Around Atton's New York, All Day Tuesday

[suitably_heroic]

So, Cade was still here. And... damned lucky that Dane had the patience of a saint (or at least a guy with crappy coping methods and a history of poor boundary-setting), or he probably would've been out on his ass by now. Hell, Jack had thought about throwing him out on his ass a few times now. The crossing the streams was just kind of weird.

And Cade could be kind of a jackass.

(But he'd also missed the guy and having him here was a good reminder of their misspent youth and space he really was getting old, wasn't he?)

Anyway.

It was show day. And Jack-slash-Atton hadn't slept a wink last night, so he'd just be on the floor of the living room, where he'd been for the last couple of hours. Ugh.

[[ for that guy and some ocd ]]

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Re: Afternoon

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Jack rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, the big myth of Cade Skywalker," he muttered.

And then bent himself further over his soda.

"Trent's going to be here in a second," Jill added. "I'd save the really tall tales for his paranoid ass."

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

"Oooh, how paranoid is he?" Cade asked. "Will he believe I have tentacles?"

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

"Do you have tentacles?" Jill asked skeptically, before Jack could stop her.

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

"Do you want me to have tentacles?" Cade asked, smirking.

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

"It'd definitely be a new experience," Jill said, smirking back.

"'m gonna kill myself," Jack muttered under his breath.

A tall, gangly man with messy black hair stepped in through the door, looked towards, them, and squinted.

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

"I definitely recommend it at least once," Cade said, winking.

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

"Oh, is there a story?" Jill said, brightening up. "'Cause I gotta--"

"New spaceman," Trent said, yanking up a chair and sitting himself down in it in a kind of... dropping motion. He nodded at Cade. "Welcome to Earth."

Jack's hand slid up to rub at his forehead.

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

Cade gave him a sardonic wave. "I come in peace. Take me to your leader."

Cade.

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

"Which one?" Trent asked suspiciously. Jack heaved a sigh, waving for the server to come over.

"He'll have a whiskey and coke," Dane said.

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

Cade would take that capitulation as a sign of success because Cade was a dick.

"Whichever one you know," Cade said magnanimously.

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

Trent sat down. He eyed Cade across the table, steely. "If that's your plan," he said, "It's not well-reasoned. Does your planet have a lead problem?"

Jack picked up his soda and took an idle sip. When the whiskey and coke arrived, he shoved it effortlessly towards Trent, who downed it without taking his eyes off Cade.

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

"I figure I'd work up from whoever you know," Cade said.

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

"From whoever a random New York City bassist would know? A likely story," Trent snorted. He jabbed a finger at Cade. "Confess. How long have you been hiding here, stalking humanity, huh?"

Everyone else at the table sipped their drinks in unison.

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

Cade snorted. "Two weeks," he said. "You're not that interesting."

Re: Afternoon

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Trent's eyebrows shot up.

"Then explain this," he said, whipping out his phone to display--

A wide range of fuzzy pictures of objects flashing past in the sky, all over town.

Jack waved at the server again.

"He'll have another whiskey and coke," Dane said dutifully.

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

"Not me," Cade said airily. "I came by portal."

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

"Just like Jack insists he did," Trent said, narrowing his eyes.

"Okay, enough interrogation," Dane said, holding up both hands. "We should order some food. And more drinks. What's your poison this time, Cade?"

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

"My spaceship is too good to be beheld on this backwater planet," Cade said. "And I'll have whiskey."

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

"Is it invisible?" Trent asked. "Do you perform experiments?"

Jack shoved the next whiskey and coke at him, too.

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

"Why?" Cade asked. "Are you asking to get probed?"

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

"You're not my type and you're dodging the question," Trent told him.

The server came back with their drinks. This time, Jack grabbed the glass of water and downed that.

"Again, let's not interrogate the new hot guy," Jill sighed. "You from anywhere near where... whatever planet Jack is from?"

Re: Afternoon

[shutupandkillsomething]

"No one's from where he's from," Cade said with a little grin. "I'm from a different part of the galaxy, but still human."

Re: Afternoon

[suitably_heroic]

"Billions of beings are from where I'm from," Jack said, rolling his eyes. "They're just not here."

He immediately waved for a refill on his water.