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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 17, 2013 4:54:31 GMT -8

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Caitlin had a favorite coat. Out of the good few sweatshirts and jackets that she owned and brought with her, Caitlin had one single favorite for a day like today. It was raining pretty heavily, so this coat came in very handy as it was water resistant. It was bright green, and had a hood that cinched when you pulled the strings tight. It wasn’t even incredibly warm and she always wore a grey sweatshirt with it to keep the cold out. But what she really liked were the pockets. They zipped. And not only did that provide her with countless moments of entertainment, but also undoubted personal security of her effects. To Caitlin that was among the top things on her priority list. This was a big school and things got lost easily.

Like film. There had been a little canister of film sitting on the side of the path leading to village. It wouldn’t have normally caught Caitlin’s eye, but she’d been relatively high the day she found it and when she was blazed, Caitlin had a hard time staying focused on the one path and more or less just wandered. She’d stumbled upon the canister while looking through a patch of grass for just one latent four leaf clover, nestled in its homeland, living among the grass blades. At first the girl was flummoxed. What the hell was she going to do with a canister of film that did not belong to her? There were countless different things that could have been on these pictures. Parties. Nature. Self-portraits. Suzy Padgwick at her uncle’s 90th birthday. Seriously, it could have been anything.

The girl had resolved that if she got the film developed that she might recognize a face and she could return the pictures to their rightful owner. Caitlin would be congratulated with confetti and fanfare. The works. As she was a hero of course. So before she gave the canister its last rites and cast it away , the girl had sent it back to her mother in Ireland to be developed. The negatives had yet to see the light of day. Which was what made today so very special. In the mail this morning had been an envelope from home containing all of the pictures, negatives included. Those were her favorite part.

She had a strip of negatives back home that sat in a frame by her bedside. They were of her cat, Stan Lee. A mangy looking tomcat that she held very dear to her heart. He had a rat in his mouth in the images, and the negatives made him look glossy and greenish purple for a while until you really looked at them. The more you stared the more you saw how strange he looked in negative. And to Cait, that was nothing compared to how strange he looked in real life.

Bouncing up the stairs, green jacket once again covering her shoulders from the elements, Caitlin made her way up to the library. In the back corner she’d made a happy home for herself. Most people thought she was crazy when she settled in, but this was just comfortable for her. Tucked away in the back was a little table. The chairs all had plush pillows in them and in just seconds, Cait had pulled a blanket from her bag and dropped the pillows from the chairs onto the floor. Every Sunday afternoon, Caitlin Gallagher could be found here, under the table in the library, very quietly reading her comic books. Today was X-Men #101. It was from last month, but she’d been trying to catch up with Amazing Spider-Man and Captain Britain. Now that she had just Amazing Spider-Man #162 and Captain Britain #7 to read, X-men could be fit into the reading list for the day. Tucked between the issues, however, were the pictures. Immediately Caitlin pulled them from her bag and crawled under her table.

Her hands ran over the holey edge of the negative as she held her wand behind it to light up the image. It was a bunch of people walking down the street in the village. No one in-particular stood out, and the rest of the pictures were just castle shots and shots from parents weekend. Group photos. No repeat faces. That meant no one to return them to. "Darn it. I was so looking forward to being a hero." Just as she spoke, a pair of feet came into her line of sight and Caitlin took to staring at the sneakers. Who's feet were they? Had to be a boy. These feet were way too big to be girl's feet. Suddenly, Caitlin was looking down at her own sneakers and trying to compare them to the other's. With out realizing she was doing anything weird, the girl began to crawl to the side of her cover, and reach out to the feet.

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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 17, 2013 11:14:36 GMT -8

Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 11:14:36 GMT -8

After a week of nothing but slacking, today was Eddie's day to play catch up and rush thought a number of important essays. Eddie had risen with the sun, put on a light grey button up sweater to hide his Joker teeshirt, a pair of faded and worn jeans, and a fashionable trilby, and headed to the library. He had been one of the first people there and had taken advantage of the free tables to pull a large group of desks towards the window so he could spread out all his work in the sunlight.

About four hours in now, Eddie was standing over the table, pouring himself into his work. He had managed to finish two late assignments, and now he was caught up and working on a history essay due tomorrow. He hated history. He had no mind for names and dates and boring subjects like war. He had seen enough war to know he wanted nothing to do with it. Old heroes stayed dead, and people moved on. All history did was force people to live in the past and feel guilty for things they had no connection to. Okay, it was important to learn from, and maybe some people liked it, but then keep it to those few people and stop trying to shove it down his throat. And the old ghost that taught the subject here was so dry, he could turn the Atlantic ocean into Death Valley. He needed the mark though to get through to next year, so he begrudgingly grumbled on through his work.

After exhausting his second text book of it's information on the Tripo Tribe in 635ce Persia, Eddie went back to the files to see if he could find any other books on the subject. After minutes of searching through the complex numbering system, luck would have it that there was just one more book on the topic. How to Pop a Hippo, and Other Tripo Stories. It seemed that the book was signed in at the library aswell1 Lucky him! Section 285 was were it made it's home, and away Eddie went to find the old thing. After a few more moments of stumbling about in the shadows of the tall, dusty bookcases, Eddie found section 285, but no How to Pop a Hippo.

"You gotta be kidding me!" Eddie grumbled, figuring the book was here, but someone had forgotten to put it away properly. The boy might have been a goofball and a bit of an idiot, but he had grown up in a military family were organization and tidiness were stressed endlessly, and little things like this, irked him. Wasn't it easy enough to put the book back where you found it? Misfiling it just made more work for the Librarian and the next person who wanted to read that book. Looks like he was on a book hunt then. With a sigh, he dragged his feet out of the rows of books and headed for the sitting areas, hoping to find his book on a table first before he started pulling every book of the shelves.

Most of the tables were empty, but there was one with a few books on it. It was far in the back corner, away from everyone else. As Eddie came up to the table, he was pretty sure he could see a Hippo on one of the sides which made excited and relieved at the same time. He dropped his bag on one of the skewed chairs and leaned over the table to look over the old Leather bound book. it was the one he was looking for alright. As he leaned back to flip through the pages of his find, something flesh coloured caught his eye near the ground. There was a hand under the table, and it was slowly coming for his foot. It was a surprise, to be sure, but in his shock, Eddie failed to react in the proper freak out. Instead, because of how slowly the hand was moving, all Eddie did, in turn, was slowly move his foot away from the approaching hand. After a few seconds of collection, Eddie realized a few things about the situation: one being that if this was more like any of the horror books he'd read, that his reaction time would have cost him his life, and the second being that if that was a hand, it had to be attached to something.

Eddie took another step back leaned back a ways so that he could just make out surprised face of a girl his age. Considering Eddie had been expecting zombies, this shocked him, and he ended up crouched down on his haunches so that he could get a better look at the girl. "What are you doing down there?" he asked allowed, though it was more a prompt for himself as his brain started putting pieces together, "Did you make a blanket fort in the library? Dude, that is wicked awesome."

He crawled forward so that his head was under the desks with her and his hat scraped against the top. He looked around the place. Besides how tight it was, it looked like the girl had made herself a cozy little reading area. What was most exciting was what she was reading. "Is that an X-men comic!? Dude!" He leaned in closer, head nearly on her shoulder so he could see the pages. What was strange though, was that comic book was just a cover for photographs she was hiding inside...

... They were muggle photographs and didn't move. They were taken about the castle, in a warmer season, summer probably. What was strange was that Eddie knew all the people in the photos. There was an older man, with a puff of curls flecked with grey, and eyes identical to Eddie's smiling thinly near the big wooden doors at the front of the castle. He was dressed in a nice pair of slacks, and a stiff jacket that Eddie knew was his shot at a casual outfit. He seemed out of place and slightly uncomfortable near the big castle. He could also make out a picture of the same man squeezing the shoulders of a shorter, blond, teenage girl near the lake peeking out from behind the front on.

"Uhhh.... why do you have pictures of my dad?"

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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 17, 2013 22:39:27 GMT -8

Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 22:39:27 GMT -8

In the moment that his gaze met hers, Caitlin was frozen to the spot. An awkward smile made its home on her lips. The girl was no stranger to uncomfortable situations and had put herself in them countless times to get a laugh out of a friend. Even a few times to save a friend from humiliation. Cait never minded and would do it again and again should the occasion arise. But this was a one hundred percent organic weird situation. Had she met her match? This boy was possibly the most out going individual outside of her family, that she had ever met. It had her absolutely perplexed for a moment as his body craned forward and his head came ever so close to hers. And that hair! It was so curly! Undoubtedly, the girl would be obsessed with it instantly.

The paralyzed position she was in now did not last long however as her instincts and wit finally kicked in. "Yer damn right I made a fort in tha library. Jus' canno' keep me head on righ' sittin' in tha chairs." As she looked over at him peeking into her book, Caitlin beamed, having forgotten all about the film for a second. "Ya like X-men?!" And then just as quickly as her excitement had come in the first place, it burst from her like an explosion. The comic dropped to her lap as she scooted to the side to make room for him in the fort as well.

There he was. The rightful owner of the pictures. He'd found her and just in time! Caitlin was beginning to think that all hope was lost and that she'd never get them back to where they belonged."Shittin' me!!! I though' I'd ne'er find ya!! See, I found this film, undeveloped, outside. 'Bout a few days ago. Sent it ta me mum back home and she put 'em through fer me. Rushed 'em back an e'ery thin'. I figgered if I saw tha pictures I'd be able ta see who's they were and return 'em. But I'd only gotten ta the negatives. They're tha best part. But I didn't know anyone in tha images. Though' it was a lost cause. And then BLAMO! Here ya are!"

Caitlin was beaming ear to ear now as she looked at him inside their now shared hiding spot. The petite Irish girl made friends very quickly and never minded sharing. Her two older brothers had prepared her for that very early in life. "I thought ta keep 'em in tha safest place I knew. Between pages o' me comic book. Ya read this issue yet?? Me Mum owls 'em in fer me. I'd die with out me comics." It was suddenly obvious to her that she was just blasting him with information and excitement and hadn't contained any of it at all. Falling silent, Cait shifted her eye a little and bit her bottom lip a little before just smiling at him and awkwardly holding out all the pictures to him.

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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 18, 2013 5:42:08 GMT -8

Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2013 5:42:08 GMT -8

"Shittin' me!!! I though' I'd ne'er find ya!!"

"Uuuhhh..." Eddie wasn't easily freaked out; he had been through some strange shit in his life time. But just the way the girl had opened the conversation... he'll admit that it did feel a little awkward. He gave her a chance though, and quickly realized what the situation here really was.

"Wait... you found a roll of film?"

Eddie racked his brain, trying to remember back to the day he and his family toured Hogwarts in the summer. Everyone had come, Ryan, Sophie, Emily, and his dad, and besides his dad who had always taken him to do his school shopping, this was their first time in the wizarding world. Sophie and Em had been ecstatic and had raced around the place, wanting to have their picture with everything, where Ryan was more out of place, and his dad uncomfortable. The day had been good though, and quite busy. And Eddie had been in charge of the camera, so he hadn't cared about saving film, and snapped up every photo he had the chance to take. He remembered having to switch film rolls at one point. Had he honestly just left the canister lying around?

Yes... he think he did.

"Oh my God... no way!" He beamed and squeezed right under the desk, taking up the negatives and trying to get a look at them. "I can't believe you found these! And you got the negatives made?! I took so many, this must have cost you a pretty penny!" He squinted to try and make out the colourful faces of his family in the dim light under the table. "Wow... so, you were playing Cinderella with my film?" He laughs, "Does that make me your Princess?"

This girl seemed right up Ed's ally. She was the first person he had met here that was into comics. Not only that, but she obviously played the same little games in her head as he did. For her to go through so much trouble to try and find out who a roll of film belonged to like she did? It just blew his mind. "I owe you, for all the trouble you went through to get these." He nodded.

he looked back at her comics when they were offered to him, and read the number on the front. " Number 101? This is the new one, huh?" He shook his head, and took off his hat to give him more room under the desk. "Nah, I didn't even know it was out yet. I've been too busy with Batman." He unbuttoned his sweater to proudly display his Joker shirt, then took his time to take the sweater off and hang it over the corner of the desk and a chair to give them more hiding space.

"Did they make it back to earth okay?" The boy asked, excitedly, getting in close to the girl so that he could read next to her. He paused, and slapped his forehead with a laugh, "Oh man! Almost forgot!"

He held out his hand to the girl, "I'm Eddie."

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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 19, 2013 3:56:33 GMT -8

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His reciprocated enthusiasm was brilliant and pleased Caitlin very much. It had definitely been a surprise and a joy to find that he was the owner of the images, but what was more, Cait was quickly seeing a very likable person under all that messy hair. "Cinder-... Yeah! S'pose I did. And ya make such a pretty lil' princess, your honor. Tha pleasure was all mine. Don't go worryin' 'bout owin' me anythin'. Hearin' you call yerself a princess was all tha reward I need. Besides, its actually kinda fun fer me ta go pokin' round like Sherlock Holmes."

And then her favorite subject came up. Comics. Man did she love them. His shirt was a riot in her opinion and Cait was suddenly very sad she'd not worn a super rad hero shirt. Arguably her Pink Floyd t-shirt was just as cool in her opinion. When he had properly made himself comfortable in her little hide out, Caitlin scooted her rear end to sit a little closer to him, as if that were possible, and held out the comic for the both of them to see. She'd only gotten about half way through and was very relieved to have such good news. "They barely made it. There was this crazy crash landing, and Jean Grey comes up all....Wait... NO! I can't tell ya! Ya gotta read it fer yerself!!!!"

With a laugh Caitlin covered his eyes for just a split second. The grin on her face stretched from one ear to the other. She could tell there was great potential for a beautiful friend ship here. "Alrigh' lets go back to the beginning and read together! They're going ta me homeland o' Ireland in this issue. So excited. Banshee is the best, but I'm biased." It had yet to come to her her attention that they had no idea who the other was. She liked him on first impression, and that was all that mattered. "I'm Cailtin. I go by Cait and Caity though too... It's very nice to meet ya Eddie. I don't know a lot o' other people who like comics the way I do."

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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 19, 2013 20:16:36 GMT -8

Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2013 20:16:36 GMT -8

"Caitlin? That's a groovy name!" He smiled, "I like your accent too." It was different than everyone else's around the school. He tried to make note for the future that this was what the Irish sounded like. Not that it was incredibly important. All accents turned him on.

Eddie laughs happily when she mentioned his princess joke. The boy loved to make an ass of himself, and bending genders wasn't beneath him. He'd warn a dress before, he'd admit it, and it was darn comfy too! Though it hung off him like a sack. He knit his fingers under his chin and batter his long eyelashes at the girl, "Why thank you sir!" he did in his best falsetto before instantly falling back into serious comic fan mode.

He did notice the girl's t-shirt and made a mental note that this girl was into the same kind of music as him. Though Pink Floyd wasn't one of his favourites, it was a step in the right direction. He used to like the band very much! Their music was tight, their lyrics were meaningful. Unfortunately, it only took one bad girlfriend to ruin something like that for you forever.

They were tucked in tight now, sitting side by side, so close that Eddie hand to put his hands in his lap to be comfortable. He was he caught a glimpse of Jean on the page before his eyes were covered, "Hey!" he laughed, but he knew it was for the best. There was no sense of him jumping into the story in the middle. If he wanted to read it, he had to start at the beginning.

"Me, I love nightcrawler." He smirks, reading over the pages with her. "I like to pretend that me and him are pretty similar. In attitude and all, I mean. I don't have the whole blue skin and tail thing going on for me, so-" he laughs."what does Banshee do again?"

"I find comics are lots on a lot of wizards." he nods, "The pictures don't move, so it's kinda low tech for them. Right? I'm done this page." He let her know. He wasn't a very quick reader. He had to stop and imagine all the voices, and take in every detail of the picture. The boy had a ridiculous imagination, and comics and novel came to life for him.

"Is this, like, a weekly thing for you?" He asked, pointing to the table and the pillows they were sitting on. "Cause I'd start coming to this shit. I'd even bring some blankets so we could cover the table and make a fort!"

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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 22, 2013 0:30:17 GMT -8

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"Banshee is tha Irish one who has a sonic scream." Cait knew basically everything about the X-men. They were probably her favorite. "I really like Polaris. I think her power would be fun." With a shrug the girl turned the page and let him read the next one while she went over it once more. She'd only scanned it before, having been so excited to get her hands on it. As his eyes ran over the page, Caitlin took a second to look really hard at the boy. She didn't recall seeing him before. Where the heck did he come from? What was this about her accent? He had a funny one if she had anything to say about it. Though, it was nice to listen to and she found herself fascinated by the way he spoke. "Groovy..."

Eventually she took a deep, refreshing breath and came back from her little space out. "Though technically ya might be Nightcrawler and I'd never know. I'd just see Kurt Wagner. He hides it remember?"With a wide grin the girl turned to her bag, handing him the comic book as she dug out snacks. He was right about Comics being mostly a muggle pass time but Caitlin had been exposed at an early age to the wonderfulness that was superheros. All because of her genius grandfather.

"Me Gran' Da' on me Mum's side is a huge collector. Mum's a muggle born, and Gran' Da' got ta me real early. Now I'm here every Sunday afternoon, snacks included. On Mondays I reread them in the bath." Her hands were full of food. Caitlin never went unprepared. The girl handed him a half a sandwich and an orange and looked at the brownie in her hands. It was going to look greedy, but could she tell him? Was it worth the risk of him narking on her?"This brownie... This is gonna seem weird and a little selfish... But I don't think I can share it. Erm.. Maybe I shouldn't share it. It's...ehh.. Got a special ingredient. I don't know if yer okay with it. I know it's the 70's but..." With a spry look on her face, Caitlin tucked the baked good back in her bag and pulled out two cans of soda. She'd been prepared for a long haul, but decided that sharing somethings was more important.

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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 22, 2013 6:32:44 GMT -8

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Eddie said nothing when the girl remarked that he could be Nightcrawler. Instead, he just gave her a cryptic smirk and went back to reading the comic. He loved playing games like that. Of course he wasn't night crawler, but if he could put even a little bit of doubt in the girl's mind, it was worth trying.

"Nice! I wish my grandfather was into comics!" He laughed, thinking of his old, military grandfather. He's not really into anything but yelling now a days... I'm muggleborn too, by the way." he nods, feeling safe to tell this girl outright about his bloodline, "It's the reason I love comics. Everyone in elementary school had comics! We'd read them in the sandlot together!"

He took the comic book from her happily, and got comfy by laying down on his stomach, legs coming up behind him so that the just scrapped the underside of the desk. he watched her pull an assortment of goodies out of her bag and wished he had repacked his snacks for today. All he had was his own orange, which he might need later. Peering out from under the desk he could just make out the clock at the end of the room. It was well past lunch, and Eddie figured he'd better get some food into him before he fainted. Actually, he should probably be testing his blood sugar levels first, but he always felt so awkward about doing that around people and decided he could skip it for a meal so that he wouldn't have to leave the girl.

"Thank you!" He responded happily as he took the sandwich from her, "We'll split it, yeah? I don't want to eat all of your food! And I'll pass on the orange, thank you. I have my own." He crawled over on his stomach to his bag on the chair and pulled out his own, old orange. He made a pile of the food between them, and looked up to see the girl fussing over the brownie. He smiled at her. Drugs and alcohol were lost on the naive kid, and when he heard 'special ingredient' he immediately figure it was a brownie made with love from her mother or something. He laughed at her, "Forget about it! I know what it's like to not want to share a brownie. You enjoy it, I probably shouldn't have some anyways." Sugar and him weren't friends.

"I remember Banshee now!" He said happily, looking over the character in his yellow and green uniform. " He's got a pretty wicked power... Always thought it was funny that they'd name a male character after a female spirit though." he chuckled, " Is x-men your favourite series? Do you read any others?" He flipped the page of the comic, reading while he talked. He devoured comic books, reading anything in his hands until it was finished. He reached down, without taking his eyes off the book, and divided the sandwich in half for the both of them.

Eddie's eyes get wide as he gets deeper into the comic, " What?! WHAT!?! Phoenix?! What is this!?" he laughs, and leans toward the girl so she can read with him.

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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 29, 2013 21:07:21 GMT -8

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Caitlin loved super heroes. To her they were the iconic political figure. Maybe they had to fight to keep the bad guys at bay, but they never actually hurt anyone. They mostly just scared the pants off of their enemies. Though the more she had thought about this the more she realized that theory was entirely wrong. A lot of people ended up hurt. Including the heroes. Maybe there was someone non violent, that seemed sort of unlikely though. She could just create her own hero. That didn't fight... Though, how is that going to help protect the world form the evil Servile, a villain bent on dominating the world's cookie dough.

The girl thought this over for a very long time but snapped back to it at the sound of his voice. "Oh.. Right!! Sharing.. Sorry. I got side tracked." She laughed and split the sandwich with him. It was nice to not have to explain about her brownie and Caitlin shut up about the whole thing once more, and focused on his next question as she pealed her orange. Is x-men her favorite... hmmm.. With a vast world of comics, Caitlin wasn't sure she could choose a favorite.

After giving it some thought, Caitlin shrugged. "It's hard ta pick jest one. I mean... X-men is in me top five. prolly top three. But I like Spider-man, Captain Britain, Thor, Batman, Teen Titans, Green Lantern, and like... a ton of other stuff. Oh don't laugh.. but Aquaman is tha shit." Caitlin managed to get almost half the orange in her mouth in a very unattractive but sorta cute way as she half grinned at him. The girl went silent so as to chew and almost choked at his exclamation over Phoenix.

"RIGHT?! Complete costume change an every thin'! Jest keep readin. It'll get better." Giggles over the picture of Wolverine purchasing flowers for Jean Grey. "He tries so hard. But Summers jest keeps gettin' in tha way. Personally I like Logan better. But Cyclops seems ta love tha girl." She shrugged and shoved the other part of the orange in her mouth just as unattractively as before.

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Fake Empire || Eddie Mar 30, 2013 20:55:16 GMT -8

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Eddie looked up at the girl to see her trying to shove half an orange in her mouth and he nearly killed himself laughing. The way her cheeks popped out made her look like a giant chipmunk with orange teeth, "Attractive!" he joked, and took up his half of the sandwich. "Yeah, Cyclops is freakin' obsessed! I know Jean is a good girl and all, but crying the hospital? He flipped the page, "That's just unmanly."

Sandwich in one hand, comic book in the other, Eddie quickly devoured both, fairly quiet through out the process, only stopping once more to sigh and laugh, " I wish I had a German accent, et es sexy, ja?" He wiped the bread crumbs from his hands onto his jeans, and delved deeper into the inked story on the page. After a couple of minutes, he shook his head and closed the book. " I forgot Storm had claustrophobia... What are they going to do now!" He smiled and handed the book back to her, "Thanks for letting me read that. You're a pretty cool cat, Cait!"

"You're probably the first girl I've ever met who's this into comics." He smiled, taking up his orange and peeling off the thick skin. he hoped it would still taste good. It had to be more than a week old now, and was probably becoming mealy. once it was free of it's peel, he bit right into the thing, like an apple, and was happy to find it still had some juice left. He ate the thing awkwardly, having to tear most of the flesh off and having it flop against his chin. He was really just making a mess of the thing.

"We should hang out sometime," he nodded appreciatively as he munched on his orange, "I mean, beyond the Sunday comic session I promise to start coming to. I mean, I wanna get to know more about you. Seeing as you've met my family-" He waves a hand in a smooth gesture towards the pile of negatives the girl had brought with her, "I feel slightly under handed here!"

He finished up with the mess of orange, sucked his fingers clean, and wiped his hands down on his jeans. Good old jeans. They cleaned everything! "We should play a game." He said suddenly, leaning forward on the pillow ground and staring her in the eyes, " I LOVE games, and riddles! there's not a riddle I don't know!" he paused and rewound to correct that, "Except that stupid one about about the tied sack and the rain. But I mean really! That silly eagle was cheating! I've never even had plum pudding in my life!" he laughed.

"What you say? twenty-one questions? Truth or dare?" he leaned back, raising an eyebrow, "Never have I ever? Eh?"

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Fake Empire || Eddie Apr 2, 2013 1:35:53 GMT -8

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"Plum Puddin'!!!" She simply shouted through he cheek fulls of oranges. As she swallowed it down, the girl gave him a spry grin. "If it 'as ta do with food.. I can promise ya I know it." She tucked the comic back into it's protective slip and began to think about his question. Riddles and games? Caitlin loved riddles and games. But what was more, she loved to find out about people. There was something about the boy that made Caitlin want to gravitate toward him. Maybe it was his curly hair or that excited expression easing out from behind the scraps of orange on his chin. Never the less, she had to know more about him.

Her head shook as a laugh came from her chest. "An ya said I was attractive." The way she mocked him was playful and light and Cait obviously meant him no harm. After their little snack the girl sprawled out laying on her back next to him. Her eyes gazed up to him with an interested look. "Ne'er 'ave I e'er." The games were a very good idea. They were an easy way to ask questions without being awkward. "Then 20 questions. An' maybe some Truth or Dare if we want. If yer not scared."

Laughing, Cait held up her hands. Beyond them, was a few dozen wads of dried gum. A few of them had been Cait's at one point. She was trying to make them into the shape of a unicorn at one point but had basically given up after a while. It was a lot of chewing gum, and her intention had been to do it one sitting and her jaw just couldn't handle that sort of commitment. But now she was looking at her hands. The fingers were shorter and dainty, and the nails were painted red. Her toes matched, but they were unseeable, stuck up in her converse as they were.

"Ne'er 'ave I e'er....." Caitlin was taking a good deal of time to think about it. There was a lot of things she had done in her life, so there was a very good chance of her loosing this game. "Oh! Ne'er 'ave I e'er been ta tha states!!!! Okay maybe tha' was cheatin'." Her grey eyes made their way back to him as she looked up and gave him a huge grin. This made her eyes squint now, and the grey disappeared almost entirely behind her lashes.

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Fake Empire || Eddie Apr 2, 2013 11:28:48 GMT -8

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Eddie laughed at Cait and nodded, "Yeah, I did! I've got a thing for big orange teeth, don't you know. And it's not something you see on most girls!" he stuck out his tongue at her and laid down beside her, with her feet at his head. She was shorter than him though, and her head sat at his mid calf.

He laughed at her once more when she spoke about the games, "What? You want to do all of them?!" He gasps in mock, "No one ever wants to hear me talk about myself for that long! You like me! You REALLY like me!" He decided to tone down the jokes encase she had enough and decided to give a quick kick in the head. It's be too easy for her to accomplish right now, and he needed ever braincell he had in the empty mind of his.

"Never have I ever, hm?" he smirked, crossing his arms under his head to keep his head up, he thought this through for a moment, "Feels like we should have alcohol or something so that we can take penalties, but whatever." He figured the game would just become a truth telling game without them, but that was cool. It would just become a great way to get to know someone.

"That's not cheating!" he laughed, shaking his head of curls, "That's tactical advancement! if we were drinking, I would be one step behind you now! That's a good move!" now... what could he tell her that he'd never done? he prided himself on being that type of guy who would do anything once, and as such, he had done many things! And besides all that, the point of this game was to get the other person to confess to things, so he could easily say that he had never been to Antarctica, but Cait probably hadn't either, and that was probably a waist of a question.

"Never have I ever done drugs." he asked hopefully, looking down his length to the girl down by his feet.

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Fake Empire || Eddie Apr 4, 2013 17:57:08 GMT -8

Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2013 17:57:08 GMT -8

Caitlin watched as the boy made himself more comfortable. She found you could tell a lot about a person when you studied even such a basic task like this. Looking at how quickly they adjusted, or how quickly they relaxed even with new people, Caitlin easily grasped a lot about people. Eddie for instance was a lot like her. Both had a hard time sitting still, but the idea of their company being a stranger didn't put them off in the slightest. The pair fell right into ease with each other. "Course I wanna hear 'bout ya. So start talkin' laddy."

Drugs. Well Shit. Now they were even. "Ne'er e'er e'er, or ne'er today?" She giggled and looked over at his shoes. The boy had style. She liked that. But what could she say next? This was going to be a hard game. "Ne'er 'ave I e'er...." Her lack of 'v's and 'h's spread through her Irish accent was actually sorta cute...If you liked that sort of thing. Caitlin always really liked hearing other people talk. His American words were so adorable to her and the way he spoke made her want to giggle and just listen to him forever. "Well ya got me with drugs. But nothin too crazy. No uppers. Make me all...." She made a little noise that was more like a squeal and then laughed a bit more.

"Okay, okay.." She went back to thinking a tried to think of a really good one. It took her a little bit but she finally looked down at him. "Ne'er 'ave I e'er been an only child. I got two brothers. Both are older than I am. Hey! You might actually know 'em!! Me brother Kellin is in Ravenclaw, year seven. Used to be really great a quiddich til he met his girlfriend. She's a stick in the mud. But me biggest brother is a beater fer tha Tutshill Tornadoes. He's tha one tha' took out Rian Lewis' knee!" Cait grinned and looked at him with a squint in her eyes, "Okay, you again."

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Fake Empire || Eddie Apr 4, 2013 18:58:04 GMT -8

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"So that's what was so special about that brownie!" Eddie said with an air of understanding, leaning up on his elbow so he could see her face. he liked looking into people's eyes as he talked to them. He made some people uncomfortable doing so, but he couldn't help it. Window were the eyes to the soul! he always felt that no eye contact made him feel secretive, or untrustworthy, or worse yet, not polite! " You had me fooled that it was a brownie made with love!" he laughed at his own nativity.

"Two brothers, huh?" He shook his head with a smile, poor you! i have a hard enough time with just one older brother, let alone two!" he found himself twisting so that he could lean over her legs with his arm. he couldn't help himself, he was antsy. "I've got a younger sister too, though, so that counts for something extra special! I've been the victim of multiple dress-up attacks and even a few drive-by makeovers! Now there's a special type of torture!" he laughed and thought about the people he knew in Ravenclaw. "No... I don't think I've met either of them-

"Wait... did you say your brother plays for the Tutshill Tornadoes!?" His smile grew from cheek to cheek. " That's awesome! Never have I ever met someone from a professional quiddatch team!" he laughed loudly and was met by a shhhh from outside the fort and Eddie covered his mouth suddenly. the tips of his cheeky smile could still be seen from under his hand though. "okay, that wasn't fair." he laughed quietly. "I'll give you something else...

"Never have I ever...." it took him a while to think of something. what he came up with wasn't really good, but it was the best he could do. "Never have I ever had cake for my birthday." he nodded in satisfaction, "or icecream for that matter."

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Fake Empire || Eddie Apr 5, 2013 1:06:35 GMT -8

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"I'm not really a girly girl.. But I did make Kellin wear one of me mum's dresses once. Wanted to put 'im in one o' mine, but I'm a lot smaller than tha boys. An' I didn't know how to do makeup until earlier this year. A girl in me dorms 'ad to show me. Now it's not so bad. I just think girls look silly with all that goo on their face. The liner is one thing... And maybe a little shadow and gloss or somthin... but... I don't want it clear up ta me eyebrows and caked on like a clown," She shrugged and grinned. "You'd look so cute in a dress and some blush," Cait teased.

It wasn't fair that he used quidditch, though, technically she didn't meet him, he met her and when he started playing professionally, she already knew him. But those were just minor details in the technicalities. It was kind of neat that he was so excited about the sport and Caitlin made a mental note to speak with him on a later date about the game. Her entire family had something to do with quidditch, except Cait. "This isn't a ne'er....but... I 'aven't been on a broom since I was six. Cillian knocked me off once in the yard, and I 'aven't gotten back on a broom since. Too scared." She shuddered and shook her head.

His latest reveal was somethin Caitlin could hardly wrap her brain around. "What?!" She sat up quickly looking at the boy as she propped herself on her elbows. Of course she didn't mind him lounging across her legs. In fact it was actually perfectly fine with her. Normally she cuddled primarily with Joram, but now she was seeing just how easy going Eddie was and she adored it. "Ya ne'er had Cake or Ice cream?! How is that possible?" Looking up at him she pulled her legs out from under him and turned around propping her chin in her hands and looking at him, their faces very close now. "Okay okay... Ne'er 'ave I e'er.....ridden in anything bigger than a row boat." She shrugged. Though her grandparents were muggles, they only lived down the street and Caitlin often just road her bicycle to see them. Any where else her parents just helped them through the Floo network. "Me mum, works as in floo network administration travelin' is usually pretty easy."