Aiden Shepard [ Abraham Van Helsing ] (arcere) wrote in bellumlogs,
"We have to be teenagers someday," Aiden said absentmindedly to Oliver before he was grabbed and shaken. Joanie's words trundled straight to the center of his brain and he turned to stare at her. Oh, sure, he was a plenty creative bastard, but with so much historical expertise to build off of, there were a lot of things that slipped him by. Lucky for him, then, that Joanie's mind constantly worked overtime.
Sanity, however, and the fact that he was only partway through his second drink prevailed in the situation, and while he did half-smirk at her (and while the idea did sound fantastic to him, because really, a stake grenade? How badass would that be?), what little common sense he had actually won out.
"If you can make it, tell me when you do, but where the hell would we test something like that? I'm not going to risk getting punctured full of shrapnel just to make something that ... " He struggled to find a word, landed on a semi-regrettable one. "Unbelievable." Aiden took a drink and thought, glancing back at the screen once - no, no more stake explosions. "Then again, it would be one hell of a threat ... "