Things have been so damn intense lately; it's good to be laughing and just plain fucking around like this and whether or not Beth Junior sleeps through it doesn't matter: one of his favorite things about Beth is that they can do this kind of thing together. Just for fun. No pressure, none of this we could be reading up on infant intelligence stimulation instead of playing video games crap.

Hell, they both deserve it. And this being a cooperative game... shit, that's even better than playing against Beth. The only time they played against each other, actually, was on the Bebop. Poker game with Jet, and she won. He hardly even had to cheat to make that happen... just a couple hands.

Faye's not the only one who knows her way around a deck of cards. But the game's going, the volume on just loud enough for them to hear the lousy sound effects, the crappy music that once was state-of-the-art. As the story unfolds -- he hasn't played this one before -- he almost laughs out loud when he finds out it was the evil Dragon clan who kidnapped the president ("art imitates life, huh, Slim?") but pauses to ask if she wants to be Blade or Striker. Probably doesn't really matter; they're both in black tank tops and ripped jeans and he guesses that's what makes them Bad Dudes. Still, if Beth has a preference, he's all for it.