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Post by |0+u$ f@ɳԍ on Nov 2, 2014 16:33:52 GMT -5
Aleenya nodded again, shortly, and let Allison lead them down to the front door. "Bye," she said, and went through the front door quickly and awkwardly.
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Post by Paroxysm on Nov 2, 2014 16:47:17 GMT -5
Carson awkwardly waved as they left.
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Post by Paroxysm on Nov 11, 2014 20:38:50 GMT -5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This is actually outside, but separate timeline stuff so here ahahaha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Aleenya and Ash decided to walk around in a park for some reason after this? Yay parks. Maybe they wanted the nature after all that heavy stuff. And it's all sunset-ish.
Ash was having a hard time looking at Aleenya, and kicked at the ground when she spoke her name. "Aleenya?"
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Post by |0+u$ f@ɳԍ on Nov 11, 2014 20:43:23 GMT -5
"Yessss?" Aleenya said. Her mind had wandered off into the past.
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Post by Paroxysm on Nov 11, 2014 20:48:05 GMT -5
Ash paused and bit her lip. "..I'm sorry. I messed up earlier. When you asked about.. before all this- It's not like I don't want to tell you I just.. I froze up. I dunno. It caught me off guard and I-- I dunno." Her stomach clenched when she stopped talking. Eloquent. Good job.
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Post by |0+u$ f@ɳԍ on Nov 11, 2014 20:50:37 GMT -5
Aleenya looked at Ash. "What do you mean?" she asked.
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Post by Paroxysm on Nov 11, 2014 21:01:29 GMT -5
Ash kicked at the ground again, for lack of any other nervous distraction. "I told you I don't think about my family a lot, and I was kinda rude about it, and it's not like I don't want you to know, it's just that I--" she swallowed to collect her words. "I dunno, I just don't know how to deal with things like that so I froze up and was mean, and I'm sorry. I haven't told you as much as I should about my life.."
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Post by |0+u$ f@ɳԍ on Nov 12, 2014 21:53:37 GMT -5
"And I've told you too much about mine." There was a thin layer of sarcasm in Aleenya's voice. "No, I'm just kidding... I'm sorry if I was being nosy, or something," she said.
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Post by Paroxysm on Nov 18, 2014 19:54:15 GMT -5
"You weren't," Ash assured her right away, "I just wasn't expecting it." She blew air into her cheeks and then let it out with a sigh. "I don't even know how to start. I was a teacher..? That was my big thing, I guess."
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Post by |0+u$ f@ɳԍ on Nov 18, 2014 20:02:31 GMT -5
"Right," Aleenya said slowly. "Got that much. And then...?"
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Post by Paroxysm on Nov 18, 2014 20:10:58 GMT -5
"I was trying to do a lot of things at once, then," Ash said, rubbing her cheek. "I'd just gotten my masters in criminal psychology, and I was working towards a doctorate.. so I decided that I was going to move to Gotham to do that. With Arkham, and all the crime around, there are a couple schools that are really good with that kind of stuff. So I got a job teaching here, rather than back home anymore, and started school for myself."
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Post by |0+u$ f@ɳԍ on Nov 18, 2014 20:26:21 GMT -5
"Criminal psychology. Fascinating," Aleenya said. There was a smile playing around her lips. "Clearly something changed at some point, though."
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Post by Paroxysm on Nov 18, 2014 20:33:52 GMT -5
Ash couldn't notice any smile, cause she kept staring at the ground. So she continued to feel awkward as she spoke. "And then I was also trying to... actually, properly teach, you know?" She kicked at the ground again. "I'd wanted to be a teacher since I was young, so since I was there I was trying to make it good, actually help the kids and all that. I think I was doing alright, but the other staff members would get angry with me often. Mostly just the teachers on tenure, and the principal. They didn't like that I would call them out on their slack. They said I was just a troublemaker. Newbie on the job. Didn't understand Gotham, all that. "
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Post by |0+u$ f@ɳԍ on Nov 18, 2014 21:46:42 GMT -5
"Right," Aleenya said. "Sure. And then...?"
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Post by Paroxysm on Nov 18, 2014 22:21:38 GMT -5
"It's stupid," Ash muttered. "I was doing my own grad school research at the time. This was all back when Batman was still a thing, so I was talking with patients at Arkham, and prisoners at Blackgate. I had them go through tests and projects and all those sorts of things, and eventually I was allowed to talk to some of the bigger names. Like.. it was Jervis Tetch, you remember him? Mad Hatter? I dunno if you were out and about during that time.." She finally glanced at Aleenya for half a second, to gauge a response.
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