Romeo Montague (
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.]
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.]
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A beat.
"Is it working?"
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Meaning yes, the guilt was working.
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"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!"
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He tapped his fingers against the phone. "I wouldn't mind seeing my father, though. Only son and all."
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He started fiddling with his new knife as he spoke. "I talked to your friend Tybalt, while I was last in Fandom."
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"Oh?"
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Meaning an utterly impossible Capulet.
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Ino was dubious, here.
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... look, he had a healthy ego.
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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?"
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Genuinely curious, he added, "Besides, what would you have done?"
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"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.
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"If he died, his family would blame my family," Romeo pointed out. "Then more people would die. Castrating him .... that's a thought."