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Dares [xxxHOLiC; English]
Title: Dares
Rating: PG
Genre: Humour
Characters: Clow and Yuuko
Words: 673
Summary: The one in which Clow and Yuuko try to quit alcohol.
Notes: For![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_kikyou, who also came up with the awesome idea. X3 I would've called it a birthday present, had I posted it, oh, two months ago or so.
“Why are we doing this again?” Yuuko sighed, curling up on her divan in a rather dramatic pose. She seemed to be trying her best to look as if a great tragedy had struck her. Clow would have chided her for the unnecessary display, but he wasn’t in the mood to argue about it at the moment.
That, and he was pretty sure that he probably looked just as bad.
“It was your idea,” he said.
“It was a joke! You weren’t supposed to take it seriously!” she whined. “It’s not my fault that you take everything as a challenge!”
“And it’s not my fault that you decided to go along with it,” Clow replied. “You got involved in this entirely on your own.”
“Well, I couldn’t just let you win!”
“But you didn’t have to join in, either,” he pointed out. “You could be trying to make me drink, in fact. You could even be tempting me with your own drink right now.”
“Oh, shut up!” Yuuko snapped. “I know what you’re trying to do! And you’re not going to make me get a drink before you do.”
“I was simply saying that it would have been a better course of action to-”
“This. Is. All. Your. Fault.”
“We’ve been through that already.”
“Well, it’s still true!” she whined. “We’re stuck like this because you decided that it was such a bright idea to prove that you could spend a whole day without booze!”
Clow sighed and rubbed his temples, getting more and more frustrated by the second. Not that he would admit that his patience was a bit more strained than usual. He might have been in need of a good drink, yes, but that didn’t mean he was going to say it aloud. He also didn’t see the point in repeating that Yuuko had been the first to bring up such a dare, or that she had been in no way forced to join in, or that they weren’t stuck and could simply give up whenever they pleased.
If either of them stopped being too stubborn to concede defeat, of course.
“We need a distraction,” he said instead. “How about a game of chess?”
“It would be our third,” said Yuuko, with an expression that somehow managed to be a mix of boredom and incredulity. “Can’t you think of anything else?”
“Can’t you?” he replied, still as calm as ever. “I don’t see you making any great suggestions, either.”
Amazingly enough, Yuuko didn’t have a snappy answer ready for that. She didn’t even try to contradict him this time.
“All my good ideas involve booze,” she sighed. Clow shook his head, chuckling a little.
“Look,” he said, “if you give me a few minutes, I’ll make you a snack and then we can pass the time eating, at least.”
“And let you out of my sight? In the kitchen, no less?” She shot him a very suspicious look. “I’m not going to leave you alone with the cooking sherry, you cheater!”
“Then come to the kitchen, too.”
“But then I’d see the sherry! Oh, the temptation would be too great…”
“You are making this needlessly complicated,” said Clow. For a few moments, Yuuko just stared at him.
“Coming from you,” she said at last, “that is very bad.”
“… does that mean you give up?”
“Never!”
Well, there went his chance. But he wasn’t about to give up, either. It had been just a few hours… and, more importantly, he wasn’t going to admit defeat.
Although, truth be told – as long as he didn’t lose, it wasn’t so important to win, either. And he had a better idea. This could be the perfect way out, or it could result in endless mockery for trying to escape a dare. He was aware of that. But he wouldn’t know until he tried.
“Let’s call it a tie and I’ll pay for the sake,” he said.
Yuuko grinned brightly at him.
“Looks like sometimes you do have good ideas!”
“I try my best.”
Rating: PG
Genre: Humour
Characters: Clow and Yuuko
Words: 673
Summary: The one in which Clow and Yuuko try to quit alcohol.
Notes: For
lady_kikyou, who also came up with the awesome idea. X3 I would've called it a birthday present, had I posted it, oh, two months ago or so.“Why are we doing this again?” Yuuko sighed, curling up on her divan in a rather dramatic pose. She seemed to be trying her best to look as if a great tragedy had struck her. Clow would have chided her for the unnecessary display, but he wasn’t in the mood to argue about it at the moment.
That, and he was pretty sure that he probably looked just as bad.
“It was your idea,” he said.
“It was a joke! You weren’t supposed to take it seriously!” she whined. “It’s not my fault that you take everything as a challenge!”
“And it’s not my fault that you decided to go along with it,” Clow replied. “You got involved in this entirely on your own.”
“Well, I couldn’t just let you win!”
“But you didn’t have to join in, either,” he pointed out. “You could be trying to make me drink, in fact. You could even be tempting me with your own drink right now.”
“Oh, shut up!” Yuuko snapped. “I know what you’re trying to do! And you’re not going to make me get a drink before you do.”
“I was simply saying that it would have been a better course of action to-”
“This. Is. All. Your. Fault.”
“We’ve been through that already.”
“Well, it’s still true!” she whined. “We’re stuck like this because you decided that it was such a bright idea to prove that you could spend a whole day without booze!”
Clow sighed and rubbed his temples, getting more and more frustrated by the second. Not that he would admit that his patience was a bit more strained than usual. He might have been in need of a good drink, yes, but that didn’t mean he was going to say it aloud. He also didn’t see the point in repeating that Yuuko had been the first to bring up such a dare, or that she had been in no way forced to join in, or that they weren’t stuck and could simply give up whenever they pleased.
If either of them stopped being too stubborn to concede defeat, of course.
“We need a distraction,” he said instead. “How about a game of chess?”
“It would be our third,” said Yuuko, with an expression that somehow managed to be a mix of boredom and incredulity. “Can’t you think of anything else?”
“Can’t you?” he replied, still as calm as ever. “I don’t see you making any great suggestions, either.”
Amazingly enough, Yuuko didn’t have a snappy answer ready for that. She didn’t even try to contradict him this time.
“All my good ideas involve booze,” she sighed. Clow shook his head, chuckling a little.
“Look,” he said, “if you give me a few minutes, I’ll make you a snack and then we can pass the time eating, at least.”
“And let you out of my sight? In the kitchen, no less?” She shot him a very suspicious look. “I’m not going to leave you alone with the cooking sherry, you cheater!”
“Then come to the kitchen, too.”
“But then I’d see the sherry! Oh, the temptation would be too great…”
“You are making this needlessly complicated,” said Clow. For a few moments, Yuuko just stared at him.
“Coming from you,” she said at last, “that is very bad.”
“… does that mean you give up?”
“Never!”
Well, there went his chance. But he wasn’t about to give up, either. It had been just a few hours… and, more importantly, he wasn’t going to admit defeat.
Although, truth be told – as long as he didn’t lose, it wasn’t so important to win, either. And he had a better idea. This could be the perfect way out, or it could result in endless mockery for trying to escape a dare. He was aware of that. But he wouldn’t know until he tried.
“Let’s call it a tie and I’ll pay for the sake,” he said.
Yuuko grinned brightly at him.
“Looks like sometimes you do have good ideas!”
“I try my best.”
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... and we have the same favourite section. XD
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... WTF THE WORLD IS ENDING. XDDD