BWI Airport, Portalocity Lounge

[rebelseekspizza]

It was That Time Of Year again. At BWI airport, they knew well that this was not the kind of thing you wanted to be asking questions about. So when a teenage boy showed up wearing a ratty long red-and-black coat, an expression that blazed hell and a large series of bleeding scratches on his face, well, they didn't ask. About anything.

Dante didn't mind. It meant he could walk into the nice warm Portalocity lounge and crash on one of the benches. Had to sleep off the day he'd had... yesterday? Was it yesterday now? Who cared.

By the time he jerked back awake about an hour later, the scratches had vanished and his expression had gone sleepy, though the ratty coat remained. He sat up, rubbing at his eyes. Guess he wasn't alone anymore, huh? Fine, whatever. "Who knew the public still showed up for transport?"

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Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[sampippy]

Xanthippe eyed him for a moment.

Then she asked, "What? Is there something you want?" Because she wasn't very polite. Not when she didn't have a reason to be.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Can't even get a hello?" Eggsy replied, trying and failing to look heartbroken.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[sampippy]

Meanwhile, there was no failure involved in Xanthippe's judgey look. "What would you need one for?" she asked.

He was cute, maybe, but his fashion sense was off.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Excuse you, his fashion sense was spot on. For a chav.

"Might be nice. Brighten up my day."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[sampippy]

Xanthippe made a sound in the back of her throat. Some weird combination of a chuckle and a snort.

Whatever it was, it was not very friendly.

"And you've earned that how?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Earned that?" Oh, she was gonna be one of those posh girls, huh? "What's that supposed to mean?"

Meet the chip on Eggsy's shoulder.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[sampippy]

"It means," Xanthippe replied, with the kind of fake sweetness reserved for people you wanted to know that you didn't think they were very smart, "that it's not my job to 'brighten up your day'."

She was still expecting a Manhattan kind of social hierarchy from this school. She was probably going to mellow out a little once she figured out this wasn't really going to be that kind of place.

Probably.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Aww, he wasn't the only one then!

Eggsy shrugged, relaxing again now that it wasn't because he was some little ill-bred chav and just because he was being a complete fuckboy about it. "Then maybe I can brighten your day," he said with another smile.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[sampippy]

Well, the chav thing played into it. But Xanthippe didn't even know what a chav was so she couldn't really zero in on it.

Didn't stop her from going straight back to being less than taken with his proposition. "Uh, no, thanks."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

One day she would and Eggsy would go right back to be angry about life. But hopefully by then he would be a spy. So.

Breaks even.

He shrugged again, letting it drop at that.