[ closed ] gather round my friends, let's try not to pretend

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Who: Peter Burke & various miscreants (plus Steph, who is perfect)

Where: Leith, RAC headquarters, aboard the USS we'll name it something eventually
When: w5d4, w6 various ...times. also misc, and "other."
Summary: Dadding! Escort Mission Warranting! Not letting Hawke throw her evaluation!

Restrictions/Warnings: U H M Weaponized charm, riot-typical violence presumably, whatever shenanigans occur when shenanigan-magnet Hawke exists a place.



jk, starters are in comments.

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STEPH :: W6D3...ish

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It's been an interesting couple of weeks in the Quad, and by interesting Peter means that curse about living in eponymously named times. He doesn't worry about Steph, precisely, at least--not at first. She's Company, that affords her some protection beyond just the average citizen. But the messier things get, the more the Company follows suit, and by the time the Peace Summit he's not very optimistic about rolls around, they sort of collide trying to contact each other at the same time.

It's a little funny, which is nice in the midst of everything that distinctly isn't.

Peter bribes her with Neal's cooking to maybe get out of the path of all those rolling boulders, just for a couple days; this turns out to be unnecessary since for once they both want basically the same thing. He doesn't rescind the offer, since Neal will probably turn cartwheels to cook for someone other than Peter; apparently his palate is made of cardboard.

When Steph gets there the ship, who seriously is like 90% definitely named Mozzie, lowers the walkway into the cargo bay for her; Peter is under the hood of their ATV, which is constantly breaking in some way because it's older than some species of plant life around here. They could get a new one, but as long as Peter can keep fixing it he considers that unnecessary.

Naturally, he is attacked by something electrical the second Steph shows up; he swears mildly under his breath and shakes his hand out, not startling when he sees her because if that kind of thing caught him off guard, uh, by this point in #RAClife he would definitely be dead. The fact that she has more bags than he was expecting apparently is surprising, however; he emerges from under the hood and arches an eyebrow at her.

"If you're moving in you gotta talk to Mozzie first. He gets cranky if you compromise his routines."

'Compromise his routines' is uttered in such tones as to indicate that this is a] quoting and b] not something Peter engages particularly well with.

[eggplanting]

There's a little bit of concern when she hears Peter swear, she's frowning at him when he turns around, worried that he's done something stupid like touched the battery with a wrench but he's like, not super electrified, so it's probably fine.

And then he rudely calls her out on the ridiculous amount of bags that she has, which redirects the frown towards said bags.

"I thought you might not have been able to stock up for a little while, with everything going on. It's mostly food," If she's going to be eating heir food it only seems fair to help them restock.