Thread: Past Meets Presence May 25th, 2009 (Attn Mr Brown)

Reply by J Catron

JT walked into the club looking as though he'd held up a blazing neon sign stating... "I don't belong here". His simple white button down shirt, his khaki pants and simple sneakers, only his straight black hair, paled complexion, and sunglasses seem to fit at all. He pushes through the crowd with tight, controlled smiles and terse 'excuse me's until he slips up to a less crowded section, near the booths. He draws a slow, controlling breath, and walks toward the bar.

Suddenly, He stops. A face he'd never thought he would see again glowing in the meager illumination of a table lamp.

Reply by Charlie

Kalie turns the page and shifts her head to read the top of the next unaware of the new arrival.

Reply by J Catron

JT 's eyes locked on the woman for a moment, a quiet war in his blood and his will. Still a few yards from the table, he leaves quietly, striding to the bar and conversing with the tender for a few moments. He pays the man and slips a small manilla package into his pocket before picking up two drinks and returning to Kalie's table.

"Brandy straight, wasn't it?" JT asks as he sets the glass in front of her.

Reply by Charlie

Kalie's eyes raise from her book to look at the glass of brandy as the realization of a familiar voice causes her to tense for a moment as her brain flashes trying to match an image with the voice. Before it is able to be successful she looks up at the new comer's face.

I recongize him... who is he... where do I know him from.

Her brow furrows, "Excuse me." The words, she hoped, would buy her time to shift through the many vast memories shifting through her mind.

Reply by J Catron

JT slips into the booth across the table from Kalie, setting his own brandy down.

"Please, excuse me. But I'd assumed you had not forgotten me." He picks up his drink and sniffs at it slowly. "I certainly had not forgotten you."


JT shrugs and sets the glass down. "It's only been 13 years, after all."

"Of course, I've... changed... since then. And you haven't aged a day, still as beautiful as ever, right Kay?"

Reply by Charlie

Kalie's eyes widen with realization and she shifts in her seat. Nervously she glances awound before her eyes return to the man acrossed from her.

"JT I am surprised to see you... here.. and like this."

She closes the book she was reading and pulls it under the table.

Reply by J Catron

JT nodded bringing the glass again to his lips, the brandy touching the outside slightly as he draws the scent in through his nose again.

"I should have realized, honestly, back when I first learned.... well.. you know some of the things I've learned since then."

He says, setting the glass down again.

"But I had put most of that behind me.... other 'situations' taking precedent you know. But now here you are, by pure serendipity, as it were."

Reply by Charlie

Kalie regards him with acute awareness that had be developed over the long years. "Most?"

Reply by J Catron

JT chuckles slightly and nods humbly, raising his glass to her slightly. "I would like to think that I'm a bit more... worldly... since our last encounter."

He sets his glass down, the aspect of the dead things they'd become nearly weighing upon his brow as he leans forward to whisper to her.

quietlywhispered> "You ruined my academic reputation." his voice carried in a leaden deadpan. "No dig manager would touch me with a 20 meter dust pan after that. The fines were nothing compared to that."

"But for all that, I can't hardly be seen on a midday dig site in *our* condition, can I?"

JT leans back, his features relaxing as he picks up the drink again, rolling it around just under his nose again. "The past is history now... That was a different person."