#ur reality star au..... it spoke to me

[highaver]

@yes7erdays asked: "Well, for your information, I'm not sweet on the inside."

"Oh, I know all about how devious you are."

He'd seen her on TV. Cutthroat, had been the word he'd used about her, then, and it had been in that slightly awed kind of way that was entirely well-deserved. Balfour was still trying to figure out what she was like in real life - away from the all the high-stakes gameshow stuff.

No money on the line today, of course. Just pride. But she'd already set fire to the place and he'd already burnt his hand, so he was pretty sure that they were on even levels. So he was more than happy to spend a little bit of their downtime chatting.

"Pure evil doesn't write books for kids, though." He smiled, all handsome. "Last I checked."