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roof | mid evening | sunday | september 20

After one of those weeks that he'd sooner forget, Alex was feeling a little more settled when he brought himself to the roof for a smoke and some fresh air. The cooler temperatures were welcome for a guy who spent most of his life in a place where the winters were cold as hell, these were almost mild. Still, they were preferred over sweltering days.

Despite the shitty week, he wasn't giving anything away in his posture of his expression. He was fine, he was good and, really, he was a little more settled than he had been. Of course, there were still things weighing on his mind that he wasn't in a rush to do anything about but he was still feeling better than he had.

Rapidfire moodiness did have its benefits. One moment pissed off, the next moment fine. For now, he was just going to smoke and try to ignore everything that was pinging around in his mind. That was his plan.

[see this roof? it's open.]

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An RC helicopter came buzzing through the air followed by a cheerful voice: "Kshhh. Base, this is Akatsutsumi. We are over the alien structure. We're going in closer to investigate. Over." Momoko popped around a corner herself, making sure she was well within the remote's range. Oh, someone else was up here?

"Oops!" Had she bothered him? She directed the helicopter well away. "Sorry," she called out cheerfully, just in case she had.

Alex was just...going to stare at that. Had be been morphed back to grade school?

"You didn't hit me," he said, voice dry. "You would've known if you had."

"I also didn't mean to disturb you!" Momoko landed the helicopter and grinned at the stranger. "I'm Momoko. Some people come up here to be alone and don't like cheerful people like me being around and having fun when they're trying to be mopey and sad."

"Alex," he said, making a face at her statement and then shaking his head. "I could ignore you if you were bothering me. Not that hard to shut people out."

"That almost sounds like a challenge, Alex! You don't know how hyper I can get!" Momoko grinned and gave him a V-sign. "So if you're not being sad and broody, are you just up here to smoke, then? You know that's bad for you, right?"

"Yeah, I know," he said, shaking his head. "Every single person takes the opportunity to tell me like they're related to the frigging surgeon general. I'm gonna die anyway, I'll just go happy."

Momoko nodded cheerfully back at the headshaker. "My theory exactly! Well, except for the smoking part. And my not wanting to die. But I want to be happy, so I do things that others think are silly." She wiggled the remote at him with a wink. "Which is kind of the same, right? Although, I don't see that smoking makes people happy since everyone I know who smokes is totally a grump when they do!"

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"How in the hell are you this cheerful the day before a Monday?" Alex asked, shaking his head. "You're giving me a headache with the happiness."

"Now that's the reaction I usually get!" She laughed, then shrugged. "Why should it being Sunday make me not cheerful? But I've been having fun all day with my helicopter, so I'm extra happy. I like flying! Plus the park was really nice today and I got to meet new people."

"Right, of course," he said, rubbing a spot above his eye. "How very grade school of you. You're not seven are you? All that's missing from that statement is a juice box and timeout."

Somehow Momoko resisted the urge to stick out her tongue at him.

Instead she reached a hand into her pocket and pulled out a bag of gummy candies, holding it out to him. "Nope! I'm seventeen and you sound like you need some sugar. Have a candy! They're gummy fruit! Don't you play with toys? Why is it wrong to have fun and meet new people?"

"No candy, I'm not five so I don't wanna play with toys and I don't like people," he said, answering all the questions and trying to wave her off. "This isn't the playground during recess."

"I never said you were five. But I bet when you become five someday, you'll be less grumpy and you'll eat candy!" Momoko pocketed the gummies. If he wanted to be grumpy and have a headache rather than a piece of candy, she'd let him. "Why do you have to be a kid to like having fun?"

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Valentine couldn't help be a little amused by the helicopter. "Hey," she called out lightly with a smile. "Mind flying that thing over here so I can have a look?"

Ah! An invitation! "Ksshht. Base? We've got another blip on the scanner!" Momoko flew the helicopter over 'to investigate' and let it hover beside the girl, then walked over herself. "Hi! You want to try? It's really pretty easy and it's fun!" She held out the remote.

Laughing, Valentine shook her head. "No, that's okay," she said. "I'm likely to just crash it. I was just mostly interested in the helicopter design, but thanks for the piloting offer."

"Ah! Can't have it crashing! Reno would kill me. Well, not literally. But he'd be sad and disappointed in me, and that's just as bad." Momoko landed the helicopter with a smile. "There you go! Now you can pick it up! Engineer or scientist or pilot?"

"None of the above?" Valentine admitted with a grin, reaching over to inspect the toy. "Just curious. I take it Reno's the person who got this for you?"

"Curious is good, too!" Momoko flashed a V-sign. "And nope. Well, sort of. You could say I inherited it, maybe? Reno gave it to me when he graduated. It was his and he couldn't take it home for some reason. I like to fly, so he gave it to me!"

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"That's an awesome hand-me-down, then," Valentine said with a smile, looking it over with interest despite being ignorant of the details and mechanics. "Probably plenty of good spots to fly it around the island, too."

Momoko nodded, herself totally ignorant of the details and mechanics beyond 'it can fly'. "Although so far I've only flown it a little. It was totally too nice a day to not be outside today so I was in the park with it. It's not the best place to fly, in general, but it's okay if you mind the trees!"

"Did you at least manage to avoid the trees?" Valentine asked with a slight laugh as she handed the helicopter back to her.

There was a pretend pout at that. "Hey now! I'm a better pilot than that! Sure I did. Although it was close a few times!" Momoko flashed a grin, then added, "Any landing you can walk away from, is a good one, though, right?"

"And probably better than anything I would do," Valentine admitted with a laugh. "Besides, the close calls just make it exciting, right?"

"See now I'm curious; you can't be that bad. Are you sure you don't want to try it? Come on! Despite what Mr. Mean says, you don't have to be five to play! I don't even know if I'd trust a five year old with this toy." She held the remote out again, eagerly pointing at the controls. "It's easy, see? This is up, then this for forward."