Flame #17 [Text] VAGUE POST IS VAGUE.

[notintehkitchen]

Can a person taste like their name? Especially if they are named after a food? Is that... possible?

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[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

No, no. It's alright. Just... it's new for me. I'm not sure what someone is supposed to do or how to respond.

[She guesses that's why she says what she just said out-loud.]

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

I... Do not zhink knoving how to respond ist actually possible. You just... If it feels right, it must be right.

[Because Medic speaking about emotions is the most normal thing ever.]

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

I see. So, when someone calls me fat and I eat five pounds of bacon anyways--something like that?

Re: [voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

...vhy... Vhy vould you van to eat zhat much bacon?

[The idea alone is about to make him sick.]

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

It tastes good, doesn't it? Engineer taught me how to love it. He uses it in tons of food!

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

I... Know he does zhat. He did cook für uns a couple of times after all... Just as it had been at my base. Especially zhe Soldier refused to let me cook onze in a vhile...

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

And what would you cook, Sensei?

[Don't say salad, don't say salad. Oh god, please don't say salad.]

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

[Why not? Why not? Why-- Wait. You don't cook salad!]

Vell... Somezhing... Different. A little less meat oriented, maybe...

[Totally vague answer.]

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

Tacos?

[That has vegetables in it, so that means less meat orientated, right?]

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

...was?

Ah, nein. I do not know zhese. But... Maybe a soup oder a stew every now und zhen?

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

Oh! I like soup, tomato soup with grilled cheese is especially tasty!

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

I vas... More zhinking tovards a vegetable stew...

Vhy vould someone put cheese into a soup anyvay?

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

I don't think you understand, Sensei.

A grilled cheese is a sandwich with cheese in the middle and butter smothered on the outside of the two bread pieces. You put it in a frying pan and cook it until it gets crispy. Once it's finished you dunk it in the tomato soup.

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

...

[Si~lence.]

...nein. I... Do not zhink I ever heard of zhat before. But it does sound veird.

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

Want me to make it for you? It's not weird at all, it's tasty.

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

Maybe one day. Not today. You do not haff to cook all zhe time.

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

You can cook next time.

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

Wie bitte?

[Offering Pyro and Engi almost vegetarian food? Gosh, he is not that interested in making them hate him!]

I... I am not sure zhat might be such eine good idea.

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

I.. I want to taste Sensei's cooking. That's all.

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

I guess I could manage stuffed cabbage...

[And there'S obviously meat in that.]

[voice] [private]

[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

Alright! It's a date then!

[Pyro understood the phrase but not what other implications it could mean in English.]

[voice] [private]

[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

[It's not like Medic understands any implications either. He knows the dish and there's some meat in it.]

Fein. I vill just need to get zhe ingredients one of zhese days, zhen.

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[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

[The tone of her voice changes all of a sudden quite drastically to a more serious yet shy sounding tone.]

Sensei...

Do you think if we end up staying here forever that maybe...

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[notintehkitchen.livejournal.com]

Our fellow comrades.... well...

[Scratching at her cheek, she glances off screen.]

The BLUs, too. Do you think... we will end up getting married and having kids here? It's just we don't have our jobs anymore and... it sort of hit me after I've been here this long that thinking something like that might not be too bizarre.

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[uebercharge.livejournal.com]

[He is silent for some time, working her question over in his head for a moment.]

I... Am not sure. But I guess zhat depends on vhezher oder not ein couple dezides if zhey vish to... Vell. Marry. Zhey vould, of course, haff to originate from a vorld vhere zhat sort of zeremony ist common. Marriage ist still in a vay connected to religion after all. At least... For us it ist.

[His voice gets a little lower, more thoughtful as he continures.]

If someone from us... Ends up finding someone zhey are villing to take zhat step vizh, zhen... I guess... Ja. It might be possible... Even for zhose like us... To start a normal life. A family even...

[And for another while he gets even more quiet.]

...I... I admittedly never truly conzidered zhe possibility of ever leading a normal life. At least not back home. Hier... Nun... Ve partly do haff normal jobs already...