walk it off.

“Obviously you, you overdone cumpkin.”

"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."

                                             Independent Zaeed Massani roleplayer.

                                                              Mass Effect.  

“That’s your first assumption? Is that I need something?” she asked with her bestest incredulous voice. It was really good. For her, that was. …which meant it was best saved for amateur theater class. “I’m hurt. Truly. Deep down here.” Her middle and index finger tapped some area below her rib cage. Where… maybe the hurt would have been. “What if maybe - just maybe- I caught a whiff of your old ass and thought, ‘There’s a fuckhead I haven’t seen in some time. Boy, he loved to rattle of stories about that piece of shit trophy he carries around. For hours. And hours.’“

She paused. And knitted her brows together.

“I see your point. …anyway, I thought you went off somewhere to die. Tropical… or some shit. You know, after you retired. Again. …third or fourth time?”

    “Well, I mean why the hell else would you be bothering me?” Zaeed replied, raising one eyebrow and cocking his head to the side in curiosity.  Though he wouldn’t admit it, Zaeed actually enjoyed chatting with those that he’d met aboard the Normandy.  After having lived years and years fending for himself and constantly watching his back, it was nice to have a place to sit back and breathe.  And well, breathing meant making some friends along the way.

    A low scoff fell from Zaeed’s lips, his mismatched eyes glancing at the smart-ass move Jack had made with her middle finger.  He shamelessly raised his right hand and raised his own middle finger in response, a satisfied smirk forming across his expression.

    “Y’know, Jack, you can’t say shit about my stories, cause I know you like to talk people’s fuckin’ heads off too,” he said, laughing softly, folding his arms over his chest.  “...Tch, yeah, retirement...seems like I can never get away from the danger, follows me everywhere, but I got a beach-side place down in Australia now, back on Earth.”