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Alex Reagan ([personal profile] 11calls) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2018-05-06 05:39 pm

Open post for May.

who: Alex Reagan and Open
what: May normal stuff, plus mingle stuff and possibly sickness plotting stuff.
when: Month of May!
where: All over Riverview.
warnings: Possible illness stuff, shippy stuff.

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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-07 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
His frown deepened as she touched his cheek. This wasn't good. This was a potential infection. This was what he was currently arguing against her doing. Yet, it was hard to pull away, especially knowing what she would think it was. Of course, it wasn't the rejection she would think; it was concern.

"You're taking too many risks." It's true. Alex Reagen took so many risks that she could be considered her own natural disaster. At every turn of the investigation of The Black Tapes, she would do something that would cause him worry, something potentially dangerous. Even if he denied the world that they'd been pulled into, he never denied how dangerous it was. "Like when you talked to Warren." It was an example and a sore spot. It was one of the worst times she had been reckless. Now was close, not exact, but close.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-07 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Shit! It wasn't exactly easy to remember exactly when things had happened, and he had miscalculated that particular poor choice on her part. Now she was asking questions again, and he couldn't think of something to distract her. Instead, she would push forward until he told her, and he wasn't planning on telling her. Which meant there weren't many other choices.

"Any interaction with Warren is dangerous, like with Simon Reese." Simon was a safe topic, mostly. Accepting his phone calls, trying to meet with him, being in contact with him at all was dangerous.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-07 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"We didn't know what we do now." They hadn't known just how dangerous Warren was, how tangled into all this they had gotten because of him being at the center. They hadn't known that it all stemmed back to Richard before Alex had gotten in too deep. It was something that he would both always regret and always be thankful for.

He was thankful for her not prying into her future, even when he slipped up the way he had. Even though she was right, and she did see Warren alone, that he was still angry about it, she didn't know that she had done it. "I won't lose you, Alex." The words were quiet, sincere and pleading. He'd already lost so much, he couldn't lose Alex too, especially not now.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-07 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
If Alex had voices her thoughts on Coralee, Richard would have pointed out that his wife hadn't had a choice, at first. She had been taken by Warren and his people; that didn't mean she couldn't have contacted them once she was free. Let them know that she was safe, that she loved them, and that she thought it was for his and Charlie's own good that she not return to them. It would have hurt, but at least they would have known. Instead, he and Charlie had spent decades wondering, worrying and becoming bitter over the unknown. He'd spent decades searching for her only for her to leave again.

"Then leave it to these, scientist, friends of yours." It was a repeat of the thought he'd had before. She couldn't promise that she'd be there if she was putting herself in direct danger of being contaminated. It was bad enough that, right now, he could be contaminating her, and he would rectify that soon. As a professor, he had an office. He could hold up there until the symptoms subsided or they found a cure. And she wouldn't worry because it was normal for a professor to work long hours, she knew that. It was normal for a professor to want to set up their office in a particular way, she'd seen that. Everything would seem normal.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-07 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
He let out a long heavy sigh, she was right, but that didn't mean he had to be happy about it. In fact, he wasn't. If he was honest with himself, this was the least dangerous thing she'd done since he'd known her. Even more so if the last few months were all that he counted.

"What do you plan on doing?" He moved back to sit in a chair, carefully watching her. Did she even have a plan? She wasn't a doctor or even a micro-engineer. There wasn't exactly much a reporter could do, no matter how persistent and annoying she could be.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-08 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Alex not doing something dumb for a change would be a minor miracle, and Richard didn't believe in miracles. So he simply let the promise, one she couldn't possibly keep, roll over him. He wouldn't keep her to it, but he'd most certainly lecture her about it once she'd done it. So long as it wasn't as bad as meeting Warren alone just to bait him or going to Turkey alone to meet a confessed murderer and escaped mental patient.

Her explanation of what she would do made completely no sense. A reporter was the last person someone would want to talk to. "People aren't going to want to talk to a reporter. I speak from experience." It had taken her eleven calls to get him to even think about calling her back (partially because he was sick of getting the messages), and he had been being nice.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-08 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
He couldn't help the smirk at her mentioning of the eleven calls that it had taken before he even thought of contacting her back. It had been their way at first. She pushed, he pulled back and then returned with some type of apology tape. But there was a slight mistake in both their calculations. "Twenty-three times, if you count both occasions." Not that the second time had anything to do with her in particular. He would have ignored anyone's attempts at contact at the time.

Then she was looking down at her phone with that look of her. The one that always appeared when some particularly disturbing piece of information was discovered. Seeing as they were discussing an illness that had become an epidemic, the frown was more worrying than usual. "What is it?"
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-08 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
He takes the phone from her, looking over the conversation with Victor (clearly one of hers). It's, concerning, especially as it seems to confirm what he'd already heavily suspected. It also meant that it was pointless to go living in his office. He could have infected her already, and neither of them would know. That, changed things, especially when she commented about putting him in quarantine.

He let out a heavy sigh, one that often came with news he either didn't want to share or when he was caught in a lie. "It's probably too late for that." Really, with her talking about trying to keep him safe from the virus (which was ridiculous, he didn't need protecting) it seemed like idiocy to keep the facts hidden from her now.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-09 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
He's warm, hot even. Richard is sick, and his eyes are a little glassy, but he seems to be holding his own against it. Richard Strand didn't let illness get to him. There was too much to do to get sick, and for years the only one he had to take care of him was himself.

Reaching up, he took her hand, squeezing it tight for a moment. His hands are warm too, which is probably better than when he felt like he was freezing. "I only recently put everything together. I'll be fine."

He believed that, that he'd be fine and recover. Warren wouldn't want him to die, just make him uncomfortable, maybe make it seem as if he were possibly going to die. Anything to get what he wanted out of him. "That doesn't mean I want you at risk."
Edited 2018-05-09 01:32 (UTC)
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-09 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm fine." There's a large part of him that didn't know how to be taken care of. Maybe he knew how twenty years ago, when Coralee was there, but not since. Not since Charlie and everyone left his life. No, not since Coralee had been kidnapped and never came back. Not since his world crashed down around him.

Honestly, if he could just rest against her. Lean against her and breath in the comforting scent that was Alex; he might feel a bit better. The thought sounded, sappy, but it was there, collecting inside his mind even though he knew that sort of comfort would do nothing for the actual illness. Besides, it would further risk her getting infected, and he refused to put her at that sort of risk, even if they didn't know if she was or not already. "It, comes and goes."
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-09 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Her lying there, head resting on the pillow was incredibly inviting. The idea of curling up with her was something that seemed to be starting to fill his head more than reason. So he fought it back. Reminding himself that he could infect her, that they could both be infected if they weren't careful.

After a few moments of silence, he made his decision. "I'll sleep in the chair." It wasn't that he didn't want to sleep with her, it was the most tempting thing in the world right now. It was that he couldn't. He refused to go against the logic that doing so would increase her risk of infection.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2018-05-09 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Richard was too tired to argue. He was hot, and he could feel a headache coming on. Richard pinched the bridge of his nose, rubbing at the corners of his eyes and tried to think of an argument. He couldn't. She was right that there was no way he'd get any actual sleep in a chair, but he'd wanted to try, and he didn't want her going back to her room. Not when she would be out of his sight.

He didn't answer her, just finally crawled his way up to the pillows and laid down. It was a gesture of defeat. Alex had won this argument; he didn't have it in him to continue, and he didn't want to walk out. It seemed a bit too childish this time.

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