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[sable_mind]

J sprawls out on a couch and fishes out a cigarette. "Ok, ok, I've got one for you all. At what point does love stop being a good enough reason to keep people together?"

He searches his pockets one by one, then sighs. "And does anyone have a light?"

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[hart_on_sleeve]

John strolls into the Nexus...

Well kind of, he's looking a bit worse for wear, his forearm wrapped in bandages (21st century medical treatment sucks).

"Hey, it's J!" He gives him a wave with his good arm and flops down on his couch.

He reaches under it and produces a lighter. "Here you go," he tosses it over.

And rather studiously avoids the actual question.

[sable_mind]

J catches it with a grin and lights the cigarette. "Ah, you're a life saver."

"Looks like you got yourself in a bit of bother without me." He gestures to John's arm. "What happened there?"

[hart_on_sleeve]

John makes a bit of a show, looking at his arm as if he hadn't noticed it was bandaged up.

"Oh this? Er...bit of unpleasantness...sword fighting is not a game."

He scratches his head, with his good arm. "Unless it, you know is...make sure you've got that clear though."

[sable_mind]

J chuckles, "You crazy man, you. Looks messy, and painful."

[waterfell]

"Love isn't enough from the start," comes a cool voice as Mizuno Ami steps into view. "If you want to play at having a relationship, there should be compatibility. Common goals. Acceptance from the important people of both parties."

She could go on like this. For a long time. A very long time. At least it might be better than her love-is-destruction rants? But that will probably come eventually at this rate.

[sable_mind]

He leans back and sighs through a grin. "Oh how very logical. But whatever happened to 'love triumphs against all' and all that jazz?"

[waterfell]

The look she gives J is as cold as her voice.

"I don't believe in anything like that!"

Only, only, there'd been a moment in the recent past, just one fleeting moment, one moment and one person who'd made her think, made her think- And then she'd found out what he'd been keeping from her. That all his words about it being possible, all his point-by-point refutation of her point-by-point thesis on its impossibility, had been a trap, a trick, a lie, or certainly a hiding of the truth.

"I hate it."

[sable_mind]

"Mmhm." He smirks and fiddles with his unlit cigarette. "So was it unrequited, betrayal or have you just not experienced it?"

[kalycaaether]

Yeah, it is Kalyca and she seems much different from the last time you had seen her, J. More mature. And she actually has an alcoholic drink in hand. "Hello, J."

[sable_mind]

He can't help but grin. "Hello there. Long time no see."

[kalycaaether]

And she will give a small smile. "Mmhm. How have you been?" She says before taking a sip of her drink.

[sable_mind]

"Terrible. Getting myself into all sorts of trouble, would you believe?"

[boyking]

"Pretty much from the beginning. And smoking's bad for you." Yes, the kid is just trying to be obnoxious. Mostly because J is hogging the couch.

[sable_mind]

"Any particular reason you think that?" He grins and glances at the cigarette. "There are things that are worse for me."

[boyking]

"Cause stuff like that only happens in movies. Real life's waaaaay harder." Ryan frowns at the cigarette. "Like?"

[sable_mind]

"Yeah, but people tend to work things out..." J sighs and looks at the ceiling to half think a moment. "Like drugs, or bullets, or many many fatty foods. Or bullets and drugs in your fatty foods."

[iseeyourcolor]

"It does not. Unless one falls out of love, then there is no reason."

[sable_mind]

"Never? Not even when, say, they're trying to kill each other?"

[iseeyourcolor]

"Then how could there possibly be love left within them?"

[sable_mind]

"Otherworldly forces? Something they can't quite control?"