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Who: Fauxlivia Dunham and ~~the Goddamned Batman~~ Bruce or Tom or whatever.
What: Firsthand proof that the militia can be assholes.
Where: Bonetown near Mogg Hill.
When: Backdated to last week-ish. /vaguehands
Warnings: None as of yet.

Word of mouth has alerted Olivia to the fact that a bakery just outside Mogg Hill makes a lemon loaf that is supposedly just like Starbucks. Over There, she'd enjoyed breakfast pastries and coffee from the chain, so this tip seems worth following up for a little taste of something like home.

Stepping inside out of the chill, 'Liv takes her hands out of her jacket pockets and rubs them together to bring feeling back into her fingers, eyeing the offerings on display in their glass cases in the front of the store.

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"Tom."

And that's all she's getting - not that he's shunning her his made-up last name, even on his Baedal tax forms it really is just Tom. There are so many cultures here, no one's ever asked him if it's more than that, so he's never supplied anything more.

"You seem bored."

"Do I? Not bored so much as... unsurprised." Olivia casually glances over her shoulder, before turning back to ask, "Is that sad? Sure, I didn't wake up this morning expecting a chase," or to be chased, as the case may be, "but I never discount it as a possibility."

She doesn't begrudge him the truncated name, whether any of it is withheld or made up. "So, Tom... What were you hoping to do back there? Besides observe everything that's wrong with police states."

Bruce shoots her a look, not glancing fully, just enough to carry the glimmer of his amusement - he didn't mean just now, Olivia, he means in general. How antsy do you have to be to end up leaping over a wall with a stranger?

"Just watching."

And believe it or not, that isn't an obfuscated lie.

Maybe she'd rather not tempt fate by suggesting she's bored in general. That tends to be the time where things get decidedly not boring.

Oh, like this day is turning out. ...Maybe it's a little too late for not tempting fate.

"You don't strike my as someone who sticks to the sidelines in observation," Olivia comments with a raised brow. "Maybe that's why I'm bored." All observation and no action makes Agent Dunham a dull girl.

"How do I strike you?"

He's very adept at getting away, Olivia, maybe that's his specialty; observation and reconnaissance without getting caught. He could be a spy. He could be a journalist. He could be a weirdo who's graduated from staring out his apartment window. The possibilities are truly endless.

"Like someone who prefers action to inaction." She glances at him out of the corner of her eye. "Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but watching stuff like that unfold all the time, on purpose? It gets depressing fast. Anyone who truly cares about monitoring and documenting that sort of injustice either walks away because they care too much, or they find a way to do something about it."

"Even if that means enlisting others." She's so casual about it, it's almost as if any implication was unintentional. Almost. If he's just into recon, Olivia certainly doesn't think he's on his own.

"You are bored."

Neither confirmation nor denial, but Olivia is being a little pushy - on the one hand, Bruce doesn't blame her, but on the other, he's not going to reward somebody prying at him with anything besides letting it deflect off.

"I think your projecting a little, too. What were you at home? Fed?"

"Guilty as charged." Flippant. She means about being bored. But probably a little bit about the projecting, and definitely about being a fed. Sort of. "Department of Defense. The FBI was done away with before my time."

Not that she hasn't worked that job, too. The miracles of parallel universes and selves. She doesn't bother to ask what he used to do back home. Judging from his responses so far, she doesn't think she'd get an answer.

"Do you think we've lost 'em?" While she thinks it sure seems that way, she has no experience with how dogged the militia here can be.

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