Twentieth Sip

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

[Mal has been enjoying the peace and quiet after that whole slenderman mess. She really should have known something would ruin it. More to the point, she should have expected that speech about how her world worked on belief to come back and bite her on the ass.

Her first clue something is distinctly wrong was when she wakes up in the hallway outside her room. The next big warning klaxon is that her hair is in her eyes, that's definitely not normal. Looking down and seeing more cleavage than had been on show for a long time (ie: any) is the final horrible proof that her life is going to get especailly more difficult. Luckily, the journal is open on the floor to record her displeasure]

What the bloody HELL?!!

[She jumps up to a standing position pretty damn quickly; despite the fact this dress is clearly not designed with movement in mind, and tries her door, which does not open. Well, she's not having any of THOSE castle games, thank you very much. The journal picks up the loud BANG as she tries to punch her door off it's hinges, to no avail]

OH COME ON! What did I do to deserve this?

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[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

[Yay, he successfully brewed a cup of sludge! Good for you, Brock. That is a useful skill. Since he doesn't want to drink any of that but he still feels weird just staring at her while she drinks, Brock lights a cigarette and leans back against the counter.]

There's a story behind that one. Who's Strappi?

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

[Nice job at looking natural, bro. She'' be nice for once, seen as you offered her sanctuary and coffee, and not mock you for it]

The corporal I replaced in our regiment. A slimy little deserter who made it his mission to make our lives miserable up to the point he realised he was expected to actually fight in the war.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Pacifists. I hope he got what was comin' to him.

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

Oh, he was no pacifist. He was just a coward, could have got the whole regiment killed. The little bastard destroyed my coffee machine. He didn't get all that he really deserved.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

[Oh, oh man. He's seen Mal without coffee. That is not a good scene.]

Well ... maybe he'll show up here. Then you can punch him in the face forever.

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

[Not a good scene AT ALL]

I was considering pushing him off the roof to watch how much he bounces. Not much, I'd bet.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen you really mad before.

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

You'd get your chance if he ever showed up. Anger is something I try not to afford myself too often.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

I dunno, getting pissed can be pretty useful.

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

Not so much when you can kill people with your bare hands.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Well, alright. Getting mad helps me do that. But I think you have an advantage over me.

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

Exactly. [Sips her tar coffee] Besides, we vampires have some sense of decorum.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Do you really. Is "decorum" another word for "kind of stuck-up"?

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

For us, yes? It's just a fancier way of saying it.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Which works with the "stuck-up" thing pretty well, huh?

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

Precisely. It's what we do best.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

I bet. [He was going to suggest that eating people or turning into bats are maybe things vampires do better, but then again she is the first vampire he ever knew. So maybe not!]

So how come you don't like wearing dresses, anyway?

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

[There's a whole package deal thing going on. She sighs]

Because it's what's expected of me. The second you put on a dress in my country, hell, in my species, you may as well not have a brain or a sense of self at all. You're taken a lot more seriously if they think you're male.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

That's actually pretty stupid.

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is. But that's how things are done, and Gods be damned you get them to change their minds.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Well, it's probably not that big a deal here. I mean, lots of women wear skirts in this place and stuff.

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

That doesn't make me want to wear a skirt any more. I got quite comfortable with the trousers.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

That's fine too. I wouldn't want to wear a skirt either.

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

[She chuckles a little around her coffee cup]

I don't know, a skirt might make your legs look smashing.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

[Pfftt, haha, he grins around his cigarette at that!]

Corporal, I never knew that about you.