#ladywhitehat

"Hello, dearest." White Hat greeted as she enters his threshold, not even his measly excuse of employess get to enter without permission, heck not even Demencia can burst through the door. No matter how hard she tries.

Black Hat rasied a brow as he set the newspaper aside, with annoyed huffed. "You seem bold today, my dear."

"Am I?" White Hat place a hand on her chest with a chuckle. "I didn't noticed."

A mischievous smile curved the corners of Black Hat's usual scowl, as the Lady of the Light, perched herself so casually on his lap, crossing her legs and leaned her head against her palm withoutmuch care who she was sitting on. "Where's that usual prudeness you exceeds so much, my dear?"

"I would sit anywhere else in your home, BUT knowing your taste in furniture. " White Hat replied with a knowing look towards an enchanted armchair across them, whose mahogany frame grumbling with hunger, before turning back to Black Hat. "I rather not be a mimic's snack at the moment."

The said mimic armchair let out an irritated growl, being denied atleast a snack. As it's usual victim, 5.0.5, wouldn't come by to clean until tomorrow.

Black Hat leaned against his fist as he laid back against his armchair, with hint of mock and amusement. "Don't tell me you have gone wary at something simple as those desperate creatures."

White Hat merely chuckled at his word's. "Oh, far from it. They're just a pain to deal with right now." She shrugged her shoulders with a coy smile. "Though, I suppose not much as you are, but then again, beggars can't be choosers."

"And your solution is to make my lap as your seat?" Black Hat raised a brow at her, his eye narrowing in irritation at her audacity his claw, traces her spine. "I would hang your spine over my fireplace for that, my dear."

The Lady's smile grew wider, taking the gruesome threat into light-hearted protest. "Fine, I'll stand."

She began to leaned back, but Black Hat stopped her from moving, by having his claw ready to pierced her spine.

"You pissed me off to no end." He growled out, with a sardonic chuckle.

White Hat laughed, leaning closer to him. "I say I'm only returning the favor."

"Don't flatter yourself too much, Black Hat," White Hat said with a hint of amusement as he twirled her around before continuing to glide across the room as the tempo of the band increased.

"Your ego is stifling enough as it is." Her lips curled into a smile as Black Hat returned a smirk. "For the record, hate is such a strong word. I prefer tolerating you," she added, her tone laced with playful sarcasm so rarely heard from a woman of her stature.

Black Hat couldn't help but release a sardonic chuckle, his amusement tinged with a touch of mockery. "I see, I still hold a place in your heart. Oh, how scandalous~" he remarked with a wry smile.

White Hat, with a playful grin on her face, rolled her eyes and shook her head in a lighthearted manner. "My dear, don't scrutinize it too much," she said with a hint of affection in her voice as he twirled her away before coming back to his arms. "I am merely being a good hostess, despite your sudden and rude entrance."

"Details." He says dismissively as his smile turns to a mischievous grin before leaning close his breath against her ear. "What's wrong, my dear?"

Dangerously closer.

"Am I getting under your skin?"

His hand further down on her back. The roughness of his leather glove trails against the smoothness of her porcelain skin , inciting subtle shifts in her eyes and lips did not go unnoticed by the devilish gatecrasher.

"Is that a shiver, I see?" His grin widened, displaying his inhuman fangs. Their bodies pressed against each other, his toxic breath brushing onto her skin.

White Hat scoffs but does not protest his daring advances, her smile never faltering in his presence, locking eyes with the devil himself.

"An allergic reaction to you, dearest."

"Fair enough."