[ terrible messes. wash has mostly learned to give up on even trying to be anything else. they just have to make the best of the terrible lots they've been given, one way or another.
that reply somehow draws an actual laugh out of him -- a little bitter, but not at south. just because of everything. ]
You that out of practice?
Don't make it easy for me.
[ hopefully it'll carry through in text that the trashtalk is entirely friendly. if he's already offering to do this, if he's going to try and really act like they're actually on the same damn team without awkwardly stepping around these small little things, then he's gonna commit to it.
the roof is a good enough space. quiet enough except for the background hum of the city around them. no one ever really comes up there, and there's enough open room. he does, in fact, end up bringing a bottle, and he sets it aside, leaning out over the railing to look across the view, rubbing a hand over his face. not that long ago he'd suggested to carolina, only half-jokingly, that maybe he'd be able to get through a spar with south if she was around to mediate, just in case, and now. ]
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that reply somehow draws an actual laugh out of him -- a little bitter, but not at south. just because of everything. ]
You that out of practice?
Don't make it easy for me.
[ hopefully it'll carry through in text that the trashtalk is entirely friendly. if he's already offering to do this, if he's going to try and really act like they're actually on the same damn team without awkwardly stepping around these small little things, then he's gonna commit to it.
the roof is a good enough space. quiet enough except for the background hum of the city around them. no one ever really comes up there, and there's enough open room. he does, in fact, end up bringing a bottle, and he sets it aside, leaning out over the railing to look across the view, rubbing a hand over his face. not that long ago he'd suggested to carolina, only half-jokingly, that maybe he'd be able to get through a spar with south if she was around to mediate, just in case, and now. ]