#valentin.003

Hearing Hunter’s voice made him nod once. “I did,” he said quietly, still staring at the damage of his room. “It was the only one I had of her, and now it’s…” he stopped talking, not wanting to trust his voice or his mind right now. Valentin could replace it if he wanted to. But in his heart, it wouldn’t be the original that he kept since the day she gave it to him. “I don’t think I can get it back.”

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Hunter's eyes moved from Valentin to the wreckage ahead. Well, it sufficed to say that if this had happened to him, he would have been livid. "I'm sensing this has some sort of emotional value to you," he ran a finger through his jaw. "Maybe it will turn up once people have cleaned all of this up?" Sure he hadn't the highest hopes for it to happen, but it wasn't impossible. And Hunter might have been able to work with what might have been left. "What was this picture like?"

The question made him grin and rub his chin as he thought about it. “If I go up there and sing, I’ll let you….take me on one full day doing whatever you want,” Val said with a grin. “But if I win, you have to give me the best wine or drink you ever had.” he challenged. “And you have to tell me one embrassing story.” he said, taking a sip of his champagne. 

Rasa regarded the man with narrowed eyes. "Your bargaining your embarrassing for alcohol and an embarrassing story?" she seemed entertained by the thought. "If that's your angle, I should tell you I would have done it all without the need for a bet. All you had to do was ask for it," the Lithuanian told him with a shrug of the shoulders.

The question made him softly smile, swirling his champange around as he thought about. “I bet a drink and maybe fifty bucks if I do it.” Valentin answered, trying to think of a really good bet for him to get up there and just sing whatever comes out of his mouth. “Or you can help me practice on my pool skills,” he joked. 

Klaus found himself chuckling at the proposition. "Let me see if I got it straight," he trailed off. "If I win, I'll get fifty bucks and a drink. If you win, you'll get lessons on pool?" he wondered if he'd gotten it all correctly. "Because I must say the lessons might not be long if we take them on the fifty bucks value," he shook his head slightly.