4th floor common room, Late Sunday night

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair stomped down the hall from his room, carrying Tributary and shaking popcorn from his hair. "I'm so sorry, Trib. She's just a very strange lady."

Tributary just shrugged sleepily and nodded. "Mommy said that you had a crush on her once. Said you must have a thing for girls who can beat you up."

"Shhhh." Blair said, lying on the couch and settling Tributary next to him. "Let's not talk about that where the radio squirrels can hear us."

[Follows this post, for a certain kidlet, but open like common rooms are]

Comments

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"He's thinking about the cyborgs more'n anything else, now. Training. Have to be silent like a ninja, use a sword like a demon slayer, all that."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Would a sword be useful against a cyborg?" Billy asked.

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"Chi blasts. Like ninja stuff. Cuz I can't do magic cuz it don't work," he said, sleepily.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy nodded. Chi blasts didn't work in his world. Death like stasis? Yes. Chi blasts? No. "I'd imagine cyborgs might be confused by that."

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"They do." Josh stared at the guy more intently. "WHo did you say you were?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Billy Kessler. Or William if you're being formal."

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"You're the pegleg?!" Josh was excited. Quiet, but excited. "Dad's talked about you! And he's kinda pissed about some mahogany thing."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"At the moment it's not a pegleg." Billy smirked. "Why's he pissed about the mahogany thing?" Billy wondered if that was done yet. Which made him think of the reason he'd wanted it, which made him think of Ami. And just tonight, that wasn't a good thing.

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"I dunno. Just yelled something about 'if I knew he'd just use it to stake a vampire I wouldn't-a spent two weeks on the damn thing, I'd-a give him a damn pool cue!'. So... I think you broke it? He was drunk when he said it."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Stake a Vampire? That never even occured to me."

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"I mean, he was pissed that you broke it. Not that you used it for vamp duty. Cuz you probably had to. I dunno. Sometimes it's hard to make sense of him when he's like that, y'know?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah but it sounds like he at least has good reason to be drinking. Has he tried actual therapy?"

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"THey run away screaming." Josh snickers.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Wusses."

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"I know! I think he does it on purpose, to be all brain breaky."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Sharing the pain?"

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"I think he makes some of the stuff up. But even his mom was good at it. My gramma. Oh, you should hear her stories of the loonie bin."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"His Mom was in the hospital?" He didn't know that. Maybe he wasn't supposed to.

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yeah. WHen dad was about 10 or something, they got caught at the border or something, and she spent some time in an upscale resort where they require spiffy dinner jackets."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Yikes. That sounds not fun."

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yeah. Dad busted her out when the second Terminator came."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy's mun does not remember what John told him when he thought that duke was the T-1000, so I'm just gonna guess

"Those are the killer robots right?"

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

John's mun had kinda forgotten about that whole Duke/T1000 thing and needs to go back and bookmark/tag it for future reference and snarking.

"Yeah. The one we sent was like the one that tried to kill Mom the first time, and the one they sent was like a liquid metal or something. Wierd."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah why can't killers just be your normal super-spy assasins?"

[apocalypticson.livejournal.com]

"Zactly! Wait. What?"