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thenearshore2017-10-11 09:47 am
erogappa) wrote in thenearshore2017-10-11 09:47 am
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Absorb what is useful
Who: Sharak and Gojyo (guest starring That Damn Rooster)
What: Plot -- yelling about bad dates, to start
When: August 25th or thereabouts
Where: Temple Aditi
Warnings: Will update
[ A week of sink baths is all he can endure. At first he'd justified staying away from the temple -- or, more specifically, staying at the bar -- by citing all the repairs and work that needed to be done. The tables needed sanding. The plumbing in the ladies' was leaking. There was always inventory to process.
But eventually, he just had to admit it to himself -- he was avoiding going back to the temple because he was avoiding Sharak, and he was avoiding Sharak because she'd really hurt him. He'd trusted her. He'd really thought that they were, okay, not equals, but possibly maybe friends? Certainly there had been some mutual respect there, right?
Apparently not.
The more he thinks about it, the more he mentally pokes at that bruise, the angrier he gets (and he can't lie, a good chunk of that anger is directed at himself. Things Gojyo Knows About Gojyo: when he's hurt and betrayed, his instinct is to just take it, slink away, distract himself with the shallow friendships of the regular barflies for a couple nights. That's not the man he wants to be).
It's just dawn by the time he finishes cleaning up, and makes his way back to the Far Shore. Sharak will be up by now, he's sure. The damn rooster will be up, and therefore so will everyone else in earshot. And if she's not up, then that's fine -- he can wait. ]
What: Plot -- yelling about bad dates, to start
When: August 25th or thereabouts
Where: Temple Aditi
Warnings: Will update
[ A week of sink baths is all he can endure. At first he'd justified staying away from the temple -- or, more specifically, staying at the bar -- by citing all the repairs and work that needed to be done. The tables needed sanding. The plumbing in the ladies' was leaking. There was always inventory to process.
But eventually, he just had to admit it to himself -- he was avoiding going back to the temple because he was avoiding Sharak, and he was avoiding Sharak because she'd really hurt him. He'd trusted her. He'd really thought that they were, okay, not equals, but possibly maybe friends? Certainly there had been some mutual respect there, right?
Apparently not.
The more he thinks about it, the more he mentally pokes at that bruise, the angrier he gets (and he can't lie, a good chunk of that anger is directed at himself. Things Gojyo Knows About Gojyo: when he's hurt and betrayed, his instinct is to just take it, slink away, distract himself with the shallow friendships of the regular barflies for a couple nights. That's not the man he wants to be).
It's just dawn by the time he finishes cleaning up, and makes his way back to the Far Shore. Sharak will be up by now, he's sure. The damn rooster will be up, and therefore so will everyone else in earshot. And if she's not up, then that's fine -- he can wait. ]
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He confessed to you after you set us up?
[ That is not what Shizuo said. He may have gotten himself very very drunk by the end of that date, but he was stone sober at the beginning, and he's damn sure that Shizuo, in fact, implied the exact opposite.
Which really means only one thing. ]
I'm gonna kill him.
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[Shizuo is too much of a punching bag for that. And he's still kind of Sharak's friend. She waves her hand vaguely.]
It all kind of happened at the same time. I told him I could get a date for him, he was happy, we planned it out, he realised I didn't mean with me- how he got that impression to start with, I don't know- and then he "confessed". I turned him down and since he didn't seem that heartbroken about it, suggested he meet you anyway.
[Seriously, she doesn't think Shizuo's honour needs defending as much as Gojyo thinks it does. It's not as if Shizuo was seriously interested in her.]
I told him he didn't have to, but he said yes. I didn't hold a gun to his head or trick him into anything. [Brief silence.] ... But I'm sorry I let you get involved.
[Gojyo may deserve an apology for all this. Shizuo doesn't.]