just this once, everybody lives!

[sageprincess]

Characters: Everyone.
Setting: Anywhere.
Format: Party style.
Summary: Post-Ex Machina catch-all mingle.
Warnings: See individual threads.

[After a long, drawn out battle, the infiltration team returns to the residential portion of the Tower, weary, battered... but victorious. Some catching up is in order.]

Comments

[oathshackledbird]

Over and over and over again.

[Diarmuid laughs and shakes his head.]

Someday it will make its way through my thick skull.

[fionnuisce]

I'm a patient teacher on occasion. I'm sure I'll figure out a way to get the point across.

[oathshackledbird]

Professor Charisma is the best teacher. That is all there is to it....

[fionnuisce]

D-D-Don't call me that!

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid brings a hand to his mouth to try and quiet the laughter that spills from him. He's...not that successful.]

S-sorry...

[fionnuisce]

I should never have said a damned word about that stupid fucking nickname. How did I not know I'd live to regret it?

[oathshackledbird]

Look at it this way. It's better I heard it from you and not the fan club, right?

[Diarmuid is still laughing, but he's calming enough to at least get words out now.]

[fionnuisce]

I'd prefer the option where you didn't hear it at all, myself.

[oathshackledbird]

[That statement earns Waver a raised eyebrow.]

Do you really think I would be able to be around that place for more than a few seconds and not hear it?

[fionnuisce]

Hope springs eternal, as they say.

[oathshackledbird]

Oh, does it? But...I thought you were the realist of this partnership...

[fionnuisce]

I'm gradually learning optimism, and with it learning why optimism is a terrible idea.

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid shakes his head.]

Come on... It's not that bad...

[fionnuisce]

I have a terrible track record of my attempts at being positive ending in 'no, you're horribly wrong and by the way this was an enormous mistake'.

[oathshackledbird]

Was being positive I could find myself again and putting so much effort into helping me do so a mistake?

[Hmm? Was it Waver?]

[fionnuisce]

What? No, of course not. What kind of question is that?

[oathshackledbird]

Obviously, I am trying to disprove your thesis that all of your attempts to be positive end in mistakes. I would like to think at least that one did not.

[fionnuisce]

...One success is preferable to none at all, isn't it?

[oathshackledbird]

It only takes one to start a pattern, Mo Stór. You should try to focus on that instead of all those other times, so you can encourage the pattern to continue.

[fionnuisce]

I'm not very good at focusing on more than the negative aspects of most things.

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid sighs over-dramatically, resting his head against Waver's knee.]

What am I going to do with you? I guess I will just have to love you anyway...

[fionnuisce]

What a terrible fate for you.

[oathshackledbird]

For you as well since that means you have to put up with me spouting such silly things at you.

[He opens his eyes and grins at Waver.]

Sorry about that. I guess that is something else I should add to the list of things I need to work on?

[fionnuisce]

You can keep that just as it is, although some added measure of discretion would be a good idea. That quality of yours is one I have little problem with.

[oathshackledbird]

Yeah...I know...

[Diarmuid bows his head slightly, embarrassed.]

Even after all my time here, I still have trouble with saying too much sometimes.

[There is being honest and then there is being too honest.]