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026: [ voice | location: caritas ] A bingin' we will go

[ guess who's now seated at a secluded corner in caritas, with her head on the table and nursing a huge bottle of alcohol on her own.

no, really. guess. ] Oh, who cares about... broody, stupid vamps when I've got you... [ she grabs the bottle and reads: ] Mr. Voodoo Tiki Tequila. Mmm. You're now my new best friend, 'kay?

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Gunn ducks his head a little to laugh - he doesn't want to let Cordelia see that he finds it just a little amusing. "Can't say I've ever met the girl, Cordy, but I can't imagine what she might have on you. So she can beat stuff up. You got that vision thing, right?"

"I know!" She raises her hands up and scoffs. "So she's a Slayer. Big deal! When it comes to men, I'm the Slayer. I mean hello, have you seen my breasts? Hers? Nothing, when compared to mine."

...someone stop her. Please.

Gunn can take the alcohol without flinching, but Cordelia's comment makes him choke a little bit, and pulling a face, he wipes his mouth off with the back of his sleeve.

"That's right," he encourages, and then adds, more than a little awkwardly, "You damn fine, girl." Desperately, he searches for another topic change, and then before he can help himself, blurts: "At least Angel's still into you. I got here just in time to find out that Fred'd moved on completely."

She was just about to move on to another part of her anatomy that she deems to be superior to Buffy's, but then Gunn mentions Fred and just...

...yeah.

"So you two, um... talked about that already, huh."

Gunn clears his throat. Did he really bring this up? He really hadn't mean to bring this up. "..yeah. Sort of. I mean, I know we're not --" He looks away and shrugs dismissively, but his mouth is twisted into a sort of scowl. It's just not fair, he wants to say, but he grew up on the streets of Los Angeles. He's used to life not being fair. "It blows ass," he settles on, instead, and moves to take the bottle from Cordelia.

It's weird to hear him talk about this. It's no secret that when it comes to the tug of war that is Wes and Gunn on Fred, Cordelia's very firmly on the Englishman's side. Not that she has anything against Gunn, as she loves him almost the same as she does Wesley, but when it comes to Fred? She just can't see her with anyone else but Wesley.

That doesn't mean she doesn't care about Gunn's feelings, though. Far from it. "Well... not like she and Wes are married, Gunn. Maybe you still have a chance?"

Gunn looks back at Cordelia, momentarily startled, before he struggles not to look bitter again. "Missed my chance, Cordy. I might be stupid, but I ain't that stupid. She don't look at me the way she used to." There's something hollow in his voice when he speaks about her, about all of this. He's not broken - he just hasn't had time to heal yet.

He swallows a little thickly, then tosses his head and smiles at her, and while it's not genuine, it's apparent that he's trying at least. "Besides, I've seen lots of pretty faces wandering around here. Pretty stupid to tie myself to someone from back home, right?"

"You're not stupid," she says, quite vehemently. "Anyone who says that will just have to deal with me and kiss my gorgeous ass while getting kicked by my stylish yet affordable shoe." Oh, and she means it, too.

Cordelia studies him for a moment, then shrugs. "It depends," she says. "I mean, I don't think it's stupid, but if you want to move on then... there's really nothing that would stop you. I certainly won't."

Gunn shrugs again, peering down into his drink. "I lost her the moment that I snapped her professor's neck," he admits, and he wants to smile at Cordy's fervent defense of him. "Thing is? I'd do it again, if it meant she didn't have to, even if I lost her every time for it."

He's just drunk enough to expect Cordelia to understand all of that, even if it's likely that she won't, and instead just takes another hard drink from the glass.

"Huh. Sorry, girl, I'm not great with the heart to hearts."

She'll just... stare at Gunn for a few seconds, here. Did she hear him right? That he--

Cordelia shakes her head and grabs her bottle. She needs to drink. Badly.

"Not a problem," she says, quite faintly. Then, "You snapped her professor's neck?"

He stares at her, perplexed, before realization dawns. Even the Cordelia in his world doesn't know about this.

"Guy sent her to Pylea. She was gonna return the favor.. but it woulda killed him, Cordy. She woulda been responsible for murderin' him." He sucks on his teeth and shakes his head. "..girl like Fred wouldn't be able to handle that. Not after the rage left her."

"So you did it for her," she says softly. "You did it so she didn't have to." Cordelia's overwhelmed with what she heard from him - at the sacrifice he's done for Fred, and yet it seemed like the act itself drew them apart.

"She didn't have to. She never had to," Gunn says vehemently, suddenly incensed. "She needed to go back up to her room, get some sleep, and let me and Angel help her deal with it in the morning like a rational person. She went to Wes instead, and I can't tell you what went down exactly - other than he jumped at the chance to help her commit murder."

He's leaning forward, hands clenched into tight fists, before he suddenly seems to realize how loud he's being and shakes his head hard, leaning back and relaxing with a shudder.

"Sorry. Look. Can we just talk about something else?"

Cordelia crosses her arms, ready to argue something. There's something that strikes her as patronizing in Gunn's tone - but then she hears that part about committing murder, and, well... that shut her up.

"Sure," she says. The topic made her uncomfortable, anyway. "What do you want to talk about?"

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026: [ voice | location: caritas ] A bingin' we will go

oh god i put affects instead of effects, that'll bug me forever

...i didn't even notice that!

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