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[evite]

[ hmmm. ]

let me guess: the other guy looks worse?

[kgbs]

[ you let him live. ]

I didn't exactly look at him. I was too busy.

[ turning his face into a lump of mush. ]

It's fine. I will be home shortly.

[evite]

too busy punching him in the face?

[ yeah, she thought so. ]

how's that self-control working out for you without training?

[kgbs]

He said the wrong thing.

[ unfortunately for him. ]

I can control myself just fine.

[evite]

if that were true, you'd be in this dressing room with me right now.

[ because you wouldn't still be where you are now, probably getting yelled at for fighting outside of the ring. you know, if she had to guess. ]

[kgbs]

It is one incident. It is over and done with. I can meet you there now if you would like.

[ brushes this whole thing under the rug, thank you. ]

[evite]

i don't know if you could control yourself.

[ she's teasing. ]

you had a hard time keeping your hands to yourself the last time we tested your self-control.

[ he did??? okay, daisy. ]

[kgbs]

So did you.

[ there were two people involved in that whole thing if you remember correctly. ]

You were the one that chose the alleyway.

[evite]

[ she's innocent. ]

you weren't offering any alternatives.

[kgbs]

[ don't make him laugh. ]

I didn't see the need to. It worked out quite well in the end for the both of us.

[ and thus, this whole thing wasn't even a concern. ]

Do you want me to meet you or should I go back to my apartment?

[ everything was fiiiiiine. ]

[evite]

that depends.
are you going to admit that you could use some actual training, or are you going to act like nothing happened?

[kgbs]

[ grr argh. ]

I've had training.

[ o....nce. ]

[evite]

that was a date.

[ was it? apparently it was. ]

[kgbs]

It was?

[ he's not even trying to change the subject, he's legitimately surprised. ]

I didn't realize it had been a date.

[evite]

it was dinner and a movie. obviously it was a date.

[ okay maybe it was more pretending to have dinner while doing something else and then getting distracted and not going to the movies at all in favor of more of the other thing... but the point was, that's what it was supposed to be. ]

[kgbs]

Not obviously to me. I didn't date.

[ is he dating now???? ]

It was a good date. And I don't mean just because of what happened.

[evite]

you went on a date, so you kinda did.
i don't make the rules.

[ if it was so good illya ask her on another jeez ]

[kgbs]

[ well, he had been intending on surprising her before things got all out of whack and intense for awhile. ]

Perhaps we can do it again sometime. Not necessarily that but something. I was supposed to surprise you.

[ so, he at least had the idea of that to plan around. ]

You never did answer my question. Will I see you at mine or no?

[ never mind that he hadn't answered hers either. ]

[evite]

maybe.
you didn't answer my question first, though.

[ "but she's a dog with a bone when she wants to be", right? hmmm. ]

[kgbs]

[ she is proving him quite right, isn't she? ]

Am I to take it that if I say no to training, I won't see you?

[ that's not very nice. ]

[evite]

is that what it's going to take for you to be honest about what happened?

[ because you still haven't actually told her ]

[kgbs]

I can't tell you if I don't see you.

[ would he tell her? now, that was the big question. ]

I got into an altercation. It's over and done with. That is what happened.

[evite]

that's like saying world war ii was a bad time. it's technically true, but it doesn't actually tell the story.

[ she huffs a bit, grateful he can't see her. the dressing room is abandoned; though she doesn't say so, she starts to walk back towards the tram station, where she'll (in theory) catch a ride back towards his apartment. maybe. if he doesn't irritate her first. ]

it's fine. you don't have to tell me if you don't want to.
i just thought we weren't keeping secrets from each other.

[kgbs]

[ he doesn't answer for a very long time. he needs the time to actually figure out if he wants to open this part of himself with her. ]

Early on, I told you what I didn't want to speak about when we talked about my control. Well, this man decided to speak about it. Very loudly and in my face. I didn't like it.

[ and this hadn't even been solo and his information. that had been worse. he'd been ready to kill solo. ]

[evite]

[ it takes him long enough to answer that by the time the message rolls through her interface, daisy's already boarded a tram. she'll head in that direction, but until he actually replies, she hadn't decided whether she'd actually go.

now, though, she knows she will. she won't leave him alone to deal with the wake of that kind of anger alone. ]

i remember.

[ how sharply he'd redirected her, how quick to cut off that line of questioning he'd been. she knew the emotion must be raw or repressed to trigger that kind of reaction — but she didn't know which was worse. ]

i'm sorry.

[ i'm sorry i wasn't there, she almost says, but it's not the point. her presence probably wouldn't have mattered — as far as daisy knows, anyway. ]