MCA #5, Saturday Morning

[electrocynic]

As far as Sarah was concerned, this was a perfectly ordinary Saturday. She'd slept in late, had some brekkie, was lounging around on the couch with something mindless on the telly. And considering the way last Saturday had gone – she felt like she'd only just recuperated from the hangover, if not the mental fallout of it all – she thought this one should just stay a quiet one.

In fact, she had half a mind to just stay in her pajamas all day.

[ooc: Open, natch.]

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[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh." Guy scooted over, arms out for a hug.

[electrocynic]

Sarah made a face at him.

As she moved closer. To hug him. Because she was complicated and complex, goddammit.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Weren't they all?

Guy was in no way afraid of showing emotions via hugging. Just ask Kyle. So, his sort of latching on was to be expected.

[electrocynic]

Resting her head against the crook of his neck was perfectly accidental, okay? She didn't want to hear about it.

"Been over two years, Guy," she said, only slightly muffled.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"That you can punch me for," he promised, not letting go yet. "More than once."

[electrocynic]

Sarah wasn't exactly pulling away, either.

"Nah," she said, although that didn't mean she wasn't intending to punch him at all. "Figure I'll punch you for coming back and leaving again."

She had a handle on these things. Also her natural cynicism.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"Sounds your speed," Guy replied with a huff of laughter. "I wasn't even sure you'd still be here. Kinda glad I didn't knock on some stranger's door."

[electrocynic]

There was a vague shrug. Kind of weird and awkward mid-hug but whatever. "Thought about moving back to London some time ago."

Really, she'd considered it a great big number of times.

"There was an alien abduction, the usual bullshit."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Guy pulled back a little to make it less awkward. But that was it. Still staying close here. "You kick their asses?"

[electrocynic]

"I kicked a few in the balls. The fuckers had it coming for making me fight through them naked."

Yes.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

And that was why Guy and her got along. "Naked?"

[electrocynic]

"Naked." She looked annoyed just thinking about it. "We were taken and hooked into some Matrix-type bollocks. When we broke out into the real world, we were naked on a spaceship."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"...kinda glad I missed out on that one," Guy admitted slowly. "Not that the view woulda been bad."

[electrocynic]

Sarah hit him.

Okay, it was a thwap on the shoulder.

"Not funny."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Guy shrugged, completely unrepentant. "You still at the school?"

[electrocynic]

"Still at the school, still counseling brats who don't want to be counseled," she replied with another shrug. "I do the occasional heroic thing on the mainland, too."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure the heroing is more satisfying since you can hit 'em."

[electrocynic]

Shrug. "A little. Doesn't pay very well, though. People don't appreciate a good superhero 'round here."

Or she was so unknown that she might as well not have done anything at all. One of those.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Maybe. Maybe.

Part of Guy wished he'd asked her to come with him when he left. But that shit wouldn't have been fair to either of them. even less than how it did end.

"You happy here?"

[electrocynic]

There'd been a time when she'd looked at the Portalocity site looking for portals to Oa.

Once or thrice, over the years.

There was the mandatory cynical little snort at the question. Then she looked at the TV (or, away, was the point). "Place has its ups and downs."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

He curled a hand around her waist for a sort of half hug. "Most places do."

[electrocynic]

"'Sides," she added mildly, "I was in Englad all of last week, and Jenny dragged me to a fucking forest retreat."

So London wasn't that great, either. (Also, it didn't really feel like home anymore, and she didn't know what to do with it.)

Also, you know what? She was just going to cuddle up against his side, now. If she was going to have to deal with the inevitable heartache of it all later, she might as well try and benefit from him actually being there now.

She did it slowly, though. Maybe it was an incredibly half-hearted attempt at playing it like she was just shifting that way by accident.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Guy was just going to have to deal with it. By not saying anything as he leaned a little into her space as well.

"Like, a spa or dumb ass trust falls?"

[electrocynic]

"Like sitting in a circle talking about your feelings and going 'ommm' as if that fucking helps anything."

He'd met her. So he'd know how well that had gone over with her.

She wrinkled her nose.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

Guy, stop laughing at that mental image. It was rude. "...wow, that sounds awful."