Resentment - Short Affair - 10/10/2016

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Prompt word: adapt
Prompt colour: black
Word count: 429

"I'm just saying you need to be more prepared to adapt, tovarisch. Sometimes plans fall to pieces and there's no use complaining about it afterwards."

"It is not the adaptation I have a problem with. It is the plans falling to pieces. Or rather I should say the plans being helped to fall to pieces."

"I can't help feel that I'm the target of your resentment somehow."

"I resent being stuck in the middle of a storm on this deserted island for the next thirty six hours with no supplies and only you for company."

"Well I resent that too but you don't see me blaming you."

"Blaming me...?! I think the rain has caused your brain to rot. How could you possibly think this is my fault?"


"If we hadn't been captured we wouldn't even be on this island in the first place. And we wouldn't have been captured if you'd just gone along with my bluff to Dr Claes."

"Napoleon."

"Like I said, it's all about being able to adapt - "

" - Napoleon - "

" - to new situations and improvise."

"Napoleon I do not speak Flemish."

"....don't you?"

"No."

"Oh.

"Yes."

"Well, I can see where the plan went wrong then."

"Where you went wrong. Yes. How long have we been working together now? You should know what languages I speak."

"If you weren't such a polyglot I probably would. I could have sworn you said you were speaking Flemish to that stewardess last month."

"Finnish, Napoleon. That was Finnish. We were in Finland."

"Alright, so I suppose maybe I can accept that wasn't your fault. But our current predicament isn't mine."

"I disagree."

"What, if it had been up to you you'd have just left Elsie to get shot?"

"I did not say that."

"Then we'd have ended up here just the same."

"I did not say that either."

"Then what do you think we should have done?"

"I would have thought of something."

"Well I did think of something and here we are."

"Yes, here we are."

"You know, working for UNCLE requires a certain amount of sacrifice."

"Napoleon, I am always willing to sacrifice my life for the cause. However I draw the line at sacrificing my long weekend."

"And so the source of your black mood is revealed at last."

"..."

"Maybe HR will let you take next weekend off instead."

"..."

"I'll even put in a good word with Mr Waverly."

"I doubt it will make a difference. But thank you."

"You're welcome."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Maybe you could spend the time learning to speak Flemish."

"Napoleon, I am warning you...."

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[otherhawk.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you, thats lovely to hear!