Cole made a face. "Yeah, chasing 'monsters' through the sewers can't be good for your health," he said. "Neither is getting punched by that tall guy, whoever he was." He stretched, testing his ribs, and winced.
"That would be good," Isabel said, "Although you'll have to introduce us one of these days. I don't think we've ever met. I'm not sure how much help I'll be though, I don't know how I learned to control it. It just seemed like I always knew how to do it. I guess we were engineered that way."
"If it had been me that had been hit that hard, you wouldn't let me avoid the clinic or be out of bed yet." She came over to him and looked him over. "Too bad I can't heal you."
"And she's a witch, so her powers might work differently all together," Bel said. "Still, can't hurt to compare notes. I'll introduce you next time I see both of you around. You gonna be at the kissing thing tomorrow?" He made a face.
"Since I'm not nominated and have no chance of public humiliation? I'll probably stop by," Isabel said with a laugh and then laughed some more. "Oh! That's right, didn't you make the finals?"
"That will never, ever happen," Isabel smirked. "Boykissy is too pretty. Besides, I'm sure you and Angel wouldn't want to disappoint all your fans would you?"
"It's pretty simple," Isabel said, trying hard not to laugh. She wondered if there was an possible way to induce flailing. Because flailing was always amusing. "You're a good looking guy and Angel's a good looking guy. Add to that the fact that Callisto and Phoebe both seem pretty happy with their good looking guys, it must mean you both have skills. So, to say it simply? Hot guys plus skill equals pretty show. That sound about right?"
There might have been beginnings of pre-flailing stirring in Bel. "Okay, I accepted that I have to kiss Angel because Veronica is emotionally blackmailing me," he said. "But...put on a show? No. No. I mean, it's just going to be a quick kiss, right?"
The poor innocent demon, he really had no idea. "Bel, seriously. You don't really think you're going to be able to get away with just a quick kiss? Do you?"
She couldn't help laughing. "Think of the women involved in this. Callisto came running to Art Studio the other day just to see Angel kiss Barbossa. Now Barbossa is a really sweet guy. But pretty? No. This is going to be an event tomorrow. People are going to be really, really disappointed if you wimp out." She was so going to hell for this.
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