Post-Stall Consequences, Tag: Gil / Open

[Rei Anan]

Rei wanted to kick himself for missing it. Just hearing the stories was enough to make him burst out laughing, but what he would have given to actually have seen it. Words of Gil Venkat running after some woman completely naked—even going so far as to call her his princess!—was spreading all through the lower ranks. How could it not? That sort of embarrassing action was never short lived no matter how quickly it had ended, and it had ended quickly… in some busted up stall.

Bravo, Gil, bravo.

It wasn’t enough that the troopers who had pulled him out of the mess had spread the story around for everyone, causing many Remnant soldiers to randomly snicker when he passed, Rei needed to find Gil personally to ask him about it, which would proceed to him making fun of him over it. This serious of a breach of dignity demanded it.

He also wanted to know what sort of punishment Gil had faced. He’d heard some pretty drastic things, one trooper even going so far as to say they were going to castrate him to stop this episode from happening again. Rei didn’t believe it, not if Gil was still alive and on CR-319 anyway. Rei would rather have someone kill him than chop off anything down there, and he couldn’t believe Gil was different. Still, the punishment must have been good and Rei could always use a good laugh.

That was how Rei found himself outside one of the Cantina’s he knew Gil frequented. After discovering Gil wasn’t in his quarters he had assumed he must have been out getting shit faced somewhere. He certainly wasn’t working at the moment. That was why Rei had given it a bit of time before looking for him further in the hopes that not only would he get to make fun of Gil, but that he would be able to do it while he was drunk. That was bound to end well!

Rei walked into the Cantina and looked around inside. If he wasn’t in this one he knew of another one to look at, but he would have to decide if taunting a lowly trooper was really worth the time of walking to another Cantina or not.

[Gil Venkat]

What had Gil done as soon as he had been released from his punishments? Why, Gil had got his lily white ass down the cantina and Gil had proceeded to drink just enough spirits that his mind was nicely lubricated. Lubricated enough that he could simply filter all of those nasty memories right out, woosh! Out his ear! No more would he have to think about how the Lieutenant had reacted, how people had seen him in the street and how...how his Princess had left him!

"Anusher Wishkey dhammnit!" Gil slurred, pounding his empty glass on the table as a small panicky droid tottled over to deliver his drinks.

"Perhaps Sir has had enough for this evening? Customer: GIL VENKAT has had TWO ZERO drinks." the serving droid buzzed, a small click with each access of its memory core.

"Ghil Venkhat?" he laughed, pounding the table. "Whosse? Hashen't you heard? I ish the nhak-" he stopped, spluttering on a gulp of whiskey gone wrong. "I esh the nhaked watsher!"

That was the name they had given him of course! Gil Venkat, the naked watcher! Apparently the story was that he was some kind of perverted stalker who hid in alleyways and jumped out at unsuspecting woman in the nude. It wasn't a bad story if he was honest, in fact, the story was about a hundred times better than what had actually happened. The truth of the matter was, Gil Venkat had been jilted. He had been used! Like some kind of cheap whore!

And that hurt!. Or perhaps that was the whiskey talking...this much whiskey always made him emotional.

"Ya shee! Theys think I stalksh women..." Gil muttered, though the droid had abandoned the scene after discarding the drink for Gil to find. "Oh wehll...ish no matter..."

Despite everything that happened, and how he had been used and how it hurt oh so much Gil still couldn't take his mind off the woman, Zahra Shapani. His Princess. She'd really done things for him! She was about the only woman he'd ever met who got straight to the point much as he loved to. Perhaps Gil even loved her!

"No, thatsh the fuchking wishkey!" he spluttered, shaking his head to clear the poisonous thoughts.

Gil Venkat did not love women. Gil Venkat loved fucking women yes, but he did not, and would not dedicate himself to one in such a manner, that was absurd! But...Gil Venkat was not content with letting this matter lie, oh no. Even now, in his highly intoxicated state the remnant soldiers brain was whirring away trying to come up with a plan to be reunited with his Princess. He was making a small mental note to be sure to monitor all passage to the station under the Shapani name. He'd find her again.

If he remembered in the morning that was, not likely considering how well he was getting on with his dear friend Mr. Whiskey.

"Thensh she lefts me! Jusht there!" he said to no one in particular.

[Rei Anan]

There he was in all his glory. Giloriam Venkat, naked street runner and piss-ass drunk. He really knew how to make a name for himself. Just leave it to Gil to meet already ridiculous, unwanted standards, in this case of being pathetic and drunk, and then bypass them completely. Rei could just imagine how proud he would feel in the morning if there were any odds at all that he was going to remember anything in the morning.

Listening to Gil from a distance, he was actually rather impressed Gil was still awake, or perhaps the poor drunken trooper thought it was too early to pass out. The night was young, but Gil must have gotten a big head start on it if his speech was any judge, or perhaps the fact that he was talking and mumbling to himself was a bigger indicator. Everyone else at the bar seemed to be trying to avoid him. Neither of the seats next to him where taken.

So Rei took one of the seats, sliding right up to make Gil’s night even better.

“You’re getting on well, Gil. First naked and now wasted,” Rei commented as he sat down and waved over the bartender to get himself a drink. The man looked miserable, and yet Rei had to be careful not to laugh. He hoped Gil had put on a better show for that woman he had cased, assuming that woman had ever made it to Gil’s quarters, which somehow he was seriously doubting right about now.

“What’s this about stalking woman?” he decided to bring up. He’d heard all about if of course, it was one of the more popular rumors going around about him, but he wanted to see how Gil would react to someone else, specifically someone else in the Remnant Core though he wasn’t wearing his uniform, actually bringing it up rather than him just ranting to himself.

His drink came and Rei took a sip of it, not at all matching Gil for what he was gulping down. Not only did he not want to catch up, he didn’t want to get drunk. He could aim to bother Gil while either sober or drunk, but if he were drunk it was more likely to turn into a brawl. Not that Gil would win if it did, but he didn’t want to be scolding by their beautiful Lieutenant so soon, everything considered. He wanted to impress her positively with his charm, not negatively like… this.

[Gil Venkat]

Gil was happily holding a conversation with nobody in particular when a new arrival drew his attention away from his pit of self-pity, for a moment at least. When his eyes locked with this bold one sliding alongside him Gil felt a hiss of breath go out of him. Rei motherfucking Anan. Well, that was just perfect, that idiot was really the last thing that Gil needed hounding him right now. Stupid pure-blooded fucker had everything Gil should have. He was a Shocker, in truth, not like Gil pretended to be.

Gil just hated him.

"Yeaash you thinhks sho Ahnan?" Gil growled. "Sthill seehn more acshun than you.."

With this Gil threw a disgusted look at the insignia that marked the man as a Shocker and pushed a little distance between him and Rei. If he sat that close to the prick for any length of time, well, he'd be swinging punches and busting heads. You know, if he could stand or walk by that point...he might just have to activate his spikes and try a cheap shot.

"Stahlking?" Gil muttered, confused. "Ohhhhh! Stahlking...yesh...tahts what I wash doin'..."

Let him think he was stalking! That was much better. Rei Anan finding out that Gil had been dumped by the most beautiful Princess in the galaxy was not preferable. Not even now, at his drunkest would Gil share even a sliver of information about the actual incident. Or at least he hoped he wouldn't, Gil did have an awful problem of loose lips when he had something to brag about... Getting with a Princess certainly was something to brag about but the stuff that followed...he might have to omit that...

"Why ish you here anywah?" Gil asked, not in a very pleasant tone. "Gots...." he started, laughing at his own sentence before he even uttered it. "Gots no pretty boysh to be lying with?" he coughed, choking on his own cackle.

He was, no wait, that was laughable. He thought he was competition for Gil when it came to the Lieutenant. It was goddamn hilarious. Why anybody would pick that pampered, arrogant asshole over Gil was beyond him. In fact, even in his drunken state Gil Venkat could definitely say he was the better one. Anan just pranced about and fluttered his eyelashes, Gil actually had class. It wouldn't surprise Gil if Anan was more wont to be lying with men than women, even if it had started as a joke in his mind he was enjoying the feel of it now.

[Rei Anan]

Rei grinned at how thrilled Gil seemed to be at his arrival. It was always a joyous event when he could annoy the man, especially when it was so obvious.

“If you call chasing women in the street naked having more action, then you can have it. I’ve found women prefer to be impressed by a man’s equipment, not laugh hysterically at it. No wonder your drinking,” he laughed.

He also got personal amusement every time Gil called him by his last name, if only because Rei always made a point of calling him by his first name. Normally, especially if they were Remnant, he called people by their last names. Not for Gil. He felt that the familiarity of calling him that, making them sound like friends, would annoy the heck out of him. Not only that, but at the same time it could appear as though he were disrespecting him by using his first name, as though inferring that he was just a civilian rather than a guard.

All of this made Rei feel ridiculously clever. Well, he usually felt clever but when he came up with such great and subtle ways to be a pest to people he didn’t like he felt, well, even more clever.

The fact alone that Rei could understand the incoherent babble streaming out of Gil made him impressed with himself. Because really, it was hard enough sitting near the man when he was like this, let alone trying to listen to what he was actually saying. Here was Rei doing both! He must have suburb patience and hearing.

Yet he frowned at what he was told. As desperate as the little soldier often was, Rei didn’t actually think he’d resort to stalking. Well maybe Sorel, but another woman? If here were willing to stalk Sorel, though, what was to stop him from doing the same to another? No no, Gil didn’t like him, so who knew if he was telling the truth or not? Probably he didn’t even know.

“So rejected you’ve resorted to stalking women,” he said pitiably. “That’s not going to make them like you any better. You’ll just go from pathetic to creepy.”

Wait, wasn’t he here because he wanted to find out what actually happened? When had his goal been turned into pissing Gil off? Well maybe if he pissed Gil off enough he’d tell him just out of… out of… oh well. At least this was fun. He could always find out what happened in the official reports, or maybe a chance would open up with Gil at some point. At this point though it seemed they were more likely to end up brawling. Especially when the idiot inserted that Rei slept with boys! Rei Anan, ex-secret ops retriever, was not gay.

Fucker.

“Men or women, at least I’ve got people who want to sleep with me,” he snapped, making a point to stress the they want to sleep with me part, not that he actually slept with them. And why shouldn’t both genders want to? He was damn sexy!

[Gil Venkat]

Gil turned to Rei with a dark look, his eyes wandering more than usual due to the toxicity of the alcohol. He was pretty sure there were two Rei's sitting with him. A most horrifying thought, considering one of them was enough of a subject of hatred for him. He didn't really need another piling on top of the first ones already annoying presence. Not one bit. Especially following what the idiot said about Gils...Gils equipment! That was just too far.

"You lishen ere..." Gil growled, slamming an empty glass down hard enough to crack the base of it. "More...ahha, more acshun? haha." he laughed, fake as hell. "I wash with many womensh...many"

And by many Gil of course meant he had that one roll with a Princess. Before that he hadn't seen an awful lot as of late, but in the past he was with many! That had to count for something, right? Just because he was having a run of bad luck on the station didn't mean a thing. Besides, Rei didn't have a clue about any of it and there wasn't a damned thing he could do to prove Gil right or wrong either way!

"Cahnt a man jusht drink?"

Why was it such a big problem that he, Gil, wanted to sit around and drink all day? Even the goddamn serving droid seemed to have a problem with it. Like a man couldn't decide where he wanted to spend his money. What was that all about? He was bringing them a healthy sum and at the same time he was keeping to his self in the corner. If Anan would piss off everything would be perfect again, just Gil, the endless stream of whiskey and the thoughts of his Princess who abandoned him.

"We'll shee aboutsh thaaaat!" Gil said mystically. "Stahlking ish such a nasthy word." he added.

It wasn't really stalking, Gil just admired some women from afar. It was usually closely followed by Gil actually going up and introducing himself to them. If that was the definition of stalking, Gil was going to have to spend a long while rethinking his understanding of basic because that sounded nothing like what he was used to. He was simply doing some recon before his mission with the ladies! Besides, the only incident Anan knew about involved him running after someone who had been stolen by her brutish brother.

That most definitely wasn't stalking.

"Jusht men though" Gil cackled, a foamy burp emerging amidst the action. "I hearsh that they call you..." he laughed more, rubbing an eye with a fist. "that they call you the anal shocker..." he continued to laugh, louder now.

[Rei Anan]

“Was, were you? All dried out now?” Rei laughed, noting the violence done to the glass and what possibly Gil might have wanted to do to him, but not really caring enough to consider that maybe he ought to back off a bit least the drunken man do something drastic… like attack him. That would be brilliant. Though in this state Rei refused to believe that the idiot could get the upper hand on him. Rei had the Force, after all. For all of Gil’s sparkly knuckles, he wasn’t a real Shocker.

“Oh, well, yes. Isn’t that what I’m doing?”

He intentionally took another sip from his own unbroken glass to show him it was okay. Was Rei only drinking? Not quite, but he couldn’t keep his mouth shut around Gil. At least while working he had some control over it, but off hours and out of his Remnant uniform made him have considerably less control over what he said to the trooper. Off duty Rei didn’t have to try to keep his taunting quiet, so he could do it more and considerably louder.

Encouraging Gil to drink more probably wasn’t the smart idea. If he thought of the man as a friend he’d probably even try to stop him. As it stood, thankfully, Gil was no such thing. Rei wanted to see him fall out of his chair and pass out on the floor. Afterwards he could even use the event as a way to woo women. ‘Poor guy, I tried to tell him to stop, but he just can’t hold is liquor like me.’ There was no way they couldn’t be impressed by that, especially since Rei was impressive without that. Then he could tell Gil all about it later, just to rub it in.

Gil needed to be passed out on the floor, first, though.

“A fitting word then, for you.” You could be the cleanest man in the world, but the moment you got this shitfaced it didn’t matter. Everyone would see you as a dirty drunkard. With their capable to walk they’d probably end up as one, too, assuming they hadn’t spilt some of their own alcohol on themselves to get a head start.

Rei wasn’t drawn in by the drunkard’s claim. If somehow the idiot did get a woman with stalking it would no doubt be a mentally broken one. One who was clingy and thought that just because he slept with her once that they were official or some nonsense. Before he knew it she would be planning the wedding, and he’d have no idea until she dragged him up to the altar. Then he would be the bad guy for running like hell and leaving her there, or at least that’s how Rei would spread the rumors. He rather hoped he was wrong now.

Their conversation was going so well until Gil decided to cross the line.

“No one’s called me that but you and your stupid drunk imagination! Leave me out of your fantasies. It’s disgusting,” Rei growled. What sort of bullshit was he sprouting now? Even if he decided to do it that way, it would be with women! Women curse him! He was no gay! It was just wrong, and Rei shuttered that his thoughts were even being put in this direction.

[Gil Venkat]

Was...all dried...! Of course he was all dried out, but, well..that was because he had found his Princess! And Rei wasn't supposed to know any of that! Not one little bit, so why was he... God, what a complete idiot! When was he going to stop assuming things about Gil and fuck off, stop plaguing him more than the soldiers mounting list of problems already were. Well, he could cut that right out, Gil didn't care, all Gil cared about was when his next drink would arrive and how fast he could gulp it down...

"Wash ash in, wash until your sthupid face chame in..." Gil scowled, wishing the idiot would just leave. "

When he went on to imply that he too, was here to drink, alongside Gil no less the soldier gave a small false laugh in response. Really? Rei was here to drink, with Gil specifically. It was ridiculous, even drunk as he was Gil could see just how insane this situation was. He and Gil were like Wookiees and Trandoshans. They did not get on. Why they would drink together, especially when Gil had been through so much and...

That was it...

"Yhouu....yhou bahsthard!" Gil spat, glaring at Rei once more. "Yhou jusht...whant to whatsh this...this messh!"

Rei had come here just to gloat! To sit back and watch as Gil imploded!

"Who told yhou abouht thish...?" Gil demanded, ignoring his taunt about fitting words...

When Rei had joined him Gil had thought...well, he had thought that it had been a simple coincidence, that nothing malicious was underway. Not anymore, Gil now realised that Rei had purposefully sought him out, had somehow heard about Gil's latest problem and then decided to track him down. Gil could find comfort in one thing however, could at least be happy with the fact that Rei did not know the truth, did not know the ultimate tragedy. Gil had lost his Princess!

Had he known the truth? Well, had he known the truth Gil would be grinning just as wide as he was now regardless. Rei had taken his words to heart harder than Gil had imagined he could, his anger at the previous comment giving Gil a deep sense of accomplishment. He had done it! Drunk as he was, Gil had got under Reis skin. It was a victory!

"Tousched a nerve...hehe..." Gil laughed savagely, ordering another drink. "Ish that whhy yhou ish here...?" he laughed some more. "Whant to thake Ghil home to...hehe...you fancshy me!"

Oh yes, Gil was going to rub this one in SO hard.

[Rei Anan]

Rei’s ability to understand drunken ramble was steadily decreasing by a sharp incline at this point. He was hearing more slurs and mutters than actual words, which made talking to Gil, let alone getting any information out of him, difficult. He really should have come in earlier before he was this out of it. At this point the only thing he could really do was ruin the man’s night—something he seemed to be doing already.

That was why when Gil finally figured it out and called him a bastard Rei outright laughed. It wasn’t as though that was something he could deny, at least not at the moment. He looked so appalled! It was always nice to have his actions known and appreciated.

“Who told me? It’s all around headquarters. Even the trainees should know about it by now,” he snickered.

Even if Gil wouldn’t tell him the details, there were enough that everyone else would be laughing for a long time yet whenever he came around. He’d have to do something miraculous to make people forget, but the only miraculous things Gil was good at was messing up. Rei needed to make sure to be around when running through the streets naked was topped, if only because Rei didn’t know how that could be topped, but if anyone would it’d be Gil.

Gil topped a lot of things, and then trampled over others, as with Rei’s good humor and patience. Touched a nerve? Fancied Gil? The man wasn’t just drunk but delusional. He was tempted to order the hardest alcohol they had for Gil so that he could watch him get alcohol poisoning. As it was, he decided the best revenge would be to harass Gil in the morning when any thought of waking up in the morning would be akin to dying with the hangover he would no doubt end up with.

“Can’t find any women who fancy you so you have to try your hand at men?” Rei snapped. “I knew you’d already hit the bottom, but I didn’t know you’d claw your way through rocks.”

[Gil Venkat]

The bastard, you know, the one he had just called a bastard! was laughing at him! Laughing his ass off at what Gil had never intended as being a joke, had intended as being nothing other than the most offensive of comments! Rei was a bastard, through and through. That was how Gil saw it, hell, that was how everybody saw it (at least to Gil's thinking). The idea that he could simply...laugh it off...was, just, too much!

"S'hnot a joke" he growled, glaring at Rei as if he wanted nothing more than to punch that look off his face.

And as for the story...all the trainees knew. Well, that was just great, every bastard in the HQ was going to be laughing at him. Laughing just like the idiot sitting here. By the time Gil got done smacking the grins off all of their faces, well, he'd have to have his hand reconstructed. Well, it was one way to be spending his pay...you know, other than throwing it down his throat every night in liquid form.

"shjusht bullsh-hit" he spat, waving a hand.

Who had proof!? Honestly, unless they pulled up the recordings from the Station cams well, then...

"Shit...they cahns do that..." he spluttered, spitting out a mouthful of alcohol.

That was the last thing Gil needed, for them to find the videos and throw them around everywhere. They'd see him naked, see him getting floored by that Devaronian bastard, see...well, far more than Gil ever wanted them to see! They'd even see his Princess, and he didn't want them connecting any dots there, or making any kind of assumptions about just who the woman was. The last thing Gil needed was the bastards knowing he'd been cock-blocked by none other than some red-skinned idiot. It wasn't his idea of a good story, not at all.

So Gil was pleased as he could possibly be, considering everything that happened, when Rei finally snapped at him and started throwing little accusations of his own around. Want to try his hand at men? Hahahaha, Rei was the one who wanted that! Not Gil! Oh, wait till the trainees heard about this, they wouldn't have time to think about Gil running around naked because they'd all have found out that Gil running around naked had turned Rei on! Brilliant!

"Youhed knowsh all about rocksh!" he cackled. "Rei likesh to jhuggle rocksh, hehehe" he giggled to himself, too amused by far.