[Voice / Music] -- Baby it's Cold Outside

[doubleppk]

[This blizzard is suddenly interrupted by singing from your journal. It starts off with Fujiko singing.]

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[Video]

[deadlydebutante]

[Have a very unplussed Mai.]

That song is creepy.

[Video]

[redjacketthief]

[Irritated dark haired young woman is noted. Lupin gives her a questioning smile.]

It's a classic romance ballad from our home. How is it creepy?

[video]

[deadlydebutante]

So your home considers questionable drink ingredients acceptable.

[Oh, Mai.]

[video]

[redjacketthief]

...wouldn't you ask about the ingredients of a drink if you liked it?

[He sighs.]

[video]

[deadlydebutante]

Not like that.

[C'mon Lupin. Admit it. It's a little sketchy. Don't be ashamed.]

[video]

[redjacketthief]

Come on~! Haven't you had a really, really good dish that made you want to know what was in it, so you could make it on your own later?

[It's the lyrics of the song, unaltered. Also a very old song--there is nothing sketchy about it for its original audience. Lupin isn't ashamed of his actions at all!]

[video]

[deadlydebutante]

I don't cook. [She has servants do it for her, duh.]

And honestly, I doubt I would ask even if I did. [Nothing really interested her that much, honestly.]

The song is still creepy. [She comes by it honestly, cynic that she is.]

[video]

[redjacketthief]

[Such a strange, cynical and rough mannered young woman!]

You don't understand the complicated relationship a man and woman have together at all, do you?

[video]

[deadlydebutante]

[Ping. You just touched on Mai's sore spot. Nice one, Lupin!]

I understand...[She continues through clenched teeth.]...that it's complicated.

[That's probably the nicest word she has for it.]

[video]

[redjacketthief]

[Oops. Made another one angry--and he didn't even know how! At least she wasn't lecturing him on ethics, morals and the rules of property ownership like some of the other women he's angered so far.]

I didn't mean--it's not a bad thing, the complicated-ness. It just is. Sometimes the a man and woman taunt and tease eachother. It's a...part of what they do...

[video]

[deadlydebutante]

[Mai's words are terse and deliberate, like she's over-enunciating to a foreigner.]

I am given the distinct impression that you do not take things as seriously as others.

[video]

[redjacketthief]

[He'd tolerate such barbs from Fujiko or another woman he was trying to woo any day, but not from a stranger. She didn't know. She didn't know. He wasn't going to justify it--they'd stabbed eachother in the back plenty of times, competed against eachother, teased and toyed with eachother so much that they couldn't be compared to 'normal standards.'

He'd taken wounds for her. Negotiated with a prior boyfriend of hers for her safety when she'd taken a bullet. This girl...she had no idea...]

Hey! Don't judge us by what you think you know, okay!?

[video]

[deadlydebutante]

[Wow. Okay. Treading lightly.]

Sorry. [Holds up hands palms facing out.] Not judging, just observing.

[Smirk.]

Except for the song part. That's still creepy.

[video]

[redjacketthief]

[Well. That was quick.]

It's fine...I'm sorry too. That was a little much.

[His face and tone go deadpan. They were just not going to agree on the thing about the song. One day, one day...]

And go ahead, that's fine too. Different cultures and all. I've been through enough places to get that. [Shrug.]

Name's Lupin. You're not too cold, are you?

[video]

[deadlydebutante]

[Sorry Lupin. She's spent way too much time dealing with Azula and other Fire Nation-y conspiracies. 'What's in this drink' is code for 'drugged' or 'poisoned'. Nothing personal.]

Mai. [And yes, she's cold. She's always cold if it's not summer.] And I'm not thirsty.

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[redjacketthief]

And what, I'm gonna have you brave the blizzard to come out here to Community House 5 just for a cup of cocoa?