Heat of the moment...
Mat is walking into the Gauche today. This is not the face of someone who is happy with his life. Understandably, too. He's covered in mud, very damp, shivering, has a rip in his jeans and a scraped-up knee... and he's only wearing one shoe
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Because she hasn't seen Mat in ages, and quite frankly, she's just plain worried. And her conversation with Gunn had only done its best to inform her of her need to be proactive, so she's making her way to the Gauche for that very purpose.
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Mat is currently standing outside his door with his forehead resting against it, dripping little bits of mud and lake water every so often, and looking like he's either about to burst out in hysterical laughter or burst into tears. It's not that he couldn't BREAK the door open, but he doesn't really like the chances he'll be able to do that without all sorts of bad things happening.
...here, Fred. Have a damper, muddier, more frustrated, but ultimately somewhat-less-broken-than-when-you-last-saw-him boyfriend.
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Fred is, at the moment, oblivious to any mud or water that he may be drenched in. In fact, she's sort of oblivious to the fact that he can't get in right now, too. The only thing she's completely focusing in on is him, standing there in one solid big piece, and she won't even care about getting wet or muddy.
Instead, she just rushes him all at once, throwing her arms around him and getting a fair amount of mud on herself in the process.
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...That's not the point. The point is, he has a Fred, which is the first good thing that's happened all day, and she's apparently not mad at him for being epically avoidant the past couple months, and that's even better.
He shifts her hold on him a little so that he can bury his face in her neck, and because that's uncomfortable all hunched over, he straightens up, arms still wrapped tightly around her. We hope you don't feel the need to have your feet on the ground, Fred.
"Hi," he mumbles, still holding her.
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She pauses, and looks rather like she's trying to not say something, and then blurts out, "Your car is ugly as hell, you know." And after saying it, she promptly looks like she'd like to hit something because the universe sucks. "I hate this week. It sucks."
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"Okay. Leave Janine out of this," he says, more than a little defensively. "What the hell's up?"
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Yes, all this is said muffled by her hands. Her ears, however, are bright pink, which pretty much proves that most of the reason she's doing this is that she's blushing.
And then you can see that she's blushing, because she shifts her hands to clap them over her mouth just as she starts saying something else, and she goes from pink to practically red.
...someone may be thinking about her best friend.
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A girl can be eccentric if she likes, as long as she knows how to act, and Indy's one of Leona's kids.
Of course, when she sees Tay, a bit of the strangely un-Indylike bearing slips away, and she shoots Tay a grin.
"Hey! Didn't expect to see you out here..."
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"Indy?" she asks, rather incredulously. "...What the fuck are you wearing?"
...Yeah, the narration isn't sure whether or not that's her fun little problem or her usual tactlessness. Take your pick.
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"These are my work clothes," she says. "No way I could walk into a place like this looking how I usually do, so when I'm on-call..." She shrugs. "Discretion. It's a Good Thing. I've even got wigs, for when the blue hair would be a bit too much, but most of the time, if I act like I own the place, no one says a word. Had someone ask me if I worked in the music industry, once, and I ended up giving this whole spiel about really exciting new artists."
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"You're nuts," she says. "Also that looks weird on you." And that was something she didn't mean to say, and she grimaces. It's not that it doesn't look good on Indy, it's just... it doesn't fit with Tay's mental image of the Behemoth. But as Tay's not exactly an overly loquacious type, all she can put to words is that it looks weird.
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