Hit me with your sweet love, steal me with a kiss

[affections]

Date & Time: various.
Location: various.
Characters: Jules & whatever poor soul she inflicts herself on. Lisbeth, Stanley, Pepper, Vanadi & Jim, more to be added through the next couple of weeks.
Summary: EVERYTHING and just trying to avoid spamming the log comm tbh
Warnings: Jules. Morning after glow, possible discussion of people eating and death. (Not... in the same thread. I hope...)
Note: Prose or action are totally cool with me, answer with whatever you prefer noble threaders. Thread starters will be added in the comments.

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[ She's actually not in the apartment. Pepper has been there off and on throughout the week, but it's nothing entirely permanent. She's found a steady routine that keeps her busy 24/7, so she's leaving CM with the intent to meet with Jules and figure out...things. Anxiety shows itself the closer she gets to that little cafe, and she pauses just outside, taking a breath before letting herself in.

As personable as she likes to think she is, she's never had many friends. Because of work, because of other things beyond her control. So, it'd been disheartening to lose Jules in that way. Learn things she hadn't known, feel lied to for something that must have been necessity. Pepper doesn't understand, but she wants to. It's only fair, after all.

She tries for a smile, but it falters when she reaches the booth the other woman sits at. ] Hi, Jules.

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( She's resorted to taking out her packet of matches and starting to try and make little towers out of them as she stacks them together. Pepper's arrival sort of makes her jump, just a little, so that her little match tower topples. (Somehow, she'll work through the pain.)

Her mouth opens, and normally, normally she'd have some great wisdom to bring forth, but she has nothing. ) Hello.

( Tried and true, she supposes. )

Um, would you like to have a seat?

( She is so bad at this. ) It's good to see you.

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[ Pepper's gaze drops a bit to the mess that's now littering the table, and her smile falters for a second. Until she remembers why she's here, shaking her head at the invitation before nodding once, twice and slipping into a seat across from her. ]

It's good to see you too. [ She rests her hands atop the table, still looking the matches there. ] Are you doing okay? How is everything?

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I'm fantastic! Yeah, really-- really great. Brilliant.

( Some of this may be a lie. Now is not the time to talk about monsters that attack you with needles, torturing people for information to protect the people of Exsilium, or any other serious thing. Instead: )

Exsilium has far too many attractive people, I'm overwhelmed by their abundance. How is a girl to choose?

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[ An eyebrow goes up at that, trying to follow her train of thought, and maybe, just maybe, Pepper understands why Jules doesn't want to talk about that or anything else for that matter except these trivial things. ]

I don't know. I haven't really looked around. [ Not even once because Pepper's as focused and driven as they come. Besides, Tony is more than enough. Sometimes too much. ] Are you seeing someone, Jules?

[ Teasing. Trying to tease. She smiles a little. ]

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I am technically getting quite an eyefull of several someones.

( Her grin is utterly conspiratorial. ) Sometimes at the same time.

( And, le wink. Julia, please. )

That's a shame that you aren't looking, or we could go to a bar. Or Tony could join us.