10195/Barking Beetles Never Bite

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Barking Beetles Never Bite
Date of Scene: 19 February 2022
Location: Penthouse - Kord Co
Synopsis: Ted is a lightweight. It's not pretty.
Cast of Characters: Ted Kord, Booster Gold




Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord was feeling good. He was feeling very good. Bobo made excellent mimosas. The Beetle was doing a lot of talk about the feels. It was unnatural. It was stressful. True he did cheer up a Hella but even that was work for his feels. He unwound with a couple of mimosas on the pool deck, Bailey laying on his lap like a cat.

Then he had a couple more.

Then some more, because Bobo had really gotten the knack! The only snag was Bailey trying to polish his nails. Sitting under the sunlamps and toasty Ted kept drinking, because he really felt good. He'd cheered up a wonderful girl. Yes Hella was a grown woman, not to mention a middle weight to heavy hitter but, she hadn't outgrown the girl entirely. He liked cheering her up.

She had also brought up his memories of the first Blue Beetle who died while Ted did nothing, frozen with fear. So he kept drinking because it made that memory go away for a bit.

Booster Gold has posed:
Booster was upbeat, but for different reasons. Well, adjacent anyway. He arrived at the pool with a towel wrapped around his neck and spots Ted there. "Uh. Are you drinking alone there, buddy? Clearly the concept of early morning drinking had been front and center on his mind of late.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord blink blinks.

He hadn't noticed the sun come up. There it was, above Brooklyn.

He gets up and staggers to Booster. "Buddy! Join me! Life is goooooooood." His hands come up in a double cheek pat/slap for Booster. "Everything is AWESOME! Joan's favorite song. You know Legos..." The question sinks in, "I'm not along -alone. Bailey and Bobo are here." He grabs and holds the smaller bot up. "You and Hella got me and Hoan -Joan together and I gotta thank you! Yooooooou be reeeeally god to Ste... HELLA. She is a sweethead sweet-heart. I sent you pictures from our lunch. Didja see them? She's a load of laughs."

Booster Gold has posed:
This is all a bit much for Booster to take so early in the morning. The irony of this, while delicious, is of course missed on Booster.

"Hey, Ted, that's great. I'm happy for you." He tosses the towel over onto a chair and reaches out to steady Ted. "And yes. Hella is a great girl. But you need to take a seat for a minute." Booster looks at Bailey. "How many had he had?"

Ted Kord has posed:
Bailey points to three empty bottles of champagne. She decides this is human talk. She leaves patting Booster on the shoulder and... gives Skeets a very friendly stroke. She noticed he liked that.

Ted sits down, now concerned and rapidly sobering up. "What's the matter Boost? You seem very... meh for a guy on top of the world. You have a great girl, your app is chugging along and we're getting interested supers, you live in a great apartment and you aren't even born yet."

Ted looks around and suddenly seems to realize he's sitting.

Booster Gold has posed:
"Negative 420 baby - cool." Booster says with a smile. Of course he never touches the stuff personally - it's just one of those things he says because he thinks people just figure that about him and like it.         "Oh, I'm on top of the world, Ted. But you seem to be at the bottom of three different bottles of champagne. And with your tolerance, that may as well be one."

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord chuckles again. "Yeah. I'm a lightweight. I never do the stuff but Bobo makes a mean mimosa. All right, Bingo, coffee me!" Joan might be coming by.