[fic] The Grey Zone

[ickaimp]

ysabet is home safely and fast asleep. ^__^ Thanks, Chip.

Well, Voices have been pinging with ideas and weaving stuff together for 'The Grey Zone', although we still don't have any chapter names. Lot of.... well, it's not exactly crossovers, but bleeding over of universes in this one it looks like. This one can go first, but gotta get Chat Noir (or 'Auntie Kitty' as she's taken to being called) in there to set up some plot stuff.

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Kaito grinned, slapping Hakuba on the shoulder. "Just take it as a sign, Hakuba."

The blond looked like he wasn't sure to look depressed or shocked. "No."

"Yup." He returned his hands to his pockets.

Determination won out over depressed and shocked. "No."

"When a w-"

Hakuba cut him off. "I don't care what you say, that was NOT a-."

"-If it looks like a duck, talks like a duck, walks like a duck, then it must be a..."

"You've been reading too much Harry Potter." The detective sniffed disdainfully. It was amusing to see him attempt to gather the shreds of his pride around him like a sort of battered cloak.

"And that would be who's fault...?" Kaito leered. Ha. Had him there.

Hakuba gave him a dirty look. Kaito laughed.

"The man," Hakuba enunciated very clearly "had a stuffed ferret on his hat."

"It wasn't stuffed. It was alive." Kaito shot back. "It winked at me."

"Was it moving?" The blond asked in the tones of someone talking to someone who was very very stupid.

"No..." The scruffy looking white creature had been resting, partly wrapped around the wide brim of the battered black pointed hat, black beady eyes observing everything. This added to what looked like a well loved bathrobe and travel bag had made for a rather... eccentric appearance.

"It's a ferret. If they're not moving, they're dead." Said the voice of finality. "Period."

"He asked for directions to King's Cross Train Station."

"It's a common destination point!" Hakuba was starting to look a little frantic around the edges now, Kaito noticed smugly. It was one of his favourite looks to put on the usually stoic detective. Hakuba jabbed a finger in his direction. "Besides! -You're- the magic user! Not me!!"

"He thought you were dressed like one." In fact, the stranger had even commented how nice it was to meet a nicely dressed fellow wizard.

Game.

Set.

Match.

Hakuba sighed, fingering the rough woven texture of the antiquated Inverness coat he was wearing due to the cold wet weather. "Perhaps it is time to retire the coat."

-fin-

Comments

[kudo-kid.livejournal.com]

Hakuba noooooooooo!

Don't retire the inverness coooaaaat! *pets coat*

[gracie-musica.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA! That is GREAT!

If it looks like a duck...

I love that. And of COURSE it would be Kaito they went to. Magic users can always tell fellow magic users.

Oh, dear.

[poe-nui.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Proof that all life can be warped to aid with ficcage! Such a wonderful satorial vision resulting from babysitting the ferrets. *snerk*

[phantom-kaito.livejournal.com]

*reads fic*
*Five minutes later stops rolling on the floor laughing*

Ya know, Haku-chan prolly should learn some magic, if only as a self defense.

Oh Kmai, now I have the image of Kaito and Hakuba attending Hogwarts together.

Kaito and the Weasly twins......

[mistressoffoxes.livejournal.com]

Kaito and the Weasly twins......

Hogwarts wouldn't survive *nods sagely*

... But it would be fun to try, ne? *impish grin*

Ineffable, dude.

[summercloud.livejournal.com]

Of course, the first thing I thought of when I read "duck" was Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Niel Gaimon:

Ineffable.

Re: Ineffable, dude.

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

duck + Terry Pratchett = "millennium hand and shrimp!"

Re: Ineffable, dude.

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

You guys scare me.
Still have to read 'Good Omens'. ^^;;

Re: Ineffable, dude.

[green-turquoise.livejournal.com]

Noone can forget Foul Ole Ron.

[mariechar.livejournal.com]

If Hakuba don't want the coat, I can hae it ^_^

Uh, icka? the link on your site that's for Bystander goes to Pirates and Ninjas...

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

I want the coat too. MMMmmmmmmm... warm.
Don't worry tho, he'll be getting something to replace it. Sketches are already done.

EEps!
Thanks! Will fix!!! #^^#

[kasuchi]

Heh. Well, if it's HP you crave, you have a little over a month's wait left.

That was adorable. Kept me smiling for most of the day, really. ^____^

Heh. If Kaito were to try out for Quidditch, what position would he play? And would he play fair? And what kinds of horrible things would he to do Malfoy? Oh! And what house would he be in? And---

Stopping now. Gosh. I feel like a fangirl.