Odd Duck A1, Monday night
Aug. 11th, 2008 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
withoutveronaRomeo was sprawled on his bed writing in his poetry journal, and wondering if bunnies could read.
Of course, the bunny his girlfriend had become had chomped through half a bag of pretzels, curled up in a little shoebox nest he had made for her and gone to sleep, so the point was moot. But it was still something to ponder.
[OOC: Open!]
Of course, the bunny his girlfriend had become had chomped through half a bag of pretzels, curled up in a little shoebox nest he had made for her and gone to sleep, so the point was moot. But it was still something to ponder.
[OOC: Open!]
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Date: 2008-08-12 01:21 am (UTC)Hell of a cabin name, that.
Reno was pretty sure that Romeo was somewhere in there. Had to talk to someone. Hey. Romeo was good with girl-stuff. Okay.
That was a knock on the door, somewhere down near where Romeo's room should be. Kind of numb, kind of halfhearted. But hell. Knocking. Win.
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Date: 2008-08-12 01:26 am (UTC)Reno. There to bother him about the mime thing, no doubt. He started to smile. "I've already downloaded the photo, so you're too -"
Then he really looked at his friend. "Did something else happen?"
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Date: 2008-08-12 01:29 am (UTC)He shrugged a shoulder, frowning at the sour taste in his mouth and the chill that wasn't really in the air.
"Rikku."
And he shrugged again. That was a word. Great start, that... Right?
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Date: 2008-08-12 01:30 am (UTC)"Is she sick?" he asked, gesturing Reno into his alcove.
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Date: 2008-08-12 01:38 am (UTC)Okay. More words. He was fully capable of adding more words. Most of the time, he had trouble just shutting up, after all.
"Fight. Misunderstanding. Somethin'. I have a big mouth."
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Date: 2008-08-12 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-12 01:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-12 01:53 am (UTC)He looked to Dojima as if for guidance, but she gave none.
"Do you want to marry her?"
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Date: 2008-08-12 01:57 am (UTC)Reno was not full of much in the way of comprehension, tonight. Thinking, hard.
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:03 am (UTC)"I -" he faltered. "I can't tell you that. If you wanted to you would know it."
He started to pick at a thread on his blanket. "I asked Yurika because I was trying to save her from going home. She said no." And he still didn't entirely understand her reasoning on that, really.
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:05 am (UTC)And besides. She deserved better.
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:17 am (UTC)He yanked on that thread again. "I thought if she were married, he couldn't make her take the job he has lined up for her. She told me she didn't want to get married just for that reason." And this was a bit of a sore subject.
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:22 am (UTC)He shrugged.
"Doesn't matter what it would be."
It kind of didn't. She had walked away. He let her.
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-12 02:32 am (UTC)"I don't think it's gettin' married she wants," he said, finally. "She just wants... security. Somethin' I don't have, somethin' I can't give. When it comes down to it, Romeo, I'm theirs. Bein' anything but theirs wouldn't end well."
Somehow, this was easier to say when he wasn't actually talking to Rikku.
"She told me she deserves better."
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:43 am (UTC)He probably would not have offered marriage so readily if he'd thought of it that way. Fleetingly, it occurred to him that Reno could quit his job, but he knew it wouldn't -- couldn't -- happen, any more than Yurika would stop being her father's daughter, any more than he would stop being a Montague.
"To me that's a bit like wanting the moon," he confessed. "She may deserve the moon, but neither you nor I nor most men are in a position to get it. Though I suppose some have longer ladders."
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:48 am (UTC)Well. Meteors suck. Same thing to Reno, who was the moon in this analogy anyhow, wasn't he?
Moons sucked.
"Moons get people killed who get too close. I crush everything, man."
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:53 am (UTC)Not like that mattered that much.
"You don't always have to." It was a small counterpoint.
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:59 am (UTC)He shrugged, attempted a grin that quickly melted into a sour sort of scowl, and then licked his lips again.
"There's better out there. Won't take long to find."
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:06 am (UTC)"Whatever else you are, you love her. Anyone who's seen you with her knows that. I'm the romantic -- I have to believe that will conquer all else."
He played with the thread more viciously. "Did you go after her?"
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-12 03:14 am (UTC)"I don't understand why she needs to know right now about forever," he said. "As far as I can tell, after we graduate Yurika goes home to possibly get killed and I do God knows what God knows where ... and yet, here we are." An wayward glance at the bunnny. "Well, usually."
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:17 am (UTC)He didn't have a choice, in all fairness. But he could certainly understand why 'lol gotta go die now it's been fun' would be somewhat troubling.
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:22 am (UTC)He looked at his hands. "And I just realized why she won't marry me. Yet."
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:26 am (UTC)'Yet' was one hell of a word.
He looked up at Romeo, tired and curious and confused and cold.
"Mind tellin' me?"
At least one of them could have a revelation tonight.
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:29 am (UTC)The yet was largely to spare his ego.
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:35 am (UTC)"Things get complicated, when family gets involved," he mused. Talking about Romeo and Dojima again. Full circle. It certainly felt better to talk about than the previous subject matter. "And Doji's tough. Best thing to do is just keep watchin' her back. Just in-case."
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:39 am (UTC)"As much as she'll let me," he said, hunching forward slightly. "Either way ... so Rikku wants you to pick the Turks or her. And 'both' isn't an answer she'll hear?"
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:42 am (UTC)Reno still had no idea what to do when his guts were being stirred around like that, dammit.
"I can't even give her a 'both.' I mean, I can for now. But sooner or later, I'm gonna have to go back to Gaia to be a Turk. And from there, anything could go wrong. I can't promise forever, or next year, or even tomorrow. All I got to offer is right now."
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:47 am (UTC)He hesitated. "I can see why she's hurt you won't walk away." He wasn't taking sides, just stating a face.
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:51 am (UTC)He went dead silent for a moment, mulling it all over. And the next words out of his mouth- they were very clearly recited. Flat and dry with and every ounce of meaning he'd ever heard Tseng use when he said them.
"All evidence of misconduct must be erased." If that wasn't enough, one last bit of miming- a finger to the forehead, bang, like a gun- maybe that would clarify it a little more easily.
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Date: 2008-08-12 03:56 am (UTC)Finally, he licked his lips. "Does she know that?"
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Date: 2008-08-12 04:00 am (UTC)"She's afraid of bein' hunted down because of what she did in the past. Nobody on Gaia cares what she did. But if I go and tell her they'd kill her for gettin' between them and me, I think it'd... kinda boil down to all that other... stuff. Again. Government and-"
He didn't want to go there. And so he shut himself up.
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Date: 2008-08-12 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-12 04:11 am (UTC)And he firmly believed that, if she couldn't let go when he had to leave, then this right now... Maybe it was for the best.
"Sorry, man. I shouldn't be throwin' all this at you. I mean, you got-" He glanced at Dojima. Oh, right. "-A bunny to worry about."
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Date: 2008-08-12 04:16 am (UTC)"The bunny is happy," he said firmly. "She owes Professor Deadpool baked goods for missing class, and she got to play chase with Aravis. Who is a leopard." He took on a puzzled air. "Do you think they might have all gotten bitten, somehow or by something?"
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Date: 2008-08-12 04:26 am (UTC)"Hard to say, yo. After turnin' into a chocobo for like half a freakin' week, I'm convinced that the island itself is laughin' at us all. I'm probably not the guy to ask."
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Date: 2008-08-12 11:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-12 04:32 pm (UTC)It was entirely possible that yes, he was convinced that the island was out to get them. "See, now it's gonna try to work that into its schedule or somethin'. 'Make Romeo an ugly rat again. For shits an' giggles.'"
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Date: 2008-08-12 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-12 04:45 pm (UTC)Okay, he was almost smiling again, now.
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Date: 2008-08-12 04:50 pm (UTC)Almost-smiles were encouraging.
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Date: 2008-08-12 04:55 pm (UTC)Really, it was difficult to discuss playing dress-up with your best friend, the rodent, without smirking at least a little bit.
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Date: 2008-08-12 05:00 pm (UTC)He was all but laughing, now.
[OOC: Ha, very wrong icon.]
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Date: 2008-08-12 05:05 pm (UTC)"The goggles are an important accessory. I'd be shocked an' hurt if the island ever took 'em away."
They just looked cool, okay?
[OOC: And now I am dead of other-icon. Hee!]
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Date: 2008-08-12 05:10 pm (UTC)Then, more seriously again: "Will you be all right?"
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Date: 2008-08-12 05:17 pm (UTC)He was big on goggle-kinetics?
... Maybe not.
"I don't know," he replied, and there he went all over again, shrugging. "I'll sleep on it or somethin'. Maybe figure out... Stuff."
Maybe figure out what had set it all off in the first place. That would be nice.
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Date: 2008-08-12 05:33 pm (UTC)