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Taking Advantage [Closedish?]

Brenda has cookies. She also has a trampoline. The trampoline was there BEFORE Brainy put on an 'I am totally baked' APB on the comm rings - she'd been bouncing on it as her own little fun reward for a workout well completed - but it seemed like the kind of thing to keep around when your stoned friend was coming to visit.

Honestly she was a bit torn, between worry and hysterical amusement.

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He arrives, stumbling slightly, but otherwise looking dazed and happy, and then his eyebrows nearly shoot up to his hairline when he sees the trampoline.

"Oooh! Oooooooh!"

He flies over, snags a cookie, pops it in his mouth and jumps on, and starts jumping up and down.

"Mmmph murfle mif mif meeb."

Brenda's barely got time to react. She looks up a the ceiling - "Stacy if you love me you will find a way to video record this and archive it in the library? Pretty please?" - then she climbs on the trampoline too and bounces over to Querl.

"Brainy talking and cheweing are seperate things remember?"

"Mfoo mfes?"

But he takes the cookies in his hand and bites a piece off, chews, and swallows, still jumping up and down with cookie in hand.

"I've invited Lyle and Sensor to our party--I hope you don't mind. But they can't have any cookies. You promised they were mine."

The rest of the cookie disappears and then he just gets with the jumping, occasionally doing unsteady flips and such.

Brenda just giggles, watching him try to sommersault, impressed he's got the reflexes to keep something like that up when he's this clearly inebrieated.

"I'm sure Lyle and Sensor will be happy they came." She laughed, bouncing herself a little higher instead of just trying to keep her balance next to him. "Who gave you this 'cannabis' you've been smoking Brainy?"

"Sawyer, ummm, and others."

He hadn't really caught names.

He flubs a flip and lands on his butt, and after bouncing a few times, lays back on the trampoline, letting himself get bounced whenever Brenda jumps.

"And I was not smoking it, I was simply inhaling it," he says, leaning on a hand, and simply looking up at her as she jumps. "There is a difference."

"That difference is a pretty fine line I think."

Brenda teases, executing a flip of her own and wobbling a little on the landing. She falls on her knees next to him, leaning over to inspect the look on his face a little closer. She's never seen him grin this much and...

"Wow, you should SEE your pupils Brainy. They're huge."

"Mmmm hmm, not suprising. Pupil dilation is a common side effect of various intoxicants."

The smile fades a little as he looks up at her.

"I like when you do this," he says quietly, and the smile widens again.

She raises a brow at him.

"When I do what? Talk to you?"

Reaching up a lazy hand, he reached up and gently tucks an errant strand of hair behind her ear, out of her face.

"When you insinuate yourself into my personal space."

A pause.

"I usually am not enamored of it."

Brenda starts a little, a blush crawling up her cheeks.

"I guess you're just used to me? I do spend a lot of time around you it seems." She smiles a little, feeling like she should sit back a bit but... nnnn she'd rather not. Instead she flops down beside him on the trampoline, curling on her side to watch him but still in arms reach.

"I kind of like you being in my personal space too."

She does, actually. He's a very calming person to be close to. Sitting shoulder to shoulder with him while he's working on something has become a favourite pastime.

"I also enjoy watching you jump up and down for some inexplicable reason I've yet to determine," he declares, rather honestly, and lays back on the trampoline and folds his hands on his chest.

Lyle steps in the room, stops, squinches his face into a line of "no, I will not laugh, I will not" and then continues over to the trampoline, pulling out his omnicom as he does.

He can't help but mutter under his breath, though. "I could draw you a diagram if you like."

He stops by Brainy and scans him. He's thorough about it; Brainy wouldn't have gotten himself high on purpose, so who knows what got into his system by accident.

"You're fine," he announces eventually, "But you'll probably be feeling it tomorrow."

"I'm glad to hear that," Jeka says, flicking her tail to shut the door behind her. "The former more than the latter, of course."

Brainy. On a trampoline. The others would never believe her, or Lyle.

Of course, she can only think that now because she knows that whatever was in his system wasn't going to cause him any damage. Well, aside from his pride when it wore off and he realized what he'd done and said over the comms.

"How are you feeling now?"

"I feel fabulous, Jeka."

He sounds rather like he spoke when he was Brainiac 5.1, after he'd been changed in the Anomaly.

"Just fabulous. I am on a trampoline with my dear friend Brenda, I have cookies--that you cannot have, by the way--and I spent a lovely afternoon with my new friends listening to 'tunes.' Today is a good day."

He sits up.

"I think I should take advantage of this good mood to get some projects done in the lab."

Oh freaking hell. Brainy high doing science.

"I don't know if that's such a good idea, Brainy."

Does she want to see him try to do Science stoned? Hell yes! Does she want to risk being exploded? Not so much...

"Yes, you'll miss all the jumping up and down on the trampoline." In case Brainy is too out of it to get that, he adds, "With Brenda."

He coughs so he doesn't laugh.

Jeka was still close enough to the door that she could lock it, too. Not that it would stop him from getting out if he were really determined, but it would slow him down a little if he decided that jumping on a trampoline with Brenda wasn't as important as working on his projects.

"I think your projects can wait a bit longer," she agreed. "I'm sure Brenda has more cookies for you to try, too."

He sits there and muses reflectively, "I do enjoy the trampoline. And the cookies. And Brenda jumping on the trampoline. So I suppose I'll stay here."

He flops back down again, then pokes Brenda on the shoulder.

"Woman. Bring me more cookies."

Brenda opens her mouth and shuts it again, flabbergasted.

"I... did you just... I would PUNCH you if you were sober!" She declares, harumphing. "Just for that you get oatmeal rasin."

She fishes up another plate with the magic of Stacy and hands the cookiees one at a time to Brainy, vaugely afraid he'd eat the whole plate in a minute if she let him.

"Has he ever been like this before?" she asks Lyle and Jeka.

Lyle glances at Jeka. When Brainy had come out of the anomoly ... but he'd been like that for a very short time before his mother had--

"He's been in stranger states. He turned himself and everyone else into Bizarros once." That was a much safer topic. "He doesn't do drugs."

"I don't think he's ever been this interested in cookies and trampolines," Jeka said diplomatically, glancing back at Lyle. He was behaving a little similarly to how he had been after the anomaly.

Well, this time his mother wasn't here, so sprock her!

"Oh grife, the Bizarros..."

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