IC Contact - New

[thecrowingtobe]

[If it gets past the 4th ring and he doesn't pick up it will go to answering machine.]

This is Claudio. Leave a message and I'll get back to you if I can.

Comments

[Action] This is like an unprecidented level of idiot though

[mademyhell]

[Terry was trying to make a point to listen, and was doing a pretty good job until about halfway through the tirade. (Technically not a tirade because, well, fairly calm all things considered, but that's not the point.) He frowned and looked up, watching through the last section, bad driving technique aside, there was a lot wrong with that fucking mess.

There was a moment where Terry wondered exactly how incompetent a person he had to be to make it so his best friend and probably the only person he could stand on a regular basis (who hadn't decided that she was a relative and so able to bust into his personal bubble at any and all moments in time) thought power blindness was the only reason Trauma wanted him around. Sure, handy in a crisis, but Jinx practically had the same effect by now, and honestly, if he could read Claudio it would've made his life a hell of a lot easier in a situation like this. (No. Bad. Ignore that thought. That sucked last time.) ]

You're an idiot.

[Yeah, great start. Keep going on that track. It'll work. Sure.]

I don't-[Trauma cut himself off, Wrong. Start again.] Who else am I gonna call? ..You're pretty much all I've got. You and Jinx, but-[Now that just sounded wrong, and his distress at not being able to say what he meant showed. Sounded like he was settling. That wasn't what he meant. Goddamn it! There had been a point in his life where he hadn't completely sucked at people. He could remember that. He pauses for a long moment, trying to come up with words.]

Goddamn it.

[Deciding that words were obviously bad and prone to failing, Terry did something painfully stupid. He leaned over to shift the car into park, (Yeah yeah. Not good for the fucking car. He could hear all about it later.) before grabbing Claudio by the back of the neck and kissing him full on the mouth. He didn't linger, in fact, Trauma backed off pretty quickly, once his brain caught up with what he'd done, because....Well.

.....Right.

He was just...full of bright ideas today. Trauma slumped down in his seat, crossed his arms and contemplated the fact that he really needed to get better at words instead of taking stupid action. He'd died enough times in one life time to remember that stupid actions got you a hole in the chest. .....And that could be taken metaphorically in this case. Not literally, even if that had been a literal at one point. And Jesus Christ, why didn't his brain shut the fuck up?]

....So. There's...that.

[Action]

[thecrowingtobe]

[Well, he was an idiot, but that wasn't what he meant, or not all of what he meant. He had been trying to make excuses at first, or reasons. But here he got called an idiot, and it almost made him smile.]

[That is until the other put the breaks on like that. Oh yes he was about to raise to this change with strong protest. First off, this was his baby and you don't do that, second off, well shit man say stop, he would have stopped and parked it.]

[Just as he was about to protest however he found himself wide eyed in surprise as Trauma pulled him closer for a swift kiss and drew away again a moment later. Yeah, if that lingered long enough he would have kissed him back, almost instantly. But it hadn't and he felt his brain break a bit at that, unsure what to say or do.]

[He blinked over at the other, just watching him a moment longer. He then blinked again, slowly and sat back a moment]

Ah... well.... yes there is that. [he said, staring out the front windshield now, a very slow growing kind of stupid smile coming to his face. There was something about that that actually made him feel warm now instead of stone cold dread.]

So... if I decide to kiss you again you're not going to freak out and shut down on me, are you? Cause... that is a possibility right now. Just, you know, fair warning. Either that or you need to fix the fucking mixed signals.