Horizons Tattoo & Piercing Studio, Alexandria, VA: Saturday Night

[needsaparrot]

"Did I mention one of the duties of Moral Support is to make sure I actually go in this place?" Xander asked as he peered in through the glass doors.

[OOC: For the roomie-in-law, NFB due to distance.]

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[needsaparrot]

Gulp.

"I...knew that. Right. I guess. Yeah. Sure."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

La la la, this was not Anders smirking behind his hand.

Because it was Anders doing that and internally meeping at the same time.

[needsaparrot]

"You can even be in the same room if you want." That was totally Ray not bothering to smirk behind his hand.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders did that thing where he tried to stand up straighter and look solemn again.

"I guess as Moral Support Guy I should be there, yeah."

[needsaparrot]

"Come on." Xander clapped Anders on the back - right where his tattoo was eventually intended to be. "We can be mutual moral support. Or you know, actual support if either one of us starts to fall over."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I think we'll at least be sitting down for that," Anders said dubiously -- and no, he did not retaliate with the right-where-the-tattoo'll-be gesture, thank you very much. "Right? . . . right?"

[needsaparrot]

"Well, you will be."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Dude!" Anders glanced at Ray for help. "You're so not gonna have to stand up for that!"

[needsaparrot]

"Well no, but I don't think I'm gonna be sitting."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Point. And probably not for a while." And it's a good thing, Anders thought, that they have portal travel because wow, that'd be a bitch of an uncomfortable flight back to Bali Hai.

[needsaparrot]

"Unless you're aiming a lot lower than I thought, you should be fine for sitting down," Ray said, pointing them down a hallway filled with curtained cubicles. "Laying on your back, maybe not so much."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders let out a nervous sort of snicker-snort as he headed down the hallway. "Bricklaying could be dicey for a while there too maybe."

[needsaparrot]

"No comm--" Xander stopped. "It's a surprise. For next week. I'm gonna have to hide this for a week!"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders diverted himself from the realization that he was going to be one-handed when it came to putting up any poles or what have you by giving Ray a helpless look. "I might have to take back what I said about him being completely prepared," he teased.

[needsaparrot]

"Well I don't exactly walk around Fandom with my pants down most of the time!" Xander argued.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"For which," Anders returned calmly, "I'm pretty sure my roomie is . . . you know, I was going to say glad but . . ."

[needsaparrot]

"If I left it up to him I'd have a tattoo on my ass that says 'If you can read this, call 555-RNGR immediately.'"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders stopped dead in his tracks to double over laughing, then slid the silver bracelet off his left wrist to show Xander the engraving that read My name is Samuel Anders. If I forget who I am I will call Bel and Phoebe immediately on the inside. "Can't say I don't know the feeling."

[needsaparrot]

Xander snorted and reached under his shirt collar to pull out the dogtag on a chain around his neck that said, "If found, please return to Bridge Carson."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"They're conspiring," Anders said. "I swear they are."

Like they were apparently conspiring to stave off the inevitable of needles and poking. Not dirty.

[needsaparrot]

"Well, I did get him a matching one. In case the next time we have amnesia or whatever, we don't wake up in bed together."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I swear," Anders grinned, "you guys are so cute. It's awesome. Don't change that or I'll have to get frowny and I've absorbed some of Bridge's frowny-face skills."

[needsaparrot]

Xander looked slightly nervous as his tattoo artist -- his non-Ray tattoo artist -- slipped on gloves and started picking out paint bottles. "But not so cute it's disgusting, right? You'd tell me if it was disgusting."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Nope," Anders replied, not looking sideways at Xander on account of his shoulder being prepped. "Can safely say I've never even had the remotest urge to hurl."

[needsaparrot]

"See, true friends will tell you this stuff." True friends will also not laugh when you drop your pants and point to the dark green ink.