No. 29 [voice]

[hackeralastair]

Well, goddammit.

I've spent like a year and a half working for Stark, minding my own business, staying out of trouble, and letting pretty much everyone that works around me believe that I was a local just like them. Nobody ever had any idea that I was an 'import,' and I was fine with that. I pass for normal just fine. But not anymore. Dammit, I don't even know why, but one of the secretaries was hassling me about a work party for Christmas and I just up and blurted it out. That I'm not even from here.

Dammit!

At least it got her off my back. Not the import thing, the whole diatribe about why I don't want any part of those plans and get that damn mini-tree off the empty desk thank you very much. I might not have liked Weaz by the time he got ported out of here but at least I can keep his desk from being the site of any stupid trees.

....and why the hell am I even bothering to tell you people this?


((ooc: yep, truth bug))

Comments

[hackeralastair]

Even though she doesn't like Kyosuke and is an annoying little shit around me?

I mean sure, it's not as bad as it used to be, she's warmed up to him a little but still.

[shiromadoushi]

She's Saitou-san's cat. And he'll be back, he always comes back. Sometimes it just takes a while

[hackeralastair]

[grumble] Yeah, yeah, same reason Kyosuke won't get rid of her. I miss the guy too but you don't see me crying over his socks or something.

[shiromadoushi]

[[just a sigh]]

I cried a lot when Kogenta-kun was Ported out. Long after he was gone. [[winces a little. God he sounded like a girl there]] It just happens when someone you care about is taken away.

[hackeralastair]

.....yeah?

Well, I'm not you, Bakura. Besides, everybody in the whole damn city knows how pissed I get when someone I care about is ported out.

[shiromadoushi]

Then you don't have to be so down on Kiryuu-kun about it.

It's like you can't go a day without being a jerk about something...

[hackeralastair]

Who said I...wait what did you just say to me?

[shiromadoushi]

I said it seems like you can't go a day without being a jerk about something. Either it's your coworkers, whatever fun thing is going on, Kaiba-kun, Aome, something always pisses you off and you have to grumble about it.

It really wears on my nerves at time... like you can't just let people enjoy anything.

[hackeralastair]

Oh yeah? Well I'd rather be a jerk than a pansy who meddles in everyone's life like he thinks he knows better than them!

[shiromadoushi]

[[and just... stunned silence. Ouch, Alastair. Ouch.]]

[hackeralastair]

[low blow for low blow...honesty is not always the best policy]

.....shit.

[shiromadoushi]

Am... am I really that bad...?

[hackeralastair]

S-sometimes...you can be... [he's trying not to but HE CAN'T STOP]

Why am I saying this?!

[shiromadoushi]

Because there's something making people say things they wouldn't.

both Jonah-kun and I have it too.

[hackeralastair]

Oh god.

I mean...okay. It's not that I don't like you. You're my friend, and...

None of that is going to mean anything right now, is it?

[shiromadoushi]

I--

[[moment of just choking on words before he just gives in]]

I don't know.

Things are just... Kaiba-kun's a jerk, Jonah-kun went back to Keith, Hiruma-kun and everyone aren't back yet and not even Quatre's returning my texts.

And then I come home and you're complaining about the tree again.

[hackeralastair]

I'm sorry. I really am. I didn't mean to say that...it just came out.

[shiromadoushi]

I know. I didn't mean to complain either.

It just...

Sometimes it really wears me out. Is it so bad to want to enjoy things like Christmas?

[hackeralastair]

No...but it's like that guy said on the comm the other day. Is it so bad to not want to be part of that?

[shiromadoushi]

I only was going to ask you to come to the party. But since I put up the tree... It wouldn't fit well in my room. That was the only place to put it. And I really like the tree

[hackeralastair]

Bakura.

[sigh]

It's because I care about you that I haven't tried to set the tree on fire.

And by setting the tree on fire I mean asking Kyosuke to do it with his power.

text/encrypted;

[pacifister]

Hey.

Voice/encrypted

[shiromadoushi]

Quatre! I was getting a little worried, I hadn't heard from you. [[so much relief in his voice right now that he doesn't quite realize he's gonna be saying too much here now]]

How's everything? Are you back yet?

voice/encrypted;

[pacifister]

[He sounds tired, speaking quietly so that he isn't overheard from the rooms nearby.]

Not yet. Something unexpected came up.

voice/encrypted;

[shiromadoushi]

[[and he lowers his voice to match]]

Is everything all right...?