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// Teaser: Ace of Hearts 
// Story: Jokers Wild 
// by blowngasket 
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"As I look towards the sky, as the star wink in my direction, I have to wonder..." a sharply dressed man started to speak, his nice black suit and matching fedora complementing his long brown hair quite nicely. 

"Seriously, I agree after you spend hours begging me to go be your drinking buddy, and you decide to start a monologue like I am not here. No, I will have none of that!" the interrupting voice came from a man walking alongside him, wearing gold colored armor almost throughout his whole body, except for his head. He pushed his blue hair out of his eyes and just continued to glare at the other man.

"Ya know Shiny, you're a real killjoy. No one ever complained when he did that," the sharp dressed one said. Shiny, or Shining Armor as he was more well known, just gave a sigh and shook his head. 

"Well, Cata, he's crazy, so generally people had a tendency of letting him do what he wanted. You, on the other hand, better behave yourself," Shining Armor sighed. Catacomb, the other man, gave his most sincere look that he could muster and grinned. Shining smacked himself in the face and groaned. 

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"So, what is new in your life?" Catacomb asked after taking a shot of the drink in front of him. Shining Armor smiled happily, a faint blush on his cheeks.

"Me and Cady are goin to be havin a kid!" Shining said happily as he finished his tenth shot. Catacomb enjoyed having Shining around for these trips. He didn't get to do them often, and the man was just so full of love, that he didn't mind if Catacomb used a little bit of it for an appetizer. Looking around the bar, Catacomb could only sigh. 

"I wish others were as happy as you, Shiny," Catacomb sighed. Shining gave him a puzzling look as Catacomb made a nudging motion to a couple at a table, laughing and drinking. "You see them? Though they look happy, it is an act. The man's love for her has all but dried up, though he isn't without it. He has probably had someone on the side for some time now. The woman has realized it already. She just refuses to believe it, thinking that it might still work. It is quite sad really. Sometimes it just doesn't work out."

"You always act so deep when you talk like that, but I know you all too well," Shining said, a slight grin on his face. "You're just thinking of a way to bank on the woman aren't you..."

"Yup," Catacomb responded enthusiastically. "Though I am not sure if I am hungry for rekindled romance, or a one night stand revenge fling. Both are pretty good," Catacomb grinned back. "A changelings gotta eat, ya know?"