AU: Sidekickin' it (Sean)

[Marnie Sullivan]

Sean hadn't called it training on the phone, but that's exactly how Marnie saw today's outing. More accurately it was sight-seeing, but all the sights they would be seeing were supposed to be significant in meta history. Educational? Yes? Then it was training!

Since Marnie hadn't settled on a costume design yet - getting past the color scheme stage was tricky when everyone recommends red and you can't process it - she once again wore the most professional outfit in her wardrobe. With one small change: today she still looked like a flight attendant, but with more comfortable shoes.

They'd decided on noon, which meant starting at 11:45 Marnie was sitting stock-straight at the kitchen table with her purse over her shoulder, notepad in her hands, and radiating excitement. Her first outing with Sage! Any moment now that doorbell would ring, and she would burst out of her seat like the cork from a champagne bottle.

[Dr. Sean Neville]

Sean hadn’t called it training on the phone, because he didn’t consider it training. Training, to him, held a specific connotation, similar to what he had engaged in at Hammel to hone his powers, or the specific training that he had undergone with Robert, when he had been a sidekick so many decades ago. He and Marnie had plenty of training ahead of them, but today’s trip was to impart history: a series of lessons along a tour rather than training, and, he thought, when they finished, they could stop off somewhere for a bite to eat or a bit of shopping.

The semi-retired hero wasn’t shy about spending money, and ever since becoming a father, he had the impulse to stop in at book stores and toy stores to bring home presents.

He had warned Josh about the outing, so that his partner could shift around his schedule. Typically, they traded shifts watching their daughter, with Sean working the mornings and the attorney in the afternoons. However, given that the telepath had to be at Marnie’s door by 12:00p.m., they had chosen a day when Josh promised he would be home by 11:15a.m. and had only motion practice. As soon as the younger man arrived home, Sean passed Eleanor over, kissed Josh on the cheek, and disappeared upstairs to change into an outfit befitting leaving the house, which meant no sweatpants.

At just about 12:00p.m.,, Sean pulled his car into a space outside of Marnie’s home. Rather than honk the horn obnoxiously (which also constituted a crime in the City because it contributed to the already overwhelming noise pollution problem), he chose to project his thoughts. I’m outside. Come down whenever you’re ready.