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WHO: David Xanatos & Cyd Sherman
WHERE: A moderately fancy French restaurant.
WHEN: Backdated to like forever ago.
WARNINGS: Awkwaaaard.
SUMMARY: The world's most awkward date: part two.
FORMAT: Starting with para, but I'm good with anything.

Xanatos looked over the menu, smiling slightly at Cyd. Well, this was already slightly awkward. He knew that Cyd wasn't looking forward to this (as shown by her drunken ramblings to him at the end of the date auction). Still, he was hoping that the date would end up slightly well.

"So, have you decided what you want to order?" Xanatos asked, looking at Cyd, with a smile on his face.

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"I'd say I could use a drink, but that went sooooooo well the last time..." Cyd's trying to lighten the mood, really she is, but her smile's just little too tense and tight-lipped.

At least she's somewhat better dressed for the occasion. It's still not the fanciest dress in the world - something simple, blue, and conservative - but at least this time it looks like she put some thought into it. You know, instead of just running off with the closest fit she could find in the bargain bin.

Sure. She was on a date with a weird rich jerk – but it was still the closest thing she'd had to a date since that terrible double-date (plus one third wheel) fiasco with Fawkes, Zaboo, Zaboo's Mom and Vork. Did that even count? She'd like to pretend it didn't.

Either way, she was going to make the best of this.

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"Probably a good idea," Xanatos said, with a small smile and a chuckle. He was trying to put Cyd at ease. He knew how awkward this might be, especially considering the circumstances of the other date he won. But dammit, he could do this. She at least deserved a date that wasn't a total disaster.

"Water all around then?" he idly responded, eyes scanning the menu, thinking about what to order.

Aw. If she could read minds, she'd be touched. Since she can't, though, she just shoots him a relieved smile and hopes he gets the message.

"Good call. Nice, cold, sobering water." Then she actually starts reading the menu and grows even paler (if that's possible). "Wow! This place is really... nice."

She means expensive.

"The reviews for it have been good," Xanatos said, as he browsed through the menu. He put a hand up to his chin as he thought, perusing the menu.

"Besides, the food itself looks great."

"So does all the food in commercials! But, uh, actually it's all painted and shined and stuff so if you ate it you'd probably die horribly."

And Cyd wonders why she doesn't get to go on many dates... if Xanatos doesn't mind, she's just going to hide her face behind the menu now, and bite her tongue really hard so she won't blurt out the first thing that pops into her head. Again.

Xanatos paused for a moment, not really sure what to say about that. How did one reply to such an out of the blue statement like that?

"Well that makes sense. After all, with commercials, you're selling a product. People would want their product to look as good as possible." He shrugged it off, watching Cyd as he talked.

"I used to do social media for a restaurant back home." Another non sequitur, or is she actually going somewhere with this? "And — the thing is, you never know! We did this promotional video and it was... awful. To put it politely. But I guess it was so bad it circled back to being good again because we got a lot of business out of it. Even if it was just people wanting to see my friend in his dumb pirate costume."

Finally, he gets a genuine laugh out of her! Maybe this night won't be such a disaster after all. Although... "Hey, wait. That reminds me. Where's our waiter?"

He paused for a moment, listening as the seemingly non sequitur turned into an actual story-and, shock and surprise, an actual story that he wanted to hear more about. He chuckled slightly, shaking his head. As she asked about the waiter, Xanatos looked over, caught the waiter's eye from across the room, and he motioned for the waiter to come towards their table.

While the waiter walked over, he turned back towards Cyd. "As for your story, now I'm curious. I assume it was a promotional video for a themed restaurant, hence the pirate costume?"

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