Taliesin's Room - Safehouse

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:13 pm

"I meant, like, the great diaper crisis of '23.

There isn't a way to stop this..." he said, then quietly, took a sip of his drink.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:22 pm

"There has to be."

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:24 pm

"I have some theories," he admitted, "but this isn't really the place, or the time.

Theories on how to avoid PARTS of it, at least," he smiled. "Drink your wine."

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:33 pm

She sighs a little and takes a sip from her glass. "I suppose..."

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:36 pm

"Let me put it this way.

I haven't seen you in FIVE YEARS, not counting a mirror on the loneliest nights. I miss you, terribly. Let me just pretend everything is fine for now."

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:43 pm

Sara glances at the amulet and the piece of rock it is stuck in and just nods, blinking.

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:44 pm

Talisean saw where she was looking.

"...you didn't look afraid at all, Sara. You held your head high until the very end. If I could have helped....If I could have moved..."

by **Robin Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:47 pm

"It wasn't your fault, Dad." Robin says, almost out of reflex.

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 7:49 pm

"Well, if you do end up sticking a round for a while, and then go back, that's plan one. Teaching....him...to stand up to that."

Tailesin very rarely, if ever, made eye contact with Will.

For his part, Will was very quiet. Oddly quiet.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:01 pm

"I'd rather have there be no patrol at all. This... this is no world for someone to grow up in..." she says with a glance at Robin.

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:05 pm

"She turned out fantastic.

If a bit rebellious..."

Will hiccuped.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:14 pm

"Is everything okay?" she asks Will.

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:17 pm

"Yeah, I'll be OK...this is pretty strong stuff..." he said, shaking his head a little.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:23 pm

Sara nods. "I still can't believe you're our little girl..." Sara says, looking at Robin, who in turn showed the first real smile since they met her.

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:25 pm

"And now you see, first hand, the problem with not shunting off your poisons," Tailesin smirked, looking at Robin.

by **Robin Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:30 pm

"Yeah well what's the point of drinking then?" she says with an eyeroll that screams 'Duh!'

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:32 pm

"Having more than one glass?" he laughed.

"If you need fresh air, you'd better take someone with you."
"No, I'll..I'll be fine," Will said. "Lousy future self, tellin me what to do" he mumbled.

by **Robin Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:43 pm

"Gawd Dad, if I drink with other people I'm not gonna stay all sober."

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:46 pm

"I know. I've seen you out late with Uncle Simon," he said, a bit disapprovingly.

by **Robin Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:52 pm

"Yeah, next time I want to have some fun I'll just go to the nearest youth cent--oh yeah, right."

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:54 pm

"You seem to enjoy the rigged-up danger room."

by **Robin Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:03 pm

"When it works right... But that's just the same thing as going out there and sometimes I just want some fun."

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:05 pm

"I know you do," he smiled.

Taliesin's foot, meanwhile, had snuck around the table and was beginning to play footsie a little with Sara.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:16 pm

Sara kind of tolerates it, awkwardly looking back and forth between the people at the table.

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:17 pm

Taliesin clenches his fist for a moment, with a slight wince.

"Robin...would you show...him...some of the emergency safe exits?"

by **Robin Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:19 pm

"Oh boy, fun." Robin says, pulling a face as she stands up.

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:20 pm

"Why, are we expecting an emergency?" Will said, a little tipsy.

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:21 pm

"Maybe the sparring area, too, if you feel so bold," Taliesin smiled, though there was a slight note of urgency in his voice that Robin would pick up on.

by **Robin Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:23 pm

"Alright, alright! Jeez..."

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:24 pm

As Will and Robin exited, Taliesin quickly headed over to the desk.

From one of the drawers, he pulled out a syringe of some sort, and proceeded to inject it into his arm, as he gasped a little bit.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:26 pm

Sara meanwhile had stood up as well, looking somewhat suspicious.

"Okay what the hell is going on here?"

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:30 pm

Will took a deep breath.

"It's a stabilizer...keeps the cells from hardening and locking up. Didn't want him to see...the price I pay for control."

"I should have taken it earlier, but I was distracted."

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:33 pm

"Control? You mean like the car?"

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:34 pm

"That and the mind. Unlike...him, I'm not a toy to the whim of every telepath within a 50 mile radius. Almost the opposite, really."

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:42 pm

"Well that's... good. I guess? But why would you tell me that and not him?"

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:43 pm

"He'd probably pocket some of this shit, shoot up, and try to do everything at once, and end up with a complete nervous breakdown, the idiot."

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:45 pm

"He... well... yeah, I guess he might." she admits.

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:47 pm

"You married a moron, Sara.

You have no idea how hard it is for me to look at him."

by **Sara Stanton** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:51 pm

"He's still young. We both are."

by **Taliesin** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:54 pm

Will sighed. "I know.

Have you considered some kind of leash? Perhaps a radio control system?

...that works, by the way."

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