in Courting Sin 'verse
The sentence burst into words - audible words - before he could recall them. "We should date."
Cordelia didn't even pause as she knifed through her steak. "No."
"Oh." Doyle wondered what had possessed him to ask. She'd warned him early on that leaving the Slayer's world behind was her priority. Of course she wouldn't date Buffy's sidekick. Not to mention all the weeks he'd kept her at a distance after Harry's brief reappearance in his life. Great job there, moron, he thought as he speared a French fry and pushed it around his plate.
"Oh," Cordelia said. "You mean each other?"
Cordelia didn't even pause as she knifed through her steak. "No."
"Oh." Doyle wondered what had possessed him to ask. She'd warned him early on that leaving the Slayer's world behind was her priority. Of course she wouldn't date Buffy's sidekick. Not to mention all the weeks he'd kept her at a distance after Harry's brief reappearance in his life. Great job there, moron, he thought as he speared a French fry and pushed it around his plate.
"Oh," Cordelia said. "You mean each other?"