Stark Industries [all day]

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Cade's weekend had been spent blackmailing, threatening, blowing things up and asking people for illicit substances.

If it hadn't been for Jaina's wedding, he'd have written it off as just another weekend, really.

He was behind the counter with his eyes closed, wondering where he could find a motorbike.

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Atton, who had been standing in the doorway for at least a few seconds, threw a shiny rock at him.

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Cade snagged it out of the air without opening his eyes. "If this is a diamond, I'm going to karking lose it," he said.

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"It's not. I almost wish it was. I woke up on a stack of those things," Atton muttered. "You're a--"

That was not a nice Twi'lek word, Atton.

"...By the way."

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"I wasn't the one in a leather karking tuxedo," Atton pointed out.

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"I wasn't the one who was suddenly a Skywalker," Atton retorted. "Which puts me about a thousand points up on you."

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"You squeaked when you walked," retorted the guy who really didn't want to talk about the Skywalker thing.

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"Related," Atton retorted, "To that pompous windbag who teaches Ethics and his pompous idiot kid."

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Cade agreed about the idiot kid part, at least. "You don't see the resemblance?" he asked, fluttering his eyelashes.

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"Yeah, all three of you look like you've got ferrocrete for brains," Atton said charitably.

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"Hey now," Cade said. "I'm much smarter than those two."

If we're grading on a curve...

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"Yeah, and I have some real estate on Alderaan you might be interested in."

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"What am I going to do with floating space rubble?" Cade scoffed.

Um, you knew about that, right?

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...No.

"Sorry, what?" Atton asked, eyeballing him. "Did the weekend scramble your brains?"

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy found her way to Stark Industries and made her way in, looking around for Cade. "Hey."

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"Hey," Cade said with a little smile, opening his eyes and taking his feet off the counter. "Guess I should pretend to be productive now."

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"Don't strain yourself on my account," Mercy teased.

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"Well, if you insist," Cade said and slung his feet back up. "How was your weekend? I blew something up."

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"Much more exciting than mine," she admitted with an eye roll. "I wandered around communing with the trees and animals because apparently that's what Native Americans do."

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Cade snorted. "Sounds thrilling. Atton wore a leather tuxedo to a wedding."

That would never not be hilarious.

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That got a laugh. "I'm not sure if that's something I wish I'd seen or something I'm glad I missed."

"Um, anyway... I sort of... I wanted to talk to you about your tattoos."

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"Sure," Cade said easily. "You thinking of getting one?"

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"Yes. Maybe."

Mercy shook her head. "I'm not sure."

She took a deep breath and let it out. "I've been thinking about it. Since I started really thinking about letting people know what I am. So, I was wondering about yours. Why you got them and what they mean to you."


[ooc: So sorry I've been so slow! The elections stuff got crazier than I thought it would!]

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Cade pointed to the first tattoo on his bicep (http://scifianimeheroes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cadeskywalker.jpg). "This was the first one," he said. "Everyone in Rav's crew got the bloody bones," he said. "After I left, I added the skull."

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Mercy nodded. "Why did you add the skull?"

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"Because he doesn't run my life any more," Cade said a little bitterly. "So kark his brand."