Crossroads potential!

[pants_are_overrated]

-1-

[Totally normal place to run into Gray. The library, the guild hall, at a restaurant, wherever. The only odd or memorable thing about this encounter is that he's in his underwear and his clothes are lying in a heap on the floor next to him.]

Oh, hey what's up?

-2-

[Gray is walking back towards his tent among the Hounds looking very disgruntled. He's covered in soot, and it looks like his eyebrows have been mostly singed off. He grumbles as he walks by.]

Stupid dirty cheating dragon slayer and is stupid firebreath and rocket boosters, just because he was raised by a dragon he thinks he's so great and can toss people around like...

[And so on and so on and so on.]

-3-

[Oh no you did NOT just diss on Gray's friends/guild. The ambient temperature in the room just dropped ten degrees. No it's not just a chill running down your spine, it's actually getting colder.]

Take.

It.

Back.

Comments

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[strong_heart]

[Library, let's go with library. Chihiro's not the type to be scandalized, but flustered? Flustered Gray can swing. Maybe even a little distraught.]

Um, why... your clothes are... th-this is a public place...!

[pants_are_overrated]

What's wrong with my clothes?

[strong_heart]

You should be... wearing them... in a place like this...

[pants_are_overrated]

I should...what?

[He looks down]

Crap!

[Now getting dressed again.]

[strong_heart]

O-oh, I'm sorry! I thought you knew!

[pants_are_overrated]

I just lose track, sometimes. You can't expect someone to know where their pants are ALL the time, can you?

[strong_heart]

Well... couldn't you feel the draft? And how did they fall off without your noticing... It just doesn't make much sense.

[pants_are_overrated]

Cold doesn't really bother me. I probably just took them off without thinking about it.

[strong_heart]

Could... you maybe try not to do that? N-not that I want to tell you what to do...

[pants_are_overrated]

Eh, I'll try but it's such a pain to remember.

[strong_heart]

I'm sorry... You don't have to do it if it's too inconvenient...

3

[kingcicle]

What? I just said they sounded like nerds.

[pants_are_overrated]

[Well okay there's one guy who probably wouldn't even notice the drop in temperature.]

A weird old guy like you has got no right calling anyone from Fairy Tail a nerd!

[kingcicle]

Hey, I'm not old! I'm young and hip just as... someone who's actually cool, not you though. Maybe just a little weird, but who ever said a cool guy has to be normal? Eh?

[pants_are_overrated]

You smell like someone's grandpa and wear a blue smock. Not hip.

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[forhishappiness]

[ SUP GRAY.

I BET YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THAT BACK EVERYWHERE.

It looks like she hasn't heard you yet! ]

[pants_are_overrated]

And that muffler looks so stu...pid...

[No way that can't be...

All complaining forgotten he's running after her.]

Hey wait up!

[forhishappiness]

[ Who the hell is making that noise....?

She turns at the voice, ready to yell at them to be quiet, when she stares at the guy for a bit.

No way.... ]

... Gray? Is that... you?

[ She had much accepted that she was alive again as a human, but to see her student now was still a surprise. ]

[pants_are_overrated]

UR!

[It IS her! Ur finds herself locked up in a bear hug from her former student.]

[forhishappiness]

[ Oh, well. Bear hugs are cool for her too. In other situation, she would complain a bit about the hugging thing in public, but it would be a lie if she were to say that she didn't miss him too. ]

You've grown up so much. I'm happy to see you again, kid.