The Rocky Horror Romance Show ♔ This Is A Comedy Of Errors

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WHO || Chai and Anthony [closed]
WHAT || A week after the disaster of the squiring ceremony and party, Chai tries to find Tony in an attempt to fix things (again) because the girl just doesn't know when to let a thing go.
WHERE || Somewhere in the castle who even knows.
WHEN || The Seventh, sometime in the evening.
HOW || Prose

Chai had had plenty of time to cool her head and think about all the ways things got blown up out of proportions earlier in the week. Seven days seemed a good number to let things rest between them and now she was wandering the castle looking for Anthony to try that apology thing again.

Or, well. To try something anyway. Maybe something a little bit different this go around. When she found him she didn't say anything right away, which was hard for the little chatterbox she tended to be.

Take 3.

"Hi"

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Anthony had lost a lot of sleep over what a jerk he'd been, but that was hardly a new experience for him and he still told himself that it had been the right thing to do. He couldn't handle Chai and she couldn't handle him and it would all have ended in heartbreak anyway.

He did believe now that she hadn't stood him up on purpose, but it wasn't really a relief. What had he been thinking when he said yes to that date?

When she found him he was in the training hall, because she just had a gift for finding him in situations when he'd really rather not be seen. There had been other people in there, a group of friends it had seemed, but they'd all left just before Chai came up to Tony so they were all alone in the room now.

A wave of helplessness swept over him as he heard her voice. Why couldn't she just give up?

He got off the machine he'd been using, feeling uncomfortably exposed by the way his sweat made the t-shirt he wore cling to his body as he gave her a hostile look and shoved his slightly too long hair out of his eyes.

"Can't you see that I'm busy"

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"Yeah, yeah, I get it, Mr. Grumpy Gus. You're up on the wrong side of the bed every day."

She was wrapping her hands in fitness tape, not because she planned to workout but because she needed an excuse to have come to the training room that wasn't just hunting down Tony.

"Look, we're all alone so you can drop the antagonist act any time. It's not like I'm ever actually going to buy it."

Seriously. When are you going to get that through your head.

"Can we just not fight? Because I'm really not very good at it." She was quiet a moment, ripping the tape off and staring at her hands.

"I'm sorry I embarrassed you in the ceremony."

Because the likelihood of him being the bigger man was ironically slim and she felt the need to step in and be exactly that. One of them had to be or he'd be impossible forever.

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He sighed, all exhasperation as he put his hands on his hips and looked to the ceiling for a couple of moments as if to say 'give me strength'.

"See, if you would just leave me alone we wouldn't be fighting."

It seemed like a pretty obvious solution to him.

He picked up his water bottle from the floor and took a drink, eyes back on Chai.

"Look, forget about the ceremony, if you hadn't embarrassed me I would've managed to embarrass myself anyway."

Not that being halfway reasonable worked any wonders before when it came to making Chai forget about spending time with him, but at least this way he'd eliminated one reason to talk to him. There was nothing to apologize for.

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"Yeah well we wouldn't be not fighting either, we'd just be avoiding each other and when has that ever been a healthy answer to anything?"

She huffed a little but she wasn't here to start another fight. She REALLY wasn't. She hadn't even been all that angry with him after she cooled down the first night. She just hadn't been ready to apologize for apologizing or attempt it or whatever it was she thought she was doing now.

Making peace?

Did it matter?

"And anyway, you looked so nice in that armor, I don't think anyone will remember much else about it."

She tucked some of her hair behind her ear and shrugged a little.