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Jan. 17th, 2011 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jonathanparagon[Some hours after this.]
The sun's slanting toward the western horizon by the time he reaches midtown. It's the last stop he's got planned; none of the others, aside from the first one or two to collect supplies, have borne any fruit at all -- and even on those, people who should have recognized him showed no sign of it.
A heavy shutter is halfway down the storefront of Alcina's when he gets there. The sign on the door still reads OPEN, though.
He ducks to look in under the shutter, knocks on the door. Offers Alcina a hopeful smile, when she looks up.
The sun's slanting toward the western horizon by the time he reaches midtown. It's the last stop he's got planned; none of the others, aside from the first one or two to collect supplies, have borne any fruit at all -- and even on those, people who should have recognized him showed no sign of it.
A heavy shutter is halfway down the storefront of Alcina's when he gets there. The sign on the door still reads OPEN, though.
He ducks to look in under the shutter, knocks on the door. Offers Alcina a hopeful smile, when she looks up.
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Date: 2011-01-23 01:40 am (UTC)"So you said you were from Sunnydale," more brightly, "but I didn't get your name."
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Date: 2011-01-23 01:41 am (UTC)He decides in the end, though, not to lie. "Jonathan. Levinson."
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Date: 2011-01-23 01:42 am (UTC)"Marlie," Kelly says in weary annoyance.
"It is, though," Marlie insists. "Hickety pickety, Jonathan Levinson."
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Date: 2011-01-23 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-23 01:43 am (UTC)"Believe me," says Kelly dryly, "she still is."
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Date: 2011-01-23 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-23 01:44 am (UTC)Kelly sighs again. "You have fun gossiping," she tells Marlie, digging in her pocket for her cellphone. "I'm calling in the report."
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Date: 2011-01-23 01:45 am (UTC)"Magic," he tells the girl. "History and practice, since I was in high school."
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Date: 2011-01-23 01:46 am (UTC)"You're a magician?" Marlie brightens even further. "You should meet our wiccans."
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Date: 2011-01-23 03:33 am (UTC)Up ahead, Kelly turns her head and catches Marlie's eye, and jerks her head to one side. Marlie nods, and eels sideways through the other pedestrians, gesturing to Jonathan to follow her.
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Date: 2011-01-23 05:14 am (UTC)"We're being called back to base," Kelly tells him. "You're welcome to come with."
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Date: 2011-01-23 05:17 am (UTC)"They don't want you to patrol?"
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Date: 2011-01-23 05:18 am (UTC)"You know, I wouldn't want to impose. Better I find a hotel or something."
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Date: 2011-01-23 05:20 am (UTC)Marlie's hand touches Jonathan's shoulder, slides to the back of his neck. There's a sharp sting, and a spreading numbness.
All the laughter and cheer are gone from her voice; instead, there's something like apology. "Told you I was good at being the decoy."
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Date: 2011-01-23 05:23 am (UTC)He's still trying to turn to look at Marlie when everything goes black.