Reno of the Turks (
raspberryturk) wrote2009-08-20 07:43 pm
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Edge, Thursday Evening
"I'm friggin' bored," Reno announced, possibly to nobody in particular, possibly to the bowl of beans that he'd picked. "Bored bored bored."
The beans said nothing.
"You know how bored I am?"
The beans waited patiently for a reply.
"I'm so friggin' bored, I'm talkin' to string beans."
This was what happened when Reno got himself suspended from duty for two weeks.
Fear.
[NFB for distance, as usual, but totally open for phone calls!]
The beans said nothing.
"You know how bored I am?"
The beans waited patiently for a reply.
"I'm so friggin' bored, I'm talkin' to string beans."
This was what happened when Reno got himself suspended from duty for two weeks.
Fear.
[NFB for distance, as usual, but totally open for phone calls!]
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Okay, time to confess.
"I screwed up. I don't know how bad. Elena's ... she said I could've screwed up a time-loop." She swallowed. "I'm sorry."
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... Oh. Shit.
"What happened?"
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Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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See? He was the picture of calm. Except for his free hand, which was crushing the life out of a poor, helpless bean.
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He sighed and squished another bean. Die, beans, die.
"You don't know. That's why you don't talk about it. Capiche?" There was now bean goo on his hands. Oh, man. "It's bigger'n him, it was bigger'n us. But knowin' it's comin' and he can't stop it? For a kid like Zack, who wants to be the world's biggest shit?"
Reno didn't particularly like Zack, but he could appreciate that waiting for mass death that you can't stop probably had to suck.
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"We've never talked about it since then. I haven't told him anything else. I won't." It had been hard to be normal around Zack today, at first. She'd forgotten for a while, then it all came back. It made her feel terrible, but she pretty much deserved that. And to have to keep it from Zack. She just wished there was a way to fix it. But. Not that easy.
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"Keep it that way. No talkin' about tomorrow. Live in today. Works better for everyone, yo." He took a slow, deep breath. Calm. Calm Reno was calm and was going to be breaking out the rum tonight. "Ain't easy when you know things, is it? Stuff that'll sting down the road. You just wanna shout it offa the rooftops, zoto."
Zack is going to die.
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Swallowing, Dinah said, "Anyway. Uh. Before you hang up, I have something for you. For the now."
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Reno figured a swift boot to the butt couldn't hurt anything, at least.
"What you got, sittin' in the now?"
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DIY Water_Filter.jpg.
She got back on the line, and said, "You guys can make them yourselves. I think the grass will be the hardest part, but we can ship that too, until you have enough grown for it to work. And I've got pages and pages on how to make bigger ones." Dinah had wanted him to be thrilled about this when she first thought of it, but now it felt like a tiny peace offering after a huuuge screw-up. "I'll e-mail you those."
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"That's for cleanin' up water, is it?" It was simple. It was so simple. "You're right, we are gonna need some kinda grass. Hell, send me seeds. I still got plenty of dirt right here, yo. I can grow it here myself an' then set 'em up around Edge."
Clean water! There were those who could actually afford places to live, and they were lucky enough that they did have some form of filtered water. But there were still entirely too many people living on the streets out there who didn't have that sort of luxury.
This would go awesomely with beans.
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"I appreciate it," Reno decided, grinning faintly. "That's all you gotta do. Kid needs his friends. Don't we all?"
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"Life in Edge is life in Edge," he noted. "Mako's still a ninja-weasel-goose little dipshit thing, an' Rude's doin' fine, too. An' I was the hottest lesbian on Gaia, yo."
Clearly, he was proud of his time spent as a girl. Reno was... special.
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Actually the truth was waaay so much worse than that, but he didn't want to scar the rookie for life by telling her that it had been a dancing striptease. And that it had involved an awful lot of jiggling.
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A beat.
"I swear, I can still taste the paperwork."
Not that Tseng had tasted like paper or anything.
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And that would be Dinah falling down on her ass laughing, totally out of control because wow, licking your boss is steps way beyond flashing and if Reno was good with it, Dinah could only applaud.
So she did.
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"Life with the Turks, Rookie. Ain't never a dull moment."
A beat.
"Unless you're suspended. An' then the time you ain't workin' is freakin' boooooring."
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They smelled about the same.
"An' then he just... changed his mind. Figured a suspension would work better, I guess. He's right. Boredom sucks."
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