ohmyarceus | MISTLETOE MEME!

MISTLETOE MEME!

It's December guys! You know what this calls for:

A MISTLETOE MEME!

On purpose, by accident, accidentally on purpose...either way, you're under the mistletoe and you're going nowhere until there's been a kiss. Blame social standards, peer pressure...or magic. Pokemon magic. Of course it just be a peck on the cheek. Or not...winkwink~

Happy Holidays everyone!

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[You probably shouldn't...]

[She'd been avoiding Jack with good reason. After their last legitimate conversation, she'd wanted nothing to do with him. And with Jack appearing to want the same well... she wasn't going to look a gift diamond pony in the mouth.]

[But still. He'd gotten married. Good things (and good distractions) were happening in his life. She at least owed him a little bit of courtesy, right?]

[She approached quietly, hoping maybe to take him by surprise (it certainly wasn't because she didn't want to look him in the eye as she did it). When she drew close, she pushed up on her toes and pressed a kiss to the side of his face.]

Congratulations, by the way. [A long pause.] Er... Dad.

[She catches him completely by surprise. Jack's just marveling that the whole mistletoe thing is socially acceptable. It just seems like it's setting everybody up for a sexual harassment suit, but what does he know?]

[So he doesn't notice Angel's careful approach, not until he actually feels the quick, fleeing peck on his cheek. And she's certainly not who he expects it to be when he turns.]

...thanks, sweetheart. I...uh...I uh, appreciate that.

[For a moment, Handsome Jack is stunned mostly speechless.]

[The sound of his voice seemed to make everything all the more awkward. She took a step back, not out of fear, but out of uneasiness. She'd conceded to him in some form, and the last thing she wanted was to see him take advantage of it.]

Of course.

[Her gaze drifted away from him, to anywhere or anything else she could find. Meeting his eyes felt far too difficult for the time being.]

I hope you're happy. [Anyone else, and she might have said that they deserved it. But as generous as she was being this evening, she could say aloud that Jack deserved happiness.]

[Not after everything that had happened.]

Happy as I can be, ya know, all things considered.

[What with Nisha going back where she'd come from, and the strained tension that's grown between him and Angel. But he's as happy as he figures he can be, given the circumstances. He and Nisha got married. And while things are kind of a mess with Angel....eh, they're still here. There's time. Jack's a patient guy.]

[And he realizes what he's said, and the implications. He doesn't want to get into anything right now, so he quickly goes on.]

Kinda sucks I don't get to enjoy the whole marriage part of it, but...I mean, it's not like I was ever gonna. If Nisha had to stick around and be anybody's wife, she wouldn't have gone for it in the first place. But I got my wedding! It was nice. You, uh, you should have dropped by.

You never seemed the marrying type anyway. [He'd had wives, she knew and remembered that. Those memories from a long time ago, however, locked behind a nigh impenetrable, purple haze. The Jack she was most familiar with went from woman to woman, never to settle.]

[She shook her head. She didn't want to ruin the moment, and the fastest way to manage all that was to start thinking about who Jack used to be.]

I didn't want to ruin the moment. I know myself -- [Or rather, she knew him, at least well enough to know he would have brought out the worst in her.] -- I would have made a scene.

No, no, I like being married. Just takes a special lady for me to want to do the whole marriage thing. 'Cause I may like my fun, but I take the bonds of matrimony seriously. I always have. That's...part of the reason Nisha was never into it. Not that we weren't completely committed to each other, just...she never got why the whole thing was just such a big deal. Why we needed a big thing and someone else saying we're married to make it matter.

[Jack shrugs. Despite their similarities, he and Nisha are very different people. Ceremony's important to him. Showing other people, making a fuss...it does matter, to him.]

[He glances at Angel and shrugs again.]

Not if you really didn't want to, sweetheart. It was a nice ceremony, a lot of people turned out. My houndour was ring bearer.

[If she was being honest, Angel tuned out a good portion of Jack's speech. She didn't care about the wedding itself, only that it was her father who was involved. More importantly, she didn't want to get caught up in idle small talk, either. It was just another way for Jack to sink his claws into her.]

[Thankfully, the conversation turned. Even if she was wasn't particularly to talk about her own (potential) motivations, it was something aside from pretending to be interested in anything Jack said.]

I would have wanted to. I want to right now, but I figure that neither one of us will benefit from being nasty. [Despite her negative response, she did crack a small smile.] I'm glad Doom Bob was able to play a role though. I... do regret missing that.

Walter didn't recognise Jack. Well, he didn't recognise Jack as Jack. He paused upon seeing him, unknowingly under the mistletoe. The last time he saw 'Jack' he had been without a mask, after suffering some terrible attack. He hoped he was doing better and he couldn't blame him for hiding it; he studiously avoided letting any part of his back show due to the scarring upon it.

"Jack." He nodded to him politely. "Are you doing well?"

Oh. It was...that guy. The mopey guy. Whatever his name was. Jack wasn't sure he'd even actually talked to the guy. He'd seen him around HQ though, and on the network. He always looks like somebody just pissed in his cereal.

"....yeah. Fine."

The fact that Mopepino the Great knew his name wasn't odd, he was Handsome Jack. Who didn't know his name?

If Walter knew, or if Tim had explained, he wouldn't have spoken to Jack at all. As is he thought his hesitance to talk was just tied to his injury, not to Jack being a completely different person. He nodded quietly.

"Good. How is Rosalind? And your other pokemon?" Tim's Litleo was the only Pokemon Chaos had yet to 'conquer'. He didn't want to bring up the Espurr, not in too open a space without Tim brouching the subject first. Anyone could be listening.

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I had a sudden terrible idea and I hope I'm not too late

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