AU: Chicago 1926
Mar. 13th, 2010 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aeons_crackshotEventually, the jungle was left behind and the FreakAngels and the members of the Æon Society made their way to Æon's headquarters in Chicago.
The headquarters looks, to the casual observer, much like the home of someone who is very well to do. It is, of course. Maxwell Anderson Mercer is a very wealthy man, philanthropist or no, after all. It's only when you look deeper and realize how solidly built the place is and that certain extra security measures are in place that it begins to reveal itself for what it is.
Namely, the home base of people who, not to put too fine a point on it, quite a lot of dangerous people want dead.
There is an island of calm in the hustle and bustle, the Archives. Every piece of research, every note, every adventure of the Society's members is in here...somewhere.
The headquarters looks, to the casual observer, much like the home of someone who is very well to do. It is, of course. Maxwell Anderson Mercer is a very wealthy man, philanthropist or no, after all. It's only when you look deeper and realize how solidly built the place is and that certain extra security measures are in place that it begins to reveal itself for what it is.
Namely, the home base of people who, not to put too fine a point on it, quite a lot of dangerous people want dead.
There is an island of calm in the hustle and bustle, the Archives. Every piece of research, every note, every adventure of the Society's members is in here...somewhere.
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Date: 2010-03-17 04:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-17 04:09 am (UTC)It feels good to sit like this, bodies very close together in the warm sun.
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Date: 2010-03-17 04:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-17 04:23 am (UTC)Look, her last boyfriend turned out to be a bad guy intent of using her to get information on the Society. He "broke up" with her by dosing her with paralytic poison, verbally ripping her heart to pieces, and nearly dumping her off a 20 story building. This would be enough to shake anybody's confidence.
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Date: 2010-03-17 04:27 am (UTC)That's why Connor lets go, moves around to face her and takes the girl's hand. "Annabelle, would you be my girlfriend?"
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Date: 2010-03-17 04:30 am (UTC)"Yes." She leans forward to kiss him, just in case the verbal response was not enough. Or because she wants to kiss him again. Does it really matter which it is?
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Date: 2010-03-17 04:32 am (UTC)"I guess now I should get a job, so I can take you to the movies and stuff like that?"
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Date: 2010-03-17 04:35 am (UTC)Annabelle doesn't worry about money, really. Since she's more or less on call all the time, her living expenses are taken care of. That, and she's still got money left from when she was a performer.
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Date: 2010-03-17 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-17 04:58 am (UTC)It's a nice day, and there's no trouble brewing, nowhere else they need to be.
There might be a bit of a row with the others when they head back to Headquarters, so why not put that off as long as possible?
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Date: 2010-03-17 05:01 am (UTC)Just a couple of teens, enjoying the day.
Together.