#a dinner

[rhianna]

someone told me

[treesofgreen]

I love roasted carrots.

[mikeellee]

Have a Happy Birthday @mikeellee

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Enjoying my day with chocolate and good company!😇

[renee-writer]

Jamie's POV Chapter 30 A Dinner

AO3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It is tense. Jenny sits stiff, her eyes narrowed as she asks Claire questions. I know they are designed to test her knowledge of being a Lady of Lallybroch. Once again, she does me proud. All the questions are answered politely. Then she turns to me.

“The harvests have been pour the last few years. We are struggling. The books..”

“Will be looked at after dinner. We will be prepared for the gathering.” I firmly state. Ian smiles at me as he takes his wife’s fisted hand. We both know this is hard on her. She has been used to running Lallybroch in my absence. Now I return, with a Sassanach wife. It can’t be easy.

“If father was alive, he would expect a visit.” It is poking a sore wound. Siblings know exactly where to hit to get the best response. My eyes narrow to slits.

“If father was alive, he would expect me to go over the books and prepare for quarter day.” I respond.

“A visit to his grave would be..”

“I will be preparing for quarter day! I am the Laird, am I not?”

“Well excuse me Laird Broch Taran.” She replies with a voice full of sarcasm. I feel a jolt of shame but feel that I must not give in to her. So I stiffly stand, with my excuses and head with Ian to the study to start going over the books.

[withlwolvesarchive]

@rekant from ( x ). 

           “  out?  “  georgie says,  the comment going over her head for a moment.  a beat,  her back turned,  working on another one of her broken appliances.  she lifts her head up and bangs it against the metal,  reeling back.

          “  --  we can go out.  “  she thinks of a place,  head thudding for a few seconds.  “  you like  --  bars.  we can go to a bar?  a dinner?  “ 

[chubbychummy]

I think he is just so intellectual horny

like working for THD, he’s like “I’m surrounded by all these well meaning people but I really long for intellectual stimulation” cuz he kept on mantalking at me, telling me all these lil tidbits of random info (which I’m totally interested in, don’t get me wrong, but I quickly recognised what was going on lmao). And then when I’d share random info, he’d be like “uhm..”

but at the same time he’s over twice my age so he’s got a lot more time to gather random info, and it’s a good thing I’m not super whelmed by his random info (cuz let’s be honest - I am on the internet 18 hours a day -- I get plenty of random info so I’m not all googoo eyed at his Knowledge(TM) ). But you know, random info is random info, so I’m still interested.

Anyhow, it started out normal and stuff. Except he like brought a rose??? LOL like he clipped a little rose flower from his yard and brought it in a wet paper towel and it was so wilty and pathetic looking I laughed so hard.

Then we went to eat at a BBQ place and he treated and it was very yum, good. Then he wanted to hit the slots and I’m like “Yo I’m not about gambling” and he’s like “YOU CANNOT LOSE” “uhh I don’t believe you” like he doesn’t understand what my low key superpower is. btw, my lowkey superpower is losing. “YOU CANNOT LOSE BECAUSE YOU WON’T BE PUTTING ANY MONEY IN”

So we pop on some slots, me on one, him on another. It starts out we’re the same. Half an hour later, he’s doubled his money and I have nothing lmao. So we go get drinks and he says my dancing is adorable and hugs me (keep in mind my dancing up until this point has been headbobbing and like finger snapping so... >_>) We get drinks and then back to slots.

I lose like probably $300 more or thereabouts and I’m like “yo this isn’t fun” and he’s dancing like he’s in a snuggy commercial cuz he’s a white guy

so we slot hop and on one of the machines he starts massaging me and I’m like Uhhh??? this is nice but like I want him to massage harder without seeming like I want him lmao (I’m a fan of hard massages)

I’m like “UHHH DOES HE DO THIS WITH ALL NEW ASSOCIATES OR WHAT IS THE DEAL”

a couple hundred dollars later, he has had like 8 drinks. I’ve had 2. I’m basically sober but I’m just disappearing all his money. At some point, I win $90, but I lose it all again. And I’m like “I wanna tell my parents where I am but my phone died 2 hours ago”

I’m trying to figure out the best way to be like “lol you don’t have to throw any more of your money away, I was kinda done with slots like 4 hours ago??” but then he asks “When do you wanna go home?” and I’m like “uh, I literally said let’s go home 3 hours ago... so ... now.” Fortunately I was the driver, so it’s not like I was trapped.

In the parking garage, we look at the cityscape and he mantalks about random tidbits and I reciprocate and he “um...”s bc he just wants to talk. So I let him and I’m not really listening anymore but kinda because I love trivia. But it kinda sucks when he doesn’t wanna hear my trivia.

Then he tries to kiss me (okay so 2 drinks and massages was enough to make me consider kissing him a lot okay? I’m the move maker. I don’t like having moves made on me. So I did consider kissing him and I considered it for like a solid 20 minutes. Then I decided no because then he could be like “Well THEY made the move on ME” to people and I’m like “I’m not giving him that power.) So he tries to kiss me and I move away and just laugh and he’s like “ur too shy?” and I’m like lmao no, fuck off. Why did you think it was okay to kiss me? And he deflected like “Your wife wants to kiss me?” I’m like “You should be afraid of my wife.” and he’s like “I’m afraid of you” and I’m like “cuz you don’t know my wife”

Anyhow, the entire car ride back was him teaching me random random things like the brightest stars in the sky and who founded quebec and stuff. and I’m like “I’d share all my random knowledge too, but yours is a lot more socially acceptable.” On the plus side, he knows German so we counted in German and went over things like months and days and simple stuff that I know lol.

Anyhow it was a weirdass date and definitely not what I was expecting.