Just bein' around you offers me another form of relief
April is, as most of the Conrad wanderers are, for their own comfort, upstairs now. She's been upstairs for quite some time now, as a matter of fact, if a couple weeks counts as "quite some time
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"Seeing what?" she asks, totally innocent. "I was... seeing a friend. That's all."
Really, Sark. She's telling the truth.
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Oh hi, there's a wall. Maybe he should lean against that for a moment. "Believe it or not, I know what 'recently sexed' looks like."
....Yes, he really just said that. We'll blame the drugs.
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"I... I don't know what you're talking about," she says. She doesn't want to admit sex to Julian, somehow. For some reason. Probably involving brotherly things.
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"Then I guess I'll pretend I don't either and we can both pretend like this conve- oh please tell me that's not Kara's room."
The narration isn't sure what's more unsettling, the fact that Sark knows that's Kara's room (he made it a point to find out as if that will somehow make her unexpected appearances less unexpected- little does he know- although maybe she switches rooms just to fuck with him or something for all he knows) or the fact that he cut him himself off like that with absolutely no change in his tone whatsoever.
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Or something.
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It could be worse. He could be hallucinating. He hasn't gotten that far into a drug-induced haze at least. He'd be really concerned about his brain if he was hallucinating April having sex with Kara.
"I have nothing against Kara," he says slowly, which is... Mostly true. He finds it hard to not have something against a person who gets perverse pleasure in making him uncomfortable, but other than that, she's... Probably a perfectly reasonable crazy person. "I just..."
He trails off. Even if he was sober right now, how to finish that sentence would elude him desperately, so he'll just leave it hanging and continue to enjoy leaning against the wall. Yes, that's what he'll do.
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The door to the room swings open, and out steps Kara, wearing... a loose, overlarge sweater that probably belongs to April, a pair of underwear, and very little else. She smiles perfectly warmly at Sark, with something ever so slightly predatory (and a little sadistic) underneath her smile.
"I just scare him," she says conversationally to April. "Hello, Julian."
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"Kara," she mutters, "do you have to do that?"
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And... He'll be looking anywhere but at Kara right now. He's not a prude, but there are some things he really doesn't want to think about right now. Kara having sex with April? One of those things.
"You're often terrifying, it's true," he mumbles in a mildly disconcerted tone. "I don't expect making me live with the notion that the two of you were engaged is punishment enough, is it?"
He's so cute when he's trying to be articulate while stoned. It's a miracle any of that was discernible with the way he's muttering right now.
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"Who says I'm punishing you?" she says innocently. "You haven't done anything, have you?" Besides, you know, trying to assassinate Shepard with Martha, but he was shot then. And she doesn't care that much, considering Martha wasn't hurt.
Really, Kara has just decided Sark deserves a little karma and she is the one to bring it to him.
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And somehow that explains why he's just sort of staring at Kara and blinking at her because he's not good at dealing with her when he's sober, much less when he's... Not sober.
"No one. I just assumed that one has to deserve..." He trails off, because even in this state, he knows full well there's enough in his head a psychic could pull out and use for justification of whumping him... Or something. "Never mind."
He gives her the look of someone who is not entirely focused trying to be focused long enough to look stern. "You're enjoying this far too much, aren't you?"
This encompasses a hell of a lot of things, really. The fact that he failed, the fact that he got shot, the fact that she weirds him out, the fact that her and April together weird him out... You know, that sort of thing.
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She pauses, and then folds her arms over her chest, leaning back against the wall. Her long, bare legs stretch out in front of her, one ankle hooked over the other. "I could have warned you," she says conversationally, "but you wouldn't have listened."
Also, he deserved to be shot.
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He's not a good person, precisely. April knows this. She's under no illusions that he hasn't killed many people, done many bad things. But she does not think he deserved to be shot.
"Hăo le!" she snaps at Kara, reinforcing that with a wave of disapproval.
No one gets away with saying (or thinking quite clearly and loudly when they know she can hear) that her Julian deserved to get shot. Not even Kara.
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She didn't actually say anything, but communication takes on an odd and fuzzy definition with two psychics, one just learning control and the other completely without it.
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It amuses the narration, randomly, that half the time April sounds almost more proper and well-raised than Sark, and the other half she sounds like Kaylee. It's an interesting combination.
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