[Closed] arthur needs a batsignal or be less antisocial

[animosus]

Characters: Hal Jordan animosus and Arthur Curry relentlesstide
Date: 15th October
Location: Water sector
Situation: Hal dumps trash into the water to summon Arthur
Warnings/Rating: Littering is bad, kids


In the time since Hal had arrived, he'd more or less touched base with the relevant people from his world. Except for one. But Arthur had always kept to himself so he wasn't surprised that he'd have to go out of his way to track him down. So Hal settles down by the edge of the water with something he's found to be the closest equivalent to an apple and uses his ring to drag rubbish bins towards him. Every now and then he tosses one into the water. The faster Arthur shows up the less rubbish in the water.

Hal will fish them out when they've served their purpose... and he's making sure it's dry trash! No disgusting food polluting the water here.

Comments

[relentlesstide]

One of the main differences in them, maybe. Arthur has always felt like he never really fits in anywhere, land or sea. A constant in the League, and yet not a man that the others can say they know inside and out. It's a little lonely, sometimes, even more so now that his wife is gone.

A shadow crosses his face. "Mera disappeared from here very recently. And I've been occupied caring for a viable turtle egg I and two others found in Sinbrilee." La dee da, glossing over the loss of his wife a little because it still hurts. "I also have my protege to look after." Excuses excuses.

[animosus]

Hal understood a missing loved one, but what did a turtle egg have to do with anything? Unless he'd missed the fact that Atlantean biology was really strange... He has no idea how to ask if it was his and if he should even ask it. Arthur saying he found it could very easily be a cover up story.

Several strange expressions passes his face before he forces it back to neutral.

"Sorry about that. I guess trying to summon you like this didn't help things."

[relentlesstide]

Arthur's expression falls flat as he watches the expression on Hal's face change. Just what the hell is he wondering? "It's over six feet tall and requires a lot of attention. It's not mine. I really did find it." But he's not as phased by the obvious question on his face as he could be. Tritonians actually do reproduce through eggs (though Poseidonians are more mammalian), so it isn't that strange.

"Don't worry about it. I wasn't doing anything else today anyway." A flash of discomfort crosses his face as he thinks back to his suite, empty except for a massive egg. Sad bachelor life.

[animosus]

Hal's expression is of one who doesn't quite believe that weird insistence on something he hasn't actually said anything about and wanting desperately to have the topic dropped and moved on. He does not need to know about Atlantean reproductive biology thank you very much. He also doesn't need to know about his team mates sex life or lack thereof now.

Instead he tries to force a little cheer. "So if you're alone now, that means you're free to do whatever you like, huh?" Being a bachelor is the best, marriage is a ball and chain.

[relentlesstide]

Hey you're the one that was implying things with your face, Hal Jordan. Don't bring this on him, he's not the one who assumes things about other people's biology. Arthur lets it drop, though. He's explained why he's been busy and doesn't check the network as often as he maybe should, and it's fine to leave it at that.

What Hal thinks is 'cheer' is actually pretty depressing, though. He knows he doesn't mean it that way, but... "Spoken like a perpetual bachelor. I'm not sure what you're implying. My wife never kept me from doing anything."

[animosus]

"You can't say you've never given something up for love." He didn't hold it against Carol, but it didn't change the fact that Hal had once tried to do that for her. Sure he was an extreme case and had to choose between her and the corps, but it was a basic fact that compromise was inevitable.

But everyone knew Hal Jordan hated being tied down by anything, least of all the shackles of domesticity. And hey, he was trying his best to make Arthur feel better.

[relentlesstide]

"I don't regret any of the sacrifices I've made over the years for Mera and my family, nor the sacrifices I've had to make for my country," he says quietly. He gets that Hal is trying to make him feel better in a way, but Arthur can't admit to anything like that, even just to lie to acknowledge Hal's trying. He and Hal are different in that way, to Arthur, his wife and his family are the most important things in his life. So instead he just tries to lighten the mood a little, running a hand through his hair and saying exasperatedly, "Besides, the last time I did the bachelor thing, I dated a woman who ended up marrying my son. Marriage is a blessing."