.067 - this is how captains spend their holidays

[captain_jtkirk]

Since it is a holiday and while I respect it, I don't celebrate or observe it. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a game of chess. Or any other quiet type of recreation if you can think of something better.

[Private to Shego]

Let's talk.

[ooc; this is the type of chess Kirk plays. But. He also lets people win because it's hard.]

Comments

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

Is it the day job or the going home part that you like better? Be honest and you can only pick one.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

The going home part. Obviously. And it doesn't even need to be home. I would accept an 'anywhere but here' part.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

You wanna go to the CES sometime? It's not that great but it's the best I can do.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Aren't you supposed to be telling me I could have real, actual freedom if I quit being such a bad person?

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I don't think you're a bad person and I figured you didn't want to hear it regardless.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. If I'm not a bad person then why don't I have your job?

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

And you suddenly think I'm a good person?

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

No, I think you're a sexist, arrogant jerk in serious need of therapy for the Daddy issues. But you did that whole 'save the world' bit too, and it looks like what you do counts for more than who you are.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

Then do something good if you want my job so badly.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait, when did that come up? I don't want your job. I don't want to graduate. I'm just wondering how the heck you think I wound up as an Inmate if I'm not a bad guy.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I think you're lazy and cynicalbut you're also smart and you know the difference between right and wrong and you don't really seem to care about your old job that much.

I think you're holding yourself back which is weird because you want to leave so badly.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

This might have passed you by in between getting laid and commandeering stuff, but this is a prison. Pretty much all the Inmates want to leave 'so badly'. Not many of them want to use the designated exit and neither do I.

And quit saying I know the difference between right and wrong like it means anything. By that reasoning, is it not actually worse that I made an informed decision to pursue a life of crime?

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

You refuse to graduate, so you really forfeit the right to complain about the lack of freedom. As if you recall, you're dead and your life choices put you where you're at, since we both agree that you don't have to be a nice person, you just have to make good choices.

And it's my theory that you wouldn't even be here, considering you're dead, if you weren't capable of being helped or if there wasn't someone who thought you deserved a second chance.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Fine. Whatever.

I guess I'll just stop complaining. And I'll still take the CES if you're still offering.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I am. Where do you want to go?

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Does that matter? It kind of chooses for you.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

You can influence it if you've got a specific destination in mind.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Well, it pretty obviously hates me because it has yet to be a decent beach even once.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

Maybe it just hates Inmates.

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Maybe it doesn't care either way because it doesn't have a personality and I'm just unlucky. Whatever.

You busy? I could use an hour or two of fake freedom.

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[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

I'll meet you on the deck in 15?

Private - Spam? It's cool if not, I heard you were busy :|

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Sure.

Spam! - just expect delays.

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

And so Kirk is waiting for her, bouncing around on his feet because standing still for more than five minutes is a real crisis for him sometimes.

Spam! - aye aye

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Shego emerged from the stairwell and made her way across the deck, rolling her eyes because even from a distance it was pretty clear that Kirk was behaving like an idiot.

"You might wanna lay off the sugar, Cap'n," she drawled as she approached.

Spam!

[captain-jtkirk.livejournal.com]

"I'm like this naturally," Kirk said with a sort of dismissive wave of his hand as he glanced over at her and then nodded his head towards the CES. "Ladies first."