[Roy/Rou] a pause in the monotony of life

[mayovice]

Fluuuuuuuuuuff tiem get. Set in theskytides, on a nice random night~It was no big surprise that recent events had left Hijikata quite busy. With everything that had been happening in the last few weeks and especially in the last few days, there had been almost zero time for the boatswain to rest. The swordsman had to attend to one thing after another in a

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...Prolly the longest tag I've done in a while, this.

[thewarisover]

Suffice to say, Hijikata was not the ONLY one who had been on his toes all week, from morning until evening. Boatswains, after all, were perhaps the most overworked officers ever, with all the hardship and virtually none of the benefits

Ahahaha. Same here. For the above, I mean.

[mayovice]

Ever the light sleeper, even in his exhaustion it didn't take too long before Hijikata was starting to stir from all the soft noises that Roy was making near him. His breathing, the cricks of his body, the rustling of papers - all those were all-too easily caught by his senses, and soon enough the samurai slowly to awaken from his somewhat impromptu nap.

A quiet groan sounded his awakening as the man returned to conciousness, fingers twitching as he shifted to push himself up back into a sitting position while ignoring the numbness that was moving up his fingers and arms due to the position they had been in earlier. He pushed himself back up properly onto the chair, eyelids slowly opening to a half-opened state as he stared blearily in front of him, his mind still too dead to start working properly any time soon.

OMG ARE WE CATCHING THE TEAL DEER BUG?

[thewarisover]

Roy, of course, quickly noticed that his companion was finally waking up - the alchemist looked up, blinked at the sight of Hijikata looking somewhat above the level of a zombie rising fresh from its grave.

"Good morning."

FFFFFFFFF IDK ARE WE??

[mayovice]

Having not expected anyone at all, Hijikata made a wordless surprised sort of sound as he slowly turned towards the alchemist, hazy dark blue eyes staring blankly at the other man for a good few moments before his brain finally registered who it was.

"...Mustang?" came the tired but nevertheless surprised voice. What was he doing here? Hijikata was pretty sure it was already well past midnight by now.

NOOOOES I CANNOT AFFORD IT.

[thewarisover]

"What other bastard would come around to bug you like this?"

Roy turned away, returning his attention to the papers in his hands. He was exhausted, but surviving a war had given him the uncanny ability to beat that back with a nail bat and deal with what was right in front of him with an admirable amount of skill.

WE CAN SELL IT FOR BIG BUCKS? OR NUTURE IT. IDK.

[mayovice]

...well, Roy did have a pretty good point about that. Fortunately for the alchemist, Hijikata was far too tired to be annoyed with him for the moment.

So instead the swordsman only blinked - once, twice and them a few more times so that his eyes could open fully and then the man proceeded to rub the dirt out of them while he spoke again. "What are you-" Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn. Man, was he tired. "-you doing here?"

WHAT. HOW DOES THAT WORK?!

[thewarisover]

"Making sure you don't drown beneath all of these things." Rustle, rustle. "You'll catch your death if you don't keep warm, you know."

WE WILL TL;DR SOME MORE TO GROW THE BUGS. AND THEN SELL THEM. 8D

[mayovice]

...and despite everything, the younger twin still managed to lineface a little upon hearing that comment.

"I've survived worse," came the somewhat tiredly-annoyed murmur that was only punctuated with yet another yawn.

...

[thewarisover]

"That doesn't mean that you have to take everything that doesn't count as 'worse' just because you can."

And all the while, Roy spoke without looking up, keeping his tired eyes right on the papers in front of him. The alchemist was probably fully aware of the fact that he looked just a little better than a dead man walking at that point, and he probably did not care.

...what. :<

[mayovice]

Roy didn't need to worry about that - Hijikata most probably looked much worse than how the other was right about now. It was pretty much a near miracle that the man was still able to stay concious especially after the hectic events of the past few days.

Another yawn once more, and the samurai responded tiredly. "Its not like I have a choice in the matter." As competent as the other boatswains were in their job (as he had come to admit by now), they (except Vimes, but he usually attended to other affairs of the job) were all still relatively new to their positions unlike him. So it was only natural that most of the tedious stuff fell into his hands.

You always make such little sense~ ♥

[thewarisover]

"There's always a choice."

Roy reached over to the table and, without even looking, snagged up a ballpen. He opened the cap with his mouth, and signed one of the documents in Hijikata's stead.

"Besides, I'm around. You can always pass some of this off to me."

I like the idea okay. :'(

[mayovice]

The swordsman only snorted lightly at that, shifting so that his head was propped up by his hand that was in turn propped up onto the deck by the elbow so that he wasn't going to simply loll off into dreamland once again - as tempting as that idea was. It wouldn't really be like him.

"I doubt you know how many crew members the ship had to replace in the last four years." It was no joke about the Victoria II and its frighteningly huge turnover rate.

Clearly. :'D

[thewarisover]

"I don't. But that doesn't mean I won't learn."

And with that, Roy looked up and smiled. Pure confidence, pure resolve. Like always.

Don't judge me. :(

[mayovice]

And to that Hijikata only closed his eyes and snorted, slowly opening them again and blinking before he spoke. "We'll see about that."

...though, he was pretty sure Roy would be able to do it without any problem.