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[electro_joe]

Date: Fall 2005
Characters: Joey Holmberg, Zach Teller
Summary: After this thread. Joey has fled gone to work trying to figure out how he's going to NOT be slaughtered by a certain person's human GPS boyfriend. He also meets up with Eden to go on a Super-Sekrit bug-destroying mission.
Status: Complete!
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[electro_joe]

To his credit, his laugh was not entirely hysterical...only tinged on the edges. "Oh, yeah," he deadpanned. "SO much fun, right Val?" he asked.

Val gave him her patented eyebrow-raise and even more standard, "You're an idiot, Holmberg."

"I know," he replied with a nod and a grin that wasn't completely fake.

Oh, do I.

[ambiguouslyzach]

Holmberg, hm. He realized then how seldom he knew surnames nowadays. He couldn't help it--he threw a wink to the purple haired girl.. who promptly rolled her eyes and walked into the back room. Right.

"Are you okay?" he asked suddenly, Texan drawl leaking in. He furrowed his eyebrows in concern, there was something.. off about the man.

[electro_joe]

Damn. That accent stuff was like serum.

"Not really, no," he said cheerily, as another customer was approaching. Back went the uber-grin. "Can I help you, ma'am?"

She ordered five things. On two different credit cards. It hurt to smile. When she left, finally, and the place was clear (or relatively so) Valerie asked him if he wanted to take a break.

"And sit with your boyfriend," tossed in Max from behind the espresso machine.

"I seriously hate you guys," he mumbled. "Val..."

"Take a hike, Holmberg. You've been acting like you've had a five four-shot talls in ten minutes the entire time you've been on."

"I didn't even have any espresso until I came in," he grumbled, yanking off his apron. "Just a bunch of coffee. I totally ate food too."

"Beat it, Holmberg."

Joey muttered something unpleasant about the parentage of the two of them and exited the behind-the-counter area.

[ambiguouslyzach]

He frowned as Joey came around the counter towards him, handing him his drink. "Thanks," he muttered, taking in Joey's glum expression. Glancing back at the two girls looking on expectantly, he elbowed Joey lightly, knowing what this would look like but he didn't much care.

"Hey," he said gently. "Let's take this outside."

[electro_joe]

Well, at least he wouldn't be blowing every fuse in the coffeehouse this way. Joey trotted along trying not to seem as entirely doomed as he felt. It would figure, the first time something really goes his way it gets snatched back.

"So. What's up?" he asked trying to make his voice sound anything other than panicky.

Starry nights.