The Deck, Thursday afternoon

[tigerundercover]

It was spring. Okay, not the warmest spring day ever, but the trees were coating themselves (and everything else) in green and Raven was nearly done with her classes for the semester, and that was good enough for her to be stretched out on one of the chairs on the deck with a pitcher of Arnold Palmer and a novel, mimicking a nice pair of shorts and

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[thegreywaren]

"Anything good in that drink?" Normal greetings were for other people.

Hey, at least it wasn't out and out grumpy. Possible booze made him a little nicer. A little.

[thegreywaren]

"Ah. Right. Got it." He nodded and crossed his arms. "So, who would you grace with your presence as a kid? There's gotta be someone around here you think would be hilarious to mess with."

[tigerundercover]

"Oh, I can think of a few people." Ronan, for instance, had come to mind. "Maybe one of the grumpier teachers."

[thegreywaren]

"Grumpier teachers?" he repeated, rubbing his chin. "The ethics teachers should be your main aim then. Grumpy and old."

[tigerundercover]

"Ooo, he'd be a good one," Raven agreed. "Or that bearded guy who's always scowling at the weird pony."

[thegreywaren]

"Points if you turn into his spawn that's a pony," Ronan suggested. "That'd be funny."

[tigerundercover]

"Oh, that's mean," Raven said with a grin. "I like it."

[thegreywaren]

"Mean's fun," he told her, shrugging. "If you like that, you should try mean on more often. Might surprise you."

[tigerundercover]

"I could be very good at it," Raven said. "I'm better about thinking about the mean things than doing them, though."

So far. The world hadn't screwed her over hard enough for her to really start getting nasty.

[thegreywaren]

"Could be?" Ronan looked mildly interested. Mildly. "What's stopping you from trying it out?"

[tigerundercover]

"Being able to look at myself in the mirror later?"

That was really about it. It wasn't like she'd have to get caught.

[thegreywaren]

"Because mean people should be ashamed?" he guessed. "I've got no trouble looking at myself in the mirror."

Anger and meanness and horribleness were a second skin.

[tigerundercover]

"Yeah, but you're insufferable."

[thegreywaren]

"I'm adorable," he said. Sarcastically.

[tigerundercover]

Raven snorted. "As a teddy-bear."

[thegreywaren]

Ronan smirked at her, fingers idly picking at the bracelets on his hand as he did. "Sorry, you can't cuddle with me. I'm not that type of teddy bear."