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WHO: Charlie and Luna
WHERE: The Batgirl Apartment
WHEN: Monday Night?
WARNINGS: Teenagers
SUMMARY: Charlie and Luna play video games and Luna asks awkward questions.
FORMAT: Para to start, then whatever?

Charlie had a spot cleared out on the edge of the room that she used for bouncing, and she had described in what she hoped was enough detail so Luna could use it for apparating in. The rest of the room was just as messy as usual, though she'd at least taken a few minutes to gather up all her dirty clothes and shove them in the hamper.

Otherwise? Messy. Messy messy messy. Even her desk was messy, covered with her laptop and school books and an old picture of Josh. Charlie was flopped out on a beanbag chair on the floor as she waited for the witch to show up, poking through the dashboard on her xbox.

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"...Oh," so they were zombies too, but Charlie didn't feel the need to point that out. "Yeah, like reading a book about spells except, you know, fun."

She held up the controller. "You play it with this. Want me to show you or do you just want to try?"

Luna just raised an eyebrow. "Books are fun." Come on, Charlie, everyone knows that.

She frowned at the controller, thinking. "Is it safe, to use someone else's? That can be a bit risky with wands."

"Books can be fun. They're usually not." Charlie shrugged. Reading was okay. Sort of. It was just so SLOW. And so much sitting still.

She looked rather puzzled and shook her head. "Anybody can use it, it's not like it was designed for me. It's just an xbox. Here, look."

And herein lies a description of what some of the buttons do.

If she could put more disapproval into that shake of her head, she would. "I'm going to have to respectfully disagree."

After a brief rundown Luna took the controller and began experimentally pressing all the buttons. Luckily, one of them happened to be start!

"Well, then you can do my reading for me." Charlie grinned, handing the controller over and leaning back as Luna went about poking at the buttons. When she hit start, the intro movie started.

"See? You just watch this until it starts telling you how to play. The screen will tell you what buttons do what for this specific game. It's totally easy."

"You really should do it yourself!" She protested, before the mystery of the buttons took top priority.

"If you say so..." She followed along with the directions, accidentally skipped through most of the introductory cutscene, and began customizing her character. He was going to be stealthiest bright yellow warrior ever. "What happens if I don't press the right buttons?"

"I do if I have to. It's just...tedious. And so many books are on tape now, it's awesome!"

Charlie shrugged. "Nothing. Or maybe you die."

"Listening to a novel would be a novel experience."

Luna smiled. Until the last part of that sunk in, causing her to drop her controller. "Die?!"

Charlie laughed. "It's fun! I listen to a lot of them. Well, books on mp3s I guess. Nobody uses tapes."

Charlie blinked at Luna's shock. "Yeah. Then you have to start over."

Sorry, apparently fatal game, you were going to have to wait a moment. Luna only had even more questions. "What's an em-pee-three? And what does books have to do with those little clear strips Muggle use to repair things?"

Also, Charlie, you were officially the worst friend. "You should have told me that sooner. I prefer my games to be a little less dangerous."

Charlie just stared at Luna at that. "Uhm. Okay, so...." Oh good lord how was she going to explain this. "Tapes, not tape. Tapes were used to store music and sound adn stuff. You could listen to them on a tape player. But now everyone keeps it on their computer!"

And then she rolled her eyes. "Luna, it's just in the game. You die in the game and have to start the level over. I promise my xbox won't actually hurt you."

Luna just stared back. "That makes sense." Said like it made no sense at all. Which, well, it didn't. "Computers are much larger. They would be better places to store things."

She frowned down at the controller. "You're sure? I was wondering why I had to pick out armor..."

Charlie frowned at Luna's logic there, and shook her head. "That's not...look, when we both have a whole free day, I'll explain more of this technology stuff to you, okay?"

She grinned at the screen though and nodded. "Right, armor keeps you alive longer. Every game has different rules though. This one mostly involves shooting the guys who are shooting at you."

Luna looked a little disappointed. She had so many questions! But Charlie was right. It could wait.

"With those fire-wand things?" She had officially entered the battlefield, but it was clear something was bothering her. "Do I have to do it that way? I don't mind fighting when I have to, but-- from what I remember those are usually fatal. I'd prefer not to kill anyone."

"They're called guns, Luna. And..." she frowned at the screen. "You kinda have to. It's the whole point of the game, really! It's a first person shooter so there is...shooting."

She wasn't entirely sure how else to explain it."

"All right." Her expression turned steely. "I'll do it. I'll... try to aim for places that won't hurt too much, but I'll do it."

Charlie watched this for a few seconds and then shook her head. "You know what. Let's play something else."

"What do you think about a racing game, maybe? With cars and stuff?"

"Oooh, yes," Luna nodded, turning back to Charlie. Oblivious to the fact that 'she' was getting riddled with bullet holes. "Though you should know, before we compete, that my earrings provide an excellent defense against Loser's Lurgy."

Charlie carefully reached out and turned the game off before Luna could realize that she'd just died horribly. "And Loser's Lurgy is what?"

As she asked, Charlie pushed the xbox back some and tugged the Wii forward, sticking Mario Kart in it and then scrambling around until she found the two wheel shaped controllers for pretty much her second favorite Wii game. She handed one over to Luna.

"An awful affliction. Causes the suffer's performance in everything to, well, suffer. Irritation is a common side effect."

Grabbing the controller, Luna turned a contemplative gaze towards the younger girl. Idly turning the wheel as she debated whether or not it would be wise to do what she was about to.

"Charlie," she began. "May I ask you something?"

[Charlie was spinning her own wheel around one finger as the Wii started up and SUPER MARIO KART WII! appeared on the screen, etc.]

Hmm? Sure! You can ask me anything, Luna. Unless it's about school 'cause I'm not thinking about that at all till the end of the month.

No questions about school, then.

I was wondering... you seemed very sad, before I left, about your friend Josh. Do you still miss him?

[Charlie was Luigi. Charlie was always Luigi.]

[she frozen up at the question, and for several seconds poor Luigi just sat there at the starting line before Charlie's mind caught up and thought to actually have him go.]

I, uh. ...Yeah, I do. I mean. S-sometimes. I guess.

...why?

Because you're my friend.

I don't like you seeing you sad -- not to say you need to hurry up and get happier, these things take time.

[Charlie is catching up, but just with the NPC's. How is Luna so good at this?]

I...I know he's not coming back. Even if he did he probably wouldn't remember me. So I'm trying. I guess.

I don't know.

[She sounds more mopey already!]

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*sigh* I didn't get a tag for this.

*hug* It's all right!

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I almost had charlie say 'die in the game' but it was just too good...

You are evil.

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sigh I didn't get a tag for this.

hug It's all right!