MEME: Morning After in Darrow

[girlalmighty]

Good evening, guys and dolls, and welcome to your weekend meme, blatantly stolen from delightful di.

It's early in the morning. Your character wakes up with a pounding headache* and no memory of the previous night, just a ring on his or her fourth finger and a naked significant other** by the pup's side, the characters other people tag in. Play out reactions for instant hilarity/drama.***

* If your character doesn't drink, this may just be an AWESOMENESS hangover. Make it work.
** Not necessarily an actual in game significant other.
*** You can play this out in narrative or just dialogue form or however you like, of course.

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[fiveminutewindow]

For a long few moments, all he does is look at her, holding her gaze, something apologetic in his expression, too. It isn't difficult to tell that she's figured out who it is beside her, and though at least she doesn't seem freaked out by the turn of events, he knows it can't be a good thing, either. There's no way she meant to sleep with him, not when he looks so like her husband. Finally, fighting off the impulse to touch her hair or her cheek, he asks, "Do you want me to go?"

[toanend]

Katie bites her lip, uncertain. In all honesty, if he were anyone else — anyone, at least, but one of the men who look so much like David — this wouldn't be much of an issue. When she's made up her mind to leave her husband, sleeping with someone else isn't really that big a deal, so far as she's concerned. Sleeping with him, though, when she can't remember how much of it was prompted by his appearance, is something entirely different. She doesn't want to think about it by herself yet, though. Shaking her head, she shifts closer again. "No," she murmurs. "Stay. I mean, unless you want to go. I'd understand."

[fiveminutewindow]

He shakes his head without really thinking about it, not needing to. When she looks like that, when she's curled closer against him instead of pulling away, it's not like there's anything else he could do. If this is what she needs, if his sticking around despite the inherent awkwardness of the situation, is what she needs, then he'll do it. It's as simple as that. It isn't as if he has any real reason to object to any of this, anyway, save for the pounding in his head that has yet to subside. "No," he says, soft. "I can stay."