Phil is leaning against the side of the building arms loose at his sides. He's wearing leather pants which Anita makes about her since she apparently starts breaking out in a rash just thinking about how hot those pants must be (as in hot to wear, not hot as in stud-muffin) though since he's wearing a fishnet shirt that shows off his scars who knows.
Anita instantly gets on her judgmental bike I don't know if it was the leather or the fishnet, but the word 'sleezy' came to mind. He had passed over some invisible line, from flirt to hustler.
Anita then shows us her compassionate side by trying to imagine Phil at the age of 12, but can't since you know... He's such a hustler.
Shen then goes on about how I wasn't a psychiatrist wh could afford to feel sorry for the poor unfortunate. Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.
Moving on!
Yadda yadda, Phil pushes off the wall and enters Anita's car, smelling strongly of cologne and sweat, Anita kicks the night off by commenting on Phil's outfit as aggressive.
He turns to face her with a blank stare, for some reason still wearing sunglasses. Not commenting on her comment, he just starts giving her directions.
And then... It gets weird, according to Anita, you can't be alone with the opposite sex without it getting all... Sexual.
There is an nearly painful awareness of each other. It can lead to awkwardness, to sex, or to fear, depending on the man and the situation.
Anita goes on to think that they are not going to have sex, Phil has taken off his sunglasses and appears to be trying extra hard to stare sex her into submission or something.
They enter the motorway and Anita focuses instead on the cars and such instead of the half naked stripper she's sharing a car with. Or at least tries too since he doesn't take his eyes off her, then starts sliding towards her until he can slide an arm around her, leaning his chest up against her.
I'm struggling to imagine how this is going down, is he giving her an awkward hug? Or merely leaning against her like a nervous dog??
Anita demands to know what he's doing, he responds by asking if this is aggressive enough for her. She laughs which causes him to stiffen (and not in a happy pants time way) Anita apologizes saying that she doesn't mean to insult him, but she wasn't expecting him to be wearing fishnet. Which causes him to ask her what she does like.
Where the living fuck did this conversation come from???
Anita asks Phil to get back to his side of the car, instead of doing what she asked, he asks what turns her on. Anita snaps, asking him how old he was when he was attacked...........
WHAT THE FUCK ANITA? YOU DON'T LIKE HIM BEING CLOSE SO YOU ASK HIM AN EXTREMELY FUCKING PERSONAL QUESTION? AND NOT EVEN IN A NICE WAY! YOU ARE A HORRIBLE FUCKING PERSON!!!!!!
*sigh* moving on...
Phil does a whole body jerk before moving away with a polite fuck you, Anita gets smug saying that he won't have to answer her question as long as she doesn't have to answer his.... I just....
Phil starts freaking out, asking if Valentine would be there, and that someone had promised him that he wouldn't be there.
I didn't want to see Phillip afraid. I might start feeling sorry him, and I couldn't afford that. Anita Blake, hard as nails, sure of herself, unaffected by crying men. Riiight.
Should've thought of that before bringing up his tormenting you selfish bitch. Fuck, some heroine you are.
Phil goes to ask how she knew, before stopping himself, putting his sunglasses back on and ignoring her, Anita tells him that she paid money for someone to tell her about his past and that it sorta came up since she needed to know if she can trust him.
He asks if she does, she replies that she isn't sure yet. He promises her that she can trust him. Anita yammers on about how she couldn't stomp all over his lost boy voice, but that she also knows that he would do anything a vamp asked him, including betraying her.
I'm pretty sure the vamp would have to promise/give him something in return first, I doubt he'd trust the first blood sucker to walk up to him and demand he betray everyone he knows for nothing.
We get the fascinating thought process of Anita as she ponders that she's never seen seagulls on a bridge they are driving over, only pigeons and that maybe seagulls don't like cars or some shit, I have no idea what this has to do with the current scene...
She asks Phil where they are going, he asks her to repeat herself, so we get this.
I wanted to say, "Question to hard for you?" But resisted. It would have been like picking on him.
And now we get the awesome, never want to missed, description of everything they are driving past! I'm not going to ruin the reading experience for you by snarking it, so seriously get this book and read it.
After a pointless bit about running into a cop and having to explain why Phil is in a fishnet shirt... From what little experience I have with coppers, most of them wouldn't look twice at him, besides maybe a light joke, what people decide to wear isn't something cops tend to stress themselves out about.
They finally get to the party after about a page of pointless bullshit that added nothing but words to the story.
Phil warns Anita not to leave the mainroom with anyone but him, since if she does he won't be able to help her, he goes on to explain their cover story. She's going to be the reason he's missed so many parties, he's dropped hints that they are sleeping together and that he's been cultivating her until he felt ready to introduce her to the party life.
Anita asks what exactly that means.
Phil responds that she's a reluctant survivor of an attack, not a junkie or freak... *deep breath* already had this rant, already had this rant... But he's talked her into coming to a party.
Anita asks if he's done this to someone before, causing Phil to point out that she clearly doesn't think much of him.
I... What? This is/was his lifestyle, why wouldn't he bring people into it if he thought they would enjoy it? Why would he be ashamed of it? Even though he's now starting to change his ways, he clearly hasn't always hated this aspect of his life...
Anita points out that if they are playing lovers, they'll have to do it for the entire night, Phil gives her a playful grin, she tells him to stop it. He jokes around she takes him seriously, blah blah. Phil gets out of the car and tells her that she should leave her cross behind.
After a small bitch about how weird it feels not to be wearing her chain, she takes Phil hand and gets out of the car.
Apparently the flowers in the yard are as big as Anita's hands, which doesn't really mean much since she keeps yammering on about how small she is.
A female is standing in the doorway, she wearing next to nothing in stockings, garter belt and bra. Anita comments to Phil that she's overdressed, he lightly jokes that she mightn't be for long. Anita brushes him off, going on to state that Phil smiles just like the serpent must've before handing Eve the apple.
She goes on thinking that she isn't buying what he's selling, he runs his fingers over her scars, digging them in slightly as he lets out a strangled breath, which naturally makes Anita extremely apprehensive about what she's gotten herself into.
The women in the door is smiling at them, but her eyes are latched onto what Phil's fingers are doing to her scars, seemingly to be breathing faster then normal.
"Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly."
Phil naturally asks her "what?" Which is all she needs to internally snark that he probably doesn't know that poem anyways.
Who the fuck doesn't know that poem? Even if you can't remember the entire thing, everyone in first world countries know the bloody thing.
She goes on to think that she doesn't remember if it had a happy ending for the fly or not, Phil touches her back causing her to jump slightly. Which seems to amuse the mystery women since she laughs.
The chapter ends with Anita whispering to herself more of that bloody poem.
"Oh, no, no, to ask me is in vain, for whoever goes up your winding stairs can ne'er come down again."
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