"....I remember you being a bit less frigid than you are now, little miss purple hair." Ran took Kagura's hand in his, looked deeply into those fiery, youthful eyes...and took her hand away from his face, opting to indulge in another cancer stick. "And if I remember, you rejected my proposal. Shit, I try to be a gentlemen, but NOOOOO. You just had to have your period on me." The sight of Kagura bleeding all over Ran's good clothes caused him to chuckle, as well as back away from any sort of womanly bitching that might come his way on Kagura's part.
Kagura shrugged a bit and yawned some. "I believed you not to be serious at the time." She said and popped a claw out and shredded it down the front of Ran's shirt light enough to just slice it open without hurting Ran. Retracting the claw, Kagura smirked some. "There you go. You looked a little heated under the collar." She slid and stepped back out of his arm's length and grinned still. "I couldn't believe you because I just downed your flask and you went stupid on me."
Autumn watched Ran and Kagura curiously, noting the Chief ignored her greeting. She smiled anyway and watched the reeling Fay curiously as Kagura flew from him to Ran in a flurry of purple hair. "Like a ferret on speed."
Gyles walked towards Autumn, Kagura Fay, hoping to introduce his new acquaintance without a hitch. With each step, he was still fully aware of the body only a few inches away. The rather comely (to his tastes) girl latched on to his arm seemed rather nice, but seemed to have some difficulty with social skills. So he thought he might as well be the guy to break the ice, if anything. "Hey guys. This is P2C Dream... err... you didn't tell me your first name, did you? And Dream, these two are Autumn and Kagura. The one with the attitude and claws is Kagura." He said, smirking a little and quietly slipping his hand to his knife sheath. He wasn't in the mood to get his good shirt slashed.
"...I feel sort of violated." Ran, with embarassment in his eyes, tinted by a shade of shame, held his cut-open shirt together, although his tattoos were super duper awesome. "I'll get some easy girl on the street to help me when I'm 'heated under the collar', thank you very much." Ran turned to Autumn and snickered, imagining Kagura as some strange anthropomorphic ferret woman...and then becoming incredibly disgusted at such a thought. "...Fur doesn't belong on a woman. No matter how cold the weather may be."
Kagura calmed down a bit and took a deep breath like she was about to shout her lungs out but didn't and just seemed to calm down. When Gyles introduced the new girl, the purple haired marine turned her single red eye on her and nodded. "Ello." She said pleasantly.
Autumn watched Ran with a laugh. "I'm more of a leather gal myself, but I see whatcha mean, Ran." She looked at Gyles and his catch with a grin. "Hiya. I guess you could technically be Gyles Dream gal for the night," she greeting the female medic with a fairly friendly tone and smile. "Take it easy on him though, I don't know how well he can hold his liquor and his timing."
"...You feel like a beer, Dream?" Ran had his shirt hanging open, thanks to Kagura, and the cold air had indeed caused un-needed things to become erect. Ran then reached forward and pinched where Dream's love handles would be, backing up afterwards. "...Cause ya feel like a pastry, Privat-AAAAGH." Ran had placed his cigarette in the crook of his ear, and the burnt end reached far enough to burn his ear. Ran promised himself that he would remove it as soon as he was done talking to Kagura. He promised himself.
“Rose..or a couple others.” The young Marine finished for Gyles, meeting Kagura's eyes. “Heya.” They looked pretty cool, all right. She wondered if Ran had gone on the other side of her too many times, and sported some other scars. “Served him right, probably..” She thought.
Her attention shifted just a tad to Autumn, already playing with her tongue stud again for a few moments she just nodded, and tried to smile. Her eyes were genuine enough not to screw things up too badly, except for squeezing her escort a little tight again. Twice as hard when Ran's pinch made her jump half out of her skin, and the medic looked about two seconds from castrating the Chief.
"Rockin'. So we're all acquainted." Gyles said rather contentedly, grinning smuggly as he rubbed his chin. He had let go of his knife, seeing that Kagura was now a little more relaxed, which in his mind, was always a good thing. "Hey now Autumn... I've got great tolerance and a body that can soak it up. Problem is... my timing sucks, so I might need a drinking buddy or two to keep me from drowning." He said, smiling congenially. He was looking forwards to whatever might happen later that night.
Kagura chuckled at Ran then looked at Rose. "You should've swatted him for that." she pointed out. "He's a big dumb gorilla so he can take it." She tried to reassure her and walked over to Ran and swung at the back of his head meaning to just swat him upside it to prove the point.
"Not what I meant but that's okay, Sug. I'll let you and whoever you take home tonight figure that out," Autumn winked at Gyles again. She chuckled again as Ran made himself out to be permanently on the bad side of this new girl. "You have a funny way of winning your way into a young girl's bed, Ran"
"Wait..." Gyles said, other thoughts creeping into his mind after hearing Autumn's reply. "...you don't mean *my* timing, do you? I'm pretty sure I haven't gotten to know anyone that could tell you about that."
"..." The back of his head still sorta stung from being his by a cybernetic arm. But it was ok, Ran would get back at Kagura later. He'd done a good job on Suku's panty raid, anyway. "...Enjoy your panties, Kagura." Was all that he said, before looking over his shoulder to Autumn and smiling. "Hey, now. I want a woman that knows how to take a good joke, Wilde. Besides, Private Dream's got a nice sense of style." He would reach forward to snap Dream's bra strap.
"I'm gonna do more than that." Rose assured them, letting Gyles' arm go. Her boot quickly found it's way to his crotch showing how fast she could be. "NEXT time..CHIEF...I'll make sure you need replacements. No touchy." She growled out, her amber eyes staring at him. She was pissed, but hopped back towards Gyles and grabbed his arm just as hard again. Trying to look casual, but her stance suggested she'd move quick if the bruiser went after her for getting his just desserts.
The Chief had now experienced a pain so incredibly profound and deep, that he was sure there were going to be cracks in the pavement. The horrible, heavy pain made it's way past his testicles, into his lower back, and just caused the Chief to fall to both knees in front of the Private, his face right at waist level with her. In a defiant act of jackassery, he sniffed around and said "...Something smells like a fish market" while staring at Dream's crotch. That said, he slumped forward to take a nice nap.
agura's eyebrow tic'ed somet at what Ran said and growled and when he went down, she put her boot on the back ofo his shoulders and pushed his face into the ground a bit. "You do it and I'll remove what makes you male." She snarled at him and kicked the prone body once before backing off, her attitude seemed to change like the wind.
The Chief lazily raised a middle finger, hoping to hell it was facing Kagura.
"Oi, medic." Gyles called out, noting the Chief collapsed beneath Rose's assault. "Get some ice, and a bottle of cheap Bourbon."
Adrian watched as the warrant officer took a boot to the crotch followed by hitting the ground. "... Well fuck me." The medic kicked Ran in the side several times, attempting to rouse him. "Damnit, I have to work on my fucking- Oh fuck you, Chief." Adrian kicked him again, this time much harder, in shoulder.
Dream was finally smiling, if just a little bit, "A little too late.." She adjusted her bra strap. "Be a good boy and no accidents happen." She leaned against Gyles slightly, taking one half step away from the fallen man. She smiled at Adrian, and a little more at Kagura then set her eyes to Autumn for a little bit before remaining alert on the chief. In case he hadn't learned his lesson yet. He was a bit funny to the disfunctional medic, but no way was she going to start things like that. Rolling her stud across her lips, she simply remained smiling enigmatically.
"Maybe, I can't explain these things to ya if you've got another gal on your arm," Autumn replied sweetly as she knelt down and tried to help the Chief back up. "Come on, Chief, I'll help ya to the bar. Just stop getting beat up by the 100 pound chick for the sake of peeking."
"Ohhh, shit..." The Chief's right hand was cupped over his genitals, hoping that the cybernetic-ness of it would do well to block any more genital shots. "Beat up? She just kicked me in the nuts...I swear to god, if she's put under my command, she'll be cleaning the latrine for WEEKS UPON WEEKS TO COME." At that, Ran popped three cigarettes into his mouth, lit them, and started right on them, looking around for a bar. "I need liquor. Right now."
Adrian dug in his pockets a bit. "I got four canisters of mystery drugs from those.. shit, the Yamataian ones.. Want one?"
Kagura just relaxed some, relaxing as she waited some and watched Dream with her Red eye. "So where are you originally from Ms Dream?" she asked.
"Yamataians? Fuck no. You trust that crap?" Still feeling rather winded from being junk-kicked, Ran stood up and stretched a bit, popping his back and nearly choking on the sea of smoke that filled his lungs.
"Of fucking course I don't. Why do you think I still have four canisters, asshat?" Adrian replied.
"I have to admit, that's a pretty mean kick you've got there, to be able to suddenly clear the air of the noxious cloud of shitty come-on lines wafting around the Chief. I'm impressed." Gyles chuckled, glancing back down at the medic's amber eyes. Something about the color seemed unusually beautiful to him. He peered back at Autumn a little uncomfortably at hearing her reply and simply faked a bit of a cough and glanced away.
"There are easier ways to get a girl to play with your nuts, Chief, that's all I'm saying," Autumn replied in a friendly tone of voice again. She took a couple of steps away from Ran as he sprang up to not get hit in the face accidentally by his flailing arms.
The Chief shot Adrian a rather irritated look. "I don't know, Staff Sergeant. You got a thing for drugs, I guess?" Ran pulled out a rather small flask of schnapps and took a few sips from it, hoping to replace the horrible aching sensation in his testicles with the slight burning sensation that went down his throat thanks to the alcohol. "Got that right, Autumn. Shelling out 25 on some corner is a helluva lot easier than trying to woo some frigid bitch." From recent events, the Chief was a bit pissy. He'd get better once he got more drunk.
"I'm not frigid..." Kagura commented as she waited for Dream's response to her little question, trying to be friendly to the newbie.
Adrian shrugged. "'Problems' are relative. Right now it seems you have more of a problem than I do, seeing as you were just publicly emasculated and are out a shirt thanks to having it cut from your chest." The medic spoke without much emotion in his voice, but he was clearly smirking.
Ran spat the three cigarette butts onto the ground, replacing them with just one. "Eat a dick, Staff Sergeant." Was all he said, now opting to ignore the man for the rest of the night. "So where's Rico anyway?"
Around Sommerville." Rose replied to Kagura, a more even gait in her voice than what she had just displayed. If she was shaken she was repressing it well. It was as good an answer as any, the mega city was far enough away from Funky to be big enough in its own rites, and she had grown up mostly around there. "What about you?" She ventured, sometimes glancing over to the man licking his wounds sort to speak. "Well.." She remarked to Gyles, looking up at him again while she waited for Kagura's answer, "..combat medic for a reason."
"Fuck you," Was Adrian's only reply. He now sincerely wished at least two of the capsules were full of Vigour. No better way to disenfranchise an opponent than making them into a convicted rapist.
"I was born on a pirate ship over Halna." Kagura said with a friendly smile. "Adrian, with that busted junk, he ain't fuckin anything for a while." The PFC grinned at the combat medic.
"Sounds like a dream. I grew up in Downtown Funky City, near one of the bigger airbike tracks." Gyles said, his own expression continuing the friendly air that had been going on since Ran's sudden injury. "Kinda fun place, if you don't mind gamblers and biker gangs."
"Sis and I were born in space too. Skipped Bri, but eh'.." She shrugged, her shoulders relaxing as she spoke to the pair. "Dad said she was cursed even though it skipped one.." Thorn smiled a little better for it, something that seemed forced minutes before as she dealt with everything.
Across from the group, the three civilians from before had reclined back to their original spot, becoming lost in the conversations of the marines and instead choosing the safety and familiarity of their own little group. The streetlights began flickering on as Core began setting beneath the silhouettes of the massive building complexes crowning Los Apagos, and as the pale white lightposts showered their light on Apogee Square, things suddenly began to seem clearer.
The three civilians consisted of two young men, and a young woman. The first one, lanky and dark-skinned, wore a ratty-looking dress black dress coat and matching slacks, along with an obviously well-worn red tie beneath his lax face and hefty-looking afro. The second one, smaller, looked like a mix between a mole and a greasy garage worker. He leaned against the cement protrusions beneath glowing green goggle-like eyewear, and obviously had not dressed for the occasion as well as his peer; instead, he was wearing a simple (yet exceptionally dirty) white undershirt tucked into a set of splotched cargo pants. The marines could probably smell oil off of him from where they stood.
The one closest to the marines, however, was not so much interested in their conversation, but the actions happening in the soldiers’ own circle. To some of the Green Marines, she would look vaguely familiar. Her hair, dark brown in color, was wavy and vibrant, covering a sharp, smart face sporting a sly little grin. She wore a simple pair of capris, red Mary Jane heels, and a white ringer shirt under a black leather jacket that cut off at her midriff. Even as a few of the marines took notice of her, she continued to glance amongst them, as if trying to decide on something.
“Hey, Rico is coming, right?” The monkey-suit said, barely audible from their distance.
The woman laughed shortly, taking her gaze away from the SMoDIN soldiers for a moment. “Oh, he’ll be here baby.”
Hearing the mention of 'baby' again, Kagura turned her red eyed glare on the trio and sighed some, deciding to take a slight risk and began to walk over. She didn't look amused at all by all this anymore. She brushed her hand through her purple hair , the lights gleaming off her arm as she walked over. "You mentioned Rico, you know him?" she asked the woman.
"He's supposed to be. Would you folks happen to be Devilfish?" Autumn asked curiously, appraising the three's worn appearance. She cracked the knuckles on her right hand idly as she waited.
Rose stayed where she was, she had her kicks but if Kagura decided to let in on them she'd have to keep herself under control long enough to help her take them down. As it sounds, they were a part of his old gang or something like that? The Geshrin's mind clicked on what she'd heard earlier. Someone's home town, that had to have been him right? She was back to playing with her tongue stud again, sometimes the little shape would pass on the other side of her lips, like a metronome for how fast her mind was racing.
The young woman turned abruptly and flashed Kaguro and Autumn a faintly familiar smirk, running a hand through her hair. "That'd be us, baby!" She turned to the other two behind her with a jeering little grin. "See, ya lil' shits? I told ya I heard 'em talking about Rico."
Autumn grinned, "He's supposed to be meeting us but we're fashionably early! Do ya'll got names or just an interesting fashion sense?" She called back in that ever present echoing, friendly tone of voice of hers.
Kagura just watched, looking at the smirk suspiciously. "So you're the gang he organized huh. talk about ragtag, that loser bred a gruop of losers too..." She said with a smirk, wanting to provoke them into messing up or something.
"Rico, I knew you were a weird motherfucker, but I never expected you to get into that Yamataian sex-change gas." Adrian scowled at the woman as he spoke, although he was quite sure he was correct in assuming who the 'girl' was.
While the two gentlemen behind her grew a little offensive, the young lady before Kagura mearly turned back around and gave her a single raised eyebrow and amused little grin. "Yeah, you're one to talk, baby...what was yer name again? Frigid Bitch?" She then turned to Autumn, clasping her hands on her waist. "Name's Babs, baby. This here is Gogs and Jeeves." Babs finally turned to Adrian and gave him a confused look. "Say what, baby? You talkin' to me?"
Fay had remained quiet throughout most of the introducing and other events. He hadn't know what to really say, and the experience with Kagura and Autumn had left him in a little daze. Currently, he just sighed and walked over to Rose. "Something the matter?" he asked casually, noting that she seemed to be thinking about something.
"You're related to the loser, he's the only person I know that says 'babe' and smirks in that fashion." Kagura said. "Get off the Kaserine."
"Yes, I am. You talk exactly like the fucker, you act like him, and I have every reason to believe you are Rico Sanroma plus Kaserine," Adrian concluded. "I must assume that the Vigour just wasn't enough for you, was it?" Adrian finished with a vicious smirk.
"Nice to meet ya guys, I'm Autumn," Autumn grinned with a wave. She looked at Kagura curiously again, "It could be a local speech pattern or dialect. If these guys were as close as my gang used to be, then it's not unlikely that they didn't just start talking the same."
Babs and her smile suddenly faded. "You must be Adrian, then."
The two behind her sneered a bit. Jeeves spat on the ground.
"Of course I fucking am. Did the sex-change gas make you stupid or something?" Adrian replied. He left his hand by his side, within easy grabbing distance of his Zen .45.
Kagura crossed her arms. "You losers wanna fight then bring it on. I'm itching to test out my new weapon." she sneered evilly. "You guys up for a good brawl?"
"Well isn't she a social butterfly?" Dream thought passively as she looked at the armourer, at least it was one of her many, many thoughts relevent or otherwise. From what danger they'd be in from the thugs, to how germ-ridden they must be, and bad luck too. Horrible bad luck! Actually she liked the other two women, she was just trying to put her finger on them somehow. She blinked out of it as before and darted her eyes to Fay, "Hnn? Nothing, was thinking about home." The medic's free hand flexed and twitched three times.
Babs kept silent as she stared at Adrian, not at all intimidated by his display. She also seemed to ignore Kagura, as well as Autumn.
Adrian cocked an eyebrow. "What, Rico?"
"Shut the fuck up, Kagura. I'm gonna catch so much shit if the higher-ups found out I let a Private beat some street urchins senseless." Ran had long since gotten over his testicles being attacked. Seeing the disposition of the three of them change towards Adrian, he stepped past Kagura and right in front of the three of them, somewhat behind Adrian. "Why are you three so interested in us knowing Rico? And how do you know this man's name?" He motioned with his chin towards Adrian. Ran's pistol was holstered at his side, ready to be pulled out if the need arised.
"Shit guys, chill. They are Rico's buddies, they’re his gang, the Devilfish," Autumn explained with a wave of her hands. She wondered what exactly was keeping the Sergeant. She was kind of looking forward to drinking with him after the nice shopping trip they had.
Kagura growled a bit at being ignored and with a "chink" her claws came out and flexed threatening as her eye tic'ed a bit. "If they're here then where the flying black hell is that guy." she demanded. "I swear I'm slugging him the moment he fuckin' shows up, he asks us to show up here and he's almost what... 5 minutes late?" she hissed.
"Damnit, Kagura, the bastard's standing right there," Adrian pointed to Babs, "He just swilled a fuckton of Kaserine. I've seen it before."
"Then let me slug the bastard." She hissed, drawing back to go for it.
"No, Dear heart, it's not Rico," Autumn replied with a slight frown.
"Don't even think about it, Private." Adrian growled. He, like Ran, was not too thrilled with the proposition of having a private kick the shit out of a couple street toughs without provocation.
"Yeah, she's nowhere near as good lookin'," an increasingly familiar voice floated up from behind them. Babs, whom obviously had seen it coming far before the others, grinned widely as Rico Sanroma grinned triumphantly behind them. He looked fairly well tonight, adorned in a set of snazzy jeans, boots, Aethersperm t-shirt and a black leather jacket. He beamed at his comrades as they turned to him. "So, what'd I miss?"
"Son of a fucking bitch, you got cloned, too?" Adrian had a look of confusion and distaste adorning his tanned visage. "You're a real crazy bastard."
Fay scratched the back of his head as he asked another question, "Oh... Well, what were you thinking about your family? Do you miss them, or something?" He was curious to learn more about this new medic.
Kagura turned with seething, pure hate in her eyes as she stalked toward Rico. "I am so going to hurt you." she hissed and walked right up to Rico and got right in his face. "You set this up on purpose..." she growled and stared at him with her seemingly glowing eye.
Rico smirked at Kagura, throwing his hands up in a false act of surrender. "Holy shit, I'm busted. You want your prize now, or later sweetheart?"
"Kagura, back the fuck off of, aye? You're going to slit him open, and I'll have to clean up the fucking mess," Adrian yelled after her, frowning heavily.
"Hi Babe!" Autumn waved with a grin as she hurried to stop Kagura. "Whoah whoah, wait a sec. Kagura, honey, you gotta calm down. I'm all for throwing down and tearing of clothes, but at least save it for mud wrestling or something."
In a short move, Kagura would attempt to uppercut Rico in the gut just under the solar plexus to knock the air out of him with her organic fist.
"You're not gonna do shit to him, Kagura." Ran, ignoring the three, looked over his shoulder at Rico. Oddly enough, this would also be the first time in a long while that the two had interacted. "What the shit kept you, sergeant? I'm about out of liquor and the cigarettes are running thin, t-" Ran had watched all of it. Kagura's tensing up, as well as the fist that would serve to pound the air out of Rico. "...Someone's demoted."
"May, I guess." Rose replied tersely, watching what was going on, but also talking to Saelus easily. "They don't.." She made a fist again, and unclenched it. Repeating it over and over, "..approve of my line of work some of them." With that, there was silence again. Looked like that's all that she'd say for the time being, the altercation was making her a little jumpy.
This wasn't the first time a fine lady suddenly decided to give Rico a little tough love...and over the years, he had become attuned to such actions, enough to know exactly what to do. With a graceful little sidestep, Rico hooked his left arm behind Kagura's, using the momentum of her blow to spin to twirl her around a little.
Fay blinked at Rose, feeling a little sorry for her. "I'm sorry to hear that," he finally said, "Being a medic is very important, though. You have a chance to save lives that wouldn't survive without our services. Be proud, okay?" He smiled at her to try to cheer her up.
Kagura went automatically to move with the force and go to drive the metal elbow into Rico's gut. "I really don't like being called out of my hot tub just to meet you here and you end up late," she hissed.
"Kagura..." Autumn sighed as she walked over to her violent friend. "Hit on does not mean physical contact..."
Rico ducked under her elbow, the top of it grazing his well-oiled hair slightly as he slide behind her, trying his best to keep away from her blows while being as close to her as possible. "Then why'd you come then, sugar?" Rico chuckled a little as he moved. "Can't stay away from ol' Rico for more than a day?"
Adrian quickly had relocated himself behind the confrontation between Rico and Kagura, two Emries 'Calm' vials in his hand. "Kagura, chill out." Adrian reached to grab her shoulder, while at the same time punching the two vials towards the back of her neck, hoping her tangle with Rico would keep her from smashing him.
Kagura snarled, getting even more riled up and did the one thing she could, stomped on his foot and slipped away and sighed. "Because I thought it might be different to socialize for a change. She stretched out and sighed. "I'm going to get a drink." Kagura said and stalked away for a bit wanting to just calm down.
Autumn watched Kagura stomp off, "Anger...management, dear heart. We're gonna enroll you in something to teach you zen and shit. This is getting silly."
"Rico! Fuckin' dipshit, gonna go dancin' with your friend an' not even say hey?" Babs called out as Jeeves and Goggs stood up and joined her.
"Baaaaaaabs! Baby!" Rico opened his arms wide to acknowledge his old gangmate before turning to the rest of his Marine brethren. "Okay folks, this here is Babs. Good friend a' mine...go ahead and introduce yourselves. Then, we can go get fuckin' smashed! Hell yeah."
"Anger management, my ass. How the fuck did any of you ancy fuckers even make it past recruit training? If I were a DI, I'd have you all eating shit from the latrine." The "ancy fuckers" was directed towards Kagura and Dream. Somewhat irritated at this display of dysfunction, the Chief walked over to a random bench and took a seat, depleting his supply of cigarettes.
Autumn watched Kagura leave with a shrug. "Fuck, oh well. We'll get her to loosen up eventually, without having to dinkey punch her or something." She turned back towards Rico and the Devilfish with a grin. "Right, so ya'll are buddies with our ladies' man here. Let's get drunk, then."
Adrian held up the two, now empty Emrys containers. "I think those should've done the trick... shit, these are Calm, right?"
Gran tilted an eyebrow slightly as Rico made his flamboyant introduction. He smiled slightly and gave a small wave to Babs. "Nice to meet you Babs. I'm Gran." He really didn't know what else to do, after all he felt like he had no idea what was going on.
“Oh ho, so you’re Gran Keats, eh?” Babs stepped up to Gran as she spoke, offering an extended hand to the tech sentry. “Rico talks ‘bout ya a lot. Put ‘er there.”
Gran grinned slightly and shook Babs' hand. He didn't feel too uncomfortable since he had a common link from Rico and it seemed completely freindly at this point. " Yeah... I guess I am." Gran looks at Rico questioningly. "You been talking about me?"
Autumn looked at Adrian curiously, "Adrian, why exactly are you carrying around drugs? I know that Calm comes in handy but damn... is it that hard to get a date?"
Grans suspicion wasn’t badly placed. Babs’ eyes flashed for a moment as her face contorted in a sly little smile when Gran reached out to return her a handshake. Immediately, the brown-haired Geshrin pulled the tech sentry forward and pulled his face, most importantly his mouth, straight onto hers. She snogged Gran for a good full minute or so, not withholding a single soft moan or amused giggle while Rico smiled widely, nodding slowly at the rest of his group as he throw a wayward thumb at the two.
Autumn watched Babs snog Gran with an amused grin. "Well, shit, that's a hell of a greetin'!" She looked over at Rico, wanting to ask him something but decided to wait until they started drinking before even brooching it.
"... Why am I carrying drugs?" Adrian gave Autumn a look suggesting he may have suspected her to have come from Dimension X. "And I may be a violent sociopath, Private, but I try not to do anything like that."
Autumn shrugged, "Oh good, so no caveman tactics for you. Always good to hear!"
Gran was nearly jerked straight off his feet and almost smacked into her as she pulled him in. He let out a muffled whimper as she continued to hold him tight. His eyes stayed wide from the pure surprise as well as his wohle face turning a small shade of pink. He didn't resist, enjoying it, but he sure as hell didn't know what to do now.
Babs released finally, licking her lips enticedly and giving the confused Keats a pat on the back. "Eh...we can work on that part, baby."