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

[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?

[serpentinthegarden]

[ He would eat up those details! ]

Then let her do most of the talking. Some like quiet guys anyway! Just give it a chance?

[scotch_egg]

Fine. But only because you're not going to leave it alone until I do. We're both going to regret it.

[serpentinthegarden]

Not if it works out!

[ It could happen... one day. There had to be some one who could see what a nice guy Alec was under all that gruffness. ]

[scotch_egg]

It won't. And then you'll feel like shit and I'll feel like shit and everything will be more miserable than if you just left it alone.

[serpentinthegarden]

Whatever you do don't anticipate it. Just go, be yourself, and see what happens.

[ Where you ready for a hug? Too damn bad cause you are getting one! ]

You'll do fine! I believe in you.

[scotch_egg]

If you say anything smart like that again I'll call the whole thing off. [he doesn't need to be patronized thanks] And I'm not shaving either. [but he's also not shrugging off the hug]

[serpentinthegarden]

[ Shaving would ruin the effect... He thought but did not say. Not another word would be spoken about it! ]

[scotch_egg]

The hell am I even going to wear. I don't have time for this shit. [in other words. help]

[serpentinthegarden]

[ The fleeting thought to check Alec's closet was soon shuttled aside for raiding his own. ]

I can find you something.

[ Alec was released from the hug so he could be paced around for inspiration. ]

No tie, I'm thinking simple yet cool.

[scotch_egg]

[Anthony's thinking, which is both good and bad in Alec's experience]

Just so you're aware, I'd also like to be able to walk without my balls falling off.

[serpentinthegarden]

Ha! You will be poured so tightly into your pants they won't be able to fall anywhere!

[ So it was threatened but really Alec would never be comfortable in a pair of his pants. Maybe they could find a good trouser in Alec's stash, pair it with a black suit jacket from his stash, over a more casual pullover... hmm, maybe something in red. If Alec wasn't careful he would end up in something like this, second image on the top row.]

[scotch_egg]

Like hell. Try again.

[serpentinthegarden]

We'll work on it. There has to be something stylish that isn't going to... cramp... anything...

[scotch_egg]

On the other hand, maybe it's better not to make promises that aren't going to be kept.

[serpentinthegarden]

You have absolutely no trust in my fashion sense!

[ But after a bit of fussing and trying on things Alec would find himself in this spiffy combination! ]

[scotch_egg]

I have absolutely no trust in you.

[he regards the outifit.]

Not the turtle neck and it's not bad.