( burn it to the ground )

[cheapbastard]

CHARACTERS: billy butcher + ota
LOCATION: the station
DATE: early march
CONTENT: drinking, being horrible, being awesome
WARNINGS: language and maybe some violence

01. UNFORTUNATE INVASION (CLOSED TO YENNEFER)

( there's a lot of fucking people packed into this station and more showing up all the time. you can't step outside without running into someone who might ask a question or might wanna talk about everything and nothing. billy's gotten used to the solitude of his room, enjoying the respite he has. he can lock the door and shut everything out and pretend that he's back home, just waiting to get up and get dressed and take care of business.

of course, his business here is the business of orbs and he's not sure he really likes it. but, it's not like he can fucking change it either. he can't just open the door and take a space walk home. he's stuck and that's a fucking nnoying.

the bed's are too thin, the walls a weird color but it's still his room and billy take advantage of that by tossing a ball that he'd found on the last planet against the wall. he's splayed on his bed, betting himself that he can hit certain spots and then doing it before the ball comes back and he catches it.

he's won a lot of money against himself. he's very wealthy now. be jealous. )

02. MESS HALL

( maybe billy's gonna live here now. maybe he's going to move his shit out of his room and live in the fucking mess hall because he is certainly not going to live with that fucking woman, whoever she is. what kind of a name was yennefer anyway? did whoever birthed her mishear her mother naming her jennifer?

it's stupid. that woman is stupid.

for once, while he's in the mess, he's not drinking. well, he is but it's water. he's made himself a plate of food and he's sitting his ass on the table instead of the bench, tapping his foot while he tries to clear his head. if there's new people showing up, billy wonders if that means they're going to be punted to a new planet sometime soon to save another fucking orb.

he shakes his head, growling under his breath because what fucking luck. maybe he will take that space walk. )

03. WILDCARD

( if you'd like to do something else space station related, hit me up. i'm at jortles for questions. )

Comments

[cheapbastard]

So, not for drinking then, huh?

( since it would probably turn his internal organs to goo if it was strong enough to burn through the station. doesn't mean he doesn't wanna try. he's stupid like that. )

Everything. Some people are okay.

( he could count them on one hand but they existed. )

I don't hate everyone. I think that's progress.

[aurable]

I think he might be attempting convoluted suicide by making pudding with it, but nothing that man says ever makes sense. [ Drift shrugs with all the resignation of someone who's long since given up trying to appeal to the fork-in-electric-socket crowd. ]

A short list, I'm assuming.

[ A beat as Drift hedges a bet. ] Newcomer rub you the wrong way?

[cheapbastard]

Definitely one way to go. I'd prefer a big explosion if I'm gonna off myself but that's just me. I'd want it to be memorable.

( and he doesn't want to feel a goddamn thing either. )

They sent someone to live with me. Don't get me wrong, she's fuckin' hot but I think I might have to suffocate her in her sleep.

( not really. )

[aurable]

Hmm, I'd go for anything with flare. On a mountain top at sunset, preferably.

[ Drift makes a thoughtful noise at his not-so-serious suicidal ideations framed out Kurosawa filmography before looking back at Billy. ]

I wonder why I never seem to land a roomie. Mechaphobia? [ Drift shrugs ] Billy, there's always a chance you'll find common ground. She already sounds as charming as you if she sent you running for the hills.

[cheapbastard]

A picturesque way to go out.

( he can admit that. it would be nice to go out with something pretty behind you. be good setting for the movie of your life. )

She didn't send me running anywhere. ( how dare you, drift. ) I came here because I was hungry and I was being polite and giving her time to adjust.

( that's a pile of bullshit. )

[aurable]

So much comes down to aesthetics, really.

[ Drift pauses between multitasking cleaning around Billy and searching for something neutral to cut the Energon with, muttering 'vodka?' before shaking his head. ]

I met a young woman here just a while ago. A bit demanding but not unpleasant. Your new roommate? [ He's not even going to comment on Billy's supposed politeness. ]

[cheapbastard]

Might be.

( sounds like her, at least. or what he knows of her. what were the odds of there being more than one person like that on this station? )

She tell you that her name's Jennifer?

( that wasn't it. )

[aurable]

Yennefer. I understand the confusion.

[ Drift corrects as he pulls a bottle of vodka out of the freezer and shakes. He holds the bottle out and shakes it as ice crystals grow up the side of the glass like creeping vine weed. He frowned, ]

Someone topped off the vodka with water.

[cheapbastard]

The fuck kind of name is that.

( she's jennifer now. or jenny. yeah, that worked. )

Who the fuck would do that? Ruining good vodka is a crime.

[aurable]

You're asking a living machine from space with a verb for a name, Billy.

[ Really. Drift opens the bottle and sniffs, noting maybe half of the original contents remained. ]

We have teenagers here, right?

[cheapbastard]

I like your fuckin' name.

( does he? he thinks he does. he's still not completely sure who he's talking to how and how but whatever, he's going with it. )

Do we?

( well, ziggy even if she acts like she's forty five years old. )

Ziggy, I guess. I know she's pretty young. Are there others?

[aurable]

Drift always wins points for brevity.

[ He admits, it haven't even entered his mind that Billy might not have put two and two together. ]

Alina, I think. Gwen and that Griffin girl. None of them would be my first guess. They all act older than the actual adults here, anyway.

[cheapbastard]

Haven't met them.

( he knows of them but he doesn't know them. billy's not typically one to just waltz right on up and introduce himself especially to kids.

he's not great with them. )

Who would be your first guess?

[aurable]

Hmm.

[ Drift let's the thought kick around in his head for a minute. ]

Newt.

[cheapbastard]

Newt?

( he knows that name and he makes a face. )

The little shit who plays the piano? That Newt?

[aurable]

[ Drift doesn't seem all that bothered by his own hypothetisis ]

The little guy's got a bit of a wild side. Always the quiet ones, right?

[cheapbastard]

You know, just from what I know about him, doesn't surprise me. He's a little shit.

( billy almost says that affectionately. he likes little shits considering he's one of them too. )

Think he did it just to be a bastard?