Around the Park - Open RP

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle was bored.

A bored Elle was a very bad thing.

There was no telling what kind of trouble she could get herself into.

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[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

Bored Pippi is bored.

Right now she's amusing herself by bending bars away from an iron fence around the edge of the Haunted Mansion and fashioning them into interesting shapes. There's a bunny, a tree and a gingerbread man shape.

Then she steps back and watches as they untwist themselves and sproing back into place.

Not entirely constructive, but it passes the time.

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle wasn't crazy about kids, but she couldn't help but stop and watch Pippi work.

"That's kind of cool," she remarked.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

"Thank you." Pippi smiled looking over to see who was speaking.

"It only stays for a little while, but I guess it just means I'll never run out of stuff to bend."

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"There is that," Elle agreed.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

"Any requests?" she asked pulling more bars away from the fence.

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"Can you make a lightning bolt?" Elle asked, an arc of electricity jumping between her hands.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

"Do you want like a cartoony lighting bolt or something with lots of branches like when there's a really good storm goin'?"

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"Whatever you can make," Elle said.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

Pippi bent, entwined, and twisted bits of the iron fence until it looked like dark electricity (http://www.moonraker.com.au/techni/lightning.jpg) was arcing across it.

"How's that?"

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle clapped.

"Oh, it's wonderful!"

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm, that did come out quite nicely if I do say so myself... So... your hands were sparking... Could you... Liven my sculpture up a bit?"

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"Sure!" Elle said, her eyes gleaming.

She created a small ball of electricity in the palm of her hand and reached over to touch the metal.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

Pippi bounced on the balls of her feet and kinda wished she had a camera or something.

This was gonna be soooo neat!

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

The sculpture lit up with bright blue electricity. Elle pulled her hand away and grinned at Pippi.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

Pippi applauded.

"That was pretty!"

And just about then the fence gave a metallic groan as it began to fix itself.

"Aw man."

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle pouted.

"Too bad we can make it stay."

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

"Too bad we don't have a camera with us." Pippi mused as she watched the bars bend back into place.

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"They have those disposable ones in the gift shops," Elle said.

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

"That's true... I wonder if the park will automatically develop them?"

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle tilted her head.

"I have no idea. I guess it couldn't hurt to try though."

[no1likeher.livejournal.com]

You could almost hear the gears turning in her head...

"What else would we crunch up and make sparkle?"

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"There's a lot of stuff around here," Elle pointed out. "I'm game for whatever."

[slippedagear.livejournal.com]

Sylar was doing that stalking thing again. Because really, he'd been looking for this one. He even had a plan for how to deal with her....

But not while PIppi was around, no. He didn't need to get dunked again.

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle sensed that someone was watching her and looked around to see if she could spot them.

[slippedagear.livejournal.com]

Sylar ducked behind a tree, crouching down a little. Not. Just yet. He wanted to be in control of approaching her. But now that he had her in sight, he'd keep her there until after Pippi left.

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle shrugged off the weird sensation and continued finding things to electrify with Pippi.

[caycep]

((Since Cayce really needs to do this eventually, hope this works for you. ^_^))

Somewhat later in the day, while Cayce was out and about in the park, she caught sight of Veronica—no, wait, it was Elle.

Who Cayce really needed to talk to.

"Elle! Hey!" She waved, going for "friendly" rather than "ZOMG WE NEED TO TALK."

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Cayce," Elle said. "What's up?"

[caycep]

"Oh, just out and about. How are you? How have you been settling in?"

There didn't seem to be anyone in the vicinity, as far as Cayce could tell. Still, they'd need to get out of the open before long. Maybe one of the shops over there would do...

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle smiled. "It's been good," she said. "There's a girl who looks like me. We might be sisters." Elle hoped they were sisters; Veronica was probably grateful they were not. "I've been having fun."

[caycep]

"Good. Good! That's great to hear." T-shirt shop at three o'clock. That would do. "Hey, listen, got a moment? I'd like to get your opinion on a shirt..."

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Elle said with a shrug. She was bored; it wasn't like she had anything better to do.

[caycep]

Cayce tried not to drag Elle into the shop and homed in on a rather tacky Tinkerbell girl's t-shirt on a rack in the back.

"Act casual," she said in a low voice. "There's something fairly important I need to tell you, and I don't want you to panic, but you're going to need to be on your guard."

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle tilted her head. "Why would I panic? I can protect myself."

[caycep]

Cayce had to chuckle a little at that. "Good point. But the fact that you can is sort of the issue." Deep breath. "There's a guy here, calls himself Zane Taylor. Dark, thin, tallish, kind of dorky-looking. Comes across as a harmless geek at first, but he's trouble, and he may specifcally be trouble for you."

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"What makes you think that?" Elle asked. That name was ringing faint bells, but she couldn't figure out why.

[caycep]

"Well ... the fact that he basically beat me up to try and find out who you were and where you lived was a bit of a tip-off," Cayce said, unable to resist the pitch-dark humor. "He's got superpowers—telekinesis, temperature control. And he's interested in other people who have powers too. And I don't think it's just to have lunch with them."

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"He beat you up?" Elle asked. "Huh."

Of course it didn't occur to her that common courtesy would dictate she apologize for that.

"I've only known one person with multiple powers. And his name is Peter. But he sort of fits that description."

Had Peter lost his memory again?

[caycep]

"Oh really?" Well, that made for an interesting wrinkle. "Is Peter—does he—what's he like?"

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"He's really cute," Elle said, because that was important. "And he absorbs the powers of people he's around. We... had fun with that."

[caycep]

Cayce decided not to ask what the nature of the "fun" was.

"Huh. Okay. This guy said something about ... I think he said you'd be an 'upgrade'." Cayce looked a little embarrassed at that. "Which I guess means that he could absorb your powers somehow?" Oh dear. "Is Peter the kind of guy to really cause trouble like this?"

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"Not when I knew him," Elle said. "But he spent some time with Adam and he's kind of a bad influence. And he did have some memory issues, so it's possible, I guess."

[caycep]

Great. "Okay. Well, look, keep an eye out for him, okay? Stick to main thoroughfares, that sort of thing. I've got a couple of friends looking out for him too. And if you run into trouble..." Well, hell. Then what?

"If you run into trouble, let me know, I guess," she said, feeling intensely lame.

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle smirked a little. "If I run into trouble, I'll give him a good blast," she assured Cayce, bouncing a ball of electricity back and forth between her hands.

[caycep]

Cayce smiled, amused despite everything. "And run," she added, quoting the Bunny dictum of self-defense.

"Thanks for listening. I just wanted to make sure you weren't unprepared."

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"Thanks, Cayce," Elle said. "It's good to know that there's a potential threat in the park."

[caycep]

Cayce nodded, glad Elle seemed to be taking this well. "Good luck. And if you learn anything else interesting about this guy, let me know. See you around, okay?"

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

"Definitely!" Elle agreed.

[caycep]

Still not feeling totally at ease about the situation, but glad she'd at least managed to give the girl fair warning, Cayce ducked out of the shop and went back home, keeping a watchful eye out all the way.