On apping at outer_divide

[jimkirk]

So you think just because you wake up in a ship and someone said the word "hero" that I'm gonna be all gung-ho about this?

Seriously? Think again.

I have way more important things to do than screw around in some dystopic fantasy land. Just because it's up your alley doesn't mean it's up mine.

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[original_fine]

Been there. It's no picnic. But Jim... they probably need you. That's what important.

[jimkirk]

[ Oh. You're. Ohhhhh, okay. Jim tries to pretend this isn't super weird. ]

Aw, damnit, why do you have to put it like that?

[original_fine]

I don't have to. You're already thinking it. The thing is, I'd be thinking exactly what you said up there--but we both know that our preferences aren't the point, or we wouldn't have joined up.

[jimkirk]

Man, you got me pegged, don't you.

[ He doesn't like admitting that, but this is kind of a special circumstance. ]

Still! Why can't I go to like, you know.

[ He grins, mostly suggestively. ]

Someplace more fun!

[original_fine]

Don't I know it? There are better things to be pegged as--

That... didn't come out right.

[jimkirk]

[ He laughs. ]

Oh man! I don't know if I'd have put it quite like that!

[original_fine]

Like I said, not exactly what I meant.

Though it's true there are more agreeable places to be sent. Then again, if you're anything like me, you get restless during even the best shore leave.

[jimkirk]

[ He's quiet for a second, remembering what the older Spock had told him, about the life he could have lived - the life this other Jim probably DID live. ]

I just got the ship, so...

I'm not even thinking about shore leave yet. Or maybe ever. I don't belong on the ground, here OR there. Not really.

pestering you is too much fun

[bornsnarky]

[snorts]

[original_fine]

Something to say, Bones junior?

[bornsnarky]

You have a dirty mind, Jim. In any incarnation.

I'm terribly disappointed.

[myresponsibility]

Trust me, they don't really care what other stuff you could be doing back home.

[jimkirk]

Yeah, you'd think I'd have learned that by now, huh?

[myresponsibility]

I'm sure you'll figure it out.

[jimkirk]

I dunno, I might not!

Whether I protest or not, though, in the end I guess I don't have much of a say.

Just wish me and the mun could have matching tastes, though, you know what I mean?

[myresponsibility]

Where would you rather be?

[jimkirk]

[ He has a second where he's not sure how old this kid is, and thinks maybe he shouldn't have this conversation, but, hey, what the hell. ]

Oh, you know. One of those places where everyone has to sleep together to survive. A guy like me would fit in there way better than whatever kind of place this one I'm apparently headed to is.

Plus, that's just more fun. Less stress.

Uh, probably. For me, anyway!

[myresponsibility]

[... Kirk you're kinda gross.]

I think I'd really rather just, you know, stay home?

a Kirk!

[bornsnarky]

Suck it up, Jim.

[jimkirk]

Easy for you to say, hypocrite.

[bornsnarky]

...hypocrite?! The hell are you on about now, kid?

[jimkirk]

Bones, you complain about everything</>! Like you'd really want to be stuck somewhere.

[bornsnarky]

[snorts] Oh, c'mon.

Not everything.

I should stop trying to use HTML from my phone

[jimkirk]

Okay. ALMOST everything.

I've been there, dude. I've been there.

[bornsnarky]

Thank you. Sheesh.

So tell me about this place you're being hauled off to.