15176/The Quiet

The Quiet
Date of Scene:	19 June 2023
Location:	Level 4 - Recreation - The Roost
Synopsis:	Phoebe and Gabby talking about next moves and past moves over pizza as Phoebe celebrates getting through her freshman year of college.
Cast of Characters:	Phoebe Beacon, Gabby Kinney

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Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    The TV was running with a low murmur on some old sitcom, mostly for background noise and flickering blue-green light in the Rec Room. A pizza box was open showing a variety of vegetarian toppings, and a bucket of deep fried tater tots dusted with some super hot flavoring dust, three two-liters of that weird fruit sodas that you can only find at gas stations or Mexican groceries and, in the middle of all this food, consuming one of her cherry tye-dye cookies, was Phoebe.

    Looks like she was going to overnight in the Roost tonight; she's already wearing pajama pants covered with bright blue and green turtles, and a tank top with the same turtle and the words:

'LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE'

Gabby Kinney has posed:
The smell of food was a lure, but so was the fact that it sounded like someone else was up at this hour. Gabby had been hanging to Gotham a little more lately in an attempt to try and follow up with the whole 'vampire girl' thing she'd run across recently--As well as make up for her lack of really being diligent in helping the Outsiders as of late to begin with.

Sometimes it was hard to know where best to spend her time.

After a quick shower she shuffles her way in wearing runner shorts and a t-shirt while her still damp hair is wrapped up in a towel to help soak up the water. Spying Phoebe she grins, "Hey! Been a bit. My fault," she admits with a sigh while stepping in further to look over the array of snacks. "Mind if I join you?"

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "I wouldn't know. I'd been spending a lot of time Elsewhere with other people recently. But the room at the Curio's too cold, the room at the Wayne Estate is too big and I've not heard from Zee so I'm staying out of Shadowcrest for now, so-- short of running off again-" Phoebe holds up a hand "Which I'm not doing" she drops her hand "I figured 'you know, I haven't spent a lot of time at the Roost for a while. Maybe people will be here and I can take my brain off things."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney reaches over to snag one of the tater tots unless she has her hands slapped away. A wry grin comes at that as she can only nod in agreement. "I feel like I'm stretched all over the place lately. So I'm here for similar reasons," she admits only to pop the tot into her mouth and chew. "... Laura would like these."

With that decided she flops down somewhere comfy nearby. "We could play a game if it'd help get your mind off things?"

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "Yeah, I was thinking of her when I ordered them. What is it with healing factor people adn spiciness? Why do we like torturing ourselves?" Phoene asks, raising her hand up a moment as she leans back against the couch.

    Phoebe almost never sits on the furniture, and if she is she's doing it wrong. She's siting on the floor, and she closes the book she was reading as she breathes out.

    "I can only imagine. The JLD's a pretty chaotic lot. Heard you've got a boyfriend-and-or-girlfriend. Chillin' with kings and queens and everything." she gives a wry smile, and draws her leg up to set her chin on it.

    "I don't think I've got brains for games."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"Boyfriend and girlfriend," Gabby confirms with a nod as she ends up sitting cross legged on the couch. She did the floor too at times but right now soft and comfy cushions were more of a lure to her. "Yeah, I don't know there. I guess our taste buds recover quicker, maybe?" All she can do is shrug over that odd phenomena.

"A bit chaotic, yeah. Have to remind folks sometimes that they do have a team if they need help with things," Gabby admits with a wry smile. "As for Kings and Queens... Just King Namor. Knew him from when I was younger. Which is part of the whole 'all over the place' thing. Lots of people from my past are popping up again and it's like--" her hands lift making jazz hands to signify how it's making her feel.

"Not weird but chaotic. Like I don't know where to focus."

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe gives a small smile, and a little nod. "Well, y'know, if you don't choose where to focus, life decides to make that decision for you sometimes." she states quietly, and reaches up for her hair wrap.

    "Did I tell you that Robbie broke Cupp's nose a couple weeks back?" she questions, pulling the head cover off and shwoing a mess of pink hair.

    "Just delivered a haymaker straight to the nose. I'm amazed Cupp didn't pass out, y'know. Most people do."

    She draws up her other leg. "So you're hangin' with the King of Atlantis? How's that going? Spending a lot of time at the beach?"

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"He DID? OH god please tell me it's on tape somewhere. I would put that on repeat for *hours*," Gabby gushes at the mere thought of that complete wanker getting a proper what-for. The thought is left to mull over, enjoying it, even as Phoebe undoes her hair to reveal the new color.

"Ooh, going fancy on me," she teases with a fond grin. "It looks good! And yeah, kind of. I was picking up some ingredients to restock when I ran into him again. We went swimming down to a coral reef on another visit. That was pretty awesome until the sharks." Looking a little awkward she mumbles, "May have accidentally cut the top of my foot on the reef. No sharks were hurt, though," she assures quickly, "We got out of there fast. He can *SWIM* when he wants. Surprised even me."

There's a pause before she inquires, "Cupp still after you even after that? I can totally do some bodily harm on him 'accidentally'."

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "He's been surprisingly quiet." Phoebe admits quietly, and then rubs the back of her head, through the pink. It's pink, all the way down to the roots. There's no smell of hair dye about her.

    "Oh yeah, it's up on Instagram and I'm pretty sure there's a Youtube compilation of 'Asshole Gringo gets Popped in the FACE by CoolCarGuy'" Phoebe gives a small smile, and then shakes her head.

    "But ah, stuff happened after that, y'know?" she states softly, "Cupp's not shown his face around the university or Wayne Enterprises again, but I can't stop him from showing up at other places around the state. Eventually he'll either spill the beans on my powers or he'll show up again and be an asshole to everyone with impunity. Luckily apparently 'chasing a girl down at her school' made his numbers tank. Unfortunately?" Phoebe grabs a slice of the pizza. "He's still a lawyer and has some sway over things. I'd just settle for him leaving me alone."

    And Phoebe turns a bit darker in the cheeks and mutters:

    "I messed up a spell. It's natural now."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"Favoriting," Gabby states without reaching for her phone for once. It was tucked away for later, and she was definitely going to be watching it. It's the sudden awareness of the lack of chemical smell from Phoebe that has her watching as she runs her hand through the pink hair. The explanation earns a simple nod of acceptance. Even if it seemed upsetting to Phoebe. Sometimes these things were just things she had to roll with she'd learned.

"Ah. Well it does look good on you," she assures again with a faint smile. "Maybe you should tap some of the Wayne lawyers to help you out on that, too. Even if he does spill about your powers, with that kind of history behind him it shouldn't be too hard to paint him as a loony."

"Maybe YOU should take a beach vacation, too," she reasons after a moment. Some more tots are taken to munch as well as a napkin because she's trying to be all adult about things like greasy fingers.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "I haven't had a vacation in years that wasn't Enforced by Tim." Phoebe mutters, and she tilts her head back.

    "Look, I don't want to involve more lawyers. I just want Cupp to leave me alone. Talia, Damian, heck even Jason have offered to 'talk to him'. Tim I'm pretty sure was a hair's bredth from punching him out the window. Maybe once this other thing is wrapped up I can go and... just be alone or something. Still kind of afraid of the water. Always have been. One of the psychs at school thinks there might be trauma related to it."

    She pauses, and reaches for her water bottle.

    "Maybe that whole 'seeing Set and Apep fight in the ocean' thing?"

Gabby Kinney has posed:
"Oh, well. Trauma is bad yes. I can get that..." Gabby actually trails off a moment with tot halfway to her mouth, and lips pressed together pensively. "I like water but it is one of the few things that could either forever kill me or be a really, really bad trap of repetitive dying. I don't know which, I'd rather not find out."

A little quieter she adds, "Namor was actually really understanding about that. It was kind of reassuring having him around, even if I had diving gear with me."

"But yeah could be. I mean, trauma can come from tons of things."

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "Trauma's weird like that. If you told me when I first signed on with the Outsiders I'd be having panic attacks on Father's Day I probably would... have said 'yeah that tracks.'" Phoebe admits with a small shrug.

    "Well. Next time you head out to meet Namor, I'll head out with you. Worst he can say is 'you're a monster and I'm not letting you near the water' in which case?"

    Phoebe finger guns. "Get out of beach vacations free forever. King of the Ocean said no."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Father's Day? Gabby opens her mouth... then closes it and thinks. "Oh so it is." She hadn't really had anyone she could consider a father figure enough to really keep it in mind, even if she had called someone that at some point.

She does grin a bit though at mention of Namor. "I don't think you're a monster. I'll keep that in mind though. No beach vacations for Phoebe. This means of course," she reasons, "Free climbing mountains is okay."

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "Hey, I can fly. Free climbing it is. I mean, that is of course all contingent on Namor kicking me out of the ocean. Hey, is it *all* Oceans or just like, the Atlantic? Is there someone else in the Arctic? Do they have... Pacific Reasons to keep separate?" Phoebe inquires, her nose wrinkling, lips pursing, brows knitting slightly before she folds her pizza and just NOMF.

    "... I just don't know what I'm going to do with all this free *time*."

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney can only shrug a little bit over the politics of the ocean. "King of Atlantis, King of the oceans, yadda. Far as I know. There's also that other guy, Aquaman, but I think he's like a... prince? I dunno. He's in the Justice League and other than the really big namers I don't know much of what goes on there."

Thoughtfully she chomps on a few more tots. "You'd think I would being JLD and all but other than the occasional check in or tapping for a mission, we don't hear from them often."

"Oh, also, Namor refuses to wear pants or a shirt so expect speedos."

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "Leadership in the JLD's a farce. I was the *sole* leader for like, three weeks and no one did shit because we were all stuck in the Astral or in the Afterlife partying with a bunch of gods or stuck in a doorway and then there Iw was and no one in SHIELD would talk to me and the whole thing was *bupkis* and I'm glad Jon kicked me out and Chas threatened to kill me and my Constantine was some sort of monstrous demon that I'm going to track down and ask him The Question before I disrupt his magical signature so strongly that Cthon is gonna feel iiiiiiitttt... did you say he wears nothing but Speedos?"

    Phoebe blinks.

    "Doesn't he... get cold?"

Gabby Kinney has posed:
Gabby Kinney holds her breath as Phoebe starts to spiral... and then lets it out when she realizes about the speedo thing. At least it was a distraction, that's for sure. Get the topic off of bad things for now, or at least try to.

She shrugs in response to that while leaning forward to snag a slice of pizza. Sure it was veggie but she actually DID eat her veggies on occasion. And pizza was pizza. "Didn't ask, but maybe? He doesn't seem to mind. That's the reason I called him 'Abslantis' when I was younger, though," she points out with a cheeky grin. "He likes to show them off." With that she rolls her eyes toward the ceiling with a put upon sigh. "Really, he's ... Built and knows it." Lightly clearing her throat she can only shrug.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "You realize there is a not-zero chance that I am going to stumble all over myself and embarass everyone." Phoebe points out, motioning her bitten slice of pizza at Gabby.

    "Ah well. What's the worst that could happen?"