video;

[sympathyforme]

A weekend like that again, huh?

...guess it can't get worse than last time.

[Kira's sitting at a bar - one he's been frequenting with a couple of people, some of them gone already - and looking less than impressed.]

If anyone of interest happens to drop by, I'll be having a drink. Join me. Invitation also goes to people that don't just drop by when they feel like it.

I could use some steady people to hang out with.


[filtered to Setsuna]

Don't get your wings twisted up. You should drop by, too.

[filtered to Michael]

Michael. We should talk.

[filtered to Belial]

I have instructions for you.

Comments

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

Heh.

You've never been helpless, Alexiel. You never will be.

Especially not against me.

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

If this alcohol is as potent as you say, I better watch my intake. I wonder what you would do if I was truly drunk?

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

Hold your hair back.

Possibly take advantage a bit.

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

Only a bit? ( She laughs softly, teasingly. )

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

You see right through me, hm?

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

I am sober at the moment.

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

So perhaps you're the one taking advantage.

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

I prefer to be in that position.

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

And you're the only one who ever was.

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

Does that bother you?

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

Perhaps less than it should.

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

That says a great deal about you.

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

I have nothing to hide from you.

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

I... ( She pauses, closing her eyes. ) cannot say the same.

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

M-hm. So you think.

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

You can't read my mind. ( Or her heart. )

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

Heh.

[Following and loving her for eons, he knows her. Well enough not to argue the point.]

As you say.

( Voice )

[confined_to_briah]

I'm coming for a drink. ( Or two. And to see him. ) Don't go.

( Voice )

[sympathyforme]

I'll be right here.

( Action )

[confined_to_briah]

( She shuts off her communicator and sighs. Someday, she will be completely honest with him. Someday, she will tell him - Everything. Knowing him, he will probably smile knowingly and act utterly unsurprised.

How infuriating.

Tucking Nanatsusaya into its sheathe, she tugs on a jacket and steps outside. She strides towards the bar, her thoughts filled with...the past. She shared so many lives with him. Why is the truth so hard to utter? Shouldn't it be easy by now? )

Certainly not. ( They are too stubborn for that. Smirking, she pushes open the door to the bar and shakes her loose curls out of her eyes.

Perhaps she will challenge him to a drinking contest, after all? It would suit their natures.

Approaching the bar, she takes a seat and looks around, her expression somewhat amused. )

( Action )

[sympathyforme]

[Of course he would and he might even actually have seen through it all. Know the truth, all of it, that she's so afraid to share.

Kira knows the instant she enters and his eyes follow her every movement until she sits down, which is his cue to get up. He doesn't wait for the minutes to pass that would be needed for other men in the bar to work up the courage to approach her, he simply sits down across from her and pushes the glass he's been holding in her direction.]

Cheers.

[Temptation?]