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Who: Gwaine and whoever else is at the house B)
What: Snowed in and shirtless. At least there are no strange creatures that could cause havoc hanging around...
When: Today!
Where: The house
Rating: C for crack.

There is a Gwaine sitting on the couch with all the warm animals he could wrangle sitting on the couch with him. Or in the case of Ruffy and Allen the dog sitting on him sitting on the couch. He would have minded the weight from the two dogs, but as he was cold and they served as excellent heating blankets, he didn't bother pushing them off. Oliver lies beside him, his head on Gwaine's lap. He'd tried to join the duo on top of Gwaine, but three dogs was pushing it. The sad whine when he had pushed Oliver off made Gwaine feel guilty, but he rather liked breathing. Meanwhile, Elyan thinks himself king of the pride and is on Gwaine's shoulder, playing with his hair. Except in lion-speak, playing is synonymous to batting and clawing at the hair, hissing and crying every once in a while.

Gwaine sighs. He despises what his loss reduces him to sometimes.

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Where's the fun in doing the smart thing?

"If you are going to bother lying to me, you might wish to make it something I would actually believe. I won't deny you are skilled, but the rest that is all a little farfetched. And you only won in Paradisa because of my eye."

And you flying off the handle about his ruling abilities. The giant elephant in the room. The biggest put on look of disdain ever at you patting his shoulder. Stop that.

"Me? Lie to the future king of Camelot? I would never. I rather like my head where it is." And there is no need considering you won't believe the truth even if it threw you a surprise party. "But I did do all of that. Eye or not, you're absolutely right, I bested you here too. I wasn't even counting that one."

He beams. One more win for him. Ignoring that elephant right now and he'll continue ignoring it as long as he wants to.

"I believe that even less than the rest of it, Gwaine." He's only partly serious. But considering Gwaine is okay with leaving debts in Arthur's name, drinking rather than taking his duty seriously, and apparently flirting with several women at once and not settling on any of them...Lying isn't exactly something he'd have trouble buying.

But there's so much of Gwaine that also speaks of noble intent, of unerring loyalty and an effort to do right by the people he cares about, whatever the personal cost. Which is why he's so frustrating. Arthur can't figure him out, and they're on uneven footing in a way that Arthur can't make up for.

"You should not, considering what you had done directly after." Welp, so much for ignoring it.

You just had to go there. Now Gwaine proves how good he is at apologizing. Hint: he won't be winning prizes for it.

"I apologize for what I said, Arthur. I should not have spoken to you like that. I crossed a line. But you were behaving like an idiot."

Considering it was far more than he ever expected from Gwaine, with his passed behaviour towards him as his only source of reference here, it'll probably work.

Maybe. Arthur is a fickle being, at times. "Well, you are certainly good at telling others what you believe they wish to hear, are you not?"

He'll let the idiot slide, it's the only part of that that's familiar, for him. He doesn't really want an apology Gwaine probably doesn't even mean. He wants an explanation.

He scoffs. "Hardly. Wouldn't have moved half as much if that were true. I just say what I think. Whether the others like it or not is something I have no control over."

He shrugs.

"It's been my experience that most do not."

"Your inability to use tact and your brain, has no bearing on instances such as this, I would think. And I didn't say you had succeeded."

He did say you said what you thought they wished to hear, not what they actually did. "I don't want your apology."

He's doing his best to control the urge to roll his eyes. "Then what do you want?"