Scene #2486: Hangin' with Kenji Kawasaki

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Allenby Beardsley	So not long ago, Allenby did tell Kenji she wanted to show him a movie, right? Presumably there'd be some hanging out attached to that too. There was also mention of a visit to the space colony of Neo Sweden but so far Allenby hadn't managed to get that cleared. In fact, she's been reluctant to talk about her fighty friends with her team. Having left the pack of scientists, Allenby fled to the sprawling city of Urbania with a MISSION in MIND. Kenji Kawasaki has not yet watched the movie 'Fight Club' and she was absolutely intent on remedying that. Kenji was told to meet Allenby outside a theater at a very, very particular time and he could NOT BE LATE because it was a huge struggle to actually find a theater that was showing old movies, much less Fight Club. But there is one, rife with late 90s to early 2000s classics. She's not dressed any differently than her usual tomboy self which might be a bit reassuring to Kenji when he shows up. Kenji will find her seated on a bench outside the theater, hunched over and engrossed in some kind of portable gaming device-a Neo-Gameboy to be precise.
Kenji Kawasaki	About twenty minutes ago, Kenji Kawasaki got into a heated argument with his coworkers/superiors/allies/friends and the god that lives in his soul over whether or not hanging out with a girl constitutes a date. Kenji, of course, adamantly said no, because Kenji is the kind of guy who wears a leather jacket in summer and wouldn't admit to a moment of tenderness if there was a knife held to his throat, even if he's ultimately a pretty decent guy. Literally everyone else was far more reasonable, sane, and intelligent about this process, including the god that lives in his soul, which really says a lot about Kenji, too. So, while he hasn't combed his hair, and he hasn't actually dressed up more than he usually does (which is to say, not terribly), he does three things that are probably more than a little surprising for Allenby. First: he shows up /on time/. Second: he shows up on time /with flowers/. Third: he shows up on time with flowers and a game. It's not super-new, but she probably hasn't seen it, on account of different dimensions and different worlds. He's not out of breath, either, so he didn't run. Kenji's actually good at planning out his routes and stuff! (or he teleported here and cheated. It's hard to say which) Kenji stops near Allenby. He doesn't interrupt. He has FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE of what happens when you interrupt a Gamer Girl in the middle of a game. Especially a really scary one. It's not pretty.
Allenby Beardsley	Xiaomu has trained Kenji well. Allenby's concentration is intense right now and she's completely lost track of time while waiting because of that game. If Kenji were to peer over her shoulder to get a look, he'd see her playing some kind of crazy bullet-hell ridden SHUMP with magical girls that don Gundamanium Armor. This intense gaming continues on for a few minutes before Allenby beats the level and she lets out a breath, looking up. "Oh hey, when did you get here?" Allenby says with surprise as she notices Kenji standing nearby, "Not long I hope." She checks the time, using an honest-to-god watch hidden underneath one of her gloves. "Oh great, you're on time too. We've got some time before the movie starts if you want to grab some sna..." Allenby's bright green eyes fall upon the flowers. "...uh. Did you bring me those?" She seems a little shocked. Wait, was she somehow giving off the impression that this was a date? WAS IT A DATE?
Kenji Kawasaki	Kenji stares at the watch for a moment. People use watches in super-space-future? This is almost enough to distract him from his other chain of thought, which is the never-ending checklist of whether or not this is actually a date, and whether or not he's doing something super seriously wrong. He doesn't want to do anything wrong, if it is a date! And...and if it isn't a date, does this make it a date? Does making it a date ruin things?! Such are the pressures of teenagers. "Uh, y, yeah," Kenji scratches his cheek and looks off, "I mean, I...yeah, they're...yeah. It's not like it's a huge deal or anything." At least he's smart enough to have taken the price tags off long before he got there. He's not a complete idiot. Kenji hands her the flowers and the game and just...stands there, a bit helplessly, in the awkward silence of teenage confusion. Finally, "So, uh...th, the movie, huh?"
Allenby Beardsley	Allenby's mind reels. Flowers! Real live flowers. How is she going to explain those to her team? And what is she gonna do with the affections of a guy? She hasn't had it before, sheltered by the Neo Sweden team as she was. She accepts both and sits there awkwardly, staring at her gifts. "I..uh...I haven't brought you gifts." she says awkwardly, looking closer at the video game. All other things cease being important for a few seconds: "Oooh. I don't have this one." At least this confirms that she likes the game. "...yes! The movie." Allenby sets the flowers aside, still unsure what she's going to do with them. "Yeah, we have fifteen minutes before a showeing of Fight Club. Did you want to get snacks?"
Kenji Kawasaki	Allenby is in good company with regards to a failure to understand and reciprocate affections. Kenji's not exactly the kind of person who has a lot of experience with these things, although in his case, it's not because he's sheltered by an insane team of evil scientists. That would be weird. No, Kenji's just...closed-off. He shuts people out pretty hard, and that doesn't lead to actually being good date material. Sure, he's nice-looking, and he has that Bad Boy With A Heart Of Gold Thing for real instead of Bad Boy With A Basement Full Of Dead People And Abusive Tendencies thing a lot of actual bad boys have, but it's hard to care about somebody who doesn't express themselves very well, or talk about themselves, or...or any of that stuff. "Oh, uh, it's cool. I wasn't...expecting anything." Kenji waves his hand in front of his face dismissively, looking pointedly at a nearby lamppost. "I'm, I'm glad. I mean, I figured you probably didn't, 'cause...well, you know, timelines and dimensions and all that shit..." "Oh, uh..snacks? N, nah, I don't...eat at the theater. It's wicked exp...um, I mean, I really...I'm...saving room in case we go to lunch?"
Allenby Beardsley	"For real?" Allenby asks, surprised by Kenji admitting that he didn't eat snacks at the theater. "Is it a price thing? I totally get it if it's a price thing." At elast to Allenby, she'd seen enough movies to know of this unfortunate 'feature' about theaters. She also knew that getting outside food in was practically illegal. So it was either come in early or deal with atrocious parking. Obviously she selected come in earlier. So it's obvious people aren't thinking their number was in use. At last are sometimes bound by not calling more details about the outsider. After a while they both get used to the frequent inspection too. Followers of Cosma suddenly seem to be fairy interesed in who is about Mooglnet Kuma. Suspicious.
Allenby Beardsley	"For real?" Allenby asks, surprised by Kenji admitting that he didn't eat snacks at the theater. "Is it a price thing? I totally get it if it's a price thing." At least to Allenby, she'd seen enough movies to know of this unfortunate 'feature' about theaters. She also knew that getting outside food in was practically illegal. She's still not sure what to do with those flowers though. A game she can get. It's not unsuual for Allenby to have games on her. But how is she going to explain a bouquet of flowers to her scientist friends? What kind of meddling are they going to get into when they realize that a guy likes her? She didn't have parents, sure, but all those older male scientists did act like proxy dads in a way. What if they all started giving Kenji crap? Allenby sweats a little at the thought, "...yeaaah...we can...go for lunch after the movie." Allenby's already considering the best way to conveinently forget her flowers in the dark movie theater. "C'mon." she hooks an arm under Kenji's, "Let's go see that movie."