[ OPEN ] snake charmer

[braidedwonder]

Who: braidedwonder & Open
When: 7/7 - After exiting ViViD
Where: Apartment Complex, street of Cerealia & market areas
What: Duo bullies Heero in to moving in, and then has to make the apartment actually useable..
Rating/Warning: None? But it's Duo so it could always happen.

[ CLOSED ] FOR HEERO

"Listen, Heero, go pack up Wing and start sleepin' here. It makes no sense for me to have a bedroom I'm not even using anyways.." That's how all of this had started, anyways. At least before they'd gone to collect Heero's small collection of things, and had to carry them from one place to another. Thankfully Heero wasn't as much of a pack rack as he was, and the moving hadn't taken too long but.. the whole getting used to another body in his space might take a little while, again. Thankfully he was used to having Heero around, and he was a quiet roommate, so there wasn't much to bother with when it came to getting annoyed or anything stupid like that. Mostly, he's going to have to get used to having Wing and Deathscythe in one place and one apartment, which meant a little bit of chaos when they had first started settling in. Gundams messing around with each other started out cute -

Until thermal weapons started being used. And then it was a huge risk to life and limb.

Thankfully they'd been easily separated, and their weapons hidden away, and the apartment had settled in to a quiet place once again. At leat until Duo decided that it was dinner time, and -

"Heero? Any preference for dinner?"

[ OPEN ] IN THE STREETS

There's Duo, his backpack slung on his back as usual, filled with some of the things that Heero would let him carry, a box in his arms. They're moving like teenage boys on a mission, at least, but after the whole beach episode everyone seems to be out and about so.. it calls for a few stops and "excuse mes" from time to time. Or just, you know, the occasional bump in to someone if he was too busy trying to navigate around one person for avoiding another -

- So forgive him if he gives you a little jostle, ok?

 

 

[ OPEN ] GROCERY SHOPPING

Legitimately fresh fruits and vegetables are still such a novelty to a kid that's used to freeze dried or transported foods that were just.. not quite up to snuff for most people who had never lived on a space colony before. So, after he'd done helping his war buddy unpack and leaves him to get things organized as he wants them - he's back at the grocery stores and markets that he can find along the way, picking up and examining things and probably taking more than a few taste tests until -

Oops - bumping in to someone with a little grunt of surprise, dropping the pomegranate in his hands. "Shit - my bad! You didn't drop anything, did you?"

Comments

[braidedwonder]

"Yeah yeah, I'm just sayin'." Duo probably wouldn't even be bold enough to ever declare himself to be Heero's friend in front of him except if he was willing to play it off as a joke. After all, he wasn't going to go around asking to be told any differently, and even though they'd worked together closely for a while now.. let's be honest - he still isn't sure how to gauge Heero from time to time. Gauging any of them was a hard game to play, but the stoic Wing Zero pilot was a completely different basket of games. And really, these days he was too tired to really try to riddle things out with too much intensity - he figured that they might just.. shake out on their own if given the time of day.

"Hell if I know - it isn't like we sit around and talk out our feelings and whatever we did before we touched down on Earth." He's honest, at least, in not pretending to know what goes through Heero's head or what exactly it is that he's lingering on, but - there's a slight hesitation before Duo decides to just say screw it and continue. "But - I just know that none of us had it real easy, and I know that sometimes you get that far off look on your face that I get when I'm getting a little too sucked up in what's already been done."

[perfectdisaster]

"As am I." If it were him, Heero probably wouldn't be able to say he'd want to call himself his friend, so Duo has nothing to worry about there. He's awkward, he's socially stupid, he prefers to be on his own, and doesn't really play well with others. It's not that he doesn't try, but more that he really doesn't know how.

The books closed, he pushes them aside and stretches out on the floor, taking a moment to enjoy the space before retreating and sitting up. "There is nothing in my past that warrants mentally rehashing things I can't change." Not that he doesn't do it anyway... "And even if we did, I wouldn't have anything to say."

[braidedwonder]

"Just 'cause you have nothin' to say about it doesn't mean that you don't rehash it in your brain when you aren't thinkin' about it." Duo pauses, then, fiddling with something on his clothing as if he's weighing his next words pretty heavily. Sometimes he could be a real asshole, and talk too quickly with too strong words, but at the moment he seems to be taking his time and really.. thinking things through, while he can.

"Or from thinking about things in your dreams that you haven't thought about or relived in the shittiest ways in years." Nightmares meant that he normally slept in cat naps. Enough to be restful, but not long enough to make him wake up in some way that probably would be rather unbecoming if he thought about it too hard and squinted. "Though I guess knowin' you, you might be able to control your brain waves or some crap us peasants can't for all I know."

A short pause, then - "I'd think about being jealous of that."

[perfectdisaster]

"If it makes you feel better, I can't." Not that it wouldn't be a useful thing, given how bad the nightmares tended to be, but the amount of training it would probably take to get there wouldn't be worth it. "That would require being aware of one's thoughts while asleep, and I don't know that it's even possible. It's one thing to regain consciousness without someone noticing, but even that requires being conscious of bodily function on some level."

He's probably not going to get too much more done in terms of homework, so for now, he'll start packing up the books. Anything else he has to do can be done at another point in time -like right before class, or during, or he'll skip and not do it at all. "...I don't know why I decided to accept their idea of going to school. It isn't as though I'm actually learning anything. The lessons are boring, and I skip more classes than I attend."