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[nextinpower]

Hey, buddy. Ya got a light?

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[fdawkins]

[He checks his first pocket, no suck luck. However, pocket two holds treasure.] Today is your lucky day, I do.

[Think fast. He tosses it over towards the stranger.]

You asked. This one seemed appropriate.

[fiddlerjohnny]

Why does Johnny have a lighter when he doesn't smoke? Don't ask such silly questions. He just raises an eyebrow at Alaric and passes it over after fishing it out of his pocket.

"Didn't think people still used buddy like that."

[nextinpower]

[He catches it handily between two fingers, flipping it upright smoothly to flick the flame on.] Cheers. Y'know, better not to have a light than not to have a smoke, at least it's less like moochin'.

[nextinpower]

"Mebbe not where you been." He lights his cigarette, then takes a long and satisfying drag. "There's pockets o' the world they just talk like it's the twenties all over again, and places they like Shakespeare."

[fdawkins]

Well, sorry to say, I am a mooch. [He holds out his hand.] You should share, stranger.

i almost typed "m'lards"

[fiddlerjohnny]

"Twenties might be better than a lot of m'lords and ladies."

He grins a little as he takes his lighter back, "or maybe I just like the idea of speakeasies."

[nextinpower]

Dammit. [But, good-naturedly, he holds out the pack.]

[fdawkins]

[Smile. Felix loves it when he gets his way. He fishes out a cigarette.] It's the price you pay for forgetting your lighter.

ladies and gentlebacon...

[nextinpower]

"Because everyone wants their drinks to come with a side-taste o' secrecy and risk'a getting arrested?" He smirks a little.

I can't decide if this is that AU where he's the Red Queen's Rook though

[fiddlerjohnny]

"More fun, isn't it? Lots of people like secrets."

Just as many aren't really fans, though.

[nextinpower]

There're worse tolls.

Like say, if you forget the booze.

we can do that here and figure out canon when I actually bring him in?

[nextinpower]

"Lots like to be let in on secrets. If they can keep 'em, well." He taps the side of his nose. That's what he deals in.

bring him in where?

[fiddlerjohnny]

"Mmm," he rolls his eyes slightly, "not a secret then is it?"

Which is really just being pedantic. But pedantry can be entertaining, yes?

[nextinpower]

[ooc: to the main comm as a ~Chess Set spy~. I'll put it on the ooc comm first if I decide to go with it. Suddenly the Outsider panic has some actual panic to it.]

"S' the point, Johnny boy. The more you let in, the less it stays a secret."

[fiddlerjohnny]

"So why don't you let someone in then, mm?" Have a smile, Alaric.

[nextinpower]

He grins, and beckons Johnny closer. This is the sort of thing that should be whispered into the ear.

"You wish."

Or not.

[fiddlerjohnny]

He might have been more disappointed...or suspicious...if Alaric had actually given something up.

"You've crushed all my dreams, Alaric."

[nextinpower]

"Oh, like you had any in the first place."

But he's being nice about it. This time.

[fiddlerjohnny]

"Oh, I just never told you any."

Not that Alaric needs to know, but he's actually imparted more to Rowan than anyone of a more chess bent.

[nextinpower]

His hand flutters to his heart in a parody of distress. "Oh, that hurts. Got me right in the heart, you 'ave."

[fiddlerjohnny]

"How will I ever make it up to you, my dear?"

A real knife, maybe? Hm.

[nextinpower]

"Could start with a bottle."

Because that's always a good solution between two men eyeing each other's hands for weapons.

[fiddlerjohnny]

Probably a reasonable compromise.

As long as neither of them ends up with shards of bottle in their hands.

"Preferences?"

[nextinpower]

As long as neither of them ends up on the floor foaming at the mouth.

"Say a nice little whiskey to begin with, and we'll go on from there."

of course they both have drinking icons

[fiddlerjohnny]

"Your wish is my command."

On opposite day, maybe.

But either way, he can produce whiskey for them both.

they're fun fun guys like that

[nextinpower]

It'll take a while for Alaric to let his guard down enough to not drink from his own cup. That, at least, he carries everywhere, with a second for Johnny.

[fiddlerjohnny]

Johnny will just roll his eyes at Alaric's insistence on that cup.

Not that it's surprising.

"Relax, you're not my target."

[nextinpower]

He snorts. "Don't think you're special. I do this for everyone." They probably go through this every time.

The Black loves its poisons so.

[fiddlerjohnny]

"Your King too?" he cuts a glance over at Alaric, eyebrows raised.

[nextinpower]

He rolls his eyes. Yeah, yeah, you caught him. Super. "All right, no. But amazingly, he doesn't pour me drinks."

[fdawkins]

What would your price for that be?

[nextinpower]

[He grins, eyes a little sharp.] Depends on the person.

[fdawkins]

You play favourites then? How horrible.

dw why the dratted popup menu things i just want to reply

[nextinpower]

I just don't have an inch of white in my soul.

technology, man

[fdawkins]

It sounds like we're meant to be friends.

[One drag of his cigarette later, he holds out his hand.] I'm Felix.

[nextinpower]

[He grins broadly, his cigarette dangling precariously at the corner of his lips, and shakes Felix's hand.] Alaric. Nice to have a kindred spirit around.

[fdawkins]

It's a rare find these days, don't you think? [He grins right back.]

[nextinpower]

Too many people you'll find are just dark, dark grey.

[fdawkins]

Boring. Who has time for people like that?

[nextinpower]

The ones who don't have an inch'a excitement in their lives, natch.

[fdawkins]

Boring! I'm not here for that. Everyone needs colour in their life.

[nextinpower]

Oh, there goes the metaphor. [Which he wasn't really holding to anyway, so he can just wave to it as it goes by. Metaphorically.]

What do boring people do, anyway?

[fdawkins]

[Shrug.]

I imagine they watch boring TV and go to their boring jobs and have their one point two children and a white picket fence.

[nextinpower]

Fascinating. [By which he means 'tiresomely predictable'.]

It's a wonder the suicide rate isn't any higher.

[fdawkins]

People are surprising, aren't they? They always delude themselves into thinking what they have makes them happy.

[nextinpower]

Plain complacency, that is. Nothin' that gets the blood pumping- or maybe they just want the heart attack later instead'a sooner.

[fdawkins]

Do you think you'll ever grow complacent?

[nextinpower]

Oh, probably when I find a knife in my back.