027 - I can say that I've lived here (In honor and danger)

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki is sitting inside one of the batting cages wearing a tiny smile. For once she isn't actually batting, just sort of hiding and fingering a dress badge emblazoned with the name and insignia of the NPA. She laughs and presses the back of her wrist against her forehead, a look of disbelief on her face.]

Welcome home, Kirihara.

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[lamb_of_gold]

A good day?

[contract_star]

[Grins hugely.] Well done.

[mercwamouth]

Aha! Someone actually from Japan! Looks like someone heard my comment about wearing badges.

It also says you're a cop! Another bit of useful information.

...

Who's Kirihara and why does she live in a batting cage?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Staring at him.] I'm Misaki Kirihara and I wasn't referring to the batting cages, and no, I didn't hear any comment you made about badges because I've never seen you before.

...since when do we have cosplayers on the plane?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Thank you. They even returned my old position, though I'll have to drag my team back from the places they were reassigned.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

A very good day.

[mercwamouth]

Misaki Kiri...

Oh, so you're Li's "someone else".

Oh, and let me just say that you'd prefer I keep the costume on. It's not so much for play.

...Though the spandex do feel good occasionally...

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

What?

....

What?

[Standing up and looking at him in sort of outraged disbelief, because the mention of Li + the phrasing of his second statement = sexual harassment in her mind. I MEAN REALLY. 'You'd prefer I keep the costume on'? 'Spandex do feel good occasionally'? THINK A MOMENT, DEADPOOL.] Who the hell are you?

[mercwamouth]

Ah, if I had a nickel for every time a girl has said that to me...

Name's Wade Wilson. Professionally known as "Deadpool" and "best mercenary ever".

Heard a little bit about you from Li. Nice guy, but a little quiet.

You seem a little more extroverted.

Guess I know who wears the pants in that relationship.

[contract_star]

But you're getting them back. That's wonderful.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Best mercenary ever. [If he was so great he'd have figured something was off about Li. :| ] I can name five off the top of my head who could probably kick your ass, and the nicknames of a dozen after that. And there... what the hell do you mean, relationship?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping to. The department's probably going to fight me on it, but I haven't come this far to give up now.

[mercwamouth]

Oh, yeah? Well they can kick my ass and then I'll take their leg and twist it off. Been at this for a long time, toots. Met some strange and powerful folks and a lot of 'em wanted me dead. In case you couldn't tell, in the immortal words of Monty Python, "I'm not dead yet!"

Yeah. Relationship. Li. He pretty much said so. Said he didn't feel "that way" about Diva (I asked because of the merger or whatever) and that there was "...someone else..." and then he dropped your name.

...

Oh, unless of course that's meant to be secret for dramatic tension between you two, in which case, I'm a lunatic.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

'Yeah'. And I doubt you've met someone who can blow you up by touching you, remove your gravity, or turn the air around you into a vacuum.

And I think in either case you're a lunatic. [It's a good thing she's pissed, because if she weren't she'd be embarrassed.]

[mercwamouth]

*Ahem*

Gambit can blow just about anything up by touching it.

Powerhouse can reverse gravity, though I've never met him. Do telekinetics count? I know crap ton of them.

And I'm willing to be Storm could pull that little vacuum number off if hard-pressed.

My turn. Have you taken on carnivorous Dinosaurs enhanced with alien symbiotes?

How about a man with a skeleton of unbreakable metal and foot-long retractable claws?

Or how about the basics?

Teleportation? body slide by one

[In a flash of light, Deadpool disappears and reappears behind you]

Or how about...

[Draws a sword, lops off a finger, which then starts to grow back within seconds]

...a healing factor?

[Sheathes sword, finger finishes growing back]

Impressed yet?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

...no, actually.

[mercwamouth]

...

No? Well damn! You're a little more worldly than I would have thought. No wonder Li likes you.

...

But why would someone like you be interested in a schmoe like Li?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I deal with all of the above, sans dinosaurs, on a day to day basis. It sort of loses its shock value after a while.

Who I am interested in and for what reason is none of your business.

[mercwamouth]

I know what you mean. I'm more shocked to meet normal people like you and Li.

...

You are normal, right?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

More or less.

[mercwamouth]

Thought it would be weird for a girl with superpowers to go through the trouble of becoming a cop.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Not really. Where I'm from the government and the NPA regularly employ people of... particular talent.

[mercwamouth]

Where I'm from, they sometimes do that too, but it often feels like it's the other way around.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Twitch of a smile.] Because sometimes it probably is.

[mercwamouth]

Doesn't it worry you that we'll go berserk and turn on you normal folks who trust us?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She shrugs.] Not particularly. My neighbor could go berserk and turn on the normal folks that trust him--the fact that people like you have more unique ways of killing doesn't make you any more of a threat. Just one that is somewhat more difficult to deal with.

[mercwamouth]

That's a pretty optimistic way of looking at it. Most people just see us as walking A-Bombs with masks these days.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Our A-Bomb already went off, and it was someone with abilities like yours that kept the damage to an absolute minimum. [Another shrug.] People are people. There will be poisonous ones in every group, super-powered or not.

[mercwamouth]

Your wisdom is matched only by your beauty, toots.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

I bet you say that to all the female cops not grossed out by you chopping your own fingers off.

[mercwamouth]

What can I say? I have a weakness for the strong, desensitized ones.

I'll be seein' ya. Last time I was in here too long and I missed The Daily Show.

...Weird, I never missed it before...

[Pop!]

[contract_star]

I'm just glad things are working out for you.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[tiny smile] ...me too.