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[extrashades]

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.........................Quit it.

[Translation: No, you are not apping me there. It will not happen. Quit prodding me.]

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[extrashades]

If only you'd shut up about it after.

[notontheflowers]

That's part of my mystique.

[extrashades]

Mystique?

[notontheflowers]

How much does anyone actually know about me outside of you an' Tseng huh?

[Nobody knows the truth but you two, and even then Tseng probably dones't know as much as you Rude.]

[extrashades]

I wouldn't know.

[notontheflowers]

Exactly.

[extrashades]

...because I'm not them. Besides, mystique implies a mystery in there somewhere...

[notontheflowers]

[There's a laugh.]

People only see what I feel like showin' 'em, Rude my man.

[He's the King of BS and pretending everything is hunky dory after all.]

[extrashades]

[Giving the Look now. Clearly he doesn't believe you, Reno. He's calling it. Knows you too well, remember?]

[notontheflowers]

[Dude. You and Veld are the only two who know that the plate still gives him Odin damn nightmares and he actually dislikes killing kids. Even Elena doesn't know that he saves his spare change in empty water cooler jugs, has seven siblings (and more nices and nephews than he can count), ran the obstacle course barefoot for the longest time and the reason he doesn't wear a tie is that he was nearly killed climbing a building because of it.]

I actually show up early to make coffee for us before hittin' the pool. 'Laney thinks it's Tseng and i'm always late.

[extrashades]

She thinks that's Tseng? ...first I heard of it.

[notontheflowers]

[he may be from earlier in life than you Rude.]

He's the 'responsible one' remember? I'm the lazy ass.

[extrashades]

I never pegged you for lazy.

[notontheflowers]

You've also known me since I was a punkass teenager. Not everyone got the benefit of seein' me run laps barefoot 'cause I felt like it.

[extrashades]

Elena's still inexperienced. She'll catch on.

[notontheflowers]

Fifty gil says it takes her at least a year.

[extrashades]

Six months. She isn't stupid.

[notontheflowers]

Nine. I've been doing this for over a decade.

[extrashades]

No cheating.

[notontheflowers]

...Define cheating.

[extrashades]

...

Cheating. Verb.
1. to defraud; swindle: He cheated her out of her inheritance.
2. to deceive; influence by fraud: He cheated us into believing him a hero.
3. to elude; deprive of something expected: He cheated the law by suicide.

...Happy?


[What? Reno asked. Besides, Rude could be a jerk, too.]