[Open Thread] - Lazy Days, or Ladies with Trashy Romance Novels.

[im2sexy4mysnark]

In a sunnier spot of the Nexus, we have Altalita lounging in a lounge chair with a drink on a nearby matching table, a great big umbrella over her, and her feet in a kiddie-style pool. She's wearing sunglasses and a sort of billowy butterfly-print skirt. Currently, she's reading a book

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He wasn't expecting to see her again.

He never sees familiar faces in the Nexus. Not anymore, anyway, not since he's stopped visiting the sanctuary and closed himself off from the question's area. He's been in his own universe, mostly, grimacing through each day, tying scrap paper into frustrated knots (nothing is scrap anymore, everything is precious, those poor morons will run out of paper within the year), and rubbing the headaches out of his temples. He hates the Galactica, but he's afraid of the Nexus, afraid of what it can do to him. What it has done to him.

And so he visits less frequently. He sees people he knows less frequently. Not to mention the only friend he's made is angry at him and probably did god(s) know(s) what with his body. He doesn't know where to put himself.

But Lita. Lita...

'Not going home?' asks his Six, and he doesn't need to face her to know that she's grinning. 'Giving the Nexus one - last - chance?'"I know you hate it here," he mutters. He can see Lita in the distance from where he stands, and he

[im2sexy4mysnark]

Whether she's in earshot or not isn't clear. Perhaps intentionally so, as she gives no actual indication whether she heard him and his little conversation or not.

Even so, she doesn't look up from her book until he wanders over and speaks, she pushes her sunglasses down the bridge of her nose to look at him over them, "Well, Gaius, hello, dear. Long time no see, sweet." Her tone is casual, with that playfully flirtatious part to it that's always there when she's in a good mood.

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"It really has been, hasn't it?" He tilts his head, grinning. "And how have you been?"

[im2sexy4mysnark]

"Far, far too long if I've anything to say about it," She gestures for him to take the chair next to her, "I've been alright, somewhat bored with life lately, if nothing else." Cue an ~overdramatic~ sigh, "And yourself?" She sticks a bookmark in the book with a slight-of-hand gesture and sets the book aside on the nearby table.