HazMat Log 006 ♔ Impending doom and diabetes

[anelegantmyth]

Who: Hazardous Materials
Where: Breakneck Cay and Candy Mountain
When: 5/23 onwards
What: things and stuff
Warnings: sugarrrrrrr
Style: Any!
Status: Zoo entrance fee is 50 doubloons

Hazardous Materials' May log of doom part 2! Date your stuff, you all know the drill.

5/16-5/22: Sailing to Breakneck Cay
5/23-5/24: Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to go here?
5/25-5/31: Hunting down Candy Mountain
6/1-6/7: DIABETUS MOUNTAIN

Comments

[by_heart]

So what's made you Queen of Brainfreeze Mountain?

[He's a bit hesitant to take a seat for fear of having the ice cream melt all over his clothes, so he's just kind of looming.]

[anelegantmyth]

I failed.

[ She looks down at her vanilla ice cream, topped with whipped cream and dipped in sprinkles for a bit. It was a hard thing to admit. But it is what it is. ]

[by_heart]

That riddle thing?

[He wants to point out that it's no big deal, but that's not going to go over well and even he's not that much of a jerk.]

I wouldn't feel so bad about that. I mean, it sounds to me like there wasn't much you could have done. You could be the smartest person in the world and it isn't gonna do you a fat lot of good if the riddle isn't up to snuff.

[anelegantmyth]

It was a constellation. I've been looking up at the stars every night since I arrived here, and I couldn't even get a stupid question about stars right.

I could understand having a hard time with people or islands. But stars have always been my thing, Lea.

[by_heart]

These stars, though?

[He points up, even though they're not there to see at the moment.]

I mean, look at them all you want, but you're not gonna be able to pick out the constellations unless you've been looking at them all your life. I still can't remember all the ones from back home and I know those stories. I mean, some of 'em...

[anelegantmyth]

[She looks up at the sky when he points. Nope, no stars. But the slow moving clouds did make her smile a little.]

I wanted that shard so badly. Even if it was just a small piece, I wanted to prove to myself that I could do so much more for the crew than just watch over the kids and gather information.

[by_heart]

That's a full time job, though. I know I got my hands full just keeping an eye on Roxas sometimes.

[This is not in any way an understatement, especially lately.]

I'm pretty much a freeloader otherwise, so you've got me beat at least.

[anelegantmyth]

No you're not! You can cook, you can use fire magic, and the captain loves you. Probably because you're close to his age and enable his unhealthy drinking problem...

[Which was something she needed to talk to him about. A pause to make a mental note of that before she goes back to eating ice cream.]

I guess I just feel the need to prove my worth because I tell people I'm a champion back home and yet...well...[She motions to the side of her body where her stab wound was.]

[by_heart]

Prove it to who? I get the feeling people would freak out if you said you were ditching us.

[He shrugs, then just gives up and sits down. If she wants to be useful, maybe she can add laundry to her list of duties.]

And don't get so hung up on back home. Don't get me started on that one.

[Other people with similar issues are the reasons he's here after all.]

[anelegantmyth]

[ She offers him the extra spoon she had in her bag. After all, it would be pretty rude to keep all this ice cream to herself. ]

I guess I'm just not used to having less responsibilities. As champion, I used to take care of everything back home. But here...having free time is just so weird.

and I'd never ditch this crew. They're my family.

[by_heart]

Family, huh?

[He takes the spoon and just sort of looks at it. Family...it's getting to be so long since he had one of those that it's starting to become an alien concept.]

Guess that might not be too bad.

[anelegantmyth]

Gaius told me about how they went to Ning's aid after he had himself captured by the navy to help the boys escape. They barely knew each other at the time.

I've been a member for around two three months now, and the boys have proven that they'd take a stab for me, take care of me when I'm ill and cheer me up when I'm down. Like the brothers I never had.

[ She smiles fondly ]

[by_heart]

Lucky you. Sounds pretty nice.

[Lea taps at his knee with the spoon, still not eating anything. It's true that he already feels like less of an outsider here than he did with the Spades, despite there being people on that crew that he knew from home.]

Well, the plan is to stick around, so I guess your little family has a black sheep now.

[anelegantmyth]

Hey now, you're not a black sheep, you're one of the boys. Sure I don't know you as well as I know Gaius or Kitty. But that doesn't make you any less important to me.

[by_heart]

[Lea looks honestly shocked by that, then he blushes faintly and scratches at the back of his neck.]

No accounting for taste, I guess.

[anelegantmyth]

[ She tosses some sprinkles at his face and giggles. ]

Can't you just be happy that more people care about you now? That and the fact that you have a sister who's got your back no matter what stupid thing you do.

[by_heart]

I got it, I got it!

[Lea waves his arms, trying to fend off the candy.]

Look at my happy face! Stop throwing things!

[He's not exactly smiling, but he's definitely blushing. He's never known how to deal with people being nice to him and it's kind of embarrassing.]