8th Wave

[tentacruelest]

Th' next time this Barge feels like poking around in my head, I'll be keeping to my quarters. The lot of yeh - useless dregs not fit to scrub a floor. It's bad enough I'm locked in here with you, I don't need to call any of yeh friends.

[Private to Bush]

Was dealing with me yerself so difficult that you sought to work through less offensive channels, Captain?

[Private to Arthas]

A word, my king.

[Can you feel that heavy sarcasm, Arthas?]

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[surfaceshine]

What, in the port with all the lightning? He expected that. He planned for it.

So you can't snap someone's neck in one go anymore. Big deal. The really violent inmates? Find a way anyway. I'm sure you've noticed.

[tentacruelest]

I have noticed. And perhaps I'm overdue for a demonstration, if there's no one on this Barge who takes me seriously.

[surfaceshine]

Oh, there's people that take you seriously. Just not your threats.

[tentacruelest]

They do not take me seriously at all. I am a daily mockery of what I once was.

[surfaceshine]

Are you? And what were you, once, that you think I'm not serious about?

[tentacruelest]

I was a sailor and a pirate captain. Feared and loathed by all. I was a legend.

[surfaceshine]

Well if you've got any tips on sailing, I'm all ears. I just know I, for one, am pretty much required to roll my eyes at grandstanding threats.

[tentacruelest]

You do not know, and do not wish to know, of sailing. On a ship like this, there's no possible use.

And it isn't grandstanding if it's carried out. Mark those words, boy.

[surfaceshine]

You don't know a damn thing about me. While you were busy bitching about everyone writing you off, you were doing the exact same goddamn thing.

[tentacruelest]

I was not. I gave the world its fair chance, and all it chose to do was explain to me how unfair in nature it truly is!

[surfaceshine]

I don't remember doing a damn thing to you until you started killing people on this ship.

And to hear you tell it, you're a far sight happier now than you ever were then. So which is it? Can't have it both ways, sir.

[tentacruelest]

I am never and was never happy. What possible reason d'yeh have for believing in the fool idea of thinking I am happier?

[surfaceshine]

Not ever? Not even for a moment? Never?

[tentacruelest]

No.

[surfaceshine]

Well, either you're being really overdramatic or we've found the root of the problem or both.

[tentacruelest]

So your plan to force me to graduate is to make me happy?

[surfaceshine]

...You say that like I plan anything.

Actually, it was my plan for... making you... happy.

[tentacruelest]

You've no call to care over my happiness, Dean Winchester. Keep your pity.

[surfaceshine]

Oh for...

Not everything is pity, you thorny bastard. And I don't have to have any kind of call to give a shit about anything.

I like making people laugh. That's why I act like a jackass.

[tentacruelest]

I don't want t'graduate. I want to die an' rest at the bottom o' the sea without upstarts like yerself bothering me.

So keep your damn mouth shut.

[surfaceshine]

Who said anything about graduating?

[The captain doth protest too much, Deanthinks.]

That sounds ridiculously boring and besides, if I stop talking, I can't breathe. So, no.

[tentacruelest]

Yeh breathe through yer nose like any half-aware human.

Fool boy.

[surfaceshine]

So you do care.

[tentacruelest]

No, I-!

[Flustered, angry sputtering]

I do not, I only..! It's bloody common sense, Winchester!

[surfaceshine]

Of which, you said it yourself, I have none.

It's okay. I get it. I won't tell anyone.