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eswareinmal2012-09-02 11:58 pm
consultmybooks) wrote in eswareinmal2012-09-02 11:58 pm
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Where are you going? Where are you going?
Characters: Rupert Giles and Helios Sprensonne
Open? Nope
Where: The marketplace
When: 18th of Rebirth's Decline, after Giles' encounter with Ginia in the Drunk Duck Inn
What: If Giles and Helios have their way, Ginia is going to be losing a necklace very soon. The two intend to see to it that she has an even better one to replace it.
Warnings: Nothing I can think of! Just two bros being miserable and messed up.
He doesn't mention the fight, when he returns to the house. Giles knows that he probably doesn't have to - rumor travels impossibly fast in Schwanheim and, besides, even if she was obviously on some level going easy on him, Giles looks like he's been in a fight.
And the watch is gone. She actually took the pocketwatch. Some tiny part of him had been convinced that she wouldn't actually steal it, and so a clinging feeling of shock mingles with the general dread and misery that is losing his most precious possession.
The last time he'd lost that watch, he'd died shortly after.
But, Giles doesn't mention it, when he gets home. He doesn't say anything about the fight, and the way Ginia had left him half collapsed on the floor, and how he'd failed to get through to her and that Helios and his magic were their only hope now.
No, instead, Giles stands at the door of the little room that serves as Helios' little shop to the outside world, looking in at his best friend. He's silent for a few seconds, before finally offering in a soft voice:
"Um...do you want to go to the market? I-I'll, um...I'll buy you some tea."
Open? Nope
Where: The marketplace
When: 18th of Rebirth's Decline, after Giles' encounter with Ginia in the Drunk Duck Inn
What: If Giles and Helios have their way, Ginia is going to be losing a necklace very soon. The two intend to see to it that she has an even better one to replace it.
Warnings: Nothing I can think of! Just two bros being miserable and messed up.
He doesn't mention the fight, when he returns to the house. Giles knows that he probably doesn't have to - rumor travels impossibly fast in Schwanheim and, besides, even if she was obviously on some level going easy on him, Giles looks like he's been in a fight.
And the watch is gone. She actually took the pocketwatch. Some tiny part of him had been convinced that she wouldn't actually steal it, and so a clinging feeling of shock mingles with the general dread and misery that is losing his most precious possession.
The last time he'd lost that watch, he'd died shortly after.
But, Giles doesn't mention it, when he gets home. He doesn't say anything about the fight, and the way Ginia had left him half collapsed on the floor, and how he'd failed to get through to her and that Helios and his magic were their only hope now.
No, instead, Giles stands at the door of the little room that serves as Helios' little shop to the outside world, looking in at his best friend. He's silent for a few seconds, before finally offering in a soft voice:
"Um...do you want to go to the market? I-I'll, um...I'll buy you some tea."
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"Besides..." And here another woman comes out of the crowd, trying to take hold of Giles' arm. He pulls away as though he's just been burned - in a lot of ways, Giles is as sensitive as Helios is to certain things. "...everyone's heard it. What happened between you and the rogue. You've broken up, haven't you? I'll never hurt you like that..."
Giles opens his mouth to snap at her...and then, comprehension dawns. He closes it again, eyes widening with horror.
And then, muttering an apology, he takes Helios' hand as well, and makes to lead him away. "We, w-we really have to go..."
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"I-I can't believe them. Th-they're just...they're only concerned about those silly rumors! That was-was completely uncalled for..." Helios looks back over his shoulder as he shakes his head. Apparent disbelieve strewn across his features. "Giles a-are you alright?"
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"...do you suppose we are?" he finally ventures, unable to keep a tremor out of his voice. "Broken up, I mean." Then, aware of how very adolescent those two words sound together, he hastily adds: "I mean, um, at the least, we're...certainly not together."
It's probably a sign of just how hard the last couple of days have been that Giles even has to ask a question like that. But it's an issue that's been on his mind. Ginia really isn't Ginia, right now. If they can't get that necklace off, she never will be again.
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"This? This is by no means the be all end all for you and her Giles. W-We've been through so much worse. This is just...it's just like something the Malnosso would concoct." His stance gets a little more tired, a little more worn as he looks back at Giles.
"Everything will...be fine once we-we help her out of this. Th-these people don't know a-anything about you or the b-bond between you and Ginia. Otherwise they'd know that-that a small rut like this is n-nothing." There are bumps and there are hills in the road, but he knows with all his heart that Giles and Ginia can get through this.