second, because yes, she definitely was thinking that there wasn't going to be a them. Or at least wasn't going to be a them without a three month break where one of them lived in their office or whatever. But she did let out a sigh of relief, and most of the tension slipped out of her sloped shoulders when she squeezed his fingers in return.

But then she just laughed softly, because if this was his idea of a vacation, then clearly his priorities were more skewed than hers. Honestly, however, Alex knew what he was doing. He was trying to reassure her and she appreciated it.
]

So, if it's a vacation, does that mean we're going to the Hot Springs for your birthday?

[She's Alex. She has to try, and she's the more optimistic of the two of them.]

Date: 2018-07-19 01:16 am (UTC)
11calls: (13)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
Well, I was going to say the beach, but you're you know. You.

[Alex was still slightly off kilter, but she was making an effort to put herself right now that they were. So, bad jokes and grins it was for the moment.]

Also, I was thinking that if we were alone then no one else would ever know it was your birthday. I mean, I haven't missed it yet, my Richard. I'm not going to start now. Even if I expect Ruby ended up with the Edible Arrangements rather than you.

[Or at least maybe it'd been something other than a protein bar for food before she'd showed up to drag him for real food and to be a person again.]

Date: 2018-07-19 01:30 am (UTC)
11calls: not actually married alex reagan and richard strand (totally platonic couple)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
I really don't know if Edible Arrangements are a thing here. Besides. I got you something way better anyway.

[Does she look smug? Well, maybe a little bit. Either way, she's standing up to wrap her arms around his neck.]

It's going to surprise you, I think.

[And it's locked up at her office.]

Date: 2018-07-20 01:25 am (UTC)
11calls: (hmm)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
[Alex knew of course, because of everything, but it also didn't mean that she hadn't found something entirely perfect to give to him anyway. And probably would because Alex was excitable and well... everything Alex.

But she nodded slowly.
]

Yes. But there are a few conversations from this that I want to finish about demons from other worlds, and one I should finish because I sort of...

[Alex sighs a bit.]

Told a kid to fuck off. Well, a teeanger. He's... had some terrible experiences back home and I didn't respond well at all.

Date: 2018-07-20 02:03 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 11calls
[For a minute, Alex just sighed again before she pulls out her device, but she doesn't actually open the message. Instead, she's just holding onto it.]

In my defense, I didn't know he did until after I'd already told him to fuck off. But he asked me if I'd brought it back with me, and then he said it could go inside of me and like hide I guess? [Alex looks a bit sick at that, because well, you know the whole possession not sleeping thing.]

He seemed to miss the fact that someone else was recording me sleeping, and was angry that I didn't do it. I didn't mention the whole sleepnotes or anything like that. He told me I was fucked unless I figured it out, which is when I got the pictures from Skye and I kind of lost it.

[Alex frowned and she knows how pissed he's going to be about her admitting it.]

I told him that I knew it was a demon because I'd been investigating them for three years, but I didn't tell him anything about the investigation itself. But I did tell him that the man who was recording me slept sent it as a threat to show how close they can get to me.

[A beat, and she just says:]

I know you don't believe, Richard. Not really, but even if it's an extremely elaborate hoax, that's why Warren would have sent it to me and to Nic.

[A beat.]

I told him I was trying to stop it, and that it was bigger than just this video, but I didn't say how, and then he told me that his friend sacrificed himself to save the kid from a demon, and to kill it. He told me I had to kill it, and that's where I left it.

But I told you, no mentions of you or Simon or specifics. I'm not going to do that to you.

[Or tell him she told Jeff that she thought he hated her, that's not this.]

Date: 2018-07-20 03:57 am (UTC)
11calls: (wtf)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
[Alex would argue that Skye really didn't know all that much, and she'd already told him about Jeff immediately when they'd gotten her home. And Victor didn't even know specifics other than the demons and the not sleeping thing. Which was because well, Alex hadn't been sleeping for longer than she should have, and there was actually something wrong with how little she slept for.

But she doesn't explain it. Instead she just waits, unable to not fidget a bit when it's clear that he's actually... reading all of her messages. Richard reads fast, so there's nothing else he could be doing. Her mouth opens to protest about Jeff if nothing else, but he knows her, and he knew she was freaking out. It was pretty obvious she was freaking out.

However, she does protest when he says it's not a demon.
]

Richard. You see for yourself it's not CGI or a prop. Skye is like... better than MK with the computer stuff. She's not wrong and there's no way that thing is human in a mask.

Date: 2018-07-20 04:44 am (UTC)
11calls: When did I start working for you, exactly?! (Researching)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
But is he trying to scare me into going? Or is he trying to scare me into staying?

[Alex thought about it a lot, actually, especially in context with what Simon had said to her when he'd arrived. She understood his not wanting to be in the center of the supernatural demonic stuff before, but she understood it a lot more now.]

Listen, I know you don't believe, Richard, but Warren definitely does. But I have been thinking. I mean you know me, I think about this stuff a lot. But what if whatever Warren thinks is happening means that you have to chose to go to Geneva of your own accord. It's the thing that makes the most sense for why he didn't just kidnap you instead of other people, especially since he's been following your and broke into your office and your house.

[A beat.]

And following that logic, maybe I need to chose to go too. Obviously I'm going wherever you go, but if Warren was trying to scare me into not going... It's probably a good thing that I am. Something Simon said when he first showed up has been sticking with me: that I'd follow you and follow the story. Warren's been trying to get me away from you since forever. So I guess it does make sense that he'd try to use the thing I'm most scared of to try and stop me.

Date: 2018-07-20 05:12 am (UTC)
11calls: he's hot but look at him (look at this idiot)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
Of course I do.

[Alex just grinned up at him, and she kissed him softly for just a minute, before she added, in the way that only Alex could:]

I'm too damn stubborn to let you do anything like that to yourself. It's where my being insufferable works in your favor.

[A beat.]

Speaking of things that are annoying. Did you get a cat?

Date: 2018-07-23 12:24 am (UTC)
11calls: yeah this won't come back to bite us in our ass (Wait play that again)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
[That makes Alex frown and she just shook her head.]

I'm not really a cat person.

[The insinuation here is: but you are.]

Date: 2018-07-23 01:23 am (UTC)
11calls: (hmm)
From: [personal profile] 11calls
Possibly. I mean we can ask him.

[A beat.]

Should we pick up cat food now? And like litter and all the stuff that goes with cats?

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