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"...Jed, I distinctly remember telling you to stop talking five minutes ago, and yet here we are and you're still gabbing."
He smirked, lazily. "Drives you crazy, doesn't it?"
"No, he drives me crazy." Kaidy jerked her thumb at Martin - who valiantly tried and failed not to look surprised - then pointed back at Jed, nearly prodding him in his barrel chest. "You just piss me off. I broke your nose the first time I met you: either shut the hell up right now, or next time it'll be your jaw."
Jed* finally subsided into a sulky silence, tossing his ginger ponytail in a way that would have made any number of shampoo models distinctly envious; Kaidy ignored him and turned back to the rest of the group, supremely disdainful. "So, now that that's all settled... Drinks?"
*Josiah 'Jed' Robinson is another ex-RAF pilot, although he was a lot junior to Kaidy (not that she knew him when they were in the RAF, but). One of the other pilots in his squadron, Barnabas, got kicked out later on in the purging for reasons that no-one's ever been able to make clear -- they've just kind of put it down to 'gratuitous weirdness', since Barnabas makes Martin look like the president of the United States when it comes to social skills, but possibly also for not being straight, although he might as well be asexual for all they actually know -- and Jed basically went with him because "someone has to look after the stupid bastard, he'll never take care of himself" (Jed's phrasing). They found their way to the Underground and now their principal occupations in life are to give Kaidy more reasons to drink and to test her grip on her temper. And, possibly, to sleep together -- no-one really knows, but there's been a lot of speculation.
He smirked, lazily. "Drives you crazy, doesn't it?"
"No, he drives me crazy." Kaidy jerked her thumb at Martin - who valiantly tried and failed not to look surprised - then pointed back at Jed, nearly prodding him in his barrel chest. "You just piss me off. I broke your nose the first time I met you: either shut the hell up right now, or next time it'll be your jaw."
Jed* finally subsided into a sulky silence, tossing his ginger ponytail in a way that would have made any number of shampoo models distinctly envious; Kaidy ignored him and turned back to the rest of the group, supremely disdainful. "So, now that that's all settled... Drinks?"
*Josiah 'Jed' Robinson is another ex-RAF pilot, although he was a lot junior to Kaidy (not that she knew him when they were in the RAF, but). One of the other pilots in his squadron, Barnabas, got kicked out later on in the purging for reasons that no-one's ever been able to make clear -- they've just kind of put it down to 'gratuitous weirdness', since Barnabas makes Martin look like the president of the United States when it comes to social skills, but possibly also for not being straight, although he might as well be asexual for all they actually know -- and Jed basically went with him because "someone has to look after the stupid bastard, he'll never take care of himself" (Jed's phrasing). They found their way to the Underground and now their principal occupations in life are to give Kaidy more reasons to drink and to test her grip on her temper. And, possibly, to sleep together -- no-one really knows, but there's been a lot of speculation.
