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]

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.

[surfaceshine]

Good.

And Squeaker?

If you change your mind, no harm, no foul. K?

[deadly_ned]

Okay.

I'll let you know if I change my mind.

[surfaceshine]

No, if you change your mind, just stay. No one will be mad.

[deadly_ned]

You say that now but chances are someone will be mad.

[surfaceshine]

Yeah, me. For like five seconds because I don't have your address.

And then I'll remember that I'm a navigational badass and I don't need addresses and I'll get over it.

[deadly_ned]

I suppose I'd be pretty easy to find. You drive until you find the building with the pie crust awning.

[surfaceshine]

There's a pie crust awning.

[deadly_ned]

And large, low-hanging cherries instead of ceiling lights.

[surfaceshine]

That confirms that this does not exist in my world, because I feel like I would psychically know about it. Somehow.

[deadly_ned]

You have psychic powers triggered by the presence of pie?

[surfaceshine]

I should. It's better than the other bullshit powers I've seen in my world.

[deadly_ned]

It would be a pretty good power. Better than my actual power.

Wait, what powers do people in your universe have? No one else in my universe does what I can do.

[surfaceshine]

No one can do what you can do that I know of, either. At least not like that. I've seen spellwork do it, but not by touch.

There was a pair that could stop hearts with skin to skin contact, a pair that could mind control you by talking or thinking at you, a pair that saw deaths before they happened, and one asshole with super strength and no guts at all. That's just what I know about, besides the psychics, witches, etc.

[Wow, he managed to get that all out more or less without a hitch.]

[deadly_ned]

Someday, maybe. I'll find someone who does what I do.

Oh. That's.

Ah.

I wonder if they could control it.