[Drabble]
Player: banerry
Subject: Azula, Vriska Serket
Table: B
Prompt: 017- Caring
Sometimes Azula offered worldhops to people, but one thing that she made very clear was that she was not a taxi service. She didn't live on stand-by, ready to take anyone anywhere at a moment's notice, and anyone who just assumed that she'd be willing to ferry them around was quickly corrected.
Vriska got to be an exception to this.
"Hey, John wants me to come over for a movie marathon! You can take me, right?" She could. For some reason that she couldn't quite figure out, Azula liked doing nice things for Vriska. With most people she was more or less indifferent to favors-- she had nothing against them, and she did them for people sometimes, but they weren't that she should be expected to go out of the way for without reason. But this silly troll kid (and to a lesser extent Aradia, and maybe even Tavros) was more like Lisa or Lilith in this regard. There was quite a lot that she'd go out of her way to help her out with, and seeing John-- which was undeniably good for her-- definitely fell into that category.
Showing up at John's to pick Vriska up about four hours later, Azula wasn't at all surprised to find the door to the TV room still shut, with movie music still blaring. Usually at this point she'd leave and wait for a text that they were finished, but today had been a particularly long day of training, and that couch by the TV room door was looking very inviting. It wouldn't hurt to sit down, she reasoned. She'd lean back and close her eyes for a few minutes, and then be on her way.
She was woken up about twenty minutes later when two bony knees landed on her thighs.
"Did you seriously take a nap here? We had the TV at top volume; you must be able to sleep through aaaaaaaanything!" Azula groggly lifted her head. Vriska's off-center glasses and even-more-messy-than-usual hair might have been explained by the flying leap she'd taken from the floor to Azula's lap, but her smeared makeup and wrinkled shirt were clearly the product of something else. She decided that she really didn't want to know that she had John and been doing while they were watching their movies.
"So? Don't just sit there!" Vriska's feet hit the floor again, and she grabbed Azula'a arm and yanked. "He fell asleep, the dope, so I guess I'm ready to go home. Or... I have a better idea! John might be all tired out from a little movie-watching, but you just woke up, so you probably won't get sleepy again for a while! I'll come back to your place and watch movies with you."
The presumptuousness of it all would have been annoying with someone else-- she didn't ask if she could hang out, she just invited herself-- but here, Azula found herself not really caring. She didn't even mind when the troll girl announced that since she'd only watched four of Nic Cage's movies with John, she needed to watch at least four more with Azula to make up for him having conked out early.
"You can work the player," Azula said, still slightly put out from having been woken so abruptly. "I'm just going to sit down. And if I want to go to bed while you're still watching, just make sure you keep the volume below--"
"What? No way!" Vriska interrupted, hopping up onto the couch next to Azula. "That's not the point, stupid. If I wanted to sit around and watch movies alone I could have just stayed at home. But I went to John's because I wanted to watch movies with him-- and make out, of course-- and now I'm here because I want to watch movies with you. So stick around, or you'll ruin it!" And with that, she lifted up Azula's arm and placed it firmly around her own shoulders.
... Well.
There were, Azula decided, certain things that she was willing to endure three hours of Nicolas Cage for. One of those things had curled herself up against her side and was currently drifting in and out of sleep (though any time Azula's hand even twitched in the direction of the remote, she was suddenly wide awake, protesting that there was no way that they could turn the movie off before the really awesome scene that was just about to come up).
"Just so you know," Vriska said drowsily. "This weird human sister thing? Actually pretty cool."
Azula had to agree.
Subject: Azula, Vriska Serket
Table: B
Prompt: 017- Caring
Sometimes Azula offered worldhops to people, but one thing that she made very clear was that she was not a taxi service. She didn't live on stand-by, ready to take anyone anywhere at a moment's notice, and anyone who just assumed that she'd be willing to ferry them around was quickly corrected.
Vriska got to be an exception to this.
"Hey, John wants me to come over for a movie marathon! You can take me, right?" She could. For some reason that she couldn't quite figure out, Azula liked doing nice things for Vriska. With most people she was more or less indifferent to favors-- she had nothing against them, and she did them for people sometimes, but they weren't that she should be expected to go out of the way for without reason. But this silly troll kid (and to a lesser extent Aradia, and maybe even Tavros) was more like Lisa or Lilith in this regard. There was quite a lot that she'd go out of her way to help her out with, and seeing John-- which was undeniably good for her-- definitely fell into that category.
Showing up at John's to pick Vriska up about four hours later, Azula wasn't at all surprised to find the door to the TV room still shut, with movie music still blaring. Usually at this point she'd leave and wait for a text that they were finished, but today had been a particularly long day of training, and that couch by the TV room door was looking very inviting. It wouldn't hurt to sit down, she reasoned. She'd lean back and close her eyes for a few minutes, and then be on her way.
She was woken up about twenty minutes later when two bony knees landed on her thighs.
"Did you seriously take a nap here? We had the TV at top volume; you must be able to sleep through aaaaaaaanything!" Azula groggly lifted her head. Vriska's off-center glasses and even-more-messy-than-usual hair might have been explained by the flying leap she'd taken from the floor to Azula's lap, but her smeared makeup and wrinkled shirt were clearly the product of something else. She decided that she really didn't want to know that she had John and been doing while they were watching their movies.
"So? Don't just sit there!" Vriska's feet hit the floor again, and she grabbed Azula'a arm and yanked. "He fell asleep, the dope, so I guess I'm ready to go home. Or... I have a better idea! John might be all tired out from a little movie-watching, but you just woke up, so you probably won't get sleepy again for a while! I'll come back to your place and watch movies with you."
The presumptuousness of it all would have been annoying with someone else-- she didn't ask if she could hang out, she just invited herself-- but here, Azula found herself not really caring. She didn't even mind when the troll girl announced that since she'd only watched four of Nic Cage's movies with John, she needed to watch at least four more with Azula to make up for him having conked out early.
"You can work the player," Azula said, still slightly put out from having been woken so abruptly. "I'm just going to sit down. And if I want to go to bed while you're still watching, just make sure you keep the volume below--"
"What? No way!" Vriska interrupted, hopping up onto the couch next to Azula. "That's not the point, stupid. If I wanted to sit around and watch movies alone I could have just stayed at home. But I went to John's because I wanted to watch movies with him-- and make out, of course-- and now I'm here because I want to watch movies with you. So stick around, or you'll ruin it!" And with that, she lifted up Azula's arm and placed it firmly around her own shoulders.
... Well.
There were, Azula decided, certain things that she was willing to endure three hours of Nicolas Cage for. One of those things had curled herself up against her side and was currently drifting in and out of sleep (though any time Azula's hand even twitched in the direction of the remote, she was suddenly wide awake, protesting that there was no way that they could turn the movie off before the really awesome scene that was just about to come up).
"Just so you know," Vriska said drowsily. "This weird human sister thing? Actually pretty cool."
Azula had to agree.