[WARNING: ADULT CONTENT]
Niko was over at the drinks table when Ruby approached to get herself a water. She had sensibly decided that one alcoholic drink was more than enough to celebrate the evening.
She smiled up at Niko, who was quite clearly three sheets to the wind now.
Here she was! he thought with delight; the beautiful twin sister of the girl he liked, and on her own for once without Magnus stuck to her like glue.
He beamed at her in return.
"Ruby! You look very hot tonight in that outfit."
"Thank you, Niko," she smiled shyly at her sister's potential beau. "You don't look too bad yourself," she kidded him, half-dressed and drunk as a skunk as he was.
He actually looked like his eyes might soon start swirling in their sockets, he was so inebriated.
"What's this?" she asked with concern, standing on tiptoe and pointing to a bruise on his temple that had a cut through the centre of it.