Love is Being Stupid Together 2: Electric Boogaloo

[blondandperfect]

Who: Gilbert Nightray and Hattie of Ehvenn
When: Back-dated to 8/18, 4pm
Where: A cozy Italian Bistro
Summary: Thanks to Xerxes' body swap antics, Gilbert is inspired (forced?) to do damage control with a very.. ahem.. eager Hattie.
Warnings: /!\ Will update as necessary /!\

She had an hour to get herself together and head out to the bistro. However the law of being fashionably late always applies to Hattie, and she ends up being ten minutes late- It's not on purpose, mind, it's almost in her blood to arrive early or late. Mostly late.

Today was a great chance for her to show off a design she had 'thrown together' earlier in the week and had Ella sew; a fancy brown-gold bustledress. That color since she had difficulty making orange work. To her, there was only one reason to get together, and that was to work out the proposal in greater detail- Maybe she'd even get to meet a few of his associates afterward! 

Hattie 'knew' that when this was all over, she was just one step closer to living a life of true love and grandeur. But she's late.

Ten minutes late.
 

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[He arrives on time, of course. Early, actually. Gilbert has been in this strange world for over two years now, but his clothing style is still very much outdated. He still wears a cravat, vest and jacket, hair tied back out of his face with a blue ribbon. It's pointless to dress nice here, he knows, but old habits are hard to break. And he's spent years learning how to be the perfect visage of a proper nobleman, the adopted son of a grand duke.

It was a false act, but as long as he kept his mouth shut he could usually manage to look the part.

Ten minutes isn't such a huge deal for him, though. He waits to be seated, telling the hostess at the front counter that he's still waiting for the second member of his party to arrive. Not his date! No...he can't call her by a title like that...not when he was about to do what he knew he needed to do. Reject her, and do his best not to let his guilt for the entire situation engulf him.

And then after that, he was going to kill Xerxes Break. Then wait for the Core to bring him back and kill him a second time.

He checks his pocket watch after nine minutes, watching the second hand click away for idle distraction. Maybe she'd given up on him already...?]