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[mera_mera_ace]

Characters: Ace and Namur
Location: Secret area in the training center
Rating: G/PG
Open/Closed/Finished: Closed
Summary: Ace wanted to bring Namur into the fold of his and Thatch's plot.


Ace strolled down the hall towards Thatch's room. Only he wasn't going to see Thatch, but the man across the hallway. He hadn't really spent much time with Namur lately since both of them had classes and different things going on. He'd actually been going to class lately too....well at least today he had gone to all of his classes. He really didn't want to get kicked out.

Reaching the door, he knocked hoping his brother was in.

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[om_nom_namur]

Plot twist! Namur wasn't in his dorm. But he was easy to find outside, flipping through a textbook for PMGF 101. He'd read all this stuff like a thousand times but it still didn't sink in. With a groan, he flopped out across one of the walls to take a break. Clearly, studying was getting him nowhere fast.

[mera_mera_ace]

Eventually Ace found him. "Hey Namur!" He called standing beside his brother. "You busy tonight?"

[om_nom_namur]

Namur canted his head in the direction opposite of Ace, implying that he's looking at him, though it's hard to tell through the sunglasses.

"Got t' figure out all this shit," he indicated the book, flopped open in a similar pose of futile desperation. "So no, nothin' doin' at all this week." His tone implied he was going to die.

[mera_mera_ace]

"Man that's rough. I don't think I would be much help sadly. But I do wonder if you could meet me tonight in the secret room at the training center? I got something to run by you." Ace said quietly, making sure no one else was around to hear him.

[om_nom_namur]

"The... what now?" It's not that Namur couldn't hear him- Namur's hearing is excellent. "The hell y' talkin' 'bout, bro? What 'secret room'?"

[mera_mera_ace]

"The one people go too after hours to chat and hang out or stuff. It's in the training center but you don't need SeeD access to get inside." Ace told him exactly where it was before he glanced at his watch. "I have class, see you tonight. Around 10."

[om_nom_namur]

That sounded like the stupidest thing in the world. If you were going to sneak out after curfew, just sneak the hell out and go somewhere fun. Namur snorted his derision, but muttered "fine," and flicked another page in his book before haphazardly planting his face directly into its pages. He wished osmosis worked with knowledge the way it did with water.

LATER THAT NIGHT

[om_nom_namur]

Namur followed Ace's instructions on how to get to the 'secret room', which he was pretty damn sure every instructor and administrative staff knew about. It smelled like hormones run rampant. Disappointment, satisfaction, lust, revulsion, it was all blending together in a whirlpool of crazy before he even got to the place. Namur knew he was going to blush in a few minutes, or suddenly have desires to kill a dude, or maybe both.

"Damn, Ace," he sauntered in without hesitation anyway. "Do I even want t' know how y' found out 'bout this shitty place?"

[mera_mera_ace]

"Probably not. I am a young man after all, I'm sure you can put two and two together." Ace smiled as he slid off the wall. "Sorry, but we're less likely to be overheard here. Thatch and I are throwing a bachelor party for Espio. But we're forcing him to come because we know he never would willingly. You want in on the kidnapping action?"

[om_nom_namur]

"Them damn smolts goin' t' go through with it sooner rather'n later, huh?" Namur was a little surprised. He thought things were still on the rocks between Toby and Espio. "I'm in, but maybe we ought t' try an' think up shit he'd actually want t' do, 'stead a tryin' t' force him t' like what we like."

[mera_mera_ace]

"Oh no, they haven't set a date or anything...but just in case they get the bright idea to elope or something we want to make sure we do this thing right! And we all need a night out so what better reason eh? As for what he likes to do...the only thing I know he likes to do is mope around and draw or something..."

[om_nom_namur]

"Writin', but close 'nuff," Namur said. "So really the party thing ain't 'bout Espio at all an' more 'bout jus' draggin' him with us t' do somethin' fun cuz we can."

[mera_mera_ace]

"Pretty much. So are you in?" Ace asked with a wide grin hoping his brother would be interested in this endeavor.

[om_nom_namur]

"He's goin' t' hate us," Namur chuckled and rolled his eyes. "Y' really think y' got t' ask? Jus' tell me when an' where t' be, an' I'm there."

[mera_mera_ace]

"Oh he wont hate us. He's probably just not used to people giving a care. I was like that at first if you remember." Ace smiled warmly at Namur. He knew the fishman remembered when he had first joined and how he had tried to take Whitebeard's head over 100 times.

[om_nom_namur]

..... And had to get fished out of the ocean over 100 times. Yeah, Namur remembers. He aimed his fist at Ace's head, not gently but not hard, either. "Ain't everyone got their damn heads full a kelp, Grill Pit. Sheheheheh! Maybe yer right, though..." his voice trailed off uncertainly.

[mera_mera_ace]

"Yeah I know, I'm special." Ace said sticking his tongue out at Namur. He grinned even after the fishman bopped his head because he knew he was being kind of brat. But it didn't change the fact that he was happy Namur was going to help them.

"I hope so. I want him to realize we actually do care about him...not just because he thinks we have too."

[om_nom_namur]

Namur turned and headed for the door. As fun as it was being surrounded by the reek of teenagers past, there didn't seem to be any clear necessity to stay.

"Yeah, me too."

[mera_mera_ace]

"Next time, I'll find a different place that won't mess you up. Sorry about this...I forgot you can like taste and smell everything." Ace rubbed the back of his head as he apologized and then jumped up to follow his brother out.

[om_nom_namur]

Namur dropped his arm over Ace's shoulders. "No one else remembers either," he chuckled. "When d' y' think we'll do this fakeass bachelor party? 'S gettin' t' the end a term an' I'm goin' t' get pretty damn busy."

[mera_mera_ace]

"Maybe this weekend. I don't have anything else planned and I think Thatch is alright with that too. I'll let you know when we figure it out." Ace smiled and walked with Namur out of the room. It was nice getting to spend some time with him.