Mixed Muses continuity: Kale and Atton.

[stuck_mynock]

Atton doesn't celebrate Earth holidays, but he does have that particular eagerness to please that means he revels in the chance to give stuff to people.

This is why, when he saw Kale in the bar, he - without any kind of preceding explanation save 'I've got something for you! - grabbed his hand and started pulling him, with all the fervor of a very excitable puppy, up the stairs.

Comments

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"You're an open brackets bastard times infinity close brackets to the power of open brackets infinity squared x twenty close brackets touch wood and no returns!"

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"That doesn't even make sense," Kale points out.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Your face doesn't make sense."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

He finds a small random object and tosses it at Atton.

So there.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton catches it, grinning.

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

Kale sticks his tongue out.

"Where's the food?"

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Here," Atton says, setting a plate down in front of Kale.

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"About time." He waits for Atton to sit down with his own food.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Greedy pig."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

He sniffs. "I've seen you eat."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"I am a very dainty eater," Atton says, sitting down next to him.

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"Compared to what? A Nerf?"

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Hey! Nerfs are very dignified!"

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"Have you herded nerfs? We had a few on the farm where I grew up. Not dignified at all."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"My family were nerfherders. Had I stayed on my homeworld into adulthood, I might've been one - I mean, tradition says that the oldest son of every family is trained as a warrior, but they didn't want me."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"Your family really were nerfherders?" Kale asks in surprise. They really did know very little about each other beyond ... well... each other's bodies.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. People always ask that when I tell them."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

After a moment's thought, Kale said, "It explains a lot about you."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Like?"

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"You're just very... farmerish."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"It'd help if you gave me some specifics," Atton remarked, reaching over to brush a hand through Kale's hair.

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

The hand was distracting for a moment. "Very... practical. Down to earth. Hardy."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"All good things," Atton says lightly, setting his hand on Kale's shoulder and pausing to brush it down his arm. "Anything else?"

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"Mmm... not that I can think of at the moment," he says, voice distracted at the touch.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Okay. How's breakfast?"