Room 312, Late Morning

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

Ranma couldn't just wait until Wednesday to have a little TALK with Chad. He couldn't believe how upset Teddy was yesterday. And as far as Ranma is concerned it's Chad's fault. He waited until it wasn't too early before he walked to Chad's room and knocked loudly. Chad's in big trouble for making Teddy cry.

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[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Uugggghhhhnn..."

Loud pounding on door in morning no good. Wake sleepy Chad up. Chad smaaaash.

Reluctantly pulling himself away from a nice sound sleep, fueled possibly be the faint scent of drunken boykissy still in his pillows, Chad got up, scratched his stomach, and went to see who was crazy enough to think it was okay to wake him up this early on Tuesday. TUESDAY!

"Ugh." The was a hello as he opened the door, an inquiring one. He was still not quite awake.

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

Ranma holds back an urge to punch him. He looks pissed. Very. //Chad I can't believe you!//

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad's brow furrowed in an expression of confusion. //"Uhhh, what?"//

Too, too early for pissed-off Ranma's, especially when you have no idea what they're talking about.

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

//I went into Teddy's room yesterday and he was so upset cuz his boyfriend dumped him and he told me you two kissed and that's why! And now Billy broke up with him! Why would you do that?!// Ranma's not good with coherence.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

//"What? Billy...broke up with Teddy?"// Chad's eyes widened a little; the colour of his face seemed to drain to a grey. There was a moment where he looked gravely pensive. //"Fuck. I gotta go talk to him..."// Chad reached for a nearby shirt strewn over a chair, started shrugging it on as he tried to move past Ranma into the hall.

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

Ranma stands firmly in his way looking quite mad. //NO! You're talkin' ta me first.//

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad stopped. "Okay..." He stood looking at Ranma expectantly while buttoning up his shirt. //"Let's talk."// He hoped whatever it was that'd gotten up Ranma's ass didn't take long, because he wanted to make sure Teddy was okay.

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

//Tell me what happened.//

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

//"What'd'ya mean, 'what happened'?"//

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

//I MEAN "what happened?". It ain't that hard ta understand.// This is probably a side to Ranma that Chad's never seen.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad drew in a deep breath, released it, and leaned against the doorframe with his arms crossed in front of him. //"You mean, the other night. After the performance."//

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

//If that's when it was then that's what I mean.//

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

//"Okay, I'll tell you."// There was a pause; Ranma might notice a hard gaze coming down at him from behind that curtain of hair. //"As soon as you tell me why it's any of your business."//

Chad? Not too happy with the untimely and, in his opinion, uncalled for interrogation. At. All.

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

//It's MY business cuz' I had to comfort Teddy CRYIN' in my arms last night!//

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Shit. He was crying?

//"Jus' lemme go talk to him, Ranma. Sorry you had to do that, but what happened between us should stay between us. I should talk to him."//

By the sounds of it, the last thing Chad needed right now was for someone else to get invlved in what was spanning out to look like quite a big mess.

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

Now it's not at all the same as defending Teddy. Here we go into self-preservation. He stands his ground, "No!"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Another deep breath. Ranma's loyalty was something Chad had admired in him, but this was just getting a little out of hand. //"What is there to know? We got drunk, mistakes were made, now I'd like to go fix them..."//

But I can't, because someone's too busy sticking his nose in the way...

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Ranma, having no reason not to let this happen, steps out of the way. //Fine... but I jus' made him feel better so try not ta push him too hard...//

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad had started moving the moment Ranma had given him the space, but he stopped. //"Push him? Why would I push him? I'm going to apologize..."//

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

//How should I know?// He doesn't really.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad sighed, looked down the hallway to the stairs, and then looked back toward Ranma hesitantly. //"Y'really wanna know what happened?"//

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

//No..// He's moved to wayyy meek in a matter of moments.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad, who was already preparing a series of quiestions in his head in finding out exactly what Ranma knew and didn't know before they sat down and talked about this, was a little more than surprised by his answer.

No? All that, and thehn he gets a no?

This breath was bigger than the previous ones, because the previous one's weren't trying to quell anger, just annoyance. His jaw set tightly, Chad closed his eyes and asked, trying to stay calm, //"Then why the hel...Then why did you come down here, beating on my door and yelling at me if you didn't really want to know?"//

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

//I was doin' it for Teddy. I wanted ta know for Teddy's sake. But I don't really want ta know...//

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad grunted, rubbing his eyes for a moment before running his hand through his hair with a sigh. Ugh. Was Ranma like this when they dated? Seriously?

He grunted again. //"Ugh, fine, whatever. I'm gonna go find Ted..."//

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

//He's probably at work.//

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Oh."

Chad's shoulders dropped. This was not the sort of thing you came and interupted someone's work with. //"Y'know when he gets out?"//

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

Ranma shook his head.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

//"Shit. Guess I'll just have to keep an eye out for him..."//

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

Ranma feels his job is done. He's done his proper brotherly duty. Time to run away. Or try.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

The less-than-subtle attempt to run off earned Ranma an arch of Chad's brow. He was too bothered by the news to really care too much. Ted and Billy broke up? Ted, crying? All because of one drunken night that, really, comparitively, was nothing at all?

Chad grunted. He may as well go back to sleep for now...

[ranma-sao.livejournal.com]

Ranma hopes that, if Teddy is mad about him telling Chad, that he gets over it fast.