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Wellspring Arms | Tuesday

So maybe it was a little silly, but Faye for sure did a couple little skips back and forth across the door's threshold when she came in today. Just to double-check that she could, indeed, come and go as she pleased.

With that settled, she took up her usual post with her feet up on the counter, producing another bag of jellybeans from somewhere and plucking up an ammunition catalog to peruse. She had a birthday next month, after all.

[open, potentially on the slowish side!]

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Faye did have a birthday coming up. That was something that might need to be discussed at some point because a certain alien would want to be sure the occasion was appropriately marked.

Right now Stark was just stopping in to say hello because he'd been out walking. And he hadn't actually purchased anything on his unexpected visit last week. Maybe he could change that today. Or not. Maybe it was just an excuse.

"Are you busy?"

"Oh yes, Stark," Faye said dryly, glancing up from her catalog with a smile and making a show of very slowly turning the page. "I'm clearly in the middle of something. Literally could not be busier."

"Terribly important weaponry business to attend to?" Stark asked with an answering smile. "Or is it the candy that's keeping you so occupied? I just thought I'd try coming in here of my own volition, this time."

"Makes a nice change from last week," Faye observed, her smile widening a little. "And I'll have you know I can multitask. I can eat candy and read."

She could probably even talk at the same time. So many skills!

"A very nice change from last week," Stark agreed. And the weeks before. "Not so crowded, either." Other uncrowded locations from last week he wasn't going to be stopping in on his own yet though.

"And of course you can do both. I'd expect nothing less. But I wouldn't want to distract you from either thing. Especially the candy. But if I'm not too much of a distraction...I never did make any purchases."

"You seriously do want to get some kind of fun little energy-based gun?" Faye asked, actually brightening up even a bit more. "Oh, fun. And then we can go shooting!"

A violence date! Faye's favorite!

"So, okay, we were looking at, like, energy pistols, right?" she checked, setting her catalog aside so she could swing herself over the counter.

If they were gonna go on a space date it might be wise to have a space weapon! Didn't shootouts follow Faye around?

"I've gotten tired of being...Feeling helpless." Stark admitted. "Not that it would have helped with...everything lately." He waved vaguely at the ground, then shook his head. "But other times. I thought it might help."

"There was the whole thing at Christmastime," Faye pointed out with a nod. "Sometimes it seems like things we can actually shoot do turn up."

Faye herself had shot up quite a few murderous strings of lights, last Christmas!

"And besides, it might've helped in the hole," she added, a little darkly. "Had we been down there longer."

"It would have been better if I could have taken care of the reindeer that tried to eat me," Stark said. "Liam had to do it. And there were things this spring, that week when things went wrong." When you conveniently skipped town, Faye!

"I'm not sure more weaponry in the hole would have helped anything..." He hadn't been doing well. "But I'm glad it didn't come to that."

"Is that why he was so fast to come running?" Faye wondered, stuck right there on the Liam thing, of course. "When you screamed, I mean."

And look. Look. If they'd been down there all that much longer, Faye wasn't entirely certain that factions wouldn't have formed or something, and she wanted to be in the most heavily-armed faction, in that case!

(Really, she wanted to be in charge of the most heavily-armed faction, but that would probably never, rightfully, happen.)

"He's good about checking on me. Not the first time I've needed it," Stark admitted. "Not that I needed it that time but he didn't know that." Stark hadn't known that either, at first. "But with the reindeer I needed help. And the Night Mares, last summer. And I was very loud when I lost my mask." He was looking more embarrassed with each admission.

If factions had formed, Faye had brought multiple armed ships with her. Her faction would have been fine. Probably.

"That's very nice of him," Faye decided, but not without a note of suspicion. "He must listen closely."

Like, what was in this for Liam? People weren't just...you know, heroically nice to their neighbors unless there was a benefit to them, in Faye's experience.

"I think," Stark said after a moment's consideration, "usually there isn't much screaming so if there is he knows something's wrong." Stark was, perhaps, not the ideal neighbor at times. "Or maybe I'm just louder than everyone else. But he is nice. Kinder than he needs to be."

"Next time weird things show up and attack us," Faye decided, "maybe Liam and I can compare some strategies."

Because it would be silly if all of Stark's neighbors on that floor were running to his rescue, suddenly.

"But I'd rather have something to fight, next time," Faye added. "The hole was...frustrating that way."

Or Stark could stop getting into situations where he needed to have neighbors running to his rescue? But that seemed unlikely.

"I'm hoping we can have some time without anything attacking or going horribly wrong," Stark said, looking around the shop as if he half expected something to jump out of a corner after he said that. "A little calm would be nice."

"But you're right. It was frustrating, not being able to do anything about what was happening. Still...I'm glad it only felt unsafe, down there. And it wasn't really."

"Probably just a matter of time," Faye noted, more cheerful than her words were. "I mean, who knows what might have come out of the ceiling once Rey and I got through it, considering how far down we were. Giant worms or underground mole people or something."

That would have been fun.

Fun was one word for it.

"We may have gotten out just in time. I didn't need to be down there any longer. Would you have kept me safe? From attacking giant worms and mole people?"

He knew, or thought he did, the answer to that already.

It was the correct word for it.

"You just want to hear me say it," Faye said lightly, leaning over to press a kiss to his cheek. "Of course I would have. Happily."

Partly because it would have probably chilled her out some to shoot at things, honestly. But also because that's just what she would do these days if anything came after Stark

"I may have known the answer before I asked," Stark admitted with a small smile as he reached for her hand. "But thank you for saying it. It's good to know." Sometimes he just needed a little reassurance. Other times he needed a lot.

"You know I would return the favor, if the opportunity presented itself?"

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