8173/A Hello To You

A Hello To You
Date of Scene:	08 October 2021
Location:	W.A.N.D: Triskelion
Synopsis:	Hellboy pitches an adventure to the Tomb Raider. Time to go cut down a tree!
Cast of Characters:	Hellboy, Lara Croft

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Hellboy has posed:
    The elevator dinged. The people rushing out in a slight panic were less panicked than they had been at other times, but it still let Lara know, or at least suspect, Hellboy was on his way. Big Red lumbered across the office floor. People didn't stare so much, anymore. He'd been there several times, and his presence was starting to become blase. As he got to Lara's cubicle, he inclined his head toward her. "Hey, babe," he says. Flipping a bouquet of flowers upright, he continues, "Got you a fresh set. You busy?"

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara is standing beside her desk with one hand on her left hip and the other holding her phone up against the side of her head. She is wearing a black button up top with light brown hiking pants and dark leather boots. Her hair is done in that loose pony she often wears it in. Her eyes go over to the towering Hellboy when he arrives and she affords him a quick smile before she looks to the flowers and smiles even larger.

On the phone: Lara says "Yes, Tom, we'll get all of that settled soon and I'll have the papers sent over to be signed. After that the items just need to be put on the block going in to the vault." She says before spending a moment longer and then hanging up the phone after saying goodbye to the man.

She turns then and reaches out to put an arm on Hellboy's right elbow. "You're too sweet." She says to him. "So whats up?" She asks then.

Hellboy has posed:
    Once his left hand is free, Hellboy reaches into that nebulous coat and pulls out a folder. "Found something interesting," he says. He tosses it down onto Lara's desk. "Couple things that might be good for my new Samaritan. Probably gonna come up with a better name for it." Inside the folder are stories about martyrs, miracles, and printed SHIELD files on several of the storied items. There's also a SHIELD file and a printed Wikipedia article on the ashes of a dead pope. "How much free time you got to head off into tombs, just now?"

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara is picking the flowers up then after setting her phone down. She's smiling at them and moving them to her water cup that she had gotten earlier. She takes the paper wrap off and arranges them within the glass of water before hearing him speak and looking to what he drops on her desk. She reaches for it and slowly sits down in her chair to flip through it... At his question though she looks over at him, and up. "Right now?" She asks. "I uh... would have to make a few calls..."

Hellboy has posed:
    Hellboy comes into the cramped cubicle and puts his left arm around Lara. He kisses her forehead and gives her a gentle squeeze. He lets go of her and rests his Right Hand of Doom on her file cabinet with a metallic clunk. "Whenever," he says. "I've got time. I don't need to gather all those, either. Just a couple. I've got an idea for metal, too. That's why there's no metal in that lot."

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara offers a quick smile back to him before she starts to flip through the information he dropped on her desk. "Yes, well. I know this is an important project for you. So I'm happy to help with it. If that means rearranging some assignments... well then so be it. I have some classes at Harbor too, but those can be substituted, or even remotely performed. I've found the students are rather excited to find out I'm off somewhere wild when I call in for the class..." She says with a big smirk.

Hellboy has posed:
    "My wild Lara," Hellboy says with a smile. He gestures as she flips past one. "Oh, that one's cool," he says, pushing off from the cabinet, the top now dented in a bit. "Mob tried to hang this guy who was doing miracles. You know, witch stuff. Only lightning struck the tree and killed a couple of the people trying to hang him. He escaped, and the tree survived. Figured that could be pretty holy if it was an act of God, right?"

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara raises her eyes up to look at him as she sits down on the edge of her desk chair. She keeps her back straight as she flips through the information but pauses on that tree picture. She hears his words and shakes her head softly. "Depending on whom you ask everything is an act of God..." She mutters softly as she is processing what she's seeing. "I mean, you have a good list here, and it seems like the kind of things you'd want to have in supply just in case something ever did happen to your sidearm. Considering what you are asked to ... do for this Agency, you need the best stuff possible, after all. Like the rest of us." She glances back at him with a soft smirk.

Hellboy has posed:
    He runs his hand over Lara's ponytail, giving it a bit of a playful flick without messing up her hair. "Normal people go on dates to the movies," he says. "We go to exotic locations and steal priceless artifacts so I can destroy them and turn them into a weapon." He smirks back at her.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara has to smirk at this as she closes the folder up and then reaches for her phone. She starts to form a list of people she needs to drop a message to. "I don't know if this constitutes a date, so much as it does an... expedition to get parts to put together a gun to kill monsters with." She then looks back to him and gives him another faint smirk, as she's simply teasing in that dry British tone of hers. "Iether way, It will likely be a fun experience for people like you and I."

Hellboy has posed:
    "Not a date?" Hellboy says. "Huh," he says. "Gotta try harder to think up good date ideas," he adds with another smirk, this time at the paper. He flips through them himself, just refreshing his memory of them.