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Momoko's place, El Paso, Texas, late Monday night

Jan 26, 2015 22:59

Priestly tended to go a little extra scruffy in times of emotional stress. Especially ones like now, where he decided a good way to deal with it was to spend a long weekend out in a national park living in a tent and "communing with nature ( Read more... )

ic, priestly misses the ocean, el paso

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heromaniac January 27 2015, 04:12:56 UTC

"Priestly?" Momoko stuck her head around the corner of the door and waved at him from the kitchen, her hair in a kerchief. "YOU CAME BACK! I wondered if maybe the coyotes got to you!"

lovemykilt January 27 2015, 04:15:30 UTC

"Nope, no coyotes. Either literal or metaphorical. A couple horny toads, though." Literal and metaphorical. "What, you thought I couldn't do a weekend in a desert?"

Admittedly, he wouldn't blame her if she didn't.

He finished shaking out his boots and came in properly. "Are you cooking?"

heromaniac January 27 2015, 04:21:10 UTC

"Ha ha," she laughed at his joke just as much as it deserved, then shook her head. "I worried maybe you'd gone loco and jumped into a cactus patch.

"And. Uhm." She looked behind her. "Actually I'm cleaning! I cooked Saturday."

Yes, it was Monday. So what?"

lovemykilt January 27 2015, 04:27:20 UTC

Priestly should have left a bunch of casseroles in the fridge for her, shouldn't he. "What'd you cook?" And how crusted up were those pans of hers after two days?

heromaniac January 27 2015, 04:41:47 UTC

Yes. Remember how the fridge had been so full of boxes from her cafe job when you arrived, Priestly? Mrs Wilson did the cooking unless Momoko was really trying.

"Uhm. I don't think it has a name. I just threw some things together because Jaime was coming over. It totally took forever to make, though?"

The fettuccine was cold so she'd warmed that up, not even thinking what to do with it. Then she'd found the hamburger and decided to add that, so she'd needed to brown the meat. And then she wanted to put onions in for flavour but the pan was dirty from the meat, so that meant she needed to use another pan. And then the tomatoes, because everything Mrs Reyes made with tomatoes was tasty! But they needed a pot. And then there was the bowl to mix it all, except she'd overflowed the first one and had to pour it into a second one (she'd cleaned up the floor, don't worry!) and then mix it all up... but it didn't look right and she'd finally decided to bake it in a casserole dish!

Ah!

"It was a casserole, though!"

lovemykilt January 27 2015, 05:00:19 UTC

Well, that was technically accurate. Any food made in a casserole dish was a casserole. Much like how any mix of food with a sauce could technically be called a salad.

Priestly gaped at the kitchen. "Did you use every dish you own?" His tone was more sort of baffled and vaguely awe-struck than judgey. He kept to a very strict stance of non-judgement. Just -- how many pans did she need?

"I'm sure Jaime loved it?"

heromaniac January 27 2015, 05:17:17 UTC

"Well, he ate it? But it's totally hard to tell since we'd had a fight and were trying to fix it." She looked over the kitchen. "Well, I had to do a lot of cooking in a short amount of time! The test site was only half an hour away, so I had to hurry!"

"It looks much better now that I've put all the dishes in the sink and scrubbed the counters down."

She was going to have to buy more cleanser when she went shopping.

lovemykilt January 27 2015, 05:20:33 UTC

It was a little bit frightening that this was better. Priestly moved automatically to start washing up some of the dishes. Kitchens were meant to be organized, Momo! Clean and organized.

He wasn't too busy to shoot her a concerned look, though. "What'd you fight about?"

Focussing on Momo: way easier than dealing with any of his own shit.

heromaniac January 27 2015, 05:25:38 UTC

And used by other people!

"Eh! What are you doing?" Not that she minded the help, of course, but she had to make some sort of protest... as she picked up the towel to dry. (Yay, help!!!)

"I made him go take his DATs while I went and saved some hostages on my own. He wanted to put them off and go help, too."

lovemykilt January 27 2015, 05:32:03 UTC

Priestly just snorted a little at her token protest. He knew you better than that, Momo. He finished the first pot and handed it to her. "The old crime-fighting versus school thing, huh." He grimaced. "You guys work things out?"

If they hadn't, he had a feeling the kitchen would be a way bigger mess. Along with the rest of the apartment. And hopefully someone would have called him home from the desert to help. Did Mrs. Wilson have his number?

heromaniac January 27 2015, 05:43:42 UTC

"Crime-fighting versus his dream and our future." She ran the cloth over the pan, her own face a grimace. "We did, but I was totally scared for a while there. Jaime doesn't like to confront people when he's mad."

lovemykilt January 27 2015, 05:46:28 UTC

"Sounds like he didn't run away, though," Priestly said. He had done his fair share of storming off and running away when he got pissed off. Though he usually yelled a lot, first. "You guys had a home cooked meal and everything."

Okay, was this onion fused to the pan?

heromaniac January 27 2015, 05:53:49 UTC

Either onion or noodle! oh! Maybe it was from when she tried to make croutons?

...

Don't ask what had happened to the "croutons". Just remind her that they were out of bread when she next went shopping.

"He didn't!" and her smile showed how very happy she was about that!! "But I was afraid he would. We're trying to work on our communication because we've had so many problems in the past about it and we don't want to mess up things this time, but I was totally sure he was too mad at me."

lovemykilt January 27 2015, 05:56:57 UTC

"Sometimes it takes a little while to cool down," Priestly noted. "Get some space so you can come back and face it all with a clearer head." You know, exactly like he was doing here. "If he hadn't come back to try and talk it out I totally would have completely failed to kick his ass for you, though."

heromaniac January 27 2015, 06:02:39 UTC

"That's what he says," Momoko giggled. "Both things, actually. That walking away gives him time to clear his head and that you would win in a fight. He thinks everyone can beat him in a fight, too."

She shrugged. "I like to get everything out in the open when I'm mad. When people walk away from me, it makes me feel like they don't think what I have to say is important. That makes me madder. Or sad, when it comes to him. So I don't really calm down."

lovemykilt January 27 2015, 06:10:09 UTC

"Yeah, there is no way I could beat him in a fight. At best I could --" Priestly's eyes went wide as his brain caught up with his mouth, and he scrubbed a little harder than necessary at the pan he was washing. "So that's a tough one, yeah. Hard to balance the two. Would writing it down help? So he could still do his storming off for space thing but you could get some of it out, too, so you don't implode while you wait for him to come back?"

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