12 [Location: Central/Josef's place] Party Post

[loveawkward]

Entrances had been made. The people of Taxon, some of them at least, had arrived. As the sun was setting and casting the room into shadows, the lights began to come up. Twinkling white lights on the balcony around the pool, mood lighting throughout the room to separate the loft into differing areas for different events. Light music played throughout the main room, though at poolside was a section set aside for dancing as well.

Pausing to overlook the affair, for a moment, Josef felt like he was still back home.

Well, minus the bevy of beautiful women offering up a vein at the snap of his fingers. He was still getting used to that loss, which hurt more keenly than most.

((ooc: Come one, come all. Feel free to set up your own posts or use the starter areas. Josef's place is a massive loft, with three separate rooms including a bedroom with an oversized freezer in it. There is also a rooftop pool area with a wide wall overlooking part of the city.))

Comments

Dining

[loves_bitch]

"Once upon a time. She's her own woman, though. Makes her own decisions about people." Spike's posessive about Buffy but he also recognizes that holding onto the Slayer too tightly only makes it more likely she's going to leave.

Dining

[bub_snikt]

Her own woman. Like anybody's not their own person. That turn of phrase does give the sense that it's a lesson Spike here's had to learn, against his nature.

"And who's she been makin' decisions about lately?"

Dining

[loves_bitch]

"Me, mostly, but it isn't something that's currently set in stone," Spike says, not upset but there is a tension there that Logan can hear just as loudly as if the other man had said actually something.

Trying to be a good man is hard.

Re: Dining

[bub_snikt]

"Ah. One of those."

Logan's been around quite a while, and has had a lot of 'those.'

"You sure it just ain't you wishin' it wasn't set in stone?"

Dining

[loves_bitch]

"I'm bloody well saying it isn't set in stone since that's how things are - best of my knowledge," Spike's actually getting a little upset about the whole thing.

"Things were complicated and here they're... less so but it is still a bit strange. IF she wants t'see other people, it could be a good thing. She's a good woman."

Dining

[bub_snikt]

Logan just nods.

"Spoken like a man who ain't used to modern relationships," he notes, with a slight grin. "You still want her or not?"

Dining

[loves_bitch]

"That would be because I'm not a modern man a'tall, y'furball."

Yeah, he's not getting into the rest of that with this guy he doesn't even know. "We haven't even had drinks. I'm not about to spill my life story on the floor."

Dining

[bub_snikt]

"Didn't ask about your life, bub," Logan responds, coolly. "Though I think I've got a decent idea about it anyhow."

"Just tryin' ta help you through a girl problem. Polite dinner conversation and all."

[loves_bitch]

"Right. Yer tryin' tah see if you can get the girl, not help me keep 'er but enjoy it either way." Spike's a bit wound up now but it is mostly do to the poking, prodding burning of his soul inside of reminding him of his transgressions with Buffy in the past.

[bub_snikt]

Logan's digs into a bit of his food, a wry grin forming on his face as he shrugs at the accusation.

"She's an eye-catcher, sure." Plus, she runs a bar.

"And if she's into immortal guys, I might have a leg up by bein' warm-blooded, yeah. But if she's into mixin' it up with the people she's supposed to be killin', sounds like you and her are a big mess no one else would wanna get stuck in."

Yeah, he's been around enough vampires to have figured out Spike's deal by look and scent. The 'modern man' line just sealed it.

[loves_bitch]

"It isn't a mess. It was a mess. Now it is just undefined."

Spike shrugs a little and smiles, "Why don't you ask her out?"

[bub_snikt]

That gets a head tilt and a curious look.

"I just got done tellin' ya I was gonna leave it alone, and now you're darin' me not to? You sure that's a road you wanna go down, there, bub?"

[loves_bitch]

"I'm serious when I mean she's her own woman capable makin' her own choices. We've been spending time together but it might not be the right thing. Sometimes you need time away to help you understand."

Spike is being more honest with the man than he might normally be. Still, this could be a good thing.

[bub_snikt]

Logan leans back in the chair and takes a drink.

Sounds like a lot of new-age support group stuff. Things people say when they wanna be together but are scared of each other in some way.

Then he just shrugs.

"Maybe I'll take ya up on that, then."

[loves_bitch]

"Let me know how it goes, then."

Spike seems amused, more than anything else.

[bub_snikt]

Logan just raises a glass to that.

If nothin' else, maybe he'll be a catalyst to hook these two up. Make one of 'em step up to the plate.

Or maybe he'll get lucky.