Not expecting that forceful a reaction, Brainiac 5 recoiled from Peter (and, by proxy since the topic and reaction was the same, Scott), a brief flicker of hurt crossing his face before disappearing under a mask of control.
"It just seems like an odd topic to joke about, that's all," he grumbled, settling back down into his seat and avoiding looking at Peter. Unfortunately this meant he was stuck with looking at Scott or not looking at either of them, which made conversation awkward.
Eventually Brainiac 5 settled on a halfway point, which was gazing somewhere slightly to Scott's left. Call it petty, but he still resented the other patient for the initial mix-up between the three of them and while he wasn't going to be open about it and would try to keep it from affecting their ability to work together too much, should it come to that, that didn't mean he was willing to just forget it either.
"And anyway, shouldn't you be focussing more on the serious matters here? Like this information you supposedly have on the basement?"
A+ on the FoC reference! XD
"It just seems like an odd topic to joke about, that's all," he grumbled, settling back down into his seat and avoiding looking at Peter. Unfortunately this meant he was stuck with looking at Scott or not looking at either of them, which made conversation awkward.
Eventually Brainiac 5 settled on a halfway point, which was gazing somewhere slightly to Scott's left. Call it petty, but he still resented the other patient for the initial mix-up between the three of them and while he wasn't going to be open about it and would try to keep it from affecting their ability to work together too much, should it come to that, that didn't mean he was willing to just forget it either.
"And anyway, shouldn't you be focussing more on the serious matters here? Like this information you supposedly have on the basement?"