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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 10:12:25 GMT -5
Now Shade did look over at Bel, mostly also because it surely looked odd to be that fixed on a simple cocktail. "Yes." she said, a very, very faint trace of waryness in her voice. "Isn´t that what people usually do when introducing themselves?" Something told her to be careful. If it wasn´t already too late for that.
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 10:16:49 GMT -5
"Did you tell me yours?" Bel quirked a brow. "Did I tell ya mine? Where dis usually begins?" She noticed that Shade looked rather nervous now. This was fun. She didn't feel any guilt for that, mostly because she somehow viewed this as a random conversation by the bar.
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 10:18:57 GMT -5
Bel was playing with her, Shade could tell. There was a fair chance that the other women knew more than she showed, but Shade didn´t feel up for being toyed with, even though she would have preferred to be somewhere else right now. Whereever else.
She straightened up and looked at her. "Well, so, yeah, I know his last name, what´s the big deal about it?"
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 10:35:47 GMT -5
"None at all," Bella Donna made an innocent look. "So what else he told ya? 'bout his life an' everythin'?" She accepted her new cocktails from the bartender and started to stir the cocktail stick lazily around the glass.
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 10:39:25 GMT -5
"Not much actually." Shade said sounding less cautious than she was. And it was the truth. Gambit didn´t talk about his life much. She knew a few things though. Mostly that he had a wife in New Orleans, then that there were guilds and a few details on that and his childhood, that prophecy... oh well, that possibly was a lot already for Gambit´s standards. She had always seen it as a sign of trust when he had told her more.
"But everthing depends on definition. Define ´and everything´."
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 10:43:19 GMT -5
"Well, everythin'," Bella waved her hand about, " 'is family, childhood, job, dat sort of stuff."
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 10:45:58 GMT -5
"Then it´s not too much definitely." Shade said. There was no way around it, she needed to lie. Or rather...bend the truth a bit. Which meant, just leaving out information. "He doesn´t talk about these things much I think."
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 10:51:47 GMT -5
"Oh, I'm sho of dat," Bella Donna smirked. "So what, he jus' keeps ya on informational diet and you're okay wit' it?" she sipped from her glass, looking at Shade over the rim.
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 11:00:07 GMT -5
Shade caught the provocation in it. It told her with a good bit of that the other woman was indeed playing. Knowing more. Probably knowing who she was really talking to. "I know what I need to know." she said, turning slowly, giving the other woman a glance that bore just a trace of gloating. "I´m quite okay with how things are actually."
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 11:07:37 GMT -5
Bella Donna drank from her glass again, let her eyes wander around the club and then settled her gaze on Shade again. "I guess you are," she said with a sigh.
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 11:11:12 GMT -5
It was a weird situation, Shade thought. Like a sort of staring context. She had avoided the other woman´s gaze a moment ago, but Bel didn´t actually hint in too subtle a way and if she insisted, well, Shade could play along, even thouh it didn´t seem to be smart to do so.
"Why do you care about that?" she asked, not breaking the eye contact.
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 11:14:19 GMT -5
"Just curious," Bella Donna said, looking away. "Well, I gotta make some small talk, non?" she shrugged. "Seein' as LeBeau ain't nowhere around so far."
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 11:16:07 GMT -5
Shade almost felt silly for feeling a little pang of triumph when Bel looked away first.
"Well, I wouldn´t count on him showing up." she said, looking away herself only three or so seconds later, returning to her cocktail. "Might be over any moment or not at all tonight."
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 11:28:28 GMT -5
"Yeah, well, I got no choice," Bel said. She thought that, if her information about Shade was correct, Shade wouldn't be sitting here waiting for Gambit. He'd either show up soon or not show up at all, if Shade's reason for being here tonight was not him.
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 11:33:08 GMT -5
Shade was about to drop a sarcastic suggestion about phoning him instead and sparing herself the trouble of waiting, but then she decided against it. For some reason it seemed unnecessary. She sure would have done so if she had his number and her behaviour gave the impression she didn´t. Plus, Gambit had dropped the one or other very rare remark that contained the words ´wife´ and ´stalking´ so she guessed there was probably a good reason for things as they were.
She paused for a moment, seemingly lost in thought, before she asked. "Why are you here?"
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