Room 429, Tuesday Afternoon

[raspberryturk]

"--And you don't even smell that bad," Reno said, holding his ferret in his arms. He'd been going on like this since he'd woken up and decided to strike up a friendly rapport with his pet. "Kinda like sour somethin'-or-other or kinda gunky feet or somethin'. I've smelled worse, yo. I mean, like, I smelled worse, Mako. You should'a seen the kinda junk we had to wade through as Turks. And, I mean, Midgar. There was a city that stank. I miss Midgar. And here I am talkin' to you like a nut. You know, I shouldn't even have a pet? I only agreed to gettin' you when Rikku dragged me to the pet shop 'cause I crave some kinda companionship that ain't gonna leave me just because they find out I'm some kinda heartless government tool--"

That was about the point where he furrowed his eyebrows and frowned.

"And you don't care. You're some kinda weasel thing. So why am I tellin' you this?"

Mako blinked up at Reno lazily, and then set his chin down on his lap and attempted to sleep. Snoozing was hard when someone kept trying to strike up a conversation with you, after all.

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka raised an eyebrow. "Were they SACRED flowers, or something? Because otherwise it sounds kind of stupid that you'd care." He sighed. "Look, just don't do mean things. Maybe you and Deadpool could start a support group."

[raspberryturk]

"They were growin' outta the floor of a church in the slums in a city where not even grass grows, and the ground just stays dead for miles and miles outside of the city, zoto."

Yes, they might as well have been sacred flowers.

"And Deadpool scares the livin' freakin' Hell outta me."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka stared. "Wow. It was pretty crappy of you to step on them, huh? And Deadpool only scares you because you're dating his minion. Really, you guys are the same in a lot of ways. I mean, you're super-awesome in the same ways."

[raspberryturk]

"You figure knowin' a thousand ways to make a grown man wish he was dead is super-awesome? You're messed in the head, Boom." Reno raised an eyebrow at him, and then gave his head a shake. "And I was provin' a point with the flowers thing."

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"It was a pretty crappy point, though. I was in a bad mood."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Well, when you put it that way... not so much. But the dark, mysterious, bad-ass thing is pretty awesome. You know, the whole anti-hero thing. So long as you stay on the right side, now that you're here."

[raspberryturk]

"Am I here?" Reno grinned then, a sharp, dangerous sort of smile that seemed only to be missing fangs that had never actually been there. "I'm wherever I gotta be. What's the phrase them nerds who play those games use? Chaotic neutral, or whatever. I get by. I have the feelin' that Deadpool does the same, zoto."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but all your friends are heroes. We'll keep you on the straight and narrow. Besides, doing bad things will cost you nookie, and that's a pretty damn good incentive right there."

[raspberryturk]

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"You have a real good point there," Reno agreed, blinking. "Okay then. Smack me in the head or whatever if I start actin' like the bad guy, yo."

A pause.

"Sometimes I suck at bein' able to tell the difference."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"It's not really all that hard," Sokka told him. Because he came from Nickelodeon. "Just don't be evil." He shrugged and grimaced apologetically. "I probably won't smack you in the head, I'll just yell at you like I think you're an idiot."

[raspberryturk]

"That works, too," Reno mused. And then smirked. "You're kinda failin' at gatherin' the blackmail material today, huh?"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Utterly and completely," Sokka acknowledged. "I'm doing pretty good at embarrassing myself, though."

[raspberryturk]

"And here I am without my camera." Reno stuck out his tongue. "I'll just have to get you drunk sometime. See if it takes any more scotch to get you fallin' to the floor than it did a few months back, Boom."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Probably not," Sokka answered. "It's not like I've been drinking much lately to build up any sort of tolerance. You want to stretch it out, feed me girly drinks."

[raspberryturk]

"See how many fizzy pink things it takes to completely floor you?" And that earned a laugh. "That could be fun. I'm gonna hold you to that sometime. I'll bring a camera."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Embarrassingly few," Sokka answered. "But that DOES sound like fun, especially if I can break your camera along the way."