riptidequeen | IC Inbox for Prismatica

... Were you a traitor before that?

No, only mistaken for one.

[She sounds bitter, it's a touchy subject for her.]

[It's... a point of interest for him, as someone who has basically come to terms with the fact that he'd be a traitor if his old boss showed up and tried to bring him in line again.]

How'd it feel? Dropping the barn on them, I mean.

[Mostly it's the whole being mistaken for a Crystal Gem and being shoved in a mirror that's a touchy subject. The whole barn thing was, well, of her own choosing.]

I was helping out my friends, so good I guess? It wasn't really the time to be focused on feelings and such.

... Fair enough.

[W E L P that's as close to delving into talking about feelings that Mercury wants to get, so--]

If I paid you enough, could you drop a barn on someone else?

... Depends. I'd also have to find a barn no one was using to drop on whoever it is.

[Not that Lapis needs money, but she can humour Mercury for the time being.]

[He doesn't seriously have anyone here to drop a barn on. He's just having fun.]

Oh, I don't care if it's being used. All the animals would just make it hurt more because it'd be heavier, right?

I'm not going to lift a barn full of living things just to drop on someone.

[She has standards!]

So if everything in the barn is dead already, then it's okay?

Please don't go killing a barnful of animals or people.

[Joking or not, a line is being drawn.]

Boo. You're no fun.

[Toeing lines is what he does best, in spite of his lack of actual toes.]

Sorry I don't find murder fun.

You just haven't found the right murder for you!

[Know what, this stopped being funny so she's just going to go back to digging in the trash.]

[ A good person would apologize for making her uncomfortable.

A somewhat decent person would acknowledge that they made a blunder and leave her be.

Mercury, though. ]

Was that too much? We can start at jaywalking and work up from there.

Nah, I just think the trash is more interesting.

[She doesn't even look at him as she says this.]

... Yeesh. What, did I touch a nerve?

[He isn't apologizing, mind you. He never will!]

Nope.

[Still flat toned, and she wouldn't expect anything from Mercury. He's weird and annoying and for some reason that bothers her because she's not mad at him?]

[There's silence for a moment - the next time she hears him speak up his voice will be coming from right behind her, leaning over her where she's rummaging through garbage.]

You're a lot more fun when you're at least giving me some sass to work with.

[Man, Mercury is lucky there is no water here. Because what he did would have gotten him a face full of water fist if there had been. Instead, Lapis just startles a bit.]

Yeek, back off first and maybe it'll come back!

[To be fair when he does things like this to Emerald he usually gets an elbow in the gut, so a splash to the face might not be so bad.

... Might not.

But her reaction is better than the flat nothing she's been delivering, and he'll humor her with the most intentionally small step backward one can imagine.]

How's that?

[Wow. Such Space. Much Room.

Lapis does the next best thing, she grabs something from the trash, something mushy and... She'll proceed to chuck it at Mercury.

No words, only trash.]

[Thankfully Mercury is from a Stupid Bullshit Fighting Anime, granting him the reflexes to dodge the incoming garbage (with a needlessly acrobatic flip to the side, at that).]

Hey, hey, watch the hair!

Maybe the hair should watch its mouth first.

[She sticks out her tongue at him, but hey she's not going to toss any more trash at him.]

You wouldn't ask a fire to stop being hot, would you? I am what I am.

[... yes he is also calling himself hot, so smug]

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