Getting Luka's gun back

[blueondeck]

[Here I am again at your place, and this time for a reason. No happier though.

Might as well knock and get this over with]

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[trollininthedeep]

[Well, I figured one of you would show up or just break in and steal it.]

No 'please'?

[blueondeck]

[Break in and risk seeing whatever it is you do in your downtime? No thanks.]

Pirates don't say please.

[trollininthedeep]

[Or break in when I'm not home.]

True enough. I'll go get it. Feel free to come in if you'd like.

[blueondeck]

[I don't pay nearly enough attention to what you do to know when that is]

. . .

[Walking in, but only a little.]

[trollininthedeep]

[Standard meal time is a good bet.

There's not much to this main room in terms of personal possessions. Just a pile of books about earth culture and cooking on a table.]

[blueondeck]

[So he's reading about things like that. Personally I can't be surprised even if .. I kind of am.

Okay I'm really not doing anything else and it's not like the place is going to eat me ... I could walk in a little farther and see what the places looks like.]

[trollininthedeep]

[It looks like an old shinto shrine, not that either of them knows exactly what that is. But, drawing open one of the panels and coming back, the gokai gun in hand.]

Huh. I wasn't sure if I was going to see you awkwardly waiting at the door or not.

[blueondeck]

[I seriously debated it if it eases your mind.

Holds hand out for the gun]

[trollininthedeep]

[It means you trust me a little more to not do anything while you're in my house.]

What's that for?

[blueondeck]

[It means I need to remind myself that I don't and can't trust you.]

For the gun

[trollininthedeep]

I said I would get it, not that I was going to give it back.

[blueondeck]

[This I expected. I knew this wouldn't be an easy visit]

Hand it over.

[trollininthedeep]

What's in it for me if I do? That girl getting it back will just turn around and try to shoot me again.

[blueondeck]

That depends on what you have in mind. I can't stop her from wanting to shoot you.

[trollininthedeep]

But if I don't give the gun back, it doesn't matter how much she wants to shoot me.

[blueondeck]

There's other guns in the cabin. One missing wont stop her.

[trollininthedeep]

If there were other guns and this one didn't have significant meaning, then you wouldn't be here on her behalf trying to get it back.

[blueondeck]

It's still her gun so of course we're gonna come to get it back.

[trollininthedeep]

Still doesn't tell me how it helps me to give this back to her.

[blueondeck]

And I'm doubting you didn't have something already in mind knowing one of us would come for it.

[trollininthedeep]

I had a few ideas but, it truly depended on the person who showed up to take it back. Honestly, I was hoping it wasn't you.

[blueondeck]

You were waiting for her?

[trollininthedeep]

She bugged me. It would give me an excuse to hospitalize her for a long time if she actually tried to bully her way in here to get her gun back.

[blueondeck]

That reason's exactly why I'm the one that came.

[trollininthedeep]

And what are you expecting to do? Just accept whatever offer I give in order to get her gun back?

[blueondeck]

I was going to figure that out depending on what you said. In the end it looks like we both weren't prepared.

[trollininthedeep]

Seems like it. [Except I still have the gun so, I don't mind.]

[blueondeck]

Then I'll send Marvelous for it.

[trollininthedeep]

You think he'll do any better than you in getting this back?

[blueondeck]

I do.

[trollininthedeep]

[Not sure why you have this much confidence in your captain but, okay.]

Not that he ever wants to see me but, I guess I'll be expecting his upcoming visit.

[blueondeck]

He needs to heal first, but he'll be here.

[trollininthedeep]

Give him a day and a good meal, he'll be fine by tomorrow.

[blueondeck]

[You know very well none of us can cook... minus the tiny, annoying one]

I know.

[trollininthedeep]

[I don't know that the tiny annoying one can cook. You told me none of you could.]

Do you have enough food at your place?

[blueondeck]

For a person like Marvelous? probably not.

[trollininthedeep]

[Debating whether or not to give you some things from my food supply.

Nah.]

He's bound to be grumpy about that.

[blueondeck]

He'll live.

[trollininthedeep]

Yes but now you have to go home to tell him that you volunteered him to see me and tell that girl you didn't get her gun back.

[blueondeck]

If she wasn't a crewmate, I'd tell her to get it back herself because this is all stupid.

[trollininthedeep]

Her own fault for losing it. One of you need to teach her that pirates don't give a 10 second warning before shooting.