She recognized him from their conversation in the rec room the last time, but now the tables were turned and he didn't look half as calm as she must have the day they met. "What's in there?" she couldn't help asking when her curiosity refused to sway.
"Comics," Brodie said, not looking up just yet, "What's it look like?"
He put another board in his copy of Detective Comics #27 and put it back in the box with the rest. First appearance of Batman, it DEFINITELY belonged there.
"Some of us have never experienced a comic in our lives," she reminded him, a bit of an arch tone in her voice because if he thought she was just going to wilt, he was sorely mistaken. "Why is there a box of them? And why are you just adding to it?"
Brodie sighed. Well, at least if this chick was going to learn about comics, he was the one doing the teaching.
"I'm organizing them. This is a bag, and this is a board," he answered, showing her the two things in turn, "They keep comics from getting fucked up. You don't want them to get bent and shit. And this box itself is for the most important ones."
Because fuck only knew when another space station was gonna fall out of the sky, or when the dinosaurs were going to invade the compound or some shit. He didn't want to have to deal with a goddamn velociraptor going to town on his rare Adventure Comics issues.
She could understand slightly. She understood that she didn't want to ruin her own books, that he would want to preserve his. She just didn't understand the need for a whole box of them. "And then you just never read them?" she asked warily. "Isn't reading them the best part?"
"Of COURSE you read them," Brodie said, because to not do it would be fucking ridiculous. How ELSE would he know what all he'd missed in comics in the TEN YEARS that it'd been since he'd been in Jersey? Collecting them just for collecting's sake was retarded.
"You just don't fuck them up in the process, because then they're not worth anything."
Belle's eyes widened at the frustration and anger that just seemed to be pouring off the other man and her default reaction was to have her own sort of attitude right back. "And then what? I like books just as much as the next person, but this all sounds frankly ridiculous," she pointed out.
"Look, you wouldn't just leave your books fucking lying around right? Or leave them out where someone could spill shit on them or tear out the pages? This is kinda like that." Brodie replied. Though, he was pretty sure it was easier to fuck up a comic than a book.
And while Brodie knew that what they were WORTH didn't mean as much on the island as it might've meant in Jersey, there was also RESPECT to take into account here. Brodie had too much respect for the work to let it get fucked up because people didn't know what the fuck a comic book was.
She understood at that and she gave a little nod, that turned into something far more knowledgeable and she gave Brodie a curious look. "Can you tell me about them? I've never read comics before. I mean, where would I even start?"
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He put another board in his copy of Detective Comics #27 and put it back in the box with the rest. First appearance of Batman, it DEFINITELY belonged there.
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"I'm organizing them. This is a bag, and this is a board," he answered, showing her the two things in turn, "They keep comics from getting fucked up. You don't want them to get bent and shit. And this box itself is for the most important ones."
Because fuck only knew when another space station was gonna fall out of the sky, or when the dinosaurs were going to invade the compound or some shit. He didn't want to have to deal with a goddamn velociraptor going to town on his rare Adventure Comics issues.
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"You just don't fuck them up in the process, because then they're not worth anything."
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And while Brodie knew that what they were WORTH didn't mean as much on the island as it might've meant in Jersey, there was also RESPECT to take into account here. Brodie had too much respect for the work to let it get fucked up because people didn't know what the fuck a comic book was.
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