Daycycle Day 23 [ FEB 29-MAR 5]

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DAYCYCLE 23

[ FEB 29 - MAR 5 ]

MORNING

This morning even the most vehement of those Special haters seem to be preoccupied at the briefing.  The whispers aren’t about the new arrivals but the opportunity to go to the surface.  The Briefing Officer doesn’t waste any time in announcing those that were chosen.  Out of the twelve Troubleshooters selected three specials, Tony Stark, Ray Palmer and Barry Allen, are named as part of the expedition.  Some Troubleshooters seem disappointed while others look extremely relieved at not being named as part of the group.  The expedition will set out at noon with a projected return time of 48 hours.

Troubleshooter Team: D. Grayson and R. Lynch

This particular mission is considered a high-clearance level despite being assigned to RED troubleshooters.  Dick and Ronan will be selected for the mission and immediately led out of the Commissary in order to be told in private.  They are to travel to Bingham’s Arms Emporium located on the outskirts of the Armed Forces sector.  There they are to render the supervisor, Victor Bingham, unconscious and take him to one of the scrub bots located at Internal Security headquarters.  They will be required to wear masks provided when obtaining the traitor in order to protect their identity from retaliation.

All other Troubleshooters:  You are to report to your Service Firm positions for the day, until called on for Troubleshooter duty.

Intel: The word glitch has begun appearing on confession booths in the Technical Services sector.

AFTERNOON

At approximately 1400 a small explosion will occur in the R&D sector, causing it to be evacuated for the rest of the day.  It is unknown what caused the explosion, but rumor has it that anyone introduced to the invisible gas in the area will begin to go into convulsions before losing consciousness.  That will not stop some people from getting masks and searching the abandoned warehouses for products that will gain money on the black market.

EVENING

At 2000 the Genuine Credit Opportunity Club will hold a special presentation in the Commissary for those interested in earning astonishing amounts of credits for minimal work.  THIS IS NOT A TRIANGLE SCHEME.  Sleeping gas will be expelled at 2100.

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[utilitybelted]

Dick may have mastered the art of sneaking up behind people like Batman, but he most definitely had not mastered the art of standing by impassively and looking imposing (it was hard to look imposing when you were a shorter-than-average sixteen year old), because when Ray shrieked and fell over, Dick burst out laughing.

"Oh man, sorry, I didn't..." he could barely speak for giggles "Didn't mean... to startle you..." which was technically a lie, since he had, but he still felt bad for how much he'd surprised Ray.

Once he'd finally got his laughter under control, he held out a hand to Ray to help him up.

[adamparrish]

It should be noted that once these drugs that make him complacent and happy wear off, Adam won't think they're so lucky either. Right now he's been mentally altered enough to where he's finding the good in the smaller things, like being here with Ronan of all people. Seriously, it could be worse. He could be here with Gansey who, while Adam likes, is still Gansey. They would probably kill each other two seconds in. Or Blue, who he will never be good enough for... because he's not Gansey.

Ronan is the best person he could be stuck here with. Ronan doesn't want to change him. Ronan accepts him just as he is. Ronan likes him in a way Adam has never been liked before. Adam likes Ronan too.

Which brings him to nod after a silly smirk at the name 'Dick'. He's sure Ronan had fun with that. But he admits now, as calmly as if he were talking about the weather. "Yeah, I like you. Don't get a big head about it, alright?"

[adamparrish]

"I remember they made me stay in another room. After they asked me questions. The bed wasn't very comfortable so I slept on the floor." He remembers that, sleeping on the floor backed into a corner of the small cell. How was the floor more comfortable than the bed? He has no idea.

He lets Ray guide him. "They wanted me to talk to them about Ronan. And the place where there are more of us." He explained. What was that word again? "Clones."

[fictor]

Yeah, Ronan is going to go right back to hating this place with a passion. He'll probably also go right back to getting in trouble, because it's Ronan. Trouble is what he does. Ronan wouldn't mind have Gansey or Noah here to be honest, but that's mostly because his feelings for Adam are complicated. He's head over heels in love with Adam. The fact that Adam is a little confused about his own sexuality doesn't make that any easier. To add to it all, as far as Ronan is aware, his feelings for Adam are a secret.

Or maybe not so much now...Have a happy pill! Come out of the closet! Not that Ronan has ever really been in the closet, but his feelings for Adam definitely have.

Oh yes. Much fun was had. Over all though, he's a pretty cool guy. It's very clear, even before he says anything, as that cocky smirk spreads across Ronan's face that he's going to get a big head about it. He bites his bottom lip, pulling it through his teeth and staring at Adam's lips. "Can't promise that," he tells him. "Can't promise I won't kiss you either."

Yup. The pill is definitely having an effect on him.

Sorry I just got to this!

[fictor]

It was a little weird for Ronan to be wearing any kind of mask at all. He was unusually chipper today and a little out of it, thanks to the medication they forced on him as part of his punishment for breaking into the clone facility with Adam. Of course, he could't really remember that he got in trouble or even that he'd been medicated, just that he was happy here. Things were good and they were doing a good thing here, apprehending this guy, whomever he was.

Ronan would normally suggest such a thing, but right now he was too drug-hazed to consider such a thing. However, he wouldn't turn Dick in. He'd simply suggest that they might get in trouble (something Ronan could give a rat's ass about most days).

"Seriously? That's your name? Dick?" he smirked a little but continued, "Ronan Lynch," he nodded in response. "Yeah, I haven't been here that long." Yeah, he didn't know Dick, but (unlike usual) he was open to making friends. That was a good thing, right? Making friends.

[preemptiveforgiveness]

"I have a feeling, we'll make a good team." Matt is smart. He was valedictorian in law school. He's not genius level smart, but he can definitely do some of the intellectual heavy lifting. He'll absolutely understand why she didn't tell him everything later. it's enough that she's telling him something.

His brows go up at that. "No, I can definitely see how that would be useful." He's thinking about that a moment, listening to her shift in bed. He's lying on his back, hands behind his head seemingly staring at the ceiling, his head is tilted just slightly toward her.

"And I bet yours aren't," he smiles a little as well. "The winters aren't so bad once you get used to them and since I grew up there, I've always been used to them."

[preemptiveforgiveness]

Matt only knows Ray and Lydia because Ray was his computer appointed guide the first day and Lydia is one of his roommates. He doesn't blame her for not coming out with all the information she knows. It's hard to know who and what to trust here. He smiles at her agreement. "That's sort of what I was thinking."

It would be fun (sort of) and Matt wouldn't feel like he was boring Allison by having her take him to all the places she already knew.

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[utilitybelted]

"Yea, Dick, as in Richard, by all means make any joke you like, I'll be surprised if you come up with something new," he replied good naturedly. Most jokes based on his names were puns, and he generally approved of puns as a rule, even ones at his expense. "I've been here... a few weeks, since the beginning of the specials I think, at least nobody seems to have been here longer than me."

"What did you do, before?" he asked, it seemed to be the best way to try and feel somebody out, finding out who people were before generally helped him figure out what kind of person they were now, and whether he could trust them. So far, he'd yet to find a special he didn't trust at least a little bit.

[adamparrish]

What Ronan doesn't know is that Adam notices things, little things, like the way Ronan looks at him when he thinks Adam isn't paying attention, like the way their skin always glances off of each other when Ronan is beside him, like the way Ronan tries to be beside him. Adam notices these things. Adam knows that Ronan is attracted to him at the very least, although he can't begin to fathom why.

It's a good feeling, having that secret, knowing that someone like Ronan likes someone like him. Adam has never had an ego before, that was beaten out of him a long time ago. But the day he'd figured out why Ronan looks at him that way, why Ronan reacts to him in certain ways, an ego had started budding in him in those secret places where no one was ever allowed to look.

Adam is wanted, desired even, by Ronan Lynch.

What Adam could do with that, well, he's never wanted to toy with it in case he might mess it up. On top of that, he's confused about how he feels about it. Except for right now when it seems like the best most natural thing in the world. He wants to analyze those feelings, explore them and see why they're there and what they are up close and personal.

"I'm probably not a very good kisser." The minute the words are out of his mouth he's wondering why he said them. He wants Ronan to kiss him. "So I might need a lot of practice and very little judgement."

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[fictor]

Well, it was no fun if Dick rolled with it. Ronan just smirked and shook his head. "Best friend back home, His name is Richard 'Dick' Campbell Gansey the third. We call him Dick to irritate him. He usually goes by Gansey." He thinks about that a moment, nodding a little. It takes him several minutes to figure out what he wants to say because he keeps having this overwhelming urge to talk about how fantastic this place is, but something deep inside him stops him from saying that. "What's your opinion of the place?" It's not what Ronan would usually say, but it's what he can settle for saying.

"High school," Ronan answered. "I'm a senior." He was even going to graduate, barely (and completely because of Gansey). Ronan tended to trust the specials over everyone else as well. At least they'd been in his shoes. "You?"

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[utilitybelted]

Dick chuckled, nodding slightly "I can imagine how it might be annoying if people use it to tease you, but I've been Dick ever since I was a kid, my parents called me Dick so now it just makes me think of them."

That was a dangerous question, but he also recognised that Ronan might be feeling him out just as much as Dick was doing the reverse, so while he didn't want to give himself away too much, he didn't want to lie. So, instead of giving a straight answer, he asked a question "Did you ever read 1984?"

He perked right up at the fact Ronan had been in high school, it was the closest person he'd met so far to his own age "I was in high school too, I was a sophomore."

[fictor]

Well, that's a relief. At least his attraction to Adam won't come as a complete surprise. Though, Ronan isn't entirely sure that Adam knows that Ronan likes guys. It's not something he and his friends ever discuss. Of course, the only girl they ever discuss is Blue. They're a different sort of boys more obsessed with Welsh Kings than girls. Of course he can't fathom why Ronan would be attracted to him, he's Adam Parrish and heaven forbid he think anything good about himself. Ronan understands why; he's met his dad.

Ronan has enough ego for both of them, but it would do Adam good to get a bit of an ego and Ronan is all too happy to be the source of that ego. He'll encourage it in Adam any time he catches a glimpse of it.

Most of the world would say that Adam could do better. Honestly, Ronan would be a pretty good boyfriend, but that's not the image he puts out there for everyone to see.

Adam is complicating things far more than they need to be complicated, but then Ronan is accustomed to Adam doing just that. He thinks that Adam's life has been so hard that he's automatically suspicious of anything that's not complicated.

Ronan smirks and shakes his head. "Shut up, Parrish," he tells him as he leans in and kisses him. The kiss doesn't start out exactly gentle, but it's hesitant, as if he expects Adam to shove him away at any moment (because he does). If Adam doesn't push him away or encourages him at all, he'll quickly deepen the kiss.

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[fictor]

"His father is Dick the second," Ronan responded as if that answered everything. It really didn't. Mr. Gansey wasn't a bad guy. He just wasn't the guy that Gansey wanted to be which is the real reason Gansey didn't like being called Dick. He nodded a little though. He could understand that. He preferred to be called Lynch most of the time because his friends called him that and it reminded him of them.

Ronan's brows went up a bit. "Yeah by Orwell. Required reading a few years ago. Big Brother and all that shit." This whole conversation was making him uneasy. Normally this was a conversation he would be all about, but the drugs they'd forced on him the night before made his allegiance wobbly. This was a great place, wasn't it? Why was Dick comparing it to 1984. Another part of him was right on board with the comparison.

Ronan scowled a little at that. "Adam, my friend from home, he's a senior too." So that made three young kids. "Anyone else here in high school?" That Dick knew of, of course.

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[utilitybelted]

Dick didn't understand quite what he was getting at, so he just nodded and dropped the subject there. He was more focused on watching Ronan's other reaction, it wasn't particularly promising. Sure, he didn't denounce him for comparing the two, but he didn't seem in particular agreement either, and it made Dick want to step even more carefully.

"Is he here?" he asked of Ronan's friend, the tiniest hint of jealousy slipping into his tone. He felt the same about Parker and Hardison at times, that they'd been lucky enough to have both ended up here, it reminded him how much he missed everybody back home "Not that I know of, I think everybody I've met so far has been older, but that doesn't mean there aren't others around."

[adamparrish]

Adam always makes things more complicated than they need to be. He just can't help himself. It usually drives everyone around him crazy. But Ronan, for the most part, navigates those waters with ease. That's one of the many reasons why Adam can accept things better from Ronan, things such as help, than he can accept them from others.

"Do you want me to go practice on someone else and then get back to you?" Adam asks teasingly... mostly. "Maybe-" Ronan tells him to shut up and then their lips are pressed together and Adam thinks this is probably the best practice he could ever have.

His shoulders relax and he melts into the kiss, feeling the way Ronan's lips play against his own and mimicking that as best he can until he's just doing what he wants, kissing, tasting, teasing. As Ronan deepens the kiss, Adam's lips part to allow it almost automatically. He doesn't overthink it in the moment, just lets it happen. Because he likes it. He likes how it makes him feel right now. He likes Ronan better than he likes anyone, really.

[sanguinescry]

Admittedly, Lydia likes the sound of that. Being part of a team has been important to her the past couple of years and she's learned that it's safer and, overall, generally more fun to be a part of a team. She'd like it if she could find some common ground and work well with her roommates. It makes her think she should probably actually talk to Dick once in a while, instead of just silently sharing space with him the way she has been. "I'm sure that we will," she replies amicably, another little smile gracing her lips.

"More useful now, even, than it was when I first got here," Lydia says. She pauses. "...have you heard about the hate groups?" She feels like that's a thing Matt should know, especially since his disability sort of puts him at a pretty big disadvantage, much the way her petite size had. He would be just an easy a target for them as she had been, in his own way, she thinks.

A soft laugh escapes her and Lydia shakes her head. "No, not so much. I've seen snow, but...it's rare. You guys get it all the time, though, right?"

[jeprotege]

Allison likes that idea a lot. Matt seems really nice and if she can help him while figuring things out about this place, it'll be killing two birds with one stone. "Well, if you're done eating, we can head out now. There's a little time left before we need to report back to our stations."

[fictor]

There aren't many things that really get under Ronan's skin. He rolls with the punches and if Adam wants to complicate things, that's usually none of his business. He knows that eventually Adam will come around. He always does.

That doesn't even get a verbal response from him, just a look that says 'don't be stupid'. Ronan really doesn't want Adam to go practice on someone else. It'd been hard enough watching him date Blue. He only ever wants Adam to kiss him. They can practice together because Ronan doesn't have any experience either.

Ronan's hand goes to Adam's back, slipping up under his tee shirt so that his palm lies flat against his skin, urging and pulling him ever so slightly closer. Maybe later Ronan will think it weird that Adam didn't overthink this or that he was so accepting of it, but right now all he can think about is this kiss and getting closer to Adam.

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[fictor]

Really, his feelings on the subject would be so completely clear if he weren't medicated to the gills. Ronan hated this place. He hated nearly everything about it. He was reasonably vocal on the subject as well, at least most of the time. He was only wishy-washy because his true self was rebelling against the medication.

"Adam? Yeah. I share a room with him." He glanced over at Dick. If it helps, Ronan knew he was lucky to have Adam here. It was the only thing he didn't hate about this place. Ronan nodded a little. "I've met Lydia? She said something about being a teenager." He wasn't the most social of people though.

[preemptiveforgiveness]

There is comfort in being part of a team. Despite the fact that Matt does his vigilante gig back home alone, there was a huge comfort in letting Karen and Foggy just know about it. It lifted a burden off his shoulders. Perhaps Lydia is experiencing the same sort of feeling. In general, common ground, communication and teamwork do help people live together, but sometimes it's hard to establish that for one reason or another.

Matt's brow furrow when she mentions the hate groups. It's pretty clear by his expression that he hasn't heard about them. "No, but I don't like the sound of that." Once he gets his feet under him, he can actually take care of himself pretty well. He's a master at hand to hand combat and acrobats (even if he doesn't look it) but he's used to doing those things with super sensitive senses that allow him to anticipate what a person is going to do before they do it. It'll be a little while before he gets sure of himself.

He nods a little. "Yeah. Every winter. It doesn't usually shut the city down, but it can make things pretty miserable." He grins a little. "You know, living in California, that's just taking things on easy mode. New Yorkers don't generally do that," he jokes.

[preemptiveforgiveness]

"Yeah, this stuff doesn't inspire me to clean my plate," he grins and stands up, grabbing his cane as he does. He navigates around the table to the end of it then looks toward Allison. "Do you mind if I take your arm?" Because some people do, but it really is the easiest way to walk with someone for him.

[adamparrish]

The hand at his back is nice, very nice actually, but once Ronan's hand is beneath his shirt, skin against skin, it's like fire on his skin in the best of ways. He'd never thought he'd like fire on his skin, being burned and heated and brought to life. That's exactly what it is, being brought to life.

Adam uses that as encouragement to move closer. Suddenly he's shifting, swinging one leg over Ronan's lap and settling there, face to face with Ronan, a little taller than him since he's up on his knees, leaning down and deepening the kiss.

Don't worry, Ronan. This is all the practice he ever needs. It feels right and natural to the point that he wonders why he didn't do it before now. His hands seek something to do and end up cradling Ronan's face. He isn't just being kissed anymore. He's kissing. And he likes it a lot.

[jeprotege]

"Of course not," Allison says. She stands and walks over next to him, holding her arm out and making sure it brushes his hand so he knows where it is. "Do you have a direction in mind you'd like to go?"

[fictor]

Ronan feels much the same way, like every cell in his body is alive. It's even better than driving far too fast, even better than winning a race or doing something reckless and stupid. Touching Adam, and being touched by him, is better than anything he's ever felt in his entire life.

That hand at his back is definitely encouragement to move closer. Ronan's head tilts up when Adam crawls into his lap, his eyes meeting his. There's a heat in his eyes, a desire that makes them darker blue than usual. He groans when Adam leans down and deepens the kiss.

Ronan has no fucking idea why Adam didn't do this earlier. He's got no damn idea why he didn't kiss Adam sooner (of course, it's because he wasn't sure how it would be received, but he's not thinking that right now). Ronan's hands stay on Adam's skin, sliding up underneath his shirt as far as he can then back down. He nips at Adam's bottom lip and relaxes a bit, basking in the way Adam is kissing him.

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[utilitybelted]

"That's lucky," Dick said genuinely, though that undercurrent of jealousy was still there. Not only did Ronan have a friend from home here, but they got to share a room, he wanted nothing more than to see a familiar face, no matter how many friends he made here he knew he'd miss that. "Oh, yea, Lydia's one of my roommates. We've not really spoken that much, I didn't realise she was around our age as well, she seems a lot older." there was a beat when he realised what he said and he laughed awkwardly "Not a lot older, I just mean... mature, you know? Don't tell I said that." Women were funny about that kind of thing, and he didn't want to go making enemies if he could help it.