Wow, Here Is Another One!

Uh oh.

Was he going to die before his date. Angus swallowed, but did not back away. Ivan stared down at him. He had come from somewhere behind the house. Angus thought he had heard Katyusha say she was coming, but would it be too late?

"Hello Ivan." Well, at least his voice came out normally. Ivan nodded.

"Don't try anyzing funny on my sister."

That said, Ivan went away.

Angus inhaled the sweet, sweet air of living. In about a minute, Katyusha had opened the door and kept apologizing for keeping him waiting, but he kissed her and they went inside to have dinner. His comment that she 'looked absolutely stunning' simply made her giggle and blush. Angus was trying not to do the same thing. He was not just being polite, she really was. Then again, he always thought she was, but her outfit was really... well...

He was trying not to think about it too much. What he was trying to think of was how to explain to Katyusha that he did not think she was related to Natalia or Ivan.

"What? Ha ha, Angus! Don't be so silly," she batted a hand at his shoulder. Angus chuckled, but continued to talk.

"You are nothing like either of them. I'm not saying they are bad people," even though they are, "but you could have been raised completely separate from them... This is okay to say, right?"

"Oh, it's fine," she assured him, leaning her head on his shoulder as they continued to watch the muted television. "We each have our own quirks, that's all!"

"But their quirks are... well..."

"If I had similar quirks, would you still love me?"

The question punched Angus in the face. He nearly did so to, because if he did he might be able to injure himself not to have to answer that. Oh, he thought he could get through a few more dates with her before those questions started to come up! Those trick questions, where there was really one right way to answer them, and it was to be vague, but there was no knowing how exactly it should be phrased to be right. Katyusha was not his first girlfriend, after all, he knew how this went.

Still, even more than with any of his previous relationships, he wanted to be able to give the right answer to this question.

"You already have your own quirks. I love you for those and more."

"Angus..." She was smiling, but her head was shaking. Damn, he had failed! "I said similar."

Angus blanked. "If... if you had different quirks, and we aren't bein' too specific here, you wouldn't be the same as you are right now. An' I love you as you are now."

She kissed him and they went back to watching the television. Angus was happy, except for that small part of his mind that wished he could make Kat understand how everyone else viewed her family. He would survive them for her, oh he would, but he would have a much easier time about it if she understood how he felt.

Long before the end of the movie they were watching, the both of them fell asleep on the couch.


Notes:

Angus, man of men, scores! I have never understood those trick questions in relationships. I would think that if I ever got a boy/girlfriend that I would tell them straight off the bat that if I ever said a question that seemed like it was a trick question they should tell me, because I would never want someone to be put in a situation like that.

Kat, however, was completely oblivious that she put Angus on the spot.