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[gammagammahey]

Normally, Jennifer Walters always has a somewhat stable portal to Milliways from a certain infamous restaurant in New York City. It's a gamble; half the time when she opens the door to Pascha's she gets Milliways, and the other half she gets five star and five alarm tandoori chicken, pakoras, and naan. Either way, she usually has an interesting

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[bprd_agent_red]

Hellboy was sitting at a table with a beer daring anyone to try and pinch him when he saw her enter. With a smirk he gets up and walks over.

"Come from a wild party?" He asks, standing beside the seat next to her.

[gammagammahey]

Well, here's someone that promises to lift her spirits, pronto.

"Hi, Red. You betcha it was a party. In Reno, no less."

She gives her hair a small shake, hoping that the last bits of dust won't somehow transmigrate over to Hellboy and attach themselves with fervor.

[bprd_agent_red]

"Yeah? Reno, fun." He grins, taking a seat and then nodding at the bartop, "Buy you a drink?" Then he wants to hear what's up because if the rubble is any indication it was a hoot.

[gammagammahey]

"Sure, you charmer. Make it cold and carbonated and alcoholic? Reno. Biggest little city in the world. You'd think a three ton bright green supervillain might pick somewhere less conspicuous to shack up and order buffalo wings, right?"

She eyes him for a moment; she's pretty sure that Hellboy, although he's never said so, is in her league when it comes to heavy hitting.

And he has those wonderful broad shoulders.

[bprd_agent_red]

He grins and then knocks on the bartop with his flesh hand, setting his empty glass down, "You heard the lady, an a refill for me would ya darlin?"

Hellboy picks up the new beer and takes a drink looking at Jen. "They can't all be winners in the IQ department. Maybe he was tryin to take advantage of the St. Pattie's day discounts?"

Perhaps not exactly in her league, but he'd sure give the Gamma juiced a run for thier money. If on wisecracks alone.

[gammagammahey]

Jen blinks, because that was FAST, with the beer trick, then another bottle of beer appears. Talk about service!

She takes a looooong, cold sip.

"You have no idea how good this tastes right now. Thanks, Red. This guy? He's called the Abomination. He took a hit of gamma radiation a few years, got big, green, scaly, and....angry."

[bprd_agent_red]

"I been in a few drag out tussles, beers the best cure for the after." He gives her a wink. "So, he regret ordering those wings now?"

[gammagammahey]

She thinks about that for a second.

"You know, the guy's an ex-KGB agent, by the name of Emil Blonsky, who took the code name of Abomination. He does have a fondness for American junk food. Yeah, he regrets the wings now. He decided to invade a bar and declare it the Not So Democratic Republic of Blonsky. Aren't there better ways of meeting chicks? It's so medieval. Conquering a city to impress girls, I mean. That's not your style, is it?"

Wink.

[bprd_agent_red]

"Nah." He laughs and turns his head, hiding an embarrased smile. He recovers quickly and looks back at her shaking his head, "I thought about it but you know, conquer a city to get a girl's attention, what do you have to do after that to get her number? Start out small, suprise with the big stuff later."

[gammagammahey]

"You'd have to build a city, is what you'd have to do, after the invading and conquering."

She hums Jefferson Starship's We Built This City for a few seconds.

"You'd have to deal with unions, firing the City Clerk, death certificates, marriage certificates, birth certificates, business licenses, dog licenses, cat licenses, and is that any way to woo, I ask you? No. You're right. Start off small, and grow incrementally."

She shakes her head.

"Although even getting phone numbers is a dicey proposition lately. Most women can't tell if a guy is asking for her number for a coffee date, platonic-but-possibly-more date, prelude to hot sex date, or a you-are-my-soulmate-please-marry-me date. It's rough out there."

This is said with a knowing nod. Jen has few problems when it comes to the agenda of any given date, but looking at the track records of her friends? Reality is grim.

[bprd_agent_red]

"See, an I'm just not that organized or motivated to do that." Hellboy shakes his head. "Too much work running a city."

He listens and nods along with what she says and adds, "The problem I get most often is trying to make out the numbers from the startled screaming the lady is usually doing. And then they run off before I can check that I got it right. It's too rough if you ask me."

[gammagammahey]

"Why would anyone run from you?"

That's appalling. Where Jen comes from, no one would bat an eye at HB. Well, they might, but they'd follow up the batting with 'hey, mister, were you ever in the Avengers?'

"You're so cute. You're scrumptious. Are you telling me you can't get a date? If they run, they're not worth your time anyway. You can't have a girl that's easily intimidated."

[bprd_agent_red]

"This ain't really common back where I'm from." His smile falters just for an instant as he runs a hand up and down his face in explanation. Then he smiles and uses the hand to pick his beer back up. "Ain't I hot though? Just don't know what they're missin is all."

And here he feels he has to break the news to Jen. He smiles softly and looks down into his glass, "I got a girl now though. She ain't 'like me' but...well, she's 'like me'. Both on the outside of what the norm is back home..."

[gammagammahey]

[[OOC: Sorry, I was in the kitchen when you left chat. Slowtime is fine, because, as usual, this thread is love. <3 <3]]

Well, thank GOD at least one girl on his 'back home' sees reason.

"Red, how rare are people like you? Are you the only big red one? You better tell me about this girlfriend," she continues, happily. "I'm glad. Otherwise, I'd have had to follow you home, and make you put up your profile on OK Cupid."

He's not the only one with news, considering that Jen just annulled her two week long marriage.

[bprd_agent_red]

"Very rare actually." He admits. "Regular world knows em from tabloids and rag sheets. When they do pop up I'm usually the one to bop em in the head and run them off."

He takes a drink and then smiles fondly, "Liz works with me down at the Bureau. She's a pyrokinetic, a firestarter. I've known her for forever."

[gammagammahey]

"Sometimes the best relationships come after you've known someone forever. Friendship is a bood basis for love."

If only Jen would take her own advice.

"I know a few pyrokinetics. At least one of them is working on the wrong side of the law, but the rest? Lovely people."