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[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

Beetle has decided to wander.  He hasn't really explored much of Milliways as of yet, and he needs to clear his head.  Women are so....distracting, and complicated.  He doesn't understand why, and probably never will. 

He's got a notebook and pencil, occasionally scribbling away in very messy handwriting what seems to be a letter.

His lady back home probably isn't pleased with him, and maybe a letter'll soften her up, for when he plans to go see her.  It'll be soon, he swears!

But he keeps getting stuck.  The words aren't coming out quite the way he wants.

So, he's sitting down outside, and trying to clear his mind.

Well, when you've not got a lot of brains, it's pretty easy.


Distract him?

[Open until his next EP.]

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[neapolitan_man]

Turnabout, and all. Or something. Tony's never been one for philosophy, not while sober.

But if Beetle wants a distraction...

A surprise snog from the Secretary of the Treasury would certainly be distracting, wouldn't it?

At least he took the cigarette out of his mouth first.

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

Fuck! Goddamnit.

"G'off!" He says, flailing at Tony.

At least when Beetle'd kissed him, it was in the spirit of trying to save the world. Not to fuck with him.

"Fucking strawberry."

[neapolitan_man]

"Best way to start the day," he says, with an unsettling grin. "You got a problem with strawberries or something? My girl'd be real sad to hear you say that. So don't say it around her."

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

Beetle curls in on himself a bit. Multifacet like this is always dangerous. It's best to stay with slow movements, or pretend to be dead.

"You're still with the Mayor's daughter? I hadn't heard that."

[neapolitan_man]

"We've been together since high school, and nobody's ever going to break us up, so... yeah. I'm still with the Mayor's daughter. Is he still an asshole? Or do you not see him anymore, these days?"

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

"I see him. Not as much, but I see him. He always gets crabby around this time of year. Wants more villains taken down. But, you know, there's only so much we can do, thanks to our...fantastic government.

Is it treason to badmouth the government to the Secretary of Treasury in a interdimensional bar? Beetle doesn't know.

He looks down at the notebook, and his illegible handwriting and sighs.

"I can't believe I'm going to ask this, but...what keeps you two...going?"

[neapolitan_man]

"That means the government's working just fine," he says, flopping down into a seat next to him and lighting a cigarette. "Would you rather all kinds of government waste, money being spent on people who have nothing to do? No, better to be understaffed and have everyone be busy."

For what that's worth.

"Me and Edie? The fact that we're still as crazy about each other as we were in high school, basically. You lose that spark, you're done for. But we still got it."

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

He turns a page over in his notebook and tries to start again.

"And what about all the time you were in jail?"

This is how desperate Beetle is. Taking love advice from Multifacet.

[neapolitan_man]

"The two most beautiful words in the English language," Tony says, and takes a contented drag on the cigarette. "'Conjugal visits.' Pennsylvania may not have 'em, but it helps if you can bribe officials--but that's more a villain thing than a hero one. Visited whenever she could, wrote me letters, sent me nude pictures."

Oh, the pictures.

"This about your Russian girl?"

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

There's something vaguely unsettling to Beetle about just how happy the term 'Conjugal visits' makes Mulitfacet.

The nude pictures though. That's interesting. Well, it is Spandexwoman, after all.

"Yeah, Kremlina. She's going to either screw me til my brains leak out, or kill me. It's a toss up."

[neapolitan_man]

"Well, what did you do? Something to make her kill you? 'Cause if so, there's your problem right there."

Mmmm, smoke rings.

"I never understood her. Who turns themselves in? Seriously."

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

"I...kinda haven't been going to see her as often as I should...and there's a girl here I kinda...wouldn't mind, you know...but, I think Jordan and I are gonna just be friends. Kinda skittish around people, you know?"

He waves the smoke out of his face. That's one thing he and Squirrel have in common.

"She felt bad. And...I think she wanted to find out what it was like. I dunno. I miss her."

[neapolitan_man]

"...oh, you know Jordan?" he asks with a smirk. "Robot arm? Real nice girl, does great work. I wouldn't want to have her pissed off at me, but then women are generally more dangerous than men to begin with..."

He holds the cigarette a little further away from Beetle, when not actively smoking it.

"Wanted to find out what it's like in prison? She could just watch Fox for that."

[evilontheloose]

What about a Jordan?

You know, in a skirt (gray, knee-length) and combat boots. Over it, a turtleneck sweater, left sleeve drawn back to not stretch over her cybernetic arm.

Oh, are those stockings too? Yes they are...

She is mildly distracted by her music player and a book.

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's weird. Unsettling.

"Jordan," he calls, "hey."

He looks her over. She's got lovely calf muscles.

[evilontheloose]

Jordan blinks up from her distractions and waves to him, with a small smile. "Hi... how are you?"

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

"It's been a weird week. I'll leave it at that. You? You...look different."

Duh, Beetle.

He waves her over hesitantly.

"You aren't still planning on zapping me, are you? I don't know that I could take it right now."

[evilontheloose]

Jordan gets up and moves to his table. "Hm, no. And... sorry I freaked out that way?"

She is actually embarrassed for losing her cool.

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

He nods, "It happens. Oh...met your...friend Bobby last week, I think. Nice enough dude, even if he does have his head up his ass."

He's not going to be happy to find out what she's been up to.

He closes the notebook with a look of annoyance.

[evilontheloose]

That is assuming Jordan will tell anything about what she has been doing with Bobby. "I think it is more up in the clouds. He is nice, but so... naive. But he puts up with my weirdness." Which is good.

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

He chuckles. "Yeeeeah, not exactly too sharp. Really...in denial. But you're cute, and that makes up for a lot of things, in my estimation. And you haven't caused too much mayhem here, so..."

[evilontheloose]

"I caused mayhem here? When? How?" Look, all innocent...

"I have been in my best behavior..."

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

He grins, and ruffles her hair.

"You cause mayhem looking as cute as you do."

[evilontheloose]

She playfully swats his hand away. "Sure..." Jordan still feels a bit embarrassed being praised. But now it is because she knows Ken does not mean anything bad.

[japanese-beetle.livejournal.com]

He's harmless, really.

"So, I think I have something I need to tell you about. But before I do, you have to promise me something. You can't flip out; technically, it wouldn't be that fair for you to flip, but...I want my bases covered. So to speak."