034 - Huckleberry

[deadly_ned]

So...Alpha's gone. Left and graduated and I. I'm proud of him.

But I didn't actually know if I should continue to help run the pub because really I was only doing it because he took an interest and honestly I don't mind either way but it seems sort of lonely and sad now without him and maybe I should just go back to my kitchen but I don't...know. So if anyone else wanted it...?

Sorry. This isn't something I should be bothering the Barge about.

I guess I just need to. Wait and see.

I never realized this before but unpairing can be lonely.

Comments

[deadly_ned]

You seem very confident about that. I'm not so sure.

[surfaceshine]

Who here has made a career out of being annoying?

[deadly_ned]

You didn't make a career out of it. You don't make any money.

[surfaceshine]

Money isn't the only way to get paid.

[deadly_ned]

If this is a lead-in to your announcing that you're a drug mule..

[surfaceshine]

Mule, yes. Drugs, no.

[deadly_ned]

What were you pushing, Dean?

[surfaceshine]

Good vibrations?

[deadly_ned]

That is annoying.

[surfaceshine]

I'm somewhat of an expert.

[deadly_ned]

You're going to keep annoying me until I leave to go see Chuck.

[surfaceshine]

Am I being too subtle?

[deadly_ned]

Iris thinks she and you should come with me to the Pie Hole. She says it's cruel to keep you from a restaurant that exclusively serves pie.

[surfaceshine]

I would love to do that, but I promised I'd go help Steph straighten out Gotham. Much's it pains me.

Because it is cruel, you know.

[deadly_ned]

Gotham needs you. Besides, I think you and Chuck need to have at least one universe separating you. You tend to. Gang up.

[surfaceshine]

Now, Ned, that's not fair and I'm hurt by the implication.

Me'n Chuck would get on great. People love me.

[deadly_ned]

That's what I'm most concerned about. She would love you. And the two of you would start conspiring.

[surfaceshine]

That's a good thing. You want her to have friends, right?

I need friends. You're friends with both of us. It's win-win-win.

[deadly_ned]

I do want her to have friends. She only has the same friends I have. Due to. Seclusion.

[surfaceshine]

[And, after catching wind of a different conversation, more seriously:]

Squeaker, listen to me. If you're her type, I'm not.

And you're clearly her type.

[deadly_ned]

I hope I'm her type. Really I was her type when we were both ten.

[surfaceshine]

You're clearly her type.

Don't argue with me. It never ends well.

[deadly_ned]

I would never argue with you.

[surfaceshine]

I'm an idiot, not a moron.

But I'll let this one slide.

[deadly_ned]

You're a...?

Um. All right.


I guess I'm going home, then. For a little while.

I'll see you in a few days.