#isfogo

he doesn't wait for her to respond in kind before pulling out a bar stool and going to sit next to her. perhaps he should have, she looks miserable enough as is ━━━ point is, he doesn't. guy snorts, knowing there is no fire in her words. even if there was, he would probably still have laughed. bea is allowed to tell him to shut up: a rare privilege. he raises his hand to alert the bartender to the fact that he hasn't been serviced yet, despite sitting down just a moment ago. quite frankly, he could use a drink if their night was going to go the way he suspected it might. ( tora didn’t like him drinking. ) the apple didn't fall too far from the tree, but it fell far enough to matter.

HAD HE SLIPPED UP ?    perhaps,  depending  on  who  you  asked.  but  what  harm  could  it  really  have  to  talk  about  the  future ?    sure,  booster  had  to  watch  what  he  said  around  certain  people,  but  he  didn’t  really  think  TORA  would  try  and  break  the  current  timeline  just  to  hypothetically  save  a  fruit  from  going  extinct.      (  . . .  temporarily  extinct ?    she  was  right  about seed  banks,  after  all !  )      it  was  also  one  of  these  times  that  being   A  LAUGHING  STOCK  actually  helped  him.    no  one  ever  knew  when  he  was  serious  or  not  ━━━  time  travel  or  not.      (  ignore  the  fact  that  time  is  surprisingly  forgiving.    more  forgiving  than  21ˢᵗ-century  border  control,  at  least . . .    yes,  he  was  still  a  bit  upset  that  they’d  confiscated  his  bottle  of  50-dollar  shampoo.  )