RL with Mikaela: the 'Tieria's a Dick' club

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Nena was sat at the table, chin in her hands, staring at the cake.

He must have snuck in last night somehow and left it there. It didn't seem like the kind of thing someone who would pull a dick move like leaving right on your birthday would do. And plus, she was pretty sure he didn't even like her.

It was pink, and had pink writing, and some kind of sparkling sprinkles on it. It was exactly the sort of cake Nena would have wanted, if she'd gotten one herself. It even had strawberry ice cream in.

But he didn't even like her.

And so she sat there, confused and upset and angry, glaring at the cake as if she was going to set it on fire with her eyes.

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One more bite and she threw the fork down on the table, looking sick. "It isn't even good any more," she grumbled. Haro, apparently tired of being left alone, flapped his way into the room, still talking about how much trouble she was going to be in; she picked the fork up again and tossed it at him halfheartedly. "If you're going to be a jerk go away, I'm not in the mood!"

She scowled down at the table then, a new thought in her mind. "Why her? I'm better at programming than she is and he likes you, so why her?"

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Mikaela turned to look at Haro, but she wasn't really seeing him, just kind of responding to intrusion. She frowned as she turned to face Nena again, jerking her own fork out for one last bite before laying it down on the table.

"I don't know," she muttered, running one hand through her hair. "I'm sure he's got some stupid reason for it that he thinks makes sense." Her frown turned into a scowl. "One he won't bother to tell us unless we drag it out of him."

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"He never tells anyone anything," she grumped, her chin in her hands again. "He's got a stick up his ass and he doesn't tell anyone anything, even if they need to know." She scowled at the repetition of what she'd already said, but bitching was easier than accepting that she was upset. "Doesn't it just make you want to smash things?"

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"Sounds about right," Mikaela muttered, poking at the fork with one fingers, pushing it around the tabletop. She nodded her scowl baring teeth now. "It kinda does, yeah. Or at least smack him around a little, until he understands that he can't do shit like this to people who care about him!"

Mikaela had no problem accepting that she was upset, clearly.

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She swung her feet, staring at the table. "...People who care about him, huh?"

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Mikaela looked up, brows furrowed. "...Yeah. Well, I mean, I do, anyway..."

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"...He totally doesn't trust me, and-- he shot us down once, you know? He took over our Gundams and would have taken us all out. And he has like no sense of humor about anything I do. And he's always yelling at me for saying too much..." An unspoken 'but' dangled at the end of her sentence, as she avoided looking at Mikaela.

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Mikaela listened quietly, not saying anything, just watching Nena through half-lidded eyes. "That's just the way he is," she said quietly, when she was done. "Y'know? He's...a jerk, and sometimes it seems like he doesn't care when he's all wrapped up in what he's doing, but that's...

"Tieria," she finished with a shrug, her lips pressed into a thin, unhappy line.

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"He would have killed us," she started again, but unenthusiastically; even she knew that he wasn't the same person he had been, that the past seven or eight months had made all the difference in the world.

Changing tracks, she narrowed her eyes and said, "If you ever tell anyone that I'm moping over cake because of Tieria, you'll be sorry! It's just because I want to go back too, got it?"

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Mikaela was quick to hold up both hand, palms out in a hopefully reassuring gesture. "I won't tell anybody," she said solemnly, "I promise. There's no one who can blame you for being pissed about wanting to go home and being left behind, right? That's all it was."

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"Right. Exactly." She nodded, then looked down at the cake again. "Ugh, I don't want any more of this, we've already eaten like half!"

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"You wanna put it back in the freezer?" Mikaela asked, looking down at it too (and trying her best not to think about what she'd have to do to work all those calories off. She didn't regret it in the slightest). "The ice cream might melt if we leave it out too long..."

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"Yeah." She put the cover back on and shoved it in the freezer, too impatient to move anything out of the way to make room first. Leaning against the door with a sigh, she looked back down the hallway. "Do you think Cross would let me off the hook for cleaning my room if we're being traumatized with grief here?"

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Mikaela couldn't help a chuckle, lips quirking in a wan smile. "I think he'd better," she said. "It'd be a dick move if he didn't."

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"Exactly!" she declared, back on the more comfortable ground of trying to be as spoiled as possible. "I trashed it because I was angry, I had good reason!"

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"You were emotionally distraught!" Mikaela added with a grin. "You can't be held responsible for your actions!"

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"Haro helped! He did like... an eighth of it!" She grinned as well, letting out a bit of a giggle in the way people do when they're completely burnt out on negative emotions and riding the wave of the slightly hysteric backlash.

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"Obviously, he should clean it up." Mikaela was in pretty much the same place--it wasn't really funny and didn't make any sense, but she was giggling too as she said, "'Cause he didn't wreck it enough, so he needs to make up for it my cleaning."

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"Hey, Haro!" Nena yelled, as she slid down the fridge to sit on the floor. "You've gotta clean up my room!" She dissolved into helpless giggles as a burst of electronic swears came down the hallway.

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The swears, definitely not expected when most of Mikaela's experience with Haros was with Lockon's adorable one, made her laugh, probably way harder than warranted. It was a good thing she was already in a chair, or she might have doubled over.

"Guess he doesn't like that idea too much, huh?" she asked between giggles.

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"He-- he doesn't like any-- anything too much! And he's gotten worse since he-- he watches Jerry Springer and MTV now--" she was nearly crying with laughter as Haro flew indignantly into the room; for some reason the entire situation was far more hilarious than it should have been.

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Okay, now Mikaela was in danger of falling out of her chair; the idea of a robot watching Springer and MTV was patently hilarious. She certainly couldn't imagine, like, Ratchet or Ironhide doing it; the image of Prime gravely watching hicks argue about paternity was enough to redouble her laughter.

"Oh god," she gasped. "Springer? R-really? At least they-- don't throw-- chairs anymore, right?"

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"They do sometimes!" she nearly shrieked. "For like a week he flew around the house going-- going-- You don't know me! You don't know me!" she imitated, "whenever anyone talked to him!"

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Mikaela drummed her hands against the table, absolutely overcome with hilarity. "Oh my god, I probably-- probably woulda punted him! Into a wall!" She made a 'whoosh' with one hand, pantomiming the hypothetical trajectory of said punt.

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"I did!" she said, before dissolving into helpless giggles. Haro hovered over the table, shouting Suck it! Suck it! as she managed to squeak out, "He's prac-- practically indestructible, so--"