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 Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:32 pm
Aulus' shoulders tensed when the waitress snubbed him a second time, and as she departed he speared a piece of mushroom and pressed it against the volcanic stone. Hard. With the smell of cooking meat all around him it was quite easy to imagine it as her face, and she how she liked it when people alternately stared and avoided her eyes. After some moments of staring intently at the solitary piece of mushroom with his jaw set Aulus finally ate the thing and scooped more vegetables up onto the hot rock before taking a tortilla wrap thingie and preparing it with some sauce and cheese.
Though he was now cooking his dinner properly rather than torturing one small piece he remained tense and didn't look up at Claire or say anything. He didn't care what other people thought. He refused to care. She was just some stupid shallow b***h of a waitress, only mildly representative of most people's reactions. It didn't matter that he was a hideous freak who couldn't fit into normal society, because he wasn't a part of normal society. He was with Team Rocket. Team Rocket thought scars were awesome. Why should he feel bad for hurting ordinary people when they treated him like s**t? Maybe his stupid choice had been a good one after all. They deserved to be hurt and to lose their precious pokemon.
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:11 pm
...yes, it was safe to assume he'd noticed. She remained silent for a few long moments as she prepared a bit of her own meal (while he vehemently tortured that poor little mushroom; what did it ever do to him?), then finally pulled it off onto her plate so she could eat it properly. While she didn't have the same thing as Aulus, it was at least very similar. And very delicious.
...okay, he was still staring only at his plate and still wasn't saying anything. It was becoming clearer with every passing moment that he would just continue on this line of being grumpy and antisocial. On a date. Their first date. This was not what she'd expected. "Are uh," she started uncertainly, cutting into her own wrap a bit while she spoke, "are you alright?"
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:19 pm
Aulus, who had just picked up a finished wrap, sighed deeply and put it back down on a little side plate. "Yea. Sorry. I just... guess I got used to," careful!, "where we are now. Hardly anyone who's not a redshirt stares, even really glances twice.... Probably better I just forget it." Don't let that one dumb b***h ruin his evening. He was here to have fun. He was here with Claire. It was what she thought that mattered and... and she didn't mind, right? Right. If she minded she wouldn't have agreed to come here tonight.
"So... uh... I was thinking," think of something to have been thinking about rather than merely worrying and internally snarling! "Uh... maybe when I'm less of a cripple we could go for another bike ride as well as bird rides... sound good? We could take a picnic or something... or maybe that would be nicer when it's warmer again? Though we could have a fire or something?... I dunno, just a thought."
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:33 pm
"Well no," she agreed, shifting in her seat a bit. "Everyone else is used to things like that, it's pretty much unavoidable really. You shouldn't let what other people think bother you, as long as you aren't bothered by it.." ...wait, was he bothered by it? She'd never really thought about it before - he was always grumping around, acting all tough and manly and badass that she just sort of assumed he liked having it. What if he didn't? Well s**t. Open mouth, insert foot. Way to go. Ugh.
Quickly grasping at the lifesaver of a topic change, she couldn't help but nod in agreement. "That sounds wonderful. A bit too cold for a picnic now, I think, but a fire would be awesome." Easy, too. Plus bike rides. That would be fun.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:37 pm
The brief downward flick of Aulus' eyes and the momentary tightening of his face was probably far more telling than he would have liked. Just as Claire did he grasped the new topic firmly and ran with it, hoping to leave other matters behind. "Great, yea, a fire and... oh, we can make smores or whatever they're called? Never had them before, have you? The sound fuc... extremely delicious."
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:43 pm
Well s**t, he didn't, did he? Even if he didn't admit it - he didn't seem to like admitting things like that, now that she thought about it - it really looked like he didn't. Especially when he didn't even comment on it. Well s**t. Now what was she supposed to do? She could just ignore it, shove it under a mental rug and hope things would get better, or she could try to fix it somehow.. but how? s**t. Uhh... "Well, I like it," so there. That was good, right? Right. Because she did, even if he didn't. "Adds character," she added. "Plus, I think seeing you without it would be like.. like.... Like seeing Lucas without his glasses or something like that. And I haven't had smores either, they do sound delicious." Like this meal they were having - which she totally did not just remember right that second - and promptly shoved another bite into her mouth before she said even more and stuck her foot back in her mouth instead.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:56 pm
"R-really? Oh." A blush rose to Aulus' cheeks again and he looked down at the table, raising his uninjured hand to trace the line of the scar. She hadn't sounded like she was lying. It didn't change how he felt but... but... it was something, and it wasn't something insignificant. He looked back up and twitched a smile, lowering his hand again. "Well... good. It's what you think that matters, right? I don't have to look at me after all, right?"
Taking another bite of food bought him the time to think a bit before he said anything else. When he swallowed he said; "Right, and we can take other stuff too that's good to cook on a fire; I know how to bake potatoes like that, though we'd need something to do with. Oh! And we could have mulled wine...." She had asked several times about that alcohol, and he'd never seen her drink. "...Or hot chocolate or something? If you prefer?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:17 pm
"Well," she said as a smile twitched onto her face, "you probably should when you're shaving." Otherwise he'd have more than just that one scar on his face.
"That sounds good." She'd never had potatoes cooked over a fire before.. Or smores. Mmm.. "..oh, um.. Hot chocolate sounds good," she said to her plate before quickly taking another bite of her meal. She'd never had wine, nor did she have any plans to have any anytime soon... But then again, she'd never had any plans to drink beer or liquor either. Best to just avoid all of it.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:27 pm
"Haha, yea," Aulus grinned properly, "that's generally a good plan." He relaxed a bit then, a bit more than he had for more of the date actually. He didn't realise how worried he'd been about what she thought about his appearance until she dismissed his fears. Oh, he knew himself, he'd worry about it again probably but for now... for now he was pretty sure he was sure she'd meant it. Adds character. Heh.
Eventually main course was finished and cleared away, and Aulus sat back in his chair looking over the dessert menu. He could eat more, and some of the things on offer sounded really good but.... "You want dessert Claire, or a coffee or something?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:08 pm
Luckily no other awkward topics of conversation came up, but even so when Aulus mentioned dessert Claire was eager to take a look at the menu herself. "Dessert would be wonderful," she said as her hazel eyes pored over the dessert menu, looking at each item they had. Could she eat a whole dessert by herself though? ...yes. Yes she could. But did he want dessert? He wouldn't have offered if he didn't want any, right? Right. But there were quite a few choices.. Hmm... "What were you thinking of getting?"
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:52 am
"Lemon meringue pie." That wasn't a very manly dessert. "Or the warm chocolate fudge cake." Nor was that. Desserts, in fact, were seldom very manly. Oh well, he was already vegetarian, might as well add 'poofy dessert eater' to the list of food crimes against testosterone. "The pie I think. Want to see me look at the waitress like I might eat her liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti?"
Desserts eventually arrived, and the waitress departed in record time after dropping them off.
Aulus picked up his spoon and raised his eyebrows at Claire. "If you can't join them; beat them, right?"
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:42 pm
"Ooh, those sound good," she commented, eyebrows raising a bit as she continued looking at the menu. His question drew a wry grin from her, and she couldn't help but notice the waitress's speedy departure. In all likelihood she thought he was a crazy axe murderer or something silly like that, and she vaguely wondered what the waitress thought of her for dining with a crazy axe murderer. "Sounds good to me," she said with a chuckle before sticking her fork into the chocolate fudge cake she'd ordered.
Zeus would be pissed if he knew she was eating this. Especially if he knew that she had no plans to save him any or to share.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:00 am
Pie!...
Delicious pie!
Aulus started to devour the deliciousness, and was about half way through when he paused and looked up at Claire. "Uh, do you want to try some? It's really good."
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:28 pm
Claire paused with the fork in her mouth when Aulus spoke, and a faint pink tinge appeared on her cheeks. "Oh, sure. Um, you can try some of mine if you'd like. 's very good," she said as she slid her plate closer to him so he could reach, then took a small forkful of the pie he'd offered. Mmm, it was good...
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:15 pm
Not one to pass up chocolate when offered even when lemon meringue had seemed more tempting to him tonight Aulus smiled his thanks and took a bit of Claire's dessert. It was, frankly, decadent.
All too soon both desserts were finished, and Aulus managed to catch the flighty waitress' eye to signal for the check. "My treat," he informed Claire, "because I asked you, not because you're a girl." He probably hadn't needed to explain. Oh well, as mouth-foot incidents went it hadn't bee too awful he supposed.
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