Covent Garden Flowers, Thursday

[okteiviakom]

When Octavia came in this morning, the blue plant she'd first discovered two weeks ago had frozen two flowers that had been closest to it, and was still emitting a faint freezing mist around itself. Octavia frowned at it. As skittish as the plant seemed to be (not that she thought a plant could really be called skittish), it hadn't been doing that last week. Unsure what else to do, she got out the thick gloves she'd brought in last week, and moved the plant over to where it wouldn't freeze any other flowers.

Also where she could keep an eye on it.

She didn't know what this reaction was about, but she was instantly wary.

[ooc: Open!]

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[notgetkilled]

"Hey, flower girl," Bellamy said as he pushed his way into the shop. "Man, it smells in here. Not bad, just...a lot. I got so used to smelling mud and smoke that this is a change."

[okteiviakom]

"Yeah, a lot of the plants are really fragrant," Octavia replied, from where she was cleaning up some soil from the floor. Guess her blue plant friend hadn't been the only thing off about the store today. "I don't know why."

[notgetkilled]

"It's gonna give me a headache," Bellamy said with a wince. "How can you stand to be inside for hours on end? Doesn't it make your head hurt?"

[okteiviakom]

Octavia shrugged as she straightened up. "It's still a better confined space than what I'm used to."

Under the floor on the Ark had arguably smelled worse, somehow.

[notgetkilled]

"We wouldn't have done that if we didn't have to," he said, voice holding a trace of apology. "It was to keep you safe."

[okteiviakom]

"I'm just saying, I've had it worse."

Much, much worse.

"At least here I can go outside if it's too much. But so far, it hasn't been." She shrugged again. "So guess I'm just tougher than you, big brother." That last bit was a joke. Not that you could necessarily tell by her tone.

[notgetkilled]

"Oh please," Bellamy says with a roll of his eyes. "You wish, in your dreams, and all that. You're tough but not as tough as I am."

[okteiviakom]

"You weren't there when I was training with the Grounders."

It wasn't an accusation, honest - she was pretty sure they'd covered all that by now - but just her way of saying he couldn't really know that much about her toughness these days, could he?

Well, apart from that time with the sharks.

[notgetkilled]

"True but I still think I'm tougher." Of course he thought that. He was the older brother and thus, that made him stronger and tougher. It was and should be known.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia snorted. "You should consider yourself lucky that I think duels are a waste of time, Bel."

[notgetkilled]

"I don't duel girls anyway," Bellamy countered.

[okteiviakom]

Oh, good, so he wanted to get a really incredulous look right now?

Because he did.

"What?"

[notgetkilled]

"What?" Bellamy asked innocently. "Fine, I don't hit girls that are my sister. Better?"

[okteiviakom]

"Not by much," Octavia replied dryly. "I think you're just scared you'd lose."

[notgetkilled]

Bellamy arched an eyebrow at her. "Have you ever seen me scared?"

[okteiviakom]

"I don't think you'd show it if you were," she retorted.

Rejecting fear was kind of a family thing, after all.

[notgetkilled]

"Which just meas I'm right," Bellamy decided. "I'm not going to fight you but I'm not afraid."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia shrugged again. "Whatever, you'd still lose."

She moved past the blue plant again, as she went to put away the cleaning tools. It puffed out another burst of freezing mist.

[notgetkilled]

Bellamy, because he was a horrible person, shoved the back of her shoulder lightly as she walked by and then crossed his arms and whistled like he'd done nothing.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia sent a withering look his way, over her shoulder.

"You're way too old for that game, Bel."

[notgetkilled]

"And you're too young to make that face," Bellamy countered. "Lighten up."

[okteiviakom]

"Sorry for growing up."

Spoiler: she wasn't sorry!

"Anyway, I have a bad feeling about things."

[notgetkilled]

Bellamy rolled his eyes. "See if I ever try and make things lighthearted again. Doom and gloom for now on."

Her bad feelings included.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia scowled at him. "That's rich, coming from you."

Their mother would be proud right now. Super proud.

[notgetkilled]

"What's that supposed to mean?" Bellamy asked, scowling right back.

[okteiviakom]

She wasn't going to back down for a returned scowl.

"Isn't 'doom and gloom the entirety of what you've been doing since you ended up here?"

[notgetkilled]

"No. Not all of it. Just some if it," Bellamy said, shrugging. "Sometimes, I can deal with this place. Doesn't mean I wanna be here."

[okteiviakom]

"Then don't shit on me when I'm concerned about something," Octavia told him. Succinctly.

With her arms folded, because how else were you supposed to say that?

[notgetkilled]

"You know what, I'm just going to go," Bellamy decided with a shake of his head. "Just go ahead and go so we don't argue. Have a good day at work, okay?"

[okteiviakom]

Octavia looked furious.

For the couple of seconds before she turned her back on him. It was a short time, but the emotion was clear enough.

She had plants to work with in the oppsoite direction from him, anyway.