Original Fic - Appropriate Mockery, 1/1
Summary: "If he doesn't hit a dealbreaker soon, I'm going to end up asking him out, and Bridget will mock me for weeks." (from "Relationship Potential")
Pairing: Collin/Eric
Rating: PG-13
Author's Notes: Follows directly, and references, Relationship Potential. Read that one first.
Appropriate Mockery
Collin breezed into the restaurant, head high, and walked directly to the back room where he could stash his bag. Bridget was already behind the counter, but she eyed him speculatively as he went passed, and he was silently praying she'd be distracted by a customer before she could chase after him.
No such luck.
"You got laid," the werebudgie observed loudly. He groaned.
"Shut up, Bridget."
"Seriously laid."
"We aren't talking about this."
"Well, you aren't, but I am. Was he good?"
He fiddled with the ties of his apron. Sadly, they never tangled when he needed an excuse to take a long time over them.
"Friends do not corner friends about their sex lives," he objected sulkily.
"Pfft. Cornering people about sex is half the basis of our friendship. The other half is sarcasm."
He tried puppy-dog eyes on her. She grinned, frighteningly.
"Did you know you smell of alpha wolf now?"
"I do not!" She shrugged. "I didn't even use his shampoo!"
"So you concede you were in a position to?" the overgrown parakeet questioned, shrewdly willing to narrow in on every crack in his story. His mind flickered quickly over the positions he and Eric had been in, and he had to pinch himself to keep from slipping into fantasy. "Aww. You're totally googly-eyed over wolfboy."
"Am not," he grumbled, but there wasn't much force behind it.
Yep, this was the downside to a new relationship -- the ten minute I Told You So And Now I Will Mock You For Ignoring Me lecture from his sometimes-best friend.