Could you be more specific?

[spiritcrystal]

[Keeping Up With the Next Generation: An All-Purpose Guide to All That Stuff Those Kids From Other Regions Keep Talking About.

That's the name of the book Kris is reading in some weird and strangely specific library. Some other hits she sees in the shelves are How (Not) to Deal With Meddling Kids in Caps, It's Not All Black and White, The Series of Guys That Cramped My Style And Messed With My Social Life, and Hot Enemy Problems: Part 1.

But it's a large library. A huge library. The possibilities are endless... and very specifically tailored to everyone's needs.]

[ooc: Aaaand mingle post! Go ahead and comment/tag around!]

Comments

[illegalmarriage]

[...Stop it, Gold. Just stop it.]

Of course they do. Why wouldn't they?

[illegalteendad]

[no]

Well, think about it. How often are they tryin' to get you to stay in your office? Dragging you back and keeping their eyes on your moves? Do you really think they take you seriously enough to trust you that you know what you're doing? Doesn't sound like it to me, but what do I know. Ain't my family - if you can call it that with the way they act.

[gold makes a show of looking around too as he's talking, like he thinks someone's following them]

[illegalmarriage]

Yellow asks me to come out of my office with her sometimes. [A couple of times.] It's dangerous. There are people would like to see me dead. Probably even here. [Like that crazy other Gold heir guy that hurt Gold.] It's safer in my office.

Don't talk bout them like you know anything about them.

[illegalteendad]

I see what I see. [he shrugs] You've got your big gator and Sneasel's nothing to sneer at either, so you can handle yourself juuust fine. Anyone that'd try to hurt you'd find themselves in a real bad place real fast, right? Even without Yellow's help.

[so there's no need for their concern, is what he's getting at]

[illegalmarriage]

[...Well yes, but...

...]

[illegalteendad]

So there you go. What're they so worried about?

[the answer's pretty clear and hanging in the air

they're worried about silver leaving]

[illegalmarriage]

What, you've never been worried about someone you care about before?

[illegalteendad]

Of course! Of course I have been, I ain't heartless. But it's knowin' when they're good to go and when they're not, you know? Like... Like with you, I'm not too worried about you and all, but there're still times where...

[.... where he's worried? about what? he's struggling for a moment, a sick feeling in his stomach that he ends up shoving away the same time he drops his hands and puts them in his pockets instead

Manipulation is manipulation, was it?]

Anyway, of course I have. It's human to. But to their extent? Un-healthy.

[illegalmarriage]

I don't care. If I really wanted to get out of my office, I wouldn't let them stop me.

[...] Which is why I'm here.

[illegalteendad]

Then I'll trust no one's following you after all, except me. Where're we going? Back to the base?

[back to pushing him, though it's just on the back this time instead of holding his shoulders]

[illegalmarriage]

We aren't going anywhere. [He's... He's not sure where he's going, but he's shoving Gold off of him and heading somewhere without him.]

[illegalteendad]

[a part of him still wants to tag along because he hasn't made tons of progress on the front of getting silver off the bad side

but another's still making him think about other silver's words

hrrrrg

whatever he's stopping just gonna... call out yeah]

Hey.

[illegalmarriage]

[...A part of him wants to move on. Yellow's words echo in his ears.

Another part of him, well...

...He stops, but he doesn't turn around.]

What is it?

[illegalteendad]

What's eating at you?

[no sick feeling]

[illegalmarriage]

You.

[Does he really have to ask that question?

Does he even care?

One way or the other, it has to do with Gold.]

[illegalteendad]

I'm serious. I know I'm a thorn in your side. Trust me, that's part of my charm. Did somethin' happen to your family?

[he's starting towards him, but cautiously

like one would do a stray animal]

[illegalmarriage]

I mean it.

[...]

You talk to me and drag me into things just to persuade me. You're causing me a lot of trouble.

[illegalteendad]

[persuade's a nice word too

it sounds nice than manipulate

-- which he's not doing frick

also these words seem pretty familiar like he's heard the last part somewhere]

So why not get someone to take care of me if I'm such trouble? And it's not like I lasso and drag you along on anything either.

[part of it is your own want, dude]

1/2

[illegalmarriage]

I don't want to see you killed, stupid. I just-

[illegalmarriage]

[...We

we are not having this conversation]

[illegalteendad]

[... oh man, it's true

what that depressing silver said was true

he's not sure how to feel

seriously what

they're enemies and silver constantly reminds him of that and yet he doesn't want to see him killed]

That's not very Team Rocket of you, Silver. [back to teasing, it's easier and safer] You're pretty bad at being bad aren't you?

[illegalmarriage]

[That's not it. That's not it.]

I can defeat you without having you killed. You're not even worth killing.

[illegalteendad]

Just sooounds like someone's got a soft heart to me.

[he knows that's not it but he wants to see how far he can push before he's bitten

he's stopping a foot from him, hands still in his pockets

so relaxed on the outside but clenching and unclenching his fits on the inside]

[illegalmarriage]

[What does he have to do to get Gold to back off?

...What's gonna happen if he does back off? He'll punch him, Gold will punch back, they'll fight until they're black and blue and Silver will retreat to his office before the cycle re...

...

Gold, why-]

[illegalmarriage]

[Why are you so close to him back up--]