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A bit of whimsy

Date & Time: October 5th, Evening
Location: The cafeteria
Characters: OPEN TO ALL
Summary: MOONWALKING!!/The gravity breaks for an hour
Warnings: NONE

[Perhaps the refrigerator cycled at the exact same moment that someone started reheating some of that sorry excuse we have for moon food. Maybe at that exact moment, the power grid strained from bringing another section of the base into life supporting function. Maybe at that exact moment ALL OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED AT ONCE.

Whatever actually happened, the lights flicker and go dark, leaving only the hallway illumination, and your stomach twists as gravity loses a bit of a grip on you.

You're not FLOATING, but neither are you quite as heavy as you used to be.]

What on Earth?

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[The calmest and the coolest and ever so slightly shrieky?

Naoya just blinks at him for a moment, absently drifting down a little from the ceiling, before wrinkling his nose.]

Uh, no thanks. I'm pretty sure most of the doors don't even fit two people, an' with your luck we'd break an airlock and fly off into space or something!

[They were the manliest curses, okay. But that nose wrinkle is adorable. He smirks though, as he caaaarefully walks through the next doorway.]

Never know until we try. Come on, lend me a hand.

[There is a slight pout. Succumb to the pout.]

[Dude, grown men pouting is not nearly as cute as girls pouting or even small whiny kids pouting. No dice.

He does push off after him, though, if only because he's curious to see how long his lucky streak with the doors will last.]

Well, I'm not carryin' you, but sure, I can spot the doors for you or something. Kinda like parking. [But with an actual person.] But I think you'd do better if you relaxed more!

[He pushes off the wall and goes spinning off down the hall -- not quite as planned, but he laughs when he bounces off the opposite wall.]

Don't walk, you'll just get tired that way!

I'm not going anywhere near the airlocks anyway.

[On purpose. At the parking comment he snorts.]

Parallel parking is a shitton easier. Can you believe that? I should've brought a helmet. I guess I can go get one during a supply run.

Good, 'cause I'm not, either!

[It's probably a good thing if they both keep away from airlocks. Just a really good thing.

And man, are you trying to make him wheeze with laughter? 'Cause you're doing an awesome job. So much so, in fact, that he's practically spinning in place from the force of it.]

Dude, parallel parking must be way easier than I heard, then! An' you know, I'd tell you to steal one from the UE next time you run into them, but they've probably got mind control stuff in them or something.

[He has to make you laugh, because this situation is just that stupid and ridonkulous. He eases his way through the next door without incident.]

The gravity doesn't change when you're parking. But hey, if you take a UE helmet, maybe it'll help you with that parallel parking? You should try it.

[He hovers obligingly to watch over Blaine's way through, though it seems like the guy's getting the hang of it. Luckily for him, most of the doors are roughly the same size and design anyway.

Hopefully they won't come across any of the smaller ones, though Naoya kind of wants to see that too, to be honest. How often do you get to see people you know get owned by space, after all?]

I don't think you can park in zero gravity anyway. You'd just have to tether things to stuff. [He tilts his head and snorts.] How's a helmet help with parallel parking, anyway? It doesn't even count for a motorcycle! Besides--

[He kicks off and goes drifting down the hall a ways on his back, waving at Blaine cheekily.]

I already have a helmet!

[Naoya, you're an ass, not that Blaine could blame him for taking joy in his failure. He's between blunt force trauma doorways and looking out one of the small windows.]

Whatever tech they've got in there could probably help. As well as brainwash you. But at least you could park.

[He calls after him.]

If you hit your head I'm laughing at you!

[Hey, he'll get ice for you if you do knock yourself out or something. After having a good laugh, but who can help that, really?]

I'll pass on the brainwash, man. I don't like things messing with my head!

[It's perhaps a little more sincere than he'd meant it to be, but ugh. He still doesn't have his memories back the right way around, he's pretty sure, which is unsettling as hell.

But no sense in ruining a good zero gravity adventure with thinking--]

Which is why I'm way more careful than some people!

[Since Blaine seems so interested in the window, Naoya does a minor somersault in midair and drifts over to have a look outside. They can see the Earth from here and while it's very beautiful and surreal it got a little old after a while. Watching it from behind glass is only a little bit more interesting than seeing it in photographs.]

... What're you lookin' at, anyway? There's nothing there.

[He smiles but doesn't respond to the 'messing with my head' part because he all too readily agrees with it. That's what scares him most about all of this stuff. Not having control over what was going on around him was one thing, but any more shit going on in his head sent a shock of terror up his spine.]

This is what you call careful?

[There is a kind of incredulousness in his voice as Naoya gets closer. True, there was just the Earth out there. The earth and stars were still amazing, even if the initial shock had worn off. He reached up to pat Naoya on the shoulder and say 'nothing' but instead he got the sudden urge to smack the boy's head against the window. He paused a second, then did it anyway.]

Oh, oops...!

[He's totally sorry Naoya. He didn't mean it! His face is apologetic, too. He's not laughing on the inside at all. Nope.]

Oi!

[Naoya's been on the receiving end of enough tricks (not that he didn't bring them on himself, but shhh!) that neither Blaine's theatrical exclamation nor his straight face can really fool him at this point.

Granted, it's been a while, because he isn't close enough to anyone around here yet that roughhousing is really much of a thing, but he reacts the way any teenage boy would. Well, he reacts the way any teenage boy in half-gravity would: bounces handily off the window and goes flailing backwards a bit, then, since Blaine is out of arm's reach, promptly uses his feet to shove at him.]

I totally saw that!

[No, he didn't, but it's the principle of the thing!]

[Blaine blocks it but can't even pretend to be mad. He just laughs until he flails and just barely manages to avoid beaning his head on the doorway he had successfully navigated earlier.

He gives a sigh of relief as he floats there.]

Aww come on! Sorry! It was totally an accident.

[Naoya continues glowering for a moment, but the effect is ruined by the fact that he's sideways-almost-upside down and his lips keep twitching once Blaine almost beans himself on the door again. Too bad he didn't actually nail himself or he might be totally forgiven.]

Just remember: I'm your spotter! You don't wanna cross me!

[Have a mock-admonishing finger waggle in your direction.]

[Another round of blunt force trauma wasn't worth being forgiven since he wasn't sorry at all. He saw those twitching lips, you little jerk. He gently pushes forward towards the next door and Naoya.]

Of course, of course. My apologies.

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