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(It's incredibly uncomfortable and something my brother used to do to me when he braided my hair.)
(It's incredibly uncomfortable and something my brother used to do to me when he braided my hair.)
(That's awful!)
Blake whipped his head around, wide eyed and startled. He rubbed at his ear and glared at Ace. "You're incredibly obnoxious." He hissed, trying to look intimidating.
"And you're cute when you're angry." Ace bopped Blake's nose and laughed.
"I am not!" Blake protested, ruffling his feathers to make himself look bigger.
"Now stop fidgeting, Peter didn't give me a tie for that last braid, so I had to tie it with your own hair and it's incredibly loose." Ace stood up and patted Blake's feathers, "You should puff these up more, you look like a cute little bird when you do that."
"I am not cute nor am I a little baby bird. I'm a soldier." Blake whined, but stilled anyways. He looked up at Ace curiously, wondering why he was standing.
Ace sat down on the floor, "I'm bored. What do you wanna do?"
"I don't even know where I am." Blake crossed his arms. "I was taken from the bar, to the cell, to Dani's place. But where are we exactly?"
"A magical place, filled with ike cream and cheeseburgers and, god, my glasses are fogged up, holy gack." Ace took off his glasses and rubbed at their surface with his shirt.
"You think they'll let me leave?" He asked, but after remembering Josh's threats about armed fighters and Dani's prowess here, he had a sinking feeling he wasn't going to be able to report to Commander Ryker anytime soon. The worst part was that he was starting to not want to. Must've been something in the food… or maybe that sedative hasn't worn off all the way.
"I've only had glasses for a few hours and they're such a pain." Ace complained as he put his glasses back on. "Oh, you said something, umm…I honestly don't know why you want to leave, this is the most peaceful my life has ever been."
"It's not like I came here willingly." Blake groaned as blurred memories ran through the back of his head. "I was upset and drunk… and that stupid bar tender. He must've known I was R.A.C. He probably saw my gun holster." Blake rambled, remembering Ruby at the orphanage and then meeting Niki.
"It's your fault for being at a bar." Ace said, "But I guess I was at a bar too, so, it's your fault for drinking too much and getting kidnapped by someone."
"You were at a bar? Yeah, right. Like you could hold down liquor." Blake chuckled, drumming his fingers on his leg. "Besides Niki had to get me through six shots of whiskey before I was down and out. I doubt you could handle half a shot."
Ace stiffened, "I didn't even drink! I don't even know why I was at a bar anyway."
"Knew you were a lightweight." Blake grinned mischievously. "A lot of things happen in bars, man. Not a lot of them are good. I mean, you did end up here. Wherever this place is." Blake jested, trying to casually gain some information.
Ace burst out laughing, "Did you just say 'a lot of things happen in bars, man'? Man?!"
"I just came around from a sedative like an hour ago! I don't know what you expected! You'd probably be dead if it still wasn't in my system." Blake puffed up his chest and his feathers with pride before remembering what Ace had said about his feathers being cute. He quickly tried to flatten them again.
"You little cinnamon roll, you." Ace teased.
"I see how it is. You mock me for saying man, but you get to call me a cinnamon roll? What's that even supposed to mean?" Blake wrapped his wings around himself so he could preen them. His face was hidden by a plume of feathers that seemed to stick out in every direction.
"It means you're soft and dorky and sweet." Ace reached over and pinched Blake's cheek, through the wall of feathers Blake had put around himself.
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"I've been raised as a soldier my entire life. I'm none of those things, I will never be any of those things, and there is no one who can make me become any of those things." Blake announced firmly, swatting Ace's hand away. He continued to preen his feathers afterwards, determined not to become flustered.
"Ugh, we get it, you're a soldier, you have a heart made of stone, look, Blake, we all know that you're a cinnamon roll, so deny it all you want." Ace pretend-fainted and laughed as he hit the floor.
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