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Post by ALLEANA LEI MOON on Sept 4, 2014 3:40:05 GMT -5
It took less effort than it should have for her to convince herself to go looking for him that morning. The dream was still fresh on her mind, flashes of his face, his touch, of warm sunny beaches and an impossible wedding were still fresh and echoing, taunting her. Where had that dream come from? She had never except maybe in her wildest most unrealistic fantasies ever thought of marrying him, or of marrying at all for that matter. Still, as much as she had tried to brush it off as a result of stress or an overworked mind, the vivid images had lingered in stark contrast to the normal fare of her subconscious. She owed Aiden an explanation, and she would give him one, as soon as she had one to give. The truth was that she didn't have the answers. She had fully intended to never speak to him again after her conversation with her father, but as the anger had faded, and the memories had come back with a vengeance, she had softened, decided it wasn't fair to punish him for being who he was, she had, after all, known who he was. Presuming herself special in any way had been her mistake, not his. Ally could respect a person who never claimed to be what he wasn't, and if Cam was nothing else, he was that. The trick, she knew, would be getting him to be completely honest with her. He wasn't so much a liar, she knew, as he was in the habit of picking which bits and pieces of the truth he wanted to tell.
It was a very Slytherin trait, and since Ally was surrounded by them, it wasn't as if the whole thing came as a surprise. If she knew Cameron, and she did at least as well if not better than most, he'd be outside on a day like this, either by the lake or in the courtyard. It wasn't sunny enough for sunbathing, so she decided to try the latter first. At first, she didn't see him, but when she glanced up, there he was, nearly hidden among the branches of one of the larger, more sprawling oaks. She stood at the base of the trunk and looked up at him. "If you wanted to do a little climbing, I have some equipment you could use" she reminded him. It was as good a way as any to break the ice. She was tense, however, and she was sure it wouldn't take him too long to pick up on it. He was observant, even for a Slytherin, and they did know each other...very well.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 3:53:41 GMT -5
With his new form, he found that being up high wasn't nearly as scary and often a good place to get away from people completely. With that came a good excuse for climbing high in the building and then leaping out windows in squirrel form, running along the new access of stone cracks and gliding into the tree to find the best spots. With that came the mystery of how he managed to climb without anyone knowing he was up there which had only occurred to a few so far. He just enjoyed the ability to throw everyone off as always! His rapid acceptance of the ability had not for a moment turned him from his collection of secrets however and having heard a few from people not aware of him being around he liked the heights business, very much.
Not that he had many juicy secrets yet.
As he sat there, contemplating what the taste of nuts tasted like in normal form and wondering what the difference might be for him now, he heard a shout and glanced over the edge, a lot less afraid of edges too. Ally? What the heck-- "I don't need it, thanks, and might I ask how you spotted me?" He couldn't see the ground well from up here, actually, so there could be other people in the courtyard for all he knew, but surely no one could see him. He was not aware he was quite so predictable about the outdoors. But why was she after him?
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Post by ALLEANA LEI MOON on Sept 4, 2014 4:03:49 GMT -5
She arched a brow at him and smirked at the question. Rather than answer him, she started climbing. This was not the kind of conversation she wanted to shout back and forth. In fact, it wasn't one she particularly wanted to have at all, but she had come this far already, and there was no way she was backing down now. It was a risk, and not the kind she liked. Being honest with anyone outside her family was a risk, but there was still a part of her that trusted Cameron, and wanted to prove to herself she hadn't been wrong in that at least. It took a few minutes, during which she tried to figure out how exactly she was going to broach a subject like this with him, but she made it up unscathed. When she reached the branches just below him she paused. "Because I was looking" she said, softer now. She hadn't actually said she was looking for him, but it was implied of course.
Settling on an adjacent branch, not trusting the one he was on to hold them both, she met his eyes across the now-much-smaller distance between them. She had considered starting off with 'So how's the fiancee?' but decided it was too close to what she'd said during their last meeting, and those weren't memories she wanted to draw him towards just now. "I need to talk to you, Cam. Got a minute"?" Being even this close to him was triggering all sorts of not-hazy-enough flashbacks, both real and imagined. She did, after all, have plenty of personal experience to go on without the dream, but the latter was fresher on her memory.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 4:14:27 GMT -5
A certain amount of his change often lingered and he had not been here long enough for the smells to fade. The tree around him was still fading back to it's more normal green, but had a reddish tint still as he smelled her even from this distance. Ah! The smell of her reminded him of burying himself in her scent, her completely submissive response to him only momentary before her own aggressive nature took over. Probably memories of that seduction would stay with him a long time still, though he had been fairly sure by her reactions from a distance she was trying to avoid him on purpose. So why would she come looking now? Or had she decided they could remain friends?
Or could she not let go so easily...
Cameron's normal ego asserted itself with amusement internally, but he kept it off his face. he had made promises to Leyshell and he would keep to those, but maybe he could have some fun with Ally anyway, a bit of a tease to remind her of their shared past. She spoke and he smirked. "Funny, I don't remember you being a stare into the sky type of person. You are always watching your vicinity more often." She began to climb and he frowned when she wasn't looking straight up at him; now what was this about? A glance at the leaves across from him as he lined up his thoughts, wondering in what direction this was headed before she stopped below him.
"I can spare a few, more so if I knew what this was about. I had the distinct impression you hadn't been trying too hard to end up around me in the off time recently." Of course they both knew why and the words 'fiancee' was surely on both of their minds. But Cameron didn't see any reason to not bring up Leyshell so he bit the wand as they say. "Leyshell is becoming quite reasonable, by the way, to seeing my side of things. This is not going to be as bad as I first thought I think so far..."
He nearly snorted at himself remembering now there was the Dark Lady to contend with in his fiancee's past.
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Post by ALLEANA LEI MOON on Sept 4, 2014 12:35:03 GMT -5
Ally had never regretted any choice she'd ever made. She lived for experience, the good, but also the bad, the kind that taught her something. Oh, had her experience with him taught her something. She paused about half way up when he spoke, She didn't seem like a sky watching person? She smirked. If he only knew. It struck her then that maybe he didn't know everything about her, and the thought was comforting. However, all she said out loud was "people change." Like she had for knowing him, like things with Aiden had been altered forever by her choice at the dance. That couldn't be undone, and she wouldn't have if she could. She kept climbing, driven by her confusion, by sheer nerve which she had never lacked. If this went badly she could pretend it had never happened, put the whole thing behind her for good. If her father was right and she'd just been a somewhat more difficuilt mark for him before he settled for good, well, that was a lesson wasn't it? At his observation about her distance the past couple of weeks, she didn't answer right away, settling herself instead just below him and off to the side some, enough distance between them that touching him wouldn't be a tempation. When she was confident of her bearings, she shrugged. "I've been focusing on dance" the answer came easily, because it was true. Once the initial tidal wave of emotion had passed, she had thrown herself more obsessively than usual into her practices and routines. She smiled at him out of the corner of her eye before she turned her head to meet his eyes. "I figured you'd be busy charming the new fiancee" she pointed out. "Which, if rumors can be trusted, seemed like enough of a task for anyone." It felt weird to be talking about a girl she'd never met in the face of what she was feeling, the images her dreams had forced on her conscious mind. "I'm a Gryffindor, Cam. Its not that weird that I'd be giving the dungeons a miss." The fact she'd also been giving them a wide berth wasn't the point. The last thing she needed was to get hexed by his soon-to-be-wife or one of her friends. Some Slytherins were wise enough to be subtle, like her aunt and uncle, like her father. Others....others hexed first and asked questions later. She turned her eyes away again, focused on the horizon rather than his face. Looking into his eyes made it hard not to remember both dream and reality, and she wanted to remain detached, had to do so if she was going to save face from this. His comment about Leyshell earned a sardonic sort of smile, though she still didn't look at him. "I bet she is", Ally agreed. She doubted Cameron had ever had any real trouble getting someone to come around to his side of things. She was the one he'd have for life, and she knew he'd do what he had to in order to make himself as comfortable as possible in the situation. She wondered how many girls were sitting somewhere around the castle right now, lamenting the fact they'd never be the focus of that certain look he got when he wanted something, someone, again. She nearly, very nearly, sighed, but caught herself and held off from it. "Nothing ever is" she said softly, almost as though she was telling herself, "as bad as it seems at first." Reconciling herself to his felt a lot like coming off of some sort of drug, and that, if nothing else, told her it was probably for the best, Still, she'd come for a reason. "I had a really crazy dream last night." 'Tags: Cameron Clarke Words: 631 Outfit: here Lyrics: Gravity - Sara Bareilles Notes: Oh boy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 16:09:44 GMT -5
Moon was the very definition of tricky and trouble in her attitude which kept you on your toes. At least until he had gotten her into his bed and then he had found some levers to use, but she had always been touch and go. If his parents hadn't interfered he would like to think she would have been his eventually, bloodlines and corsets and pale white skin. He still found quite a bit about her which was seductive, especially in her goals and interests which matched a few of his easily. Leyshell was wonderful fun and had several major advantages not to mention his future wife, but Ally had been nearly under his thumb he thought.
A glance over her outfit and he also had to smile at the corset, a good look on her as always. Focusing on dance? "What, you can not tell me that in our time together I did not keep you fit now, Ally," he grinned as they both knew they had exercises muscles not often used daily, "so I should think you might be a better dancer now as well perhaps." Ah, such a tease to mention such, but her near presence in his senses had him thinking much. "Formidable it was indeed and took quite some effort to get over the wall, but we're getting closer now that I have managed a treaty."
At her mentioning her house he shook his head, knowing the truth of her. "It would be the opposite, actually, seeing that you like a challenge and have been inside there on many delightful occasions. I think you could manage to pass it quite easily without risk had you a mind. Not to mention found me inside if you wanted to talk." Oh yes, she had quite a daring about her, it was the sort of thing she delighted in as she knew he knew well. So, with the fact she had been avoiding him now clearly out on the table, he nodded, only partly to himself as if passing judgement. They both knew why without words.
Her words confirmed that she had more then small doubts about him. Ah damn.
"Hindsight is not always twenty-twenty, Ally, often it can also confuse issues we used to have the rights of. Come and test me, this dream of yours, and we shall see if it enlightens you any." I had to be about him if she came to him. And while his ego preened, he also knew if she had doubts this was where she would test them.
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Post by ALLEANA LEI MOON on Sept 4, 2014 16:46:10 GMT -5
It was a bit of a rush even to be back in his presence, playing this game. Because that's what it was, a game, hit or miss, touch and go, one step forward, two steps back. It was a dance, and for the moment he was still her favorite partner. He was, after all, the only one who had managed to keep her guessing. They had brought each other in close, and yet by words alone both confirmed that neither had quite a full grasp of the other. It was a relief to Ally to know she still had cards to play. She would play them too, as well as she could. She deserved, she thought, to walk away with some dignity, if she did in fact decide to walk away. As of yet she hadn't entirely decided whether to keep him in reach or not, though she felt fairly confident Cameron would let her stay if she so chose. It would suit him to think he had left a mark so thorough and complete as to be irremoveable. But, the question remained: Had he? She hoped not, but time would tell her what she needed to know for certain. When he spoke, drawing her, the memories came like a slow tide, washing over her for a few moments. She kept her face impassive, but not blank. A small smile and a mysterious look made her blue eyes seem deeper than usual. "You've always been a workout, Cam." She would not rise to the bait. Would. Not. "But there are other ways to keep limber that are just as good." Said with simple confidence. There, let his pride handle that one. "I've learned a few new things because of you, true." She turned and smiled softly, intentionally using the word 'because' in place of the word 'from'. At the mention of a treaty, the smirk broadened. "I can only imagine what amazing promises you made" she shook her head, still smiling a touch ruefully as though teasing him. "Cheers". She reaised her eyes to his . "To scaling walls by any means necessary." The words meant so much more than he would understand. He tried to call her out, and she played it off for a joke, tone still light and teasing. "And subject the true owner of whatever face I chose to Leyshell's legendary temper?" She shook her head, nearly 'tsk'ing'. "Of course I wouldn't do a thing like that, we Gryffindors are known for our chivalary you know." She leaned back against the trunk of the tree, crossing her legs over the side of the branch. As to the talking, she shrugged. "I could have" she agreed, and offered no defense for it. "I assumed you had other lose ends that needed tying. There were quite a few weren't there?" She wanted to remind him that she knew she was one of many, that she had never for one moment presumed to be anything else. Not once. It didn't matter, she told herself, had never mattered at all. His knowing look annoyed her, but she refrained from letting him see her ire with some effort. "We both had things going on, Cam. Its only been a couple of weeks, and the bet was over a long time ago." That's all it had been, a bet that had resulted in a dalliance that had now run its course. End of story. She arched a brow at him, smirked up into his eyes . "Test you?" She gave him a wicked sort of look. "You wouldn't survive a test from me, Cam" she assured him. Eyes bright with ironic humor, she gave him a wry look. "We got married." She was getting enlightened all right, more all the time. Tags: @shava4 Words: 627 Lyrics: Gravity - Sara Bareilles Outfit: hereNotes: Ha!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 17:14:26 GMT -5
He smirked; she remembered and he knew it. "Oh possibly exercise in some weaker form yes, but not nearly as pleasant. Plus, I think the sounds are far better my way." In fact her surprised or pleased sounds were more then half the fun of the entire thing! A snort at her next comment. "Seeing how it took more then a month to show you most of them I would say a lot more then a few things, my dear, please admit at least that much to be honest." He missed the one word omission however as he was thinking of something else in advance. He had to to stay ahead in such a conversation.
"Only one particular promise, but it came with a ring and a commitment of a much more permanent nature. Nothing else would have worked in the situation." He pursed his lips for a moment as he glanced away from her back at the leaves again thinking of several things. At one point he had had plans for using this one for his own rather permanent escape, but that had fallen through because of his parents' push on contracts. Shame, she would be delightful to see in pregnancy. Something about it, he thought, would have made it ever so much more pleasing... A soft sigh before he said in a low voice "My parents ruined quite a lot, damn them."
At the word legendary he laughed. "Oh you would be safe enough, I got you a pass for talking at least, but knowing you the challenge of not being found out would have solved that particular situation anyway. It would have been conversation only since a few weeks ago." Chivalry, as if that had any value these days; it was more a mask for other intentions as badly as so many had used it. "Never fear, I rarely assign that trait to any house, especially not the Lions. It's rather funny, actually, how the reputations go when even in the real world it's the female lions who do all the real work while the males relax."
Truth.
"Ah well in that you were wrong. Woefully wrong." She had been his pet project and had gone much further then most, but the others were all quite carefully sealed in their own little world too and wouldn't have noticed. She he had picked out for something far more long term, but his parents had destroyed that plan before he could convince her of future plans. Shame again still. "I am surprised that you thought you were in a competition though it explains why you have not been around recently." Ha, her ego should have eliminated that from the list early on. Clearly she hadn't tried to do much poking into those 'rumors' very carefully.
Sloppy. She knew better then that; he was sure he had taught her that much.
The bet? She thought that had been the idea? "The bet, my dearest Ally, was only a beginning." If she had been quicker on the uptake then he could have foiled his parents and gotten her under his thumb both; he far preferred choosing those he gave that much personal time to, but ah well too late now. A laugh at her saying he could not survive her tests and then she dropped what she apparently thought was a bombshell while he watched her face. "Uh huh, that was the idea. Trying to think what the future might have been like if things had progressed a bit faster, eh?"
He did not appear shocked.
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Post by ALLEANA LEI MOON on Sept 4, 2014 17:58:57 GMT -5
She laughed softly, "of course" she agreed. "I guess I should have said there are other...'coaches' just as good." She placed her arms behind her head, balancing and almost enjoying the slight risk of falling. The sounds comment though...she looked at him again, and her eyes changed subtly, darkened with remembering. Still, she shrugged . "Honestly I was pretty lost in the heat of the moment most of the time. The details are a little fuzzy." When he pressed her to admit to understating things, she gave only slightly. "It was fun" she said softly, stubborn now, "better than Potions homework at least." She could tell he was thinking, and it made her cautious, Cameron with the wheels turning was never an easy thing to figure or predict. Still, the ring on his left hand might as well have been a collar. He was chained, and as such, harmless. It made her want to push him, to see how far he could be pressed before the fidelity enchantments forced him to retreat. The thought earned a smirk. She almost snorted. Almost. "The future Mrs. Clarke" Ally commented . "That wedding will be something to see, I'm sure." The girl who would get him for a lifetime. Was there a part of Ally that wanted to be that girl? Was that what the dream meant? She almost laughed. Her. Ally. Married. Right, especially not to him. No, it was something else, had to be. She heard his comment about his parents, and she suspected that the bitterness of it at least, was genuine. The implication, however, that they might have been more if his parents hadn't interfered was laughable. If he hadn't been forced, Cameron would have spent his life accumulating trophies as fast as he could charm them and then send them on their way the next morning. "They saved you from eventually seeing yourself outdone by me" she teased. "You said things were going well" she reminded him. "I'm sure you'll...adapt. You always do." Her eyes, which had gone a deeper, darker blue with her conflicting thoughts and emotions, met his and amusement radiated at the forefront of everything else. "You're very resourceful, Cameron. I'm sure everything will work out eventually." She nodded, "I've had other challenges on my mind lately" she answered. Like distracting herself and attempting to forget the situation entirely. She was fairly certain she had a penseive somewhere at home, maybe Abraham would let her dump all of these memories and phial them away, buried somewhere deep with all of the things she wasn't allowed to see yet. Then she would be free of this, of him and all that he entailed. "We're talking now" she pointed out. Safely, in very public broad daylight. She didn't want to be alone with him, didn't trust him or more importantly herself not to say something in the heat of the moment. Ally was bad about doing things in the heat of the moment. "And I don't think you have to worry about me jumping you. I think I can control myself." Had this been a few weeks ago, she would hae stuck her tongue out at him. As it stood, she gave him a small, half-smile. She arched a brow at him. Wrong? Oh please. Still, she wasn't going to argue the point with him. "So I was the last one then, so much the better I guess." It made sense, last to the party, last to leave. She snorted then, and disolved into laughter. She couldn't help it. "Competition?" Her own pride rose up. "I am my own category, Cameron Clarke" she told him frankly. "You will never know anyone else like me." She said this in full confidence. She was one of a kind for several reasons, and by a wide margin. She sighed, shook her head at him. "I haven't been around recently because I, like you, have other things going on" she repeated. "You and I spent the majority of our time together having sex and getting into trouble, which was fantastic, really, but since you are now making an effort to please the misses" She took a breath, spoke slowly almost as though to a child. "I doubt she would appreciate either of those things continuing indefinitely." She closed her eyes, laid back against the trunk, shutting him out a minute. "A beginning which led to an ending as beginnings usually do." She shrugged, "you were always going to end up here, we both were, so it happened a little faster than we expected, so what?" She opened one eye, surprised by the nonchalance of his tone. "What do you mean that was the idea?" She rolled her eyes, shook her head . "Actually I'm thinking I shouldn't have had that second piece of pie at dinner" she answered. "You...and I...married" She gave him an incredulous look, "but the traveling was...fun." Tags: @shava4 Words: 830 Outfit: here Lyrics: Gravity - Sara Bareilles Notes: Temper, Temper...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 18:40:57 GMT -5
Highly doubting there were 'coaches' as perceptive and careful as himself, he discounted all she said about that. Besides, it was not her style to run to another man's bed, so none of that part was real. "I would think so, I do all right at Potions, but I excel in other directions." He shrugged at her comment, wondering how far he could actually say. "For what it will mean, maybe, but the service itself will be very small." However at her misunderstanding he turned and looked at her with a puzzled frown. She was not usually that blonde.
"Not what I said nor implied, actually, but if that's a more comfortable illusion for you to delude yourself with, then be my guest. It's rather moot now I guess." I she didn't want to believe him, then she wouldn't no matter what angle he tried there! Anger would always be that way really. Cameron regretted it in a way as she was building up in her head a different Cameron then he was nor had tried to be. She couldn't deal with his comments about her nature and sidestepped them which cause his eyes to laugh when he looked at her. "Yes we are, which again you initiated. As to jumping me, I hadn't even entertained the idea. We are high in a tree, after all."
He smiled "Bark scratches of course."
For some reason, she insisted on taking everything wrong. "Look, I understand you have some preconceived notion of what I would say and mean, but you really are not listening to what I say if you think that. Not to mention it's more then a little annoying to hear you misunderstand every thing I say." He let that sink in a moment before saying pretty straight forwardly "You were not the 'last' as you seem to imply, you were in a special place unlike the others. I had hopes, but you didn't listen to my hints and such and time caught up. I'm sorry my parents struck early and I have no idea why they did still, but it screwed up everything I had been hoping for, you the most. That's not in my control."
As she spoke about never knowing another like her, he rubbed a hand over his face in exasperation. She was acting more like an idiot or a jilted lover as the moments went on. Was she deaf? "I could not hurry you without ruining things for you and those realizations you had to come to on your own. You were on the way when everything was screwed over and I regret it greatly. Unfortunately as much as I would have liked to try and repair things I've been placed into a situation I have to put all my time to to straighten out. And before you wonder how much straightening out I mean, let's just say I had plans to invite you to the wedding." He was getting more then a bit irritated about the way she was taking all of this actually. Like what his parents had did was his fault in some way.
Now he glared at her. So she had never believed in anything he told her? Despite the fact that was probably smart of her, he found her attitude flippant. "Fine. So you don't believe me. Then why ask me about your dream then, eh? I thought you wanted insight and understanding, instead you come armed for an argument which I won't give you. If sex was all you got from me, then go find some cheap boy in your own dorm to bang, clearly you never really cared about the efforts I put in to make sure you were never rushed nor forced into anything." As finally something seemed to have gotten through he snorted. "Then your dream was accurate for those were along the lines of what I had in mind. Seems your unconscious knew more then you were aware of."
He looked away from her in frustration that she had her mind fixed that he was in all ways the bad guy when that was the means to a different end. He was fairly sure she would have been quite happy if he had managed what he had in mind.
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Post by ALLEANA LEI MOON on Sept 4, 2014 19:13:36 GMT -5
Surprised by his sudden venom, she looked up at him. He'd never spoken to her that way. She'd gotten under his skin, which had been her goal, but strangely...the feeling of vindication she'd expected didn't come. "Cam..." She studied him, and the eyes changed, lightened again. Had her father been wrong? She had hoped so, but her father was never wrong. Still, there was a chance... He had spent every night with her for weeks, there had been no time for anyone else, she realized. She hadn't just been the last one, she'd been the only one. The knowledge surprised her, but it surprised her further that she was only realizing it now. "I..." She went quiet. At the tree comment, she managed a smile. "I've done things more dangerous than that for far less pay off" she reminded him. The bark comment did it, she laughed. "So do I, remember?"She was frantically trying to decide what this meant. He had gotten irritated, not defensive, not cajoling, both of which would have sent up a red flag. She listened, silent and obviously thrown off guard. He had...had been trying...he'd known the contract would come, and he had chosen her, had been trying to... It was too much. Way too much. Had she been right to trust him after all? Had he meant for it to be her. "You...you..." She couldn't get the words out. "You were really going to...really would have..." Suddenly, she saw it clearly. They had liked each other, understood each other, and the dream came back. "I ran away for you" she told him. "In the dream I mean." She bit her lip, her first show of vulnerability since that day in the courtyard when he'd dropped the bomb about the contract . "It was summer, the night we went to go get the tattoo, remember?" She was sure he did. "Except that after we started talking about the contract and...about how you'd give anything to find someone who would help you get out of it and I...I volunteered." She let herself remember it willingly now, called the memory back. She stopped, looked up at him with wide eyes. "You were planning to invite me to the wedding?" She sounded disbelieving, but not sarcastic. "R-really?" That did it, she was out of ways to push his buttons. Alleanna Moon was speechless. He was angry. She had never seen him angry, and maybe even...had she hurt him? "I did" she said softly. "Want the insight and understanding." She blew out a breath, "Cam, after we got back to Hogwarts, that night with my dad at the gate, he said some things about how all guys wanted was sex and that you were just really good at what you did and I...I thought I had been played. I've never been played before." She sounded apologetic and sincere. "There were moments during those last few weeks before the contract that I thought maybe..." She broke off, bit her lip again. "I was getting it" she told him. "I was on the verge of telling you so when you told me about the contract." She shook her head, eyed her boots. "After I didn't know what to do. There were all these feelings and things I'd never dealt with before left unresolved that were making everything complicated." She leaned back, banging her head on the tree bark in frustration. "And then I kissed Aiden and I have no idea why I did it really, and that night I sat up on the tower for hours thinking about you and us and everything. When I finally did go to sleep, I dreamed about it, all of it, what mind have happened if we..." She trailed off. Working her way up carefully, she stood at the sturdiest spot and made to climb up, holding out her hand as if asking for his help. He pulled her up and helped her get her bearings, and then she turned to meet his eyes. "I believed you. The whole time, and if I had figured everything out sooner...well, we'd be in a very different place right now." Tags: @shava4 Words: 701 Outfit: hereLyrics: Gravity - Sara Bareilles Notes: Ah complications...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 19:47:08 GMT -5
Mind you, what he had done during the very long seduction had been designed to bring her around to a certain point. Part of that would have been her finding delight in doing what he desired, but it would have also provided her with her dreams of a life of travel and being needed, in charge. But the trickiness of it required a lot of earlier base laid down and that had taken quite some time. If he had had the last year he had expected before he came of age this could have been possible. He had not and that had thrown all his work out the window.
Frustration.
Ally would have been perfect for the future, sharing many of his favorite things, she could have been easily steered from lover into believing a marriage would have been perfect with him. That would have led her into childbirth easily and then into being his under his thumb for years. Or at least his planning would have given him a chance of it for sure. It all would have depended on careful steering, not control. He knew he had the skills for such a complete seduction, but it was a delicate work. His parents timing had destroyed the entire plan and careful work over months of time and increased his desire to get out from under their control.
He still loved them as his parents, but he found their goals and desires deluded by the modern world.
A laugh about scratching and he nodded, but didn't feel like laughing right then tho he grimly smiled. As she spoke he listened and nodded. "I was, but you had to realize it yourself or it meant nothing. Without that realization, you would have thought I was forcing everything and that would be no good." He listened as she spoke about the dream and one eyebrow went up. "Ah. It seemed too early to me to try it then the way things were going..." he said only, wondering how things might really have gone. As to the wedding... "I told Leyshell there were several people who were important to me to keep a strong connection to and she agreed as long as I let her know in advance."
Meeting her eyes he shrugged slowly. "Yes, I wanted you there. Still do." She spoke about it and he listened and tried not to smirk. "Well he's right about the sex part. I think a woman has a very powerful weapon there for influencing a guy. Especially if she pursues him." He made sure not to say anything about her father's judgement beyond that however. "Told you. I love my parents, but they control my life in all ways. I have no respite against that I am afraid." The kiss part was surprising information.
"Isn't he one of your housemates?" He wondered if his statement about her going to sex some housemate would have any influence on that. Pulling her up he placed her in front of him and said "Well, that future has been truly destroyed I am afraid. Parents. They think they know what is right for us, but in reality they are not all powerful and all knowing; they make mistakes too. Grave ones." Damn, he had known he had been on the right track. A not-so-cheerful chuckle. "Yes, you were resisting in our own way, I know. Maybe if I had had more time things would have been different. Better."
A moment of hesitation and then he knew another way to make sure of her. "This Aiden. You have mentioned him before. Are you two close? Could that be part of the kiss reason, that he feels safe?" He listened, and then slowly smiled. "Then I think you should try talking to him, ask him if he minded. If he is like any other guy in the universe, I suspect he has not though of anything else since that moment."
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Post by ALLEANA LEI MOON on Sept 27, 2014 9:11:11 GMT -5
This was so much to take in, too much really to expect anyone to process. Not one to be easily overwhelmed, however, Ally was trying--hard. The realization that he had been after her in a sense she had never considered before was the hardest to fathom. He had never once seemed like the 'til death do us part' type to her, but when one considered he would eventually be forced to marry; well, then it made sense. She searched his eyes, and then her own drifted over his face, taking in the familiarity of it, and feeling another pang of remorse that things had not gone differently. How different might her life have been, she wondered, if she were Mrs. Clarke right now? It wasn't fathomable, and yet... Flashes of the dream echoed in her conscious. There was laughter, bright eyes and challenging, come hither smiles. There were words and touches that had reached the depths of her in equal measure and for very different reasons, much as his words were doing now. It would not have been such a bad thing, she decided, to run away with a man like Cameron. To run and to have someone running beside her was all her mother had ever wanted after all really. She had found it in her father, both full of excitement, adventure, and stubborn enough to pursue their dreams until they had gotten them all and more. She found his eyes again in her perusal. Were she and Cameron really all that different? She shook her head softly and the thought halted abruptly. He was engaged, she reminded herself. Whatever might have been, that was what was. Still, it tugged at the edges of her memory, the thoughts, the dreams, the memories of him. She wondered if that happened to every woman he touched, or if it was only her who had apparently come so close to being a permanent part of his life. She had told herself that thinking was foolish in the beginning, when she'd caught her thoughts heading in that direction. Now, though, with the words coming out of his mouth, she felt vindicated in a way. Her thoughts had been his thoughts, even if the ending wasn't quite what either of them had expected. He spoke, and she nodded slowly in understanding. "Not something you could have brought up too quickly" she agreed. She arched a brow at him and smirked. "You couldn't force me into anything, Cam. No one's ever been able to do that." Seduce her into it? Maybe. He answered her admissions about the dream, and she laughed softly. "You were very convincing" she assured him, almost teasingly now, glad the mood had lightened. As the subject drifted to the wedding, she felt some of her ease dissipate, but not all of it. Several people, he said, and she wondered for a moment who the others were. The thought didn't remain long, however. It didn't matter now. Still, she was on the list, and that was something. She was beginning to realize how important it felt to her to keep him also. To have him close in the capacities that were left to them in this situation felt like getting to keep a piece of something precious after one thought it had been lost forever, like stealing something almost, and the pirate in Ally loved that. She tilted her head at the mention of the wedding . "I haven't been to a wedding since...your sister married my cousin." Which was still weird if she thought about it. The part of her family that still remained in Egypt was a bit of a puzzle to her. They were too conservative to be stood for more than a few hours per visit. Still, Omari had a sense of humor if she dug deep enough, and a few hobbies that might surprise Cameron's older sister. Ally remembered being slightly envious of how pretty the woman was. Hers was a face that Ally might borrow...some time when Cameron wasn't around. At his weapon comment, she shrugged. "If she knows how to wield it", which she did now, thanks to him. Strangely, she hadn't dwelled on the sexual part of their relationship too often since it had ended. It had felt like something out of a half-remembered story...or a dream. Still, the way her skin still warmed when he was this close reminded her that there had been a time when the attraction between them had been palpable indeed. She would have given a lot of there was a way she could have offered him some of that respite, but her hands were tied. Like it or not, she had to hand it to his parents. They knew their son, and his opportunities for adventure and rebellion were limited now. Still, "maybe we ought to find an adventure somewhere" she smiled mischievously up at him. "You can consider it a wedding present." Not that she wouldn't probably have something antique and practical elegantly wrapped for the wedding itself. Aiden the subject she'd been nervous to bring up, wondering how he would react. Ally wasn't even sure how she felt about the whole thing yet. "He is" she acknowledged, "same year." Sitting in front of him, she was a bit closer than she was strictly comfortable with. The closer he was, the harder it was to maintain any distance, and distance was necessary, she knew. She rolled her eyes, a rarity for her, and nodded . "Terrible mistakes" she agreed, just barely witholding the urge to sigh. How close her life had come to being the uncomplicated adventure she had so desperately wanted. His words mirrored her thoughts. "Quite possibly better" she agreed softly, but then, " too late now." With a shrug and a resolved tone she didn't feel. She sought a way to talk about something--anything else. What was done was done, out of reach for them both. She could have tried to find a way around it, but she would have needed help, and she doubted any of her relatvies, even the Slytherins, would have liked her trying to breakup an engagement without a very good reason. He brought up Aiden again, and that topic was at least easy, if not simple. "Very" she told him, no longer the least hesitant to be totally open with him. Ally preferred being wide-open, and she exulted in feeling like she could trust Cameron again. She bit her lip. "Aiden is...he's my best friend. Its been that way since first year." Safe? It wasn't a feeling Ally normally sought out. With everything that had happened, however... "Its possible." She thought about the serene feeling that always permeated when he was around, the 'zen' she teased him about. "I don't think he minded" she said softly, remembering the expression on her friend's face. She laughed softly . "I...haven't talked to him since really. I haven't really...known what to say." Her head was such a jumble of confusing thoughts and emotions right now anyway. How had she ever ended up in a situation as cliche as this? Talking to an ex about a...future? 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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 23:32:58 GMT -5
As he looked down at her, Cameron again rued the fact he lived in a land where duel mates was not the common theme. What would he have been if he could have had a harem? A girl for adventures, a girl for finances, a girl for bedding when the others were past their sixth months... Ah the very thought seemed highly pleasing to him! And yet it would have to remain a pipe dream unfortunately, such a shame. The things he could have taught this one about threesomes would have been educational in the extreme not to mention pleasant. Clearing his mind of such thoughts despite the vision in front of him, he shook his head. "Exactly my point. Force and you are two different things. Opposites in that case do not attract." No, they were far from opposites. A chuckle about the dream.
"I should be worried you know me well enough for your mind to portray me correctly in your dreams then," he grinned, clearly teasing as he knew while she knew him she had no experience with his carefully woven nets. Even now she did not realize how well he had directed her thoughts and like any master craftsman, Cameron looked upon the finished product with some real pride in his work. Those familiar parts of her he would not be able to explore again brought back memories; he remember her first gasp as he learned her deepest secrets, the sudden realization in her face of how powerful a moment it was, the forging of a bond in which she could never truly break even though the years would make it fade in importance.
Did she even realize that now that very bond made her reluctant to give up on him, avoid his presence in the future? Maybe one day, but he judged not yet by her eyes. He had a piece of her mind and heart she could never willingly let go of, never give back. "Oh, you know how to wield it, for certain. Maybe there are some differences between guys here and there, but you shouldn't have any trouble with even the experienced ones." Let her think she knew all his buttons, knew all his tricks. Boosting her confidence in that realm couldn't give him any trouble really. Ah so she sought to tempt him back! Cameron grinned and pretended to think about it for a moment; at this point he would have to haul his bride along with them as well. "Who knows? Maybe we can think of a way."
He hadn't made any arrangements for a bachelor party after all, the last fling. He wondered what Leyshell would think of that. They had plans for her to be already pregnant by then...
Another moment to think about harems as he held her bringing her up. Those limbs he knew so well and a hand hesitated touching her waist a particular way enough to bring back memories of much more personal moments in the past. "Even more reason for me to regret their actions, their controls. By the end of this year their control will be broken at least." If he had known her thoughts about the possible breaking of his marriage he would have grinned at how much he had gotten to her and what she still was willing to dare. She spoke about her friend and he tilted his head as he looked at her, suddenly curious about the boy who wanted her and stood a chance of plowing the same fields, but with different crops. "Interesting, being friends usually does help with a relationship, safe or not."
Ally with the safe one? It sort of made him want to chuckle to himself. "Ally. Seriously? All right, let's talk through this. You all have been friends, best friends according to you since the start of school. Is there anything you do around him you don't do with anyone else at all?" He suspected that if he was like most guys he had the hots for this girl and she had never had a clue. "Tell me something about him, what's his nature, his dream?"
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Post by ALLEANA LEI MOON on Oct 8, 2014 20:39:25 GMT -5
She allowed herself a few seconds to focus on his eyes. As a rule, she avoided it these days. Not only did it bring back memories of moments when his eyes had been close enough to her own that she had almost felt him looking at her, she suspected he’d be able to read her like a book if she got too close. That annoyed her...a lot. Ally fancied herself mysterious and generally unreadable when she chose to be. Despite being so open, she wasn’t half-Slytherin for nothing. Still, what she found when she looked gave her the impression she didn’t really want to know what was going on under the surface just now. Some of Cameron’s thoughts were better left to the imagination, specifically his imagination. Ally, however, had never been one to leave well enough alone. Arching a brow, she smirked up at him with a mischievous glint reflecting in her own expression. “I practically see you plotting something” she teased. “Knut for your thoughts?” She appreciated his sentiment about force. While she had doubted his loyalty at times, Ally had little doubt Cameron respected her. If she ever did, she’d make sure to rectify the situation...immediately. “Right..opposites…” Strangely, it made her think of Aiden. How much more different could two people be than the two of them? A soft laugh escaped as she was drawn back to the matter at hand. The ease with which they fell into teasing one another...isn’t that what had drawn them together in the first place? Ally had always been comfortable with Snakes. It raised eyebrows in her dorm, and was one of the reasons she found herself at odds with some of her housemates. Not that she cared. One corner of her lips pulled up in a soft, half-smile. “Well, let’s see, you were an accommodating, emotionally supportive, extremely thoughtful sex god.” She broke out into a teasing grin that matched his, eyeing him mischievously as she did so. “Sound anything like you?” Though she considered Cameron familiar, she knew that one of the things they had in common was the fact that parts of them remained hidden solidly beyond what they wanted a person to see. There wasn’t a person on earth she knew more intimately or vice versa than the man in front of her, she realized, but there were secrets even lovers kept. She enjoyed his praise when he gave it, but she didn’t beam under it the same way she early on. Cam was good with words. It was a skill she could appreciate, and hoped to cultivate herself as time went along, but the situation had taught her to keep her cards a little closer to her chest. For the moment neither of them had the upper hand. Cameron wasn’t aware of how deeply the dream had reached her, and she had no idea what was going through his mind right now. Still, she was enjoying their banter. “Oh, the experienced ones are always trouble.” The intense look she gave him, coupled with the soft smirk left little doubt to whom she was referring. His response to her offer left her wondering. It gave her the vague impression of being put off. She wasn’t sure whether that meant he needed time to weigh their options...or whether he was hedging his bets. She didn’t particularly enjoy either option. The idea of getting under his fiance’s scales appealed to her greatly, however. She had never been in a real duel before, but she was fairly certain of her ability to best Cameron’s wife-to-be. His touch was warm at her waist over the relatively thin fabric. The familiar way he touched her couldn’t have been accidental, but it wasn’t as though Ally was the one flirting with disaster here. She wasn’t the one on a crash course down the aisle after all. He had left a lasting mark on her memory, and she wanted to be certain his memories of her were just as potent. Making as though she had lost her footing, she reached up and dug her fingertips into his shoulder, seemingly for balance. She’d done it many times, but for very different reasons. He spoke of his parents and she released him. “Life is way too short for regrets, Cam.” She thought of the tattoo that weaved around her side. ‘Live with no regrets’ it read in one of her many languages. He had held her then too, touched her skin in ways she knew he would never do again. Strangely, it didn’t hurt so much as it frustrated her. As the topic shifted to Aiden, her emotions shifted with it. “Of course, but…” She wrinkled her nose in frustration rather than disgust. “He’s Aiden” and then she elaborated. “I wasn’t even sure he liked girls until he kissed me back.” If confused her that he seemed interested in her issues, and willing to help beyond that. “I…yes” she shrugged. “There are lots of things. Aiden has known me since we were kids. I don’t have to…” She wasn’t sure how to say it. “There has never been a reason to keep things from him.” If there was anything Aiden Urquart didn’t know, it was limited to family secrets, and those only because her family came first. She forgot to be suspicious of Cameron’s motives as she relaxed into an easy topic. “He’s...peaceful…” and then she realized that made no sense. “Like, nothing rattles him. He’s got this kind of inner ‘zen’” she tried to explain, “and being with him makes me feel it too, like…” She bit her lip, “like all the chaos just kind of comes to a halt and you can just...breathe. Like...stepping out of a crowded room into sunshine and fresh air for the first time in your life.” Her voice softened, became affectionate and gentle in a way she did not speak of anyone else. “He dreams…” She smiled warmly, “he dreams of being a gifted martial artist I think, and I think part of him wishes his family didn’t travel so much.” She sighed, laying her back against his shoulder, she closed her eyes . “Its...I guess everything is just complicated now...and its my fault.” Words: 1,044 Outfit: here Lyrics: Falling in Love With My Best Friend - Matt White Notes: Hmmmm
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