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baedalites ([personal profile] baedalites) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2012-04-14 06:15 pm

Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.

Who: EVERYONE.
What: Swap meet.
Where: The Apache and surrounding environs.
When: Sukkardi the 14th of Haneden
Notes:
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The Apache is much the same as it always is: dimly lit, with the jukebox playing in the background, and the bartender serving whatever's on tap.
thedominatrix: (D'you want these?)

...and then I rephrased THIS TIME IT WILL BE RIGHT

[personal profile] thedominatrix 2012-04-18 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
"If you're going to carry out the mass murder you look like you're plotting, could I buy my safety with a drink?"

--Irene says with her eyebrows up as she deposits herself into a chair close by and takes off her shoes as if she were are home. (Her toenails are red and no one is surprised). Her tone, however, isn't mocking or faux-concerned, just- neutral, idle. Pointing out a fact- he looks truly miserable- and making an academic inquiry.

Maybe she's spent too much time around Holmeses.
diogenesis: the lower i get, the higher i'll climb (i feel numb most of the time)

...and then I edited for ILDE! LADIEEEES...

[personal profile] diogenesis 2012-04-19 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Although Irene demands much more caution from Mycroft than Ilde does, the fact that she employs the same tactic—swanning over and sitting next to him with no questions asked—puts him at a similar kind of ease with her presence (strange as that may be). It does not, however, stop him from continuing to appear as though he wishes death upon the entire bar.

He knows Irene's offer of a drink isn't an idle one; he's finished off his scotch. There'd be no harm in another. He could use it. Ilde's company has done wonders to distract him, but with her temporary departure, he's gone straight back to being grim.

"I think those terms could be arranged," he replies, deadpan.
Edited 2012-04-20 03:00 (UTC)
thedominatrix: (So fascinated my clothes have fallen off)

[personal profile] thedominatrix 2012-04-20 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Marvellous, though I've just gotten comfortable. Oh, actually- mind my shoes and watch this; I give him two minutes-"

And she's getting to her (bare) feet, accidentally-on-purpose bumping into a young man here as someone's plus one or just gatecrashing, as he isn't from the cohort (as Mycroft will likely know). He smiles. She smiles back. There's a joke about her lack of footwear somewhere. It takes exactly one minute and thirty two seconds before he's gone off to fetch her a scotch, though if he thinks he gets to stay talking to her after that then he's sorely mistaken.

She collapses back into her chair and rests her elbow on the armrest, her chin on her hand, smiling at him.

"Delegation. But you know all about that."
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (you that are the brat of heaven ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2012-04-21 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
When Ilde returns, she has not taken her shoes off, but she has got rid of the object she'd arrived with (the camcorder she'd received since then is hanging from her wrist as she hangs onto her clutch) and at some point acquired a fresh lollipop, which is in her mouth in lieu of greetings. She brightens upon seeing Irene, which might not be the best news Mycroft had all day, and takes it out to say-- “I didn't know you knew each other.”

This is a delightful discovery, obviously; she retakes her seat at his side, apparently intending to tuck herself up there and lazily occupy this space until Ivan has done amusing himself with their cohort and it's time to find a bar more to their tastes or the way back to his flat. He's already disapproved of her company once, tonight, but surely she can't get into any trouble over here.

Well, except that she could probably find a way to get into trouble sitting very quietly alone in a dark room, and there's Irene, but nevermind that. At least the very wonderful thing about Ilde is that in order to give someone else's conversation privacy, all she need do is close her eyes.
diogenesis: TONIGHT AT THE ARENA ({ irene } government vs. dominatrix)

[personal profile] diogenesis 2012-04-22 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
“Indeed,” Mycroft says to Ilde with a smile that fits just a bit too tightly. He knows Irene can see it as well. And he knows she knows he knows she can see it. What tangled webs. It's all for a good cause.

“Ms Adler, how did you come to know Miss Decima?” he goes on to ask, using a 'normal,' inquisitive-yet-casual tone that could mean anything or nothing. Truthfully, he's already familiar with how they became acquainted (a Network conversation centered around lingerie and the more practical applications of Ilde's illusions), but asking after the harmless story serves the twin purposes of: 1. finding out how Irene chooses to respond to him and 2. subtly reassuring her that he hasn't, in fact, read every public post on the Network. (He has.)
thedominatrix: (Ooh Mr Iceman ooh)

[personal profile] thedominatrix 2012-04-25 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Irene gives Ilde a delighted look, then puts her head on one side to see whether Mycroft will explain how they know eachother- when he doesn't, just gives that smile and nothing more, she offers to Ilde, "I'm a friend of the family."

It is almost true, and just false enough to be incredibly obnoxious.

However, she does answer his question with the truth; "Oh, you know, the Network- but we met face to face by accident. Five AM at the Lost Society." And not for one moment does she genuinely believe that Mycroft has not picked through the Network with incredible attention to detail, because to some extent she's done the same thing, albeit without his powers of deduction.
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (has such small hands ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2012-04-26 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
“Voyeurism,” Ilde says, of their conversation, a pleased reminiscence - she'd enjoyed meeting Irene properly, and what they'd discussed had stuck in her memory. Interesting things tend to, whereas she'd really enjoy the ability to conveniently forget the things that don't interest her very much. (More people fall under that heading than don't.) “And the Vault.”

Ilde considers for a few moments.

“Family friendliness of topics probably depends on your family. My father would love you.” ...to Irene, and yes, he really would.
diogenesis: (side eye)

[personal profile] diogenesis 2012-05-04 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
Mycroft offers yet another one of those smiles. He knows exactly how much Ilde's father would like Irene, if the somewhat-brief affair he apparently had with Ms Ozcelik is anything to go by.

“Ms Adler is not that kind of friend.” He pauses to raise a brow in mock-consideration. “Not to my family, in any case.”

There's a definite unspoken 'Despite how hard she may have tried to seduce my brother' hanging in the air, but Mycroft's banking on Ilde not having secret powers of deductive logic as well as Irene continuing to content herself with vagueries. The Woman has her own secrets to keep, after all.
thedominatrix: (Check out these come to dungeon eyes.)

[personal profile] thedominatrix 2012-05-05 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Irene rolls her eyes at Mycroft with no real seriousness; it could be called camp, oh, you got me, and she doesn't even bother trying to chase her smile away.

She turns the same smile on Ilde. "From what you've told me about him, I'd have to at least buy your father a drink-" Irene admires reckless absurdity "-although look how that ended for Hasi."

Though the tone of her voice implies that a two month flash of marriage for the hell of it isn't the worst thing she can think of. Well, she did pronounce it 'adorable' when Ilde told her the story. "How do you two know each other?"
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (don't make me sad ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2012-05-18 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It takes Ilde a moment to decide on a mode of address - there is a lot of Miss Decima and Ms Adler happening right now, so she veers away from her blithe instinct to use his first name - but then, promptly, “Mr Holmes reads to me.” Which is the most direct, simplistic answer she can think of; the one that requires the least elaboration and qualification and general fussery. It's just also the one that sounds the most bewildering, all things considered.
diogenesis: (i charged him £850)

[personal profile] diogenesis 2012-05-30 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
Mycroft's lips press into a thin line as he resists turning his head to look incredulously at Ilde. Really, he should have seen this coming from a mile away—he's been the brother of a troublemaker for long enough, after all—but the young cellist seems ready to surprise him at every turn.

Abandoning his initial plan of eyeing Ilde like she's utterly mad, he looks to Irene instead, his expression now relaxed.

“In foreign languages,” he says.

What is the proper etiquette when one is in a dive bar in an alternate dimension speaking to two young ladies who enjoy publicly discussing sex, anyway?
thedominatrix: (Let's solve this without hair-pulling.)

[personal profile] thedominatrix 2012-05-30 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Irene's eyebrows go up, and Mycroft's addition doesn't actually clear anything up for her, so she just says, "Cute."

Very sincerely.

And then she glances to the side, holds up her index finger to both of them as if forbidding them to speak- possibly they're not allowed to in her absence, possibly that's the idea. "Oh, I'll just be a second..."

While she's picking up that scotch from the man she's enlisted- who is so distracted by her leaning into his personal space that he ends up a few steps away before he even realises he's gotten exactly nothing out of that encounter but lighter pockets- and returning, glass in hand.

Accepting a drink from Irene Adler isn't actually much like signing a contract with the devil; the look she gives Mycroft suggests it is anyway.