I Scream, You Scream - [New Vulcan] - [James, Tina]

[gold_ambition]

Tina has been pretty explicit in her poll about ice cream. James did not think it a huge stretch to assume she wanted some rather desperately

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[rn_chapel]

It was fucking hot. Even in the climate-controlled interior of her little suite, it was hot.

And there was no way Tina was going to get up and answer the stupid door when she'd just gotten comfortable, sprawled out carefully on the couch so that no part of her body was touching any other part.

"It's open!" she yelled.

[gold_ambition]

These people all wanted to die. They had no idea how much of a temptation they presented. Of course, Tina was in no danger from him.

He remembered when she'd let him in before, distant and sleepy and... The memory filled him with an odd mix of fondness, nostalgia, and dread. He pushed it away and entered, eyebrows raised, smiling.

"Hello?" he called, looking around.

[rn_chapel]

Tina lifted her head up off the back of the couch and craned her neck until she could see the door.

Huh.

Well, she wasn't expecting... Anyone, actually, so that didn't help.

"I feel like a jerk," she said, "but you're going to have to tell me which one you are."

[gold_ambition]

James' immediate frown was perhaps some clue as to which he was. But then again, neither Jim nor Bill seemed very pleased by their resemblance to him.

Though they were pretty friendly with each other.

"James," he said flatly.