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TWENTY THREE ✖ SPAM/TEXT
[Open Spam for the Pub]
[Charles didn't spend much time in here. Really, ever since he'd become, for all intents and purposes, the guardian of three young adults, Charles hadn't really indulged much in anything that could be considered irresponsible, which was fairly different from how he'd spent his life before meeting Moira in the bar in Oxford. When he hadn't been working on his thesis, a fair amount of time had been spent in different pubs, wooing women and generally not really acting like an adult who was working to be a professor of genetics.
But tonight he found himself deciding he needed a change in scenery, and he needed a drink, because sitting around in his room doing nothing was doing himself no good. Between the conversation with Wanda and the ethical questions it raised and Morgana killing Merlin, he didn't really know what to do with himself, because he couldn't go for a run, he didn't want to talk to Erik (not yet anyway), and he wasn't sure if he wanted to be around people, or to be alone.
So he is just letting himself in, helping himself to some Scotch and will be sitting off by himself thinking a bit nostalgically to a time where the only responsibility he had was making sure Raven kept out of trouble, and trying to ignore the fact that he hadn't seen or talked to his sister since the beach, and that had been almost nine months ago.]
[Private to Erik, a while later]
If you're not busy, I wouldn't mind some company up in the pub.
[ooc: MULTIPLES ARE WELCOME FOR THE SPAM I forgot to mention it earlier sorry about that. Gimme all your cr. c:]
[Charles didn't spend much time in here. Really, ever since he'd become, for all intents and purposes, the guardian of three young adults, Charles hadn't really indulged much in anything that could be considered irresponsible, which was fairly different from how he'd spent his life before meeting Moira in the bar in Oxford. When he hadn't been working on his thesis, a fair amount of time had been spent in different pubs, wooing women and generally not really acting like an adult who was working to be a professor of genetics.
But tonight he found himself deciding he needed a change in scenery, and he needed a drink, because sitting around in his room doing nothing was doing himself no good. Between the conversation with Wanda and the ethical questions it raised and Morgana killing Merlin, he didn't really know what to do with himself, because he couldn't go for a run, he didn't want to talk to Erik (not yet anyway), and he wasn't sure if he wanted to be around people, or to be alone.
So he is just letting himself in, helping himself to some Scotch and will be sitting off by himself thinking a bit nostalgically to a time where the only responsibility he had was making sure Raven kept out of trouble, and trying to ignore the fact that he hadn't seen or talked to his sister since the beach, and that had been almost nine months ago.]
[Private to Erik, a while later]
If you're not busy, I wouldn't mind some company up in the pub.
[ooc: MULTIPLES ARE WELCOME FOR THE SPAM I forgot to mention it earlier sorry about that. Gimme all your cr. c:]
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I'm still touring the place, really. Someone didn't waste any time putting me to work, so I haven't had much chance to do the full meet-and-greet. [Not that he would have felt particularly inclined if there was such a thing-- the network since his arrival hasn't exactly painted the prettiest picture of the Barge's inhabitants, and the first person he'd spoken to had warned him of as much.]
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Yes, I'm afraid I'm not personally acquainted with your inmate- [Although his breach counterpart had been his coworker and Kozak looked an alarming amount like Tony.] But I think you'll find it's better to have an assignment quickly. Sitting around waiting for one gets a bit tiresome.
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[He pauses briefly before continuing.] You sound like you're speaking from experience, though. Still waiting?
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"Vanished"?
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It happens more often than it should, to wardens and inmates. No one's quite sure why.
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If you don't mind my asking-- [because he really doesn't want or mean to pry, but after meeting with Kozak and some of the recent goings on in general he's willing to admit that any insight from someone more experienced than himself might prove useful] --how are things with your current inmate?
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What about yours?
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Our first meeting really veered into a number of unexpected directions.
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That seems to be a common occurrence around here, I wouldn't take it too personally.
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I'd like to think I made it somewhere close to record time, if nothing else.
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Do you mind if I ask what you did before coming here?
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[Perry frowned pensively at his drink once more; Kozak certainly fit the definition, especially in its simplest terms, but actually speaking to him he'd found it sometimes difficult to see. If nothing else Kozak seemed so overly caught up in the ends justifying the means that the rest simply got deemed irrelevant and lost along the way. With maybe a hint of self-serving ambition thrown in for good measure. Or more than a hint, their discussion at the time had been rather spectacularly derailed right about then, so who was to say? It was at least a motive Perry was somewhat more familiar with, though that helped no one's case at present. He tapped a finger against his glass, re-centering himself on the conversation.]
...What about you, what did you do before "playing therapist"?
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[Which, again, Tony really wasn't, so he sort of felt obligated to point it out.] Although I think Mr. Stark isn't a criminal at all so much as just a troubled soul, which I've had a bit of experience handling, in the past.
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I don't know if I'd go so far as to call him well-meaning, but he certainly seemed convinced he was [--"Doing the right thing?" For the wrong reason? Doing the questionable thing for the right reason? Who in pluperfect hell had any idea what it was that Kozak was convinced of, aside from that he was being punished unnecessarily.] --within his rights. I'm not sure what to call that.
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And even then, he was from 1962. It was likely Dr. Kozak had some interesting new perspective to add in any discussion, comparatively.]
What was his area of focus?
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[And while the company Kozak had been chief scientist of was also briefly mentioned in the file, most of the information not related to the specific incident that had eventually led him here seemed to have been largely glossed over.] I think he worked for a pharmaceutical company.
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What year was it for him, before he came here?
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[Same as Perry himself, oddly enough. Considering the variety found around here, it's a detail that's stuck with him.]
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