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[honest-johns.livejournal.com]

Alain's staked out the usual corner of the usual couch. Tea, for a change, and french fries. He's starting a new book, obtained by the usual method of asking the bar for something interesting. It's in English, this time: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by a man named L. Frank Baum.

So far, the little girl has just been swept up by a great wind, and dropped in a country full of slow mutants, killing an evil witch thereby.

Alain is still figuring out whether he likes this story.

Tucked into the book as a bookmark is a note the bar produced with his food.

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[honest-johns.livejournal.com]

"A menace," Alain repeats firmly. "With glitter and polish."

[awesome_lilly]

"Well, if I am, it's your fault," Lilly replies just as firmly.

She's got a logical explanation for why this is true, of course. For given definitions of logical.

[honest-johns.livejournal.com]

Alain's look at her is saying, This makes sense how...?

[awesome_lilly]

"Well," Lilly points out. "I have a gunslinger boyfriend, and gunslingers are menacing. So, in order to be a proper gunslinger girlfriend, I have to be menacing too. Thus, it's all your fault."

And that is how this makes sense. To Lilly, if no one else.

[honest-johns.livejournal.com]

Drily, "And you'd tell me that you weren't so before?"

[awesome_lilly]

"Not at all," Lilly says, straight-faced. "I was sweet and innocent and completely unthreatening."

She sighs, shaking her head.

"The menacing thing is all due to you. You're a really corrupting influence, you ken?"

[honest-johns.livejournal.com]

Alain doesn't dignify that with a response.

Well, not aloud. The yeah, right look is fairly eloquent.

[awesome_lilly]

It's a good thing Alain's being dignified.

Because Lilly's sticking her tongue out at him.

[honest-johns.livejournal.com]

...

Look, he's snickering again.

[awesome_lilly]

And that makes Lilly laugh, and thus stop sticking out her tongue. Alas.