idontreallyspar | fandom_muses: Topic 25

Babbling.

You know...people who get nervous and start talking about anything and everything just to break the tension? Then it just makes things worse, ‘cause it doesn’t fucking work. Ever. So they *keep* babbling, and soon I just feel like strangling them.

There’s only one thing that bugs me more than people who babble...and that’s people who can get away with it.

My wife was one of those people, to an extent. She didn’t babble when she was nervous, she did it just to fill those uncomfortable empty silences. They really got to her...me, they don’t bother. It’s the noise I can’t stand. But when she started in, her eyes would sparkle and she’d wrinkle her nose in this weird little way...I wanted to kill her ‘cause I *enjoyed* it.

[locked to Rachel]

And Gibson...she babbles to fill the quiet *and* when she’s nervous. And, like my wife, she gets *away* with it...in a different way, but she can pull it off, and it bugs me. Because it *doesn’t* bug me, if that makes any sense. She gets this little smile, and her voice is just so unique...it’s the kind of voice that could read the phone book and make it sound almost sexy. Rachel, she rides that line between cute and sexy, and I can never quite decide which is which on her...maybe *that’s* what drives me so batshit nuts about her.

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Other than that? When you talk to me, you better have something interesting to say, or odds are? I’ll be walkin’ off before you can spit.

Muse: Thomas Grace
Fandom: Alias
Words: 263