Somehow, by a miracle and sheer force of will, Kirk had managed to evade being eaten by a wolf today.
He was actually just getting some sunshine and taking his time with it. He'd never really been able to claim that he was more in love with nature than his starship but Enterprise was different than the Barge, and the Barge made him pine for fresh air whenever he could get it. If he had to drag Shego out camping with him and Aristotle every once in a while... then so be it.
Jim came up behind Shego and nudged her in the back with the toe of his boot lightly. "Anyone kill somebody or a Warden abuse their power yet?" Because that was really all that happened anymore.
"No to the first, 'meh kinda' to the second. Sexby beat on the Marquis, apparently. Exactly why seems a little bit vague, maybe he breathed too hard on Angelica or something." She shrugged and put the communicator aside. "It's probably all under a Warden filter like I'm guessing it is whenever anything happens."
"What?" As the Marquis had once been his Inmate, and the only that he'd actually managed to graduate, as the present company was too damn stubborn, Kirk actually cared about this latest development. He pulled out his PADD and started to read the report left by Kay.
"It sounds like Sexby's pissed about something the Marquis and Angelica did a year ago," he said finally. Though honestly, it didn't sound like Sexby had much of a defense and the Marquis was letting his pride get before sense. Which didn't surprise him at all.
Sighing, Kirk offered her the PADD because he didn't really care about keeping things from his Inmate. "Here, read it if you want."
"Thanks." She took the device and paged through Kay's report, with a look on her face like she was reading a newspaper article she wasn't actually interested in but had accepted it was going to make up a good chunk of the water-cooler gossip in days to come.
"...Eesh. What a trainwreck. 'Stubborn jerk beats on other stubborn jerk, single incident lasting five minutes gets blown up into gigantic melodrama'. Puh-leaze."
She paged down to see the responses and hit Kirk's in short order, one eyebrow crawling up.
"...You had to drag Tim and Joker back up again, huh." She, of course, didn't realise that this had practically become a precedent case for unjustifiable violence from Wardens.
"Tim defended you for the same reasons Sexby defended his wife," Jim pointed out. Hell, this was just a mess. He was glad that he and Shego were in the CES at the moment because beyond his already stated advice, he didn't want to get involved in this. He didn't really ever want to get tangled up in the discussions when the other Wardens started going after each other.
"Someone else would've done it eventually. They did the last time this crap started happening. And I'm sure it'll be there next time too."
She slumped back, lying flat on the rock and staring at the sky.
"I don't get this whole 'freaking out when a Warden does something stupid' bit anyway. I mean, sure, Zero for a week or whatever, but it's like people forget that you're not all here to be totally irreproachable beacons of light all the time."
"We are to be held to a higher standard though. I think that's when people get their knickers tied up in a knot," Jim pointed out. "Though I'd recommend a harsh punishment for an Inmate that did this too. Only with an Inmate, you have someone who's directly responsible for carrying that punishment out."
"I guess. Whatever, for future reference? If you beat somebody up because something bad happened to some woman in your life who's totally capable of defending herself, I won't think any less of you." A pause. "Well, I will, but because you'd be a patronizing throwback jackass, not because of the violence."
"I'd need a lady friend first," Jim commented dryly. Leia had been the last person he'd even been remotely serious about. That was going on six months ago now. And he really didn't see his solo status changing any time soon.
"I'll just needlessly defend your honor if it ever comes into question again. You're close enough a lifelong partner."
"Then I'll just put you in zero and then where will we be?" Jim honestly hoped that this never even came to pass because if she ever let herself be killed again, he was pushing her off the side of this boat himself and then he was going home. That would be the last straw.
"Don't do anything stupid and this won't be a problem."
That made Kirk laugh. It had a little bit of a bitter tone to it, because deep down he was still mad at her for the whole mess with the Joker and maybe some cruelty to it as well. "Yeah, me either. I also don't drink like a sailor and I don't have a starship."
Yeah, Shego knew exactly what the topic of derision was here. She made a vague insulting gesture in Kirk's direction that, all things considered, she'd probably learnt from him. "Oh, bite me. So I did one thing, I was crazy and a hard reset felt like a good idea at the time."
"It was still stupid," Jim answered. He gave her another nudge with his foot a moment later, making the official decision to drop that topic before they both got all riled up about it again. "Let's go for a walk."
He was actually just getting some sunshine and taking his time with it. He'd never really been able to claim that he was more in love with nature than his starship but Enterprise was different than the Barge, and the Barge made him pine for fresh air whenever he could get it. If he had to drag Shego out camping with him and Aristotle every once in a while... then so be it.
Jim came up behind Shego and nudged her in the back with the toe of his boot lightly. "Anyone kill somebody or a Warden abuse their power yet?" Because that was really all that happened anymore.
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"It sounds like Sexby's pissed about something the Marquis and Angelica did a year ago," he said finally. Though honestly, it didn't sound like Sexby had much of a defense and the Marquis was letting his pride get before sense. Which didn't surprise him at all.
Sighing, Kirk offered her the PADD because he didn't really care about keeping things from his Inmate. "Here, read it if you want."
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"...Eesh. What a trainwreck. 'Stubborn jerk beats on other stubborn jerk, single incident lasting five minutes gets blown up into gigantic melodrama'. Puh-leaze."
She paged down to see the responses and hit Kirk's in short order, one eyebrow crawling up.
"...You had to drag Tim and Joker back up again, huh." She, of course, didn't realise that this had practically become a precedent case for unjustifiable violence from Wardens.
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"Someone else would've done it eventually. They did the last time this crap started happening. And I'm sure it'll be there next time too."
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She slumped back, lying flat on the rock and staring at the sky.
"I don't get this whole 'freaking out when a Warden does something stupid' bit anyway. I mean, sure, Zero for a week or whatever, but it's like people forget that you're not all here to be totally irreproachable beacons of light all the time."
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"I'll just needlessly defend your honor if it ever comes into question again. You're close enough a lifelong partner."
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"Don't do anything stupid and this won't be a problem."
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"Find my shoes and I will."
Her shoes were about ten feet away, next to her tent. She could probably even see them from where she was.
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