Iris Dickinson (Formerly Iris Phillips McConnell) (telekeneticspaz) wrote in btvsal, @ 2010-08-17 22:35:00 |
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Evil Iris is Evil
Who: Iris and Pat
Where: Avarice
When: Saturday Night, 8/14
Iris sat at a table waiting for Pat. Her husband had been a bit busy lately, so she had been hanging out at Avarice all the more lately, and hanging out with Pat as well. While she wasn't going as far pulling him away from his new baby or anything like that, she was hanging out with him a bit more these days. She sipped at a beer as she waited for him to arrive on the scene.
Pat was hanging with Iris for similar reasons, really. Patience was dealing with her own issues, ones that, as much as he WANTED to, he couldn't help her with. Problems that required her to spend time alone with Paige, trying to figure out what all had changed within her. He knew it wasn't personal, and so, wasn't upset about it... but he still missed being with her as much. So, with Jack working on trying to actually have a RELATIONSHIP for once, that left one other truly close friend for him to turn to.
Hands stuffed in the pockets of the old, worn jeans he had on, Pat gave a boyish grin and nodded to Iris as he walked to her table.
She smiled up at him. "Glad to see you finally show up," she said to him with a grin. She kicked out the chair from across from her. "Have a seat."
"Golly, thanks!" He said with a teasing tone, before doing so, gesturing to the bartender to send a bottle of beer over for him. "So, how're things?"
"Things are OK," she said, sipping at her beer. "Well, Jeremy's busy with work, but when you work with stuff as sensitive as he does, then that's just likely to happen a lot." She shrugged. "What about you?"
"Pretty much the same. Patience... has been really aggressive lately. So Paige has been trying to work with her, help her calm it down a little." Ok, so he was hiding how worried he really was.
"And...you're worried as hell." While it obviously hadn't worked out between them, she could still easily read him like a book. It was why they were good friends, after all. "Sorry to hear about that, though."
"She'll be ok. But... geez. I know you guys haven't had a chance to talk lately... but I'm sure you've noticed she's not HERE anymore..." He motioned to the bar, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, I've noticed plenty," Iris said to him. "I've also heard what she did to Skylar. Even if she's the mother of your child, I still sort of applaud her for doing it." She laughed. "I can't help that, though. It was still a little much."
"Skylar was wrong for egging her on... but... Patience has NEVER been this confrontational. If this tells you anything, the only time she's EVER done something like that was when a girl broke her brother's heart. This was... just over some catty comments." He lowered his voice, so only she could hear. "I worry that if it goes unchecked, she could end up hurting someone she loves."
"Hopefully it won't go that far," Iris said to him. She patted him on the hand. "I'm sure things will be fine. She's just got all this demon stuff running through her veins, plus left over hormones, I'm sure. Can't add up to a completely stable person. It'll calm down and she'll be fine."
"Yeah..." He said, clearly still worried. Hey... she wasn't JUST his wife, as everyone knew. She was pretty much his everything. "But anyway. Other than missing your sweetie, how's things in Iris-ville?"
"Things are fine," she told him. "I've mostly been spending my time working at the bookstore." If Jeremy could throw himself into work, then so could she. It was only fair.
"How's that been going? I keep meaning to stop in and see the place, but.. well..." He grumbled, as obviously he'd had a LOT on his mind. "I've been trying to watch Cash as much as possible, so Patience has more time to spend with Paige."
"It's been going OK," she told him. "I miss teaching, but it was a lot more trouble getting teaching certificates and faking a teaching history with a new name than it was to just pretend to be dumb and work in a bookstore." Sad but true.
"At least you LIKE books..." He pointed out with a laugh. "Not like you got stuck selling vacuum cleaners..."
She giggled. "SO glad that nothing like that happened," she said to him, "or that I ended up stripping for Ben or something ridiculous like that."
"Ok, admittedly? THAT would be hot." He shrugged, and continued before she could say anything. "Hey, I *still* think you're sexy as hell, kid..."
She laughed. "Then I might have ruined a marriage for you on YOUR bachelor party, huh?" she joked. Hey, at least she seemed willing to joke about things like that now, huh?
"Ouch. Below the BELT, woman!" He didn't bother mentioning the part where honestly? Patience would likely say 'bring 'er home!'... "I'll be honest... I'm still shocked you and Gwen have gotten so close."
She just grinned. "I only say it because I love you," she said playfully. "And what's so shocking? OK, maybe a little shocking considering, but the girl needed someone to talk to, since she had went through hell that I wouldn't wish on...well...Skylar, honestly."
"I guess I just figured you'd loathe them equally..." Comically enough, in mid-sentence, without missing a beat or even bothering to look behind him towards the DJ booth, threw up the metal horns to Baily as she started playing an old Iron Maiden song. "I mean, I love her dearly, but Gwen wasn't exactly an innocent in that whole thing..."
"No, not at all," Iris nodded. "Honestly, I think my dislike of Skylar comes from the whole 'prolonged affair in LA' thing that happened when we all moved here." She sighed. "Yeah, I know, no innocents there, either. I was even stupid enough to say it was fine. Whatever. Anger ain't sane, you know."
"I know. I guess, no offense to you at all, but I hate that everyone sort of demonized Skylar after that, but sort of ignored MY part in, and somehow had Gwen looking like a victim. All THREE of us were in the wrong." And there we have it, folks: possibly the most profound thing Pat McConnell had ever said in normal conversation outside of a classroom.
"Well, I didn't exactly like Skylar from the beginning, her breaking up with Gwen was just kind of an excuse to attack her all the more," Iris admitted. "Plus, you know it was impossible for Patience to properly like her even before everything happened with Gwen, right?"
"I always wondered about that..." He admitted, realizing he'd NEVER talked about this with anyone! "Was it because Skylar and I had a child? I mean, I was equally involved with Gwen... yet she never had any resentment towards HER. Plus, Skylar and I both got together AND broke up before she came back..."
"Yeah, she got to have the first baby with you," Iris explained to him. "AND she has this weird thing about having someone be with Gwen. It was one thing with you, but it wasn't like Skylar and her were ever going to sleep together. I bet if you guys had a foursome this never would have happened." She rolled her eyes. "And Ben would still be sleeping with everything known to man."
"That's...." He stopped, blinking. "That's a DAMN good point, Iris." It had never hit him that possibly, Patience hated Skylar as much for taking GWEN from her as she did for having been with Pat. "Gwen mentioned that Patience was.... a bit touchy about her new girlfriend..."
Iris snorted. "I adore Patience, but she's got a jealous streak a mile wide," she pointed out. "It seems that she's highly protective of what she thinks of as hers, and that includes you and Gwen."
"I'm hoping to meet Gwen's new gal soon, though. Gwen's never seemed happier, even when she was with us." Not that he'd admit that to Patience or Skylar though...
"Well good. Hopefully I get to meet her before they run off to Vegas as well," Iris said. "She deserves a little bit of happiness. Plus, if she's willing to go to Skylar and Ben's wedding and make up with Skylar, then what the hell? I can't even be THAT pissed at Skylar after that."
"I gotta go visit them, actually. Skylar just had their baby a few days ago..." Hey... no matter what, Pat still adored Skylar, ok?
"Oh, good for them, then," Iris said. "So...shouldn't offer to pay for future therapy, then, right?" She laughed. "I'm kidding! I was planning on sending a gift like I did for the wedding. See? I'm being nice."
"You are truly, truly evil, Iris." He snickered, being reminded again of one of the reasons they got on so well to begin with.
"Just a little," Iris agreed. "But I'm trying to be good. Well, mostly, anyway."