Veronica so owed Piper.
Her BFF had cooked an amazing dinner of roast beef and yorkshire pudding upon Veronica's request after Archie mentioned craving it the other night at Caritas.
The food was warming in Veronica's oven, the table was set and she was waiting for Archie.
[locked, obviously.]
[ETA: V & Archie were hit with the truth spell
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He came down the hall from 115 and knocked on the door, wondering what she had in mind.
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"Good evening, Veronica," he intoned with a bow once he'd recovered himself. "The food smells wonderful."
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She frowned and looked at the bottle in her hands. "And if I can figure out how to make this stupid corkscrew work, we'll have wine."
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"It really is a good wine. Why aren't you having yours?"
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She blinked the moment the words were out of her mouth. She hadn't intended to tell Archie quite like that.
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Whatever had possessed her to tell him right now? He tried to think of something reassuring to say, but what he said wasn't quite what he had intended.
"You remember what I told you about Simpson, the senior midshipman from the Justinian. It wasn't at a party," he said slowly, "and I wasn't drugged, but . . . so was I. On several occasions."
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She was silent for a moment, wondering what had sparked these revelations.
"At least yours wasn't someone you trusted and thought you loved," she said. "I found out about a year after it happened, that my ex-boyfriend had done it. He claimed it was consensual, but he freaked out and left me alone afterwards because he thought there was a chance we had the same father."
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