[OOM: The baseball afterparty]
Sep. 20th, 2009 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mnt_mikeJack may think he's being all slick with his hasty retreat from the Baseball Bash, but what he doesn't realize is that he's being watched.
And watched closely.
One might even say stalked, if it were actually possible for a retired ninja in a bright orange Hawaiian print shirt to stalk someone.
Then again, if any retired ninja could do it, that retired ninja'd be Mike.
And watched closely.
One might even say stalked, if it were actually possible for a retired ninja in a bright orange Hawaiian print shirt to stalk someone.
Then again, if any retired ninja could do it, that retired ninja'd be Mike.
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Date: 2009-09-21 04:09 am (UTC)All things considered, Jack Sparrow looks entirely pleased with the world and his current place in it.
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Date: 2009-09-21 04:14 am (UTC)"Sparrow. Could I uh...have a word?"
Mike is lagging a good fifteen feet behind the captain.
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Date: 2009-09-21 04:26 am (UTC)Still with his back to Mike, Jack mutters,
"Should have kept back some of the rum."
A second later he swings round, hands spread and smiling wickedly as he faces the other man.
"'Course you can, mate. Seems as you just had seven, savvy?"
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Date: 2009-09-21 04:33 am (UTC)No idea.
Mike continues his approach with his gait matching his smile, amiable as ever. Though...there's something about that smile that doesn't sit 100%. It's not reflected in the barman's eyes.
"Cute. Yeah, you've got me there. I think a parlay might be in order. Is now a bad time?"
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Date: 2009-09-21 04:39 am (UTC)A beat.
"Didn't know you were French."
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Date: 2009-09-21 04:42 am (UTC)Bernard spoke the language fluently, and once Bar was taken to France by Carmen Sandiego resulting in French being Sirius' temporary language of choice.
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Date: 2009-09-21 04:47 am (UTC)Jack eyes him for a second or two longer, then shrugs.
"Parlay it is, mate. Under the Code?"
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Date: 2009-09-21 04:51 am (UTC)"Remind me of the parameters of this code again."
Just so he knows where to start breaking rules.
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:01 am (UTC)"The Code of the Brethren, savvy? Set down by Morgan and Bartholomew. The part what's important for parlay is the one that says no one's to harm anyone else until the negotiations are complete."
A beat.
"More like guidelines when it comes to negotiating with ninjas, though."
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:06 am (UTC)And that grin of his only broadens.
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:10 am (UTC)"Indeed."
He gestures grandly with one hand. The other's resting on his belt, comfortably in reach of his pistol.
"Carry on, then."
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:18 am (UTC)He keeps his arms folded even though he totally SEES WHAT YOU'RE DOING THERE, SPARROW!
Such is his trust in the power of the parlay.
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:20 am (UTC)Beat.
"I mean, we have!"
Jack cocks his head to one side, beaded braids clicking quietly as he does.
"... haven't we?"
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:23 am (UTC)When the nodding has completed, he reaches into one of the leg pockets of his cargo shorts and retrieves a folded piece of paper.
It's a piece of paper that he holds out for Jack to take.
Don't worry though, it's not like it's a black spot on a Bible page.
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:36 am (UTC)Jack tilts his head further to the side.
Then to the other side.
"That's very interesting."
He turns the paper upside down and studies it from that direction.
"Doesn't seem to work--"
Jack turns it over, then lifts it up and looks at it with the light shining through it, then finally lowers it and offers it back to Mike, shaking his head."
"It's no good, mate. 'Fraid it's like no other map I've ever seen; not likely I'll be able to decipher it for you to find what it is as you're looking for there."
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:41 am (UTC)"It's not what I'm looking for there, but what's been found. See the circle?"
He indicates on the image the circle in question.
"Guppy says it's a woodbased organism of an as yet to be determined gender."
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:48 am (UTC)Jack examines the circle for a second or two, then looks up again.
"Interesting. Where did he say as he found it?"
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Date: 2009-09-21 05:50 am (UTC)"In my uterus."
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Date: 2009-09-21 06:00 am (UTC)And then he shakes his head.
"... mate, you're even more daft than I am, and that's saying a lot."
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Date: 2009-09-21 06:03 am (UTC)Jack Sparrow. We're having a baby."
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Date: 2009-09-23 03:14 am (UTC)"No we're not!"
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Date: 2009-09-23 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 03:51 am (UTC)"You're-- you're a -- you can't be carrying, mate, there's nowhere for it to fit!"
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Date: 2009-09-28 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-30 02:59 am (UTC)His mouth is moving, but no words are coming out.
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Date: 2009-09-30 05:26 pm (UTC)"It's okay. Take your time. Process it at your own pace."
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Date: 2009-10-04 01:20 am (UTC)"I'm -- I'm to be father to-- to--"
Words fail him, as he's struck by fresh horror.
"... and you're to be the mum?"
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Date: 2009-10-04 02:01 am (UTC)"I'm kind of preferring to think of myself as a surrogate, thanks."
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Date: 2009-10-04 02:10 am (UTC)Finally, something seems to sink through the haze of shock (and not a little rum from before this conversation began).
"... it's ... "
"... so it's to be the lass's little one then, aye?" Jack's face twists into an expression that's wry and flabbergasted and resigned all at once. "S'pose a lady what's a bar as well has to seize the opportune moment for all sorts of things when it comes round to begin with."
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Date: 2009-10-04 03:25 am (UTC)Mike's not really all that sure where the two of them go from here.
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Date: 2009-10-06 03:03 am (UTC)"... so when's the event to be, mate?"
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Date: 2009-10-09 07:04 pm (UTC)Funny that."
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Date: 2009-10-10 03:27 am (UTC)"I need more rum."
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Date: 2009-10-11 12:05 am (UTC)He pinches the bridge of his nose and sighs.
"Guess you'll be drinking my share for me. Lucky you."