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Posted: **Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:16 pm**

"Alright. You can call me Basil." Basil replied taking Gus' hand for a shake, following the eldest Spencer's lead. He'd never met a relative as an adult before, so he had no idea what to do in terms of social queues other than mimic Gus.

Basil nodded to Lady Dafne who seemed to be doing her best to appear uninterested, and then turned to Hugo.

"I feel like I've seen you before. " He stated. "But you don't seem like a relative of The Spencers. Are you someone's boyfriend ooor...?" Basil asked, letting the question hang in the air.

Posted: **Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:20 pm**

"I'm just security, sir. Feel free to pretend I'm not here," Hugo said, standing to the side and keeping his eye on the entrances, exits, and any patrons that paid them too much attention.

Posted: **Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:34 pm**

"So, does your mum know you're doing this?"

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:06 am**

"No. I'd prefer it if she didn't." Basil answered honestly.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:00 am**

Colette had a look on her face like she'd been caught in front of the fridge eating shredded cheese out of the bag at 3 am. It had never occurred to her that Basil had chosen the venue based on her sweet tooth and not out of some other necessity. And here she was with a milk shake with a fat slab of cake on top of it. She scooted over to make room, though she wasn't really certain if any of the trio would want to sit, and gave a little wave with her fingers.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:47 am**

She seemed like she wasn't paying attention, but when Colette made space for Basil to sit next to her, Dafne made herself comfortable across the table from Colette, nose in her phone.

After a moment, she'd get a DM.

"How's the food?"

Poking around the account it came from showed images of the girl sitting across from her, and some others.

None of Gus or the security guard though.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:19 am**

Colette dug out her phone, giving the others a bit of privacy to talk without having to worry about her eavesdropping too much, even though she was right there. It took her a moment to get the message, but her investigation explained things easily enough.

bordering on obscene
i live on sguar and even im getting diabeetys

She wasn't stopping, despite all of this. One didn't let food go to waste.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 4:27 pm**

"Then you appreciate the can of worms you're opening, here."

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:13 pm**

"To some degree.

I know my mother doesn't want me to pursue this, but my mother doesn't want me to pursue anything, so it's not as if I can gauge comparatively." He admits.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:14 pm**

"Need help?"

The other girl asked through their secret form of communication.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:39 pm**

Colette didn't actually need any help of course, she could put away an entire sheet cake by herself. But she slid the decadent monstrosity closer to the quiet Spencer. Both as a token of goodwill, and also as she wasn't one who worried too much about germs - she was totally someone who'd finish your plate if you offered it to her.

"please
basil eats liek a bird
pretty sure heel be fine w/ it so long as we dont doteh 2 straws and staring into each others eyes thing from teh archer comics"

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:07 pm**

"If I don't get to hit on my cousin's girl, where's the fun?"

Nevertheless, she picked up the spoon intended for Basil and partook in the dessert with an amused smirk.

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:42 pm**

"There certainly are some things in play here that are better to let lie."

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 6:50 pm**

"Seems to me if that's the case, our meeting itself might be enough to spark a problem.

But we've come this far. In for a penny...."

Posted: **Fri Jan 08, 2021 7:12 pm**

Colette muffled a chortle and hid her smile when she read the message. This definitely wasn't what she'd been expecting when meeting nobility. Gus must have been the one saddled with the formalities of their station. Which she was content with - Basil had more experience with such things, she would stick with what she was good at; eating too much sugar.

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:18 am**

"So you two going to just square off with each other and phallic measure or are you going to sit down and enjoy ice cream with us?" Dafne asked after twirling the spoon in her mouth.

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:22 am**

Basil paused and looked at the other Spencer, then casually sat down next to Colette like he was told to do.

Surprise?

"I'm sorry. I don't want to make a bother for anyone but...

I don't know who I am. And I don't know how to figure that out without knowing where I came from." Basil pleaded with Gus.

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:58 pm**

"I'm going to be frank here," Gus says, sitting down.

"If you're looking for family, being related through him is not going to get you invited to the cotillion."

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:13 pm**

The was an awkward pause from Basil as his head slowly tilted towards Colette, then upwards again in a sort of indicative motion.

"I guess it's fortunate then that I won't be needing a debutante." He replied, clarifying what he was meaning to suggest.

"But.... may I ask why? I don't need relatives persay, but it would be nice to know why they'd hate me. I've done my homework and it's not as if my presence as a male disrupts anything. You've a brother, right?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:21 pm**

"Oh, this isn't about titles."

"At least, not the one you're thinking of."

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:44 am**

"My apologies, but I don't think I'm entirely gleaning your meaning."

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:35 am**

"Did you ever hear your parents talk about something called 'The Board'?"

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:40 am**

"The Bensons didn't talk around me if it wasn't screaming." Basil replied, being very specific about his wording.

"Mother certainly never mentioned it. What is it?"

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:06 am**

Colette was completely out of her element. She kept glancing between Gus and Basil but only understanding about half of what they meant. She took a break from sipping her milkshake to tap on her phone.

isnt a coatilion a cafeteria at a movie studoi?

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:19 am**

"For richies with pedigrees, it's a fancy party with a lot of sexist undertones. You don't see them much in the UK anymore. I think my sibling is testing your beau in the great British art of barb-swapping."

Posted: **Sat Jan 16, 2021 6:27 am**

this shuold b good tehn
basil practicly minorde in quips

Posted: **Mon Jan 18, 2021 5:50 pm**

"It's the reason the Bentons didn't make a fuss about your parentage."

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:24 am**

"So I am supposed to fear the Guild Of Collegiate Investors?" He quipped back.

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:27 am**

"Let me put it this way."

"Favors got traded, and you got to be a Benson rather than a bastard. Lucky you?"

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:45 am**

This was what caused him to fluster.

To Gus and Dafne, his body became incredibly tense.

To Colette, he looked like he was about to throw up.

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:34 am**

Colette wasn't so focused on food that she didn't notice Basil's reactionl it only took a moment for the woman to press gently to his side and take his hand in hers under the table.

"Zat... could have been phrased a little better, perhaps."

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:26 pm**

"So I've got your attention, have I?"

"This is what you're getting into the middle of. The life you have was bought and paid for. It's not your fault, but Uncle Eddie really made a situation, here."

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:22 am**

He sat silent for several pregnant moments.

To Colette, his expression turned from the one she was used to seeing when he felt rejected, the sort of sick to his stomach awkwardness that should normally be followed by him disappearing. But after Gus' follow up comment, his brow knitted in what she knew to be what Basil constituted as 'defiant'.

"Well then I feel like it's high time for him to deal with the consequences of the situation he orchestrated, instead of making it someone else's problem. Don't you agree?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:45 am**

"Is that what you think is going to result from this?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:55 am**

"I honestly don't know what's going to result from this.

What I do know is that a man ought to owe up to the consequences of his actions. In this case, that is literally me. I am owed an explanation as to why he felt a human life was a transferrable commodity. "

Posted: **Fri Jan 22, 2021 2:38 am**

"Is he always this serious or is my sibling rubbing off?"

Dafne asked, arching a brow between the pair of potential cousins as she slowly spooned ice cream into her mouth.

Posted: **Sat Jan 23, 2021 3:59 pm**

"I wouldn't go blaming him for anything other than you being born."

"This was your mum and dad, mostly your dad if I understand correctly, going to my family for their pound of flesh for Uncle Eddie's indiscretions."

"Do you get it? Nobody's clean here."

Posted: **Sat Jan 23, 2021 5:38 pm**

Basil's finger-tips tapped against each other, then steepled. Only Colette could see the dark expression he was wearing, but his turbulent emotions were evident in his voice.

"I was already aware my mother did something less than kosher, though frankly that's her modus operandi so short of murdering someone with her own hands, I'd be pressed to be shocked by anything she did.

As for Mr.Benson... He is neither my father nor my dad. And he's certainly not going to give me any answers, even if I scheduled an appointment.

And further, due to that his embarrassment isn't really of my concern, since my existence is none of his."

Posted: **Sat Jan 23, 2021 5:41 pm**

"Alright, then since you're hell-bent on going down the rabbit hole here, I'll ask you this:"

"How'd you like to know what got traded to the Bensons for this?"

Posted: **Sat Jan 23, 2021 6:35 pm**

Basil sputtered out a chuckle from a wavering voice.

"Will I be on a witness stand later?"

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