Before he could react, the couple made themselves comfortable at a table only a few feet away from where Niles and Daphne were sitting.
"Get me a drink would you, Honey?" Adelle said.
"Of course my Sweet." Rodney replied.
Niles shook his head in disgust. "Look at him, vying for her affections by using such a ridiculous pet name! Isn't that the most preposterous thing you've ever-."
He stopped suddenly; his heart aching when he heard Daphne sniffle. He reached out to touch her shoulder, but retracted his arm when she grabbed a cocktail napkin and blotted her eyes.
"What are they doing here? This is a bloody singles bar!" She said tearfully; her face turned away from him.
"Daphne, perhaps we should-."
"Hello, Daphne."
To Niles' horror, he looked up to find Rodney standing next to them... talking to Niles' angel! How dare he risk hurting her again!
"H-hello Rodney." Daphne replied, impressing Niles with her attempts to be kind. "What brings you here?"
Rodney's face lit up in a disturbing sense of pleasure.
"Adelle and I were having such a glorious time on our date that I simply didn't want it to end, so I suggested that we come to the place where we met."
Niles felt his blood begin to boil. The nerve of him, glossing over the fact that he and Daphne had met here!
Rodney's meeting Adelle at Frasier's was an act of complete chance and nothing more. "Rodney-."
Daphne grabbed Niles' hand and he was grateful to her for preventing him from doing something that he would surely regret.
Reluctantly he settled back into his seat, pained at what this horrible man was doing to his angel.
"That's nice, Rodney. I-I'm happy for you." Daphne said. "Now if you'll excuse me-."
"Niles! Well, this certainly is a surprise! I didn't expect to find you at a place like this! I figured you'd be off to at the latest opera with the woman of your dreams. In fact, that's where I'll be at this time tomorrow night."
Niles felt his insides turn cold and he found it hard to ignore Daphne stirring uncomfortably on the bar stool next to him.
"H-hello Rodney."
He took a sip of his drink, barely tasting it.
"You know, I think that Adelle is probably waiting for you." Daphne said, unable to disguise the quivering in her voice.
"Oh! You're absolutely right!" Rodney said, a little too eagerly as he glanced at Adelle who was smiling at him. "I'm coming, my angel!"
