Comments | abetterlie: Back in California

abetterlie

Back in California

Sep 25, 2005 15:44

Alcohol is so overrated. Seriously, I don't know what Marlowe and Spade et al saw in that stuff. At least the whole embarassing part didn't happen until after I solved the case, as it were. If I had known Kara went to California to get some distraction from her mother's death anniversary by playing Lolita, I'd have just given Angel the hotel ( Read more... )

hangover, justine, media, kara, osborn, parents, resolution

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bitter_brother September 25 2005, 16:12:40 UTC

Huh. Suddenly, I need a drink. Really, really need a drink.

abetterlie September 25 2005, 16:33:57 UTC

Figures.

bitter_brother September 25 2005, 18:26:25 UTC

No. Really.

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Did they do it? Really? He fucked her? Even knowing she was sixteen?

abetterlie September 25 2005, 18:40:36 UTC

It's your head. I'm currently considering being sober for the rest of my life.

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Not that it's any of your business, but I don't think so. They didn't smell like it when I arrived there, just like some petting. No hymen blood at all. Sometimes enhanced senses tell you things you don't really want to know. Anyway, I don't think he'll show up in Boston any time soon at the moment.

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kara_marie September 26 2005, 08:02:23 UTC

Hope you're happy, Connor. Good job "rescuing" me. Thanks for making my life even more SHIT in the process.

YOU ROCK!!!

abetterlie September 26 2005, 20:43:47 UTC

Look, I apologized on the plane, and just because I was drunk doesn't mean I didn't mean it. But if you think I'm going to apologize again, dream on. My life just became shittier as well, and believe it or not, I showed up in Monterey because a) you-know-who was worried, and b) I thought you were in trouble. Because, oh righteous one, Wolfram and Hart paid for your flight and hotel, that's how I tracked you down. Knowing you, me saying something about the utter stupidity of accepting favours from Evil Incorporated will result in you signing up there as a client for life, so I won't.

If you want a solemn promise I won't interrupt future dates of yours, gladly. I'll just make sure never to visit Disneyland again.

kara_marie September 27 2005, 03:08:10 UTC

Who? Voldemort?

AND.

You should stop calling me stupid. I actually SAVED your ass once. And there were NO tabloids involved.

abetterlie September 27 2005, 04:56:50 UTC

Very funny. Actually, it is. I need to stop making such a big deal talking about him.

AND

I know. Since I thanked you a couple of times and mention it on a regular basis when talking to your boyfriend.

Seriously: I know. That's another reason why I'm worried about you. I am most heartily sorry, but girls who rescue me manage to make it imposssible for me to remain indifferent towards them thereafter.

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livingtwin September 26 2005, 08:07:23 UTC

Justine does return, but not until she has made him sweat it out a while. And she makes sure she's engaged in her own illicit activities in the meanwhile. They're less satisfying than she hoped them to be. She's getting too old for this, for the drama.

She's saved the newspaper and dumps it in front of him.

"Sign over her ass." She says to him. "It's a good place for the autograph."

abetterlie September 26 2005, 19:18:59 UTC

Connor, who has prepared dinner, bought flowers on Harry Osborn's advice and has been engaged in correspondance with somewhat strange subtext while waiting for Justine, has occasion to curse his inherited super senses. Because he can smell the illicit activities on her. Which is like being suckerpunched. At once his carefully prepared speech totally explaining everything, complete with the mention of having won, against the odds, a well-paying client in need of help, flies out of the window ( ... )

livingtwin September 27 2005, 05:40:36 UTC

"And yet I'm not splashed all over the papers. Funny that, Stephen, real funny."

She seems calm. Calm in that way where every piece of that serenity consists of anger, but it's not the anger of the ranting, screaming, breaking variety. She's calm.

"So, I take it your job went well? You saved the virgin and the day? You also managed to fit a trip to Boston in at the same time. Multi-tasking, the talent every young entrepreneur needs. Every young entrepreneur or philanderer."

Because there are so many types of betrayal and worse indiscretions than some guy from some bar who had a room with windows that wouldn't open that she couldn't wait to leave.

"I'm feeling great. Welcome home."

abetterlie September 27 2005, 09:09:54 UTC

Was that what Angel had felt when he had watched him and Cordelia together? For Connor at age 20 sexual betrayal is a big deal, and the horrible idea of Justine and some guy whom he can still smell on her still trumps the guilt he has felt regarding the Boston connection until her arrival. The philanderer part, though, manages to remind him at least a little of what he had originally intended to say ( ... )

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