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Beach [Thursday Afternoon]

Lee didn't really want to get out of bed but he figured the longer he stayed there, the more he'd get bored, restless and irritated with himself.

So, he rolled out of bed, dressed a little painfully and headed down to the beach to sit in the sand and enjoy the quiet of the ocean and the wind.

Things didn't hurt that badly today. Of course, he hadn't look in a mirror (and he wasn't planning on it). Maybe he'd go for a swim later.

Or not. It was kind of cold out.

[Beach is open like an all night convenience store. Our systems are down at work so I am boooooooored.]

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River had made her way to the beach, dressed for swimming, wearing large sunglasses and carrying a picnic basket and a blanket. When she saw Lee she smirked.

"What?" Lee snapped somewhat irritably, not looking up in case that hurt. "See something funny?"

"You are unusually entertaining today," River said drily. "If you steal my food while I'm swimmin I'll beat you up." She paused. "Although I see you don't need me to get hurt."

"I'm not really caring about getting beaten up, as you can see," he said replied. "And no, I don't. You get too much pure joy out of doing that to me anyway."

"You think I'm tormenting you on purpose?" River asked, slowly walking out into the water and stopping about knee high.

"Lately? No," he said, shaking his head. "In the past, I think you were."

"Matter of definition," River muttered, taking a few steps deeper into the ocean.

"Riddles," he replied. "Riddles and cryptic statements and I really did nothing wrong. I have no idea when you'll realize that."

"I have no idea when you realize what you did wrong," River snapped back, diving into the water.

"How about you frakking tell me!" Lee yelled.

"Have tried to. No point." Only her head was above the water.

"Tell me again," he said. "Because I either missed it or you did it in the cryptic terms you so love. Spell it out for me. One day you liked me, the next you didn't."

She stood up, water reaching her to the waist, and she walked back towards the shore. "One day you were always on her mind and there was less and less room for me. And you were blind."

"Goddamn, blind to what?" Lee snapped heatedly. "I don't control what she thinks, what she does, don't blame me for that!"

"If she had liked me better, would you have liked me?" River asked cooly, her feet still in the water.

He stared at her steadily before saying, "At first? Probably not. I would've resented you. A lot. This ongoing dislike you have of me is getting old. Even I don't hold grudges for that frakking long. Was that what I was blind to? That fact?"

"Lack of understanding why I didn't like you. Like being jealous was strange. Like I should have just pretended it was all fine and we could all be friends." She stared back.

"Take some of the frakking blame yourself," he snapped tightly. "You don't wanna like me, frakking fine. I don't care anymore. I tried. It's not all my frakking fault no matter how much you'd like it to be. Get your head checked if you think I am the only one to blame."

"No. You didn't try. Just think you did. Saves you the trouble of being understanding." She walked up to Lee, hands on her hips.

"No, I did try," he said, glaring up at her. "I tried to talk to you, to be frakking civil. You wouldn't have it and this always happens."

He took a breath and felt his head pounding. He ignored it.

"Stop whining about this to me."

Which was just...not good but he was too pissed too care.

"You asked for an explanation. I said it was pointless. You asked again. I gave you an explanation. You tell me I'm whining. You got what you asked for so don't complain." She said this while trying to keep her voice calm.

"You haven't seen me complaining," he spat. "Yeah, I asked and I got it and I think it's the frakking biggest pile of bull excuse ever. That you could hold a grudge for this frakking long."

His tone took on one of sarcasm even as he pushed to his feet. "Thank god the lieutenant likes you better, right? Would've been deadly if she'd liked me better too? Whew, glad that didn't happen."

River knew she should ignore him, that she should turn her back and walk away. Instead she aimed a punch at Lee's face. Not hard enough to cause serious damage, but hard enough to hurt and bruise.

And since he was already hurting and bruising, that just made him hurt more. His head snapped back and he stumbled in the sand, trying to keep himself upright even as his face throbbed.

He wiped at his lip, didn't look to see if she'd drawn blood. "Feel better now? Do it again, if you want. Come on."

He taunted her with a flick of his wrist in a 'c'mere' gesture.

[Feel free to do what you'd like here. He's taunting on purpose. Just no killing or serious damage. :D]

Edited 2008-08-07 19:09 (UTC)

The horrible thing was that it did make her feel better. River said nothing, but swung around, aiming a punch at his chest. She knew she shouldn't do this, that really, he didn't deserve it even if he was annoying, but it didn't seem to matter.

Lee tried to block it, tried to, at least, make it a glancing blow but he wasn't fast enough so fist struck home and he was stumbling back again.

He coughed, trying to clear the stars from his eyes even as his chest joined the throbbing parade.

"Having fun?" he asked but it wasn't as sarcastic. Still, that didn't stop him from stepping forward and throwing a wild punch her way.

River danced away, spun around again and kicked at his legs, her body appearantly at ease with going with her anger.

And now he was in the sand. Dammit. He spit out a mouthful of sand but crawled back to his knees before getting back to his feet.

"I stole everything from you! Isn't that right?" he managed to shout even though it hurt enough to make him wince. "Stole everything and ruined your life? Not the first time I've done that. Come on."

"You don't understand," River hissed. "You didn't steal. You were there. Claiming ignorance." A kick was aimed at his shoulder. "Twisting the knife."

"Goddammit," he hissed, cradling his arm in one hand before turning back to face her. "Yeah, I was there. Maybe I was there first. That what you wanna hear?"

"Just want you to shut up!" River took a step back, waiting.

"No," he said, voice clipped. He took a few stumbling steps toward her and said, "I don't have to. If you can say whatever the hell you want, so can I so frakking bite me."

That earned him another punch aimed at his face, followed by another kick. River let out a strange noise.

Lee really needed to learn to defend himself because he found himself back on the ground, coughing and choking and feeling the telltale signs of a bloody nose and, god, he hoped that was all it was.

Everything hurt.

"You're real tough," he said, almost slurring now as he got to his knees and spat again. "I'd hate to frakking see you on a bad day."

He stood up again, woozily. "Or any day, really. Fuck. You."

River was about to punch him again, when the memory of Kerrigan's voice rang through her head. She took a step back, let her arm drop, then backed away further.

Lee swayed on his feet, eyes blurry and body throbbing. "Had enough?"

"Enough." River turned around, picked up her basket and walked away. Her day on the beach had been ruined anyway.

"Thank frak," Lee said before collapsing back into the sand for a long while.

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