Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor - same Saturday night

[slippedagear.livejournal.com]

... Elle and Sylar had progressed from appreciating small waffle cones to considering ice cream sundaes, perfectly civilized. Sylar might have been squishing and dripping a little.

Just two nice socieopaths being social.


[for Elle, and various others on their way!]

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[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

Katou turned back into himself once Sylar let go of him, and was grateful for Jenny to show up. He rotated his arm, trying to get some feeling back into the parts of his body that had been frozen.

[mickey-cops.livejournal.com]

And it was at this point that the powers that be, in their debateable lameness, decided to intervene. As the two most active participants in the fight, Sylar and Jenny were the ones scooped up and whisked away - in opposite directions, and with a little brisk bumbling around ice cream cases and so on in an attempt to get them both out separate exits - to fountains in, respectively, Toon Town and Tomorrowland.

Katou and Elle were allowed to stay standing, but there was a faint, almost warning buffett of air that puffed around them for a second, as the others were separated.

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

Elle gave Katou a very confused look.

"What the hell was that all about?" she demanded.

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

Katou shrugged, moving from rotating his arm to massaging the skin around his metal arm. Were freezes supposed to burn? (And ow, it hurt to touch).

"We heard that you might be in trouble, so we came to help out," Katou said. "I don't know why Jenny kept picking a fight after she found out you were okay though." He frowned. "You've got a cut on your forehead, by the way. Does it hurt?"

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

In the craziness, Elle had forgotten about the cut. She touched it gingerly. "I'll be fine," she said.

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"I figured you would be," Katou said, shrugging. "You should probably still pay the first aid centre a visit. It might scar, and you face doesn't need a scar."

[elle-sparks.livejournal.com]

That earned Katou a little smile. "Fair enough," Elle said. "I'll see about swinging by."

[centuryjenny.livejournal.com]

Jenny, meanwhile, managed to go substantial just in time to land on her arse in the fountain in Tomorrowland. She frowned, patted her pockets, and pulled out a now damp carton of cigarettes.

"Fucking hell," she muttered, and then took out the least damp of the cigarettes, held the lighter to the end until it finally took, and sat smoking for about a minute. After that, she kept the cigarette in her mouth, jumped back into the power lines, and reformed from the lightbulb of a lamp near the battle.

"Are you all right?" Jenny asked Katou. "Because I need a fag. You don't smoke some bloody Japanese shit, do you?"

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine, thanks for the concern," Katou said, his voice laced very lightly with sarcasm. His skin around his arm still burned, but that would probably go away.

"Yeah, when I lived in Japan, I smoked Japanese shit. Now that I live here, I smoke what's available." He produced a pack of smokes from his pocket. "Here. How was the ride?"

[centuryjenny.livejournal.com]

Jenny looked sadly at the label, plucking a cigarette from his pack. She smoked pretty cheap, horrible cigarettes, but they were cheap horrible English cigarettes. Anything else wasn't the same. Still, she tossed her useless damp cigarette aside, lit the borrowed one, and took a deep drag with only a slight grimace.

"Fantastic, can we go again?" she replied sarcastically. "Should've just fried his brain if I was gonna get fountained anyway." She blew out a cloud of smoke, and then said "How's the arm? Bloody stupid of you, letting him get a hit in."

This was about as close to concern as Katou was going to get, so he might as well appreciate it.

[katoustheshit.livejournal.com]

Katou shrugged. "I've had worse," he said. Which really should've been obvious seeing as he was missing an arm. "It burns like a motherfucker, but I'm sure it'll be fine. Anyway, if your enemy gets a few good hits in and thinks your down for the count, they let their guard down." Katou knows that much. He's been thrown from cliffs and had blades through his stomach and no matter what happens, people always looked surprised when he saved the day once again.

[centuryjenny.livejournal.com]

"The old 'meant to do that' excuse," Jenny said, grinning. "Got it. Need to run to the first aid station? Or would you rather try some of my special remedy?"