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whenshewasnice) wrote2013-11-24 03:28 pm
whenshewasnice) wrote2013-11-24 03:28 pm
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An Afterparty, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday
What a difference a few years made. Natalie still didn't love a crowd of any kind, but she was much better at handling one these days without feeling like dropping all conversation and just walking away because she couldn't be bothered to care. It turned out small talk was much easier when you thought of it like it was PR. She was getting ever so good at playing roles like that.
She was also getting very good at mingling with a glass in her hand as if she was actually drinking from it. And as she excused herself from another mingly encounter with some charming parting words, a smile, and a little raise of her glass, she was more than a little tempted to ask Peter whether that counted as a life skill.
[ooc: NFB, and for Peter.]
She was also getting very good at mingling with a glass in her hand as if she was actually drinking from it. And as she excused herself from another mingly encounter with some charming parting words, a smile, and a little raise of her glass, she was more than a little tempted to ask Peter whether that counted as a life skill.
[ooc: NFB, and for Peter.]
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Valentine had always hated him calling it that.
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"Thank you, Mr. Wiggin, I try."
She did more than try, so there was a dryly amused quality to the words.
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He took a sip from his glass and regarded the scene with some satisfaction. "I think this is going well. Don't you?"
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He held up a hand. "Want to dance to celebrate? I'm in the mood for something that isn't chatting."
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"Well I can't really say no to that rare an offer."
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"Well, maybe not a full day..."
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Graceful enough not to step on her toes when he started moving, which was good enough.
"Very clever."
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"It's what I'm paid for," she said. "Besides, tackiness happens to all of us. It's a fact of life. Like embarrassment in general."
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Yeah, he remembered that little look into her memories from last year, but he wasn't about to act like it even existed, thank you.
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Natalie shrugged a shoulder. "Not for years now." Liar. "But I was more easily embarassed as a kid."
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"No," she said. "For one thing, I was never embarrassed with him."
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hours later because his mun hadn't gotten a notif, "It's Dickens."no subject
Actually, she didn't think he'd even know the books in question.
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"We assign value to cave paintings too," Peter retorted. "Doesn't mean they're worth anything this side of a museum."
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"It's just another way of preserving human history," Natalie returned, because far be it from them to just dance without an intellectual debate. "It's not all facts and history books."
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She half smiled.