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[send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 19:41:36 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Rebecca is, as usual, wandering the halls after classes are done for the day.  She doens't have any place in particular, but considering both her roommates were at the pod, it felt like a good time to leave and find her own space.  Technically, she'd been heading towards the archive, but it had turned into a mini "tour" for Shelob, the tarantula that was half hidden by the hood of her sweatshirt.  The little things was sociable, which was part of the point, and she was ensuring it wouldn't try to crawl onto her bare skin as they want.  Training needed to start early if you wanted to get anywhere with your kids. Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 19:44:06 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Mike was actually exiting the archive's door about the time that Rebecca would get to it. Almost walking right into her! "Whoa. Sorry about that." Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 19:48:33 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Rebecca freezes up as she nearly collides with someone, stepping back as the other person stops. "Yeah, sorry." Oh, it's Mike. She blinks, carefully raising a hand behind her back to make sure her new friend was still in place. "Hi, Mike." It'd been a while since the last time they'd spoken. Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 19:52:55 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Feeling better?" He hadn't seen her since Arman's last rampage... Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 19:53:43 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Something like that." She doesn't really nod or give anything indicating a solid answer, letting her hand fall back to her side with a tilt of her head. "How about you?" Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 19:55:59 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Better now that the poison is out of my system. Completed my first mission." Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:02:03 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top She mouths 'the poison out of my system' in silence, staring at him with wide eyes and swallowing back her initial response. Instead, she manages a tiny smile. "Yeah? That's great. Congratulations." She means it, despite feeling awkward. After the cemetery thing, she's not sure she'd be doing missions anytime soon. Her eyes dart to each side of the hallway, but they seemed to be alone for now. "Do you...do you have anywhere specific you were going next?" Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:06:45 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Thank you. I'm told it's the biggest Boost bust in history. But the rest of the team did most of the work." He had a good team. "Not really. Mathew asked me to drop off some files for him after my last training session. I just finished that." Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:14:10 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Well, you made up part of that team, so I'm glad it worked out well for all of you. She nods. "Do you mind if I walk with you? It's been a while." Just a bit. Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:19:30 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "If you'd like." He wasn't sure where she was going so he is just waiting around still! Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:22:54 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Rebecca steps to the side to let him pass, walking beside him as they start heading down one of the halls.  Mike can see something brown sticking out from the side of her hood. "I'm glad I got to talk to you.  I heard about the pancake competition."  A lot of students were talking about it for a while. « Last Edit: Nov 2, 2015 20:25:06 GMT -6 by Rebecca Jefferson » Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:26:08 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Oh yeah?" Eventually he'd just start walking toward the dorm building. "They were pretty good." His eyes shift to the brown thing in the hood. "You got something on your hood." Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:29:47 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Apparently you impressed a lot of people," she muses with a wry smile. She looks over her shoulder as he mentions her hood and nods with pride. "Yeah, that Shelob. She's pretty friendly, just a little shy." The spider appeared to be okay with just hanging out on her back for now. "I was kind of hoping we could talk." The silence prompts her admission, looking at him out of the corner of her eye with a small frown. "If you don't want to, that's fine. It's kind of selfish of me. I just..." She sighs. "I miss us being able to talk." Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:32:32 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top He didn't think it was that impressive. So he didn't really know what to say, but he accepted the compliment in silence. "I didn't know you had a pet." She had never mentioned it before. "What did you want to talk about?" There was a bit more distance between the two of them as they walked then there used to be. But otherwise Mike showed no indication that he wanted her to leave him alone. Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:37:54 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "I just got her the other day," she admits, looking down at the floor, then up at the ceiling. "We were taking a tour tonight until I thought to look through the archives." She doesn't sound overly pressed to go back, though. She accepts the distance without a comment. "I haven't been on a mission yet, but I've had a couple of run-ins in the city," she admitted. "There was one the other night that was just...weird." Her voice dropped, taking a deep breath as she preps herself to talk to the first non-staff member what happened that wasn't directly involved. "A few agents think I attacked them. On purpose." She's looking at anywhere but Mike at this point, afraid of what she'll see. Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 20:39:41 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Why do they think that?" Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 21:01:26 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top More silence. "Because it's sort of true." She forces one foot in front of the other, counting each step rather than her heartbeats. It's racing too fast for her to try. "Not on purpose, anyway." She wrinkles her nose in distaste. "But there was this guy in a cemetery in town. He stabbed me with his finger - his finger!" She waves a hand in front of her face, restricting her gesture to her own personal space as well as to keep from startling Shelob. "After that, I didn't see them. I saw zombies attacking some guy. I tried to understand what happened, but it just...made sense." A scowl this time. "It made sense that I was separated from the others. The dead needed to stay dead." Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 21:03:16 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Mike doesn't say anything, just listening and letting her get it all out while he tried to mentally process everything that she was saying. Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 21:07:26 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "So I did," she continues, still not looking at him as her arms cross over her chest, rubbing her hands along her upper arms. "I didn't actually hurt anyone. They knocked me out before I could. But the point is, I thought they were the enemy and acted like they were. The big guy in the grave? He didn't even care his hands had turned to bone." Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 21:09:41 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Did you tell them what you told me?" Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 21:12:54 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top She nods again. It's going to make her dizzy sooner or later. "Yeah. Some of them believe me, but others don't." A one-sided shrug as Shelob moves up towards her shoulder. "I guess it's all I can ask for. But we don't really know what caused it, but that doesn't change the fact of what I did." She's not been beating herself up over it or anything. Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 21:15:03 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "I believe you." Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 21:19:19 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "You do?" She stops, staring at him. He hadn't read the report, nor been there. He'd only heard her version of the story and just...believed her. Back to Top   Mike Daniels Mentor Defense I don't need you to believe in me [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Posts: 1,882 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 21:22:53 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Yeah. You rot things, I glow, Clyde can shoot out fire. Why would it be hard to believe?" Back to Top   Mike Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 Spider Mom (open) « Nov 2, 2015 21:24:58 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "True." Clyde can also juggle fire before dropping it and setting the grass ablaze, but she doesn't say that. Instead, she nods and starts walking again. "I guess I just needed to hear someone else say it. That I'm not stuck inside my own head all the time and going crazy." That was still a concern. Back to Top   Reply Share Thread Facebook Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn MySpace Email Go to Previous Thread Next Thread Please make a selection first