It's For Your Own Good

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Blind Date Meme



Let's face it, sometimes it's difficult finding someone to share your time, and your heart (or maybe just your body), with. Luckily for you, you have well meaning friends. Unfortunately for you, you have well meaning friends who didn't tell you this was coming. That's right. They have taken it upon themselves (and no doubt friends of friends or family members or someone else who clearly doesn't know you) to arrange a date. Without telling you.

That's right. The dreaded blind date. Which means now you've got to get through at least a reasonable amount of time with a total stranger (or maybe not a stranger if you're particularly, well, we can't say if it's lucky or not) before you can reasonably escape. Maybe it will go well. Maybe this will be the start of the rest of your lives. Maybe you'll get laid. Maybe you'll have a horror story for the ages.

No matter what plays out, though, you're here. Might as well see just how your luck is going to play out.

How to Play

1. Post your character and canon below along with any preferences. Then go back and edit your comment with the next number in order (i.e. first TL is 1, second is 2, etc)

2. Tag other TLs. If a character isn't in normal preferences, ask if they might want a date that goes poorly instead!

3. Optionally, get yourself a truly blind experience by going here and randomly generating a number. Then find the matching TL (numbered back in step one) and enjoy your blind date.

4. For more fun, use the list in the first comment for randomized date locations!

Comments

[biactually]

"I have my doubts," Nick expresses. Then Teddy says the waiting line and Nick feels his heart flutter a little. Someone else might also be charmed.

"I..." Nick licks his lips. "I won't keep you waiting too long."

He takes off.

When he comes back, he hands Teddy his drink, sets aside his own, then hands the little friend on Teddy's lap a treat he got from the counter.

"Here you go."

[ooc: that sounds incredibly good.]

[hybrid_prince]

The cat makes a plaintive mewl over the offered treat, lifting its head to take the treat tenderly. Only then does it rise from Teddy's lap and leap to the floor to saunter off.

"I feel like that cat has learned the way to game the system. Treat for freedom."


[OOC: IT was amazing and I miss it.]

[biactually]

Nick chuckles to that.

"It worked," he points out.

"Hopefully you like your tea choice just as much." Nick settles down at the table and tries his own.

[ooc: sounds like it. you can't get more? ]

[hybrid_prince]

"I can't wait to see," he says as he shifts to sit up a bit more to smile at the guy.

"I'm glad you showed up."

[Ooc: i don't think the company makes it anymore]

[biactually]

Nick's eyes widen to that, a little surprised.

"I'm," he runs a nervous hand through his red hair, "I'm glad you showed up, as well." Nick tries his own tea, and seems pleased as a fluffy gray point cat nuzzles up against his leg.

His body jolts, then he looks down and smiles. "Another friend!"

[ooc: sad]

[hybrid_prince]

Why should he be surprised? It made Teddy smile softly as he sips his own tea. And damn, it tastes nice too.

"Am I making you nervous?"

[biactually]

He wasn't expecting it, that sort of appreciation, or Teddy's kindness. His sweet smile.

"No," Nick answers quickly, then gives a shaky laugh. "I mean, I am nervous. But not because of you."

His eyes flicker down, then up rather quickly. "You're just so nice. I'm not used to this blind date thing. I wasn't sure what to expect. So far, though, I like it."

[hybrid_prince]

"I'm not used to it either," he admits with a soft smile. "But I'm already glad it was you."

Because this guy is also kind, clearly.

[biactually]

Nick definitely feels something flutter through his emotions to those words, and he stares at Teddy wide-eyed, then starts to smile.

"I'm glad, too." He clears his throat and drinks more of his tea.

He swallows, then points out, "You clearly like animals. How do you feel about dogs?"

[hybrid_prince]

"They're really cute," Teddy offers with a smile. "We don't have a lot of room at our place so we never got to have pets, but I think if we did, I'd want one old tom cat and one feisty terrier. Just so there is even more energy there."

He looks fondly around at the different cats, like he can imagine it.

[biactually]

"I ask," Nick admits, "because I have a dog. Cats are lovely, though. I can only handle Nellie, at least for now."

He laughs at Teddy's answer, though.

"Smaller animals are good for smaller spaces. Do you live in a flat?"

[hybrid_prince]

"We live in an apartment, and not a big one," Teddy admits. Which would make a cat far more of an intelligent choice, given the whole space thing. Not to mention the needed degrees of 'independence' a pet would n eed.

"Tell me about Nellie?"

[biactually]

"A smaller pet is definitely better for that," Nick agrees, still smiling his eyes focused on Teddy.

They only leave him when Nick reaches down to pet one of the cats nuzzling up against his leg.

"She's a border collie. Very sweet. Sticks by me most of the time. She enjoys her walks, though."

[hybrid_prince]

"Oh, a working breed. One of those dogs that needs to be doing something," he says. Okay, maybe he'd researched dogs a lot as a kid.

[biactually]

"Yes. And very loyal," Nick says fondly. Teddy seems knowledgeable, and easy to talk to.

"What other breeds do you know of?"

[hybrid_prince]

"I'll be honest, most of them. I used to read books about dog breeds at the library all the time."

When you can't have a dog, learn about them apparently. It worked out for him.

[biactually]

"You might know more than I do, then." Granted, Nick researched everything he could on the internet.

"I only looked into them after I got her. I've had Nellie for a while now. But I do research to make sure she is getting the best from me. To keep her active and healthy."

[hybrid_prince]

"Yeah, well there are times when you're just happy looking into things that you can't have."

Like when he'd first figured out what he was.

"So Nellie was your choice? Not your parents'."

[biactually]

"Well," Nick tilts his head a little, "mine and my mom's." He smiles, tightly after that, and just - as his father has left Nick so out of his own life - leaves his father out of it as well.

"I was a bit young. But we both liked Nellie."

A bit of a pause, but Nick didn't miss Teddy's words. "Is it only animals that you feel you can't have?"

[hybrid_prince]

There's a gap mentioned there, but not one Teddy would push at. Could be the dad hadn't been invested, or that he was gone, or that it was like Teddy's situation where his dad was just... never in the picture.

"Not the only thing, but, well, sometimes there were things that just weren't in reach. Nothing I would really miss."

[biactually]

Nick and Teddy might just have something to connect on, another time.

Things not in reach. Nick studies the table for a moment.

"I'm sure we all have things like that. It's good you wouldn't really miss them. Guess you can't miss what you don't have." He gives a weak smile, looking back to Teddy.

[hybrid_prince]

"You can absolutely miss what you don't have," Teddy corrects, his voice soft and a bit sad. He's missed his father all of his life.

[biactually]

Nick's eyebrows furrow. He might feel uncomfortable bringing up his own serious topics on a first date, his heart goes out to Teddy and he asks out of concern, "Sounds like you speak of something specific. Would you want to talk about it?"

[hybrid_prince]

"That seems like a really big downer for a first date," Teddy admits with a smile. He didn't think it was appropriate. But that's okay. "Sorry. I'll be cheerier."

[biactually]

"No." Nick's eyebrows dip to Teddy's words, and he reaches over to put a hand over one of Teddy's, if he'll allow it.

"I didn't mean it that way. I apologize if I came off like that. I think...if it's something sad, a cat cafe with a warm drink, a warm creature to cuddle, and someone who wants to listen if you want to talk about it? That seems like a perfect time to talk about it." He cants his head in Teddy's direction as he adds, again, "Only if you want to."