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[i_love_kettch]

[OOM: Home, and shopping, and X-wings are clearly the superior starfighter.]

"--okay, so a Bothan walks into--"

The door swings shut behind him as he realises that he hasn't walked into the main corridor on-base -- Wes is back in Milliways, with his orange flightsuit, bag on his shoulder and a blaster on his right hip and-- is that a sword on his

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[slayer_fray]

Slayer.

Skaterug.

Hovering a few feet away.

MAJOR case of the shinylust.

'M just sayin'.

[slayer_fray]

Beat.

"OK. Sounds like as good enough reason as any, I guess."

[i_love_kettch]

"'Course it is!"

Wes grins brightly at her.

"Don't tell me you never painted random things belonging to your commander or whatever y'got."

[slayer_fray]

Mel eyes him over an imaginary pair of glasses.

"My boss? Is a crime lord."

[i_love_kettch]

This is certainly worth some consideration.

"...well, I guess I can see how it might not be so advisable. He'd probably do more'n just give you kitchen duty."

Pause.

"Unless he really, really liked pink?"

[slayer_fray]

Gunther and pink are really not mental images that need to be combined. At least in Mel's head. See her wince.

"He was mad enough when I trashed the place. I think redecorating would be taking it too far."

[i_love_kettch]

Winces just make Wes grin. He likes causing reactions like that sometimes.

"P'raps," he agrees cheerfully. "Ought to keep it in mind though." Pause. "Wait, why'd you trash it in th'first place?"

[slayer_fray]

"Slaying," Mel says shortly. Because that's really all he needs to know.

[i_love_kettch]

It doesn't stop him from eyeing her.

But he shrugs.

"What about here, then?" With another slight grin. "Anyone here y'can annoy with pranks?"

[slayer_fray]

"No," Mel says, looking down. "Indy's been back on his world for weeks."

She's not that much less cheerful, but it's there. Rut, but she misses him.

[i_love_kettch]

"Huh." Wes' grin fades a little with concern, and he peers at her. "Who's Indy, then?"

He's probably one of the few GFFA pups who's been in Milliways so long without going through the Han/Indy mix-up, yup.

[slayer_fray]

"My brother," she says, forcing her smile wider. It's fine, really.

"He went back to his world a few weeks ago, and hasn't come back yet. He'd be the guy Mike and I would prank."

[i_love_kettch]

"Brothers and folk like 'em are always fun to mess with," Wes says with a nod.

He's too used to Hobbie and Inyri to believe people pretending to be fine, though.

But he's also pretty used to letting it slide.

"His world different to yours, huh? Still Earth, or -- oh, you're from most people's future, yeah?"

[slayer_fray]

Well, she's not exactly pretending, she's just not letting it get to her either. There's no real reason to mope except for the very simple and obvious reason that she misses him.

"Still Earth, yeah," she agrees. "But I don't think his world has vampires and Slayers and stuff. Or if it does, he doesn't know about it. And yeah, he's from about three hundred years in my past."

[i_love_kettch]

Good enough reason, really, for all that Wes would ... do the same, actually.

"Pfft, there's about a billion versions of Earth or somethin' from what I've seen, yeah." Ah, exaggeration. "Timelines, there's even more of. Kriffed up."

So naturally, he ignores it all, and grins.

"He get mad about pranks?"

[slayer_fray]

"Only when they're on him," Mel replies with a wicked grin.