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pippa cross. ([personal profile] turpitude) wrote2016-05-13 06:54 pm

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Kindly leave a message for Miss Pippa Cross, as she is unable to receive your call just yet.
doestheickyjobs: sheepish expression (sidelong)

text, April 10

[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-04 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Heyyyy! Pippa. Can we talk?

I've had a thing or two come up lately, and, you know. Thought I should run them by you.
doestheickyjobs: (noooooo way.)

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[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-04 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
No way!

Not exactly.

It's complicated. Where are you?
doestheickyjobs: (train wreck at three o'clock)

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[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-04 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, you're going to have to tell me what that actually means, because I don't get it.

[Dishonest woman? How's lying worse when it's a woman instead of a man?]

Anyway, be there in a few.

[He's suiting action to words, heading right for the front doors and rapping with his knuckles to give her a warning before he pushes them open and wanders in.]
doestheickyjobs: raising his forefinger, objection! (about that!)

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[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-04 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Axel's still sputtering at his phone when she speaks, and he fumbles and nearly drops it on the floor.]

Don't just drop something like that on a guy! Geez. No, I haven't been doing anything like that!

I, uh. Got into a couple of scrapes with ayakashi on the Near Shore, and, you know. Wound up having to work with a couple other gods. That's all. I figure, you should know.
doestheickyjobs: (axel is disappoint.)

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[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-04 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
You have not!

[Okay, so there was the bit where he couldn't get into her temple, but that's not her fault. She's not even the only one it's happened to anymore. He crosses his arms a little defensively.]

Look, it's not like I'm not still your shinki. As far as I'm concerned, you've got first dibs.
doestheickyjobs: (99 problems)

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[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-04 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[...well. If Deku's serious about all of them talking, he was gonna have to say this sooner or later.]

You, Yumi, Sora and Deku.

[It's just four! That's not... that many... right?

It sounds like kind of a lot even to him. He winces.]
doestheickyjobs: raising his forefinger, objection! (about that!)

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[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-04 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
What am I supposed to do to fight otherwise? Ayakashi show up kind of a lot on the Near Shore!

[Don't judge! And he's been spending a lot of time there, which, come to think of it -- he clears his throat.]

Hey, speaking of the Near Shore, I picked up this ice-cream shop job. It's not so bad! The pay's okay, and I get a discount.

You should come check it out sometime. I can show you where it is.
doestheickyjobs: (friendly)

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[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-04 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[And... she doesn't seem mad! That's great. That's a better outcome to this than he was imagining, and he's brightening right back with obvious relief.]

Uh, how about...

[He pulls out his phone, scrolling quickly through.]

Tomorrow afternoon? Three?
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doestheickyjobs: looking down and away, insincere (so sad! really)

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[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-05 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
You've got it, Pippa. I'll drop by and pick you up then.
doestheickyjobs: neutral disbelieving expression (say that again only better)

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[personal profile] doestheickyjobs 2016-08-05 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I might not be totally hopeless.

[hint hint that was kind of a jerk thing to say, Pippa.

He'll live, though! He's raising one hand in a casual half-wave: he's got a shift this afternoon, after all. And since this conversation went way better than he was afraid it was going to, he's even got time to grab lunch somewhere first.]
missingache: ([30] To when I was young)

April 29th, after his talk with Katniss

[personal profile] missingache 2016-09-27 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Pippa will receive a message. It's up to her if she wants to read it, or even reply to it. Roxas knows by now that she definitely was a victim, and he feels so awful about it.]

Hey Pippa,

It's Roxas.

I'm so sorry about Axel. He somehow got it into his head that he needed to know about his past no matter what. I tried to talk him out of it, but he kept pressing me. The thing is, the Axel I know, or knew, wasn't like this. I don't think it was his idea. Even after I hit him he kept pushing me for info. It hurt to even think about telling him. Axel just kept going. I eventually lost my temper and shared some things about his past with him.

I didn't know. I didn't know that it would instantly turn him into an ayakashi. No one warned us. If they had, I would have fought harder not to tell him. They haven't told us anything about what we can't and can't do with shinki.

Still, it's my fault. I'm sorry. I don't blame you for hating me, and I'll stay away. Axel was my best friend, and he was your shinki, but my doing this almost killed you and my friends.

I'm so sorry. I should have fought him more.