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[Gilbert grinned proudly, popping the cork and laughing a bit, pouring the wine into two nice glasses for each of them, beginning to open his lunchable.]
"Ugh. Isn’t that French?"
[The glasses were filled with wine and Chiara eagerly grabbed her own. The lunchable, as laughable as it was, wasn't a bad idea.]
"Yeah, but it's like saying snacks.Since these damn things are so small.."
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She wasn’t surprised her sister had a car, she would have been more surprised if she didn’t. She would have felt bad for making her sister walk instead of useing her car, but luckily the cafe wasn’t that far so she wouldn’t feel that bad.
"Okay that sounds fine!" She was starting to get a little worried about their soon to be catching up time. She was an awful liar and she could accidently spill something she shouldn’t, worrying her older sister or worse. Getting her involved in everything that’s happening and getting her killed. "Ah, no still have my same old tastes hehe."
Chiara clicked a button on her car keys and the trunk to her car popped open. It was a short walk to push the cart to the car. The trunk had plenty of room for both of their groceries and she began to pack them away, "They serve the same thing you always get in this cafe, I've tried it. It was good, and I thought of you."
Honestly, there weren't many groceries and many of them were items that could be left in the car while they caught up. Chiara frowned for a moment, thinking about this talk that was about to happen. There was so much she wanted to tell Alice, about so many things, "Come on, the groceries are put away. The cafe's across the street. We need to get there before the rush."
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"Uhm…"
[fumbles a bit in his pockets, producing a swiss army knife.]
"Yeah! Besides, Lunchables are the greatest."
[Chiara aims a fond, but exasperated, look at Gilbert.]
"Yeah, if you're twelve. But crack the bottle open already, then we can eat our... Hors d'oeuvres."
[It sounded better if she called them that, but any food at the moment would be good, She hadn't eaten since her last shift.]
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Watching as the groceries were scanned she remembered a time when she was younger and she and Chiara would argue about what type of bags to get. They both had ended up losing when their parents had bought recycling bags. A smiled softly at the memory.
She quickly shook it off and helped place the bags in the cart, only looking up when Chiara spoke to her. “A car?” She thought back to the car accident the had when there were still kids and shuttered. She still hadn’t gotten over her fear of cars. “Ahh no sorry, I have a bike though.”
Chiara noticed the shudder from her sister at the mention of the car and frowned, her own memory of the accident was more than just an accident. It was the day she first saw something was... Different about her. It had been an enlightening day, and she'd escaped completely and totally unharmed from the accident. It was the first day that she'd seen what she was.
She nodded, "I have a car out in the lot. We can put the groceries away and walk to the cafe across the street, so we don't have to carry them around." And so they could finally talk. Chiara knew, however, that if she said the wrong thing... She'd worked too hard for a semi-normal life to have it implode on her, "Still drink the same thing or have your tastes changed?"
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"That sounds like a wonderful idea!" No matter how much it truely did seem like a wonderful idea, their home town was probably filled with Jagers looking for her and going would no only get her killed, but endanger Chiara.
"Okay dokie!" She ran to the shortest line to make things fast, she could feel herself slowly breaking inside, wanting to get closer to her beloved older sister and tell her everything, but she couldn’t. She couldn’t bring her sister into this world, but maybe, if she did, the acadmey would protect her aswell and they could e together again. She had to think things through before they sit down to enojoy their coffee.
Chiara began to put her groceries on first, and they fit on the belt snugly. It was a few more minutes before she could begin to put her sister's up. The line was short and the food was being scanned quickly. It was odd to be here with Alice, the sister she'd abandoned to whatever fate awaited her. At least her sister wasn't a mutant. That was the one thing she was grateful for. She never wanted this life for the sweet little girl she remembers from childhood. Chiara would rather suffer twice a much than have Alice be like she was.
A boy at the end of the counter started to bag their groceries, plastic bags for Chiara's and paper bags for Alice's. The bags were put into the cart and chiara looked to her sister once she'd slid her card through the tablet on the counter, "Do you have a car?"
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She knew well that Chiara hadn’t visited their mother, because had she done so she would have reacted completely differently than she had when they ran into eachother. “That’s too bad, mama would have loved to see you. She misses you a lot you know.”
She started walking out of the aisle since she had gotten everything she needed already. “I’m here if you ever want to talk about him~” That sadly, was a lie. She wouldn’t be there, not after the coffee, she would lock herself away at the academy for the rest of her life as long as Chiara was in town.
"I know she does, I just haven't gotten around to talking to her yet." The excuse would have fit if it had only been a few years, not nearly a decade. It was an excuse that rung hollow. She knew she may never speak to her parents again, afraid of what their reaction may have been, "Maybe you and I will take a visit there, now that I know you're here." Empty promises.
Chiara followed after her sister, plastering on a false smile. They'd pay for the groceries and then they'd get coffee. And then they'd part ways. She pushed the cart out of the aisle and hummed softly in an attempt to calm herself, "We can talk a little about him at coffee. Pick a line to be in."
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Alice smiled lightly as she thought back to the academy, it was truely a great place, but she couldn’t really say what it was to Chiara, it was a secret academy after all, or at least she thought so. She finished packing the things she needed for the brownies. “Maybe I’ll be able to go to college one day, but for now I’m good.”
She looked at her and could tell she didn’t want to talk about it so she dropped the subject. Hopefully after they part ways she’ll get better and out of the patch. “Did you visit mama? Are you fixing things with your friend now that you’re back here?” She could tell right away that this friend was a guy.
Chiara winced as their mother was mentioned. In truth, she hadn't spoken a single word to their family since she'd left for college. They didn't know she was here, they didn't know she was a nurse, they didn't even know if she was alive or dead. It was just another sacrifice she'd had to make because of what she was. Alice would be another one of those things. As much as she loved her baby sister, she couldn't bring Alice into her world.
"... No, I didn't visit mamma. I didn't visit close enough to home to do that." Which was a lie. She'd been in the city, down the street at a cafe. She'd wanted to go see them but... Well, it hadn't happened. And then the question turned to Gilbert, "That, like a lot of things in my life, is complicated. Sort of, I suppose?"
"Cheesy is great."
[grinning he saunters oer to the basket, openning it and pulling out—a bottle of wine and…lunchables. Ah well, couldn’t expect /too/ much from his could you.]
"Come on!"
[Chiara nodded in approval at seeing the wine, but her face's expression exploded into laughter when she saw the lunchables.]
"Oh la Madonna! You're lucky that I lo--" [She's not sure if she's ready to say it, but she returns his feelings.]
"Have a corkscrew?"
"Can’t I just love you?"
[he pulls away, taking her hand and pulling her down the street towards the park. When they get there, he leads her to the pcnic area, where a basket is set up, and he grins]
"Lunch for two?"
[The 'L Word' silences her and she allows him to lead her down the street and toward the park. Looking around, she realized it was the one she often took morning runs in. Chiara saw the basket and smiled, laughing a little.]
"Seriously? Man, this is cheesy, even for you. But yeah, lunch sounds good."
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"I think he is reborn. A reincarnation of my brother." She explained. In many ways, Darja was a bit of a child, and always hand been, playing with bugs, befriending things no one else saw, talking to herself. She was a child, having never really enjoyed a childhood due to her eccentric tendencies and general weirdness.
The large spider crawled up her arm and nect, resting itself on her head, nestling into her hair ontop of her bow and she giggled, “I understand that. I wish it was safe for me to live elsewhere, to have my own studio that I can have seances.”
"A reincarnation of your brother?" Chiara had never actually spoken to the Belorussian woman, though she'd seen her around a few times. However, the Italian was very preoccupied with her own life at the moment. The arrival of her sister and the Jager, her boyfriend included. But Chiara had heard odder things in her life, and believed in reincarnation. It was better than thinking they had once chance, and no more after that,
"Well... He certainly likes you, so he might be." Of course the whole 'spiders in your hair' situation was something Chiara could have lived without, "Seances? Like contacting ghosts and shit? Uh, stuff. I found a place of my own just because I wanted to. It's not safe really anywhere right now."
"And you’re beautiful."
[they were causing a bit of a scene and he laughed loudly, spininging her, pulling her in, dipping her and pressing a kiss to her lips. He knew they wee being watched, but didn’t want to scare her about that fact.]
[Her cheeks flush pink and she's about to really say something, but he's pulled her off into something else already. He moves a million miles a minute and she loves it. She was spinning, close to him, and then dipped. His lips pressed to her own and she kissed back eagerly. She's out of breath.]
"Jesus, Gil, what's gotten into you?"
"You’re going soft"
[he grins and pulls her in by the waist against his chest]
[Chiara yelped as she was pulled against him. Though she was about to scold him, it was too tempting to simply lean against him. She relaxed into his familiar body heat, but did push his chest a little.]
"You're such an ass."
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"Complicated?" She asked, humming as she rose, walking away, returning with one of those cheap plastic containers with a rather good sized spider in it. "This is Nicolas." She said, allowing the cage to rest in the center of the table. She walked off once more, returning a few minutes later with a cup of clear liquid that /certainly/ wasn’t water.
She took a sip of the liquid in the glass, contently taking off the lid and pulling it out, making a series of clicking noises, and it settled itself in her palm. “He is my friend.”
"How can I explain this... I love this place, I do, but this isn't what I need anymore. I need more room and a little of my own space." At the sight of the spider a chill ran down the entire length of her spine. Goosebumps spread across her flesh and she swallowed thickly, "Ni-Nicolas. I see-- I, uh, hello Nicolas." She was left alone with the spider for a moment, staring into it's beady, black eyes. It felt as though it was staring deep into her soul. But that could have just been her own mind playing tricks on her.
The other woman returned after a moment and the spider climbed into her hand when she... Called? Yes, called, to it, "I can see that. I used to name the spiders that would hide in the corners of my house." She wasn't sure why she said that. Chiara cursed her own nervous rambling.
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She looked through the aisle looking at every item checking and making sure they were good. “It’s not that easy for me at the moment. But in a way I kinda am attending school.” She picked a good bag of flour that she recognized from Italy and placed it in the cart as she continued searching. Picking up a few more items and placing them in the cart.
"Get some help for the habit, you know the side affects of it." She turned to look at her when she mentioned their home country. "You did? How was it?"
Chiara cocked a brow. She was already attending a school? Well, if she wasn't going to the community college, what did that leave? There was no way Alice could have been attending Clovewood Academy, the school was for mutants. Sure, Chiara was a mutant, but what were the chances that her sister was too? All the thinking was giving her a splitting headache. Just another reason to get coffee, "Well, I'm glad you are."
She frowned, "I don't need help, Alice. I'm not an alcoholic. I'm just... Going through a rough patch." And she would leave it at that, "It was fine. Quiet. I needed a vacation, I was having some trouble with my, " She stopped suddenly, unsure of what Gilbert was, "... Friend." Lover, boyfriend, the word didn't matter she supposed.
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She kicked the ground as she followed her sister, “Just some brownies from scratch. Nothing too big or too sweet.” She pouted slightly at not being able to pay for a bit of her groceries, she had gone to buy them so she wouldn’t use the academy’s supplies for her treat to them and now they wouldn’t really be completely her treat. “I would have gone to college too if I could.” If she hadn’t tried to play hero she could have done many things with her life and wouldn’t be stuck where she was now, but as she always told herself, theres a reason for everything.”
"Whiskey is bad. I hope you aren’t drinking it that much."
Chiara nodded, smirking a little bit at her sister's pout. No matter how many years passed, Chiara would always enjoy ruining Alice's fun. She pushed the cart slowly towards the baking aisle. That's what she liked about American grocery stores. Everything you wanted for something was in the same place. The baking aisle, in this case. Her eyes scanned over the various brands, "Pick out whatever you like, but make sure it's good." Chiara looked to Alice now, instead of flour, "You still can, sorella. There were people twice my age in my nursing classes! It's never too late to start, you know. There's a good community college in town."
Chiara had the decency to wince, "It's complicated. It's become a... Habit." Time to change the subject, "... I was in Italy a few weeks ago."
