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            ❝Hello, my old heart.                         How have you been?❞

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   ”Fuck—            A comedian instead.”

               There are bodies behind the corner.                Red hidden in brickwork.                Her hip is burning with pain,                oozing hot blood down the curve of her thigh.

   ”At least put your hands to good use                    if you’re gonna bust my ribs.”

[txkemehome]

       The doctor--former doctor--wasn't aware of those bodies.        Only this one. The one still squirting blood onto the ground.        He took off his jacket, kneeling down so he could crudely        Wrap up the wound she had.               "I need to call you an ambulance.        His hand reached into his pocket, dialing them up.        This woman needed a real doctor, not a fake.

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   ”Give me the news doc.”

                        There’s laughter.                         Always laughter.                         Lilting.                         Musical.                         The knife is a warm weight.

   ”Better tell me                you’re a doc                before we start                                 playing operation.”

[txkemehome]

         One would think spending several years in war would prepare          you for the worst the outside world could throw at you.                                                           Not always it seemed.               "You're bleeding.                      I can gather that much."

[paperdxll-archive]

[fun fact, on the list of things that annoyed her, slurping obnoxiously and pissy older men who called her kid were at the top.]

Then shouldn’t you be sitting over there? Seems like you got the maturity level of a six year old. 

[txkemehome]

[ And youngsters with a snarky attitude were at the top of his. What a match he suddenly found himself in. ]

       Yeah, but my mommy works here so I get to sit at the big boy's table.

[txkemehome]

[ The fact that a living organism in a humanoid shape was approaching him, he suddenly became as annoying as possible and obnoxiously began slurping his drink. ]

        Kid's table is over there.

[adelesadkins]

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        ❝’Cause they didn’t stop to ask if I took orders very well.                  That’s the thing with just guns or bombs-,                                       you get to decide what they do.           Now, givin’ a breathin’ person the choice                                          to do what they wanted…                                          ’n the means to tell you to fuck off?             Not a good idea.❞

[txkemehome]

       "Rude, headstrong, take charge attitude. No decency for the people          who gave you super strong bones?"

       "Why am I not asking you to marry me right now?" He feigned affection, looking longingly into her eyes with the dopiest smile he could muster. Still, the woman was continuing to be quite interesting.

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[zoeybarkow]

YOU CAN LIVE WITH DIGNITY, YOU CAN’T DIE WITH IT

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                ❝You didn’t know you were makin’ walking weapons.❞

                     It was an idle correction, one that was said with a shrug as she retracted her claws and leaned back against her chair once more; there wasn’t much else she could provide in the way of evidence and, for that, she simply listened to his words. The whole operation was covert, she barely knew anything about it, which made revenge a hard sought victory to be found

[txkemehome]

         "Right. So why's a walking weapon walking in public places?" The conversation kept him from going home, so he'd make it as long as he possibly could. Plus, he had lunch to eat. Speaking of which, in the middle of their conversation he had began eating a chicken sandwich.          And yes, he was talking with his mouthful. Rude.

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       Logan merely shook her head at his assumption, large curls hanging about her face and moving along with the wind as a rising laugh spilled over her lips; it was, perhaps, a logical assumption but she had come to expect more from him in their short time together.

      Leaning forward along the table she let her hand cover his own, almost an adorable reprimand for what he had said, but before long her smile curled into a wicked smirk as she bared her claws without apology.

                          ❝Everyone knows you pay taxes                                   to make weapons.❞

[txkemehome]

        "Weapons people can hold . . . then again." Eyes were looking on her form again, the chest area. This time for a joke more than personal pleasure in observing the young female form.         "What I mean is, we don't make walking weapons.                 Not ones we're aware of anyways."         The man saw a bunch of brand new weapons in the war. Didn't remember seeing anyone walking around you could call a human weapon. Funny how people's views change in twenty or so years.

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[txkemehome]

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       ”What’s up, doc?”

[txkemehome]

       "You know, that joke would have been funnier if I was still a doctor               or if it wasn't older than I am."

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    “It is.”

She never pitied those with shorter lifespans than her own. There were days, not quite few in number, when she envied them. They could love and grow old with their partners while she was forced to watch her friends age and die. That was the problem with coming to Man’s World — she got so attached.

    “Perhaps if you took better care of your body, it would not fail you. I thought that mankind could live to be 100.”

[txkemehome]

              "Potential isn't the same as statistical averages."        Now she was stepping close to the line of his field, something that was quite dangerous for her to do. Then again his constant staring at her form made it quite obvious that danger was all this conversation was about. Not that the consequences from the danger he was brewing were the same as the ones she was.         "People's body's wear down at almost random. Plus, exercise and the such isn't really my style seeing as I have a time bomb in my chest."

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Logan actually reared her head back into a laugh as he pulled the money from his wallet, her head shaking lightly as she turned her attention away from him for a moment to regard the busy streets surrounding him, but it was time spent in thought as she considered whether or not she should divulge such information. It wasn’t as if he could use it in anyway to harm here, the Weapon X program had come and gone never to return again, and it was because of this that she folded her arms beneath that amusing chest without taking the money.

                              ❝I still get a wartime pension from Vietnam.                               You keep it.❞

                          She didn’t care to explain any of the definition or their meanings, to do so would take much more time than she was willing to give, but she did respond with what he wanted after a posturing few seconds spent compiling the words.

❝It was called the Weapon X project. I wasn’t their first go but I was they’re only success. They grafted my skeleton with adamantium which, as you already pointed out, makes me ‘bout a hundred pounds heavier than I look.❞

[txkemehome]

Ah, Vietnam. The war he barely missed out on. Born when the US began poking their noses into other people's business and entering the draft age as it ended. Of course, that didn't stop him from ending up in the Gulf War later down the line.          "Good, I'm still a hundred bucks richer."

         "Well, good to know tax dollars were going into giving people metal bones. Broken bones are a big problem."          Military and medical, boy this woman was just a jackpot of his experiences. Good to know someone out there is using precious metals for seemingly pointless reasons. Good thing he wasn't associated with this kind of crap anymore.