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Mar. 22nd, 2014 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Every now and again I see people curious to learn some hand to hand--or hell, some weapons--fighting. I'm offering to teach, assuming you're up to the task. I'll tell you now, not everyone will be.
[PRIVATE VIDEO to BARBARA and IRIS]
[Admittedly he hesitated to put Barbara on the filter but logic wins out in the end.]
So what've you two put together about the Barge's engines? Need to bounce a few ideas at you.
Every now and again I see people curious to learn some hand to hand--or hell, some weapons--fighting. I'm offering to teach, assuming you're up to the task. I'll tell you now, not everyone will be.
[PRIVATE VIDEO to BARBARA and IRIS]
[Admittedly he hesitated to put Barbara on the filter but logic wins out in the end.]
So what've you two put together about the Barge's engines? Need to bounce a few ideas at you.
[filtered Cain/Babs]
Date: 2014-04-01 03:03 pm (UTC)[filtered Cain/Babs]
Date: 2014-04-03 08:50 pm (UTC)[Her eyes are bright now.
And then suddenly she's small, and frail and old and hurting. Although a little theatrically.]
...Please sir, just a little soup first?
[filtered Cain/Babs] -> [Spam]
Date: 2014-04-03 09:24 pm (UTC)I can't have you starve. On my way, right this second.
[And when the soup is ladled out (two bowls: one for Iris, one for Barbara) he drops the one off for Babs and heads in to see Iris.]
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Date: 2014-04-03 10:51 pm (UTC)Oh thank goodness. Come 'ere. I feel like summat the cat sicked up, but that soup smells good. So do you.
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Date: 2014-04-04 10:58 pm (UTC)[Teasing, as he settles on the edge of her bed and ladles out a spoonful to her.]
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Date: 2014-04-04 11:12 pm (UTC)[Which is the absolute truth, although it's as much his own scent, close up. Gunpowder just smells really good okay.
She lets herself be fed, pliant and contented. I could get used to this, she wants to say, and then doesn't; it's a wonderful feeling to be looked after, but she knows herself better than to think she could take it except in very small doses on special occasions. So she picks on a lesser, truer thing to say instead.]
...This soup's bloody amazing. What's in it?
[Spam]
Date: 2014-04-07 02:41 am (UTC)Garlic, chicken broth, more garlic, some whiskey and honey, a touch of lemon, some hot peppers to clear your sinuses.
[He's actually enjoying this. But, like her, its a small-dose thing: he doesn't have the temperament to be nurturing for very long.]