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Post by Austenite on Jun 21, 2008 0:02:10 GMT -5
Ianto sat sprawled lazily into a chair near the hearth of the private dining parlor of the Headless Duke. He smiled wryly, what a name for an inn. Just the most hospitable place imaginable; at least if one were looking for comfort. Ianto wasn't, at least not in an inn. He was looking for the comfort of oblivion only found at the bottom of a fine bottle of French Brandy. Amazing, he thought, how the French could ruin his life, and then heal it again, if for a night of drunken oblivion. He brought his glass to his lips, only to find it empty. Cursing, he rose to go pour the last from the decantur sitting on the sideboard.
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Post by Raven Sasura on Jun 21, 2008 14:33:05 GMT -5
Lauren was sat at the other side of the room, and she was laughing, she was wearing a black dress with red trimmings, her shining red hair was let down and she felt alone. She needed something, but she never knew what. She noticed a man going to re-fill his glass, even though it already looked like he had had too much. "Sir," she said to him after walking up beside him, "I think you should calm down with your drinking."
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Post by Austenite on Jun 21, 2008 15:31:42 GMT -5
Ianto swung around to face the woman standing next to him, "Mind your own bloody business! How long have you been here? And who the bloody hell are you?" He was trying to drink his way to oblivion and this woman was trying to stop him? How uterly amazing.
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Post by Raven Sasura on Jun 23, 2008 12:10:08 GMT -5
"I've been here long enough to see your drinking too much, and my name is Lauren." She said smiling at him.
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Post by Austenite on Jun 23, 2008 13:34:15 GMT -5
Ianto snorted, "I happen to think that my state has nothing to do with you. I can hold my liquor better than most I know. I could do with yet another bottle of this stuff before I keeled over! As a matter of fact, I do believe I shall keep downing this stuff until I have reached that peaceful oblivion!" He walked over to the bell pull and tugged it. When the innkeeper arrived he ordered another bottle of smuggled French Brandy.
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Post by Raven Sasura on Jun 24, 2008 10:52:50 GMT -5
"Then your faith is wrongly placed." she said sternly. And as soon as the brandy arrived, she swept it away from him. "And if you try to get it back, it would look to be improper."
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Post by Austenite on Jun 24, 2008 16:07:35 GMT -5
"I fought for the right to imbibe as much of that as I can down! Now hand it back! I am paying good money for that bottle and I expect to drink it! Now hand it over! So help me, I will do something I have never done! I shall behave in the most reprehensible manner a gentleman can!" Ianto was irrate. He wasn't going to let this slip of a woman stop him from drinking!
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Post by Raven Sasura on Jun 25, 2008 11:08:34 GMT -5
"If you are maddened at having paid money, I can easily replace it if you do not use it to buy drink." She smiled at him.
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Post by Austenite on Jun 25, 2008 12:15:42 GMT -5
Seething with fury, Ianto took a few steps forward, towering over his prey, "I don't think you quite know who you are talking to!"
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Post by Raven Sasura on Jun 26, 2008 11:01:55 GMT -5
"And you don't know what I will stoop to, to stop you drinking," she laughed, "Look at where my knee is sir."
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Post by Austenite on Jun 26, 2008 13:54:10 GMT -5
Ianto did, and growled with fury, taking a step back from her poised knee, "What bloody business of yours if I get foxed and make and ass out of myself? Most people would happily let me go and do it. Why not you?"
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Post by Raven Sasura on Jun 27, 2008 11:23:47 GMT -5
"Because crazy as this sounds, I actually give a darn." she said sterner than before. "And I do not want to see what antics you can get up to when your drunk."
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Post by Austenite on Jun 27, 2008 12:08:49 GMT -5
"What makes you think that I get into mischief when I am drunk? " Ianto asked.
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Post by Raven Sasura on Jun 28, 2008 5:54:14 GMT -5
"Because of how I see yourself now." she said, "I can help you, all you have to do is ask."
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Post by Austenite on Jun 28, 2008 11:45:20 GMT -5
"Well I don't get into trouble! I just want you to give me that damned bottle. I payed for it and I intend to drink it. Now, hand it over, or so help me I will do something quite ungentelmanly!" Ianto stood with his hands balled at his sides. His body radiated with pent up anger.
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