The Park, Sunday Morning

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So later that night, April was going to subject him to some of this galaxy's worst movies of all time. Atton was sure he was going to wind up looking forward to it... at some point, when he wasn't dragging his ass back to the dorms with a massive hangover and what felt like an indent on the back of his head from the wall in Baltimore he'd slept against last night.

... sometimes Atton liked to branch out, okay?

By the time he got to the park, it was dawning on him that the world was openly mocking him. The sun was shining - but not full-on in a way he could reasonably avoid, no, it was hiding behind the clouds and chose to peek out at the worst possible times. Not only that, but the birds and the squirrels and whatever else ran around this hellish place was making noise.

Ugh.

"Is it too much to ask for kolto rain?" Atton called up at the sky. "If you're going to be crazy, island, you can at least give me some kind of analgesic! Or how about some of that seltzer poodoo they keep peddling in your adverts?"

The universe remained silent.

"Well--"

Atton, on the other hand, employed the full range of his knowledge of Hutt and Twi'lek curses, thank you very much.

[[ open! expect some SP later in the day, but I had to get him out at some point this weekend... ]]

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Princess Leotarda Serena Fel wasn't content to be cooped up, no matter how much her "sister" sister tried to keep her from terrorizing the rest of the town, and so it was off for a walk in the beautiful sunshine.

"Oh!" she said, all interested, "can you talk to nature, too?"

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"Yeah, but it's a terrible conversationalist," Atton said, looking over at whoever it wa--

... look at the Mary Sue's face, Atton. This will lead nowhere good.

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"Maybe you're just not using the right dialect," Princess Leo said. "Nature talks back to me all the time!"

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"Really," Atton drawled. "What's it saying right now? Because all I'm hearing is this ongoing chorus of 'I hate you'. Though it's looking up right now."

Unlike him. Atton, seriously.

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Leo actually took a moment to listen.

"It's saying 'good morning' and 'enjoy such a beautiful day' mostly," she said but then she probably had birds and woodland creatures do her hair and dress her in the mornings too, which might explain the skanky outfits- full clothes are just too hard without opposable thumbs. "Why do you think it hates you?"

Look at her looking all sympathetic. Well, he'd have to look up to see that, but she was looking all sympathetic.

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"Really?" Atton said. That was enough to make him look up. "I'm thinking it's messing with you."

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"It wouldn't do that. People never mess with me," Leo assured him. "I don't know what it is, everyone's always nice to me."

Except Sia. But she just really wanted to be Leo, okay.

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"I have an idea of what it might be," Atton told her.

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It was her awesomeness, wasn't it?

"Oh, and what's that?" she asked, not at all fishing for compliments because she never had to. People just gave them to her.

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Especially when she kept doing that with her front.

Okay, Atton was growing a little suspicious of this conversation because this never happened to him, but it wasn't going to stop him from going, "You're a snazzy dresser with good looks."

And by 'snazzy' he meant 'cleavage-baring'. Weird or not.

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"Oh, I'm just average," she said, batting her eyelashes. "All the good looks in the family skipped me."

She did not think that for one second.

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"You've got to have some gorgeous relatives hidden away somewhere," Atton informed her, and oh god, man, stop.

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"Oh, you," she flirted said. "I have a sister, but we don't always get along. She gets jealous and I think she's currently an amnesiac."

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"Well, sisters. You're not always going to get along." Not that Atton knew anything about it. "You visiting or staying? Because I'd have remembered if you'd been here before."

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"Just visiting. I'd like to stay, though! She's been trying to keep me from traumatizing people locked up inside but I like this town so much! And not to mention the people..."

And there went the eyelashes getting batted again.

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"Some of us aren't too bad," Atton agreed, with a humble shrug that so wasn't meant at all. "Hey, if you want, I can show you around."

Oh, for the love of...

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She gave him a sunny, perfect smile and said, "I'd like that so much, Mr..."

Yeah, she might want to get his name at some point.

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"Atton," he said, offering a hand. "Atton Rand. And you're..."

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"Princess Leotarda Serena Fel," she said, and you probably didn't think you could get that much cleavage out of a curtsy, did you?

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Yeah, Atton only caught half of th--

"...wait, did you say Fel?" he said, way longer after her response than he probably should've.

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"Yes. My family name is such a burden," she said, and perked up. "My friends all call me Leo, by the way."

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"Your sister's name wouldn't happen to be Sia, wouldn't it?" Beat. "Leo."

No.

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"Yes! She's my big sister. You know her?"

Hopefully he wouldn't be mean and turn her in...

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... well, dammit.

"How old are you?"

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"Sixteen."

It made total sense! Really!

[suitably_heroic]

One: way too young.

Two: "...Isn't Sia fifteen?"

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"Yes. Why?"

See, TOTAL SENSE.

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"Look, don't take this as an insult or anything," Atton said, "But I don't think you know how to do math good."

Beat.

"Actually, do take it as an insult."

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"You're so funny," Leo laughed. "I've already been accepted to Harvard!"