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]]

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[scotch_egg]

"Not sure if it counts as winning if you're getting help." He managed to keep a straight face as this thought occurs to him. "If you ask me, it sounds more like a tie."

[chenqing_player]

"There was nothing in the rules about not getting assistance." Because there wasn't really any rules. But that isn't what is important.

"I feel like with a tie you still somehow win."

[scotch_egg]

"It was implied. And you know, there is one important lesson that comes with ice skating and life. Do you know what that is?" Said as he deftly dodged around one of the kids, only just narrowly missing bumping into Wuxian.

[chenqing_player]

He becomes a little shaky and latches onto Alec's arm with his other hand, moving closer as he shoots a glare towards the kid.

"If this is the 'if you fall down just get back up again' kind of lesson, I prefer the one where I never fall."

But he looks at him with curiosity.

[scotch_egg]

"That's part of it aye. If you can't learn to get back up, your first fall is going to be your last one. BUt I think you're a stronger person than that." He does his best to steady him. "No the ultimate lesson is that life isn't fair. And neither is skating. Falling is inevitable and painful."

[chenqing_player]

"Wise words." He might be smiling just a bit as he steadies again. "But isn't that why you find someone to hold onto? So that you can keep each other from falling and lift each other back up when you do?"

Having someone to support the other person helps take some of that unfairness out of life and the odds of falling down also diminish slightly.

[scotch_egg]

It was bloody sentimental was what it was, but Alec felt charmed by it anyway. Wuxian was going to make someone a good partner one day, though he doubted he'd live to see it.

"Fair point, provided they've the arm strength." He tilted his head. "Ready to go on your own now?"

[chenqing_player]

He squeezes Alec's arm as if testing his arm strength, "Seems pretty strong." Grinning for a moment before it turns to a pout and pretends he wants to cry, "Do I have to let go?"

But he slowly let's go of Alec's arm. He already knows how this is going to go. He will start to get confident and then when he least expects it he is going to end up on the ground. Perhaps it is simply time to face the inevitable.

[scotch_egg]

A snort of a laugh. Don't depend on him, he wants to say, but he doesn't and instead follows close beside Wuxian, there to help him if he struggles.

"I knew you'd be good at this."

[chenqing_player]

"I'm good at a lot of things but I wouldn't list this in with them." He laughs a little as he tries to not think so hard about making sure he stays upright. He knows that he needs to try and stay relaxed and just feel the motion of it.

[scotch_egg]

"You're upright aren't you? That's more than a lot can say." He nodded to a woman who went sprawling on the ice. "Think you can try backwards?"

[chenqing_player]

"Backwards?! I can barely handle forward." He looks amused by the idea though. He takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly, "Why do I think trying to turn myself around is going to be more difficult then it sounds?"