[Thread] Ruby and Speed

[notsomuchakitty]

Who: Ruby, Speed
What: Random outdoor encounter?
When: Nowish
Where: Outside
Rating:PG-13 (ruby's got a mouth on her)

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[go_speedle_go]

Speed just raised an eyebrow at her words, specifically the "excess energy" ones rather than anything about being normal or not. Something told him the wording was off, but that was only a gut feeling and no hard evidence was around to back it up. He dismissed it, but that didn't mean he couldn't wonder about it and keep it in perspective anyway.

"Really now," he said simply. He reached back and swatted at her tail once--it was tickling him there. But he made no effort to move it or anything, just dropped his hand back to his side.

He began walking again, easily backtracking until he found the trail and started on it once more. "So you just randomly blow up trees, hmm?" he mused aloud. He stepped around a fallen tree trunk. He could tell with a cursory glance that it was rotten on the inside and had likely died for that reason. "I guess that's like me going for a speedy bike ride. Or--more like Calleigh going to the shooting range and unloading several clips of ammo at a single target." He couldn't help but smirk at the image formed in his head at that one.

[notsomuchakitty]

Ruby just giggled softly at his attack on her tail and wiggled it a little more...just to be a shit. She nodded to his 'really now' though she figured she hadn't been meant to respond to it.

She settled herself down comfortably on his shoulder as he walked back to the deer path. She had actually never really been down here much. When she was in the woods it was usually for blowing up purposes. She'd taken a nap in a particularly nice patch of sun once but she hadn't exactly been taking in the scenery then. It was actually a pretty nice forest. Better than a lot of the ones back home. No monsters here.

She made a sound of agreement when he described his and Calleigh's ways of blowing off steam. Sounded similar to her. "Sounds similar to me. Though I can't usually hit targets multiple times..." She grinned and shrugged her shoulders. It was more of a roll of her shoulders than a shrug but it was the best she could do in this particular form.

[go_speedle_go]

Speed snorted--very unattractive. He glanced down at the fuzz-ball on his shoulder and then shook his head as he looked back to the path.

"Yea, I bet." He smirked. He tried to continue ignoring her tail, but she kept twitching it every-so-often. He was about to swat at it again when he stopped short.

The CSI paused in his step and glanced down where his next step would have landed. A tiny amphibian scuttled across the path, probably looking for some watery place to reside. His brows rose curiously, but he kept quiet and stoic otherwise.

He continued walking. "Well, it tends to also be a stress reliever," he said idly, or at least made it sound as such.

[notsomuchakitty]

Ruby stared at the amphibian, her body tensing and a different part of her tail twitching as if she was planning to pounce on the thing as it scuttled across the path.

She felt more inclined to chase things like that in this form. She did have to hunt for herself when she was at home, after all! She had the hunting instinct of any predator. She shifted her weight from her right back leg to her left a couple of times as Speed spoke.

When he'd finished she gave him a look, cursing internally that he'd started walking again. She'd had every intention of pouncing on that little creature.
"Yeah I s'pose if that's what you want to use it for that works too."

She grinned a little. Clever Speed. He could tell....or at least had a hunch that something was off with her. He had better instincts than most humans.

She wondered if he was just taking a random stroll or if they had a destination where she'd be able to chase bugs take a nap or something.

[go_speedle_go]

Speed's eyes flicked to Ruby without any head movement to accompany them. He kept quiet for a moment as he stared at her impatiently.

Finally he sighed and looked back at the path. He wasn't going to push it. He was not going to pull her own trick against her; it wasn't in his nature. He wasn't nosy--unless it had something to do with a case.

He kept walking down the path, becoming increasingly more curious as to were it led as he did so. He'd never been outside in the forest like this before, not except once or twice on the edge just to pick at some trees idly. He'd never gone inside of it, never explored any of the small game trails. It was wonderful, but he was growing tired of it.

Just when he was about to turn around and head back "home," something caught his eye. It wasn't anything shiny or anything like that, just different. He peeked through the next few bushes recently overgrown on the path and saw what he thought he'd seen. Past the couple of bushes stretched a small meadow. On the opposite side ran a small stream. He wondered why he, or at least Ruby, hadn't heard it, but then he noticed it wasn't really moving too fast and the forest probably stunted the sound.

Or maybe Ruby just hadn't said anything to him. That seemed more likely.

He stepped around the two bushes and into the clearing. It was quaint, and definitely peaceful. He could hear the stream now and it was quite peaceful. Briefly he wondered if this is where the amphibian had come from, and if so how had he gotten so far away from his home?

He walked further into the meadow, heading for the bank and a rock to pick up and play with.

[notsomuchakitty]

Ruby was glad he didn't push it. She wouldn't have told him. It would have gotten a little messy and uncomfortable if he was a pusher. She didn't want to talk about it. She didn't need to. If Nall was there it'd be different. But then it probably wouldn't have been an issue in the first place if he'd been around.
She shook the thoughts out of her head. Useless to think about. Especially right now. Speed didn't really deserve to have her in some ridiculous crappy mood.

She smiled a little at the little stream as they walked toward it. Streams were nice. They had fish. When they reached the bank of the stream she sat on Speed's shoulder for a few moments then unwound her tail and hopped off of it onto a rock, looking intently at the surface of the water. Sure enough. Brook trout. Yum.

Of course she wasn't particularly hungry. It was just fun to catch them.
She leaned over the surface of the water holding perfectly still for a moment, her paw very slowly creeping over the surface of the water. At the last moment she thought better of it though and sat back, looking at her paw. She didn't want to get wet.

She tapped her paw on the ground thoughtfully then looked up at Speed. Let's hope this worked. She had screwed it up a few times and she wasn't sure how well speed would react to seeing her totally naked in human form. She concentrated on the movement of the water and began to change forms. When the pop that signified the change was over sounded she looked down urgently. Shorts and a black tank top. SWEET! She'd done it right.

She chose not to look at Speed but her hand shot into the water and emerged with a fish, flopping around in panic. She grinned and looked up at Speed as she dropped it back into the water. For a second she thought about saying something corny but chose not to. It was a peaceful meadow, no use messing up the quiet with some pointless and even stupid comment.

She chose, instead, to wiggle into a different position on the boulder and stick her toes into the water.