"I'm looking for the can opener." He stated flatly though the frustration was more than audible in his words.
"It's not in there." Brazen went to the other end of the tent but Snake didn't really listen. He was rather fond of aggravating her.
"What are these for sweetheart?" Snake pulled out the manacles. They weren't the usual issued cuffs. These were bar spaced manacles like they used when he was brought in. Snake knew he couldn't slip them.
Brazen came over with the can opener and dropped it in his lap before grabbing the manacles. "For you when I can't stand you anymore and want to take you in."
Snake couldn't help but grin. "Just how annoyed you got to be for those to come out?"
"Right after I hit you for getting in my things." Brazen was getting pissed. He could see it in her eyes.
Snake went back into her bags. "You got the keys in here somewhere?"
The slap came hard to the back of his head. White flashed with pain in his bad eye but he wasn't angry. Slowly he turned to look at her.
"You going to cuff me now or was that all talk?" Defiance burned in those words but she couldn't even guess why.
"I hate you." Brazen spit the words at him.
"Hate me enough to try and take me in?" Snake stood up in front of her.
"You want me to take you in?" All the anger had poured away to curiosity. Susan was wondering what Snake was getting at.
"No." Snake took a step toward her and presented his wrists, fist clenched hands back just like the cops demanded of prisoners. "I want you to cuff me."
"What?" Brazen was sure that she hadn't hit him that hard.
"I… Want.. You.. To.. Cuff.. Me." Snake said it slow and deliberate.
Brazen opened the manacles. She was about to cuff him when she looked up. "Why?"
Snake sighed when she stopped. "Do I got to spell the shit out to you?"
"Spell what out?" Brazen was at a total loss.
Plissken gave her a disgruntled glance. "I want you to cuff me, throw me down and fuck my god damn brains out. You understand now?"
Brazen didn't say anything. Her eyes were on him, wide with shock.
"I'd rather you were angry and fighting me to get them on though." Snake's brow cocked playfully as he waited for her.
"Wait. You think it's…. with the cuffs?" Brazen didn't even have the words but Snake nodded in agreement.
"I cuffed you and uncuffed you in LA." He could see her mind working out what he was really saying.
Snake nodded again. "Yes. Yes you did."
Her eyes suddenly got wide again. "That's what that look was for."
Plissken didn't answer he just grinned devilishly.
"You…You…"
"Come on say it." Snake started taunting her.
"You dirty bastard. You were looking down my shirt." Her eyes narrowed.
"And at your ass." Snake added just to work her up farther.
"I hate you." She said it again causing Plissken to laugh.
"Enough to cuff me?" Snake was still working on the task at hand.
"Enough to slap you." She replied.
"I dare you to try." Snake stood his ground when swung. He dodged and he got just what he wanted when she shoved him down to the tent floor.