Roof, Night

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip was waaaaaayyy too tired to go to Poker Night. Plus, people always got angry at him when he cheated.


Instead, he sat up on the roof, cigarette in his mouth, playing his guitar. Anyone who wants to join him is welcome. Anyone who wants to emo is also welcome.

As long as they understand that if they do, he'll start playing Salsa music, just to throw them off.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

*scratchy scrabblly noices can be heard over the side of the roof.*

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip looked around to the side of the roof. Creeping over slowly, he raised his guitar behind him, ready to strike.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi's head pops up over the side of the roof.

"... I don't think that's how you're supposed to play that."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Depends on your style of play," Pip responded. "Why didn't you use the stairs?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi pulled her self up onto the roof.

"I suppose I could." she said. "But This way is shorter and more exciting."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"And probably colder," Pip said, holding a hand up to help Pippi onto the roof.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi took his hand to let him pull her the rest of the way up.

"Thanks." she said. "I don't generally get cold unless it's really cold. Papa used to call me his 'little walking blast furnace'."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"That's an interesting name," Pip said. "Does it work for heat as well?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi gave that some thought.

"I'm given to understand that Kurakuradutt is very hot indeed, but I don't think so... Of course, I tend to wear less when I'm there."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip nodded. "True enough. Just wondering if temperature resistance was included on your list of super abillities."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"... There's a list?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Is there?" Pip asked, sitting down in his chair and plucking at his guitar. "I mean, is there anything beyond the strength?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi pulled a chair over by Pip and sat down to listed to him play his guitar.

"I don..." she looked up. "I guess maybe? I never thought about them as 'super abilities', it's just stuff I do."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip laughed. "Fair enough. What are those other things that you do, then?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Um... I can... Bake really well... And I can dance the Schottishe. I don't tend to get sick... I can change my voice. I can sail a ship by myself. And that farmer seemed surprised when he gave me that rusty old car and I got it to run..."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Well," Pip said, "I like your list of things better than mine." He strummed the guitar a bit.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"You make fabulous creepies." Pippi ticked off on her fingers. "You have more guns then Navarone. Your hair does not appear to ever get tangled. You play the guitar. You are very good at taping golf carts to walls and ceilings... And you smell nice."

She tried to think of something else.

"I'm forgetting something but that's a pretty good list I think."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip simled. "Thanks. I think. Never had anyone tell me I smell nice. I thought I generally smelled like cigarettes. No, I was more thinking among the lines of I know so many ways to kill people with such a variety of implements."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi snapped and pointed at him.

"That's what I was forgetting."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip laughed. "That's a big one to miss, Me-pi. One of my more defining characteristics."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"One might say it's your most endearing quality." she grinned back.

"Much of the time folks get mad at such things. But when you do it, it's charming."

Tommy and Annika's mother used to say that to Pippi about a great number of things.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"When I do what, kill people?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Yes, people... and jokes."

*pokes in arm*

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip laughed. "Yes, I was particular good at that one. My grandfather taught me how to do that himself. Said it was too important to leave to any common soldier."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi thought about the most important thing Grandfather Fabe had taught her... Quite possibly it was how to hug somebody without rupturing the spleen.

This could possibly be added to the list of "super abilities", but Pippi decides not to bring it up.

"He sounds like quite the formidable fellow. I should be fearful to meet him in a dark... comedy club."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes," Pip said. "Ole' Granpere is absolute death in a comedy club. A lot of our jobs were just hiring him to kill someone in a Comedy Club. He'd slip in, kill the joke, kill the guy, and slip away again."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Yer Gramps was a comedy ninja?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"....Yes?" Pip said. "Nah. He was actually a cranky old man who wasn't very good at raising kids. How my father survived I'll never guess."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Possibly had something to do with your Gramma?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"True enough," Pip said. He shrugged.