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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Jul 28, 2009 11:47:12 GMT -5
I led Reese into the house, thankful that we didn't run into my brother on our way to the library. It was bad enough to see Jeanne's scowl at Reese's presence. I couldn't much blame her though, she had been with me through it, she knew how much he had hurt me. On another day I might have listened to her silent rebuke, but it was if I was still in shock from finding him after all these months, in the market in the Doorstep of all places.
But soon enough I was closing the door to the library behind us, shielding us from anyone's eyes but our own.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Jul 30, 2009 15:19:17 GMT -5
I walked apart from Juliette, the stares and the angry looks of some told me how unwanted I was, and I was sure that my name had been on their lips when it concerned their mistress. One in particular gave me a dirty look, and I felt myself even a little embarrassed by it, though I wasn't sure why. Only after thinking about why, did it dawn on me that Juliette was different from the others, she had started out a conquest, something to fill my time, or ruin my life depending on how you looked at it. Now I was being the good little boy and attempting a civil life. I wondered what Gratien would make of it once the rumours began to fly.
When we reached her library and the door clicked behind us, I had to force myself not to pin her against the wall and ravage her mouth with mine. I was afraid if I did though that I would scare her off, that I would cause her to rebuke her thoughts and me in the process. I wasn't sure I could take that. So I kept my arms behind my back and looked at her, my face portraying a myriad of emotions I was sure. Sadness that I couldn't simply have her in that moment, excitement at being alone with her in such an intimate fashion, and the faltering strength of my resolve not to kiss her. "So," I said softly as I looked at her. "What now?"
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Jul 30, 2009 16:02:52 GMT -5
He looked at me, a look of a lost little boy filling his face. Gods, one of so many reasons that I was falling for him.
Wait, was I? I finally admitted to myself that I was.
"We sit in front of the fire, and you tell me of Aragonia," I replied softly, taking his hand and drawing him over to the low couch before the fireplace. I sat and patted the seat beside me.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 2, 2009 0:35:06 GMT -5
I held her hand in mine and walked after her, sitting next to her where she was, a bit nervously if I had any thought in the matter. Looking at her with a soft smile I took a breath and worried my lower lip a little. "Do you want to know how I ended up in Aragonia? Or shall I just skip to the part where I was at court?"
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 2, 2009 0:44:42 GMT -5
My brow furrowed at his words. I knew Reese well enough now to catch him sometimes when there was more to the story. Not often, but sometimes. "What do you mean?" I asked. The way he was worrying his lip scared me a little, he was never this nervous. "I thought you went... I thought you went to get away from me. That sounds terribly conceited."
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 2, 2009 2:00:01 GMT -5
I took a breath. "Well yes." I said smiling at her, glad that at least it shouldn't be too much to tell her. "I got very drunk very often, landed me in the dungeon more then once." I gave her a sheepish smile. "Sabrina came and talked to me, told me to wisen up. I told her I would, and she sent me off to Aragonia."
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 2, 2009 15:28:50 GMT -5
"Very drunk?" I asked, though somehow I didn't think I wanted to know. If he was drunk enough, often enough, to get the Queen's attention, I really didn't want to know. "Never mind. Who else knew you were leaving?"
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 2, 2009 23:02:52 GMT -5
I pursed my lips a little. "I ended up in... a few fights." I said with a little shrug as I looked at her. "And no one really, well Sabrina told Gratien but that was it."
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 2, 2009 23:54:40 GMT -5
I shook my head as if to clear it. That he could leave without so much as mentioning it to anyone else...
"Alright. Tell me about the court in Amilcar then," I said, sliding a little down in my seat so that I lay my head on his shoulder.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 3, 2009 0:37:14 GMT -5
As she leaned into me I slipped my arm around her waist, gently holding her to me as she let her head lean against my shoulder. It was strange, it wasn't a common thing for me, to be intimate in this fashion. "Well, its beautiful." I said honestly. "Very different from here, more yellows and golds, reds like the sun."
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 3, 2009 2:36:00 GMT -5
This was what I wanted from Reese. And I knew that I had to initiate it. He wanted closeness of a different kind, but what I really wanted now more than anything was to be held. And this was perfect. Just to listen to his voice, to be in his arms. Physical intimacy would doubtlessly come later, the fire between us was just too hot to ignore. But I needed other things from him too.
"What are the people like?"
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 3, 2009 21:49:27 GMT -5
"Different." I replied as I thought about the country. "The men are... much more aggressive, and the women much more submissive." I chuckled as I turned my head to look at her. "A bunch of Mandrakes and Valerians." I teased with a little grin. "But nice, I actually made friends believe it or not."
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 3, 2009 22:00:33 GMT -5
"You liked it there then? I always thought I might go there someday," I said. I wanted to ask about the submissive women, whether or not he continued to cut a swathe through them. But doubtless he had, and it wasn't something I wanted to dwell on.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 3, 2009 22:34:54 GMT -5
I took a breath and exhaled slowly, thinking about her question. "Yes, I suppose I did like it there." I said softly. "But only because it was a distraction. I thought about how to behave, how to impress people, instead of..." I cleared my throat at the word I was going to say... you.
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 3, 2009 23:06:36 GMT -5
I looked down, know what he had been about to say and wanting to apologize. But it wouldn't have done any good. "You've never seemed to care about what people thought of you before."
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 3, 2009 23:31:21 GMT -5
I furrowed my brows and looked down at my hand on my knee and shook my head a little before looking back at her. "Yes, I suppose thats true." I said softly and then thought a little, letting silence prevail before I spoke again. "The thing is that when I left, I told Sabrina I wanted to change... I was lieing, but I needed to leave and it seemed the only way she'd let me go. So I said what she needed to hear. And when I was in Aragonia I found out that she had sent a spy along with my entourage to report back on my behaviour. So I had to behave, at least enough to fool her spy." I shrugged a little. "I suppose over time it just became part of me instead of a cover."
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 4, 2009 18:16:18 GMT -5
"What do you mean? How much did you change?" I asked, sitting up so that I could look at his face. It didn't matter that I had asked him if he would be willing to change for me, it was completely different than for him to change for someone else. Even if it was Queen Sabrina.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 7, 2009 22:50:56 GMT -5
I shrugged, feeling unbelievably awkward, but not wanting to stop talking with her. For some bizarre reason I trusted Juliette beyond belief, may hap it was because I knew her deepest darkest secret. I idly reached out and ran a finger over her gloved hand as I thought. "I don't know really, I guess it just became a matter of survial. I had to be a different Reese so that the Queen didn't drag me home." I shrugged again. "I didn't stay out all night drinking, I went to court functions and met with dignitaries." I chuckled. "I worked on my Aragonian." I said with a little grin. I knew I was notoriously unstudious and for the most part it was true. I was no idiot, but I certainly wasn't as fluent as others. My fingers continued to trail back and forth over the fabric of her glove absently as I continued, serious once more. "I studied the heads of state, spoke with the King," I gave her an impressed raised brow. "And even played cards with him one night." I chuckled softly again. "At first I was out drinking despite my early nights, or would sneek out the window to meet with others for gambling." I had also met with women, or snuck women into my room, but I was sure she would assume as much and it didn't need to be said. "But after awhile," I paused, shifting a little. "I just, did it less. It wasn't of interest to me any more, I found myself excited to go to court because there were people there that liked me, that wanted to talk to me. Not like here where they laugh at me behind my back, or point their finger at my ways. There, they accepted me, the new me, the man some where in between leacher and courtier." I turned my face to hers and gave her a bit of a grin at pointing fun at myself. "I guess I did change, sort of become that person, some where between the old Reese, and the "new" Reese." I shrugged once more as I looked at her, squinting the left side of my face awkwardly at how much I has just said in answer to her question.
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 9, 2009 11:53:00 GMT -5
If he hadn't been talking about something obviously so important, his fingers on my gloves would have been incredibly distracting. The touch trailed between the scar tissue and the flesh that had become hypersensitive to feel through the gloves. But every time my mind wandered to the touch, his words and voice pulled me back.
"Do you... like the new Reese?" I asked carefully, wanting to understand. And perhaps not truly believing it.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 9, 2009 23:06:05 GMT -5
My fingers had been toying across her glove when she asked a question I had forced myself not to think about. I stopped mid stroke and unraveled my arm from her and rose, moving toward one of the windows and put my palms out to press to the cold glass as I sighed. "I don't know." I said softly as I stared out into the distance. "I..." I tried to speak, but words seemed to fail me as I thought. "I'm not sure what to tell you Juliette." I said softly. "I'm still Reese, no matter how much I pretended I wasn't in Aragonia. You shouldn't get your hopes up about me, I know we're both just waiting for me to do something wrong. Its bound to happen."
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 9, 2009 23:23:34 GMT -5
I rose slowly and went to him. "Maybe. Perhaps even probably," I replied. I ended up at his back, and wrapped my arms around his torso, my head nestling between his shoulder blades.
"I'm scared Reese," I whispered. "I'm scared that you'll screw up. I'm scared that we'll get angry at one another and never see each other again. Because I know that I'll never forget you. I'm scared that you say you've changed. I thought I understood the old Reese, at least a little. I'm scared that I'll say something even more stupid now. I'm scared that you want in. That you want to strip all my shields away." A tear slipped from my lashes to find the fabric of his shirt, and my body shook a little from a suppressed sob.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 10, 2009 16:06:34 GMT -5
It hurt me more then I wanted to admit when she agreed with me, that she didn't try to tell me otherwise. I supose I had half expected her to do just that, tell me I could be better, give me a bit of confidence, instead her words just stung.
But as she spoke about how she was afraid that I wanted to strip down her shields, I couldn't help but give into a little smile and pushed gently back from the wall, turning in her arms till I was facing her. I wrapped my arms around her and held her back, one hand coming up to cup her face and draw her gaze to mine. My thumb reached up and brushed my thumb over her cheek. "Thats not all I want to strip down." I teased as I leaned forward and kissed her lips gently, fleetingly. "Don't cry Juliette." I murmured against her lips. "I hate when you cry, it breaks my heart."
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 10, 2009 23:21:07 GMT -5
"I'm sorry," I whispered. "It's just this is all so... emotional. And you are still as incorrigible as ever."
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 10, 2009 23:33:38 GMT -5
I smiled and kissed her lips gently. "That part of me will never change." I murmured against her lips, my hand still cupping her face. "You're beautiful Mouse, did you know that."
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 11, 2009 0:31:48 GMT -5
He kissed me, and it eased the tesnion that had built inside of me from my confession. But at his compliment I blushed and shook my head slightly in his hand, looking up into his wonderfully blue eyes.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 11, 2009 0:37:45 GMT -5
My breathing increased a little. "In the fairness of honesty Mouse." I said gently. "I have to tell you that I really want to make love to you right now." Despite my desire to do otherwise, my left hand stayed wrapped around her waist, only my thumb dancing back and forth over her gown.
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 14, 2009 16:30:29 GMT -5
It occurred to me then, in the way thoughts rapidly come and go in your mind, that this could be a ploy to simply get into my skirts. That it was Reese doing what he was infamous for. But I was also aware that if I tried to pull a promise out of him, for this to not come back to bite my rear, for this to be more than just a casual coupling, that it would hurt his feelings. Besides, a promise wasn't what either of us needed right then.
Oh gods, it was all so jumbled.
But I made a decision, cutting through it all to make it simple. "I know," I whispered, and then pulled his lips down to mine and kissed him passionately.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 14, 2009 16:34:57 GMT -5
I thought I had lost my breath when she kissed me, my arms growing stronger against her and pulling her flush to my body. Kissing her in return, I deepened it, adding tongue as I ran a hand up to her hair and cupped her head, letting me kissing her a little harder. My member was growin quickly and I couldn't believe how much I wanted her, how long I had waited for her. Gods be with me! I feared loosing myself in her, because I knew it was happening.
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Post by Juliette L'Envers de Montegue on Aug 15, 2009 1:27:28 GMT -5
Gods, after all these months, to know that we were going to give into our desires... It caused a heady rush to pass through me and I moaned, pressing myself closer to his body and the feel of him hardening through the fabric of our clothes. I rubbed my hips against him. I wanted him so incredibly badly.
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Post by Prince Reese de Somerville on Aug 15, 2009 22:33:18 GMT -5
I lost what ever subtle resistance I had left as I heard the sweet sound of her moan, my hands quickly going to the back of her gown and began to pull at them with speed, pulling up the back of it so that my hand could rest completely on her rear. I began to push her backward as I kissed her, my hand running up and down the soft cleft of her rear till my fingers were able to just brush the hair of her nether lips, and then back up again. I urged us towards the chaise by the fire, knowing that I wanted her badly, but that I wouldn't hurt her by simply taking her roughly in the midst of the floor. That and... for some strange reason I wanted to show her the skill I had, not just at coupling... but making love. I wanted to seduce her and make her unquestionably mine, that all other men would be a disapointment after me.
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