[OTA] Moves like...Kelly.

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If he was really honest with himself, Alasdair was really more of a Donald O'Connor than a Gene Kelly. More energetic, more frenetic, something of a grinning goofball on the dancefloor. Of course, he wasn't on a dance floor right now. He was sitting in a chair like a normal human being, flipping through a copy of H.P. Lovecraft's Tales for the sophomore class, with his iPod on.

But doing something like this, while sitting in his chair with Lovecraft like a normal human being...was probably not actually so normal.

Then again, if you had moves like Gene Kelly Donald O'Connor, you probably wouldn't really care.

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And he's known Evan McCartney over twenty years, so, this conversation was doomed to happen. There's still a pause, though.

No, more like a real date.

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No pause before that. This is, after all, a practiced conversation.

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It depends how this one goes, Evan. You know that.

Wait-and-see doesn't change just because it's Elani. Hell, he half-expects she'll tell him she'd rather be friends. More than half, it comes to that.

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Everything changes when it's Elani. She's special. Everyone knows this.

Or, at least, everyone who knows Evan knows Evan fully believes this.

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She's Evan's sister. Alasdair has four. They're all ranked higher than he is.

He's pretty sure he gets it.

If it goes well, I'll ask her out again. Whether we go out again's up to her.

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Which is yet another point in his favour. There are a lot, really. But surely it's understood that Evan has to cross all the t's and dot all the i's.

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If they were later than eleven, Alasdair was counting it a very successful evening. But that, again, was not something he could text to her brother.

I'm certain that won't be a problem, Ev.

Part of him really wanted Evan to date Beatrix or Amelia so he could reciprocate. But considering Riley...

Well.

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Considering nothing. There's nothing to consider.

Nothing except this next text, which is where the pause comes in.

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Bullshit, McCartney.

Complete bullshit.

You know I will, Evan. We grew up together. You know I'll be good to her.

He feels a little bit like he's asking her for her hand instead of to a movie starring Debbie Reynolds.

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That's the plan. Safe, clean fun, scout's honor.

Not that he was a scout, but you know. Details.

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As the Deck went? Close enough.

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Don't you forget it. Remember, I brought you a moose hat.

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I'm not to blame for Phil's touchy Canadien temper, Evan. It's good for your reflexes.

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I thought about cyanide in the middle of a tray of wineglasses, but it's been done.

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You always forget the failed part of that description. I don't know if I love you for it or not.

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Congratulations, Daniel Webster, Evan McCartney has used the English language appropriately. For his next trick, he will successfully romance a Canadienne en Francais.

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I'll believe it when I see the evidence, bebe.