4022/Back in the States

Back in the States
Date of Scene:	06 March 2018
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Lara Croft, Samantha Nishimura

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Lara Croft has posed:
6:45pm on a Tuesday (who know Always Sunny in Philadelphia would know how best to start a scene)

Lara had been texting Sam ever since she got off the plane and had setup a meeting spot here at the Westfield Dining restaurant. She'd wanted to come by this place anyway since she'd heard a lot of good things about it. So her yellow cab arrives, the Brit steps out of it with her black leather jacket on, a dark steel-blue scarf around her neck and her luggage on wheels behind her... her luggage is coming to dinner with the tonight!

Lara steps toward the restaurant's exterior entrance, sure its connected to a mall, but its connected to one hell of a POSH mall in Manhattan, so its not all bad! right?

Lara looks up at the exterior of the building, then starts toward the interior... within moment's she's got a table for two inside the place and is removing her scarf and jacket to sit down.

Samantha Nishimura has posed:
If Lara is early, Sam is running late. Sam is ALWAYS running late. She hops through her hotel room with one shoe, looking for the other. She's even tried calling it, but no dice.

Finally, peering beneath the bed, she sees a lovely red patent leather toe, delicately pointed in her direction. "Aha!!" She dives onto the bed, fishes it out from beneath the quilt, and stands up again, looking into the mirror and fixing any final touches, before she descends to the cab that's been beeping for the past seven minutes downstairs. A quick ride, traversing several blocks, and she arrives to meet Lara at the appointed location, and two minutes past the appointed time.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara's at the table by herself for probably 15 or 20 minutes, and during that time she's managed to keep herself busy... Sam's been her best friend since day one of college in London... she was used to her being late!

Lara's got her head burried in a book when Sam does show up and she has one half-finished glass of wine in front of her because she felt like drinking after that long flight over the ocean.

When Sam does arrive, Lara looks up with a big smile. "Hey!" She says, perhaps more energetic than Sam would expect... (Lara's a light drinker, even half a glass has her weirder than normal).

"You look amazing. How have things been going here?" She's been eager to reconnect with her BFF!

Samantha Nishimura has posed:
"Laaaaara!!" Samantha is practically dancing as she flies toward Lara and her half-finished glass of wine. "Things have been amazing here. I've MISSED you! How are things with the house? How's it looking?" She hugs Lara excitedly and takes a seat at the table, filling her own glass to catch up.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara is up and exchanging hugs with her friend, as well as soft laughter at the other's excited attitude and demeanor, it was refreshing and thats why she latched onto her in college. Sam kept her from feeling 'completely boring'.

"Weird, as ever my life is." Lara replied when they were both sitting down across from each other again. "Once I got home I found out that my Uncle was doing everything in his power to usurp the family name out from under me. He wanted onwership of the entire estate and he wanted to 'let me stay there' after he took it." She rolled her eyes and took another sip of her drink.

The waiter arrived to take their orders for food too!

Samantha Nishimura has posed:
"What a dick! You can't just TAKE someone's last name. Y'know, unless you marry them, but even THEN they still have it too! He can't usurp ANYTHING. I've got a mind to waltz right back over there and punch him in the snoot." Sam huffs indignantly and takes a swallow from her wine glass.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara gives Sam a big grin and a light shake of her head side to side. "I dealt with it... The reason he thought he had a legal loophole to accomplish it is because my parents hadn't left a will saying that the manor belonged to me. At least not in the hands of our family lawyer. So... I found it. It ook awhile, the home was in terrible disarray." She sips more wine. "There'd been a storm and a tree on the north side of the house had fallen into the house... Water damage, animals living inside the place. It was horrendous, like something out of a nightmare. I had a friend come over to stay with me to help keep the place safer and she thought I'd brought her to some kind of horror movie."

Samantha Nishimura has posed:
"Awwwww...cute little animals? Like Trash Pandas and Bunnies?" Sam asks wistfully. "I wish I could've been there to seen 'em all livin' the high life. Upscale," she adds, buffing her nails. "So this will ends all debates, yeah? No more loopholes?"

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara has to grin past her glass at the other after she placed an order for the dinner she thought sounded the most enjoyable. Once the waiter was gone she gently nodded her head once over to Sam. "Debate settled." She said to the other. "I found... my mother's tomb, inside my own house. My father had had it built as a shrine to her. The door had been hidden behind the stonework on the front steps. he must've had it all built while I was away for summer at my Aunt's place." Lara's head shakes back and forth. "He loved her very much, but I hadn't realized he'd loved her so much that he'd build a rather unsettling shrine to her within the underlevels of the home itself." Lara gives Sam a sly grin. "Still want to visit my family's house?" She had to ask after relaying that bit of creepy family history.

Samantha Nishimura has posed:
"You BET. The creepier, the better. I'm down!" Sam grins, then wrinkles her nose. "I have no idea what that was I ordered, but it sure sounds pretty when ya say it. I hope it's so totally amazing that you regret your decision and crown me queen of ordering dinner."

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara has to laugh at both of these things from Sam, her elbows coming to the edge of the table and her fingers interlacing together so that her chin can rest atop them while she stares over the space between them. "I've no doubt that you'll win the ordering tonight." She says to the other. "The fancier the food the less it always seems to sit well with me afterall." A short pause then after a smile and Lara picks up again. "So, your filming? Are you on any new projects? New movies planned?"

Samantha Nishimura has posed:
"Get THIS..." Sam begins, holding out her thumb and forefinger on each hand, creating a film frame, and she begins moving it closer to Lara, watching her through the fingersquare. "Zoom in on Lara Croft - just home from...uh, fighting poltergeists! And zombies in a decrepit old home in England. And JUST when she thinks things couldn't get any worse? RACCOONS!!"

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara has a smile slide over her lips when she sees her friend framing her up again like she'd seen her do many times before. "Oh god, this is going to be embarrsing isn't it?" She asks back at her. But when it ends on 'Raccoons!' Lara just laughs and shakes her head side to side. "At least they're proper gentleman in England. Unlike the uncoath ones here in the States. No... back home they politely eat the trash and then judge you for not throwing away higher quality items."

Samantha Nishimura has posed:
Samantha gasps. "Quelle Posh..." Shaking her head, she shrugs. "I dunno, I was thinkin' I might like to go on a trip with you sometime soon, and start something new. Things haven't exactly been fantastic here, lately. Maybe it'd do us both some good to get out somewhere...unpopulated."

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara had another drink delivered to the table and she was placing her hands around its bottom when she smiled once more softly toward Sam. "I have to touchbase with the upper management at SHIELD, and see if there are any tasks or jobs that they need me for. And if there are any that can get you involved in then I'm more than happy to have you along. I also wanted to stop by Greenwich Village and check on my home there that I rented out to some 'co workers' from SHIELD. I've heard rumblings that one of them was involved in some less... than... good stuff lately. I need to make sure they're okay."

Samantha Nishimura has posed:
Sam considers Lara's words, and nods quietly. "Oh, right. 'Course, you're Miss Fixit nowadays, I totally understand. Y-yeah, if you run across somethin' I can get involved in, feel free to shoot me like a text or somethin'." Samantha nods definitively, and downs the last of her wine.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara grins at her and shakes her head side to side. "I'm a 'Land Lady' I believe is the term. I've been renting them the house in Greenwich while I stay at the Croft Centre up on the east side near where the Avengers live in that big fancy home of theirs."

When their food arrives, Lara is quick to eye hers and then Sam's. "You totally ordered better than I." She states dryly before shaking her head side to side. "I know you hate to go to cold places, so I'll try to look only for the ridiculous quests that will take us to someplace more... relaxing. Maybe there's some horrible relic waiting to be recovered in Hawaii?" Lara then asks with a sly grin.

Samantha Nishimura has posed:
Samantha doesn't hesitate. She takes part of everything on her plate that looks delicious and places a generous portion on Lara's plate. "Live adventurously, Lara. And wherever, y'know? I mean...I could go someplace....cold." Most. Unconvincing. Argument. Ever.