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Tweak says, "SWITCH PLACES!"

killerofstars (killerofstars) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-11-20 14:30:00

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barbara gordon, galen marek (sw)

WHO: Galen Marek and Barbara Gordon.
WHAT: Fake Sibling Bonding.
WHERE: Somewhere between her and his homes.
WHEN: Wednesday Afternoon.
RATING: Low.

It was snowing. It was white, it was fluffy, and it was cold. Galen loved it. Letting Lucario go off about on his own, and he sure the hell left the flamingo standing around in the house. Galen though, was wanting to see and for lack of better words, play in the snow. Growing up, he had heard of the stuff and even was told of planets that was covered in the stuff. Hoth might have been one of them, but being the sheltered and tortured child that he was - he had never had the chance to experience it himself. Just like the beach and the ocean with Leia. This was a first for him.

The snow was piling up, but still easy enough to traverse. Kicking his feet a little extra he saw how the snow would roll in on itself some. Interesting enough.

Crouching, Galen put his hand in the snow and felt the cold and wetness on his skin. It was both fluffy, but heavy and wet. It was incredibly interesting, that was for sure. With both hands he started scooping and making a ball out of the snow. Now with the snowball in his hand he tossed it up and down. It was heavy and solid, but fragile. The thing was, now that he had it - what did he do with it now? That was when he felt a small shift in the Force. Weird. Turning towards the presence he felt, it was then he felt the cold and wet ball hit him in the face. A moment of blindness, and the musical sound of laughter erupting. He knew that tone and that voice. A low playful growl built in his throat. "Barbara." He said. "You should know better than pick a fight with me." He wiped the snow from his face with his hand and the side of his sleeve from his t-shirt.

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batgirlbabs
2019-11-28 12:58 am UTC (link)

"Feigning innocence?" She scoffed shaking her head at him, "I'll have you know I am innocent." She informed him with a teasing grin. Barbara couldn't help laughing when he accused her of being bad and then went so far as to try and ground her. "I'm afraid you lack the seniority to ground anyone." She told him with a laugh, bumping her shoulder into his playfully.

Barbara made encouraging motions to Galen to get him to give in and try and make his own snow angel, grinning when he fell back into the snow and then repeated the same motions she had before he pushed himself up to his feet again.

"It's not ruined," She said shaking her head, "Here hold my hand." She said reaching out for him to steady her as she extended a leg out just far enough that she could skim her foot over the top of the snow gently, smoothing out the hand print he'd made. "There." She said satisfied with the look of it then. "Sometimes you just need a little bit of help."

Whatever it was she'd expected she hadn't expected it to be that he'd gotten to swim in the ocean. "Yeah?" She asked all the same. "You're having a lot of firsts lately, how did you like it?"

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killerofstars
2019-11-28 01:33 pm UTC (link)

Squinting his eyes at her. "There it is again. Feigning. To the untrained, it looks legitimate, but I see through your lies." Despite his fake suspicious squint, there was still a smile on his face. Something he found himself doing more and more of late. "Pft. Seniority. Pft." Galen made a range of noises at her, showing exactly how he felt about her response to the fact he couldn't ground anyone. "You're bad, and you deserve solitary confinement." Because grounding was just jail right? That was the only logical response to it. House arrest?

While doing it, Galen felt silly, but he did it none the less since Barbara coaxed him into it. What harm? He was amidst brushing his bare arms off, since being just a little cold from the snow when she brought his attention to hold her hand. "Huh?" But he did it all the same. Allowing her to reach out and fix the spot that he blemished, he looked at it. It was still obviously scarred - just like him. There was effort though to fix it.

Galen shrugged looking away. "I suppose." Still a weird and foreign concept, he glanced to Barbara to acknowledge her.

"Uh. Yeah." Crouching down by his snow angel he started drawing his name with his finger in the snow. "You can say that. Leia and I," He paused thinking about it. "We went through the doors with the motorbike and made a day of it I guess?" Parts of him still weren't sure how to react to such normalcy. "And we went swimming in the ocean..."

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batgirlbabs
2019-11-30 08:58 am UTC (link)

"Me? Lie? Why I never." Barbara pressed a hand to her chest in mock shock at the very idea of such a thing. She laughed as he sputtered his disapproval for her antics "Solitary confinement? I think that's going to be difficult with Dick around." She reminded him with a teasing smirk. "It's a good thing that you're to young for grounding anyone."

She decided the snow angels were both very nice and nodded her approval after she'd cleaned his up a bit. It might not be perfect but for a first try? Well she thought it more than passed muster. "Oh don't act so dubious." She said rolling her eyes, "They're not supposed to be perfect. They're just supposed to be fun, they turned out nice." She added too, just so he knew that she approved of them both. "You'll get better at them the more you do them." Sure maybe it was the sort of thing that only kids did, but well, Galen sometimes needed the things that kids did. He'd missed out on his chance to just be a kid for a while, so if she could give him some of those same chances again? Well she certainly would.

Watching him move his finger through the snow she listened while he told her that he and Leia had gone through the doors together, and found an ocean together to go swimming in. "That sounds really nice." She smiled warmly at the idea of it. Certainly it had to be different for him, it was practically normal. "Did you like it?" She wondered, not entirely certain that he did, or if he was leading up to telling her it had been awful or something like that.

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killerofstars
2019-12-02 06:11 am UTC (link)

Right. Dick. This guy that showed up from her past, or present, or whatever. One that Galen immediately didn't approve or like. Never met, but that didn't change that. "Of course you'd lie to win. You liar." Galen countered as if his argument was legitimate. "Well, if he's in the way, he will just have to leave until you are allowed visitors." Galen shrugged as if it was just the way it would be.

Not supposed to be perfect. It was not something that he was particular use to have acceptable. Often, he was punished for not doing something perfect. If it wasn't exactly as it was supposed to be, it was wrong. If it was wrong, he was a failure. And if he was a failure, he was dead.

So Starkiller had to be perfect. Perfect form, perfect abilities, and perfect body.

"I don't think I need to do another one." Galen stated drily. Not that he hated it, but just wasn't something he was feeling he had to dive into immediately. Casually, he started scooping snow in his hands while still talking.

"Yeah. I think I did." He shrugged softly. "I think her and I are getting closer, I'm not sure though." He admitted. "She's still at times keeping me at a distance, and I don't particularly understand why. It's frustrating." Galen acknowledged, though in that moment in the ocean they were so close. "Then at times, it's like there is nothing but the two of us." Starkiller stood and turned to her. Light threw the weak snowball against her chest. It hit her with a soft, barely any strength behind his toss throw. "There. Revenge. We're even." It was a weak revenge at best.

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batgirlbabs
2019-12-03 01:30 am UTC (link)

"Lie to win!" She scoffed laughing, "I would never," She crossed a finger over her heart like she was making a promise. "Oh no, Dick isn't going anywhere, I lost him once already, I don't trust him going too far." She warned, in truth it had been a wonderful thing having him around again, comforting in a way that she had forgotten about with him gone, and well maybe it was selfish of her to find that she loved having him to herself too this time around. So no, she wasn't going to be getting rid of Dick any time soon, grounded or not.

She cast him a weary look when he announced that he wouldn't need to do another snow angel, and sure they weren't the most fun you could have in the snow, they were still nice and she liked that they were pretty without leaving you feeling exhausted the way building things out of snow properly could do. "You'll never get better if you don't practice." She teased.

As for his time with Leia? Well that was something nice to hear about. "It happens that way sometimes, you spend time with people and get closer bit by bit, at their own pace." She explained. Because it sounded like Leia still had some doubts, and was taking her time in considering Galen and what it might mean to get closer to him. She watched him forming a snowball as he spoke but didn't try and stop him even when he tossed it at her. "That's revenge?" She asked quirking an eyebrow at him, "I don't know, seems a little lack luster, like your heart isn't really in it."

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killerofstars
2019-12-03 02:04 pm UTC (link)

He pointed at her. "You're doing it now." What was that saying he had heard? "If you were lying anymore your pants would be on fire." That was it right? "Nope. He is." Galen doubled down. "He can sleep with Lucario while you're thinking about what you did wrong." Using the words back at Barbara. Crossing his arms he refused to look at her for a moment. "It's what you get."

Then there was a side glance at her, with a low smirk. Of course he wasn't overly mad at her, and frankly, it was difficult to be mad at the woman. Especially when she had followed him around that Pokemon world annoying him as she did. "Who says I want to get perfect at making snow angels?" Galen countered. If he had the desire, he would perfect it, but it still held now practical use in his everyday life. So... why bother?"

"Right. I know that.." Galen stated. It just felt weebly wobble at best sometimes. Like she just wanted to keep him at an arms length. Then other times, they were close like they were in the ocean. With kissing. Galen blushed at the thought. That was nice. Thankfully Barbara challenging his lack luster revenge brought him back to reality. "What?" He stared at her. "Heart wasn't in it?" Which was because he didn't want to go overboard. Well, he was going to go overboard now. Reaching out with both hands at his side, Starkiller felt out with the Force feeling for all the snow in the area. In a moment, he was raising up a mound of snow.

"How's this for lack luster?" Galen said hugging her and letting the pile of snow fall on the pair of them.

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batgirlbabs
2019-12-04 04:32 am UTC (link)

She couldn't help laughing at his insistence that she was a liar, and not just a liar but one who nearly had pants on fire. "Who taught you that saying?" She asked him with a grin as she kept right on laughing, far too amused by it to be worried about his threats of grounding her or sending Dick to sleep with Lucario. "It's what I get for what? Looking out for you?"

Barbara just whistled a little nonchalantly while Galen suggested that snow angel making was not a valuable life skill. "One day you're going to find yourself in a snow angel making competition and you're going to wish that you'd let your good friend Barbara Gordon show you how to make a proper snow angel more and practiced at it." She said poking at his shoulder as if such things just happened to people. But for all he knew maybe they did.

"So just you know... enjoy it while you can and don't think too much about where you're heading." She advised, she knew a little something about things moving hot and cold between someone she cared about. So she could understand the position Galen was in now. Barbara shrugged when Galen started to question her questioning of his revenge, "That's what I said." She grinned before he was suddenly and uncharacteristically hugging her before a pile of snow fell down on top of both of them. Barbara shrieked with laughter, shoving at Galen pushing him down in the snow as she laughed.

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killerofstars
2019-12-04 01:52 pm UTC (link)

Making a face at Barbara, Galen shook his head. "How dare you. I would never give my sources up." He crossed his arms in defiance, but then looked to her in mock shocked disgust. "For looking out for me. You lie and cheat your way, and it's for me." Leaning some toward her. "Do you smell that?" He commented before looking her in the face. "I think I smell burning pants."

With a groan. "If I find myself in that situation, I'll just think what you would disapprove of most, and do that instead." Naturally defiant to her good ways, Galen did enjoy teasing that. Regardless, this banter. It was... nice. Good? Desired? It was difficult to place where his true feelings landed on, considering when he met the woman, she was more annoying than anything.

"I am, I just get confused." Galen spoke honestly. "How does one navigate complicated feelings surrounding lust, love, and other forms of affection. Go from one moment with kissing then back to arms length rebounding backwards?" Galen wondered aloud carelessly sharing details from the swim he had. Not that he was hiding it, but how could he discuss something he didn't understand.

Being shoved way after dropping a large amount of snow on the pair of them, Galen scooped up a decent amount of snow while getting to his feet. "You caused this!" Galen yelled before plopping his hands full of snow on her head.

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batgirlbabs
2019-12-07 05:10 am UTC (link)

She made a face right back at him, "I'll figure it out eventually, so really you just ought to tell me now." She reasoned, in spite of the defiant look on his face. "Okay, that is not how that saying goes, first of all - and second of all, I think you and I both know that you've got a flare for the dramatic just a bit in all of this." She teased him, unworried about actually being a liar or not, when it was all in teasing Galen it hardly mattered.

She rolled her eyes as he suggested what his plan might be if the time came when he was truly faced with a snow angel competition. "Anyone ever tell you that you're a brat?" She asked him, though she was nearly positive she was the only one who ever had dared such a thing. He wasn't quite as bad as she thought he had the potential to be, but there was definitely big brat energy that rolled off Galen nearly constantly.

"Like you said, it's complicated." She agreed of his assessment of the navigation of relationships. "There are times when mutual attraction and even desire aren't enough to make a relationship work." She told him. "And sometimes that's all they are for years before you finally manage to push it just a little bit further into a different kind of relationship. You just have to be honest with one another, believe her when she tells you she's not ready, but also when she tells you she wants something more." She told him, it was a difficult thing, even she had trouble making relationships work. So she might not be the best person to be advising him, but she tried all the same.

Barbara shook her head, sending snow flying from her hair as she laughed leaning down to scoop up another handful of snow and threw it at him. "I didn't cause any of this, this was all your doing."

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killerofstars
2019-12-08 04:44 am UTC (link)

Galen gasped. "How dare you? My sources are secret and I will never give them up!" Of course, it wasn't that big of deal, considering he had gone through a lot of learning since coming to Starklandia. While she was teasing him for his theatrics and getting the silly analogy wrong, Starkiller was more interested in the interaction between the two. More often he was finding himself wanting more of it.

Her reaction was exactly as he expected it to be, which brought a solid laugh from Galen, but he still had a question. "Brat? What is that?" He world and the names which they called each other, was strange, but more and more he was learning them. Not many danced the line of calling him names, and most who had regretted it. Richie being the last to run his mouth. Despite his more violent reactions, he did try his best of late not to go down that path. Between Barbara and Leia, it gave him purpose to behave.

"I am not sure I understand fully what all of it means, or how to act." Galen answered honestly. "I understand there is this hesitation. I can sense it." He paused thinking. "But then there is those moments where it doesn't matter." Starkiller sighed softly. "People are complicated creatures, and I think I understand part of the reason why my master had kept me from them."

Though with the snow thrown at him, Galen just held his hand up and stopped the snow midair. "See, I told you, you only get me once." He smirked brightly. "Because you had to just start something.." He teased before dismissing the snow with a wave of his hand letting it fall to the ground.

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