Elijah Nazarian @totally-not-a-dod-agent - Tumblr Blog

Oct 26, 2023

Why not? You're not too bad at it.

Who am I kidding? I spent the last week finding the right shade of denim shirt for my Alan Grant costume.

You're often right.

Ah, I haven't been using tiktok much. Or well, I have in the past but that's a time vacuum. I mean, we used to carve pumpkins and decorate a bit, but it wasn't really much.

You're already a menace without the sugar. I'm shaking in my boots.

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I think there's something wrong with my phone. It should've read "best you've ever had" but it's giving me the wrong words. Huh. Funny that.

OKAY, you better. I've had this Malcolm fit ready for weeks. We're going open shirt, I might kill a few people, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.

Correct.

Boring! What's on your fyp? I bet a lot of rock throwing? Or that guy that cracks rocks open to reveal something else. That's fair. We didn't have time for celebrating either. My parents thought Halloween was wildly inaccurate, whatever that means.

Why would you lie like that? I'm literally an angel.

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Oh, yeah that's weird. That's totally what I wrote.

Please. Your open shirt's got nothing on my calves. We're gonna cause a hecatomb.

... There's definitely that guy who pretends he just knows there's a fossil in that rock. It's fine. He's entertaining.

Halloween is inaccurate? Were they really religious or something?

Angel's not the first thing that comes to mind. I have evidence to back that claim.

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Oct 26, 2023

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TIMING: Late August LOCATION: Null Impact Crater PARTIES: @totally-not-a-dod-agent & @highoctanegem SUMMARY: Elijah and Jade go on a date to Null Impact Crater, where sparks fly but so do UFOs, allegedly. CONTENT WARNINGS: N/A

Jade never got the bug for pretty rocks Or rocks in general. Diamonds excluded, obviously. Nope, her parents had been into that sort of stuff. Like really, weirdly into it. After all, they named every one of their kids —even the one they didn’t care about (it’s fine! She was over it— something of that earthy nature. Their house in California was decorated with more knick knacks and trinkets made out of rocks than pictures of her. But whatever, it wasn’t like she had trauma over it or anything, cause that would be dumb. The rocks were pretty, and had little to do with the lack of affection given as a child. So she was over it.

Point in case, Jade hadn’t thought twice before deciding to join Elijah on this tourist attraction. Null Impact Crater. And fine, she had to hand it to them. Because something about all the colorful splashes and textures on the ground had her a little in awe. Only a little. If felt like she was walking on the moon. If that was a thing that people had actually managed to do. She’d seen the pictures, it looked shady.

But conspiracy theories aside, if Wicked’s Rest had some other places like this to offer, then her stay might not be a complete torture after all. Jade was moderately excited to see that. And she was more excited to have someone to do it with. Cause being a tourist by yourself? Well that’s just looking for trouble.

“So… this stuff gets you hot and bothered, hm?” Jade looked up at her companion, shimmying her shoulders in a teasing manner. She walked a few steps ahead of him (her strides were shorter, but energetic), looking for the ideal place to settle down for a picnic. “Were you one of those little kids that licked the rocks?” she turned to face him with a huge grin. “Oh– Or!” she chuckled at the new visual in her mind before she could share it. “Were you going around with the tiniest little brush, searching for dino bones?”.

"This stuff, she says, contemplating the final resting place of a cosmic object which traveled for millions, if not billions of years undisturbed, until it encountered our planet and landed here precisely, near the town of Wicked's Rest, Maine." Henri would have never gotten so worked up about a hole in the ground but Elijah was really into these, and he looked like he was thrilled to be here, unlike his date. Leaning down, he picked up a piece of iron n from the floor. He had done a bit of research before heading here, and it appeared the place was full of those. "Look, meteoric iron. Ain't that just neat ?"

Holding up the thing between his index and his thumb, he caught up on her. "You can see it has oxidized in places. It's got rust here."

Her questions made him pause. It wasn't hard to tell from her face or the aura around her that she was being cocky about his lil passion. "You're gonna tell me you watched Jurassic Park and didn't end up with a crush on one of the three main characters and a sudden interest in their field of expertise?" That was true to both Henri and Elijah. Henri was a Dr Satler guy while Elijah preferred Dr Alan Grant. "You're like Ian Malcolm, chaotic and charming," he pointed out with a smile as wide as hers.

"Alright, let's get a nice spot for the picnic, not too far from the alien enthusiasts, not too close."

“Oh my…” she chuckled, eyes widening at his sudden rant. That was cool, Jade assumed. She wasn’t one to think about the bigger picture (and maybe that should’ve been a lesson she learned after the whole…debacle. But, whatever). Thinking about time in terms of millions and billions of years was all kinds of crazy, though. She turned to look at what he picked up from the ground. “I can’t lie, it’s pretty neat” well she could lie, but why waste her lying energy on something silly? She was enjoying the whole touristy bit. It made it easier to forget about vampires and mistakes and being by herself in a place she didn’t know. “Ooooh, not the oxidized bits! I’ve been dying to see them!” she awed mockingly, but grabbed the piece from his hand, a genuine smile on her face.

“Uh, excuse you, who says I didn’t?” she interjected, raising a challenging eyebrow. “Oh, yeah?” Who wouldn’t want to be Jeff Goldblum at his peak attractiveness? Jade was over the moon at the comparison. “You bet I am. Which one are you? Laura Dern? Cause you’d rock the ‘fit” she gave him an up and down look.

Nodding at the suggestion, she pointed at a particularly even part of the field to their left. So the rocks wouldn’t be jabbing at their butts, obviously. Unfortunately, she didn’t have time to find one of those cute picnic baskets. So it was just brown paper bags for the evening. But it had a… rustic vibe to it, didn’t it? Jade dug it. And okay, also…the picnic food wasn’t the quintessential picnic food. Some of it was just takeout from one of that one burger joints she kept picking up orders from. Cause it meant the food was good, right? But she did try bringing actual picnic stuff. Like… fruit. She glanced at the alien fans in question, narrowing her eyes. “I really do think they’re expecting some kinda contact tonight. They keep looking up and pointing at stuff. And I’m gonna say it… we should totally prank them later” she pulled a blanket from her purse, handing it to Elijah so he could arrange it on the ground.

Once the seating area was all set up, Jade reached out for one of the bags, slowly unpacking her food selection. “So, for real though…besides Jurassic Park being your sexual awakening. Which is totally valid, by the way. Did you always know you wanted to be a miner?”

"What?" He protested with a delighted air to him and a smile that got brighter yet as she finally admitted that this was all pretty damn neat. Elijah expected that her natural sass would return. With a roll of his eyes, he let her put her hands on the piece of raw metal, and stuck his own in his pockets.

She guessed Laura Dern. He shook his head. "I mean, you'll have to wait for Halloween to see my Dr Satler costume, but I might have worn neckerchiefs in the months that followed me seeing the movie," if only. He would have rather had a fun childhood like that, but no matter how many fake lives he came up with, he never seemed to forget his own. "And I don't know about attractiveness," he teased with a smile, "but you sure have that same chaotic energy. I do hope you got the same laughter," with a laugh of his own, he took the blanket from her, setting it down on the floor.

He looked over at the alien enthusiasts. They did look like they were expecting some sort of intervention although he doubted anything at all would come from above. It was a bit worrying, seeing grown people believe in such nonsense but then he remembered church and all was forgiven. If people believed in a bearded old man, then they could believe in green little dudes.

"I don't expect anything less," he sat down to take out the few things he'd brought over. Elijah wasn't much of a cook, but he liked eating anyway. He had stopped at the bakery and grabbed drinks at the general store too. "I just hope they don't come to us before we do," consequences for their future actions? No thank you.

"I'm glad you approve," he gave her a knowing look. "But no, I wanted to dig up the ground for dinosaurs at first," he scoffed, as if that was really unlikely to happen. "I moved onto minerals when I realized there were a lot more jobs there. Mostly in oil, which is not ideal but… High school happened and huh… well, I didn't get funds to study geology and I figured : hey maybe I can still work in that field anyway." It wasn't precisely the greatest story ever told, but that was allegedly his story. "What about you? What do you do?"

“Well there you have it, I’ll have to start prepping my Ian Malcolm fit. It should be easy enough. And! We gotta find ourselves a Dr. Grant too” Jade shrugged, playing along with his idea. She hadn’t thought about all the holidays she’d spend in this town instead of back home with her family. It made her a little (or maybe a lot, but like… she couldn’t linger on it too long) nostalgic. She gaped at his mention of neckerchiefs, letting out a delighted squeal. “Tell me there’s pictures of it, I demand to see them” she clasped her hands together, fixing him with a serious look.

“I don’t think so…” she squinted at the crowd, distracted by the food she was trying to unwrap. She set a basket of fries in the middle (crispy, cause apparently people had all sorts of strong opinions about soggy fries), and then pulled out two veggie burgers. “We look like, the most innocent people in this entire stinky town. They wouldn’t dare. But I can bark if they get near!” she grinned at him, winking to let him know she was totally kidding.

(But she could bark)

She took a bite of the burger, making a mess on the blanket as the sauce spilled. She let out an annoyed grunt, searching for napkins inside the paper bag. Once her hands were clean, Jade nodded at his answer. “So high school was the turning point. Was there lowkey drama? I mean, you could’ve gone for oil money… but I respect the integrity” she granted, a little unsettled by her own sincerity. Which she felt the need to fix immediately. “It’s never too late to get back into the digging up dinosaurs dream. I mean, they’ve been under for a buncha years, they’ll still be there when we’re gone” she offered, with a playful smile.

“Oh! I’m a delivery driver. UberEats, Doordash, all that” she set the burger on the napkin, then on the blanket, reaching for one of the drinks. “I did go to college, but oof… I mostly remember the parties. My degree is pretty useless” she rolled her eyes, “Communications. Not that I even wanna use it, I like the freedom and I get to look hot on my motorcycle. I couldn’t imagine myself with a 9 to 5, you know?”

“I can’t believe I’m gonna let someone else be Dr.Grant,” judging by the way he smiled then, it was hard to tell whether he was truly bothered by the inconvenience. Wearing shorts in the middle of autumn wasn’t too thrilling either way. But her reaction sure made him laugh : “Oh boy, I’ll have to ask my mother about these,” Henri had very few photos from his childhood. Anything past his mother’s departure at least. For all she decided to leave, she was the one who documented those things they did as a family. She’d always been good at playing pretend. He inherited that. Henri understood now that it was a great defense mechanism, being able to pretend to be anyone you like. There were days, when he wasn’t working, when he would starve that feeling of being someone else…

“Oh you can bark?” Setting the dessert aside for now, Elijah took out a cup for her, and one for himself. “I wasn’t sure if you’d like wine or not,” still he had grabbed a bottle of rosé, one of water and a couple of hard seltzers. “I can’t have a picnic without wine,” he didn’t drink often, this, he couldn’t lie about, but that comment about picnics wasn’t a lie either.

Filling her glass and his, he took a sip before he picked up the food she’d brought over. “You’re not a vegan, are you?” He was pretty sure those pastries had milk and eggs in them, and he certainly hadn’t thought to ask her in advance about her eating habits. “Not that it would be a big deal, but I’d unfortunately have to eat two cakes instead of one,” he feigned comical distress and fell onto his side, setting down the burger on a napkin for a moment to get some fries. “Anyhow, oil companies,” he nodded. “I didn’t like that. You work in the middle of the sea or the middle of nowhere. Mining underground’s more interesting,” Henri couldn’t deny it, even if he would have never picked that as a job if given a choice. “My parents knew I was a stubborn ass, so they didn’t push it,” with a small smile, he shook his head as she mentioned going back to dinosaurs.

Degrees in communication. He knew they had some of those at the government, though he was not going to tell her that. He wondered why she didn’t go for that. “No, I get it. There comes a time in life where you gotta prioritize looking like hot shit, even if it means going broke. The aesthetic comes first,” he pointed out, gaze averted for a moment toward the alien fanatics. “Imagine being that into lil’ green dudes.” The empath could see it more than anyone else, those hues of sheer euphoria mixed with expectation coming from these folks. Not an ounce of doubt.

Jade would pester Elijah about those photos after their date, but for now she was happy to know they existed. It sounded adorable, she was a little jealous. She didn’t really have a lot of childhood photographs, it wasn’t something the Bloodworths bothered with. (Correction: They didn’t bother with her) (But again, that was like…so fine) (Totally chill). “Wine is perfect, you’re spoiling me” she smirked her thoughts away, swaying the cup in her hand.

Jade shook her head quickly at the vegan question, picking at the wrapping paper. “Oh, Nah. Well, sorta. Ish. Can’t commit to it. I can’t commit to a lot of things, but you’ll find out soon” she scrunched up her nose. “But I do try, you know… the little animals, the world. I’m like, such a good citizen” and she wasn’t even counting all the monster killing she did. She glanced at the food he brought, biting her lip. “Don’t you worry about it, there’s nothing I love more than dessert". She nodded, going back to her burger as he expanded on his work choices. “Mmm, love stubborn people. It’s like my own little challenge. And… I guess the whole mining thing worked out anyway. Since you’re in a big mining place,” her eyes narrowed for a moment, wondering if he knew the rumors about the mines. At this point he had to, right? She knew about it and she hadn’t even been near them.

“Exactly. I’m just here to look hot and make people buy me things”. Jade grinned at his comment, despite the joking nature of it. She just played along with it. So much easier for people to think that was the reason she kept a flexible job. And not…you know, the whole hunting thing she had to do. It was totally in character too.

Jade laughed, ignoring the alien freaks and instead shooting him an amused look. “Eh, some of us here are into rocks” she squinted, head tilting as she conceded, “some of us were really into boy bands from the 2010s” she lifted her eyebrows suggestively at him, a smug smile on her face. “The heart wants what it wants”. And wasn’t it so much fun to just go with it? “Sometimes that’s… obsessing over little dudes who only care about the US and not…you know, the rest of the world”. You’d think aliens would be better tourists, no? Got a whole world to explore, but nope. “Can’t judge too hard, well I mean, yeah…I’ll still judge, but—” she trailed off with a wave of her hand, still holding the wine. The motion spilled some liquid on the blanket. “For example, I really wanna see Bigfoot. Did you hear he’s like a big thing here?

“I’m strongly in favor of treating oneself,” Elijah took a sip from his glass, eyes straying once again toward the alien weirdos but not for long. Their energy was weird, and it was a bit unnerving being bombarded by their conflicting feelings, but he was used to it, and he usually managed to set those aside.

Her eating habits and the transition to commitment made him snort. Alright. Well that was for the best of the both of them. “No, I get it. I tried it too. I managed to do it for what… A few months, I think,” absolutely not. “But then I got invited to a barbecue, by people who didn’t know I had stopped eating meat. My mind’s so weak it only took the scent of it to make me lose all my will to keep things going,” leaning onto his elbow to catch a fry, he looked up at her with a sympathetic smile. “You could always skip on eating the babies and the cute ones, like rabbits and lambs,” that wasn’t hard to do, and you really weren’t missing much either. He agreed with her statement, anyway. Dessert was far superior. “Yeah… I mean, the mines are a cool place to work but…” Henri trailed off. He didn’t want to look too eager to talk about this place, about the things happening here. Instead, he took a few more bites from his burger and fell quiet for a moment, breaking the silence to comment on the food or the color of her shirt, which he genuinely liked. “It’s just.. Don’t repeat this, but… it’s weird, the miners who touched the crystals… They didn’t get sent to the local hospital and…” He trailed off. Mind control was perhaps a bit of a touchy subject. He had noticed that his mood seemed to be fluctuating around these, more than it usually would.

“Now, real talk : if you need a bike to look hot, are you really hot in the first place?” With a shit eating grin, he wiped clean the corner of his mouth with his thumb, before picking up a napkin to clean up his hands. Right. She carried the air of someone who knew she was hot shit. He’d have known. He carried the same air around. It hadn’t always been this way, but faking it until you made it was a good method, and one he practiced early on. Puberty decided to make things a bit easier for him, sure but no one was safe from insecurities, not even Margot Robbie’s Barbie.

He pursed his lips, biting on the tip of his tongue. The roast was well deserved. Liking rocks as much as Elijah did was fucking dorky. “Ass,” he commented, with a light scoff, and picked up his glass to pour himself a new one. “Yeah ? Where would you go if you could go anywhere around the world?” You couldn’t really say Bigfoot was hiding in a specific place, and he wondered if someone in his department had ever investigated those sightings. “He is? I thought it would be something to do with the sea. Or the crystals. Or those hermit crabs,” they were everywhere, and they looked weird enough someone must have imagined a giant hermit crab queen sitting somewhere in the ocean, right?

“We’re all weak individuals after all” Jade let out a sigh too long to be considered genuine. But she supposed there was some truth to the statement. She just wouldn’t think of associating it with veganism per se. But that was like, the kind big brained thought her eldest siblings would be more interested in discussing. “Mmm, stop it! you're making me think of barbecue. I’m supposed to be the bad influence here” she groaned, reaching for some fries. “Don’t say it like that! Don’t call them cute or babies. I’ll cry” she gasped, pretending to be scandalized.

She flashed a big grin, placing a hand on her chest as she took the compliment. Jade usually picked her tops to compliment her eyes, and she was like, super happy someone actually noticed. (And? She hadn’t even picked anything with a big neckline either, so…extra points). Men didn’t usually pay that much attention. She brought two fingers to her lips when asked for secrecy. My lips are sealed, she gestured, though if the tea was hot, she would have no option but to share. “And…? AND!? Eli, don’t you dare!” that was exactly the kinda stuff she wanted to know about. She gave him a few pointed looks, trying to prompt him to spill.

Her jaw dropped. A cheerful laugh danced between them. That was totally something she’d say. Jade could admit she’d been bested this once. And this totally catapulted him right to the top of favorite people in this town. Which was probably not a big list anyway. Everyone was so…grumpy and smelly. She had like, 5 people tops. “Fair. Maybe I don’t need Roxie” she smacked him weakly with one of the napkins. “But she has sentimental value. It was my brother’s. Onyx…not Jasper, he’s a whole menace” and a menace she loved, obviously, but one she would hardly speak of with the same reverence as her eldest brother.

“Wow, you wanna see my ass already? I mean, sure! But let me finish my burger first at least, will ya?” she quipped without missing a beat. That part was always fun, and Jade was glad someone out here took things with a sense of humor. If she was forced to be stuck in Wicked’s rest, at least she’d need people to pass time with. “Oooh, that’s like an actual first date question” she took the final bite of her burger and glanced up at him. (She was a quick eater, sue her) (She had four siblings) “Hm, I don’t ask much… somewhere with a beach. I’m like so low maintenance” and she kept her straight face for all of two seconds before her eyes crinkled, giving her away. “That one kinda hurt my belly” she scrunched up her nose, sipping her wine. “I’ve always thought the caribbean. Just at a beach, doing nothing all day” plus a place like that probably didn't have lots of vampire issues. So it could be like, her side hustle instead of a main thing. “That’s what I’ve heard!” she shrugged when she was questioned about Bigfoot. Chai had sounded like, totally legit. “I think I don’t wanna know what hermit crabs are” her brow furrowed in disgust.

She shoved some fries in her mouth, eyes flickering to the alien stans again. They seemed to be getting under Eli’s skin for some reason. Jade pursed her lips, “we should do something about them before dessert I think” she decided, finishing her wine. She set the empty cup on the blanket and watched it tip to the side. “Because what I’m thinking after dessert might keep us busy”.

"If the mere mention of barbecue has this effect on you, I will have to officially consider that you are a weak willed individual for real," it had already been established : they both were terrible people for not going vegan just because barbecue smelled too damn good. But at least they'd now preserve the life of baby lambs and veals. (Eli would, he wasn't sure about her. The feelings he was picking from her weren't precisely matching the expression of shock on her face).

And then she was smiling bright, and Henri told himself that compliments would go a long way with Jade. He found her likeable enough, and had no plan to cause her harm (he tried to leave as little a mark on folks whenever he leaved a town behind), but if she was more talkative when complimented, he'd use that to his advantage. "It is a nice shirt," Elijah insisted. "Or maybe it's nice cause you're the one wearing it." Henri wished he could have sighed his heart out. How fucking cheesy.

But then, the subject went back to the mines, and he gave her an enigmatic smile, taking his sweet time to sip on his glass of wine. "I can't tell you much. I could get fired, but I feel like touching those crystals down there is even worse," he had no clue if that were true. From what he observed, it really depended on who touched those rather than on the crystal touched and it was an enigma he wouldn't be able to crack on his own.

Leaning away lightly as she slapped his arm with a napkin, he fell onto his elbows and looked up at her with a grin on his lips. "Wait, how many brothers and sisters do you have?" He remembered she said they were all mineral named, which was typically the sort of thing Elijah could be a fan of. Onyx, Jasper, Jade... Agatha and Opal perhaps?

"Wow, you're the menace. Not your brother, not me. You," covering his eyes briefly to rub any trace of embarrassment (there were none) away, he shook his head lightly. "I'm sure it's great, but we have business to do here," he reminded her : making fun of people who really didn't do much to prevent 'being made fun of' happening to them. Seriously, being into UFOs and aliens, in 2023 ?

Her response was not the most surprising, he supposed, still he didn't think she'd be the sort to long for Caribbean beaches, long strands of perfectly fine sand, transparent waters, swimming with exotic fish... He saw the appeal, but she struck him as the sort who'd long for a bungalow in the wilderness, an adventurer. But even they deserved a break by the sea. "Alright. That's not a bad destination. Quiet, ideal to relax. I dig it," anywhere that didn't smell like this sulfur and tar mixture they had in Wicked's Rest (that he had now grown used to) would have worked at the moment, however.

"Are you gonna tell me what you were thinking for after dessert or am I supposed to guess?" Eli reached over, putting his empty cup inside hers to keep it from rolling around. "Alright. What do we do? Do you wanna play the part of someone possessed by an alien entity? Do we join them and come up with theories even worse than theirs to see if they believe these?"

Jade shushed loudly as Eli (very logically) brought up how weak willed she was when it came to meat. She was trying, alright? She did not want to dig her grave deeper, choosing to move the conversation along. Spare those little lambs feelings. “Oh, totally I’m the one who makes the look. I bet I’d rock a trash bag,” she agreed, eyes shining curiously at him, watching him go all mysterious on her all of a sudden. Only then, she wondered if maybe two were playing the same game. Wasn’t that like, super thrilling though? People would watch TV shows of this stuff. “Ooooh. I don’t want you fired, I mean… you need the money if you’re taking me on more dates,” she rolled her eyes like it was the most obvious thing in the world. “But the crystals, huh? Yeah, everyone keeps tempting me with those. Telling me I can’t have something is torture. But ya know, I like myself alive and all. This town’s better with me in it”.

Jade thought Eli looked particularly handsome lying more horizontally, but she supposed that was the kind of thing she shouldn’t fix too much on, cause she’d be enjoying that later. (Or, a different time) (She had like, no expectations on a first date). She licked her lips, focusing on the question that reached her ears, instead of other more colorful ideas. “Two and two. Onyx and Jasper. Ruby and Amber. And then… the runt” She lifted her arms, and then proceeded to do a curtsy.

And she was so thankful she had finished her drink already, otherwise Jade would’ve spilled most of it after hearing Eli’s joke. It was so dumb but perfect, that she leaned forward, wheezing. When she got herself to stop, tears had pooled in her eyes. The best kind of tears. She reached for his knee, patting lightly. And then, why not? She squeezed a little. “That’s right, I’m a menace, so don’t start something with me unless you’re ready to be outwitted, babe”.

Her hands were on her waist, hearing his less than enthusiastic response to her ideal destination. “No, it’s a great one, yup” Jade took his slight negative and twisted it into something positive, as she loved doing. “I mean, what’s better… being all hot and sweaty deep in a cave? Wait, that’s not…I’m not even trying to make any sort of innuendo. For real, what’s better in your opinion? You know… since you’re gonna run away with the money from our tourist club and all. I have to know where I can find you” she pointed out, with an eyebrow wiggle.

“I’ll keep you guessing, it’s more fun that way” Jade shrugged, but displayed no subtlety by flipping her hair and winking at him. He knew exactly what she meant. And fine, if he didn’t she actually would’ve loved to explain it to him, but his question brought a different kind of excitement in her. “YES!” She clasped her hands together, glancing over to the small crowd, her expression entirely to serious for the kind of scheme she was planning. “Alright here’s my proposition: I’ll just fall to the ground…wait, yes. This is genius. I fall and….start making the weirdest sounds you’ve ever heard,” she held her hand up, stopping him from interrupting. “And when they get all nosy, you’ll tell them you saw something flying around us… and then this weird light got inside me and now I’m on the ground talking like E.T. So they should totally run for their lives if they dont wanna end up like me”.

"I think it's safe to say that you're going to do a lot better if you stay away from the crystals, yeah." Even being in proximity of the minerals sufficed to disturb folks. It sure disturbed him : emotions turned to a whirlwind, ever changing without a pattern when he got too close. He had concluded that there must have been some radiation at stake. The labs in DC would probably confirm his observations. "We can't go on more dates if you're sent off to a mysterious hospital wing," this might be his next thing to investigate. Breaking into a hospital wasn't precisely difficult. If there were medical files hidden from the public eye (understand his employers) he would find them.

Just like he could catch that shift in Jade's emotions as she set her eyes down on him. Well now, Elijah thought, that date was definitely going to end somewhere more private. He gave her a smile. "The runt. That's catchy. Maybe I'll call you that instead of Jade. It has quite the ring to it," with a light laugh, he reached down to trace the outline of her hand on his knee. He didn't get to intertwine his fingers with hers, she was sitting back up already, outraged by his lack of enthusiasm, and walking into a puddle with both feet. Hot and sweaty deep in a cave. That had to be done on purpose. His eyebrows raised and he licked his lips, pressing them together as if to make a silent, yet loud comment about that.

"Heh, I suppose I'd like to see Europe, or Australia. Travel, you know ? Buy a house in Sorrento maybe." Because he was always drawn to the sun, to warmth. He didn't miss Nevada summers one bit, no. Anyone who's been near the Mojave Desert would have very much hated that sort of scorching heat, but truth was, he was a bit worried about spending winter here.

Welcoming her désinvolte wink by averting his gaze and serving another one of his cocky smiles, Elijah still welcomed with gratitude her response to his offer. It might not have been as osé, it would without a doubt be plenty of fun for the well found pair who were certainly paralleling in terms of childishness. "I don't even need to add anything," with a lazy raise of his hand, he gave her an uncoordinated, clumsy high five to seal the deal, and filling up his cup for the grand introduction of the new Alien queen, let Jade take over the quiet of the evening with uncanny shrieking.

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