July 3, 2063 || Tuesday

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Some time around 7am, cause he knows you're all probably up around then, you all get a text from Brig. ]

SENT: 07:03 AM
Hey, everyone. I've been requested by Chief Eli to accompany him to the US for an extended engagement. It'll be a month long, give or take. I know it's a bit sudden but I only found out this morning as well.

I'm free to meet and hang for the day if any of your aren't doing anything. It'll be awhile before I get to again. If not, stay safe and I'll see you all soon.

P.S.
Particularly to the Hounds, if any engagements come up: I know you guys have it covered. But (again) stay safe, come back alive, and make it rain. Keep me posted if you can so I don't worry too much.

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General OOC notes:
+ At 7am when he texts: he'll be finishing breakfast with J and K. He's cabbing them to the Arcanum and school respectively after but will be free after 8am for anyone who wants to meet up.:)
+ He's pretty much set aside the day for anyone and everyone. Training isn't a thing today, he expects he'll have a lot of spare time overseas. Today's about family and extended!family.
+ He sends the personal group message above to the Hounds, Cindy, An'yu and his family.
+ He puts up general, formal posts on GEISTnet, LOGOSnet, and MAYAnet that he will be away overseas with Wiseman Tagabigay for those who aren't family or extended!family.

FR: brigade@vice.net
TO: all - @vice.net; all - @LOGOSnet; all - @GEISTnet; all - @MAYAnet

DATE/TIME: Tuesday, July 3 2063. 07:10 AM
SUBJECT: Notice

MESSAGE:
Hello, all. I will be away overseas with Wiseman Tagabigay on an extended engagement. If you need to contact me, feel free to leave a message via any of the networks or via VICEnet.

Comments

we have barely started and it is already adorable. ;w;

[leitman]

[She responds, albeit with sleepy reluctance. Smiling, though, once she fully registers the fact that you're there.]

Hey, soldier. [Mmm, that smells good.] Morning.

Ahhhh, famireh!

[atlas_shrugged]

You and your sharp nose. [ Brig taps her on the nose as he says so, smiling ] Let's wake Kitty up? [ He'll break the news to her at the breakfast table. He didn't want her morning to start with a terrible fit. ]

[leitman]

Sure thing.

[Gets up, streeeeeetches, yawns, stretches again, then starts shuffling up and out of bed. She smiles at you once before she's walking off to fetch the girl.]

See you downstairs?

[atlas_shrugged]

Sure. [ He smiles and heads down.

He whips up a pitcher of iced orange juice and pours one each for J and Kitty ]

[leitman]

[The pair come down just as Brigade finishes with that - or more like, Jessica comes down with her daughter slumped in her arms. Kitty's still not fully awake yet, but J's unwilling to let her sleep in too much. She needs to get used to a regular school schedule.

Sitting down as soon as she's settled her daughter in, and eyeing the food with an appreciative look, and then getting a serving for Kitty first before she starts serving herself.]

How was the drinkout you had with the kids yesterday?

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brig starts on his potatoes ] It was nice getting to know Mia and Jill. I think you'd like both of them.

And I haven't seen everyone so happy in a long while. Kaz was beaming and I even glimpsed Yulia smiling for an extended period of time last night. [ The thought of how happy his friends were last night brings a smile back onto Brig's face. ]

[leitman]

[Nodding along at that first part, then lifting an eyebrow at Yulia.]

Well, Bostova seems to have changed a lot. As for Jill and Mia... I'm sure that they're nice girls. Kaz is, after all, an excellent judge of character. [Smiling.] I'm looking forward to working with the two of them.

[Saying that as if she doesn't just mean being in the same conspiracy, or being a part of the Vigil. There are things that she hasn't really been able to tell you yet, Brig.]

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brig notes that part at the end and gives her a raised eyebrow ]

Don't tell me you and Cindy have been? [ Assigned to Jill's blade? his expression finishes. ] But isn't Mia with the Midnight Riders?

[leitman]

The Monkey Eaters - that is, Mia's blade - are going to be allied with us and apparently with the rest of you. As for Cindy and I... yes. Another member's going to come around soon. A boy named Leo, I believe.

[She loves it when things go according to plan.]

[atlas_shrugged]

Allied Blades? I like the sound of that. We can cover each other on the field if ever we're sortied. [ It also lets him watch over you ]

He's Kaz and Josh's friend too. They introduced him to me as one helluva' sniper. [ That makes Brig feel a bit more comfortable with the thought that J is apparently going on the field ] I always liked having sniper support back in the War. It was good having an eye-in-the-sky that could rain hurt down like the finger of God.

[leitman]

Actually, I'm going to be your eyes in the sky if we ever team up with the Hounds.

[Yes. Feel free to bug her about that statement.]

[atlas_shrugged]

Eh? [ He cocks an inquiring eyebrow at her ] You've always been my eyes in the sky.

[leitman]

Well, now I will be for you, your team, and for mine.

[Which she appears to be ridiculously proud of, by the way.]

That includes the sniper end of things.

[atlas_shrugged]

[ A lot more "Eh??" in that look on his face ]

Did you just pick up the sniper rifle now? Or is that one more of your epic skills I've only recently been finding out about?

[ It's a surprise though. Most situations she was in back before Netsach would only require close-ranged firearms. You don't usually tote a sniper rifle unless you plan to kill from afar. ]

[leitman]

The latter. It's sometimes good to let the shadier types in the neighborhood know that you can peg them from a distance.

[Yep, she had to go there once or twice...]

that grin on the icon.-__-

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Damn ]

I'm... not surprised? Though that makes me worry about what other stuff you had to deal with alone, way back.

omg i somehow missed the notif for this #FAIL

[leitman]

Well, it isn't too important now. To be fair, though, I did have the tendency to attract trouble without really meaning to.

[You know them Leitmans. Fiery, principled, active, and never the types to tolerate injustice for very long.]

itokai! uwu

[atlas_shrugged]

So much of your mom in you. [ Yes, those fiery, principled Leitmans ] Well, at least there's none of that to worry about now. [ Brig let's out a sigh softly and smiles ]

I feel sorry for those you pulled the trigger on. I... [ He's not quite sure about asking it pointblank. She'll always be one of his babies in his eyes ] hope you didn't have to blow a new nostril into anyone's faces.

[leitman]

[She can guess at what you're thinking.]

Don't worry. I made it a point to always shoot to disable someone or diffuse a situation, never to kill.

[atlas_shrugged]

But have you ever? [ The concern in his tone and on his face is unmistakable. He's happy, of course, about her MO. He's worried about first kill backlash. ]

[leitman]

[She's quiet for a moment.]

No, not yet.

[And then looking up at you.]

I'm hoping that I'll never have to, but now that I'm a part of all of this... well, I know that the chances of that are getting slimmer by the second.

[But she isn't going to back down or leave. That much is obvious in her tone.]

[atlas_shrugged]

[ He siddles his chair up to her and just takes her into a hug. A really long embrace which he doesn't let go. ]

It's going to happen. [ There is hurt in his voice. ] You picked the path of a Hunter, a soldier. [ Now there is worry. ] But you're not going to have to deal with it alone. [ Love ] I'm always going to be here with you. [ He cups her head like a father would a daughter and kisses her on the side of her forehead ] You run to me whenever you need me.

[leitman]

[She'll take that, of course, because it's nice to be able to have you around like this in the first place. It's a good reminder that she's strong, but she doesn't always have to soldier through things all on her own.]

I know, and I'm really, really grateful that I'll have a home to come back to with a big, hard shoulder to cry on.

[That last part is teasing. Typical Leitman humor.]

[atlas_shrugged]

[ "Leitman Wit"™ at its best ]

Okay, well enough of that [ A beat to compose his sappy self ], I don't want you two to be late for work and school.

Let's try to talk as regularly as we can while I'm in the States? [ There is genuine want and dread mixed together in his voice. He's not looking forward to going back to the long-distance communication they'd lived through all those years before Netsach ]

[leitman]

[Blinking several times at that, then chuckling.]

Who are you and what have you done with my Brigade?

[She still remembers how hard it was to get you to stay still, just a few months ago.]