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[carrera]

WHO: Dick and John Connor
WHERE: New Amsterdam
WHEN: late one night
WHAT: bonding and learning
NOTES OR WARNINGS: n/a, will update as needed

[Dick isn't wasting his time in trying to get himself out of the new old safe house. While he's not sure he'll be able to afford a place with the kind of security he'd prefer, everything is one step at a time. So it led to him picking up one part time job after another, wherever he could get work and make a buck. It's not that he doesn't plan to get something more suited to him and full time but he doesn't have enough information yet. Not by far.

He's been communicating with a few people, one of them John. So much about him reminded Dick of others in his life, and already he felt a need to be there for him. So when something had happened the night before when he'd been free running back from one of his many jobs, he realizes that he wants to talk to someone before he accepts whatever this is. He could turn to Diana, but she's had time here, adjusted and he wants to talk to someone that hasn't acclimated that much.

So he made arrangements to meet John a bit away from Red Wings, arriving a bit early and doing his best not to look out of place. Which by loitering he's likely doing just that]

Comments

[baum]

[ John picks out Dick from a distance. He's been testing this lately, working on narrowing down what he senses from people with his powers. He's trying to get to a point where he can identify people just based on the electromagnetic signature they give off.

It's a work in progress, but he thinks he has Dick pinned down, and then it turns out that he does. That's the reason why he's smiling as he approaches - from behind, of course. ]

Hey. Is everything okay? Your message was kind of vague.

[carrera]

[Dick's aware of John coming down toward the mouth of the alley, using his typical senses to be aware that another is near. In truth he doesn't know it's exactly John until he speaks, but he knew there was someone there.

A small smile tugs at his lips, glad the other man is there as he turns to face him. ]

I think so, yeah. Or as okay as things can be here with what they've done.

[He's quiet a moment, considering John, his gaze dropping to the other's chest.]

Those powers others talk about here. Have you had anything happen with yours?

[It's blunt and to the point but he suspects John can handle that without too much small talk.]

[baum]

[ John lifts his eyebrows and smiles a little, but he doesn't make comment. He'll happily deal with the blunt question; he even prefers it.

He shrugs, and then he closes his eyes. A moment later, a faint glow is visible on his chest, through his shirt. ]

You're there.

[ Then his hand moves, pointing things out. ]

There's two other people around twenty feet that way. They're walking away. There and there, I'm pretty sure there's cameras, but there's cameras everywhere. We should walk, so this looks less like a meeting.

[ The glow fades, and John opens his eyes again. ]

That's as much as I can do. I've been practicing, or trying to. I still can't turn them off. Is this about mine, or yours?

[carrera]

[A brow arches at that comment, trying to figure out what it means.

Yet he watches John as he talks about it, about how he knows where people are, and sensing cameras.

He nods though at him, giving a jerk of his head and starting down the alley, further into the shadows towards the far end. ]

What is it you're sensing then, if you pick up humans and cameras? Do you know?

[He glances sidelong at John. ]

Kind of my own, but curious about what you might have learned. I found mine on accident last night. It's not what I expected though. Not that I had any clue what I was expecting.

[baum]

[ John walks with him. He has no idea how closely any of them are being watched, but he thinks it's safest to assume it's a lot. If he's wrong, then cool, he's paranoid. If he's right, then he's prepared. He's comfortable with either, and he's more than willing to risk option A to ensure option B.

He talks while he walks. ]

Electromagnetic fields. Bioelectric, when it comes to bodies. Seems like it's always on; I only glow when I try to do something with it.

But it's not about me.

[ He looks up at Dick, curious. His power must be something particular if he'd wanted to come all the way out here to showcase it. ]

What's yours? Or are you gonna show me?

[carrera]

[ Dick considers that, what it is John can do. He can imagine the benefits of it. He imagines that could be useful, especially in a place like this.

He's steered them away from the cameras John noted, and then sought out an area he had already scoped out to see how it looks. ]

Yeah, it's going to take showing more than doing. I'll be right back. Watch me.

[ He moves suddenly, using pipes and grips in the wall to scurry up the wall as if he was walking down a sidewalk. Quick and easy until he's perched above John
a bit further down the alley.

Then there's a flash of blue at his chest, muted by the shirt he wears and then something almost the same color but lighter, paler, in a shimmering glow around him, like an aura.

Except that aura shoots out to the side, wide and pointed, sloping back from him. When he leaps up they catch the wind and he floats down to the ground, a dip of one shoulder sending him down to the ground in a whirl as he lands just before John and his wings close at his back, a pale blue aura once more. ]

So...