Outside a Metal Bar and Beyond, Baltimore, Thursday Evening

[suitably_heroic]

"Okay," Atton said, staring back at the door he'd just been thrown out through. "Okay, that could have gone better."

One of these days he was going to charm his way back into Linda's good graces. Damn it all. She'd yelled at him some more about being a jackass when he and Sparkle'd tried to come in acting like nothing had ever happened (what? It worked with Sia), but that clearly hadn't worked out for him all that well.

And okay, he did have some more aces up his sleeves if he wanted to use them, but he was... kind of trying not to do that.

"But hey, the night's still young, right?" Right.

The night was young! And cold. Very, very cold.

[[ for sparkle and misadventure. ]]

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[myownface]

And for all of that, Sparkle just cracked a little grin, rolled over and buried his face into the pillow - oh shit that pillow had to be stuffed with like real feathers or something did people even make pillows with real feathers in them holy fuck that was nice - and closed his eyes.

"S'always bang'dup." Well, that was true enough. "Night, Att'n."

[suitably_heroic]

"Night, kid," Atton muttered.

He took a sip of water. And then another one. Water was pretty damned nice right now.

Downstairs, the door slammed shut. Sue's parents were out - that meant it was time for him to swoop in and do some damage control before she came up here and started yelling.

He cast Sparkle another look. Okay.

Then he slunk out through the door and headed downstairs to talk to Sue. Just a short one. He'd be back up to check on Fireball in fifteen, tops.