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sixwordstories2011-12-30 12:06 am
angustifolium) wrote in sixwordstories2011-12-30 12:06 am
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[Staring at some takeout menus.] Hrm.
[Charlie looks relaxed.]
Anything good?
Anything good?
Not in particular? I mean, right now, as long as I can use a fork instead of chopsticks, I think I could eat just about anything. ...Well, no, I can't have pizza right now...
Oh. I was going to offer you this apple instead. But, since you want to use a fork.
[He's tossing the apple up and catching it like a ball.]
[He's tossing the apple up and catching it like a ball.]
I really appreciate the offer - I'm just... kind of wanting something more substantial than an apple. ...I don't think I've eaten yet today. [It was kind of hard to remember. It'd been one of those days.]
[He searches around the desk that's apparently his.]
I think I've got a banana around here somewhere. I can't eat processed food anymore. Twelve years of no fruit and now I can't get enough of it.
I think I've got a banana around here somewhere. I can't eat processed food anymore. Twelve years of no fruit and now I can't get enough of it.
Oh yes. If I can stand to watch some of those epiosdes.
angustifolium
2011-12-30 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
I just can't have lactose. [Reid shrugged and at last picked up his phone to call to a delivery Italian place.] But I can have marinara...
Lactose? Then no cheese.
[At that Crews bites into his apple and waits for Reid to finish on the phone.]
So... This is what it's like at the FBI? [He looks around.] Kinda boring.
[At that Crews bites into his apple and waits for Reid to finish on the phone.]
So... This is what it's like at the FBI? [He looks around.] Kinda boring.
Well, it's been a slow day. [No cheese on what he'd ordered - he specified. But he could still look forward to his penne with chicken marinara without parmesan.] Mostly mail-outs. No cases that we need to fly out for. Don't bet on it continuing for long and be glad you get to go home at a decent time today.
[He shrugs.]
I've been working as a homicide detective in LA... I'm used to weird hours.
[He'll skip over what spending 12 years in maximum prison for a crime he didn't commit did to his hours. He cocks his head, presuming that everyone in the FBI knew about his past before he got here.]
If you've got any questions... You can ask, you know.
I've been working as a homicide detective in LA... I'm used to weird hours.
[He'll skip over what spending 12 years in maximum prison for a crime he didn't commit did to his hours. He cocks his head, presuming that everyone in the FBI knew about his past before he got here.]
If you've got any questions... You can ask, you know.
I... I kind of figure it's your business. We all have things that... if we want to talk about it? We'll bring it up. [Spencer, at least, was content to leave the past in the past. Unlike Morgan. Morgan would probably grill the guy. Especially after what happened with Emily.] But it's really up to you.
Nope.
[He takes another bite of his apple and chews for a few minutes.]
You remind me of Reese, my partner. She was like that too.
[He takes another bite of his apple and chews for a few minutes.]
You remind me of Reese, my partner. She was like that too.
Oh yeah? [His brows raised. That, at least, sounded like a safe topic.] How do you mean?
Not wanting to know... Not asking questions, waiting until she couldn't hold in whatever it was and then exploding...
[Okay, so that last part he might be projecting onto Reid.]
[Okay, so that last part he might be projecting onto Reid.]
...That's not really like me. I want to know everything, but people have things they don't want to talk about, and I respect that.
[But then, they had kind of just met.]
[But then, they had kind of just met.]
Reese thinks I talk too much. But I have this knack for not really saying anything important when I do talk. Well, that's not really true, I think I'm always saying important things. And it does me well, until I'm around people. Then I tend to say the wrong thing.
[Short pause.] I think I've been away from people for too long.
[Short pause.] I think I've been away from people for too long.
Now that sounds like me. [He gave a sympathetic look.] People are used to calling me on rambling if I start getting... overenthusiastic.
[That earns a smile.]
Overenthusiastic? What sorts of things gets an FBI elite agent overenthusiastic?
Overenthusiastic? What sorts of things gets an FBI elite agent overenthusiastic?
Um. Sci-fi movies from the silent era, theatre organs, historical trends in violent crime, the psychosis behind enucleation, the Fibonacci sequence as evident in nature and natural fractals, the evolution of Russian culture since the Bolshevik revolution...
That's... quite a rage there.
[In other words: Charlie thinks Reid's a nerd.]
[In other words: Charlie thinks Reid's a nerd.]
[He'd be right. And Reid is very good at hearing that in tone of voice. He's used to it, though, so it gets a small 'yeah, I figured' smile.] I'm... a certified genius with an eidetic memory, focusing on visual, but I'm working on aural.
[Okay he admits it.]
Impressive.
[And Charlie can't think of anything to say to that.. oh wait, of course he can.]
Well, you know being a genius is relative.
Impressive.
[And Charlie can't think of anything to say to that.. oh wait, of course he can.]
Well, you know being a genius is relative.
Relative to the time period, what measurements are used, what's being measured. [He pauses.] In the end, it doesn't mean much.
[Did he mention he was in solitary confinement and doesn't remember how to hold a normal conversation? Yeah.]
[Did he mention he was in solitary confinement and doesn't remember how to hold a normal conversation? Yeah.]
I have an IQ of 187 and read at twenty-thousand words per minute. [That, on top of the fact that he never forgot anything made him... rather formidable when it came to intellect.]
[He raises an eyebrow: he thinks that was overly defensive.]
It's just my opinion. And all things need to be in balance, so I just wonder... what are you missing to have all that intelligence?
[Rhetorical question.]
It's just my opinion. And all things need to be in balance, so I just wonder... what are you missing to have all that intelligence?
[Rhetorical question.]
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