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Post by emilybuj on Oct 23, 2012 20:15:26 GMT -5
Eloise did wince slightly at what was going on in Tim's head, but maybe it would be able to help her. At least a little bit. And even a little bit would be nice. She thought about the others she met that it could potentially help too... Monroe, Adaryn. "I'll give it a shot," she said with a shrug.
She tried not to get her hopes up though, as he father had attempted such things in the past with little to no results. Then again, her father was not a technopath. She handed Tim her iPod and the earbuds.
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Post by langersandmash on Oct 24, 2012 13:55:55 GMT -5
Tim took the ipod from Eloise and left her with the earbuds
"I cant really change headphones, i wont go into the technical detail but it's too simple for me to change"
He put his hand on the ipod and musical notes started to run through his mind. The note he wanted to use would not be able to be heard by human ears, so Tim inserted the note track into all of Eloise's songs and one track of it's own so she could put one earphone in while speaking to someone.
"I think that should be it"
Tim took his other hand off the device and passed it back to Eloise
"i've put a note in all of your songs, you wont be able to hear it. I've also added a track called silence which is just that note."
He smiled
"hopefully it will work"
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Post by emilybuj on Oct 24, 2012 21:14:30 GMT -5
Eloise raised an eyebrow as Tim played around with her iPod. She didn't understand anything he was thinking, but it went in and out of his mind with relative ease. Clearly the processes were second nature to him. He was way too smart for Eloise.
She hesitantly took her iPod back and flipped through the songs. Nothing had changed, not that she really expected it to. But she stopped on the one new track Tim had told her about -silence. She put in her earbuds, and with hope pressed play.
She sighed when she still could hear Tim's thoughts, but when she continued to take note of the conents of her own mind, she realized much of the background thoughts she could usually hear were gone. "Oh my god..." she said. "It... well... it doesn't block everything out but.... I can't hear thoughts from really far away like usual. Like.. .it's just you and me right now!" Eloise said kind of excitedly, looking down at her i Pod. "Well I might still be hearing some of Talon... but I can't hear anything from inside the building."
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Post by langersandmash on Oct 25, 2012 4:49:38 GMT -5
Tim smiled
"as i said the actual version isn't based on notes it actually blocks brainwaves, You think this will be ok for now?"
Tim would never now exactly what it was like to hear other peoples thoughts and never mind all the time, but Tim new discomfort and the many years of his farther not really taking much interest other than finding this school for him.
'You know it's hard keeping a clear head, especially with you standing next to me'
He laughed
At least Tim could joke with someone in private, even if it was in front of a ton of people
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Post by emilybuj on Oct 25, 2012 7:51:08 GMT -5
Eloise laughed, one of her rare, genuine smiles crossing her face. Even when she smiled before it was usually laced with stress and fatigue. "this is amazing.... Thanks you," she said to Tim. She looked over to him and wondered how hard it actually was to keep all the technical stuff out. "You know you can probably think freely now and it won't hurt so bad... since there's not really background noise," Eloise offered after he expressed the difficulty behind it. "I think I can handle it," she added with a smile, still amazing by the technology Tim had managed to basically create out of nothing... or whatever was in her iPod.
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Post by langersandmash on Oct 26, 2012 19:14:14 GMT -5
Tim slowly let all the tech thoughts he had been holding back flood back but still kept his attraction to Eloise a secret
"im glad i could help you"
Tim was beaming that his idea had worked
"you got anything planned for the rest of the day?"
Tim wondered where that random question had just sprung from but he ran with it, why not have a little chat. What harm could it do
"i mean i'm getting pretty hungry, and this heating unit doesn't warm my legs yet so they are starting to go numb"
Tim began treading his feed against the ground so he was moving his legs
It was weird he was warm on the top half of his body but he couldn't really feel the bottom half
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Post by emilybuj on Oct 26, 2012 23:33:22 GMT -5
"Uh..." Eloise thought, wondering where Tim was going with the question. He was keeping that part of his mind a secret. "I mean... I was just going to climb trees and avoid people for the day but you've already managed to ruin that plan so..." She joked lightheartedly with a small smile. "So I'm not really sure what I'm doing the rest of the day," she admitted.
She shivered when he mentioned the temperature. It was like she didn't really notice how cold it was until Tim had brought it up. She tucked her hands into the sleeves of the sweatshirt she was wearing and said, "Yeah and I'm pretty cold too... so..." She still wasn't sure what he was suggesting, but hopefully it would be to go somewhere indoors.
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Post by langersandmash on Oct 30, 2012 20:33:43 GMT -5
"Well I know for a fact the canteen supply hot drinks"
He smiled
"i could do with a hot chocolate around about now"
Tim could never really appreciate the hot chocolate here compared to the stuff back in England but he had quickly gotten used to the taste of it
"they might even have some food"
As if on cue his stomach growled
Tim laughed at his stomachs reaction
"well they better have some food"
Back at the start of his first year tim had fixed a broken cooker for the canteen staff and they started to give him a few extra helpings, so tim carried on fixing bits of broken equipment for them and tim now hasn't had an unpleasant meal there since.
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Post by emilybuj on Oct 30, 2012 21:20:58 GMT -5
"Hot chocolate sounds good," Eloise said with a small smile. She still wasn't sure of her way around so she would be happy to follow Tim and get something to eat. He seemed nice enough and was one of the first people not to lash out about her power. He even helped her. She would have to think of some way to thank him.
"so... You're in 12th grade?" Eloise asked, secretly wondering why a 12th grader would bother talking to a 9th grader. That kind of stuff didn't happen in America. But Tim was from England so Eloise supposed he was more manner and didn't really care that Ella was a "freshman" as it was called in the US. "Has this place really helped you a lot?" she asked curiously.
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Post by langersandmash on Nov 4, 2012 18:06:09 GMT -5
Tim was happy that El had accepted to come along he had made a lot of friends with 12 graders earlier on in his school life and they had all gone. So it was nice for him to have a new friend
"great"
Tim started walking towards the school canteen
"yep 12th grade my final year"
He smiled
"wow that's gone fast"
Tim held his hand to his head trying to think of what he had done in the past years
"I suppose so, I would say it had probably guided me in the direction that i want to go more than "help me" per say"
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Post by emilybuj on Nov 7, 2012 16:31:10 GMT -5
Eloise nodded in understanding. It seemed that Veritas had at least done some good for Tim. Eloise could only hope that by the time she was in her final year she could say the same. She stuffed her hands in the pockets of her coat as they walked. "I guess I just like hearing that there ARE success stories," she said. "Because my whole life having this power has been a nusience." she laughed. "My father tried to teach me but he was impatient. So that's why he sent me here. Something about learning to my full potential," Eloise made a wry face. She had no desire to develop her power - only to control it. And now that Tim was perhaps creating a way for her to live normally, there was even less of a reason for her to learn more about mind reading.
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Post by langersandmash on Nov 11, 2012 20:38:10 GMT -5
"my dad was the same"
he smirked
"he hadn't got time for my powers messing up his technology"
Tim looked at Eloise
"don't take it as a bad thing, the fact you are hear means you can have control of it, not need any headphones that a handsome, stylish.."
Tim began to crack a smile still trying to keep a straight face
"yet random guy you met at school gave you"
He laughed
"your power, no you have so much potential here, with no barriers to hold you back"
Tim then stopped talking and fell silent realising he was going off on a monologue
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