Tomb Raider III

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

It's an hour into the movie. Angelina Jolie runs from a giant boulder chasing her down a cooridor in homage to another great cinematic forray into archaeological cheese.

The dark theater is packed. The crowd hisses and boos at the traps springing up at the heroine's feet. Gretchen stares straight ahead, her gaze not slipping one inch to the side. Her eyes are on the screen, but her entire attention is on her arm. It's resting right alongside Sarah's on the padded armrest.

Swallowing hard, not daring to look, she nervously ventures a pinky over to touch Sarah's. It's an accident. Really. Honest.

Unless Sarah touches her back. Then it was totally on purpose.

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[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

Sarah's attention has been completely on the screen, wide-eyed. Sure, they had the giant viewscreens and such back on Battleworld, and some of the folks from that Suburb in Denver had some videos that Peter was able to rig to play on said giant screens... but somehow its not the same. Those were obviously monitoring stations, meant for business, this is obviously meant for dragging the viewer into the movie.

And then there's Gretchen. She's not been quite sure what to make of the butterflies in her stomach, or the anticipation that somehow wasn't just going to see a movie.

The combination of invulnerability and being lost in the movie being what it is, at first she didn't even notice the pinky touching hers. By the time she did, and realized it had been there a few moments, it seemed like it would be more awkward to flinch, or any of her first reactions. So without looking, not daring to look, she leaves her hand where it is, still touching Gretchen's.