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protective_logicThe way it works is this: Delta is not exactly the sort of man his mother approves of. Not that it's her fault really. He was always a man who had a passion for science, but mostly for numbers. He's a mathematician of the highest degree and it doesn't come with fame or money or the love of the public in the same way that his older brother, the doctor, had. Sometimes he wondered why he even bothered to struggle for her attention. Still, he cares, and he longs to meet her approval, however he can.
The situation that is presented: Delta knows when his brother gets engaged that soon his mother's nagging will turn on him. When will he find a lovely young woman and settle down? How is that math stuff ever going to help him? He should visit the family soon. All of that is well and good and Delta knows he'll deal with it when it comes. Which is now. The wedding is in a week, back home in LA, and Delta... has to go spend time with his family.
The problem: He needs a date. He needs someone to go away with for a week, share a hotel room, and pretend to be involved with. And he doesn't have one.
The solution: Craigslist. An offer of a plane ticket, board, food, and an arrangement. A meeting before to check suitability. And a picture.
The result?
Delta sighs and shifts in his seat on the airplane, waiting for the man who will sit beside him in first class, the man who was going to spend the next week as his 'boyfriend'. His name, York, had struck D as weird when they'd had brief coffee together, and his looks a little too unbelievable for Delta to have acquired. Still, they still need to get there and he needs to figure out the story they're going to use.
The situation that is presented: Delta knows when his brother gets engaged that soon his mother's nagging will turn on him. When will he find a lovely young woman and settle down? How is that math stuff ever going to help him? He should visit the family soon. All of that is well and good and Delta knows he'll deal with it when it comes. Which is now. The wedding is in a week, back home in LA, and Delta... has to go spend time with his family.
The problem: He needs a date. He needs someone to go away with for a week, share a hotel room, and pretend to be involved with. And he doesn't have one.
The solution: Craigslist. An offer of a plane ticket, board, food, and an arrangement. A meeting before to check suitability. And a picture.
The result?
Delta sighs and shifts in his seat on the airplane, waiting for the man who will sit beside him in first class, the man who was going to spend the next week as his 'boyfriend'. His name, York, had struck D as weird when they'd had brief coffee together, and his looks a little too unbelievable for Delta to have acquired. Still, they still need to get there and he needs to figure out the story they're going to use.
