LOG: What You Get Folks

[protective_logic]

Who: Delta Ai (Native), Maine (Native), Omega Ai (Native)
What: Family bonding... with a middle man.
Where: Movie Theater at the Gulch Mall.
When: Saturday 8/23, Noon
Warnings: Delta and Omega don't get along.

It is easier, of course, to do this apart. But the problem is that things aren't that easy anymore. They are having a problem with a lot of this. Having problems with a lot of things lately. But Maine was helping, and Delta is furious that Omega even brought the man into it. This was his boyfriend, and Omega's friend. They didn't need him in the middle of their squabble. And Delta definitely didn't need him to be here. But here, in the end, is where they are.

Delta waits outside of the theater, trying to ignore how uncomfortable he is in the open, waiting. Waiting for Omega. Waiting for his meddling boyfriend. Waiting for... well, something. Anything that proves he's getting better. That it's getting better. That he's not completely ruined.

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[maine_makes_growly_noises]

...

"This is the same series?" Maine asks.

[protective_logic]

"No," Delta tells his boyfriend, clipped, because he has a hill to die on here. "I give you the Korrasami wedding, but you take back that blasphemy about Katara's fidelity!"

[baruthumos]

"Aang was a terrible father and a worse husband," Omega argues. "And Katara owes him nothing. For all we know, exclusivity was not part of her marriage vows. Aang clearly left some things out of his own."

Tenzin probably is Aang's son. Maybe.

[maine_makes_growly_noises]

Wow, they changed topics quickly. So much for avoiding any debates.

[protective_logic]

"Oh come on!" Delta protests, and clearly there is no true anger there, just a debate they have clearly had time and time again.

"Katara was clearly devoted to Aang, and Aang to her."

[baruthumos]

"Aang had no time for any of his children but Tenzin, and that only because Tenzin was also an airbender!" Omega insists. "I'm not going to argue with you. Next time the littles get around to season two of Korra, we'll show you!"

[maine_makes_growly_noises]

Clearly they're discussing another fictional series. And it involves relationships. This is not the kind of conversation that Maine feels qualified to be having.

[protective_logic]

"You haven't convinced me yet, and you won't next time," Delta chuckles, shaking his head and twisting back to lean against Maine. "Anyway, we own the books for this movie series if you want to try them."

[baruthumos]

"Did you finish the new one?" Omega asks. "I haven't read it yet." Now that he has the time and isn't taking painkillers. He wants to finish it before the EMT class gets going.

[maine_makes_growly_noises]

"Would like that," he says. "Sounds like good discussion material." He leans back just enough to acknowledge Delta's proximity.

[protective_logic]

"I finished the new one more than a month ago," Delta smile at his brother. "I'll pass it over when we get home. And Maine, you can stick around and I'll give you the first one to read."

[baruthumos]

"Sounds like a plan," Omega says, smiling back. This was a good idea. Maine has good ideas. Maine makes everything better. Why couldn't he be Alpha?

[maine_makes_growly_noises]

"Thanks. Will plan on it."

"What now?" Maine asks. "Dinner? Ice cream? Home?"

He doesn't want to rush them when they're doing so well, but Delta may not be up for dinner.

[protective_logic]

"I'll skip ice cream," Delta blushes, looking to his feet. "Uh... is dinner something we could do?"

[baruthumos]

"Yes, dinner," Omega says. "Food. I am always up for food." He'll take the maybe of pissing Delta off later over disagreeing with him now.

[maine_makes_growly_noises]

"Dinner. Burgers, pizza, something nicer?"

This is a good sign. They aren't afraid to spend more time together. This is a really good sign.

[protective_logic]

"I'm not picky," Delta admits. Omega is. "What do you think, Meg?"

[baruthumos]

"Wherever you guys want," Omega says. He even won't complain if they pick somewhere gross.

[maine_makes_growly_noises]

He thinks for a moment. Burgers sound really good, and he knows Omega doesn't like fake meat.

"Know a good burger place," he says. "If that's all right."

[protective_logic]

"I think that sounds lovely," Delta assures his boyfriend. "Provided they have fries. Good fries."

Delta is a sucker for fries.

[baruthumos]

"Burgers and fries are great," Omega agrees. "You can live entirely on potatoes and butter, you know."

Omega loves any form of potato.

[maine_makes_growly_noises]

"Steak fries," Maine says. "Salted and seasoned. All you can eat."

That should sell them on it. He gestures for them to join him at his jeep.

[protective_logic]

"We could," Delta agrees, grinning at his older brother. "Remember, we can never tell the little ones. They need to eat their veggies."

But he smiles up at Maine. "What's a steak fry?"

[baruthumos]

"Nope," Omega says. "Though there are taste buds that don't turn on until you're twenty-five, which is why old people like spinach. So they'll grow out of it."

[maine_makes_growly_noises]

Maine likes spinach, but that's not the point. The point is, Delta has never had steak fries, and that needs to change.

"Big fries," he says. "Like crisp wedges of potato, not thin slices."