Aiden Shepard [ Abraham Van Helsing ] (arcere) wrote in bellumlogs,
He knew it. Knew it. She could talk big and make fun of him but when he acquie ... acequ ... when it came down to it she couldn't deal with the fire. Already irritable (because when wasn't he), Aiden sneered slightly and took another long and probably totally unnecessary drink.
"You," he said pointedly, slowly, and carefully, the mark of a drunk man trying to hide it, "started it." He leaned back slightly, away from her pointing finger, but when that didn't work he tried to push it away. Fortunately for him she took the opportunity to take a drink, thus freeing him from her prodding hand. "You say I'm inbred, I say you are. Cause and effect. Insults do that." His words were slightly slurred even as he tried to control them, and it was a very delayed realization that he'd ordered another drink when he told himself he wouldn't.
Oh well. At least he still sounded somewhat sober.