“Can’t I just call you anyways?” She laughed and took her drink. “It’s not that I don’t think she is worth the shit. It’s that I am not worth it. Not worth whatever trouble I will inevitably cause. I am walking train wreck.” Ew, she was being emotional. Since when did drinking make her a sap?
“Call me anyway.” Skye traced the rim of her shotglass with her index finger, mulling over Darcy’s words.
“But, you are,” she said with some delay, finally turning to look at her, “You might think you’re not worth much, but, all offense, you don’t have the bigger picture. The kind of bigger picture I have, sitting here looking at you and not your cleavage. I’d get in trouble for you in a heartbeat, and you know I’m hanging onto this bureaucratic hell with everything I have left. I’d give it up for you. Others would, too. If you happen to stumble into a rare asshole that can’t see it, how important you are, fuck them and call me.”
Darcy laughed and leaned onto the bar “You can fuck right off.” She smiled sweetly. “You could get in on this, you know. Open invite.”
“I could, but I don’t want to overshadow you. This is me giving back to the community,” Skye countered, the humorous undertone in her voice mixed with pure arrogance. Faking it until you make it was really working out for her. “Call me when you inevitably get court martialed for violating most of the SHIELD handbook and are feeling lonely.”
Another shot down, another thought she voices, realising she’d somehow converted into an emotional drunk. “Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go for it, though. Some people are worth the shit.”
“I can barely spell the word shots when I’m sober,” Darcy grinned as she sat down beside Skye. “But it’s on. I’ll bet something of little monetary value that I can drink you under the table.”
“Betting on a small amount of money is probably the only responsible choice you’ll make tonight. Congrats,” Skye snorted as she tugged a shot out of the lineup. It was downed triumphantly, giving her full access to continue her thought, “Still gonna get beat, though. What do people talk about over shots? Politics? Hooking up with students? Student?”
