[He doesn't know how to say this. His father had dragged him along to some important political banquet, and Abel had snuck off during the party to make out with one of the waiters in a side office. Which, unfortunately, had been interrupted by Maeve's arrival. Abel knows so little about her other than her reputation as a vicious diplomat, so his contact is driven by desperation.]
[Truth be told, she had not expected this particular banquet to have born such fruit. The little office she had been going to take a call in (and...certainly not poke around for anything she could use) had contained something a lot less 'incriminating documents' and a lot more 'scandal in the making.' How intriguing.]
Ethan, is it? What, praytell, would you like me to not inform him of?
Oh, no, no, no. I merely wish clarification about how, precisely, the compromising position that I discovered you and your little companion in would be objectionable.
[Ethan can think of a host of reasons why his father might object to a casual dalliance with the hired help, and not even his father's own hired help (thus someone his father could bribe for silence), but a stranger he'd only just met. But one particular reason stands out and he hopes that it'll be one that garner's sympathy.]
[This boy. This foolish boy dropped life-altering leverage straight into her lap, and if she uses it now, she'll have to contend with her conscience. Fuck.]
Your father has big plans for you, I've been told.
They did not get me in nearly as much hot water, though not for lack of trying. Let's say I saw the inside of a great many buildings I should never have had access to. But you--darling. How much do you believe in anything your father says?
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Date: 2020-06-02 10:22 pm (UTC)[He doesn't know how to say this. His father had dragged him along to some important political banquet, and Abel had snuck off during the party to make out with one of the waiters in a side office. Which, unfortunately, had been interrupted by Maeve's arrival. Abel knows so little about her other than her reputation as a vicious diplomat, so his contact is driven by desperation.]
Please don't tell my father.
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Date: 2020-06-03 05:51 pm (UTC)Ethan, is it? What, praytell, would you like me to not inform him of?
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Date: 2020-06-03 05:57 pm (UTC)If nothing regarding me comes to mind, then please disregard this contact.
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Date: 2020-06-03 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-03 06:40 pm (UTC)I don't want him to know that I'm gay.
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Date: 2020-06-03 06:57 pm (UTC)Your father has big plans for you, I've been told.
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Date: 2020-06-03 07:03 pm (UTC)[And he's already enough of a disappointment without any of these new developments.]
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Date: 2020-06-03 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-05 03:56 pm (UTC)[And if he did, he certainly knows better than to confess it.]
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Date: 2020-06-05 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-08 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-15 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-15 07:13 pm (UTC)