withoutverona: (all stubbly and grrrr)
Romeo Montague ([personal profile] withoutverona) wrote2009-11-11 08:45 am
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Dojima-Montague Apartment, Tokyo, Wednesday Morning

Romeo's nineteenth birthday started with a package from his father containing a collection of Lord Byron's works, a dagger that was about twice as elaborate as anything Romeo had any business carrying, and a letter that suggested -- in a polite, backhanded, and elaborate way -- that Romeo was missed and should make it his business to visit Verona sooner rather than later.

There was also a large box of chocolates. They were good. Romeo ate the caramels as his breakfast. He should have been reading about the equilibrium point in supply and demand, but that kept turning into perusal of the poetry. Really, the poetry struck him as more relevant.

[OOC: For the girlfriend, or for birthday emails/calls/texts/homing pigeons.]
intraspective: (smile politely)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Say hi to her for me? Chocolate is always good," she said idly. "And familial guilt is totally a common thing."

A beat.

"Is it working?"
intraspective: (smile in pink)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ino grinned, though he couldn't see it, at that.

"Probably is," she answered. Not that Ino was the best person to decide how long between visits was too long. "Think you'll have a free weekend before that to go visit? You could always take Dojima-san and make it a mini-vacation!"
intraspective: (the world is around me)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Harder to get it out of your head?" she asked, humming as she stretched.
intraspective: (style!)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm stretching," she said, laughing. "And at work. It's terribly exciting, you can tell. And--I know what you mean, I think, from that."
intraspective: (badass glasses girl)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Her eyebrows raised.

"Oh?"
intraspective: (wtf are you wearing?!)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does that mean there was a fight and I missed hearing about it, Romeo?"

Ino was dubious, here.
intraspective: (I'm pretending to listen)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"I didn't ask if there was a death," Ino retorted. "I asked if you, oh how would you put it, had words with him."
intraspective: (at attention!)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Ino... resisted the urge to facepalm at that.

Barely.

"You know," she offered, "he hasn't really done much to start fights 'round here? Maybe it's just, uh, you that he's got an issue with?"
intraspective: (leaning forward)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe it will--but do you think you can hide the fact that you loathe him enough for him to bother considering your words?" Ino asked out, tugging at her hair. "I mean, if someone who hated me, and I had no clue why beyond the name and the fact that I didn't like those with the name as the one who hated me gave me some sort of talking to, gently, I don't know if I'd be inclined to listen."
intraspective: (pretty armband)

[personal profile] intraspective 2009-11-11 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh.

"If someone I had mutual hate with showed up and I had to give them advice to fix things in their future?"

Um.

"...probably kill 'em," Ino said, thinking about that, "'cause they can't screw stuff up if they're dead, though admittedly it really depends on what the issue at hand was. If it was one where lives depended on it, then well..." She shrugged. "But if it was like, oh no, you're going to fall in love with someone I care 'bout and get them pregnant and then ditch them leaving them broken-hearted, then I might spend the weekend telling him utterly awful habits and stories 'bout the one I care 'bout in the hopes of turning them off of the other before it starts."

Ino contemplated that. "Or knock them out and make it so they can't have kids. Broken hearts are less daunting to fix when there's no children involved, I think anyway."

She should never be allowed to take a situation and run with it, no. She was also rather the pot calling the kettle black in this case.