Day 2 - Finally my turn...

[Alex Carpenter]

"Well, yeah!"

[Brigid Plunder]

"So you just... you... gah!"

That was when Brigid gritted her teeth and grabbed Alex by the shirt, white-knuckled, slamming him up against the wall.

Indeed, Alex had every indication she was about to deck him.

Thus, it might come as some surprise when, instead, she kissed him full on the lips.

Anger still in her eyes, she shoved away from him in a huff and started to leave.

[Alex Carpenter]

"I... wha... but..." Alex looked dazed and confused, but the former quickly faded, and his expression changed by degrees as facts clicked into place in his head.

She's pissed at you.

Girls are a lot of freaking drama, what the hell.

Dude, she's totally wearing the pants right now.

And she put 'em on by putting you in 'your place' just like freaking Kay keeps doing.

"Now just a fucking minute!" he called, his own general frustration turning into anger as he started after her.

[Brigid Plunder]

"Don't even start!" She shouted, not pausing in her storming off.

[Alex Carpenter]

"Oh, no, I'll fucking start if I want!" he shouted back. And even though he was a good ten feet behind her, she felt a hand close around her wrist to spin her around.

[Brigid Plunder]

She certainly wasn't as strong as one of Alex's doubles, but she reacted frighteningly quickly, and seemed to have an innate sense of both their centers of gravity and of leverage as she spun around, twisting her arm to try to break the double's grip as she aimed a kick at a not-quite-planted leg...

[Alex Carpenter]

And as she tried to throw the double off balance, it simply... hung in midair, still gripping her wrist. Alex stopped a few years away, watching, then he just shook his head. "Fine," he said, throwing up his hands in surrender. The duplicate vanished as he turned around. "Guess I'm just an asshole like always. Let me know when it's time for something else to be my fault, I guess that's just what I do around here," he grumbled, loud enough for her to clearly hear, as he stormed back in the opposite direction.

[Brigid Plunder]

"Well you're... just... really not helping right now!" She shouted at him, turning around again.

[Alex Carpenter]

"Oh, pardon fucking me for not being an expert on crazy girl-stuff!" he shouted back, stopping and spinning around to do so, before continuing storming off.

[Brigid Plunder]

"Right! Crazy! That's just what I am..."

There was a sound like a wastebasket out in the hall getting surely more abuse than it ever deserved, and the door slammed behind her.