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it's a good thing parker already knows isaac's taken because she'd be real damn worried about it with the look nomi has in her eyes. but she gets it. dude's good vibes are absolutely infectious. still, she's kind of jealous. parker doesn't have very many friends, nevermind a friend like isaac for a year.

nomi murmurs that isaac's the best of them and she nods surreptitiously around a mouthful consisting of about three chips and a whole slice of lechonk meat. when she asks how she's met him, she grins widely, narrowly dribbling sour cream over her chin (but not, thankfully).

"workin' a job. we beat the shit outta a crusty old fart. and stole his money. but the punch felt the best. an' then this fucker took me out to a bar and tried to get me to go on a date with ya."

they hadn't called it a date over text. just dinner. a suggestive dinner, surely, but saying that it's a date has felt forbidden.
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"He did?" Nomi blurted, blushing. Mere weeks ago, Nomi had confided in Isaac about her crush on Parker, and it had been something of a catharsis to do so. She hadn't expected her friend to actually try and do something about it, though. A strange soup of conflicting emotions simmered within her: embarrassment, gratitude, fear of rejection...[break][break]
"Isaac can be quite persuasive," Nomi replied, masking her inner turmoil behind a coy smile. She glanced down at the swiftly diminishing plate of nachos.[break][break]
Isaac had encouraged Nomi too, talked her up like she was some sort of rising star: beauty and brains, the sort of woman Parker would be foolish not to notice. If Parker's got any taste, I know she's paying attention. His exact words.[break][break]
Nomi's gaze snapped up, crimson eyes meeting Parker's with a sudden decisiveness.[break][break]
"Is that what this is to you, then? A date?" She asked with a cute tilt of her head, fighting against the protective instincts that screamed at her to let sleeping dragons lie. But she was tired of dancing around what felt like an obvious connection between them, a weird sense of shared history in addition to attraction. And if she was wrong, she wanted to know sooner rather than later. A broken heart was easier to mend when you had less pieces to glue back together.[break][break]
She laid her hands atop the table, palms down. Better that than to clench them into nervous fists.

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"not that i needed persuading," she says a bit defensively. give her some credit here! and nomi's a catch. but surely she knows that. "just hadda make sure there wasn't anyone, y'know, in the picture. like some hot assistant or something."

she's glad she swallowed because nomi actually manages to startle her with the intensity of the look she gives her. parker blinks owlishly and thinks oh, fuck, fuck, did i fuck up? is this not supposed to be...?

this is how it started with yumi.

yumi asked her out. parker thought nothing of it. like, she still showed up looking good, but she never expected drinks would turn to kissing would turn to fucking. only to get hard swerved into the friendzone. so her mouth goes dry. she sucks in air.

"uhh, i mean, i guess?" cool and unaffected, super blasé, and inside she's SCREAMING. she stands up. realizes she's standing up.

"pee." as though that's an explanation.

but then she's gone, twisting hurriedly around tables and dodging busy servers as they carry food to and from their sections.
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[attr="class","skulltitle"]導通抵抗

[attr="class","skulloverlap"]BUT HOLD YOUR BREATH, GUESS WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW?

[attr="class","skullbody"]The good: Parker all but admitted she was into Nomi, and just needed a little bit of recon to press onwards for a date.[break][break]

The bad: Under the intensity of Nomi's longing and desire, Parker second guessed herself at the last minute and skittered away.[break][break]

Oh, young love.[break][break]

It was easy to sympathize. Parker had already told her about Yumi, how yes meant yes until suddenly it didn't. How she read too much into a casual fling and was left with no more sex and a broken heart. Did Nomi's question, an attempt at clarification, bring those moments back to Parker's head?[break][break]

The last thing Isaac wanted to do was micromanage. But maybe it was time to swoop in and do a little more recon. He approached Nomi, "coincidentally" picking up some of their finished plates and handing them over to Watson.[break][break]

"How're you finding everything so far? Food, drink-" A wry, lightly teasing smile spread across his face. "Company."[break][break]

If Nomi was going to open up about this date, he wanted her to do it on her terms.

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"Isaac!" Nomi hissed, eyes wide with panic. She grabbed onto his arm, a vice grip that would not allow him to casually wander away again in his guise of "the suave waiter just keeping an eye on things."[break][break]
"I told you," she insisted, trying not to look like a woman who's heart was hammering a million miles a minute against her chest, preparing itself to be shattered quite definitively. "She ran away. I asked her if this was a date and she left."[break][break]
Nomi sucked in a breath, tried to calm down. Parker had gone to the bathroom, she hadn't left the building. But that look in her eyes had been clear as crystal. It was the Oh Shit look. The "I gotta get out of here right now" look. It was the "I'm definitely not into this person the way she thinks I am" look. It was the - [break][break]
Tears threatened, but she held them back. Easy. This was easy! This was the expected result. Scientists didn't lose their cool when an experiment produced a normal result. They recorded the data and moved on to the next trial.[break][break]
...the next trial.[break][break]
"Okay, look," Nomi tried again. "I think she does find me attractive. Before leaving, she tried to convince me she didn't need all that much persuading to - to ask me out. She all but admitted it was a date, but when I asked for clarity, like you advised me to, her face completely changed and -- "[break][break]
She stopped.[break][break]
"I'm rambling, aren't I," she sighed, appalled. What sort of Rocket Head Scientist fell apart over a first date gone wrong? Miserably, she let go of Isaac and hung her head.[break][break]
"Thanks for looking out for me," she murmured to him, more quietly. But you were wrong - I'm not a catch at all.

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[attr="class","skulloverlap"]BUT HOLD YOUR BREATH, GUESS WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW?

[attr="class","skullbody"]Nomi gripped Isaac's arm with enough force to tear steel. It was funny how even the smallest details could make someone tip their hand.[break][break]

Unfortunately, Nomi was used to specimens. Simple. Sterile. Playing by the rules. People were anything but. A world of phenomena lurked within them, experiences and histories and innermost thoughts that made for an output vastly different from expected parameters.[break][break]

Parker's pain wasn't Isaac's to share. He could imagine this Yumi asking her the same question in an almost mocking tone. He could envision Parker realizing, right then and there, how everything she thought she and Yumi shared was misinterpreted at best and meaningless at worst. He knew the clarity would help Nomi, but at the cost to Parker?[break][break]

Of all her muscles, her biggest was her heart. And Isaac refused to hurt it, even for its own good.[break][break]

Luckily, the first rule of being Isaac Merlo was that there was always a plan B.[break][break]

"You asked her what she thought it was," Isaac corrected. "Think about it. If she asked you that, and you weren't sure what the "right" answer was, how do you think you'd answer? Its kind of intense." Not that Nomi wasn't practically hiring an air traffic controller to wave giant glowsticks at her in Parker's field of view. But the heart and brain had a way of gaslighting each other into missing the most obvious signs.[break][break]

"How about, instead of asking her what she thinks, ask her what she wants? That way instead of guessing on some pop quiz, she knows you just want her to follow her heart." Isaac perked up a little, as if an even better idea hit him like a lightning bolt. "Or! How about you tell her what you want?"

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The right answer?[break][break]
"How does she not know the - " Nomi began, then faltered, Isaac's words finally hitting home.[break][break]
For the first time since acknowledging her crush on Parker, Nomi considered things from the other woman's perspective. If Parker had her own crush on Nomi, then wouldn't she be feeling the exact same way Nomi was feeling? Uncertain, nervous, hopeful, terrified? Parker surely had more dating experience than Nomi (most did), but that didn't mean she'd ever successfully landed a serious girlfriend before. Hook-ups were one thing; relationships were entirely another.[break][break]
Just hadda make sure there wasn't anyone, y'know, in the picture. Like some hot assistant or something.[break][break]
"Oh," Nomi realized, gasping, staring up at Isaac with wide eyes. "Oh.[break][break]
Parker was also afraid of rejection.[break][break]
"She doesn't want to mess this up, either," Nomi muttered, blushing, feeling foolish. "But Isaac, isn't it obvious that I'm smitten with her?"[break][break]
Well, maybe not obvious enough. People could blind themselves to the truth rather easily. Hadn't Nomi done that to herself in regards to her parents' ugly fates?[break][break]
Isaac's optimism was infectious, and his advice was sound. No more feeler questions, no more defensive interrogations. She would have to be...well, vulnerable. He was right to call her out on it.[break][break]
Nomi abruptly stood, expression determined.[break][break]
"I'll tell her what I want," she assured him. "Er, but not too intensely." She smiled a little. "I'm, um, going to go to the bathroom and see if I can find her."[break][break]
With that, she hurried off.

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how is it not a date? how did she fuck this up again? she thought she was smarter this time. she did it right. she texted nomi. the damn woman even sent her bikini pics. but does that really mean anything? it's not like she hasn't gotten nudes before.

but this felt different.

so did skyler. so did yumi. so does every dame who gives her the time of day, apparently. she splashes water on her face and then swears, remembering the smudged line she'd put on around her eyes. frustrated, she yanks on the paper towel dispenser.

a little too rough.

the latch pops on it and the whole roll tumbles out and onto the floor.

she straightens, jaw tense, and shoves her fingers through her hair, carelessly swipes under her eyes to clean up the worst of the smudging, and casually walks out of the bathroom. someone starts heading towards it and she swerves, scratching at her cheek, not wanting to get blamed for the debacle in the bathroom.

so she and nomi are passing ships. parker makes it to the table and stares, devastated, at the empty seat. she slouches down into the seat and catches isaac's eye, frowning like a sad puppy dog.

"someone broke your paper towel dispenser in the bathroom."
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[attr="class","skulloverlap"]BUT HOLD YOUR BREATH, GUESS WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW?

[attr="class","skullbody"]"You could say that."[break][break]

It was as obvious to Parker that Nomi was smitten with her as it was obvious to Nomi that Parker was smitten with her; that is to say, very to every single person involved except the object of their affection. Irony, thy name was dating.[break][break]

Luckily, Nomi was ready to put those scientific skills to good use. She ran the calculations (me = idiot, U + I = <3), and rose with a determined glint in her eye to confess her bathroom love.[break][break]

Poor Nomi. Her princess was in another stall.[break][break]

The two drifted past each other like ships in the night, the droop in Parker's posture a mirror image of Nomi's earlier insecurities. Eventually, with a look in Isaac's eye, she tried to say that first thing that came to mind.[break][break]

"Understood. We'll take care of it." Isaac was not about to have Zev Harcourt kill him and drain the light from his body over a broken dispenser. With that said and done, he turned his attention to more important matters. "And is someone enjoying her night so far?"[break][break]

Sure. He could just tell Parker what Nomi had told him. But that would just steal her thunder, now wouldn't it?

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POSTED ON Aug 5, 2023 4:09:46 GMT

at least she can still drown her sorrows in nomi's disgusting half of the nachos. is it in poor taste to finish the food of a date who's run off on you? no, the victim probably gets some recompense. might as well be nachos with clams on them.

but even her appetite's gone, which is crazy.

she sucks on the straw of her hurricane; the drink disappears all too quickly. isaac asks how she's enjoying the night so far and her brows furrow and she wants to yell and be like, 'ya fucked up, isaac! ya were wrong. pull out the cameras! this has gotta be a fuckin' joke or something. am i famous? am i famous yet?'

and then, then, she feels a little bit of hope. like, maybe nomi just stepped out to take a call or something.

"she asked what this is to me, isaac. like, fuck, what i gotta do, huh? get it tattooed on my forehead? 'nomi, you're hot and way outta my league but i'm gonna shoot my shot anyway 'cause fuck it' and that's not gonna fit on my forehead, is it? gods, it just feels like...last time." her shoulders sag.

"and i'm so tired of pining after women who don't want me, dude."
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[attr="class","skulloverlap"]BUT HOLD YOUR BREATH, GUESS WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW?

[attr="class","skullbody"]"Sometimes? Yeah, ya do."[break][break]

It was almost hilarious. The two had the exact same fear at the exact same time in the exact same situation. If it hadn't been causing both of them a surprising amount of angst, it would have been adorable. Instead, it was . . . well, okay, it was still adorable. Just also a little sad at the same time.[break][break]

"Of course you think you're obvious. You're living in your own head right now, so you know your thoughts like the back of your hand, right? But she's not living in your head. She's living in her own." Isaac let the thought sit for just that little extra moment. "And this is Nomi we're talking about here. We both know how much she's got going on up there."[break][break]

Sometimes, Nomi overthought so hard that it was like she wasn't even thinking at all.[break][break]

"She's a scientist. She lives in a world of cold, hard facts, written right there on the page. Maybe that's what she's looking for right now, y'know?" If a metaphorical tattoo on her metaphorical forehead was what it took for Parker to prove that fact, it may have just been the way to go.[break][break]

" 'Sides, how about we do a little science of our own?" A little, coy smile spread across Isaac's face. "Think about how she reacted. Y'know. Before she put her foot in her mouth. Did that look like the reaction of someone who had a problem with that idea?"

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To Nomi's horror, Parker was not in the bathroom. The pink-haired scientist stood in front of the mirror for several long seconds, breathing in-and-out to calm herself, wondering if the beautiful woman in the cute floral dress and makeup and curled hair staring back at her was really her. Because how could that woman have messed up a first date so badly, been rejected so thoroughly?[break][break]
I can always text her. Even if she left, I can still tell her what I want.[break][break]
Isaac's advice burned through her like a shot of whiskey, warming her to the very core and shaking her free from the helplessness that had threatened to overtake her. Nomi nodded encouragingly at herself in the mirror, then promptly turned around and headed back out of the bathroom.[break][break]
Nomi hurried across the bar, weaving between the other servers and patrons, until her table came into view. Of course Isaac hadn't abandoned her. He was still there, leaning casually against the partition between booths, and he was speaking with...[break][break]
Speaking with Parker.[break][break]
"You're still here!" Nomi blurted out, sliding back into her seat and smiling like she'd just won the lottery. She felt giddy and nervous but also...hopeful. "I mean, of course you are," she recovered, blushing. "We must have just missed each other in the bathroom."[break][break]
She glanced sidelong at Isaac. I think I've got this, her expression seemed to convey, eyes shining with something that wasn't-quite-confidence but wasn't-quite-uncertainty either.[break][break]
Tell her what you want, she repeated to herself, her new mantra for fending off the fear of rejection.

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POSTED ON Aug 7, 2023 21:32:29 GMT

note to self: get all of what she just said tattooed on her forehead. or, alternatively, find a way for nomi to live inside her head for five minutes, preferably while parker's looking right at her so she doesn't hear any of the other nonsense going on in her head. 'cause all that nonsense really does go away when she's looking at nomi.

"cold, hard facts," parker repeats. "sounds sexy as fuck."

it does not, but if that's what it takes to get the girl, that's what it takes.

isaac asks her to think on the moment and parker recalls a few interesting details: nomi's blush after parker said isaac tried to set them up (hmmm, sus), a coy smile, a fucking killer adorable tilt of her head, and then the most intense eyes parker's ever seen in her life.

parker relays all of this to isaac, emphasizing the seriousness of her eyes by mimicking them herself. flint stares hard at isaac's single gaze. "this," she says, pointing to herself, "is terrifying."

her finger is still pointed, eyes still wide, when nomi slides into her seat. parker realizes then that she'd also been crouching out of her seat and she promptly sits back down, relaxing and dropping her hand into her lap.

parker blinks at her.

"i found the paper towel thing like that. no, shit, i didn't."

and after a beat, "yeah, that's what it is to me. your question. a date. it's a date. least, i think it's a date. i want it to be a date. i knew you'd look amazing so i bought this so i would also look good and to maybe impress you because you're so fuckin' outta my league, nomi, but i wanted to try and isaac says i should get that tattooed on my forehead, but that's kinda a lot, so i hope it's okay if i don't."
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Paper towel thing?[break][break]
Nomi blinked in confusion. Before she could say anything, however, Parker launched into a rambling speech about how they were, in fact, on a date. How she'd bought a new outfit specifically for said date. How Isaac had advised her to get a tattoo?[break][break]
You're so fuckin' outta my league, Nomi, but I wanted to try.[break][break]
Nomi's mouth parted in sudden understanding. She glanced at Isaac suspiciously, but he seemed to be backing away ever so slightly. His expression was pleased, but in an honest, relieved sort of way: less like a guilty man fleeing a crime scene and more like, well, a man who didn't want to encroach on something private. Something he'd hoped would happen. When you strike two rocks against each other hard enough - assuming they're the right rocks - a spark will ignite.[break][break]
Nomi looked back at Parker, and because she had keen eyes - the sort of eyes that could pick out the most minute detail of the chemical makeup of any given compound - Nomi finally noticed the fear behind the swagger. Parker was shooting her shot, and she was praying she'd chosen the right angle.[break][break]
"I wanted this to be a date," Nomi declared, with passion. "I still want that. I've wanted you to ask me out for ages, Parker." Nomi blushed, pushing through the awkwardness of confessing her feelings. Oddly, the more she spoke, the easier it became. "I don't want you to be just a bodyguard. I want you to - "[break][break] - do unspeakable things to me, in my office, in my apartment, anywhere really, right here would be just fine I don't care if Isaac sees - [break][break]
" - to know that you're incredibly hot and it's absurd that you think I'm out of your league: I literally hang out with floating eyeballs and I dissect things on the regular and even though people say I'm important it's you who's important to me."[break][break]
Her chest heaved as she remembered to breathe.

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NOTES

⬥ Mission: Sleepless in Slateport[break]
⬥ Date Night Fit[break]

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