fourteen ♥ spam/video

[bitteraftertaste]

[Spam for Bond, backdated to the start of the flood] [The unfortunate part of floods like these when you're in a relationship with someone on the Barge is that you're very likely to wake up next to someone you've never seen before, and have no idea who they are and how you got there. This is generally made even more horrifying when you're a very unhappy teenager on the best of days, and waking up with an unfamiliar teenage boy spooning you is definitely a good way to ignite all sorts of latent intimacy and commitment issues that only vaguely have to do with the extremely unlikely chance that she lost control of herself long enough to wind up in this sort of situation. That kind of thing definitely does not happen to Vesper Lynd. Fortunately (?) Vesper is still asleep for the time being, and blissfully unaware that anything's amiss. Of course, that really means it's just a matter of time before the shit hits the fan and she realizes what the hell is actually going on here.] [Public] [Vesper addresses the Barge a little while later, once she's had more opportunity to encounter her ex-roommate James' behavior. She looks like she's about fifteen, but she sits so her back is ramrod straight, her shoulders squared and head held high, making it more or less unmistakeable that this girl is confident and self assured and not in the mood to take anyone's bullshit, even if they're an adult and she is - technically - a child. Really, this is just a carefully constructed mask, but no one needs to know that. Obviously.] Is there anyone whose supposed to be assuming responsibility for James Bond? [This is being said in a way that suggests she thinks you are doing a terrible job of it, whoever you are.]

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[jumpeduplittleshit]

I'd be surprised if this girl has ever had a sweetheart in her life.

And don't talk about me like I'm some kind of animal, she's the crazy one, here.

[terribleshield]

I'm not the one who makes a sport of upsetting people.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

If it was a sport, darling, I'd be keeping score. And upsetting you would be like a gold prize.

[terribleshield]

Is there a reason you're such a miserable human being?

[jumpeduplittleshit]

You mean besides having to wake up next to you?

[terribleshield]

What kind of person picks on kids like this? I thought you were just an arrogant bastard, but I didn't realize you were a bully, too.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

I'm not a bully!

[terribleshield]

You could have fooled me, the way you're acting.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

I'm not acting some way! I'm just being me, you can deal with it or leave me the fuck alone.

[terribleshield]

Then I suppose you're just a bully. I'm disappointed.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

Who the hell to do you think you are? You've - you've got no place to be disappointed in me or not!

[terribleshield]

I think- [And some of that angry not quite panic from that morning comes back.] That I'm stuck here and a bunch of other frightened children are, too, and you have no right to be treating them like this, I don't care how annoying they are.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

Then you and they should grow up and stop being afraid of nothing.

[tactical_alert]

[Children, he will come find you and confiscate your comms and send you to different rooms. :|]

Nevertheless, the two of you have certainly gotten off on the wrong foot, and perhaps you shouldn't keep antagonizing each other.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

[Well that'll be better than sharing a room again.]

She's the one who brought me up, why don't you bitch at her?

[tactical_alert]

Because she seems to be concerned about your actions on the ship. Would you care to convince me otherwise?

[jumpeduplittleshit]

She has no business being concerned about my anything.

[tactical_alert]

Well, I'm afraid her concern has garnered my concern.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

Yeah? And what are you going to do about it?

[tactical_alert]

No need to huff at the adults here, you know. We've all been teenagers. We can all admit to having done reckless things, or doing things without thinking, or reacting instead of acting. But you could attempt to put your energies into something more useful.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

Don't think I haven't tried. [Three guesses what he means, and the first two don't count.]

[tactical_alert]

[That's not--James, that isn't what he-- Well, teenage bloke, he shouldn't be surprised.]

I was referring to something more like a good workout in the gym. [He has to tack on that last part before James argues hey it's a good workout.] Or taking up a sport. Or, if you were feeling that way, even creative endeavours.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

[Damn, that would have been a good come back. Foiled.

But he snorts at the mention of arts and crafts, at least.]

I thought you said something useful.

[tactical_alert]

Just as an example. So long as it's useful to you, and isn't harming anyone, it really doesn't much matter what.

[jumpeduplittleshit]

I haven't been harming anyone. [Mostly.]