What the hell was Yones implying? Okay, well, actually, she knew quite good and well what he was implying, and the thought made her grimace in frustration. Bastardly...bastard! She was about two seconds away from spinning around on her heel and telling him just where he can go shove Mr. Tainted, Blood-Covered Hand, but Hek interrupted that plan with a question. Probably for the better, because, yeah, this was all kind of childish, and it would probably only continue to escalate--maybe even to the point of physical contact; Yones was an angry little bugger, and he had knives on him, and Beatrid, hell, she could be rather violent herself when the right buttons were pressed a bit too hard. Heh...the famed Mordecai of legend. Hoo boy, would those folk tale writers ever roll over in their graves if they saw how Mordecai really lived...
Beatrid's full attention came jerked back over to Hek. "What? Bumblebee? What are you...did you just call me 'Bumblebee'? The hell is that?" she asked, her blue eyes comically big as she stared at him while they walked, not in anger this time but in pure and utter incredulation. Yeah, she was far too surprised by this little turn of events to be mad. Bumblebee?! Where did he get that! Oh God, was that a pet name? Was he already giving her a pet name? Ugh...she really hoped he'd maybe just seen a bumblebee buzzing around here somewhere and had decided to coment on it randomly for some reason, but that didn't sound plausible, as much as she wished it to be so. Maybe it was slang. She really hoped it was slang. Her name sounded nothing like that! Well...maybe a little. The "Be" beginning of her name was pronounced like "bee", she'd give him that. And, uh, she certainly wasn't yellow and black...unless that was supposed to be...a veiled commentary on her bottom...
She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again and shot Hek a dangerous look. However, she said nothing else, as she realized a bit too late that if she gave too much of a reaction, it might only further encourage him. Patience, Beatrid. Patience. He was new. And compared to the others...well, she'd probably never admit it off the bat, because that was just how she was, but what she'd seen so far...yeah, he wasn't bad. He certainly wasn't arrogant and bitter like Yones, or patronizing like Kuro. And after how he'd responded to Yones...she had to give him points for that; that had been rather clever, and Yones certainly hadn't seemed to like it. That earned her respect. Sure, he'd gotten off on the wrong foot with the pervy breast talk, and yeah, he had some things to learn, but in the grand scheme of things...he wasn't bad.
Yeah.
So. Moving on from the Bumblebee talk, and here's hoping he'd forget that. If not...she'd make him forget.
"It's not that bad. You just smell like you've been rolling in weeds...for a few hours. It's your clothes that's bad. If you don't wanna get teased more or mistaken as a peasant off the streets--" Or, she mentally added with a small grimace, as some lover she was sneaking into the palace...which just went to show how much people truly knew about her, which wasn't much at all to say the least. "--I guess it's a good idea that we get you cleaned and into proper clothes."
She glanced over her shoulder as Yones told she and Hek to "have fun" and snorted. Case in point. However, what Hek called out to Yones made her actually burst into laughter before she could help it, it was simply so unexpected! He actually called him Drones! She quickly whipped around so her back was once again fully to Yones, and she clapped one hand over her mouth in order to try and stiffle the laughter that wanted to bubble out. Oh man...that was too great! And the way he said it...he probably had no idea that that wasn't the man's real name, but a mocking nickname she'd given him! He was so cheerful about it, which made it even better! After all, no one had said his real name in that encounter...and Yones hadn't bothered to correct her when she'd called him that! Hah! And she so wasn't going to correct Hek, either! Bwaha...take that, Yones.
So amused and currently pleased with Hek was she that she could have never been prepared for what was to come, and she was still grinning when Hek held up his hand and wiggled his fingers. She should have interpretted that as a warning sign.
The next thing she knew, he was staring at his crotch and talking about how Mr. Down-There didn't like Mr. Hand...or this place. Talking...to his groin.
Now, while that would have been weird enough as it was, what made it even better was that there were poor little servants scurrying around, most of them women. And not soldier-type women used to crudeness, either.
Beatrid nearly choked, torn between laughter--she was far from a prude herself, if her past comments were any indication; she just didn't like being hit on by horny bastards. It was annoying, especially when they couldn't take a hint--and horror that he would say, and do, something like that in front of so many innocent bystanders. Yeah. It looked pretty wrong.
"Hek!" She took it upon herself to whack him upside the head with the palm of her hand, though this time the blow wasn't over his ear, nor was it as hard as that first one had been. This was mostly just to get his attention...and get him to please remove his eyes from his no-no area, fascinating as it probably was to him.
His next comment, however, was different.
She eyed him warily as he waggled his eyebrows lecherously and nudged her arm, winking...that...could not be a good sign. Her guard went up...
And not a second after his question, her own elbow thrust out sharply to jab him in the side. It wasn't a knife, but her elbow was still sharp! "In your wet dreams!" she grumbled, taking a few pointed steps off to the side and away from him. And then, right in the middle of her irritated mental rant, an idea suddenly popped into her head. Actually...she could help him out...
"Actually, now that I think of it...yeah, I can help him out," she said suddenly, an oddly sweet smile on her face. Which looked kind of scary on her. "C'mon...let's go get you bathed and changed. Follow me." And then, still smiling, she started walking off to lead the way.
Yeah, she'd help him out all right.