charlie west, also known as 'cactus the angry elf' (littledeadly) wrote in immune_ic,
Charlie kept her eyes on the bar, though they narrowed in annoyance at the pet name. Her first instinct was to turn and snap that if he called her 'sugar' again, he'd be breathing through his beer bottle, but something stopped her. He'd sounded almost like he knew Moore, and she couldn't pass up the chance to learn more. More dirt meant getting out of this little arrangement sooner, right? She made a mental note to extra-kill Paulson this weekend. Not only was she stuck in a bar waiting for her 'date'-- granted, that part wasn't so bad, as she could barely tolerate Moore-- but now she had to spend her time with a man who, from the sound of his accent, was probably some old, white-haired, pot-bellied asshole who wanted to put a woman 'in her place' or some shit.
She was sincerely glad she didn't have a drink in her mouth when she turned to glare at him, because she would have choked on it. Definitely not what she'd been expecting. He was trouble, Charlie could tell-- unfortunately, he looked like every kind of trouble she liked to get herself into, and it made her eyebrows raise and her lips twist into a mischevious smirk.
"Lemme guess. You think I'm just a goddamn damsel in distress, who needs rescuing from the big bad creep. Sorry, pal, ain't gonna fucking happen." Charlie responded, turning away from him when the bartender put down the cheap bottle of booze and, much to her annoyance, two shot glasses. She poured the first shot eagerly, knocking it back with a satisfied groan. "Thank fucking god," she sighed, more to herself, and poured herself another shot. Moore had a fucking annoying habit of ordering for her, and it was always some drink he insisted was 'becoming of a lady'. And because she valued her goddamn boss so much, she'd force the smiles and knock back the cocktails, all the while wishing for a straight shot of something that really burned. "If I had to force down another fucking Cosmopolitan, I was gonna puke. That shit tastes like cherry cough syrup mixed with a nice healthy dose of ass."