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presenting, rather belatedly as i have been out of town visiting family, drabble the twenty-eighth, which spawed completely from the first line while i was looking at some images in which Roy looked particularly cranky.
"You're not going to make any friends with an expression like that."
The words, and the arm slung companionably over his shoulders, were not only unexpected and unprecedented, but also unwelcome. "I am not trying to make friends." Roy snapped, not feeling at all patient or charitable that afternoon. He was tired of listening to inflated egos preen and the plain idiots attempt to make conversation. He jerked his shoulders back so as to remove the unwanted weight on his shoulders, and was more than a bit miffed to find his efforts thwarted by a rather forceful resistance.
"That's a shame, really. I enjoy making friends myself." The voice was heavy with a bizarre sort of humor as the arm tightened and then released, allowing Roy to whirl around and face his assailant. Pale eyes glittered with a sort of knowledge and acknowledgement for a moment behind square glasses before a more familiar jovial inanity reasserted itself. "Well, if you ever decide you would like something as frivolous as a friend, do let me know." The man saluted sloppily and sauntered off.
Roy watched him leave, his irritation replaced by contemplation. There had been a sort of recognition in the other man's eyes, an awareness of something in common. The smile, before it reverted to the full insanity that the man Maes was infamous for, held a certain sort of warmth, a genuine interest that ran deeper than lighthearted intent to meet and greet.
Something unfamiliar twitched at Roy's lips, the start of a bemused sort of smile, and he wondered if the older man liked brandy. Friends drank with each other after all, didn't they? It would be a start.
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