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Jan. 19th, 2008 07:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The first night had been spent out in the open, but tonight Marlowe has found the pair a tavern. Quiet, out of the way, not well-to-do but hardly the worst place he has slept in.
Of course, that is the problem.
Marlowe leans against the doorway, watching Mary Anne (Mariane) with an amused twinkle in his eye.
"So, my dear. Which side of the bed do you want?"
Of course, that is the problem.
Marlowe leans against the doorway, watching Mary Anne (Mariane) with an amused twinkle in his eye.
"So, my dear. Which side of the bed do you want?"
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Date: 2008-01-19 07:42 am (UTC)"I'm not picky."
She has, after all, slept in much worse.
"What about you?"
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Date: 2008-01-19 08:04 am (UTC)She's closest to the door, she dies first. But she can't die.
Hmmm...
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Date: 2008-01-19 08:19 am (UTC)So.
She sits on the side of the bed nearer the door.
"This is fine, then."
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Date: 2008-01-19 08:54 am (UTC)Right, it's nearly summer, so doublet off.
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Date: 2008-01-19 09:10 am (UTC)Still, it is nearly summer and she's got more layers on than she's had in years. The gown is wriggled out of first, then the kirtle. Both are folded up and set neatly aside before she lies down on her side, wearing only her shift and facing away from Kit.
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Date: 2008-01-19 09:23 am (UTC)Even if she isn't throwing anything.
Just lying there.
His eye drifts over the curves of her waist and hip, and then he shakes his head slightly and works on the other boot.
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Date: 2008-01-19 09:36 am (UTC)"Oh."
She sits up, slipping a hand into the pocket of her shift and drawing out her knife. She tucks it under the edge of her pillow, where she can reach it much easier, then lays back down.
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Date: 2008-01-19 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-19 09:38 am (UTC)"Do you?" she asks, smiling faintly.
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Date: 2008-01-19 09:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-19 09:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-19 09:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-19 09:48 am (UTC)"I prefer to think of us as 'practical.'"
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Date: 2008-01-19 09:56 am (UTC)"Only in highly specific circumstances."
Right, so. Bed.
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Date: 2008-01-19 10:02 am (UTC)This does not sound like paranoia to her. This sounds like common sense. If she had her rifle here too, that'd be paranoia.
Yes. Bed.
"What time do we leave in the morning?"
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Date: 2008-01-19 10:09 am (UTC)Somehow, this is far, far more awkward than sleeping with Darren had ever been.
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Date: 2008-01-19 10:19 am (UTC)She closes her eyes.
"Good night, then."
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Date: 2008-01-19 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-19 10:27 am (UTC)She sits back up just enough to lean over to the nightstand. A moment later, the room goes dark.
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Date: 2008-01-19 10:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-19 10:38 am (UTC)And of course, that training is amounting to fuck all right now.
Mary Anne stares at the door and tries not to breath too loudly.
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Date: 2008-01-19 10:41 am (UTC)Any moment now.
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Date: 2008-01-19 10:46 am (UTC)Just for a little while.
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Date: 2008-01-19 10:50 am (UTC)Sod it.
He isn't as young as he once was, and running on nervous energy more than sleep for weeks, and in any case he'd always slept better with someone than without.
Call it training, but it isn't so long before his breathing deepens, and evens out.
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Date: 2008-01-19 10:51 am (UTC)At fifteen, she smiles and closes her eyes.
By sixteen, she's asleep.