020- (Voice) Gabe is still the most unhelpful angel on the Barge

[uberboned]

Okay! So everyone's getting a bit twitchy over this whole 'we're trapped on a boat with a bunch of starving vampires' thing. I get it. We all look like meals on wheels to you bloodsuckers right now, but just remember that people are friends not food. Repeat it to yourself. Cross-stitch it onto a pillow. I bet some of you guys could use the distraction right now. Go ahead. Cross-stitch away. It's a great hobby.

And, for the record, drinking angel blood is like drinking Drain-o. So don't try it... Unless you want to be hungry and convulsing on the floor with killer indigestion. Hah! See what I did there? 'Cause it... Never mind.

[Private to Max, added later.]

I'm coming over. I need to talk to you. And you don't get to say no.

Comments

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

Ah, hubris. Constant companion of those with more power than sense.

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

Ah, sarcasm. Tried and true friend of those with more bark than bite.

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

There's a benefit to knowing when to strike and when to keep your peace that it seems neither you nor your brothers ever learned.

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

Don't compare me to the rest of my family. I don't strike unless I have to.

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you had to send a plague of locusts into my bedroom.

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

Okay. Fine. You got me. I have a small temper problem. Nobody likes being called out, princess, and there's an easy way to make sure it don't happen again. I leave you alone, you leave me alone. It's pretty damn simple.

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

Though as I see it, I still owe you one.

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

Yeah? And what're you gonna do about that?

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

Whimper like the toothless bitch that I am, clearly.

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

You and I both know that's a load of BS.

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

Do we?

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

I think we do.

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

And here I was so enjoying the pretense of helplessness.

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

Not you. Nooo. You'd do anything to avoid looking helpless.

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

Meaning what, oh holy messenger?

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

Meaning you don't get to play the helplessness card.

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

You enjoy lording supposed advantages over people, don't you? What is it you think you know about me?

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

That you'd rather die than have to depend on anyone, that you'd choose isolation over anyone getting close to you... Is this Freudian, all-knowing, all-seeing angel thing doing anything for you, Abby?

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

How dare you, you arrogant self-righteous pig. What is it you think I'm going to do, break down weeping because you used a dead girl's name?

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

No. I think you're gonna just be indignant at me, but please. Go ahead and subvert my paradigm.

[sonotahunter.livejournal.com]

With pleasure.