Eli Coyne (half_angel_eli) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-05-12 21:26:00

Current mood:	drunk
Entry tags:	inactive - eli coyne, mourning dove

Perfect Boyfriend Blues
"And all the lovely ladies, they wore a gossamer gown. They rode the handsome gentlemen all up and down the town," Eli sang to himself, rather loudly as he drank down some beer. He was up on the roof with a six pack of them drink, on number three.

He thought about calling GK earlier, but he didn't want to be a bother. He just felt really bad in a way, GK was just so nice and he was a terrible person. It was like GK would get the moon for him if he asked, which didn't feel right.

Not knowing how to handle it, he did what he always did, which was to run away. In this case away from sobriety.

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	whydowescream 2011-05-13 02:49 am UTC (link)
	"Until tomorrow morning, when you're trying to settle it while you have a hangover." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	half_angel_eli 2011-05-13 02:57 am UTC (link)
	"If you want to think that far in advance," Eli points out and takes another swig. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whydowescream 2011-05-13 03:00 am UTC (link)
	"This got anything to do with those nights you went out and didn't come back? But you came back sober, then." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	half_angel_eli 2011-05-13 03:05 am UTC (link)
	He blinks. "You noticed?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whydowescream 2011-05-13 03:08 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah. After all the crap we've had to deal with--" for Ruth Morgenstern, saying 'crap' was unusual. "-- I've tried to keep an eye on the whole gang." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	half_angel_eli 2011-05-13 03:15 am UTC (link)
	Eli notes this, but doesn't call it out. "That's nice of you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whydowescream 2011-05-13 03:17 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks. So... did something happen, those nights?" Ruth decides she needs to ask her dad how to modify these things when handling drunk people. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	half_angel_eli 2011-05-13 03:21 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah. I went out on a date." He laughs. It's a funny thing to him when he's drunk. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whydowescream 2011-05-13 03:23 am UTC (link)
	"Oh? Was it fun? Were they nice?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	half_angel_eli 2011-05-13 03:30 am UTC (link)
	"It was fantastic. I'd never gone out on a date before, much less two. With the same guy even." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whydowescream 2011-05-13 03:33 am UTC (link)
	"Oh. Well. So, nice guy. Nice dates... when does the part that you need to stop thinking about it hit?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	half_angel_eli 2011-05-13 03:39 am UTC (link)
	"He's too nice. I mean... he's doing all this nice stuff for me and stuff." Because 'and stuff' is a deeply meaningful and descriptive terminology. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whydowescream 2011-05-13 03:42 am UTC (link)
	"Does it seem like he's doing it for some ulterior reason?" She hopes he's not too drunk to know what ulterior means. Just in case -- "Like he's faking it, I mean?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	half_angel_eli 2011-05-13 03:56 am UTC (link)
	"No... that's the worst part. That he's not. And that he really really really likes me and he shouldn't because I'm a terrible person. I mean look at me.. .I'm drunk on a rooftop. How much terribler can I get?" He pauses. "I could be stoned and drunk." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whydowescream 2011-05-13 04:04 am UTC (link)
	"If being stoned and drunk is one of the most terrible things you can think of a person doing, you really have had enough to drink." Ruth picks up the rest of the six pack. "There's no one here who can call up this guy and tell him you're drunk on the roof so that he can run away crying from the relationship, you know." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

half_angel_eli
2011-05-14 01:54 am UTC (link)

"It's the most terribler thing that I can thing of doing right now. I mean besides going off on a blood lust spree of killing any sort of alien that I can see least they go back to their secret masters and help prepare their race for an invasion that will wipe out everything that actually has meaning like hockey and Star Trek."

He says that in one breath, completely matterafactly.

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whydowescream
2011-05-14 02:02 am UTC (link)

"See, yes, that's a lot more terrible. And you don't do things like that, right? Because you're going to handle this better than that. Because you're smart enough to know that that violence without information would start new fights, not prevent the one you're worried about. ...And because when you're sober, you know the Kryptonians could probably kick your ass." ....Ruth, did you just say ass? Goodness gracious.

"In the meantime, though, some nice boy really, really likes you."

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	half_angel_eli 2011-05-14 02:05 am UTC (link)
	"Nah. Magic sword. Kryptonians can be hurt with magic," he says easily. "Besides if you kill them all then they won't be around to fight you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

whydowescream
2011-05-14 02:12 am UTC (link)

"But with those aliens with a planet still intact, you've picked a fight with an alien government there's a 99% chance didn't previously have a fight with you, and there's no guarantee that you've stopped the real threat, which could be using distance monitering or posing as human but that's not the point right this minute," Ruth realizes she's arguing the logic of avoiding genocide with a drunk person.

She also realizes that Eli may've been thinking a little too much about alien assassination.

"But again, in the meantime, you've had some fun dates. You could decide to just keep enjoying that and not get bogged down in the details."

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	half_angel_eli 2011-05-14 02:17 am UTC (link)
	"Preemptive strike. That's what they did to us. We should do it back. And it'd be a real preemptive strike." He fluffs his feathers a little. "Sure. I could. And then he'd die horribly because I didn't kill all the aliens." He's obsessing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whydowescream 2011-05-14 02:20 am UTC (link)
	"You live with a superhero team. One with other superhero teams on speed dial. Pretty sure if you want to handle the alien problem, you can start talking serious when you sober up and help them come up with a plan that doesn't involve the murder of innocent sentients." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

half_angel_eli
2011-05-14 02:28 am UTC (link)

"Pfffftt... didn't work last time. Superheroes... just ... superheroing around waiting for things to come and hit them on the head. Like bugs. Swat them all." He stares out over the city. "Stop it from burning. Still burns, some places. Just always burning cause... I don't know why. But it burns and skeleton trees shelter skeleton people who walk their skeleton dogs, all burned like Pompeii."

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	whydowescream 2011-05-14 02:30 am UTC (link)
	She's wishing she'd been around more when Dad was helping with Jay's Mom. This... was all out of her league. "Jay?" She asks over her communicator. "Could you join us up on the roof, please?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rockchalk 2011-05-14 02:32 am UTC (link)
	He knows that tone. He also knows she wouldn't ask if it wasn't important. Jay heads for the roof quickly. "Hey... what's going on?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	whydowescream 2011-05-14 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Ruth stands up to hug Jay and whispers in his ear. "Somewhere, we went from relationships to genocide. I think he has Complex-PTSD" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)