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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 16:12:46 GMT -5
Shade was not sure why Bel was asking that and her instant reaction was a short laugh. Was Bel trying to dig even further into it? Did she need that? Torturing herself with this conversation?
She broke eye contact, looking around aimlessly. She had actually never considered the thought and in that moment, a mental image of Gambit proposing to her floated through her mind. It was a strange image, one that had never been viewed before and that bore a trace of being completely abstract, even though part of her liked it.
But then she became more serious again and gave a shrug. "I have actually never thought about it." she said. "I mean...I..." she paused, thinking. "I would, I guess. If he asked me. I mean I love him but...why are we talking about this, Bel?"
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 16:16:26 GMT -5
"Well, damn," Bella Donna made a wry mouth. "I just thought to share how I get back at 'im for not helpin' him file for divorce. I'm sho he'd love to... but he can't. And if ya didn't want to marry him, we'd share a nice laugh about LeBeau." She'd actually appreciate that - sharing a laugh about Gambit, at least in some aspects.
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 16:19:21 GMT -5
Shade gave a somewhat mischivous smile at that, not sure what motivated it. "Why does the one have to exclude the other?" she asked. "Why can´t I want to marry him and still like the thought of having a laugh?"
Such as striking a deal. I´ll help you prank him, but then you drop that blocking a divorce thing, all right? Oh knock it off, Shade.
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 16:23:12 GMT -5
"Well," Bel frowned, thinking it was kind of obvious, but she explained nonetheless, being all nice and friendly after so much drinking, "cause I'd be blockin' de path to your happily ever after an' all. But then again, maybe not-" she made a short sigh, her eyes darting to the side as she remembered, "my ever after wit' Gambit wasn't dat much happy."
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 16:26:12 GMT -5
But it´s a nice thought, Shade thought to herself. That´s all. A nice thought when considering it.
"Well, that´s the only way we could have a laugh together? With you not divorcing from him? Besides, that would just be a laugh for you. I´m sure there are more creative ways."
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 16:30:35 GMT -5
"Oh well!" Bella exclaimed, throwing her arms up once and then crossing them on her chest. "I don't know. Well, I'm not even sure what he'd do when divorced. Not like he's gonna marry anyone. Sorry, chere-" she made a sympathetic smile and actually meant it. "But it's just how he is! I mean, we had de Council of de Guilds forcin' him to marry me in de first place."
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 16:38:08 GMT -5
That prophecy, Shade remembered. A wedding to end the war between the guilds. He had told her that, but it had always sounded to Shade like Bel was his teenage times love.
This however made things look somewhat different. She felt like a really bad person because the thought that he had only married this woman because he had had to, gave her something like satisfaction. You´re awful, Shade, she thought. Plain awful.
"Well, it´s not something I am waiting for to be honest." she said. "It´s not something I expect of him sooner or later.
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 16:42:50 GMT -5
"Good for you," Bella nodded, and again meant it, "less broken expectations, less disappointment." She made a small pause, drinking from her glass in the meantime, then said, "Well, I'm gonna be all disappointed, too, if you don' tell me any funny stories about LeBeau. He has to make a fool of 'imself every now an' den, non?"
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 16:47:21 GMT -5
She sounded like him sometimes, Shade noticed, wondering whether they were merely one of a kind or whether it was the accent or just the effect of them growing up with each other. He, too, had told her things along the lines of expectations and disappointment. About her feelings towards him mostly back before he had returned them.
"Oh he does." she gave back with a grin. "There was this one time where we had been out and about during the day and we were in that abandoned park with the car. We were starting to make out and things got a bit heated and then I just got him riled up till I got his pants down and vanished. He looked funny, standing in front of his car, in the flashlights, with his pants down. I´ll never forget his face."
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 17:19:10 GMT -5
Bella Donna chuckled, feeling better. She never lacked imagination, and the lovely view just came so vividly in her mind's eye. "Catchin' LeBeau off guard," she said, "priceless." She sipped her drink and thought back on the time when she and Gambit were still a couple, before they got married. "Dere was dis one time when I dared him t' steal a ticket t' Star Wars premiere. He was all, 'no-no, ya ain't makin' me steal, nu-uh', but I dared him an' den he couldn't back out, he had such a defeated look when he brought me dat ticket."
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 17:23:10 GMT -5
Shade could imagine that look perfectly. It made him look like a beaten puppy. Which also meant she could hardly be mad at him, just because he looked adorable like that. "He refused to steal?" she then asked, somewhat amused. "Wow, where did that come from? I´ve never seen him too reluctant about that."
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Post by Gambit on Apr 1, 2011 17:30:46 GMT -5
"Well, he wasn't gettin' paid for it or gettin' any Guild promotion bonuses," Bel explained. "It was just his girlfriend makin' fun of him and abusin' his 'elite skills'," she indicated the quotation marks with her fingers.
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Post by Shade on Apr 1, 2011 17:56:02 GMT -5
Shade smirked. "I know another one." she said. "It´s a whole while ago already. We were in Central Park and it was really nice weather and for some reason we had stopped by a toy store on the way and bought some really childish board game. It was a sort of dice game where you had to move your figures towards a treasure and inbetween there were fields where you could get stuck or where you had to do some sort of activity to be alloed to move on." She took a long drink of the cocktail, finishing it.
"He got on such a field and had to sing a pirate song."
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Post by Gambit on Apr 2, 2011 3:01:36 GMT -5
Bella chuckled. She had a clear image of Gambit singing in her mind. It had been a while since she'd heard him sing... but she didn't allow that thought to overtake now. She was supposed to be having fun.
"I dumped 'im in a vat of dye once," she gave back. "Red."
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Post by Shade on Apr 2, 2011 3:07:04 GMT -5
Shade´s cocktail had not been empty for long now but apparently, Bel´s generosity had the staff of the Hellfire on their toes so there was somebody at their table to replace it in no time and Shade flashed the waiter a somewhat dorky grin, telling clearly that she was somewhat tipsy.
She snickered. "Was he wearing anything or naked when that happened?" she asked when the man had left again.
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