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roof | early evening | thursday | august 27

Alex was finding himself more attracted to the roof than the deck lately, which was a change from earlier in the summer. He couldn't really pinpoint why save for the fact that he liked smoking on the roof. Today was no different. He'd lit up as soon as he'd pushed onto the roof and was halfway done before he'd even sat down on the ledge.

Things felt slow lately, like they were moving in slow motion and it was making him itchy. He really didn't want to think of it as bad omens considering he still was trying to not think about that other Fandom but those thoughts crept in more likely than not.

He shook his head at himself and made his mind go blank. Easier to deal with.

[i'm bored and it's about to storm like hell. so, natch, this is open!]

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Alex narrowed his eyes at the laughing and stubbed the cigarette out violently enough to scrape his knuckles against the roof's wall. Whatever.

"Of course I've fucking met you," he snapped. "I just didn't know someone could put a collar around you, yank your chain and have you turn tail and fucking run like that."

He knew nothing. Nothing at all.

Rose opened her mouth to snap back then shut it again. They came first. Wasn't like he wasn't right.

"Does it matter?" she asked, tossing her head. "Why would you care anyway?"

Fine. If that was how it was going to be, whatever.

"I don't but since you have graced us with your presence again, I'm taking my opportunity where I see it," he sniped, tone laced with sarcasm. "It's such an honor for me and all."

"Yeah, I can see where it would be," she snarked back. "And you don't know anything about what would yank my chain or not, so go on and play with that opportunity there, Alex."

"Obviously they didn't yank hard enough," he said, deciding just to go with it since she was giving him permission, even if she wasn't, really. "Didn't need that much, did they?"

Stop, Alex, stop.

"Not really," Rose snapped, turning to look over the wall. "But hey, sorry to disappoint you and come back."

"I wasn't expecting you back at all," he confessed tightly. "So, hey, got a surprise for the day. Lucky me, right? It happens so rarely."

"Jesus, Alex, I don't know if you're pissed that I left or pissed that I came back or if you're just pissed and I'm here to bitch at," Rose snapped. "Make up for fucking mind."

At this point, he didn't really know either. He just knew he was pissed, it had been at her and he just couldn't let it go.

"Or what?" he asked, throwing out the only retort he really had that wasn't admitting why he was pissed. "You'll make it up for me?"

Wouldn't be the first time that had happened to him.

She glared at him. "Hell no, I don't get involved in people's minds. And you don't have a clue, do you."

"Who said anything about getting involved in my mind?" he asked, staring. "Can you do that shit? Have you done that shit to me?"

The anger dropped for a minute, replaced with sudden fear that she'd seen things he'd been trying to keep hidden. It wasn't like Emma who'd told him up front so he could bury things.

Rose stared at him. "...no. I can't do stuff like that," she said quietly. "Not to anyone here."

"Don't fucking stare at me," he said, deflated for the moment and turning away to rub his head and hair like that would keep anyone out. "People don't often go to messing with someone's mind when you say something like I said."

She shrugged, looking down at the ground. "Yeah, well. I'm not going to make you anyway."

"Too bad, that'd almost be familiar," he muttered without really thinking and stared down at his feet.

"Familiar shit doesn't happen here," she pointed out, leaning against the wall for a moment. "Just the unfamiliar shit."

"Whatever," he said, pissed at himself more than her for the moment. "What the hell are you back for? You fucking said goodbye like that was it."

"Thought it was," she said with a shrug. She winced as she pushed herself up to sit on the wall. "They did a bunch of tests and some other shit happened, and then they sent me back."

"I don't know what the fuck you're talking about," he reminded her snippily. "You just said goodbye and then you fucking left. You're acting like I should know better when, no, I shouldn't."

The automatic response was to tell him to fuck off, but astonishingly Rose restrained herself.

"Yeah, cause we sit around and share our fucking life stories," Rose snapped back.

She almost restrained herelf.

Edited 2009-08-28 02:39 (UTC)

Hey, he was perfectly fine with getting right back into that argument.

"No one probably has to tell you since you can do that mind trickery shit," he shot back heatedly. "Go ahead, look in my fucking head and check it out. If you so wanna know my life story, look."

Who cares if she said she didn't or couldn't do it with people here. He was not talking sensibly.

"I'm a fucking bodyguard, Alex," Rose said, still pissed off. "I can't read your freaking mind. Tell me your life story if you want me to know it, but its not getting pulled out of your head."

Sensible really was at a loss for this conversation.

"You're a bodyguard?" he asked, sounding disbelieving. "For what? Poodles?"

"You knew that, you fucking moron," Rose snapped. "What, you think I was making shit up over in the - when we were over there? I've been training since I was four to protect people from vampires."

He opened his mouth to deny that he'd known but it flooded back to him as soon as he allowed himself to think of that place.

"I try not to think about anything that happened over there," he admitted, still heated but quieter. "I sleep fucking better at night."

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