ka_verse Prompt 2, 'Let Go'
Prompt 2, 'Let Go'
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"It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave."
Tupac Shakur
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Sometimes, the constant restlessness in her blood and the invisible smothering feeling of too many secrets kept in one place drove Rachel out of her house late at night; she gradually took to winging out of her bedroom window to crash with the boys in Ax's scoop when the dark blanket of self-reflection grew too heavy.
The amount of truly random crap Marco had coerced Ax into helping him sneak, drag and build in the small space was as astonishing as it was thankfully distracting sometimes- and all of it was so disconnected from the war outside the enclosure.
"You have Pokémon cards in here? Seriously? You want Ax going back to his home world and sharing this about humanity?"
Teaching Ax how to play human games (card games, board games, a truly regretful experience trying to get Ax in human morph through a Twister game without maiming anyone) was routinely attempted on nights like this- mainly because most games they had accumulated didn't involve anything to do with war. (The Risk game mysteriously disappeared from the scoop after Rachel thrashed Marco and crowed about his caution trouncing his strategy for a week.)
Ax, as it happened, was appalled by Clue, so they only played it once- to Marco's regret.
"Ok, final guess- Rachel in grizzly morph in the study., Tobias would be out on the lawn eating the guy's furry woodland creatures, Ax wouldn't know how to wield a candlestick if he had to, and I'm too busy consoling Miss Scarlet in the lounge."
Mostly, they watched movies.
Marco's collection left something to be desired for everyone else- Tobias because his humor tended to be incompatible with Marco's, Rachel because she had a very low appreciation for "stupid fake macho guy humor," and Ax because he simply didn't get it and tended to ask questions throughout the entire movie. Marco, however, insisted he only owned "the classics" and that the rest of them were lacking in taste and his esteemed level of cinema sophistication.
"What do you mean you've never seen Top Gun? You're a guy who spends his life as a bird with wings and you've never seen Top Gun? That's just un-American."
Tobias- human and comfortingly stereotypically boyfriend-like for a short time- would shyly put his arm lightly around her shoulder while they sat side by side on the ground in front of the television. Rachel would relax in the pseudo "normal" for as long as she could before his two hours were nearly up or- more often- Marco's cutting words about certain people sitting in trees embarrassed Tobias too badly (and she would have to leap up and chase Marco through the surrounding woods).
Some days she felt all she had left of an ordinary life were these scattered pieces, jumbled together where the rest of her used to be.
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"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise."
- George Orwell
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A/N: My humble attempt at bringing Rachel into "Team Snark Squad" for some chill time. If you would like to see the guys truly well done, go to my favorites and check out HotPinkCoffee's (aka lisacharly )collection Like Setting Up Punchlines. First time trying to write Marco- hopefully it doesn't fail to badly. :P