"Hey, this is Joker. Leave a message and I might get back to you. Unless you're trying to sell me something or I really just don't feel like talking to you-- in that case, take a hint and quit calling me."
[Gunny was never good at hide and seek or sneaking around or anything of the sort]
[So when she tries to get aboard the Normandy without her brother noticing? She knows it's a hopeless cause, but she tries anyway. Maybe she thinks she actually has a chance, ooorrr maybe she actually wants to get caught and get the inevitable yelling over and done with. After all, she did spend most of the day running around the ship and doing her best to stay wherever she knows her brother won't go]
[She visibly cringes as the airlock opens, fully expecting him to be there, waiting]
[The external cameras caught her as she approached the ship, and by the time she got up to it, Joker's omnitool had already been pinged and he was at the airlock, waiting.]
[He was not happy.]
[He was not happy at all.]
[When the airlock opened, Joker's pissed off face was the first thing she'd see.]
[And like any good mom voice, it stops her right in her tracks, although she doesn't dare turn around just yet. Not when she has a chance to make a break for the crew quarters]
Maybe now wouldn't be a good time... I mean... um...
[Because then he can close the door and even if someone comes aboard, they won't be bothered. And also they probably won't hear the inevitable yelling.]
[YOUR BROTHER IS THE ALL-SEEING GOD OF YOUR UNIVERSE no he's just always trying to keep an eye on his truant kid sister.]
Mind telling me why you thought that attendance didn't apply to you anymore? Because maybe it's just me getting forgetful in my old age, but I'm pretty sure we already had this conversation before. So there must've been something in that previous discussion that wasn't made real clear to you.
Okay look, look... I, um, I already wasn't really going in before we talked, and I figured that going in after wouldn't really help, so... I just figured I could go back later and start over. And it wasn't like they were teaching me anything good, anyway.
And since I've been working with Lady Une with that secretary job on weekends, I thought that, um, maybe I could just do that full-time instead. It'd probably be more helpful money wise, and then I won't be doing busy work when I got home, and then we could focus on my flight lessons and stuff.
[It would be really nice if, for once, Gunny would actually listen to the words that come out of his mouth.]
You seem to have forgotten this thing where you're fifteen and your job is to go to class. So here's what's gonna happen: you don't go to school, you don't fly. And if you keep not going, I'm gonna have to have a talk with Une, and then you're gonna have all sorts of time to do your schoolwork. Are we clear?
[She was at a high school on a space station where there was vastly different technology, they had to be teaching something that she hadn't heard before.]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 01:04 am (UTC)[Gunny was never good at hide and seek or sneaking around or anything of the sort]
[So when she tries to get aboard the Normandy without her brother noticing? She knows it's a hopeless cause, but she tries anyway. Maybe she thinks she actually has a chance, ooorrr maybe she actually wants to get caught and get the inevitable yelling over and done with. After all, she did spend most of the day running around the ship and doing her best to stay wherever she knows her brother won't go]
[She visibly cringes as the airlock opens, fully expecting him to be there, waiting]
Re: [ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 01:54 am (UTC)[He was not happy.]
[He was not happy at all.]
[When the airlock opened, Joker's pissed off face was the first thing she'd see.]
Re: [ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 02:03 am (UTC)[At least she looks appropriately ashamed as she tries to kind of sliiiiiide on past Joker]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 02:28 am (UTC)[He has the mom-voice going in full force. It's like the parental equivalent of dropping a tactical nuke.]
Don't you even think about going anywhere. We're gonna have a talk.
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 02:32 am (UTC)Maybe now wouldn't be a good time... I mean... um...
[Nope. She's got nothing.]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 02:37 am (UTC)[Nope, not having any of it. The two of you are going to talk and that's final, young lady.]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 02:38 am (UTC)[slooooooooooooowwwly]
[Gunny also looks like she's fully expecting a can of whoop-ass to open right in her face]
Yessir.
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 02:40 am (UTC)[Because then he can close the door and even if someone comes aboard, they won't be bothered. And also they probably won't hear the inevitable yelling.]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 02:51 am (UTC)[But Gunny's pretty well trained in that area, too-- she knows if she disobeys now, there's going to be hell to pay later]
[So, with her head hung low, she shuffles on over to the helm]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 03:07 am (UTC)So.
[There's a moment where he stares her down, and dammit, you'd better look ashamed, Hilary Moreau.]
You want to tell me what's going on?
[This is your chance to try to explain yourself; use it wisely.]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 03:16 am (UTC)[Gunny wrings her hands before murmuring something unintelligible that may or may not be a confession of guilt]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 03:48 am (UTC)[You aren't getting out of it by mumbling and looking sad.]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 03:50 am (UTC)[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 03:54 am (UTC)[YOUR BROTHER IS THE ALL-SEEING GOD OF YOUR UNIVERSE no he's just always trying to keep an eye on his truant kid sister.]
Mind telling me why you thought that attendance didn't apply to you anymore? Because maybe it's just me getting forgetful in my old age, but I'm pretty sure we already had this conversation before. So there must've been something in that previous discussion that wasn't made real clear to you.
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 03:59 am (UTC)And since I've been working with Lady Une with that secretary job on weekends, I thought that, um, maybe I could just do that full-time instead. It'd probably be more helpful money wise, and then I won't be doing busy work when I got home, and then we could focus on my flight lessons and stuff.
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 04:19 am (UTC)[It would be really nice if, for once, Gunny would actually listen to the words that come out of his mouth.]
You seem to have forgotten this thing where you're fifteen and your job is to go to class. So here's what's gonna happen: you don't go to school, you don't fly. And if you keep not going, I'm gonna have to have a talk with Une, and then you're gonna have all sorts of time to do your schoolwork. Are we clear?
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 04:28 am (UTC)[FOOT STAMP]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 05:18 am (UTC)That doesn't change anything.
[
PECKING ORDER][ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 05:21 am (UTC)[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 05:30 am (UTC)[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-10 12:13 pm (UTC)I'm saying that they're not teaching me anything good, and that it'd be better if I'm doing something useful instead!
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-14 01:44 am (UTC)[She was at a high school on a space station where there was vastly different technology, they had to be teaching something that she hadn't heard before.]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-14 02:08 am (UTC)[SASSY SULKING]
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-14 02:14 am (UTC)Yeah. You can go.
[ACTION]
Date: 2012-12-14 02:20 am (UTC)[STOMPING ALL THE WAY]
[Okay it's not stomping so much as huffy walking but still she's being a teenager]