Demon Marcus, Thursday

[boneyard_girl]

Given how easily distracted Ada had been so far this week, it was a miracle she even made it in to work. A spacey, twitchy, restless miracle, but still a miracle.

But she had to burn off all this somehow, and so Ada had filled up the Burn Barrel and was going to focus on feeding the flames instead of daydreaming. Normally daydreaming helped pass the time just fine, but, well, this week it was just making thing worse.

Demon Marcus was open, and your shop girl hasn't quite realized it's not just her, yet.

[OOC: Open, OCD-free, SP in effect!]

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[good_for_six]

"Congratulations on making out with the hot roommate!"

You know who was having a fantastic week? Isabela was, and according to the radio she wasn't the only one.

[boneyard_girl]

"Those damn squirrels really do got their noses in everything, don't they?" Ada sighed, tossing some truly hideous lingerie into the fire. "'M startin' to think they hang out in the vents with the gremlins!"

She smirked at Isabela. "Though it seems like they been followin' you around plenty too."

Since Isabela wasn't the only one who heard what radio had to say.

[good_for_six]

"I get the idea they like to watch," Isabela said, grinning back shamelessly. "Of course so would I if I was getting that kind of show."

[boneyard_girl]

"Just watch?" Ada asked dryly. She loves you, Bela, BUT SHE KNOWS YOU.

[good_for_six]

"It's rude not ask first." Or she might be tied up, WHO KNEW?

[boneyard_girl]

"Oh, no, anything but rude!" Ada laughed. "'S'long as you're asking first. Manners are important, you know."

Especially things like 'yes' and 'please.'

[good_for_six]

Two of Isabela's favourite words. At least in that context.

"Exactly so," she agreed, digging around in her hip scarf. "Which is why I have something to thank you for the flowers." Yes, like Dante, you were getting tiny brass genitalia. Didn't you feel lucky?

[boneyard_girl]

Ada blinked in surprise. "You didn't have to do that," she protested, shaking her head. "I got you flowers 'cause you deserve 'em, not so's that you'd feel like you had to give me somethin' back."

[good_for_six]

"Well good, because this isn't because I owe you something," Isabela said. She'd probably have brought Dante along if that was the case. "It's because I think you'll appreciate it."

She held out the not-actually-a-flower token.

[boneyard_girl]

It took Ada a moment to realize what she was looking at, then she burst out laughing. "Next time someone infers that I'm a delicate flower, I'm gonna agree and show them this," she decided.

[good_for_six]

Isabela grinned broadly, leaning against the counter. "I gave one to Dante as well, do with that knowledge what you will."

[boneyard_girl]

Ada snickered. "I'll accept that as a compliment," she decided cheerfully. "Only the most entertaining get 'flowered' by Isabela."

She held it up to get a better look at it. "Where on earth did you find these? Or do I not want to know?"

[good_for_six]

"I am most choosy about where I choose to bestow my favours." Suuuure she was. "These kind at least."

Isabela shrugged. "On my ship, no idea how they got there," she said. "They're Rivaini though."

[boneyard_girl]

"Someone must have been stealing the favours of pretty girls and hording them," Ada decided. "It seems like quite the pirate thing to do."

"I'm almost tempted to turn it into a necklace, and see who figures out what it really is."

[good_for_six]

"It does," Isabela agreed, as it was a much more entertaining line of thought than explaining how she recognised these. "Though they could have left the pretty girls too."

"I think that sounds like a marvellous idea." It should be noted that Isabela would one day wear decidedly phallic-looking necklaces and was not someone whose idea of appropriateness could be trusted.

[boneyard_girl]

Ada shot Isabela a bemused glance. "What, are ya not finding enough pretty girls this week or somethin', that you'd want to find more on your ship?" she teased. "Best be careful, they might wanting their 'flowers' back."

[good_for_six]

"You can never have too many pretty girls." Plus she was missing a crew still, and this week a crew made up entirely of pretty Rivaini girls sounded brilliant. "I'm afraid they'll have to remain de-'flowered' though."

She thought she was hilarious.

[boneyard_girl]

"The fearsome Isabela, pirate queen of the high seas, and her crew of de-flowered pirate women," she mused. "Sounds like it could be one of the naughty dance routines in the hootchie tent."

Ada grinned and held up her prize. "So if you gave these, does that mean Dante and I are your seconds-in-command?"

Ada no, don't give her more friend fiction ideas.

[good_for_six]

Too late.

"I'd be more than happy to have you both under me." Far, far too late. "But you'd have to sort out who had seniority between yourselves."

What have you done, Ada?

[boneyard_girl]

Isabela would have gotten to the innuendos with or without Ada's help.

But it was going to take Ada a second to answer, as that put a very, very pretty picture in her head, and it took a moment to blink it away and get back to herself.

"Well, I'm older," she said distractedly. "I guess that puts me on t--" ADA NO. Thankfully she had enough self-preservation not to finish that sentence in that way. "-- in charge."

[good_for_six]

Ada mightn't have finished saying it, but Isabela was thinking it, and it was indeed a pretty picture.

"He does take direction very well," she said, so very innocently.

[boneyard_girl]

"I'll believe that when I see it," she laughed, shaking her head. "Pretty sure Dante and Taking Orders are not two thing that go together nicely."

[good_for_six]

She'd said 'direction' not 'orders'.

"It all depends on the kind of orders." Beat. "And how you phrase it."

[boneyard_girl]

Well, if Bela was the captain, they were orders, right? It made sense in Ada's head.

"What, like, 'oh, pretty please kiss me?'" she asked, fluttering her lashes outrageously.

[good_for_six]

Isabela chuckled. "Exactly," she said, leaning in closer. "How could anyone refuse that?"