jawstheme | (no subject)

Is it bothering if he creeps around the bar at your birthday and teaches you how to stab people on the not-Titanic and then holds the picture he finds of you up so you can't reach it?

[ Is that a question that really needs to be asked, Ariadne? ]

Edited 2012-04-22 09:02 (UTC)

Is that a question you really need to ask, Ariadne?

[Psychic.]

[ Apparently it is, because: ] I don't know if it's bothering, exactly? Not yet, at least. But he's definitely... creepy.

[ Also he made Anna cry, which Ariadne sort of wants to curbstomp him for. ]

Are you afraid of him?

[ A moment of consideration. ]

I probably should be, but no, I'm not.

It probably keeps him interested in you.

[ Are we talking about Karl or you, Jerry? ]

That or the fact that I'm snack sized.

[Bats will be bats.]

Honestly I've met smaller.

Children don't count. Though I guess they would be the real snacks. I think I'd be more of an appetizer.

[ Ariadne you know he's a vampire, why are you having this conversation? Oh right, because you're not afraid of him, either. Stupid. ]

[Now now, where's her proof??]

Did you call me to complain about the guy or are you really asking me how to get him out on a date?

[ ... Ed? ]

I try not to date people who are obviously insane.

You don't do a lot to keep away from them either.

[The kid's dating a pyrokinetic human chick, come on who are you going to believe, Ariadne.]

[ She likes Charlie. :C Besides, Charlie was the one who told her. Ed is just the proof. ]

The desert thing doesn't count.

This guy's not stalking you, is he?

The finger-chomping vampire? I don't know.

[ Pause. ]

He did threaten me because I had a picture of him missing an arm. I made sure to meet him in public to give it to him -- not that that means anything, lately.

[Now THAT is interesting...]

Just the picture? Not the arm? [That's a joke, if Ariadne had the arm he figures she'd have told him already.]

Just the picture. It was all... black and weird looking where the injury was.

I hope you made copies. Blackmail's great for keeping creeps off your back.

Isn't that why I have you? [ She's teasing... mostly. She knows that most of her friends would have her back against Karl in an instant, she's just not sure if Jerry would. ]

Are you sure? I think you're supposed to say the magic word.

[He's also teasing in his own duplicitous way.]

[ Snort. ]

Please keep the creeps off my back?

[ Or did he mean some other magic word? She remembers saying several of them. ]

[There's a toothy smile on this end of the line.]

I'll look into the guy.

[ She should probably feel bad about this, but hey. Vampires.

But Jerry doesn't know she knows, so-- ] You're not worried about the teeth? [ Look Eames, she's learning. ]

[It's enough he knows she suspects, just like Charlie Brewster.]

I don't plan on inviting the guy to my birthday party.

It was an open invitation, I couldn't exactly take it back. He can smell fear.

[ Pause. ]

When is your birthday, anyway?