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Sir Guy of Gisborne ([personal profile] landlesslord) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2007-10-31 12:53 am

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There comes a time in a man's life, when you've done enough skulking about feeling sorry for yourself after getting your ass kicked by lady-ninjas in blue spandex shortly after being gassed.

There is also a time in a man's life when he accepts that what's done is done and perhaps it's not a bad thing to try to show your fiancee how you feel about her.


This time could be when Guy leaves his room for some late night mulled wine to help him sleep or even when he sits down at a table, rather warily.

The doctor is in.


...wait. That's not right. He's got a stethoscope, a big orange jacket with "Doctor" on it and an alarming lack of weaponry. Definitely not right.


There will be a time for most of the above later. Now calls for something more potent than wine.


[OOC: Will be around for about half an hour then it's slowtime time. :)]
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-09 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the wine.

That her first thought.

And her second and third and fourth. Because the fact her heart raced a little, at the quiet comment, was not allowed a thought process.

Not allowed a thought. Barely allowed the suppression of swallowing against a faint flush, as she looked at their hands and at his cup.

"I would greatly like some tea then."
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-09 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"I-" She tried not to feel entirely taken aback, confused by such a display of care, which only served to make the earlier weeks memories stronger.

"Yes." There was a short nod, glancing to the rat. "Whatever flavor she thinks would do well tonight."

Marian looked back, having taken the few steps closer without thinking much on them, blue-grey eyes studying his face in an unsure manner.

"Thank you."
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-09 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
She wanted to say it seemed like a tactic, a new way to get at her, after the gifts. But manipulation of simple kindness was not her way.

And, though she was loathe to admit it, between the wine and sickness and strangeness, he did not seem as though he was aiming for manipulation.

"Should I sit?" Marian tried to ask it with a small smile, clinging to her semblance of control. "Or will I stay standing here while I have my tea?"
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-09 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That at least seemed much more confusing to him, so Marian gave her hand a slight tug again to see if perhaps he'd let go.
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-10 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
When she realized her hand really was no longer being viewed exactly as hers, Marian eyed him near a glare. The half drunken stupor and the orange jack and the hair cut apparently was giving him leeway.

And some faith, as she reached out a leg and hooked the bottom bars of the chair with her booted foot, dragging it to her. In a manner most graceful and entirely unladylike.

Settling into her chair, next to his, she tapped his cup with a finger of her other hand. "And just how much have you had to drink?"
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-10 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
"None?" She tilted her head, outlandish amusement catching her features. "You'd like believe that?"
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-15 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Marian tried to be annoyed, but he was so confused and had to think about everything before answering that it made it quite hard to be so.

"Green?" She asked, with a shake of her head. "That's a new one even for here."
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-15 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"You just ordered me tea," she reprimanded, but not without an amused smile. "Should I then drink both? Or are you suggesting I should mix them?"
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-16 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"You are no better than Tom," Marian said with a shake her head and settling into her chair. "Perhaps you will at least tell me it will mix better with my tea? Does it taste good?"
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-17 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
She let the first part pass, thinking it better not to address the whole teaching dark court intrigue thing with him of all people.

Especially since his description stole her attention.

That had sounded......almost poetic.

Her eyes lingered on the bottle, because it was easier than looking at him, though her mind went back to their hands.

"What is it called?"

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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-17 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Between humoring her inebriated fiance and her vague curiosity, when the wait rat returned with her tea and biscuits Marian ordered another bottle, pointing at the one of the table.

It returned somehow much more speedily than her tea had.

"How did you end up trying this? Just request a strange green drink?"
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-18 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Marian frowned at his tolerable comment about the boy, but simply reached out scooping up her tea cup and a bottle. Pouring somewhere between one third and one half of a cup, she set the bottle back down.

Bringing it to her lips she took a small sip before adding the tea.

One had to be purist about these things.

At least trying it once for itself.
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[personal profile] queenofmay 2007-11-21 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Narration agrees, but Marian is not very fussy about her tea cups or most social norms people trying to convince her of.

She looked back up. "It's not bad. It's better than the scotch or whiskey I've seen since finding this place. It's more...delicate."

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