dicking around because fight me

[versatility]

[ after a lengthy pause- ]

I'm sorry, were you awaiting some kind of applause or congratulations for this? You may consider this some kind of miraculous achievement that you're even daring to bring me out in the open, but frankly, you and I both know that doesn't mean you'll actually do anything with me.

[ he affects a quirked brow, and a vaguely amused quality to his smile. ]

Besides, I'm enjoying myself at the moment. Whatever happened to not fixing things that aren't broken?

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[debts]

She should take your advice.

[versatility]

Of course she should, but she's flighty and changeable. I won't be holding my breath.

[debts]

[ Tsk, tsk. ]

You should give her more credit than that.

[versatility]

Only when she gives me reasonable cause to believe in her. In the event that she does, I'll gladly take it back and admit my mistake.

[ said with the reasonable confidence of never going to happen ]

[debts]

You remember being that age. She has a lot on her plate.

[ Which is a reminder, really, rather than a lesson.

Liars don't treat liars that way, after all. ]

[versatility]

I remember it very well, actually, and she has my sympathy - but not everything is a product of our circumstances. There are always things that are just part of who we are, and we can accept them or change them.

[ he's one to talk... ]

Admittedly, if age is anything to go by, then being fickle will hopefully wear off in time.

[geotactics]

At least yours didn't throw you into a sex island right off the bat.

[versatility]

[ .. o





really now ]

I wasn't aware that was an option that existed. [ with great amusement, ] A sex island...

[geotactics]

Yeah, well. Didn't last very long.

[versatility]

What a shame. I imagine it must have been right up your street.

[geotactics]

Sure. You know me.

[ THIS EXPRESSION. ]

[versatility]

I know you're full of surprises, if that's what you mean, and this is certainly one of them.

[ : D... ]

[geotactics]

Hey, it wasn't my choice. But you had to learn how to adapt otherwise get choked out.

[versatility]

[ peering at him curiously. ]

You make that sound rather literal.

[geotactics]

It was literal.

[versatility]

And suddenly the idea of a sex island is not quite as appealing as it seemed five minutes ago. [ ... looking pointedly at arthur, ] Unless that happens to be to your tastes, I suppose.

[boutant]

She might not do anything with you, but the possibility is still there.

[geotactics]

[ That's like saying SHE MIGHT NOT FUCK YOU, BUT SHE COULD STILL FUCK YOU. ]

[versatility]

[ pipe down, you ]

[geotactics]

[ no the adults are talking ]

[versatility]

[ i think you'll find that's adult, singular, mr. sassypants

spoilers, it's not you ]

[boutant]

[ hee :D ]

[boutant]

[ Well it's true. ]

[geotactics]

[ It's still the least comforting statement he's ever heard, Ariadne - second only to Cobb's "I'm fine." ]

[boutant]

[ Wow low blow. ]

[geotactics]

[ Legit, tho. ]

Comforting.

[ qt. ]

[boutant]

I just don't think he should write her off.

[geotactics]

Yeah - never know what might happen.

[ Case in point: sex islands. ]

[boutant]

Exactly.

Well, he'll find out one way or another, I guess.

[versatility]

Ah, yes. One of the great virtues of being human - we're always full of possibilities.

[boutant]

Ones you seem perfectly content to ignore. She might not push you off to a spaceship or a weird city or Arthur's sex island, like you're expecting, but there are other options.

[ And Ariadne would rather like the chance to talk with more of 'her people' either way. ]

[versatility]

Denial has always been one of the easiest traps to fall into. [ ha ha and don't they all know it. still, in a moderately curious way, ] Enlighten me, though, Ariadne - where else could she take me? Spaceships and sex islands are already a whole spectrum as far as I'm concerned.

[boutant]

One you're perfectly aware of and yet are falling into anyway. [ :| ]

There are... less public things, just between a few people. Just because they're not full of others doesn't mean they can't be just as taxing on us.

[versatility]

[ smiling, ] I fervently deny being in denial.

[ no okay sorry ariadne he will behave ]

If there is anything I have learned in the past few weeks, is that just having one other person around can create plenty of taxing situations, as you so aptly put it.

[boutant]

[ yeah uh-huh sure ]

For you or for her? Because one's more easily dealt with than the other.

[ By that she means "you would just have to deal with it, Eames". ]