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entrancelogs2014-10-26 03:17 pm
hyperkinesia) wrote in entrancelogs2014-10-26 03:17 pm
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((OPEN)) The teacher is in.
Who: Bruce Banner Robert Greene and YOU!
Where: all around Storybrooke
When: throughout the whole event
Rating: PG for now, possibly will change... most likely.
Summary: your favorite teacher being out and about and living a quiet boring life.
The Story:
OCT 24TH TO 26TH
[ Life in Storybrooke is... quiet. It's the same one day as it was the last, or the same as the one weeks past. Not that Robert complains, somehow he feels as if he'd yearned for something this peaceful for so long - and yet it feels so wrong.
He knows why, but he doesn't think too much about it. That whole period of his life he likes to keep buried deep or it might just poke its head back out to haunt him.
And in the meantime, avoiding was always his thing. He's good at it, incredibly so, and even with both he and Virginia living in the same small town he does manage to go days or weeks on end without so much as seeing her. Of course that might also be because he spends most of his time either at school or at home, that makes it a lot easier to not run into her at any and all times.
(He could always leave Storybrooke. But the few times that thought crossed his mind it was gone as soon as it was there. He'd never not been in Storybrooke, where else would he go?)
But on Sunday, he feels differently. That one day he feels a strange yearning though he doesn't know for what, so despite not having figured out what that is, he still goes outside, spends his whole day going from one place to the other, even so far as stepping closer to the town limits at one point. The playground, the grocery store, the pie place - he goes through every single place in search of something that's yet to reveal itself to him. ]
OCT 28TH
[ Suddenly the weight of it all is maddening, and he's split between being two completely different people - Bruce and Robert - and he doesn't know where one ends, where the other begins. Actually, there's also a third, or should be at least. The Hulk, the massive green monster fueled by rage, and yet even now as he remembers this other life of his, the beast is still not in him, it's still not here.
Whether it's because Bruce is the actual lie, or because this is the product of a Wonderland event, he doesn't know. He tries not to think about that one detail too much, when so many other worries already plague his mind.
He remembers-- remembers names, people, or he remembers people from this place but with different names altogether. Looking at Virginia now is nearly impossible because all he can see is Pepper and he's remembered Tony too, and he can't think of either without being reminded of what they'd done just the day prior.
Then there's Natasha, and he's sure that's her name, it rings clear in his head and it had been one of the first that came to mind the night before. Yet here he is the day after and he doesn't know what to do. Does he talk to her, when he doesn't even know what's the truth and what's the lie? Should he wait, and avoid her like he's avoiding Virginia - Pepper - now?
How many other people had he forgotten for that while, how many of these lives are a lie?
Can a man who has two lives be in fact no one at all? ]
Where: all around Storybrooke
When: throughout the whole event
Rating: PG for now, possibly will change... most likely.
Summary: your favorite teacher being out and about and living a quiet boring life.
The Story:
OCT 24TH TO 26TH
[ Life in Storybrooke is... quiet. It's the same one day as it was the last, or the same as the one weeks past. Not that Robert complains, somehow he feels as if he'd yearned for something this peaceful for so long - and yet it feels so wrong.
He knows why, but he doesn't think too much about it. That whole period of his life he likes to keep buried deep or it might just poke its head back out to haunt him.
And in the meantime, avoiding was always his thing. He's good at it, incredibly so, and even with both he and Virginia living in the same small town he does manage to go days or weeks on end without so much as seeing her. Of course that might also be because he spends most of his time either at school or at home, that makes it a lot easier to not run into her at any and all times.
(He could always leave Storybrooke. But the few times that thought crossed his mind it was gone as soon as it was there. He'd never not been in Storybrooke, where else would he go?)
But on Sunday, he feels differently. That one day he feels a strange yearning though he doesn't know for what, so despite not having figured out what that is, he still goes outside, spends his whole day going from one place to the other, even so far as stepping closer to the town limits at one point. The playground, the grocery store, the pie place - he goes through every single place in search of something that's yet to reveal itself to him. ]
OCT 28TH
[ Suddenly the weight of it all is maddening, and he's split between being two completely different people - Bruce and Robert - and he doesn't know where one ends, where the other begins. Actually, there's also a third, or should be at least. The Hulk, the massive green monster fueled by rage, and yet even now as he remembers this other life of his, the beast is still not in him, it's still not here.
Whether it's because Bruce is the actual lie, or because this is the product of a Wonderland event, he doesn't know. He tries not to think about that one detail too much, when so many other worries already plague his mind.
He remembers-- remembers names, people, or he remembers people from this place but with different names altogether. Looking at Virginia now is nearly impossible because all he can see is Pepper and he's remembered Tony too, and he can't think of either without being reminded of what they'd done just the day prior.
Then there's Natasha, and he's sure that's her name, it rings clear in his head and it had been one of the first that came to mind the night before. Yet here he is the day after and he doesn't know what to do. Does he talk to her, when he doesn't even know what's the truth and what's the lie? Should he wait, and avoid her like he's avoiding Virginia - Pepper - now?
How many other people had he forgotten for that while, how many of these lives are a lie?
Can a man who has two lives be in fact no one at all? ]
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Nothing special, no. Unless you find conditioner particularly fascinating, but other than that, just food.
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[ Mostly the basics like she mentioned before. And a treat for her daughter. ]
What do you do for a living here?
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[ Or in this entire town, honestly. A fleeting thought he doesn't chase after. ]
I'm a teacher. High school, though I get a few middle school classes sometimes. What about you?
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[ Probably why she avoided that kind of job at all costs. ]
I haven't really found a job yet. Been looking, but no success so far.
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[ Mostly it's going to school, teaching the classes, assigning homework and papers, coming back home. Some kids are more complicated than others, but Robert likes to think he can deal with most of them. ]
I figure there mustn't be a whole lot to pick from in this place, anyway.
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[ While she talks Abigail picks groceries from the shelves and places them in the shopping cart. Nothing expensive, just the basics like she usually got. ]
I need something that is flexible as well as part-time. I'm a mother to a rather boisterous two year old girl.
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[ Especially being a single parent, which he's guessing that's what she is, but he doesn't outright ask. He picks a few things here and there for himself too, adding them to his own basket, mostly done with his shopping by now but he keeps her company anyway. ]
Not really yet old enough for preschool, is she?
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[ He was right, she is a single parent. Abigail would be first to admit that it was hard at times but she wouldn't trade her life for all of the riches in the world. Emily meant everything to her. ]
It's just me and Emily. Has been for a little while now.
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[ He's no expert on it, but he deals with kids enough to know that much, though his students are a little older than that. Her next remark doesn't fall quite in line with their conversation, but he takes it in stride - and before he realizes it, he answers in the same theme. ]
Nothing bad about that. I lived with my aunt for... a good part of my childhood. I have better memories of her than of-- [ He pauses, looking away from her as he shrugs. ] Before.
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My parents were nice. It was Emily's father who wasn't.
[ Abigail chooses to disclose only those details and nothing more. He didn't need to know the whole truth and what happened to her; much too painful for her to talk about. ]
I think the bad things that happen in our lives can make us stronger. Sounds like a cliche I know, but I'm a different person now since I made the decision to move me and Emily away to somewhere new.
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No, I agree with you, cliche or not. It's not just... the bad things that happen, but what you choose to do when you're faced with them. [ He nods, small and thoughtful. ] It's good your life's better now, even if it might not be perfect.
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[ She finishes with all the groceries she needs to get, heading towards the checkout. ]
You sound like you are speaking from experience, Robert. I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds by saying that.
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[ But he'll leave it at that for now, dropping the subject as they both approach the checkout lines. ]
Anyway, it was nice. Meeting you, that is. I'll see you around?
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[ She gives him a warm smile, glad to have met him. ]
Enjoy the rest of your day, Robert. Whatever you get up to.