Let me call you sweetheart...

[scotch_egg]

Who: Alec & You
What: Valentines Event
Where: Anywhere
Warnings: Who knows



Alec cam be found anywhere, looking more cagey than usual. Find him in his office filling out endless forms or answering calls curtly, or in a bistro or cafe with a single cup of steaming tea, or even in the park bundled up against the cold day.

More to the point he has a box of Valentine's Day candies with him that he cannot seem to stop eating. It seems almost unconscious. However this meeting turns out is going to be an interesting ride.


[[ooc: feel free to chose the words of the heart that he eats and put it in the subject. Or leave it up to RNG]]

Comments

[serpentinthegarden]

Tch!

[ You ass! Now he will never know!! ]

[scotch_egg]

[you might hear some detached rumors of some really bad serenading, but you'll never know for sure]

[serpentinthegarden]

[ Best rumors he has heard in a LONG time! ]

Text a bit later

[serpentinthegarden]

How do you feel about meeting a hot blonde for dinner?

[ Message sent not knowing Alec had already met the lady and after this! ]

It would get you away from Fell and I. Far warning I intend for us to be absolutely obnoxiously in love.

[scotch_egg]

Thanks for the warning. I'll throw myself off a bridge.

[in other words, no. But he will take care of himself.]

[serpentinthegarden]

Oh come on! She's hot, nice, and you would be saving her from a night of boozing it. Besides when's the last time you have been on a date?

[scotch_egg]

I'm not so pathetic I need you to set me up. Anyway, it will be a disaster and she won't thank either of us.


[the last part is true anyway]

[serpentinthegarden]

Did I say you were pathetic? I never once said you were pathetic. I just thought you two might hit it off... It could go well.

[ Not all dinners can be train wrecks! ]

[scotch_egg]

[and then, just in case]

Tell me it's not Grace

[serpentinthegarden]

What? No! She's dating some one who works on Wall Street these days.

[scotch_egg]

Just checking.

It'll be a train wreck.

Set her up with someone else. You do know other people. What about Ellie?

[serpentinthegarden]

You first, then Ellie... Ellie hasn't even settled in yet. Anyway I already mentioned you to her.

[scotch_egg]

Unmention it. Say I died. Go with Ellie.

[serpentinthegarden]

She never once said she was into girls, she is into blokes and you, Alec, are a bloke. Couldn't hurt just to have dinner with the lady could it?

[scotch_egg]

[he cuts on the video to just give him a long long long long look]

[serpentinthegarden]

That look has a defeatist attitude.

[ And he was a never say die sort of demon! ]

So 8pm at Antonio's?

[scotch_egg]

No.

[serpentinthegarden]

[ He sends a quick snapshot of the girl in question. ]

[scotch_egg]

Fuck! No way in hell! No! Not a chance! Piss off! I don't care. [he flings the phone across the room uncaring and locks his door for good measure before burying himself in his non-work at the table trying not to think about it]

[serpentinthegarden]

[ That phone is going to ring obnoxiously until its picked back up. ]

[scotch_egg]

[not if he shuts it off]

[serpentinthegarden]

[ There were other ways! Like lying to the girl to say the date was on and then rushing home, going upstairs, and climbing down the trellis to Alec's room. He entered through the balcony and deployed the puppy snake eyes as soon as he was noticed. ]

Please? I don't like the idea of you being alone up here all the time... You deserve more.

[scotch_egg]

[he jumps a little at the sight of Anthony on the balcony and looks away, arms folded.]

I don't.

You're just trying to get me to go along with you. [he sighed]

She already thinks I'm an idiot. She won't have a good time.

[serpentinthegarden]

You've met? I mean, that's good! It's got the awkward first introductions out of the way.

[ He drifted closer, finding it a bit too cold to be standing outside on the balcony during a New York winter anyway. ]

So you just say hello, have some dinner, and chat.

[scotch_egg]

[he would tell Anthony the details, but that would mean telling Anthony the details]

Hello, fine. Dinner sure. Have you seen me trying to chat?