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i_speak_softly ([personal profile] i_speak_softly) wrote2011-02-27 10:09 am

Thirty-Ninth Theory [Action]

[The house is too quiet today. With April sent home, Derek hiding out who-knows-where, and Leo gone to battle, it's down to just Don and Raph again - and not in their little apartment now, but in a house that feels suddenly too big.]

[Fortunately, Don has some things to occupy himself with. After making sure Raph is all right to be left alone for a few hours, he heads out to visit some friends.]

[He goes first up the path to C7, to visit Frederic - to check on the man in his roommate's absence and to deliver a certain package.]

[After that he'll circle back to C3. He needs to see a certain resident that he's been visiting frequently of late. This time, however, he won't go around to the door of the apartment. Instead he'll knock on the window. There's something they need to talk about, and this seems like a more apt way to begin the conversation.]

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[identity profile] meanandgreen.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Raph's okay. Not good, not great, but okay. He's feeling like himself again health-wise, at least. It's a welcome change after that two day long hangover. But he'll survive.

At the moment, he's in his room, trying to clean up as much as possible.]

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[identity profile] meanandgreen.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Raph looks over his shoulder, holding open a garbage bag full of wood splinters with both hands.]

I won't bite, you know.

[Quit looking so scared to see him.]

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[identity profile] derek-bliss.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Derek's a lot closer to town than he had been. Close enough that he notes when Don is out and about.

He won't approach his former housemate for a while; probably not until it's obvious that Don is finally headed home. And then he'll follow for a bit before deciding to say anything.]

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[identity profile] meanandgreen.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'll be fine.

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[identity profile] meanandgreen.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs.]

When you comin' back?

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[identity profile] meanandgreen.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Pick up some lunch or somethin'. I don't care what you get.

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[identity profile] refinedmaestro.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Frederic had been making tea in the kitchen when he hears a knock on his door and answers it.]

Oh hello Donatello, what brings you here?

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[identity profile] meanandgreen.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, he's good. Maybe by the time Don gets back, he'll have the place looking somewhat livable again.]
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-27 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Robert hadn't been doing much either, other than brooding quietly over the fact Ami had been drafted, and had turned out to be a person entirely different from what he'd expected. He's in the middle of absentmindedly writing a report which is mostly just empty words when he hears a rapping noise on the window.

He glances up, looking mildly curious - and when he sees Don's face that curiosity changes to something between surprise and concern.

The scientist hurries (well, as much as he can hurry) himself over to the window and opens it, looking out at Donatello.]


A-Ah. Salutations, Donatello. [This is a very strange way to meet, but Robert can't deny he's glad to see the turtle again.]
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-27 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey, it's warm for Robert. Comparitively. He's mostly surprised to see Donatello in the window.

Something like a strained smile slips over Robert's features.]


Y-Yes, certainly. Please give me a moment. [And the scientist disappears from view temporarily as he opens the door. Donatello might hear the click of the door opening, and then a nervous-but-kind-of-excited-anyway scientist standing just off to the side of the door frame.]
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-27 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Here, have an embarrassed scientist turning around at that.]

... Oh. Er... Well. [With a slight flush of embarrassment, Robert re-closes the door (mostly because he doesn't want to broadcast whatever happens) and heads over to where the turtle's standing underneath the window.]

... My apologies. I d-didn't exactly... expect that. [It's so painfully obvious Robert is extremely nervous - but in the blushy stuttery way of somebody trying to talk to a crush. Which is what Donatello is. A kind of shameful, self-mocking smile lights Robert's face a moment.] Do you often enter through windows? I would do well to remember that...

[He trails off eventually, still blushing a little, his fingers going reflexively to his glasses.] ... S-so, may I enquire as to what you... wished to see me for?

Th-though to be frank, I did wish to see you again... [And Robert's blush deepens a bit. Damn his crush.]
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-27 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[That tone - while Robert can't tell what it means, something makes him think it's bad. He sobers a little, his gaze shakily meeting the turtle's.]

... And what might that be, Donatello?
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-27 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[This gets nothing more than an extremely, painfully confused look from Robert. He gazes at the weapon laying across Donatello's knees without realizing what it even is.]

... A... "ninja"? [This term means literally nothing at all to Robert. Though some Terrans would recognize it in the very strict historical sense...]
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[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-02-27 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Again, not registering to Robert. He blinks, curiously, trying to search his mind for what "martial arts" means. Somewhere, somehow, he might have heard this...]

I apologize, Donatello... The terminology is not that which I am familiar with. [With what Robert's seen of the turtle so far, he's assuming "ninja" is some term for an intellectual-type job which is obviously not the case.]

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