The stranger shot him an amused look, his eyes glittering with humor and a smirk on his lips as if he had noticed his distress... in fact, as if he knew exactly what Knight had been thinking. Knight himself tried to cover himself up as good as possible while he explained procedures but again, the stranger caught him completely off guard when he said, ever so casually, that he hadn’t told him his name. “Oh...” For a second there Knight thought that the stranger was teasing him but something... somewhat... about him was... intriguing, to say the least. Still, there remained all the issues he had been thinking about only the day before. “Knight. You must not be from around here. If so... it doesn’t do to get too friendly.” The stranger seemed honestly puzzled for a moment or two before speaking again. “Something wrong with asking your name?” Of course there wasn’t anything wrong with asking someone’s name. Yet how he could explain it to the stranger without giving himself away... he spoke in a low voice, trying not to sound too obvious about it all. He had to work here, after all, and he said as much. Knight half expected the Stranger to end the conversation then and there, considering him not worth the trouble, but he asked, as if he couldn’t let the matter rest, if that now meant he would or wouldn’t mind being friends. The way he stressed the word friend made Knight’s stomach flutter for a second. He discovered, though, that he simply didn’t dare to make any commitment, not with the memories of the two recruits so freshly in his mind. “I... would, perhaps some other time. When my orders take me to Vegas, perhaps. Wish things were different, but might take some time.” The stranger looked disappointed for a second before flashing him a good-natured grin. “Well, you got to have leave at some point. Maybe we can catch up in Vegas one fine day.” After giving the stranger no more than a non-committing nod and hating himself for his cowardice Knight busied himself with his gun and didn’t dare to look up again before the door had closed behind that handsome stranger with the beautiful voice.
He wondered if he would ever see him again, but he doubted it. Only then did it occur to him that for the first time in months, someone had – seemingly – attempted to flirt with him and he had been too gutless even to ask his name.
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My Knight in shiny Armour 1c/??
Date: 2011-11-05 06:28 pm (UTC)Knight himself tried to cover himself up as good as possible while he explained procedures but again, the stranger caught him completely off guard when he said, ever so casually, that he hadn’t told him his name.
“Oh...” For a second there Knight thought that the stranger was teasing him but something... somewhat... about him was... intriguing, to say the least. Still, there remained all the issues he had been thinking about only the day before. “Knight. You must not be from around here. If so... it doesn’t do to get too friendly.”
The stranger seemed honestly puzzled for a moment or two before speaking again. “Something wrong with asking your name?”
Of course there wasn’t anything wrong with asking someone’s name. Yet how he could explain it to the stranger without giving himself away... he spoke in a low voice, trying not to sound too obvious about it all. He had to work here, after all, and he said as much.
Knight half expected the Stranger to end the conversation then and there, considering him not worth the trouble, but he asked, as if he couldn’t let the matter rest, if that now meant he would or wouldn’t mind being friends. The way he stressed the word friend made Knight’s stomach flutter for a second. He discovered, though, that he simply didn’t dare to make any commitment, not with the memories of the two recruits so freshly in his mind.
“I... would, perhaps some other time. When my orders take me to Vegas, perhaps. Wish things were different, but might take some time.”
The stranger looked disappointed for a second before flashing him a good-natured grin. “Well, you got to have leave at some point. Maybe we can catch up in Vegas one fine day.”
After giving the stranger no more than a non-committing nod and hating himself for his cowardice Knight busied himself with his gun and didn’t dare to look up again before the door had closed behind that handsome stranger with the beautiful voice.
He wondered if he would ever see him again, but he doubted it. Only then did it occur to him that for the first time in months, someone had – seemingly – attempted to flirt with him and he had been too gutless even to ask his name.