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General Anubis

AKA: Craptain Jack Spare-Ribs

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Leo pinched the bridge of his nose. "Why is life so damn confusing." He huffed, shaking his head. She was right, honestly. "We'd all get spoiled and lazy." He grunted. Now, only most of them were lazy and spoiled. Not all of them. No one would appreciate a good day where 60 percent of the things went right. No one would appreciate being alive.

"I'd enjoy going after the pedos and their comrades." He wrinkled his nose in disgust, making a face. "The world would be easier to deal with if everyone was inexperienced and idiotic, right?" He snorted sarcastically. The world was ducked up (I meant to write fucked and my auto correct was like NO SWEARING xD so I just left it), and there was nothing any one person could do at the moment. He was pretty sure that we should all just ... leave it be and enjoy life as it is.

"Sounds about right." He chuckled. He felt the same way sometimes, so he understood it. He had problems with his braincells not listening to themselves, so they could be messed up together.

"Aww but I like it when you're docile! It means I'm not in risk of death, and you get all adorable and grumpy!" Leo grinned widely. He knew he was just provoking her, but it was true. Then again, she was adorable all the time to him, so meh.

His grin widened as she pushed Lucy away. "But I like Lucy." He huffed whinily, a low chuckle escaping. As the dog hopped over him and started nudging his back, he snorted quietly and wiggled his way closer to Glory to give Lucy more room. As the pup laid down with a contented huff, he pressed a kiss to Glory's forehead. "Adorable clawless cat." He teased quietly, a smirk playing on his lips. "Good thing I'm here, mm?"

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"Because God was high as a damn kite when he created everything," Glory said with a snort. That one simple thing made her an atheist, really- if there was a god watching over everyone and everything, why was there still starvation, poverty, child deaths, war, suffering... why did some fuckwad in the sky get to play with living beings like a chessboard? There was nobody up there, nobody benevolent anyway. "Or, rather, more so," Glory replied. Most people were already spoiled and lazy.

"It would be," Glory agreed, "but think about it, the vast majority of people are inexperienced and idiotic. You toss the average Joe a sword and he'll fumble, then assume it was just a paperweight." That was one of the reasons Glory liked Libobon, since it was a school of slightly-less-average Joes. Even still, most days Glory couldn't help but think at least 6 times that she was surrounded by idiots. (Loll it finally got tired of our bad language xD)

"No, sounds about left. Nothing ever sounds right when you're morally graey at best and have at least one drawer full of drugs," Glory sighed, wrinkling her nose slightly.

She scowled at him as she huffed, "I'm not supposed to be seen as 'adorable and grumpy'. And you're at a higher risk of death every time you say something like that." Grumpy was okay, certainly not adorable. Glory'd much prefer if people all saw her as a dangerous, vengeful, murderous creature that generally ranked below most of humanity in terms of morals. Mostly because she sort of was.

"Too bad, she's already spoiled enough," Glory grumbled, feigning annoyance. The dog was spoiled, but not enough. As Leo kissed her, Glory snuggled against his chest, blushing a little. "Yeah... very good thing," She murmured happily.

General Anubis

AKA: Craptain Jack Spare-Ribs

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"Possibly." He snorted, shaking his head. It was a complicated subject, that's for sure.

"Also true." Leo made a face. Oh, how life had fallen. It was hard to live in the first place, then it just... plummeted. How was life so hard? Because it was fucked up.

"Okay okay, yes. Life sucks, people are idiots, we have no hope. Let's live life while we can." He snorted. He would much rather be alive with her while the world burned than be dead without her trying to fix things.

"Okay FINE, sounds LEFT." He scoffed. Life was left! Life was APPARENTLY left as left could fucking be and nothing made it better. He wished the whole world DID burn so he could just be near Glory forever.

"You'll be seen as adorable by me." He pointed out cheekily. "Plus you like me. You can't kill me yet." He added with a grin. "Not spoiled enough." He replied with another huff. Lucy could get everything she wanted just by looking cute. He focused slightly more attention on her as she snuggled against him slightly, smiling. "Aren't we both lucky." He stated happily, lowering his head down to her hair and breathing in slightly. Her scent was nothing if not intoxicating. It was perfect in every way- like mint and the slight coppery smell of blood and cinnamon all mixed together. It worked better than any medication, as he immediately felt like he wanted to fall asleep here forever.

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"Now you got it," Glory mumbled, the sedatives setting in more, "We used to have Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash," Her sentence was interrupted briefly by a yawn, "now we have no jobs, no hope, and no cash." Glory couldn't recall where she'd heard that one, but it was pretty true.

"Yeah, left, right, inside down and upside out," She said. Life was just weird, man. Time may run in a straight line, one direction, but life was off snortin' shit and doing its own thing. Unfortunately for anyone who happened to be suffering from life, that meant you were basically an ant in a jar getting shaken around by a child. Lovely.

"If it's just you I guess it's okay," Glory murmured. So long as other people still saw her as a scary creature that shouldn't be bothered, Leo could see her however he wanted to. Even an "adorable clawless cat" was fine. "Fake news," She said, "I love you, so I can't kill you at all." That just wouldn't be fair, or really make sense. Contrary to probable belief, Glory was in fact not a spider, and thus Leo'd live until he retired from living at the age of old. Or, rather, he'd just not die by Glory's hand. "Yeah she is, she's such an ass," Glory huffed. Not quite true; it was more like she was cute and knew how to use it.

"Yeah..." She murmured softly, taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly. It was growing increasingly difficult to stay awake; Glory couldn't tell if it was the sedatives or just being here in Leo's arms, warm and safe and actually well and truly happy for once... something she wasn't used to. Whatever it was, Glory found she quite liked it, and by the time she fell asleep - it admittedly didn't take long - she wasn't bothered by it in the slightest.

General Anubis

AKA: Craptain Jack Spare-Ribs

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Leo could tell the sedatives were starting to affect her, and although he could feel his setting in as well, he warded them off slightly to be able to experience the moments with her, drawn out slightly. "Truer words have never been uttered." He sighed. He especially missed the Johnny Cash part- nothing would beat that live performance. The guy was an incredible funny person. Chicken In Black, a Boy Named Sue... works of art. Truly.

"And a couple other dimensions that haven't been discovered yet." He snorted. Life was like a rubix cube that somebody had pulled all the tiles off of and put them in the wrong places so you could seemingly get close to figuring it out but it was unsolvable. Messed up shit happened in life. It was like a word puzzle that a blind person had put together using normal methods without help. It was like a maze with no exit or entrance- you were just dropped in the middle and weird shit happened while you walked through.

"It's just me. Promise. If anyone else calls you adorable, or even thinks it, I will kindly squeeze their throat so hard that their eyeballs pop out of their sockets." He stated sweetly, his tone somehow matching and contradicting his words all at once. "That's good news for me, then. Considering I can be rather annoying at times." He murmured, but his mind was taken over by the same happy buzz as last time she has said those three words. They were by far his favorite words in the entire universe. He appreciated then more than anything else. "I love you, too." He whispered after a second. The whole world could be crashing around them, but that one thing would always be clear to him, no matter what happened.

"No, she's just smart and adorable." He defended Lucy with another small huff. Plus she was being his backwarmer, so she got credit. Lots of it.

He had settled with his arm over her waist and his face buried in her hair, and he never wanted to leave. The feeling of her breaths evening out as she fell asleep was quite honestly the best in the world. Kissing was amazing, sure... but nothing beat the gentle warmth emanating from her, the knowledge that she fully trusted him enough to fall asleep in his arms, and one of the last things she said being 'I love you'. Nothing could be more perfect. He stayed awake for around 10 minutes longer just to savor the moment and capture it in his mind forever before the sedatives pulled him under.

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The next morning, Leo successfully woke up... not very early or when he wanted to, but the win was in the waking up part. The first thing he felt was her warmth, then her scent, and he was very ready to just fall right back asleep again, but he remembered all of his boasting about the food and he kinda had to prove that he was right. Disappointment weighed at him as he paused for a couple moments longer before assessing the situation- Lucy was still pressed against his back, but other than that, he was free to move... mostly. He gently nudged her out of the way before rolling out of bed, surprisingly silently, although he knew the movement more than likely woke Glory up. He weaved his way into the tiny kitchenette, avoiding the pokey objects, and conjured up the most basic things he needed before getting to work.

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"Mhmm... but they's no'all bad," Glory mumbled softly. Life was having the wool pulled over your eyes, spun until you were dizzy and about to throw up, then the rug pulled out from under you, but every now and again somebody caught you. Not every time, certainly not, but enough that you kept at it, hoping your favorite person would be there. And, for now at least, Glory's was.

"Okay," She half slurred, half giggled. Glory found she liked how possessive he was; after years of feeling like a burden, being underfoot, and hardly acknowledged on a good day, it was nice to be wanted by somebody. Somebody that wasn't the cops. Somebody to love her unconditionally, and someone to return that love to. That, she'd realized, was all she'd ever truly wanted in life.

"Love you more," Glory whispered softly enough she wasn't even sure she'd actually said it, let alone whether Leo'd heard it. But still, it was there.

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Glory was vaguely aware of being in Leo's arms still, her own little space away from the rest of the world, warm and comforting. But then he was gone, and the usual cold and loneliness started to set in, leaving a bit of disappointment in their wake. It wasn't enough to fully wake her, though, and she drowsily reached out, found Lucy close enough, and pulled the unsuspecting dog close, holding her close like a kid with a teddy bear as she had last night. Glory fell back asleep, though some of the happiness was gone from it, like she was just sleeping to avoid being awake, as per usual. Most of the time, sleeping was bad, but sometimes being awake was worse, so no matter what she did, it was just to avoid excess pain. But that was all life was, wasn't it? You just happened to get lucky every now and then, and boy had she.

General Anubis

AKA: Craptain Jack Spare-Ribs

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Leo realized that, somehow, she had fallen back asleep, so he did his best to be absolutely silent. Which was damn hard, considering he burnt himself TWICE on the pan and had to scream internally while he ran it under cold water. Did NOT feel good. But it would totally be worth it. Not long later, he silently crept back over to the bed, gave Lucy a scratch behind the ears before leaning over and pressing a gentle kiss to Glory's lips. "Wake upppp." He whined quietly, poking her shoulder, just in case the kiss and words didn't do the trick. He disappeared a moment later and reappeared with a simple yet delicious looking plate of scrambled eggs with ham, bacon bits, cheese, and seasoning on them, some slices of full bacon, a couple small sausages, and hash browns. "Be prepared to be amazed." He was full on grinning now, looking a bit physcotic with his bedhead hair going every which directions, giant grin on his face, and plate of suspiciously normal food.