Meet N' Greet

[cityship]

Part of the crew might be gone, but life on the ship goes on. In fact, new people have woken up and, eventually, they've been spat out into the mess hall.

Maybe it's better to introduce them to some of the worst aspects of ship life first, right?

Anyway, the word is out that there's new people, and someone should probably go say hello. Before the n00bs mistake the glop for crew.


[ooc: read before tagging, plz]

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[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"You from de future den," Remy says, nodding. Now that isn't the strangest thing he's ever heard or seen. It's actually more common than he would like.

"Well, dat explain a lot."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"The future to you? I guess." Maybe the aliens would never appear in his timeline. Sigh. That'd be awesome, to live there. "It's all so confusing."

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"You tellin' me. Gambit never heard of any aliens goin' to school on Earth," he answered. "What's your name, petite?"

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

Yuri offered her hand, unused to the gesture but remembering this was how gaijin greeted each other. That some people in her country were still suspicious of foreigners (well, they were all foreigners here) seemed a little ridiculous to her compared with the real aliens in their midst. "I'm Yuri Otani."

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"Bon jour, Yuri," he returned, nodding as he took her hand and gave it a gentle shake. "De name's Gambit. But you can call me Remy."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"Gambit?" She looked at him with wide, questioning eyes. "Are you a gambler, Remy-san?"

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"You might say dat," Remy answered, reaching into the interior pocket of his duster and pulling out one of the many decks of cards that he'd stashed there during his visit to the possessions lockers. Dividing the deck, he placed it on the table and shuffled it.

"Wanna see a trick, petite?"

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

Yuri's eyes brightened. She was glad of the distraction. "Sure!"

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

With a proud and playful smirk, Gambit shuffled the cards once more then held the deck cleanly in his left hand. He then squeezed them with his fingers, causing them to spray upwards into the air, forming a arc over his shoulder, before landing--each and everyone--into his awaiting right hand, which he'd extended behind his back.

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"Wow!" She found herself giving a little chuckle. "How do you do that?"

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"Practice, petite," Gambit answered with a smile, setting the deck down in front of her.

"So, how come you de one dat has to catch de aliens," he asked, turning the subject back to her and her world. "You just a kid. How come de adults don't do it."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

Yuri tried to recall the reasons she'd been given but realized she'd forgotten a long time ago...She didn't much care, really. All she wanted to know was how long she'd have to keep doing it. "The adults never tell us anything. They just talk a lot about duty."

The truth was, if anything, even more sinister, but Yuri didn't know that.

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"Dat's not right," Gambit said with a shake of his head. "You just a kid. You too young to be worryin' about t'ings like aliens. Dat's de adult's job. Dey supposed to do dat."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

Yuri gave a little smile. Gambit-san had a strange way of talking. She wanted to ask but figured it would be rude. "Adults are always doing adult stuff...like running the school and...Well maybe they fight the more dangerous aliens...Like I said they don't tell us much of anything! Do kids not have to fight in your world?"

The reality was that the Alien Party experience was the Drill Clan's way of prepping future symbiotes for the experience of fusing...Which, considering what the Yellow Knives and Sunflowers did, was the least cruel way of going about it.

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"Not if we can help it," he answered. That's what Xavier's school was for, after all. It was a place where young mutant kids could go, finish their schooling, and do it without having to fear daily fights with their hostile classmates.

His blazing red eyes drifted up to the symbiont on her head. "Does dat hurt?"

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"Not most of the time. It's just icky when he has to feed...They lick your back." Yuri said, whining a little. "The other girls are braver about it than me..."

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"Lick your back," he said, his eyes narrowing questioningly. "What dey do dat for?"

Taking the deck of cards that he'd set in front of her, Gambit shuffled them twice more then began to deal them out, stopping only when the entire deck had been divided equally between them.

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"It's how they feed. Ugh." Borg gave no indication of being insulted at Yuri's assesment of his eating habits.

She looked at her stack of cards. "What's this game?"

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"It's called Slap Jack," Gambit answered with a smile. "You know how to play?"

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

Yuri shook her head. She was eager to learn though.

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"Bon," he said. Taking both stacks, Gambit sorted through them and pulled out four cards. "Dese are de Jacks. Gambit will split de deck, you get half and I get half. Den I'll put the top card in my stack down, den you do the same and we keep doin' dat until one of de Jack's shows. When you see a Jack, you slap the pile--" He smacked his hand down on one of the Jack's. "--like dat. Den you get de pile. De game ends when one of us outta cards."

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"Huh. Ok, i'm ready. Borg, you better not interfere." She said, getting all twitchy and jazzed up. Borg rolled his froggy eyes.

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"Okay," Gambit nodded, quickly reshuffling the cards and dealing them back out again. And the game begins.

"So, what's on your back dat your friend likes so much?" he asked as they started flipping cards.

[lilyofthedrills.livejournal.com]

"I...really don't know. And he won't tell m...Hey, no fair distracting me to get the first score...Hmmm...." She tried again, this time slapping down a moment faster than the Cajun gambler. Of course it was entirely possible he was going easy on her...

[cardsharkgambit.livejournal.com]

"How come?" he asked, directing his red eyes up at the symbiont as a slight hint that the question was directed at him. Ace.