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[beam_me]

Who: Scotty, Mozenrath, Shego. Later, Irene Adler.
What: FAIL!REVENGE.
Where: Random Kissing Town pub!
When: Friday night.
Warnings: Everyone in this thread will be extensively douchey except Irene who'll just be sexy.

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[mightymorbid]

Mozenrath was not entering the pub, where he knew his Warden to be, as a social call. He was not even there to drink or eat. He was there, and he knew his Warden was there, because he had followed a little winged sprite creature here, who had been directed to engage said Warden. With an arrow. Apparently, a love arrow.

Now, Mozenrath wasn't certain how he would follow through with this, but he assumed basic rules applied. Montgomery Scott would be stricken with an arrow, fall in love with some nameless denizen, and then -- well, Mozenrath hadn't thought far past that. Honestly, his first notion was to kill the random unfortunate stranger and let good old Scotty suffer of a broken heart for as long as these spells would last.

...And of course, to avoid being seen himself, as the creature took aim, he found a pillar to hide behind.

[beam_me]

When the arrow made contact with the Scotsman, the immediate reaction as a result was fairly lackluster. Scotty flinched momentarily and let out a small, "Buwah...?!", before rubbing a hand across his neck and looking around, bewildered. Inside, Scotty began to feel a little more queasy than he had originally, his adrenaline picking up.

He settled on the idea that it was time to find a nice inn to sleep off everything he'd had to drink throughout the day and began to stumble in the direction of a reputable-looking building.

[gotgreenmagic]

After considering going to bully Mozenrath for a little bit - only to find him hanging out with Akio Prince Of Creeps (why?) - Shego had spent a semi-decent afternoon at the casino with the cash she'd got off her Warden, alternately flirting/glowering/outright cheating at the card tables to turn a respectable profit. It was the least couple-y activity she could think of and it seemed to have kept away the worst of...whatever it was about this port that generated little pink hearts and drove the natives crazy.

Buut eventually that got boring. And she'd been heading to the pub not so much for a drink but more to find McCoy or Parker or someone else remotely sane she could commiserate with re. the utterly repulsive nature of this hellhole.

Somebody was coming out of the pub as she was going in and she didn't really notice until they drunkenly veered a little bit and their shoulders slammed together.

"Hey, watch where you're going, you - " Recognition dawned. "Oh geez. Get outta my way and I might not hurt you much."

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Once he allowed some seconds to pass so he was sure that his Warden had time for his eyes to Wander, Mozenrath peered around the pillar --

-- and if it were possible, turned from pale to incandescent.

Shego.

Oh no why did it have to be Shego?

He swallowed, and watched, and prayed that Montgomery Scott may have glanced anyone else besides her before he ran into her.

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He must've been much, much, much, more drunk than he had originally thought, because after the sharp pain on his neck subsided he turned to leave and slammed into a slight woman. "Bloody hell, I'm so--" He stopped abruptly as he stood completely still. Shego stood before him, a vision in green. The most beautiful woman he had ever beheld in his entire life. His face immediately became more flushed than it had been from the drink, and he kept rubbing the back of his neck with his hand.

"I uh-- wow, what a coincidence. What're you..." He approached her, trying to get close enough to take her hand. He wanted to hold her soft, delicate hands in his and bespeak of his affection, "You look absolutely lovely, Miss Shego. Positively stunning."

[gotgreenmagic]

What.

What.

This was obviously what you got for daring to wear a dress to a vaguely 16th-century pink theme town. Shego snatched her hands up out of harm's way, glowing eeeever so slightly, and took a long step back.

"Darn right I look stunning. How drunk are you right now?"

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He stopped abruptly, his heart attempting to hold itself together as a result of her reaction. He knew they'd been through rough times, but he sincerely thought true love would overcome. He began to stutter in his emotional reaction, potential tears welling up in his eyes.

"I um, I mean -- I've not h-had a terrible lot to drink in the last few hours. J-just... Shego, my love, why don't you come over here?" He moved toward her again, then, arms outstretched.

[mightymorbid]

"HEY!"

The boy sorcerer had barked the word before his brain had caught up with the rest of him, and lo and behold, his feet were moving too. He came to stand somewhat between them, and though he knew exactly what his Warden was into and exactly why, he found himself asking stupid, very angry questions.

"What in blazes do you think you're doing?" he demanded.

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Scotty watched wide-eyed as Mozenrath seemed to appear out of the ether between him and his beloved. The pathetic blubbering he was about to bestow upon Shego suddenly seemed very, very far away, replaced by anger at Mozenrath for interrupting their moment.

"Oi, mate, what the hell do you think you're doing?" He growled at his inmate, completely disoriented about how things had suddenly gone from fateful meeting to screaming match.

[gotgreenmagic]

Due to the whole Inmate/Warden bit, a small percentage of Shego wasn't overly surprised to see Mozenrath materialize out of freaking nowhere in order to...to...

...defend her honor?

The night had taken a turn for the totally bizarre in pretty short order. Shego bodily separated the two of them, grabbing a handful of Scotty's shirt and Mozenrath's robe and pushing them apart.

"It's pretty darn obvious what you two are doing. You," this to Scotty, "are on the brink of proposing marriage and you," Mozenrath, "are somehow dumb enough to think I need protecting from him. What I'd really like to know is why. Do either of you two wanna furnish me with an explanation of what the heck is going on?"

[mightymorbid]

Mozenrath calmly took hold of her hand and removed it from his robe -- and took half a second to straighten it. "Good guess, but not quite," he said flatly. He glanced toward his Warden -- who was quite obviously on the brink of tears, and he felt suddenly quite gratified. Perhaps he wouldn't have to end someone's life to get what he wanted after all. "Set me on fire later," he said to Shego hastily. "But right now, gimme a minute."

And so saying he slid his other arm around her and pulled her up for a kiss.

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What happened next was definitely not part of the white-fence-and-twenty-green-children plan he'd been running through in his head since Shego had appeared to him as an angel. She was his beloved, and he wasn't exactly sure how to react to another man in her proximity, let alone kissing her. His lower lip began to tremble and one, solitary tear ran down his cheek. He felt like he was in shock; his body wouldn't respond to any of the many things he was telling it to do.

"Y-you... couldn't be..."

[gotgreenmagic]

Okay, so Shego's entire kissing resume consisted of about five people. Now six. Of whom Mozenrath ranked, well, sixth. And really deserved to be someplace lower. Too hard, weird angle, somehow made his teeth really noticeable without actually biting. So there was really no excuse to grab a fistful of his cloak in one hand and the back of his turban-thing with the other, pull him a little bit closer, tilt her head, open her mouth just a tiny bit -

She cracked open one eye. There was a white butterfly circling their heads, trailing tiny pink hearts. She incinerated the insect and none-too-gently shoved Mozenrath backwards at the same time.

"We will talk about this later," Shego said, pretty much striking sparks from between her teeth, then rounded on Scotty. "Yes. Fine. Whatever. If it'll make you knock it off then I guess we could."

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The first reaction that came to Scotty's mind was anger. He ought to set his phaser to stun and send Mozenrath into la-la land so Scotty and Shego could be alone again. After he realized the flaw in that plan -- that he would be knocking out Shego's lover, boyfriend, whatever -- his shoulders slumped and he could only stand there, completely unmoving. A broken man.

Once he broke out of his momentary trance, he chose his next words carefully, moved toward her again, his voice pleading, "You ought to know, Shego... S... Shego, that I am hopelessly consumed by my love for you. That he," he pointed at Mozenrath, giving him what Scotty considered a good glare (It just looked goofy, really), and turned back to Shego, "...he could never give you what I could give you. You deserve to be loved, lass, by me."

[mightymorbid]

Mozenrath was surprised, honestly, that in spite of his offer to let her set him on fire later she didn't just pulverize him then and there. He'd seen what she could do and didn't doubt her. So it was more than shocking that she kissed him back and -- admittedly made it a lot less physically comfortable for both of them.

...He was a Necromancer; he didn't need to know about things like kissing.

And then she promptly pushed him off. Fine. Fair enough.

And then Montgomery Scott. Sickening, love-stricken, was-supposed-to-pounce-the-barmaid Montgomery Scott.

"If she were that bad to deserve that, I don't think she would have had a shot on the Barge."

[gotgreenmagic]

"What he said," Shego said, tapping her foot irritably. 'Crying and pathetic' was actually a pretty good look on the guy as far as she was concerned.

So, time to sacrifice her dignity in the service of pouring salt on the wound.

"This," she made a quick back-and-forth gesture to indicate herself and Scotty, "is not happening, okay? Tall Dark and Morbid here is everything I could ever want in a guy. He is one hundred per cent perfect in every way." She threw one arm around Mozenrath's shoulders and placed the other hand on his chest, outright draping herself over him. "Whatever you think you could give me, honestly? I don't even wanna know. Go find a dark corner to cry in, nerd. You're outclassed."