Out of Control
Chapter 9: Screwing
by Darkenning
Now, I suppose this is the time for me to say something profound.
Nothing comes to mind, let's do it.
Colonel Jack O'Neill, USAF.
"This is ridiculous," Asuna griped as she screwed the hinges of the door back into their frame. She wasn't exactly handy, but she wasn't a complete klutz either. Fortunately, she hadn't torn up the wood too much when she kicked the door in, so she just had to put the new screws in slightly above and below where they'd gone in before. But still, this was not how she wanted to spend her evening. "If you want this done right, you should really get a professional."
"Professional work is going to cost me money, and since I will be getting it from you, it will cost you money," Evangeline replied. She leaned back on a suede chair just inside the doorway, dressed in a set of beige underwear and delicately inhaling from a hookah. Her feet rested her bare feet on the back of one of her Chachamaru dolls, posed so that it was on its hands and knees.
Asuna shook her head in disgust. "Your habits are so ... decadent," she said.
Both she and Evangeline looked around for the source of the sudden burst of laughter those words had occasioned. Not finding it, they exchanged glances at each other, then shrugged and went back to doing what they'd been doing.
"In any event, you broke my door, you should fix it one way or another. Such is the least you should expect after damaging the property of a notoriously evil wizard!" Evangeline said with a sniff.
"That again," Asuna muttered as she started to work on the hinges that were at the lower level. She'd done the top ones first, because she knew that she'd have to bend over in order to reach the lower ones, and that wasn't going to be a very comfortable position for long.
"Yes, that again. It disturbs me to no end that you persist in thinking of me as your funny classmate who will never get older!" Evangeline griped.
"Actually, that's Sayo," Asuna replied. "You're my funny classmate who is kind of a bitch but has a sweet heart underneath it all."
"That again," Evangeline sneered, parodying Asuna's tone. "I keep telling you, and warning you, and trying to show you, and STILL, you think I'm -"
"You're -" Asuna began at the same moment.
"- a good person despite everything," they chorused.
"Well, I'm not!" Evangeline snapped, furious at having her words echoed. "What am I going to have to do to convince you? Am I gonna have to hurt you? Hurt him?"
"Please," Asuna said with a sniff as she got the first lower screw in. "If you were going to do that, you'd have done it already."
Evangeline started to seethe. "Oh really," she said in a velvet tone, standing up from the chair. "You may be right. But I don't really think you know how many opportunities I've passed up."
"Uh-huh, not caring either," Asuna said dismissively as she examined the wood. This part was kind of torn up. Dammit.
"Like that time in my resort, when he was worrying about fighting Chao and whether it was right to fight someone he didn't think was evil, and I faced off with him in my pool. I could have done all sorts of things more than I did, but what I did do was very enjoyable," she said, slowly walking towards where Asuna was bent over.
Asuna froze and turned to look at Evangeline. "Hey. Hey, T-rated fanfic, remember?"
"I won't go into detail," she said sensuously. "And anyway, all I did was learn what you already know about the taste of his lips. But perhaps sometime soon I'll invite him back and finish what I started. What will you think of me then, Kagarazuka Asuna? How will you feel?" she hissed.
Asuna stared at her, set down the screwdriver, and then drew a deep breath.
"I'll be happy, because maybe you won't be so lonely afterwards," she said.
Evangeline stared at her for the longest five seconds of Asuna's life so far ... then whirled and stomped back to the chair. "Get out," she said crossly. "I'll finish the rest myself."
Asuna watched her for a moment longer, then turned back to her work. "I don't quit things just because people tell me to do so," she said as she started screwing some more.
"So I see," Evangeine muttered. "So I see."