boosted_gold (boosted_gold) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2010-04-01 22:01:00

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Where There's Blue, Gold Is Never Far Behind
A certain gold-clad figure is tapping at Dinah Kord's bedroom window. As soon as he got his Dad's gear done field-testing, and Mom had laid down the ground rules, he had only one place he wanted to be.

And here he was.

"Psssst.... Dinah!"

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Re: Ice Cream

boosted_gold
2010-04-02 10:02 pm UTC (link)

Trying to decipher the cryptic text of 'Frankie say: Relax' on his borrowed sweatshirt did not deter Riley from enjoying his waffle cone packed full with mint cookie crumble ice cream.

"Apology accepted." He sits down next to her. "Heroes have to be able to take criticism."

He's puzzling over something in his mind, it having kicked up in his brain in the time it took them to get to the ice cream parlor.

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	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-02 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	Dinah gave Riley a funny look. "You've got your thinking face on, Kimosabe. I can practically smell the smoke." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-02 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm trying to pin down exactly when it was your dad didn't want me in your room with the door closed anymore." He scratched his head. It was almost as if Ted thought... no, no of course not. Dinah would never... well certainly not with him. But if not with him, then-- //ABORT SEQUENCE// Riley shrugged and worked on his ice cream. "Good ice cream." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-02 10:34 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, something was definitely going on under that green hair. But what? "Around after I turned thirteen, I think," Dinah said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-02 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, sometime around then I think." Riley puzzles over that as he works on his ice cream. "Dad never worried about us in my room." "Nice shot with the laser before, by the way." He was still seeing the occasional spot. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-02 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, well, you're his son. I'm a daughter," Dinah said. "Parents worry more about girls." She grinned, though she said, "Really sorry about that." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-02 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	Riley smiled and nodded. "I guess." He shakes his head. "You were right, I surprised you." He lowers his voice, bashfully. "You could have been naked." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-02 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh no, you don't!" Dinah said suddenly. "You stop thinking about that right now or I will put you in a headlock!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-02 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	He yelps and practically falls off the bench, making sure to protect his ice cream. "I wasn't imagining you naked!" And threatening to put him in a headlock would be counter-productive if he's not supposed to be thinking about her body. Stop that! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-02 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	Dinah kept up her serious look for a minute, before relenting. "...I'll believe you. This time." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-02 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	After a false start, Riley sits back down, watching her. Dinah had a tendency to strike once your guard was down. He noticed they were both through their first scoop of their respective cones. He held up his, offering their traditional halfway-through-swap. Even back when they'd both believed in 'cooties', ice cream had always been immune to such quarantines. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-02 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	Dinah had gone through a bit of a boys are icky phase, progressed just to cooties, and then quickly got over it when she'd realized for some reason that Riley would do just about anything she told him to do. She nodded and they swapped cones. "You hear Petra's got the NY branch of Warriors up and going again?" she asked. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-02 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, Mister Gardner's taken the whole thing international. The NYC place is a bar and restaurant now. Haven't met up with her, but she e-mailed me to say she's joining the League." He tries some of the rocky road, finding it to his liking. "She also apparently threw a whole meta-brawl out into the streets, good guys and bad guys alike." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-02 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	She giggled at that. "Oh, that must have been awesome!" Dinah thought for a moment, then got a mischievous grin on her face. "We should go visit some time. And then prank her." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-02 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	Riley blinks, then he's all like 0.o "Is... is pranking the girl as big as me that could freeze us inside my force-field really the best option? Maybe just filling out really weird feedback on whatever the receipt is?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-02 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Aw, what's the worst that could happen?" she teased. "What're you, chicken?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-03 12:01 am UTC (link)
	Riley turns his chin up, but brings it down so he can keep eating ice cream. "I am totally secure in my sense of bravery and masculinity, so not only will I say I'm not chicken, but I'll also tell you that's not going to work." Hopefully she won't remember what will work. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-03 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Are you kidding? She's practically got a photographic memory. She made woobie-eyes. "Pleeeease? It'll be fun. I promise." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-03 12:47 am UTC (link)
	Nooo! Not the woobie-eyes! His only weakness! "Well... as long as it doesn't turn out like the time Uncle J'onn babysat us... His resolve is crumbling like play-doh left out of the canister. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-03 12:49 am UTC (link)
	"No fires. And no escaped zoo animals. I promise." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-03 01:02 am UTC (link)
	"The hippo was very upset." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-03 01:14 am UTC (link)
	"Uncle J'onn got them all back in their cages, didn't he?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-03 01:17 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, he did, but that's not really the point..." Eventually, with the help of the ice cream, and the fact that it'll make Dinah happy, he shakes off his worries about the fallout, and grins at her. "So, what grade prank are we talking?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream bwa_ha_ha 2010-04-03 01:29 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, this is a Grade A prank, if I do say so myself." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Ice Cream boosted_gold 2010-04-03 01:36 am UTC (link)
	"What kind of supplies we going to need? Shaving cream? Balloons? Designer underwear?" He starts preparing a mental list of their travel options to Manhattan as well. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)