MCA #5, Saturday Afternoon

[electrocynic]

It was a perfectly ordinary Saturday afternoon.

In Sarah's case that meant slouching on the sofa, watching bad TV, and texting Jenny her comments on how stupid some Americans were. Oh, and also about when she was going to come to London next. But mostly the stupid.

She lived a simple kind of life and she liked it, thank you very much. Right at this second, anyway.

[ooc: For that guy called Guy, one last time!]

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[electrocynic]

Those were some of the words Sarah hated most in the English language. Especially in that order.

She snorted. That may have been a defence mechanism. "Really?"

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. Really." He ran his hand through his hair, leaning forward on the couch. "I'm being called back to Oa."

[electrocynic]

"Oh?" She glanced over. "When'll you be back?"

Neither 'I don't know' nor 'never' were acceptable answers, Guy. So she wasn't expecting either of those, or anything even remotely similar.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"I don't know." WELL, THAT DIDN'T HELP, GUY. "Something's up. Word is war."

With all the other colors of the rainbow.

[electrocynic]

GODDAMMIT, DC.

"Well what the fuck is that supposed to mean?"

You could tell she already didn't like it because her accent got even stronger than usual.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

AT LEAST HE WASN'T DEALING WITH THE REBOOT, OKAY?

"What do you think it means?" Guy shot back with a huff. "Shit's been brewing for a while, and now it's spilling over."

[electrocynic]

"You know what I meant."

It wasn't the war she'd been asking about.

And now she was going to glare.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

That got another sigh before he looked over at her. "I have to go back and I don't know when I'll be able to come back," he finally said, reaching over to put his hand on her leg. And hey, he only hesitated the once!

[electrocynic]

Yeah, and Sarah slapped his hand away. And then kind of immediately grabbed his arm because she was allowed to be contradictory right now.

(Don't ask what her justification was for doing it all the time otherwise.)

"That's fucking bullshit."

Just, you know, getting that out there.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

She'd be the second girlfriend this job lost him, so he was totally on board with that assessment.

"You think I wanna go?"

[electrocynic]

"You're still fucking going to." She'd grown up and lived around far too many hero types not to know that. Always on about bloody honour and duty. "God, go fuck yourself, Guy."

At least she was responding in a mature way. Really.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Hey. Honor and duty were important!

"It's my job, Sarah!" They were made of maturity.

[electrocynic]

"It's a choice!" Sarah snapped back, crossing her arms over her chest. "And it's a pretty bloody awful one at that! If it was just a bleeding job, you could quit any time, but oh no, you have to go and be a fucking hero."

So, scowling.

"At least call it what it is."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"You don't want this job, I get that. But helpin' people is all I wanted to do."

In his own, douchey way.

[electrocynic]

"There are little old grannies that need help all over the mainland! Go help them if you're so desperate to be of use!"

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"That's not what I got this ring for," Guy replied, holding up his hand in case she forgot which one. "There's so much bullshit going on back on Oa--if people die because I got comfortable here..."

[electrocynic]

He'd be so lucky if he got through today without making closer contact with her fancy green ring. She'd only paid a few quid for it years ago, and it didn't make energy constructs, but it'd still hurt like hell against his jaw.

But maybe she'd just settle for curling her lip and moving her arms so it was a bit more like she was hugging herself. "I'm not even sure which one of us you're trying to guilt trip, there."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"It's not--Jesus, Sarah." Guy really needed to work on his skills at talking to pissed off ladies. He had not improved since Tora, it seemed. "I don't want this to end on a fight, okay?"

[electrocynic]

Had he met her?

"Well, you should've thought about that before. Dumb twat."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"American," Guy reminded her, frowning at the television because that was a better alternative.

[electrocynic]

"Same fucking thing," Sarah translated. She was glaring at the TV now too.

What was she supposed to say now?

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Guy took the moment to reach for her hand. Which was pretty freakin' girly, but he was pretty sure that point was moot right now.

[electrocynic]

Especially since she was the actual girl here, and had actually considered punchng him. Girliness was relative.

But she didn't pull her hand away or anything. So that was something.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Score one for not ending in tears!

"Don't break any of the students," he said after the silence stretched out.

[electrocynic]

"The students are already broken," she replied, not sounding like she particularly cared right now, to be honest. "Guess I can try not feeding them to the deer, though."

Or y'know, spreading false gossip about them to the deer, or something.

"So when is it that you're actually leaving?"

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"Well, don't let them give you any shit then." Guy pulled her hand over closer, looking down at where they touched. "Tomorrow. Long flight back to the middle of the friggin' universe."

[electrocynic]

Sarah hoped he realized he probably wasn't going to get out of this apartment before he absolutely had to go. If he hadn't packed yet, that was his problem, not hers.

She rubbed her thumb against his hand, not really looking. "Yeah, sounds like a long way."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"You and me," he said, leaning against her. "Better than anything I ever expected coming here."

[electrocynic]

Sarah glanced over at him like she was annoyed at him for saying that. The weirdo.

"I love you."

There, she'd said it. Better late than never, right?

"You insufferable ginger pain in my arse."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Guy grinned at that, leaning over to kiss her. "Love you too, annoying limey."

[electrocynic]

She kissed him back, because the most likely option apart from that was possibly crying.

Which almost inevitably led to hitting people, because she didn't cry in front of people. Hitting them was much more productive.