Strange Behavior *Finished*

[Bee]

By the sweet merry Goddess, he needed to stop showing such an intense interest in cock-blocking her and get on with his own damned business. Any business. Anything that would get him to go away and stay there. This was like some kind of sick perversion of that old bar adage: "It is not enough that you take someone home. Your friend must go home alone." Except they were not at all friends, and Shinrai wasn't going to be taking anything home except his massive ego. And perhaps a black eye.

"Well, there comes a time in any conversation with an interfering malcontent in which subtlety ceases to be a viable option." Primly, she said, "I am perfectly aware of my intentions. I am aware of yours. I don't much care for the hypocrisy of your insinuations. And now that we have that matter neatly cleaned up, I think we can both move on with our lives, which I believe will be fulfilling and rewarding so long as we have no contact with one another whatsoever."

[seraaches]

She spoke as though he didn't actually have better things to do with his time and as if this was all about her. The Marshdweller's green ears flicked back in sudden amusement and he tilted his head at the woman. "You may have caught my intentions," he replied, the sound of laughter rumbling in his voice like an approaching stampede. "But I don't believe you have any idea of my reasonings." Though she could figure it out swiftly; whether or not he always liked the woman, the fact remained that she was very smart and very quick on her feet.

"I am perfectly content for now; my life is rewarding even if it's not in a way that you could appreciate." Well, at least this situation was rewarding. This blatant obstinance was likely something he had learned from living with Elias.

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[Dark]

Minh watched them with increasingly levels of irritability; they were both acting like ill-behaved children set on showing the other one up with grandiose tales and the size of their dicks. It would have been funny, if the two weren't so serious about winning their impromptu battle of wits. They were fighting over Darrien's chastity, for hell's sake. You couldn't get more ridiculous than that.

"Seriously, guys? Mnem--you're a whore; we all know it, we just don't care. Except maybe Rai, for reasons I'm not going to go into at the moment. And, Rai--stop trying so bloody hard to be this mysterious do-gooder. You're an ass, plain and simple."

She waved a paw in the direction of the waitress--a plain thing, willow-thing, who thought she'd been being clever by eaves-dropping--and demanded the check. This really needed to wind up, soon--she was beginning to revel the idea of showing, and how fucked up was that?

[Bee]

Ah, one of the other members of their party finally spoke. Mnem shifted her attention away from Shinrai, thankful for the sudden interruption. The feline's comment had not bothered her at all; she had been called quite a bit worse, and Minh was a blunt creature by nature. Though the term was perhaps inaccurate; she had never gotten paid for anything. But that was a quibble.

"Yes, Shinrai," she said, with easy merriment and faint malice. "You can go off and be an ass elsewhere, and I can get on with my catting around." She considered stopping there, but no. Merely because it would annoy him, she added, sweetly, "Though I do think Minh may have hit on an interesting point. Is there a reason you're out to keep me from enjoying myself, other than protecting our dear friend's virtue? Because your persistence is quite perplexing."

[seraaches]

"An inaccurate term," Rai brushed off Minh's statements without concern. "I am hardly a donkey." Not that it mattered; at least Darrien would now be aware of why he was making such an interfering nuisance of himself. Though whether or not the other man would appreciate it would be another question entirely.

Rai gave a purely mental sigh; something he did often when near Mnem or Minh. It was a good question; why should he care about Darrien's virtue? Especially when the other man seemed so determined to run off with the spawn of Satan.

"I'm sure both of you are quite aware of why I'm still here," he replied equably, though the pair would have little doubt as to wot he was referring. He directed his next comment towards Darrien, though his eyes remained on the women. "I highly suggest you avoid any drinks or food in her presence if you're alone. You never know wot might be in it."

[Bee]

Shinrai had side-stepped the point entirely (he wasn't an idiot; he was deliberately missing it, the little son of a bitch), and if he didn't accept soon that she was going to get laid and he was going to go home by himself to cozy up with his bloody pride and honor, then she was going to ram a fork through his eye. She could see it quite clearly in her mind--eating utensil in the brain, all squishy-squishy. Death. No more Shinrai. Actually, she wondered if Minh had any explosives handy, or if she could be sent to fetch them with a swiftness.

If she wasn't concerned about looking like a demon in front of her prospective date, she might have just hauled off and beat his face in. As it stood, she merely shrugged.

"I'm perfectly safe around people who aren't enormous asshats," she said amiably.

[seraaches]

Rai returned her 'kindly' demeanour with an equally nice smile of his own. "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I wasn't talking to you, Mnem." He kept the smile very lightly in place, though his eyes had hardened slightly. This was such an enormous waste of his time and they all knew it. It was, however, rather funny sitting here and tweaking the canine's tail. He relaxed again slightly, letting her words and looks slip off his back. She was a *#&$% and everyone knew that as well. So anything she said was pretty much moot as soon as it left her mouth.

"I was actually speaking to Darrien, but I'll gladly talk to you if it makes you feel better." Well, gladly was an outright lie; but he would do it just to bother her some more. The Selkie Lakes canine's virtue was doomed, but maybe if he pulled Mnem's leg enough she wouldn't do any experiments on the man.

[Dark]

Minh's eyebrows drew together in a fit of annoyance, weighing the merits of banging her head into a booth and wondering if it might actually make her feel better, because--seriously. The pissing contest had dragged on long enough, and it shouldn't have even really happened to begin with. It was utterly ridiculous. And childish. And--and...

"Oh, go fuck yourself. And, Mnem--shut the fuck up. You two are being ridiculous--obviously, the only way to solve this ridiculous tension is to finally admit to yourselves that you're madly in love--don't take it too hard, Darrien; you seem like a great guy--and go fuck each other blind. Go on; get moving. So the rest of us can move on with our lives."

...okay. The entire restaurant was staring. Probably should have saved that particular rant for later. Huh.

"Er...check, please?"

[seraaches]

Rai turned to send Minh an utterly and completely bemused glance, ears coming forward briefly before a low laugh escaped. Another laugh came out, followed swiftly by a few others as he greatly enjoyed a great deal of amusement in regards to Minh's wonderfully cute little theory.

"Oh, Minh," he said as he turned to face her for a moment. "You are so brilliantly funny. I can't believe you could say that with a straight face." For once, he was certain that even Mnem would agree with him.

Yah, they did well in bed together, but that was the end of it. Not only were their personalities completely opposites, they seriously disliked each other. Seriously. The idea that they were actually 'madly in love' with each other was beyond ludicrous, but it certainly added to the amusing little being that was Minh.