75 Godiva, Thursday night

[vdistinctive]

The island had that vacation quiet thing going on, and life in general had been pretty quiet and peaceful for Eliot recently, too.

It was enough to drive a hitter nuts.

He'd bought pretty much everything Williams Sonoma had to offer right now, and had broken in every single piece. He'd actually gotten tired of cooking. So now he was sitting in the living room, reading a political thriller, his reading glasses sliding down his nose.

Oh good god, he'd totally gotten old. This was exactly why he'd talked to Kanan about going off and starting a bar fight sometime.

[for the partners. And probably for slowplay]

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[whoisalicewhite]

"Those old Bruce Willis comedies. You know, the ones where he hides in the air ducts a lot." Parker's idea of comedy was slightly skewed, because she always wound up yelling "WEAR SHOES!" at the screen at different points of this. She took a bite of popcorn and added, "Or you can pick. I just wanna hang out."

[vdistinctive]

"I dunno, you going to scream about shoes in my ear again?" Eliot asked.

[whoisalicewhite]

Parker didn't look the slightest bit sorry. "Maybe." She grinned. "Or we could root for Godzilla against the little people and that moth-thing again." She poked at him, then reached for his glasses. "Pleeeease?" If he didn't have the glasses, he couldn't go back to reading.

[vdistinctive]

Eliot twitched his face out of her reach a few times, but didn't really try that hard to stop her. It wasn't like the book was holding his attention that well, anyway. "Goin' a little stir crazy, huh?"

[whoisalicewhite]

Parker put on his glasses, then looked at him over them. "Yeeeeah. The Island's quiet. Too quiet." She took a handful of popcorn, then said indistinctly through one bite, "May'ee we need another job."

[vdistinctive]

"Was just sayin' something about that to Kanan this week," Eliot admitted. "Well, not about workin' a job."

[whoisalicewhite]

Parker paused in her munching, and swallowed. "You want to go on a trip or something?"

[vdistinctive]

Eliot nodded. "Show him some of the sights of Earth that ain't on the tourist maps."

[whoisalicewhite]

"Cool! When do we leave?"

[vdistinctive]

"I don't -- I mean, we were talkin' about just the two of us. And he's gotta make sure his girl doesn't have plans already. . . ."

He was totally bracing for Parker and Hardison to get mad that he wanted to go start a fight.

[whoisalicewhite]

Parker blinked, not sure if what she was feeling was hurt or not. "Oh. Uh. Okay. Why?" Might as well ask, right? "I mean, why not take us and his girlfriend along too?"

[vdistinctive]

"I dunno. It's just kind of a guy-friend thing." Eliot shrugged. "I'm not saying you can't come, just -- we were maybe thinkin' of stirring up some trouble."

[whoisalicewhite]

Yeah, that didn't really clarify anything. "Why?" She was going to sound like a two-year-old for a while, probably.

[vdistinctive]

See, this was why Eliot had skipped straight to having a young adult daughter instead of dealing with toddlers.

"Why what? Which why?"

[whoisalicewhite]

"Why are you going to go get in trouble? Why with Kanan? Is it something alien?" That was the first reason that popped into her brain, but she'd be willing to take another with more exposition.

[vdistinctive]

"Not get in trouble, stir up some trouble."

[whoisalicewhite]

"Because.... why?" Wait. "Or just because?" That would be valid, too.

[vdistinctive]

"Well . . . yeah," Eliot said. "It's fun."

[whoisalicewhite]

Parker gives him a Look for this, but it's a look that doesn't know what it wants to be: exasperated, fond, eye-rolling, cranky, amused, understanding.

"We could still go along. But..." But, if he had to watch out for her and Hardison, maybe that wouldn't be as much Beating Up Guys Fun Time for him?

[vdistinctive]

It would make it slightly harder to really let loose. But it wasn't like Eliot didn't like showing off for them, either.

"But goin' out with your lovers ain't the same as goin' out with a friend," Eliot said.