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Adam Milligan ([personal profile] halfwinchester) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2014-04-13 10:20 pm

buddy, i could've gone that extra mile

Who: Adam Milligan ([personal profile] halfwinchester) and Cora Hale ([personal profile] resent).
Where: Mansion.
When: April 13th.
Rating: PG? Maybe we'll surprise you.
Summary: Thanks to the event, Adam gets the dumb idea to give himself a canine friend and Cora comes along with dumb ideas of her own.
The Story:



[Thinking to himself it'd seemed like a good idea at the time is how Adam finds himself getting sucked into the event with a one hundred and seventy pound dog sniffing around his apartment.

When people have asked him if he's had any pets, the answer's always been "no," but the truth is, he'd had a dog for about two weeks when he'd been eleven after finally convincing his mother he'd been ready for the responsibility. A beagle, cute as hell as he remembered it. Then it had run away from home one day and never come back, and that had been the end of that. He'd cried. His mother had felt horrible. After that, they'd never gotten around to replacing it with anything else, and then when the questions about his dad had started... Well, his stint as a proud eleven-year-old dog owner had been short-lived, that's about all there is to the story.

Later on, he'll blame Emma and Jo for making him remember that time with them showing off their dogs around the grounds and on the network.

And he'll blame Alice.

Despite his own personal Mount Everest of mental trauma he's been busy crawling out from under and trying to scale, he's gotten a feel for how "events" work around here. Wonderland jackasses coming out of the woodwork to run at the mouth seems to signal another round of weird stuff, and in retrospect he'll recognize that it hadn't been a good time of the month to be making executive decisions.

But having the closet spit out a fully-formed English mastiff like the kind he's read about on the internet does seem like a good idea, and the only regret he has is that he hadn't thought about getting dog supplies before the actual dog. Out of concern for his carpet, eventually he thinks he should take the giant, panting beast for a potty break, so out comes a collar and a leash and away they go. The as of yet unnamed drool machine wants to investigate everything on their way outside, sometimes sniffing and sometimes barking; Adam lets him, finding his first real dog walk as novel as the dog itself. He thinks the fawn-colored mastiff must be a year or so old, but he can't be sure given it's a magic closet dog.

Either way, it's slow going.]


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[personal profile] resent 2014-04-15 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ cora should really start bolting her door locked and tossing away her key during the events that befall wonderland. she's thought it to be a good idea to change her wardrobe, thinking on how allison dresses in skirts, but still manages to look like she could kick ass in them without so much as having a marilyn monroe moment. and, so, she she wears her own, a red-checkered thing that stops at her knees with her usual black flats. she thinks it even a better idea to leave her room and wander around wonderland in her attire that, if one were to know her, would be completely uncharacteristic. but, lucky for her, she avoids those who she knows — quite possibly being one the best decisions she's made thus far. ]

[ she doesn't need werewolf hearing to hear the loud bark. she's walking through the entrance hall when she notices adam and a dog almost the size of him entering — and rather than simply walk around him or turn the other way, she thinks it's a good idea to approach him. her gaze shifts back and forth between him and his new friend, before they finally settle on the dog. it's a much nicer sight, even though adam doesn't seem to be sporting a purple eye anymore. ]

When did you get a dog?
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[personal profile] resent 2014-04-18 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ cora doesn't approach, even though the dog sounds friendly to her ears. she doesn't know if he's one of those dogs that'll change face the moment she takes a step, nor does she really know if he's completely friendly. adam doesn't really do much to help matters, either. he seems friendly enough, but cora's learned over the years to not judge any animal by its coat. and if he's come from the closet ... she has to wonder what exactly drove adam to pull a fully grown possibly friendly dog from the magical box in his room. ]

[ it's obvious cora's amused, whether by the dog, adam having a dog, or the fact that the dog seems to be unlike adam in every shape, she doesn't even know herself. ] You didn't think to ask for a friendly closet dog?
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[personal profile] resent 2014-04-27 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ she looks to adam, but cora's gaze ends up on the dog. while adam's a charmer with his lack of smiling and sarcastic sense of humour that cora takes as a stab of a taser most of the time, the dog is speaking a language cora thinks she gets. if he were growling, he'd see her as a threat, but he merely barks. at least the closet hasn't lead adam astray and given him a dog that won't look out for him. because of that, she thinks he's friendly enough, too. ]

[ she smiles at the friendly closet beast. she doesn't think to move toward him, though. adam and his currently unnamed dog are a pack and cora is an outsider — she's seen enough of packs coming together and being wary of one another to know it's not in her place to close the distance and pat the dog. in a way, adam's the alpha and his dog is the beta — and maybe she's taking this a little too seriously, applying werewolf dynamics to that of an owner and dog, but considering how adam likes to walk into danger, she'd rather the dog or him close the distance than her do it. ]

[ call her stupid for not going up to the dog and scratching him behind the ears without so much as adam giving her the go-ahead. ] What's his name?
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[personal profile] resent 2014-05-01 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Creative. [ she smiles. at least the dog isn't called max, though. adam does, sometimes, give off the vibe he can be very uncreative, like a kid who has lived behind a white picket fence for all his life. names are important; considering how she's viewed adam, she figures he wants to make sure he gives his companion a name that isn't embarrassing to call out in the middle of a full mansion. ]

[ but he treats the nameless dog so fondly that she's kind of glad the closet has given him a friend rather than a remake of cujo. ] I wouldn't. Some dogs like the taste of girl, but I have a feeling — [ don't put that in your mouth. it's definitely a mouthful. so cora just nods toward the nameless, slobbery dog as a substitute for saying his name. ] — has better taste.

[ but, with that said, even though she's pretty sure he's said she can go ahead and approach his big, slobbery dog that could easily stand on its hind legs and overpower her, she gestures toward the him: ] Can I?
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[personal profile] resent 2014-06-17 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ cora wastes little time in dropping to her knees to gives his dog a good, hard scratch behind the ears. ] Hopefully he won't call you Spot or Clifford. [ that'd be terribly mundane, almost on par with killer. she frowns, but continues to pay attention to the dog, rather than speaking to adam. ] Or Cujo. [ even though that dog could be an asset during events, the ones where monsters break through stone walls and try and maim everyone on sight. ]

[ she doesn't forget adam's there. it's a little easier to talk to him with a dog between them, occupying her time as she finds herself wanting to know something she otherwise wouldn't really give a damn about. raising her gaze to his, her brows rise as she speaks to adam, rather than don't put that in your mouth. ] Did you have a dog back home?
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[personal profile] resent 2014-07-07 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ cora spares scooby a sympathetic look, a sorry you got stuck with this one, bud before she returns her gaze to adam. it's not necessarily bad luck the unnamed dog got caught up in the life of adam milligan — cora only knows so much of his own personal, confusing trauma to know that, maybe, a dog might do him some good, giving him a constant and reliable companion where those people from home refuse to remain permanent fixtures in his life — but if the dog has mush for a brain that needs to be moulded by adam's unintelligible fingers, well, she's concerned for the dog and how he's going to turn out a few months down the line. ]

[ by the sounds of it, though, it seems his choice of plucking a dog from the closet was impulsive. despite how she wants to think of it as a poor choice, him biting off more than he can chew, perhaps adam's finally listening to his instincts rather than that stupid head of his. but, she does have to wonder ... has he never seen napoleon? dogs wander off when they speak to birds and get big ideas of adventure in their head. it's what cora had dreamed of, once, before she was forced to venture away from her own home. ]

[ she looks amused, mouth quirking upward. ] Why not just get a goldfish? A dog seems a little adventurous for you.