ONE HUNDRED TWO

[tehpuck]

Well, at least I won't get bored, today. Telling the truth is a rare thing for yours truly, it's one of those... two, three things? Out of the millions upon millions of things I know, that I'm not too skilled at

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[warped_inside]

It's kind of fascinating that you can only come up with two or three things you're not skilled at, even on a day when you're forced to tell the truth.

[tehpuck]

I assume you mean the good type of fascinating, and I agree.

[warped_inside]

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad type of fascinating. You can be fascinated by something that scares or horrifies you, but it doesn't change that you are fascinated.

But I did mean the good type, though.

[tehpuck]

Well, I'd rather not be train-wreck fascinating, then. I don't think anything in my wardrobe matches with that.

You usually do. It's part of your... allure? I'm sure that's as close to the right word as I'll get; drawing-power makes it sound like you're an artist.

[warped_inside]

No, I think if I were fascinating, I'd be train-wreck fascinating. You're just...you.

I have an allure? I'm pretty sure I don't. Although drawing-power does sound odd, I agree. Like an artist superhero.

[tehpuck]

Just me? That's a great deal to put on just four letters.

You've got an allure if I say you've got an allure. Take it from someone who's got enough of the stuff for the both of us; I know what I'm talking about.

[warped_inside]

'Just' as in, no additional description or explanation needed. Not 'just' as in, hardly worth mentioning. You don't really need me to reassure you of that, though.

You can't make a person have something by saying so. Although if you're stuck telling the truth...then I guess you'd mean it, at least as much as you believe it's true.

I think I should not argue so much about things like that.

I also think I may be talking too much.

[tehpuck]

I know, but if I deserve an adjective, I want one that leaves no question of my brilliance.

Actually, you can, but it takes more genuflecting and monarchies than I currenly have access to. But if I say you have allure, then you do, because I know these things.

Aren't we all.

[warped_inside]

All right, I suppose 'just' isn't a terribly flattering adjective. Unless you think of it in terms of there not being an appropriate adjective. But I could offer...incomparably?

Thank you. I'm adding that to my list of the things that makes me feel good today. It's going right below 'having an alien squid baby wrapped around my neck'.

I'm not usually this...chatty.

[tehpuck]

I think I prefer that one immensely, though if any others of my kind appear, you may have to find a new one.

That is, by far, one of the more interesting kinks I've yet heard. Though it does explain why you've been able to resist my obvious charm thus far.

I recall, yes.

[warped_inside]

Just because they're your 'kind' doesn't mean they'll be anything like you. I find it hard to believe that there could be anyone like you anyplace.

He's a pet, not a kink. Sleeping with one alien one time doesn't create a kink. And she didn't even have tentacles. And who says that I've resisted your charms at all?

Oh god. Please tell me to shut up.

[tehpuck]

You'd be surprised. Ask anyone from my world; I'm sure they would nervously cough and attempt to change the subject from him.

...But you've slept with an alien? Really, I'm surprised and impressed, Toshiko. And I do, which means you have.

No, no, this is interesting.

[warped_inside]

Are you trying to change the subject from him? Do you have a twin or something?

Yes. But she wasn't in alien form. She was in ordinary human form. And it was nice, and I loved her, and she broke my heart, and I really am going to stop talking about her now. And I have not, maybe you just haven't tried very hard.

You're full of awful mischief, you know.

[tehpuck]

I used to have hundreds, now it's down to a handfull. Not that I miss the bastards; I really am glad they're dead. Though, this is why I'm not so good with families. Someone I know just had a baby, and I've ignored her so far for it. I... don't have any excuses.

What was her name? And, ah, I'll have to try harder.

I'm Robin Goodfellow, what were you expecting, candycanes and rainbows?

[warped_inside]

I'm sorry, Robin. You shouldn't ever have to feel glad that you're family is gone. I'm really sorry. And yes, Rose. I haven't given her my good wishes, I should do that. But maybe not today.

Mary. And so far I think you're very nice and interesting, don't get me wrong, but I also think you're mostly a tease.

No, I was expecting mischief. But what I expect and what I hope for are almost always very different things.

[tehpuck]

They aren't my family. They're my species ...I don't imagine I'll be doing much anything, today.

I am really not a tease, this I promise you. I'll prove it to you.

What do you hope for, then?