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Quinn X. Hatch ([personal profile] technohippie) wrote2011-07-15 08:31 am

17th Fix

[Thanks to being at stage three, Quinn really messed stuff up with his best friend in town. He's wrestling with a lot of feelings that a chill and in-control guy like him never deals with normally, and still being under the secret-blurting effect, really wants to get this off his chest to someone. The problem is that he doesn't know who to go to, and he doesn't really want to start blurting out more secrets and ruining more friendships today. Oh, but he really does want to talk, doesn't he? Thanks, Mayfield.

What Quinn will be up to:

A) In the garage at home, doors open, playing with all his electronics as usual. There's music playing, but it's not blaring this time. The ashtray on his table is overflowing with cigarette butts. Quinn's just making himself look busy, tinkering around with no real goal in mind. He'll be using his technomancy, talking to his electronics about his problems, but they don't really get it.

B) He'll be stopping in to check on his buddy Scott Pilgrim, who, from the last call he made, sounded pretty bad off. Knock knock at 2242 Stevens Road.

C) Out at the grocery store, restocking on cigarettes. And maybe some beer. And keeping his head town to hopefully avoid people! Quinn looking nervous and worried is pretty unusual to anyone who knows him.

D) At night, Quinn's at the park, laying at the grass and looking up at the stars. His laptop is next to him, and he has his headphones phones on and a cigarette in his mouth. This is his best idea on how to shut off both the world and his mind for awhile, but that doesn't prevent anyone from approaching him.

D

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Night will find a certain Autobot out for... well. A walk. There are fewer drones to stare after dark, and so he can actually stretch his legs.]

[... or he could almost trip over the human lying in the middle of the park.]

[identity profile] hontobakabaka.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm trying to repair fragmentation of her program due it to being stuck in a data loop backup that was generated just before she was destroyed. The loop seems to have lasted a few hundred years. That and other things... So I promised to fix her and I keep my promises."

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm probably gonna have to wait till this whole ordeal blows over, so we can talk like rational people again.

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeeeeaaah my closest friend in town pretty much hates me now. [He frowns a little over his beer bottle as he takes a long drink.]

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Cuz I don't wanna tell you things!

[He's already slapping a hand over his mouth.]

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[At this point, Quinn was falling asleep - he'd have to be, to have a 25-foot tall robot sneak up on him.]

Wh-whoa, look out--!

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Few hundred years? Wow... Explains a lot. Well, good friggin' luck, darlin'.

[identity profile] hontobakabaka.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think its within my capacity to fix but thank you."

[identity profile] jaws5sonofjaws.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweet stuff man. What would you use her tech for?
ooeeooahah: (Hm)

[personal profile] ooeeooahah 2011-07-16 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
mmm...

[ She knows better, but can't help it... ]

You told him a truth you'd been hiding.

[ She sighs, and takes a drink. ]

As a psychiatrist, truth is what I try to help my patients find. But it has to be their choice.

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
In the worst way possible, too.

I dunno if a psychatrist'd be able to help when all I did was tell that I really, really wanna sleep with him.

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Getting everyone in town to watch somethin' awesome. Or play some video games.

[identity profile] evers-hacker.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[April gives him a small, sheepish smile before tilting her head slightly.] ... Is it alright if I ask what you blurted out?
ooeeooahah: (Hm)

[personal profile] ooeeooahah 2011-07-16 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, hon. I hope he's okay with it.

[ She takes a drink, considering. ]

If he says no, do you think you two can still be friends?

[identity profile] getsciencedone.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell me what things?

[identity profile] notlikethemovie.livejournal.com 2011-07-17 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She shrugs.]

Whatever works for you.

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-17 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty much told my friend that I'd really, really like to lay him. I just said it. Like that. Jesus. [He shakes his head.]

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-17 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
That's the thing! He didn't say "no" so much as "Well I've thought about but I'm a virgin and now that I've told you this I am going to knock over a damn fence in anger."

Pretty much I don't think he's gonna talk to me ever again.

[He looks pretty sad at that thought.]

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-17 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Like how you scare the damn life outta me for one that.

...

[FACEPALM.] Please go away.
ooeeooahah: (Hm)

[personal profile] ooeeooahah 2011-07-17 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Well, he probably realizes what is going on... and it is flattering.

[ She drains the last of the beer, and considers. ]

It might not have been anger. It could have been frustration. Or panic.

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-17 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He lights up a new cigarette, takes a drag, and then stamps it out. Guest does not like cigarettes. Right.]

Mighta been all three. I told him the reason I never said anythin' was because I thought he'd punch me or somethin'. That only made him madder.

I really thought he would, ya know. Otherwise I woulda said somethin' sooner. Ain't like me to be afraid of askin' anyone that. I dunno why I was with him.

[A sigh.]

Man, I really screwed up.
ooeeooahah: (Smirk)

[personal profile] ooeeooahah 2011-07-17 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ She raises her eyebrows at the bit with the cigarette. ]

Don't... ah, thanks.

Maybe your subconscious was trying like hell to make sure you didn't screw it up before you proposed?

[identity profile] techno-mancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-17 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. So either Mayfield cockbocked me or... I dunno, I turned spineless or somethin'.
ooeeooahah: (Smirk)

[personal profile] ooeeooahah 2011-07-17 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Not spineless, hon. When you meet your mate, the part of your brain that is trying to make sure you don't mess this up can make you cautious or reckless.

[ Ilsa smiles, and gets up to get another beer. ]

I don't know if it's worse if you're raised monogamous or not.

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