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Who: southernreaper and notadisneygirl
When: Tuesday, Feb 21 about noon
Where: A deli in Sector 3 then elsewhere
Summary: Miss Snow needs a camera man. Kevin brought someone else along to 'help'.
Warnings: There will be adorableness. Just so you know!

Kevin was running a little late. He hadn't expected his final assignment of the day to go so horribly wrong.

He tucked his hand back into his pocket, curling it around the lump there and pushed open the door to the deli, panting. He used his free hand to shove hair out of his face. There she was!

He wove through the crowd and headed toward her. "Beggin' ya pardon Miss Snow, didn't mean t'keep ya waitin'. Somethin' came up at work an' I hadta stay after." He slid into the booth, carefully untucking his hand.

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[notadisneygirl]

Snow nodded. "They're on my list to talk to about all this. Since they've both been... not outspoken, but have spoken up about it, before," She took a sip of her soda, eying his hand for a second.

...Did his coat just... what?

"Kevin? Did your coat move?"

[southernreaper]

He nodded. "They's some o' the older ones from back home." He really hoped Ms. Frost didn't take offense to that. He just meant she was older than him and had been around... Man, dealing with telepaths made his head hurt.

He blinked and snapped his head up. Under his hair, his ears started heating. "Um." He was bad at lying. So bad at it. "Maybe?"

That was when she let out a squeak.

[notadisneygirl]

Snow blinked. "What is that?"

[southernreaper]

Kevin flushed slightly and gently pulled the tiny puppy out of his pocket. She sniffed Kevin's plate, her tiny tail wagging.

She twisted in his hand and tried to lick his face. "Stop it." He admonished her. She just wagged her tail more.

"Um, she's from work."

[notadisneygirl]

Snow put her hand over her mouth to stop herself from squealing. Such a girl, but the puppy was adorable, and she reached out over the table to scratch her head, making sure no one was watching.

"She's adorable. What's her name?"

[southernreaper]

Kevin shrugged. "I dunno. Ain't even had her home yet." He'd come straight here from work, knowing the puppy would be okay. Any puppy that could stand up to his power? Would be fine for a little while at a diner.

"I jus' got her." He hated to admit that she'd completely stolen his soul because he hadn't been able to kill her.

[notadisneygirl]

She scratched her head, the puppy wiggling her tail from it, and Snow grinned. "She's a cute one all right. I can see why you picked her. Though I don't think keeping her in your pocket is the safest thing for her."

[southernreaper]

"I... didn't pick her." Kevin said quietly. More like, his power hadn't worked to kill her, and keeping her was more humane than letting SERO have at her.

"She was sleepin' an' she fit there. Too tiny t'walk on a leash. Figured it was better than abandoning her to stay in m'place alone."

[notadisneygirl]

Now Snow got it. She nodded, withdrawing her hand as she looked down at it's gloved digits. Maybe she was getting used to this place much faster then she thought she would.

"I think that's a good thing. She's too small to be by herself right now. She needs to be taken care of."

[southernreaper]

Kevin saw her gloved hands and looked at his own. But he didn't ask, because it wasn't polite and by god he was going to be polite and stick to the rules of home. Even if it killed him...

Again.

"Yeah. S'why I dragged her along." He glanced up at Snow from under his bangs. "Ya don't mind d'ya? I c'n fin' someone to watch her, if'n she's a bother."

Frau might. Maybe.

[notadisneygirl]

"No, no, don't worry. She isn't a bother," Snow smiled, reaching over and picking the puppy up, letting her sniff her sandwich. "Good? Good? You can have some!"

[southernreaper]

Kevin smiled shyly, letting Snow take the puppy. He didn't know if she should eat the meat, but why not? A tiny bit wouldn't hurt her.

"She's not even two months old." He wanted to tell someone what had happened, but... too public. And he didn't want SERO taking her from him.

[notadisneygirl]

A little bit of turkey would make her coat shiny. Or maybe that was chicken. Or egg. In any case, she did get a tiny piece of turkey off of her sandwich, letting the puppy lick it up from her fingers.

"She's too young. What happened to her mother? She's much too young to be on her own."

[southernreaper]

Kevin shook his head. The mother had been taken away. She'd produced a pup that was immune to his power. They were going to try it again. Never mind that the pup still needed her, and the other three pups of the litter hadn't survived. SERO didn't give a shit.

"Dunno. Only saw her." Which was the truth. "She's eatin' solid food. She'll be fine." He hoped, anyway. The only vets he could take her to were SERO vets and... he really didn't want to.

[notadisneygirl]

She frowned, picking up another piece of turkey and feeding the puppy.

"That's so sad. Poor baby, but, you know... with you taking care of her, I think she'll be fine. And she obviously loves you already," Snow smiled, rubbing her head and then laughing when the puppy wriggled out from her grasp and went back over to Kevin.

[southernreaper]

Kevin watched the little puppy toddle across the table and almost fall into his fries. He caught her before she fell off the table and tucked her into his lap. She curled up, after sniffing through his jacket.

"Hadn't planned on keepin' her. But I kinda gotta." Because, he was lonely and she was immune to him. That was enough in his book.

[notadisneygirl]

"Just buy her a beautiful collar, as befitting a lady, and get ready to house train her. I might not have had a dog of my own before, but I know you need food and a water bowl," Snow remarked, picking up her soda and taking a sip through the straw.

[southernreaper]

Kevin shoved hair out of his face. "I got plans t'go shoppin' later." He admitted. "Probably end up spendin' way too much money." No, he would. Never mind that he was always a bit short on cash. He had plenty saved and it'd all get spent on the puppy currently rooting through his jacket.

"What'd ya want t'do today?" Might as well get back to work.

[notadisneygirl]

"Good. Let me know if you ever need a dog sitter, too. I work some crazy hours, and I wouldn't mind helping out. My new roommate could use some love, too," Snow grinned.

"Okay, so. We're meeting up with a guy who calls himself "The Blue Dude". Try not to laugh at the name when he says it, by the way. But he has some kind of power that he once used to help people with. He hasn't been in the business for years, though."

[southernreaper]

Kevin blinked. "Ya know, back home we've got some weird codenames but at least they were more original." He shook his head. "I mean, they call me Wither." He admitted.

Then there'd been Cyclops, the White Queen... Jubilee. He knew all of them.

[notadisneygirl]

"Wither. Is that because of your power?" Snow blinked, a little shocked by that one.

[southernreaper]

Kevin blinked. He hadn't realized that she didn't know his codename. He'd thought she did. Oops. Best to explain with a demonstration.

He shook his fork, dropping a single french fry onto his napkin, then peeled off his glove. The puppy immediately tried to take the removed glove. She caught it between her teeth and worried at it, growling little puppy growls.

His finger, however, reached out and touched the fry, withering it to nothing but ashes. "I'm Wither. Thought ya knew." He looked away from her gloved hands and stuffed his glove back on after getting it away from the puppy. "Tol' ya, touch powers is the worst," he whispered the words, not able to look at her.

[notadisneygirl]

She hadn't; she knew that he had a code name, but not that it meant anything beyond that. She watched, eyes widening, as the fry practically disintegrated before her eyes.

"...I'm so sorry, Kevin. I didn't know."

[southernreaper]

Kevin shook his head, long hair flopping into his eyes. He was looking down at the puppy in his lap. "I've had it fer over a year now, Miss Snow." It was why the puppy was so damned important now. "Cain't touch anythin' organic. It all withers away. Have hurt some folks, when I wasn't careful."

He pet the puppy in his lap. She looked up at him, her tail wagging. "Don't want ya pity, Miss Snow. It's jus' m'lot in life." And he had killed his own father.

[notadisneygirl]

"I'm not--" Snow bit herself off, holding her tongue for a brief moment. "It's not pity, Kevin. I know that by now you're able to handle it, and you're going to do a good job with it. I can tell by how you're handling the puppy. You respect what you have, and you don't go out and hurt people because you can."

She smiled slightly. "But. Since you did let me know what your power actually is, I think I owe you the truth, as well. It's a big secret, though, so if you can't keep it, let me know now before I tell you."