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[ofthefamily]

Outside in a bit, Carlisle's hosting his team meeting.

For now, though, he's sitting at the bar playing with the laces on his baseball glove.

Carlisle gets fidgety when he is enthusiastic about something.

[ooc: some threads potentially still in progress in the team meeting, but it is up! Carlisle is open for tags whenever, if you forgive the family!drama that keeps dragging me downstairs.]

[OOC again: My phone lets me edit and things! This post will be open through tomorrow, since tonight is made of fail.]

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[noteful]

"You look ready for the game, Dr. Cullen."

[ofthefamily]

"Hi, Meg," Carlisle smiles, as close to bouncing as he gets. "Today is my team meeting, so I'm excited to see how everyone gets on with one another."

[noteful]

"I hope it goes well.

"Do you know many of the players on your team? Aside from your daughter?"

[ofthefamily]

"Hardly any, actually. It almost makes me nervous."

[noteful]

"Everyone I've met in relation to the game has been very nice.

"Duck is on your team. She's very sweet," Meg adds. "And Agent Booth, who I've met a handful of times, is nice. And Duo Maxwell, who is a friend of my friend Laura's. I've met him once or twice, I think."

If that's helpful.

[makesthings]

Sameth has seen baseball gloves before and so heads over to talk to the man before his Death sense stops him within about a foot of Carlisle, he's gone far too pale.

(OOC: Might be possible slows since I'm at work but I thought why not have Sameth meet his first vampire. ;-))

[ofthefamily]

At first when Carlisle sees the man approaching he expects Carlisle to be a member of his team. When he freezes, Carlisle's look of excitement pitches down.

"Hello. Can I help you?"

[makesthings]

He should be polite, this man might be a friend of Mogget's so he ends up nodding and finally manages to say,

"I'm going to watch the game and haven't seen a mitt before."

There, no mention of Death, Mogget would be proud actually Mogget would probably be rude.

[ofthefamily]

"Oh! Well here -- " Carlisle pulls his off and hands it to the man for closer examination. "Mine is somewhat antiquated by standards at home in my current year, but I prefer the style."

[gonna_live]

Kaylee, a few seats down, tilts her head at the glove.

It doesn't look very practical.

[ofthefamily]

Carlisle notices the look at his glove. He's used to it - the glove is about sixty years old.

"There are newer ones, but I don't like them as much."

[gonna_live]

"...oh," Kaylee says, helpfully.

"What's it for?"

[ofthefamily]

"A sport called baseball? There is to be a game here outside next week; I am captaining one of the teams."

Call it decades of experience?

"I should assume you are unfamiliar with it."

[ellectrical]

From a little ways down the bar, Elle watches his progress with the laces.

Of course, she thinks he's actually doing something with the glove.

[ofthefamily]

He is! Carlisle is...tightening the laces uselessly!

Probably far less exciting to the blonde woman than to Carlisle himself.

"Hello, young lady."

Carlisle doesn't appear much older, if any, than Elle herself. Old habits.

[ellectrical]

The only person who ever addresses her like that, regardless of age, is her father.

So it is a little disconcerting.

"Hello." Elle echoes the inflection precisely, and her eyes drop down to the glove again.

"What're you doing?"

[ofthefamily]

"Tightening the laces on my baseball glove before my team meeting this afternoon. Are you familiar with baseball as a sport?" Carlisle asks.

Even if she doesn't follow the sport, most people in his world can recognize a baseball glove.

[keptherwaiting.livejournal.com]

"Do you need to be calmed down?" Jasper asks, frowning down on Carlisle and sounding more like the parent, as his Seattle Times gets dropped on the counter in favor of snatching the glove away.

[ofthefamily]

"No. I am just being prepared for my meeting, that is all."

Carlisle wants his glove back, Jasper.

[keptherwaiting.livejournal.com]

Carlisle can have his glove back as soon as Jasper re-tightens the laces.

"That today?"

As if he doesn't already known. He's only around because Alice is about somewhere for the meeting herself.

[ofthefamily]

"Yes it is."

Giving Jasper a considering glance, "I hope you're not too worried about us. Alice and I are prepared."

[cutting_edgex23]

X's own baseball glove is being stored in her apartment.

Tomas helped her pick it out.

She may, however, be studying Carlisle's motions as she approaches. Just in case it is something she will be expected to do, as well.

And after a momentary pause --

"Hello. Carlisle."

[ofthefamily]

"Hello."

The decision between 'X' and 'Laura' is still a bit much, so Carlisle uses neither.

"How are you doing today?"

[cutting_edgex23]

"I am okay," X says.

"I have been practicing. For the game."

Beat.

"You are okay, too?"

[ofthefamily]

"Oh, yes. I have my team meeting this afternoon and I am excited to meet everyone. Did you have yours with Castiel yet?"