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[greenmoonrising]

WHO DECIDED IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO TURN HULK GREEN? More importantly, what did you use to make him green because it's not washing off or coming off with any spells!

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[rule_britannia]

You know where to find me sweetheart.

[greenmoonrising]

You should come join me outside - the kids are bleating so much no one would notice if you started screaming. ;)

[rule_britannia]

Are you attempting to insinuate something about my vocalisations there, Bruce?

[greenmoonrising]

I'm more insinuating what I could do to get some bleating vocalisations out of you.

... Though I might have trouble keeping it up if you DO bleat like a goat. Not into bestiality, you know.

[rule_britannia]

...

Always something one needs to know about a friend.

[greenmoonrising]

At least you won't catch me with my pants down in the goat pen! :)

[rule_britannia]

There's a mental image I didn't need. Bloody hell.

[greenmoonrising]

You don't fancy me with my pants down in the open?

[rule_britannia]

... Bruce. Really.

[greenmoonrising]

Arthur, really, not nice to keep a man waiting.

[rule_britannia]

You're actually expecting my company?

[greenmoonrising]

I was actually waiting for an affirmative or negative response to my question, but I wouldn't object to company. Hulk's still headbutting anything within two feet of him.

[rule_britannia]

I suggest you stay out of his range, in that case.

I'll be there shortly.

[greenmoonrising]

He's stopped headbutting me after I conked him one - I think he's decided I'm too big to fight off in that way.

[rule_britannia]

Maybe he's not utterly a lost cause, then.

[Arthur's writing reaches a whole new level of awful as he writes while he's walking..]

[greenmoonrising]

[Takes a moment to tie Hulk up so he won't attack anything else.]

Not completely, but he's huge. He's double the size of most of the kids and I'm wondering if he's really the same age as them.

[rule_britannia]

You haven't let Stark near him have you? Or that weird guy, what's his name.. Sherlock. I wouldn't put it past him to have conducted some bizarre experiment.

[The writing stops there, and within a few minutes Arthur's close enough to call out to the other boy]

Oi, Bruce!

[greenmoonrising]

[Glances up and waves at Arthur, looking thoroughly rumpled with a smear of dirt on his cheek from having wrestled with the goat.]

Hey!

And no, apparently he was just born this way.

[Gestures at Hulk.]

[rule_britannia]

I feel sorry for the mother.

[He raises one eyebrow in the goat's direction. Oh no, he's not even going near that]

[greenmoonrising]

I think the mother was even bigger. That or he gets it from his father in which case I feel even more sorry for her.

[rule_britannia]

You're not bloody kidding. If I were you I'd take to wearing some kind of protection. If he gets much bigger he'll be headbutting you in the crotch.

[greenmoonrising]

He seems to have settled for now. [Smiles wanly.] He probably won't try attacking me until he's hit another growth spurt and yeah... at that point I'll get the quidditch gear or something.

[rule_britannia]

I'm sure I can lend you mine, if you have trouble getting hold of it.

[The wan smile is noted, and he pats his friend's shoulder]

[greenmoonrising]

I'll hold you to that promise.

[Smiles a bit more easily at the pat to his shoulder and moves to sit on the sturdy wooden posts of the goat enclosure.]

How's that going for you by the way? Quidditch I mean.

[rule_britannia]

[Arthur leans beside him, and tilts his head back to look up at the sky. He smiles crookedly]

Fairly well, I'd say. Still nervous as anything but I'm going to give it my best.