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Callum McCullough (lycanthropical) wrote in cirque_rp,
@ 2017-11-06 22:27:00

Who: Callum and Catherine
What: London excursion
When: October 24th, after lunch
Where: The London Eye, etc

"I've wanted to come up here since I heard about it. But I never made it back to London until now." He scoffed gently, "who knows when we'll be back." He wrinkled his nose, "I never really had a reason to come back, yeah? Always struck me as sort of a romantic kind of city, you know?" He looked to Catherine for a brief moment and then leaned more into the railing as he glanced out over the Thames and rooftops, below.

"Romantic ideas and romantic notions, 's'why I wanted to run away to it, I guess." He worried his bottom lip with his teeth, "dunno why I never came back." He shrugged, "probably would've never left Scotland again, if I'd not been bitten. Hm.. Anyway," he straightened up again, "thank you for coming with me. I hear it's even more breathtaking at night, 'specially around the holidays-- though, I don't know if it's considered that, yet, or not." he offered a small smile back to Catherine, "but I know you lead a much busier life than I do, so..."

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oracleofdelphi
2017-11-07 05:22 am UTC (link)

Catherine had enjoyed their lunch together then going out to do the tourist thing. She hadn't really expected they'd go for the London Eye after Callum's excursion with Connor but here they were. She settled against him with a faint, amused smile, "London's romantic? Never seemed that way to me." But then, she could see all the old things, all the blood soaked into the ground. She got flashes of it now and then when she wasn't expecting it. Not on the Eye, though.

"Did you know, you've taken me to the one place in London where no one's ever died?" She ran her hands over the rail as she watched the city below. There were happy memories here - fancy meals and weddings. But she pulled her hands away and put her gloves back on anyway. "Well, I've always known you're a bit of a hopeless romantic - part of why I love you so much. One of us has to be good at that sort of thing," Cat smiled but then added almost ominously, "You would've left eventually. You always would." She would not comment on her busy life.

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lycanthropical
2017-11-07 05:46 am UTC (link)

Food was always a good thing. Callum loved food. He'd let Catherine pick, though, of course, not without much bouncing back and forth rather indecisevely on both of their parts. And why wouldn't Callum bring her back to the London Eye? it was a lovely place. The Ferris Wheel was his favorite place to think at the Cirque... why wouldn't he love The London Eye?

He sighed, "I don't know.. It was big, it was pretty.. it was in the movies. Full of fucking life and music, drugs, alcohol, and it wasn't home. It was scary and exciting all at once. Stupid, I know," he smiled softly, blue eyes watching Catherine run her hands over the rail. "No," he shook his head, "'s'that a good thing or a bad thing?" He bit at his lip again and looked back out toward the city, "if I could've planned it all right, I think I would've like to bring you someplace nice like this to ask you to marry me." He nodded, thinking quietly.

He scrunched up his nose, "I dunno. Pretty sure I was supposed to just live out my days in Edinburgh as an old miser, visiting museums and making my art, working in construction, and ending my day at a local pub. Boring as fuck."

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oracleofdelphi
2017-11-07 09:24 pm UTC (link)

And of course, she'd wanted to go to a pub - a proper pub because you just couldn't get that in America. It was comfort food and they both knew it. Then it had been off to the Eye. "No, it's not stupid," Catherine argued with a frown, "I just never had that sort of thing. After we moved to Los Angeles, I had this big city - Hollywood... And all I wanted to do was go home."

She smiled up at him, beaming slightly, "Oh, fantastic. I'm very happy to be somewhere where my brain isn't going to be ripped apart by a horrible death." There wasn't any hint of sarcasm. She was very glad to be with him. He was too tall for her to put her head on his shoulder so she rested against his arm, "I like the way you asked. Made it more personal. The planned moments never go right."

Catherine ducked her head slightly just to hide her hint of a smile, "No, you weren't. Well, it was an option but you had other options - so many. A million, trillion branches of options. Fate isn't as simple as people think it is." Except for her. There was a brick wall in her future.

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lycanthropical
2017-11-08 05:01 am UTC (link)

Proper pubs were the best pubs, so Callum had no reason to argue with Catherine about where she'd chosen to have dinner. Pretty much everywhere they went, he could find something that he liked. You know, for the most part.

He wrinkled his nose, "I just wanted to get away from home..." Away from his dad. "Hollywood was too far away. London was just a train ride away. My friends were all older and they were coming here, so I did too. It was a fucking incredible place. I just had no money. And I was stupid."

He looked over at Catherine with a smile, "your brain had better never be ripped apart by a horrible death, yeah?" He leaned in and snuggled more against Catherine when she rested her head against his arm.

"It was a bit embarrassing," he teased with a soft smile as he glanced down toward her, "but you know I'd been wanting to ask you long before that... I just.. it was never the right time. And then.." he shrugged gently, "then, it just sort of.. I dunno. Came out." And Catherine was right. Planned moments rarely went accordingly.

He sighed, "I fuckin' hope not.. I wasn't doing anything there... I went to work, I drank, and I came home.. At least now when I do that, it's in different places, and it's with you."

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oracleofdelphi
2017-11-09 06:34 am UTC (link)

"You're too cute," Catherine commented with a grin. She would really never see London in the way he did. She'd worked in the city but it wasn't really some Wonderland. She could see why it was for him though - with his friends and his music and his vices. But that was done with and now they travelled the world. It was far better.

"Trying not, promise, though I can't say how long it'll work considering that missing dancer," Catherine frowned. They would want to get her involved sooner or later. Hopefully, she could avoid it but she was practically their Sherlock Holmes anymore. She pinched the bridge of her nose. Ugh.

She really rather preferred talking about their brief engagement. "Aye, I do know. And then there were Frootloops. Bit of a strange after second asking meal but what can I say? Best Frootloops ever." She would forever have a fondness for that silly cereal. But Catherine just smiled at him as he went on like she knew something more, something she wasn't saying. Then again, she always did. It was part of her gifts.

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