xp_logs | Lil and Tabitha, Lil's room early morning.

Posted late 'cause I overslept. Tabitha tries to recruit Lil for a favor in her new plan to seduce Manuel. Lil tells her it's a really bad idea.

She'd been thinking about it for a week. She even came up with half a dozen plans before she decided on this one. She knew Lil wouldn't appreciate the early hour, but it was the only time Tabitha knew she'd be in. She knocked timidly at first.

The sound of shuffling, followed by a soft but vicious curse came inside the taller blonde suite. The clink of glass to table, a muted thud and finally Lil appeared with mused hair and still in the clothes from the day before. Apparently, it had been a long night and the giantess was just getting in. "Tabs? What the hell are you doing here?"

Tabitha bit her lip and looked up and down the hall. "I need to ask a favor, Lil, can I come in?"

Lifting her shoulder in a her signature shrug, Lil took a step back to allow the other blonde room to enter before shutting the door behind her. "What can I do for you?" she asked as she picked up a glass of water for a long gulp.

She tried to sit, but her nerves were entirely to tight. So she paced instead. She really wished she had something to do with her hands. Maybe she should take up knitting.

She realized she was procrastinating. "I need you to arrange a night in, drinking, with Manny," she blurted.

"Last time I had a night in, drinking with Manny, I ended up passed out on his couch in my underwear with Val using me for a booster seat," Lil reminded the other woman. "Why in God's name do you want me to do that again?"

"We can get Callie to watch Val, and you won't be following through anyhow," Tabs assured the other blonde. "He just needs to think it's you."

Brow drawing in a tight line, Lil shook her head, confused. "Wait, what? I'm setting up a night drinking and then standing him up? Why?"

Tabs bit her lip as she turned to fully face Lil. "You won't be there,
I will. It's the only way I could think..."

"Okay, I think I'm still drunk because I am so not understanding whatever you're trying to get me to do," Lil admitted, plopping down on her couch then took another big swig from her glass. "One more time?"

"I need to get Manny alone so I can try to jump his bones," she blurted.

Lil's next sip of water came spraying back out of her mouth. "What?!" she asked with wide eyes and expression of true disbelief. One hand drew over her lips, wiping away the moisture. "Fuck. What? You wanna what? With Manuel?"

Crimson with embarassment, but completely resolute, Tabitha nodded. "That's it exactly. I need your help to do it."

Only one word came the Canadian's spinning head. "Why?"

Tabitha spread her hands and shook her head. "Everybody else is attached or under-age?"

"Not a good enough answer, Sweetie. There is a whole city out there. Fuck, a whole state, county, world..." Lil shook her head then put her glass aside. "I swear I'm still brain dead from drinking all night. Okay; you want to fuck Manuel because he's here and you're desperate?"

Those weren't the *only* reasons. "He's also a bit hot and I really do want to jump his bones when I don't want to drop him off a cliff."

Lil's eyes slid shut for a moment as she flopped back on the couch, a hand on her forehead in contemplation - and disbelief. This wasn't happening and not before she'd even had a wink of sleep; nightmares were made of this. "So drop him off a cliff and go get boozed up at Silver or something," she finally suggested with a heavy sigh. "It's Manuel; is he really worth all this aggrevation?"

Tabs just flopped to her butt where she was. "This is probably insane, but I *trust* him to a certain extent. He's not going to go back home and brag to his buddies about busting some old lady's cherry or rub it
in my face either."

"Okay, this is just getting more and more fucked up," Lil lamented, heaving another sigh. "You want Manuel to be your first? Fuck, you've held onto it this long, why not just wait for a ring?" It was what she'd done, though admittedly, fairly young.

She dropped her face into her hands. "I didn't mean to say that," she moaned. "My big fat mouth might as well announce it from the flight deck."

"Tabitha," Lil whined, dropping head back against the wall with a dull thud. "It's too fucking early in the morning to be doing this!" She heaved a heavy side then spread her hands out in front of her. "Look. I'm not gonna tell you what to do or what not to do about you trying to get ridda it, okay? Give it up to whoever you want, I don't care but don't you want it to be with a guy you don't gotta trick into it?"

She fell back flat on the floor with a barely intelligible whine. "I don't knooooow." Her head felt stuffed with the conflicting thoughts and emotions doing figurative battle inside. "I could just ask him."

"That would be my vote," the taller blonde replied, watching Tabitha all but writhe in agony on her floor. It left her out of the whole situation which meant not having to deal with the mental images and subsequent trauma that came with it. "Go. Ask. Have him all to yourself if that's what you really want."

Tabitha snorted in a small amusement. "You look scandalized, Blondie."

"No. Hungover. There is a difference," Lil replied. "You, on the other hand, look incredibly desperate laying on my floor like you want him to walk in here and screw you on the spot."

Tabitha sat up with a glare. "That would get it over and done," she said cheerfully. "Though a pillow or two would be nice."

From the couch, Lil winged one of the decorative - yet comfortable - pillows at her. "Know what else would be nice? Sleep. For me," she stated and slid from her seat. "I gotta take care of Amara when she wakes up since she'll probably be sick as a dog after last night. So, go seduce him if that's what you want but I don't see the appeal in having to trick a guy into taking your virginity. Just leave me outta it."