[It's very hard to avoid making comments like that when she knows she'll get a reaction out of him, even if she really is sincere about it. Don't worry, Alistair -- if anyone's going to make a move that's incredibly fast, it's probably going to be her.
After all, the last real romantic interlude she'd had with someone had started off with him drawing a vial of her blood. Not exactly a grade-A romantic setting, but she'd always felt like she had to take advantage of any situation she might be given.
She steps inside, tossing a smirk over her shoulder when he asks who she was a scout for.]
For the American government, for a while, until they tried to kill me. And after that, I guess I was kind of a spy for my own people's movement. Does that count as being a 'scout'?
Otherwise, it's just an expression -- a lot of kids who grow up as do-gooders were scouts, so...
no subject
After all, the last real romantic interlude she'd had with someone had started off with him drawing a vial of her blood. Not exactly a grade-A romantic setting, but she'd always felt like she had to take advantage of any situation she might be given.
She steps inside, tossing a smirk over her shoulder when he asks who she was a scout for.]
For the American government, for a while, until they tried to kill me. And after that, I guess I was kind of a spy for my own people's movement. Does that count as being a 'scout'?
Otherwise, it's just an expression -- a lot of kids who grow up as do-gooders were scouts, so...
[She waves her hand to the side.]