Disclaimer: Do I have to? Fine, I'll say it. I do not own AVP.


Revenge


Scar walked into Grid's apartment. He looked at the wall. There was a long patch of hardened clay-like material spread in a roughly vertical line. It was the patch for the damage to the wall from last week's ambush. Grid had obviously not repainted that particular section of wall yet.

Lex, who had arrived earlier, and Grid were sitting on the couch playing video games. Lex looked up when Scar entered. So did Grid, but his attention immediately returned to the TV screen after acknowledging Scar's presence.

"Hey, Lex, when did you get here?"

"About twenty minutes ago," Lex answered while still manipulating the game controller in her hands.

The television announced the end to a race. The two had been racing against each other while waiting for Scar to arrive.

Grid growled in frustration. "How do you keep winning!?"

"That's my secret," Lex taunted back at him.

Grid sighed and looked up at Scar. "Did you get it?"

Scar held up a DVD case. "Fresh off the shelf."

Lex jumped up off the couch. "I'll get snacks!" she announced and ran into the kitchen. Her head appeared in the doorway a moment later. "Grid, where'd you hid the popcorn this time?"

"It's in the far left cabinet," he said without looking back at her.

Scar proceeded to remove the plastic covering and pieces of tape that held the DVD case shut. At least, he tried to. When he was on the verge of just tearing into the aggravating plastics with a high chance of destroying the disk inside, Grid took it from him and used a claw to carefully cut the tape and plastic away and open the unharmed case to reveal the shiny and also-unharmed disk. He put it in the DVD player and set the TV to the right channel. Scar fell into the middle of the couch (what the hell? it isn't his couch Grid thought, mildly irritated) and Lex returned with snacks and cups and a bottle of soda (the big kind). After depositing the supplies on the table in front of the couch, she flicked a light switch on the wall and sat next to Scar on the couch. The movie began.

About three quarters of the way through, Grid got paused the movie and got up, taking the three empty glasses and the empty soda bottle into the kitchen. He opened the other soda bottle in the fridge and refilled all three glasses. Then he took a pack of plain white Tic-tacs and poured them all into Scar's drink. This is part of Grid's revenge on Scar. He would have done it to Lex, too, but she had, oddly enough, liked the combination of tic-tacs and soda the last time it was done to her, so he did not. He knew Scar hated tic-tacs with a passion, which is why he chose to do this.

Grid returned to the living room and placed each cup in front of its owner, being careful to give Scar the doctored cup. The movie resumed playing.

Scar ruined the climax of the movie. He had finally taken a sip of his soda and found it tasted disgusting. He started coughing when he regretfully swallowed the foul concoction, mandibles twisting awkwardly in an expression of disgust. Grid started laughing and Lex just looked at the two as if they were crazy.

"What…cough…did you do…cough…?" Scar directed at Grid.

"Tic-tacs," Grid said between hisses of laughter.

Scar recovered, growled, and launched himself at Grid. (How exactly you launch at the person sitting next to you—even if he's technically not a person but an alien—on a couch while sitting down yourself, I'm not sure, but Scar somehow managed.) The two males of differing species proceeded to wrestle on the floor (Scar's lunge had carried them both over the end of the couch). Lex ignored them and proceeded to watch the rest of the movie.

When the movie was over, the two were still tangled on the floor and growling at each other. Lex walked over to them and upended her still-full glass of soda on their heads, then proceeded to clean up the snack table while the two rose, spluttering.

That evening, Grid snuck into Scar's apartment. Scar was currently in Lex's apartment because he needed help to clean the sticky soda off of his dreadlocks. The warrior's apartment was . . . typical . . . and unique at the same time. There were the occasional skull trophies that yautja liked to collect, as well as a few assorted weapons and pieces of armor. The couch and TV weren't anything exciting (no wonder they always came to his apartment).

Grid implemented part two of his revenge on Scar. He went to the cabinet holding Scar's multitude of video games (he must have a lot of free time) and "misplaced" them around the apartment, then left.

Grid would have also sought revenge on Lex, but when he tried to sneak into her apartment, she caught him and beat him black and . . . more black. Grid was sent back to his apartment with his tail between his legs, chased by Scar's laughter and Lex's angry gaze.


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