A Wild Mingle Appears

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Who: Crew of the S.S. Tourist + Visitors
Broadcast: N/A
Action: On the S.S. Tourist
When: Now, Drifting Week, through the month

[ Welcome, everyone, to the S.S. Tourist! Please enjoy your stay aboard out little ship - there's dinosaur meat courtesy of Allen and Sokka, at least four slugs (be careful, they're really Fenris' even if he won't say it), Winn's officially out of his comma, the coffee machine is behaving more or less (Kirk has poetry for you to sweet talk it if you need it). All aboard! ]

Comments

[winn]

Thanks, I'm still working on this one.

[ he raises the cup she gave him and takes another sip. soothing drinks have never been well, his cup of tea. he should be getting used to them, but caffeine. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Sorry. I guess getting drinks is a reflexive thing for me now, after working with Ms. Grant for so long.

[winn]

[ he shakes his head with a smile. ]

No, it's nice. Thank you.

[takingkarabusiness]

I really do like working with her.

Well, if she'd get off of the whole me-as-Supergirl thing.

[winn]

And the meanness. [ muttered over the rim of his cup. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

She really is a good person, you know. She's not like that all the time...

[winn]

Lowly IT guys don't get to see a whole lot of anything else.

[takingkarabusiness]

I have faith you'll see more of her good side.

[winn]

You have...a lot of faith. She's different with you, she likes you.

[takingkarabusiness]

She doesn't not like you. She's almost learned your name.

She's still working on mine.

[winn]

She knows your name. It's an act, and the fact that she's bothering to keep it up proves you're special.

[takingkarabusiness]

How do you figure?

[winn]

How do I figure? She runs a media empire, she remembers obscene amounts of information and complicated foreign names, and yet when James and I tell her "Kara's out because of this and that" she still makes sure not to say it right. If that weren't on purpose she'd get it right every once in a while, especially seconds after hearing it.

[takingkarabusiness]

I think she does that with you, too, though.

[winn]

Kara, she barely has any interaction with me, replace me with a plant that's good at code and she wouldn't know the difference.

[takingkarabusiness]

This might be a time discrepancy thing.

[winn]

How so? [ tilting his head and frowning curiously ]

[takingkarabusiness]

I think I just remember more times we've all had to work together.

But I could just have the wrong read on the situation.

[winn]

I mean, we work together sometimes, but I don't know she'd even notice if another IT person took my place, so long as they're competent.

[takingkarabusiness]

You remember the email leaks, right?

[winn]

Yeah, we were a pretty badass team up.

[ he smiles, but then shakes his head. ]

But I'm not who she credits for that.

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, yeah, but you were involved.

[winn]

Yeah but she doesn't know how much, or that not any IT guy at CatCo could or would do that for her. As far as she's concerned I was probably just doing you a favor. It's fine I don't...care, I don't want the spotlight. The more face of IT I become, the meaner she gets.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ huff. SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO BE NICE, WINN ]

If you say so.

[winn]

[ he knows, but he's trying not to get his hopes up here, ok. readjusting to home is going to be hard enough after basically working for himself all this time. ]

I've got team Supergirl for my daily dose of appreciation, I'm good.