Star Wars isn't mine.
the dating game ~day two~
by shimegami
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"Another brandy, please, sher."
The bartender slid Face another drink, looking concerned. "You should probably make this your last, kiddo."
"'m no kid," Face mumbled, taking a swig of the drink. Tomoyo, his current date, was swirling her fingers on his thigh. He'd stopped feeling it hours ago.
"I don't get it," the bartender confessed, watching the blonde Corellian. "Why are you drinking yourself to death when you've got her attached to your arm?"
"Tha's why I'm drinking," Face slurred. "'nother drink. Alderaanian ale, if ya got it."
Dutifully the elder man slid a steinful in front of the scarred man. "Whatever you say, buddy."
Tomoyo, who'd been cheering Face on until his fifth or sixth drink, looked sullen. "Garik, honey, I'm bored. What say we head over to my place for a while?"
Although Face wasn't coherent enough to be thinking it anymore, tonight's date had been even more of a bust than yesterday's. Tomoyo was incredibly flirtatious and definitely not to his taste. He had planned to take her out for dinner and a movie, like he had done with Aeka...but the overbearing girl had dragged him out immediately to one of the seediest nightclubs in the upper levels of Coruscant, and proceeded to erotically dance for him for a number of hours. Fortunately, since Face barely ever drank, after downing only three shots of some high-density alcohol he had been able to repress the horrifying memories.
Unfortunately, since Face was unaccustomed to such binging, he was quickly so drunk that he didn't know when to stop, and an anrgy Tomoyo had eventually sat herself down beside him at the bar and ordered some potent Hapan liquor for herself.
"Kid..."
Face realized the barkeep was talking again. "Yeah?"
"Just a bit of advice...you're pretty sloshed by now I know, but try an' be careful. You been hidin' from her all night, and now yer drunk. Ya got another lady at home?"
A bit of intelligence leaked back into Face's intoxicated brain. "No..."
"Oh." The bartender still looked concerned. "Well, I still think ya should sober up a bit if yer goin' home with her."
"Right." Face tried to uncover any hidden meanings in the older man's words, but his brain functions were a little slow. He handed over some credits to the bartender and allowed Tomoyo to drag him out the door.
The woman dragged him through the walkways of the city and Face watched the way her hips moved in the short, tight, black leather skirt she wore. She really wasn't very attractive by his standards, but then again he usually went for exotic girls. Like Dia.
Dia...
Face frowned morosely and banished the memory from his mind as Tomoyo led him into her apartment, closing the door behind them. Face thoughts turned away from his Twi'lek former lover and to happier things, like what he was going to do to Phanan once he got home. He was going to sock him and then...
Then what? Ton was only trying to help.
You could kiss him.
Where had that thought come from?
Face didn't have time to devote more of his addled brain functions to the stray thought. "Garik, honey..." Face looked up as Tomoyo began to remove her clothes, giving him a coy smile.
Sorry sweetheart, I'm not that drunk. Averting his eyes, Face backed toward the door. "Uh, Tomoyo...I really don't think this is going to work out..."
The nude woman made a hissing sound and stalked toward him. "I don't think so, darling. You've been ignoring me all night, and you owe me!"
Face steeled himself as Tomoyo launched herself toward him, sending them both crashing to the floor. "Eep."
At five hundred hours Ton Phanan was awoken by the apartment buzzer ringing insistantly. "I'm coming, dammit...who the hell..."
When the pilot opened the door he found his wingmate sprawled on the ground in front of it, half-conscious. Face's shirt was partially torn away and he had a red mark on the side of his cheek. "T-Ton..."
Sighed, Phanan dragged his partner into the apartment and deposited him on the couch.
"If I had to guess, I'd say the date didn't go very well."
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Shi-chan: Sorry I've been lazy with this one. More soon.