Ender's Swingin' Bachelor Pad, Naboo [Wednesday, Fandom time]

[momslilassassin]

The nice thing about how time worked on Naboo was that even a few days away from Fandom meant that Ender and Ben had gotten almost a week to themselves to unwind.

Now the fridge was restocked, the rooms were prepared and the droid Ben had made was bustling industriously around getting rid of dust bunnies.

Ben and Ender were ready for their Fandom (and other universes!) invasion.

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Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

Okay, that earned him a slight thawing out. Being stolen away by Warren was a very nice thing to think about.

"I'll have to see if I can pencil you into my busy schedule," Karla said, because, thawing or not, she was still pretty miserable and grumpy. "I did make a lot of new friends while being left to my own devices."

Of course, all of that aloofness was rendered moot when she turned a pathetic face up to him and added, "My head hurts. My hair hurts. Fix it."

No she wasn't going to tell you how, Warren! Karla had blown threw her allotment of maturity during yesterday's talk with Ender.

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

Warren stood there at a loss for a moment, trying to remember what people used back home for hangover remedies.

"A shower," he settled on. "And drinking plenty of water. And... exercise is supposed to help, but I'm not going to make you get up and start walking around if you're still feeling too rotten for that."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Dun wanna shower," Karla grumped. "Or water." She reconsidered. "Okay, maybe some water. I am thirsty." She dropped a significant glance down at his hands and then repeated, "Even my hair hurts. I can't take a shower and have all that water pounding on my head. It needs to be soothed, first."

Head-rubbies, Warren! Head-rubbies! What was the point of being petulant and passive-aggressive if you weren't going to respond?!?

...Oh. Well-played, sir,

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

Warren was a sneaky one, it was true.

"You know, water is going to pretty much the same thing," Warren mused, even as he took a seat on the bed and gathered her into his lap, carefully, running his fingers through her hair. "But if it makes you happy..."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Is not the same thing," Karla grumbled, but more quietly. She relaxed against him, closing her eyes and letting his hands massage some of the tension out of her scalp. "You're better, so nyah."

How could sitting in your lap and being preened not make her happy?

"How was your night? Besides woefully lacking in Karla?"

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

"Besides that?" Warren was murmuring a bit, himself, not wanting to speak too loudly while she was nursing that headache of hers. "I learned how important it is to make sure the bartender uses the recipe to make certain drinks. And I can't entirely remember, but I think I might have started talking people up to see if anyone was willing to sell me a landspeeder."

Was anyone surprised by this?

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Did you explode?!" Karla asked, pulling away slightly to glare at him. "Argon told me that there were exploding drinks. You exploded, didn't you."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

"I did not explode," Warren sniffed. "I just... had a few minutes of indigestion, is all."

Possibly while his insides stitched themselves up again.

"Look, I'm standing here, all in one piece and thoroughly unexploded."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Try that on the girlfriend that doesn't know you have a Healing factor," Karla said wryly, settling back against him so he could continue his ministrations. "I can't believe you drank things that were explosive."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

Warren chuckled a little, settling back in and massaging her scalp as if he hadn't missed a beat.

"I gained a bit of respect among the patrons of that particular bar for that one," he offered. "Even if the drink is really only potentially explosive. And only if you mix it a certain way."

That 'certain' way was, essentially, the wrong way.

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"From what I remember of the drinks, I'm pretty sure it's explosive if you make it any way but exactly correct," Karla murmured. "I'm so glad that random aliens you'll never meet again respect your ability to drink things and not explode."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

Warren was not going to let up, now that he was getting her to drop from glowering to murmuring, thanks. There was more scalp-massaging, and he wasn't afraid to use his nails, very carefully, for better effect.

"It kept the night more interesting. And once the dancers realized that I'm pretty much made of money, they were more prone to keeping back a few paces if they thought I was going to explode and potentially take them with me."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

Karla chucked softly at that. "Funny," she said. "Finding out I was made of money had the opposite affect at my bar. People couldn't get close enough."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

Warren smirked faintly.

"Well, I kept drinking those things without the recipe in order to perpetuate that fear..."

No lap dances, you brightly-colored sexy women! Warren was a one-woman mutant!

... Okay, maybe a few lap dances.

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

Wait. Were lap dances a thing they weren't supposed to get because they were together? When did that become a rule? Who passed it? Karla had not been informed!

IT DIDN'T COUNT AS A RULE IF SHE HAD NOT BEEN INFORMED!

"So what you're saying is that you found a new way to make sure you have plenty of room to stretch your wings?" Karla surmised. "While proving you're a badass? In space?"

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

WELL, WARREN WAS ENFORCING THAT RULE ON HIMSELF, ANYHOW.

"And getting actually drunk," Warren added, smirking a little as he ran his fingers through her hair again. "Getting drunk is easier to do, apparently, when you're drinking those things."

Super-alcoholic drinks that kept his healing factor busy rebuilding his insides!

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

...WHY?

"And getting a hangover is also easier to do," Karla grumbled into his chest. "Because the alcohol is harder to metabolize when neither my body nor my Black Widow systems recognize it."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

Because he was a hopeless romantic, Karla. That's why.

"I think my body just treated it like any foreign substance," Warren noted, "and tried to break it down as efficiently as it could."

Rub it in some more, Warren.

"I'd, um, offer to help with that, but a blood transfusion for the sake of a hangover might be a little extreme."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

See, but if you went together, Karla would be willing to share them with you!

Again, she raised her head to pout at him. "If you could feel the way my head was throbbing, you wouldn't think so," she informed him. "I might die, you know."

Yup. Die. It could happen.

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

"So you'd like me to open a vein and bleed on you?" Warren's eyebrow, Karla. See how raised Warren's eyebrow was, here? That was the eyebrow that suggested that you were being silly. "Could be messy."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Would be worth it," Karla muttered. See how pouty her lip was, Warren? That lip suggested she was clinging to her silliness because she could.

...Besides, you ignored her attempt to draw you into silliness before, with your refusal to get even a little jealous and pet her ego.

"I have a headache."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

"And you know I'd have to cut you open, too, for it to do any good?"

Just making sure they were clear on this. Mutant blood did a lot of things, but it did not transfuse itself.

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Only my head," Karla argued. "And it would be worth it, because sawing my skull open can't be any worse that having it explode out one temple as whatever unnatural, alien being that took up residence inside of it comes bursting out in a shower of blood and gray matter."

Karla was so eloquent when she wished to be. And, notice, even hungover, she didn't mention bone shards.

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

Warren and his Panem traumas were very thankful for that, Karla.

Very, very thankful.

"... Okay, then! Time for a shower!" And up he was standing, lifting Karla right along with him. "It'll do you some good. Probably more than me giving you some sort of cheap home lobotomy ever could."

Re: Day Two: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"You just want me to have alien head-babies," Karla accused, resting her head on his shoulder as he carried her to the house. "Big, green, pulsating alien, head-babies. Filled with goo. And brains. My brains."

If nothing else, Karla could be very creative when the mood struck her!