ka_verse Prompt 9, 'Dot'
Prompt 9 - Dots
A/N- Follows my one-shot 'Circle Circle, Dot Dot'; not sure how much sense it will make without reading that first. Also Perudo is an awesome dice game; ironically it's a game about who's best at lying… Which works exceedingly well for my purposes. (Think Pirates of the Caribbean, when everyone's auctioning off their souls on the Flying Dutchman.)
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"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Benjamin Franklin
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The crossed leg touching her own under the makeshift table was warm, and slightly distracting, but not nearly so much as the finger staining her skin with invisible ink as it drew on her knee with distracting circular caresses and taps. Marco was clearing asking for it, but there wasn't much Rachel could do at the moment.
Circle
She wanted to sock him one for bringing this up- although indirectly, but they both knew damn well what he was doing- but that would be more than obvious, and Tobias wasn't the only one who would see. She settled for scowling at him instead, and was awarded a shit eating grin and a wink in exchange.
Circle
Given no other option, Rachel sat (semi) serenely between Marco and Cassie in Ax's scoop while the group as a whole continued to try and suss out the truth behind under each other's poker faces. Frankly, since Ax really didn't understand the point of the game again (something about a game about lying being dishonorable), Cassie and Jake lied very badly among friends, and Tobias had abstained from the game in favor of refereeing, it was really down to she and Princess Marco, anyways.
Dot
Since it was all in (debatably) light hearted fun, Marco supposes he really shouldn't be enjoying putting normally enthusiastically violent Rachel in a position where she was (black-mailed) encouraged to behave while he oh-so-kindly reminded her of their brief stint of legitimate traditional juvenile delinquency.
He did have to make it home with all his pieces parts not mauled by his teammate at some point tonight, after all.
Shame this was so much fun, really.
"Well, we are so not going to Vegas for our twenty-first birthdays, since you all suck at this so terribly." Marco smirked. "And by you all, I mainly mean our fearless leader and his leading lady. You two have the worst poker faces I know. It literally amazes me you were able to successfully convince your parents that you are currently 'working on a history project' instead of fooling around in the woods somewhere."
Jake choked impressively on nothing.
"So tell me, Xena, how do seven threes sound do you?" He traced three very slow threes on her knee under the table
Dot
Rachel didn't even hesitate; she had four of those threes and- just like with most things in this life- Marco was bluffing when he wasn't overreacting and drama queening everything.
"Perudo, monkey boy. Everyone flip 'em; Marco loses."