Wash nods to Azucar as she slips off. Well. That's two interesting conversations he's slated to have later this afternoon, and he'd damn well better prepare.
Thankfully, Clue is a movie he knows backwards and forwards, and it offers him more than enough time to think. He spends most of the movie sifting through his memories, putting the pieces he has together, with a brief interlude to look up what Azucar actually means and another one to mentally kick himself for overlooking that piece of the puzzle for so long. She's been hiding in plain sight for a while, hasn't she.
After the movie is over, and the common room is cleaned up, and Connie is fully briefed on the situation with the mole on Legion World - that's when Wash finally makes his way to Azucar's beach. He has a bottle of brandy in hand, half-full and absolutely a leftover from movie night (because some days it's worth it to have themed drinks). It's less of a peace offering and more of an assurance that he's not about to try anything violent.
"You know, I've met exactly two people ever who could unironically call themselves Sugar," he says by way of greeting. "Everyone else is either being ironic about it or hiding in plain sight, and given that you've already lied to my face and asked me to keep a secret from 76, I'm going with the latter." There's probably a good bit of the former in there too, but that's less important here.
"You know Reaper, and you don't want 76 to know you know, so I figure you're involved with Reaper somehow. Given his rap sheet, that means you're in some pretty deep shit back home." Terrorist isn't a word thrown around lightly, even now. "I'm betting Azucar is a brand-new identity made just for Legion World, so that the people from your dimension who don't know you by sight don't immediately rain hell on your head for what you did back home. You're living one hell of a lie."
It's all very conversational, like he's asking her what she'd thought of the movie.
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Thankfully, Clue is a movie he knows backwards and forwards, and it offers him more than enough time to think. He spends most of the movie sifting through his memories, putting the pieces he has together, with a brief interlude to look up what Azucar actually means and another one to mentally kick himself for overlooking that piece of the puzzle for so long. She's been hiding in plain sight for a while, hasn't she.
After the movie is over, and the common room is cleaned up, and Connie is fully briefed on the situation with the mole on Legion World - that's when Wash finally makes his way to Azucar's beach. He has a bottle of brandy in hand, half-full and absolutely a leftover from movie night (because some days it's worth it to have themed drinks). It's less of a peace offering and more of an assurance that he's not about to try anything violent.
"You know, I've met exactly two people ever who could unironically call themselves Sugar," he says by way of greeting. "Everyone else is either being ironic about it or hiding in plain sight, and given that you've already lied to my face and asked me to keep a secret from 76, I'm going with the latter." There's probably a good bit of the former in there too, but that's less important here.
"You know Reaper, and you don't want 76 to know you know, so I figure you're involved with Reaper somehow. Given his rap sheet, that means you're in some pretty deep shit back home." Terrorist isn't a word thrown around lightly, even now. "I'm betting Azucar is a brand-new identity made just for Legion World, so that the people from your dimension who don't know you by sight don't immediately rain hell on your head for what you did back home. You're living one hell of a lie."
It's all very conversational, like he's asking her what she'd thought of the movie.