Patient Zero (plot) - Summary in content

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

A rather dejected kitsune enters the bar. Her kitsune-ness is easily identifiable by the silver-furred fox tail, the dejected-ness by the fact that said tail is drooping and that the kitsune is muttering to herself. Other than all of this, she's wearing a pale grey jumpsuit with a utility belt. Some of the items there are recognizable from ThinkGeek, others look like she raided the prop department of various and sundry scifi TV shows.

Laini finds a chair to flop down in, and keeps an eye out for a waiter or wait rat, while fiddling with a pair of magnets she's tossing together to make interesting (or annoying!) spaceship sounds.

((Anyone can bug her, of course! You won't get sick unless plot dictates you want to.))

((Summary: Laini meets up with Chris, for general geekiness, House, for medical discussions of other plots (slowtimed), Sawyer for teasing and (eep) too much nosiness, Ace for cool toys and plot device, and Edward for green tea icecream shakes and talk of pets.))

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[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Reporting for plot!]

Interestingly enough, being a fellow geek, the first thing Chris notices is the magnets.

"Magnetoids, I haven't seen those in years."

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

Laini's ears perk, she beams and tosses the set in Chris' direction.

"Every so often I take those out to play with at work. Drives some of my cowokers nuts." She grins. "Then I hide them away til people forget about them for a while."

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

Chris catches them and smiles. "Thanks."

She sets about getting one to spin and make a whistling sound. "We would never be allowed to have these where I work."

She extends a hand. "Chris."

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

She beams, and offers her hand as well. "Laini. Where do you work? 'Cause I'd take them in anyways. They're just magnets." She grins. "So they're still not on the list of 'Things Laini is not allowed to have access to'."

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"Pleased to meet you." Chris shakes her hand.

"I work with an investment firm and before that I worked in military intelligence. Lots of computers therefore, lots of hard disks."

[ineedavicodin.livejournal.com]

[OOC:Plottyiness ahoy]

House makes his way downstairs, it takes a while...and he rests at the bottom for a long moment before moving forward. (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=milliways_bar&itemid=6158297)

Finally pushing away from the wall, he starts toward the bar. His gait is unsteady, more than he'd care to admit. He stops once to take a deep breath. Walking again, he stumbles into a chair, banging both his shins and the chair's occupant.

He bites his tongue to keep from screaming as the pain rockets up ihs leg, through his thigh and into his back. "I'm...sorry," he mutters, unable for amoment to say more than that.

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

Her ears flatten (well, they do), first in surprise, then in a wince as she turns around in her chair. "Eeeep. No, its alright. Are you ok? ouch." Laini scrambles up to her feet, hands on his on the back of the chair.

"It was just a bump. Or it should have been. Unless the chair did something to you."

[ineedavicodin.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Hehe. No worries. He knows he's possessed of an evil mun...He'll blame me, not you *g*]

He blinked, pain still surging through him in waves. "No, I'm...I'm fine. I wasn't..." he wanted to curse. Loudly. "Are you all right? I'm a doctor...I can...if you're hurt..."

He didn't usually talk in fragments like that, but couldn't seem to get the words to come out right.

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

"You crashed into me. I'm fine, you're not. 'Sides, you're human, so you prolly wouldn't know what t'do." She gives him a blameless, sheepish smile. "How 'bout you sit down insted?"

[ineedavicodin.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine. Just..." He sat, grateful to have the weight taken off his leg. "Yeah. Sit down. That's good. I'm good." He gave her a slightly sheepish smile and reached up to clasp her hands. "Thank you."

[milliways_sawyer]

[OOC: I love the smell of plot in the morning. Or evening. Whatever.]

Walking by on his way to the bar, it's the noise of the magnets that catches his attention first. Sawyer tends to get jumpy around odd noises these days. You never know what sort of odd activity is causing said noises.

What stops him is the fox tail. "Ain't met but one woman with like that. Evening, Ako."

It doesn't even cross his mind that there could be more than one kitsune in the bar.

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

"ooh." Laini lowers her eyes, looking at him. "Pablo the Pool Boy. I thought I told you never to meet me here." She flutters her lashes.

"People might talk, and then where would we be?" She gasps, and puts the back of her hand to her forhead, dramatically leaning back in her chair.

[milliways_sawyer]

He grins and makes the worst attempt at a Spanish accent ever. "I could no' help myself. My love, it is a fever."

He flops down in a seat by her. "Besides, if I remember right, 'causing a ruckus is kinda your thing."

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

She laughs, and tosses a crumbled up napkin at him. "Depends on which thing, Pablo. My name is Laini, pool boy o' mine."

[milliways_sawyer]

He raises an eyebrow then flushes momentarily, muttering, "Dammit, shapeshifters ought to have to wear nametags."

"Sawyer. Nice to meet you."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

An Ace, on her way to the security office, wanders by.

And then wanders back, with a curious expression.

Whoever this gal is, she's got cool toys. Cool toys must be examined.

"Hullo."

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

Cool toys are fun. Lots of fun. She has a belt full of them, and some can even *gasp* do useful working-type things too!

Laini sets the magnetoids to spinning on the table, and grins over at Ace. "'Lo there!"

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace watches the magenetoids in fascination.
"Brilliant toys you have there." Sigh. You can take the pyro out of child-hood...

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

"... these aren't the coolest. Here." She tosses them to Ace, and goes looking at what she has on her utility belt. "A lot of them I have to smuggle into work, they're posted up on the 'Laini Should Not Have' list." She rolls her eyes, laughing.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

She snaps the thrown magnetoids out of the air and begins spinning them distractedly as she eyes what she's got on her belt.
"Y'know... if you wanted to store them here..." TOYS! Ace manages to not look overly eager.

[edwardishungry.livejournal.com]

*Ed bounces over to girl with tail and eyes the geeky gadgets on th utility belt.*

Hello!

*she grins*

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

Laini blinks, and looks at Ed, grinning.

"Well, hello to you too!" She spins the magnets around each other up in the air, and tosses them to Ed.

"Noisemakers. Can't live without 'em."

[edwardishungry.livejournal.com]

*Ed claps and catches the magnets*

Ooh, Ed likes noisemakers!

[foxy-l33t.livejournal.com]

Laini giggles. "Here. I'll show you how to make them work. They're magnets, you see? And they're shaped odd, so when the like-sides meet, they move away, and around. The noise comes from them hitting each other."

[edwardishungry.livejournal.com]

*Ed listens intently and then tries it for herself, going very wide-eyed when they work.*

Neat!