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Post by jimmyg on Dec 18, 2011 0:46:23 GMT -5
Keeping himself in his curled up position in the chair, he listens carefully to what Nina has to say this time, though he doesn't like the answer. Eventually. A very vague answer that really offers no sense of comfort to the boy. A quiet sigh, and he looks away from her again.
"That's not very helpful." He mutters to himself, since even he could determine that much. Unless of course it was a dream of these two to someday move to China with a kidnapped; as far as he was concerned, child. People were weird. That much he'd learned from dad's stories about the cases he'd worked on with the GCPD. People were weird, crazy, psychotic, and he didn't like the majority of them very much.
The mention of her knee has Jimmy glancing over briefly again, but he doesn't say anything more. Under different circumstances he might ask what happened, if she was okay and all that. But the circumstances would have to be vastly different. He didn't care about Nina or her knee, or the FBI for that matter. Jimmy may have been a smart child, but still a child nonetheless. He knew that he wanted to go home, and at this moment, that's about all he really knew.
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Post by Nina Stenet on Dec 18, 2011 1:26:15 GMT -5
It isn't that difficult to hear quiet words in the large, but silent, apartment. And those ones cause Nina to press her lips together. "If you want a helpful answer, I suggest asking a better question," she suggests, not unkindly, though she seems a bit distant at the moment. How much of it is the fact that she's concentrating on her knee and how much of it is the fact that her mind is drifting off into unpleasant thoughts is hard to say.
Yet she doesn't miss his glance at her knee, and given how quiet the kid is she takes the fact that he looked at all as a question. "I was shot twice in the knee while I was handcuffed in the back of one of the F.B.I.'s vans for refusing to answer questions. And no, I was not resisting physically, anything like that. I just wouldn't answer," she states quietly, though there's also a hint of anger in her voice. Would the kid understand the significance of that? He's a bit young, but on the other hand he's also the son of the Commissioner - she'd think that he'd know a bit about the hows and whys of normal police procedure.
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Post by jimmyg on Dec 27, 2011 4:02:10 GMT -5
"Any questions I have would probably be better to ask him." Jimmy comments with a slight bit of snark added to his voice, raising a brow and wiping at his eyes one final time before shaking his head. "And I'm not going to do that." The boy wasn't really ashamed to admit that he was afraid of Edward. He thought the guy was crazy and stupid; not in intelligence mind, but just in a general hungry for attention sort of way. They weren't all that unlike. Edward was kind of like a kid throwing a tantrum for attention. The comparison would've made him grin if he wasn't in such a depressed state of mind at the moment.
Nina talking about her knee has him only half paying attention again, and his response is that of a shrug. Where these two differ is that Jimmy really couldn't care less about any of her problems. Cold, perhaps. But his concerns are with his own well being, not hers. "Then maybe you should've answered their questions." He answers monotonously, looking toward the door as if maybe expecting someone to barge through, though he's certain no one will.
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Post by Nina Stenet on Dec 27, 2011 6:32:45 GMT -5
"Probably," Nina agrees instantly, but adds, "Except for the fact that he's in the habit of getting angry when someone asks a question he considers stupid, disrespectful, anything like that, and making him angry is dangerous. If you ask me, on the other hand... I actually suspect that you wouldn't be able to upset me if you tried, and if you succeeded you'd definitely remain unharmed." She actually has an extremely thick skin when it comes to people's thoughts and actions, except in cases when she specifically cares what they think. And while she has some concern for the kid just like she does for any other person in the planet, she hardly cares if he thinks badly of her. She'd prefer him to think about her positively, but she's hardly going to be heartbroken if he doesn't. He is, after all, in a profoundly unpleasant situation and probably unfairly blames her for it somewhat.
Case in point, his comment on her story about her knee only gets a sharp exhale of disagreement and she states, "If I'd talked, they still would have thrown me into prison and there would have be a good chance that Edward would have decided to kill me. This is actually not so bad of an outcome, all things considered." Sure she has an extremely bothersome injury to wait out, but she's free, with Edward, and not really fearing for her life at the moment. Since an outcome in which she was able to keep her lab wasn't an option no matter what she did, this is actually probably the best possible way things could have worked out for her. Especially if she's managed to convince this kid's father that it hadn't been her that he'd met.
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Post by jimmyg on Dec 30, 2011 21:23:22 GMT -5
"Hence why I said I wasn't going to ask him anything." Jimmy replies back, in a snappy sort of tone. He's well through with crying by now, and any sort of sad, self-pity like feelings are replaced with a bitterness that he's felt before, but under far different circumstances. Jimmy's eyes glance up and over at Nina again, and he speaks probably the most he's spoken since they've arrived. "I don't know why you're insisting on me talking to you. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk to him, or that other guy. I just want you, and everyone else to leave me alone."
Nina's retort about the story about her knee goes mostly ignored, but does result in an eye-roll on his part. He doesn't understand what Nina sees in Edward, why she'd get herself shot in order to stay with him other than the alternative wasn't pleasant either. But she wasn't a hostage. She wanted to be around him. She was just strange. Very, very strange.
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Post by Nina Stenet on Jan 2, 2012 21:10:24 GMT -5
Nina actually notices the amount that the kid says. Several whole sentences at once - an improvement. And it only encourages her. Not that she's particularly pleased with what the said. "Didn't we cover the answer to that question already? I want to help you, and you could use my help whether you want it or not. Unfortunately, you have yourself in a situation where being left alone is not an option. And complaining about that does not help you," she says, glancing over at him. She pauses and purses her lips before adding, "I suppose my basic point is that you lose nothing by talking to me. Which means that it's worth a shot, even if you don't like it." She shrugs a little to herself, wondering for the umpteenth time why Edward thought that the kid was a good idea. Whatever had impressed him enough to want to hire someone so young, she's just not seeing it.
The little eyeroll doesn't go unnoticed, but Nina responds to it only with a half-smile. Though not talking for Edward's sake had certainly been a part of it, even if that weren't a factor she's not so sure that she'd have ended up talking them anyway. If they'd merely asked her about Mr. Freeze she'd probably not have said anything about that either - the fundamental problem with the way Agent Tiff had questioned her was his automatic assumption of guilt on his part, and his inability to compromise at all. That left her with no incentive to talk, and reacting to her refusal by shooting her hardly earned him any more points. He's a bully, and Nina's the type of person who reflexively stands her ground against bullies.
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Post by jimmyg on Jan 22, 2012 0:57:52 GMT -5
The amount of words that came from Jimmy that once may have increased, but it wouldn't last long. Frankly with his personality, it couldn't last very long. The only people in his life that he exchanged that many words with were his father and his sister, neither of which he'd seen in some time. The realization hit him just how long it'd been, and his brows knitted into a solemn sort of expression again. Not irritated, not annoyed, not angry. He actually thought it might be mistaken by Nina as a form of slight content. But it wasn't. In fact, it was far from it.
"So what? Just because people don't stand anything to lose by doing something doesn't mean they have to do it." He said quietly, and let out an exhausted sort of sigh. There was another pause on his part of complete silence, staring at the wall opposite of him before leaning his head back in his chair and glancing over sideways at her. "..What even is there to talk about anyway?"
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Post by Nina Stenet on Jan 27, 2012 0:35:55 GMT -5
"Have to? No, of course not. It just means you don't lose anything," Nina says idly. Though there's a pause before she says anything else as she mulls over the best way to answer his question. It's a difficult one because she herself isn't exactly sure what she knows that would be of the most use to him. She's only just met the kid, after all.
But she isn't silent for too long before she says, "Let's put it this way: I know the man very well. I know what he likes, I know what he doesn't like. I know, for example, what calms him down when he's upset. I know what upsets him in the first place. I can predict him to a certain degree. Any of which, if you knew, could save your life. That's one reason to talk to me." And the one that comes most immediately to her mind. The boy seems to be floundering around a bit, unsure of what to do in order to keep himself reasonably safe, and his safety is very much on Nina's mind.
"There are other things too, but I'm not sure what would be useful to you. But it's sufficient to say that I usually know everything he isn't keeping strictly to himself," she adds, reflecting for a moment on just how much trust Edward seems to have in her anymore. Back when she first started getting to know him it's like he had a thick concrete wall between himself and the rest of the world, including her. The wall is still there, but now between the two of them it's more like a simple chain-link fence - he has his boundary, but he doesn't expect her to come after him with a tank anymore and she's freely allowed to see what's on the other side. "Of course, I can't just tell you things he hasn't told you, but any advice I give would take what I know into account," she notes as she once again looks over at the kid. The only reason why Edward trusts her so much is because she fully deserves it, after all.
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