Prayer of the Refugee
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Chapter o14
They played a good ten rounds before Toad started letting him win. TecH, determined he was just finally getting the hang of 'Mortal Kombat', started cheering himself on. He grinned at the Brit who only managed a grimace in response. He'd conceded to eating lunch with the kid too, although they returned to the garage for that. TecH chattered endlessly and Toad said nothing at all which didn't matter much. TecH just wanted someone to listen.
When the ceaseless chattered started to wear on him, he cut the teen off and said he was going to his room for a bit and he'd be back later. Like when his growing migraine wore off, though he didn't tell him that 'd no sooner laid out on the bed that Natalya appeared in his doorway. He went to voice his annoyance, but any heat towards her blightent disregard for someone's privacy dissipated when he saw what she held. She grinned at him, setting the wine bottles and glasses down on his nightstand.
"Wot's the occasion?" he asked, mildly curious.
"Your finishing up the work on the jet," she chirped.
"That's bull, s'not even done yet," he snapped, "'Sides, tha's jist chore work."
She popped the first bottle open, "Your right of course. This is really a think you for finally dragging TecH out of his cave," she winked at him, "That and I have really been fishing for an excuse to drink this."
As she reached for a glass to pour it in, his tongue deftly snatched the bottle from her grasp and deposited it in his own hands. Grinning devilishly, he took a long drink.
Had he really just tried to be funny? "That is not the way one appreciates good wine," she chided.
"Maybe not, but we got four more bottles and I'm sure somewhere 'long tha' line I'll start appreciatin' it."
She left him to it and opened another bottle, ignoring the glasses. Much to his amusement, he noticed her grip was white-knuckled around the bottle.
"Or maybe I don care cause I like annoyin' ya."
"Well that is too bad, because I, sir, am not feeling annoyed in the least."
"Buggar it then, I tried," he took another long swig and she mirrored the action. "S'gettin that TecH kid outta the basement really a big deal?"
"Sort of... he never leaves. Short of ordering him to, I have never gotten him to come out, myself."
"Why?"
"Why what? Why will he not or why is it important?" He only inclined his head slightly in answer. "Well, TecH is not exactly... popular. In fact, most people are really unnerved by him. He can magnetize metals, but he repels people."
Mort certainly hadn't found anything to dislike about the kid except that he talked way too much, and part of that was just from being alone all the time. He, himself, had never been much of a chatterbox, but he could more or less understand. Time with a lot that needed to be told and no one to tell it to, he'd just buried it all so deep it couldn't claw it's way back up.
"He needs someone, I go visit him, but I have a lot to do generally in the coarse of a day. besides, he needs someone he can relate to. I don't know anything about baseball or any of that mechanical equipment down there and that's all he knows. I tried getting into the sport, at least tried to grasp it, but I will admit that I failed spectacularly. TecH... he had a really hard life before coming here... he needs a friend."
She was quiet for a long moment. "He at least needs someone besides Loki."
"Loki... she's that strange one, not all there."
Natalya gave a short bark of a laugh at that given the one who had said it. When it came to crazy people, the brit had little room to talk. "No, she's the thorn in my side, the bane of my existence, the demon sent from the bowls of hell itself to torment me," she took a long pull of wine at the end of this.
"Then kick 'er out."
"There would be no point; Loki is Loki. Se is like a-"
"Lemme guess, a 'force of nature'," he finished boredly, "Look, ya can still kick 'er out, force of Nature or no."
"You do not know Loki. And... in a weird way, I think there is a good reason for why she is here. Besides, without her, to many this place would not be the same, even if she so torments everyone. we are all so used to it it is routine i am sad to say."
Toad rolled his eyes; keeping that girl around for no reason other than her sabotage was 'routine' was idiocy.
They talked on an off for an hour, the less wine there was, the more talk there was. They actually went to Natalya's room for her store of vodka and did a few shots. Pretty soon she was sitting on his lap with her arm around his neck and they were singing.
Natalya's voice was strong, but not exactly pretty, and Toad's rough tenor did nothing to compliment it."Pej pivo na zarePej pivo pered snomPej pivo na travePej pivo za stolomPej pivo natoschakPej pivo so hmelyaPej pivo prosto takPej kak Avariya!Pej pivo!"
"Ya know, luv, we're not drinkin'... drinkin' beer.""I can't... I can't... you speak Russian?"Toad started laughing, "You said 'can't'." Even in his right fram of mind that would have been interesting to him he had not known the Russian girl to use any sort of laughed too, not quite knowing why, and leaned in to kiss him. He caught her lips eagerly, wrapping his arms tightly around her waist. She imeadiatly deepened the 'd never kissed a willing woman quickly picked her up and hobbled over to the bed, dropping her on it roughly. Looking back it would be surprising that he even made it to the bed on his cast. She caught his lips again and he tangled one hand in her hair, the other starting to travel all over her body. The Russian mimicked his actions and he didn't even flinch when she started to take off his black vest, he actually helped her. She then started after his shirt and he started in on quickly he grew flustered with the red garb and ripped it open, exposing her bare chest to him. The heat in his body rose immensely, and he cupped the finely sculpted globes, leaning back to admire them much to Natalya's protest. She pulled him onto the bed and he straddled her, again kissing her fiercely, but quite abruptly he got that in a tunnel feeling. Soon Natalya seemed very far away, then there was nothing.
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