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Tweak says, "Better than Confucius"

Nicholas Joseph Fury (furious_nick) wrote in oh_marvelous,
@ 2016-06-13 00:18:00

Fake Marrieds
Taken from Here.

You're pretending to be married to someone for some reason. To get a job? An inheritance? As super secret spies? Maybe you're secretly in love or maybe you hate their guts, either way you've got to make it work to get what you want.

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spiderwomanout
2016-06-21 12:39 am UTC (link)

"I'll take care of that," she insisted, mostly to save face. Jessica hadn't thought it through, not completely. She might've gotten too distracted by cake photos. Even still, she had to be sure Danny would be on board first. Eventually, Jessica sat down beside him, considering their options. "There are people on planes," she grimaced, imagining the worst possible scenario. Inconsiderate passengers, snotty children. People ruined good things.

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	shaolaoscion 2016-06-21 12:44 am UTC (link)
	"Five people including us," he said, mildly confused. Sure, it was a private jet, but there had to be someone to fly. And there was always an attendant. "You, me, the pilot and co pilot, and a flight attendant. I mean, we can do without the attendant if you want. The pilots don't come out of the cockpit much." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

spiderwomanout
2016-06-21 01:20 am UTC (link)

Her eyebrow arched, Jessica pinched her mouth together and shot him a look. "Of course you'd have your own plane," she dryly remarked. Daniel Rand. Disgustingly rich. Right. "That's settled then. All that's left now is preparation. I've already signed us up," she confessed with a coolness that you probably wouldn't expect from someone willing to fake a marriage for a food seminar. "We could leave tomorrow."

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	shaolaoscion 2016-06-21 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	"Company plane," he said reproachfully at her expression, because he felt like he had to defend himself here. Sure, it wasn't any better that he was going to take a company jet to wedding cake tasting, the point stood that it wasn't technically his plane. "I'm at your beck and call," he shrugged and then added with the quirk of an eyebrow, "Snookums." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	spiderwomanout 2016-06-21 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	Jessica was leaning against the armrest, staring blankly from the corners of her eyes while cynicism played on the slight tilt of her lips. "I'd reconsider the pet name if I were you," she threatened, reaching in one fluid movement for the half-eaten marriage proposal. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

shaolaoscion
2016-06-25 05:40 am UTC (link)

Kung Fu reflexes barely saved his sandwich from her grasp and he leaned way back and held it out of her reach. "Sugar lips? Candy pants? Pookie? Honey bunny? Itsy Bitsy Spider?" He managed another bite of his sandwich then rolled back off the couch before he got a punch or, worse, a blast of venom to the face. Laughing, he grabbed his phone and went into another room to make arrangements for the plane the next day.

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spiderwomanout
2016-06-25 08:10 am UTC (link)

While Danny went off to do that, Jessica sat back with the remote and flicked through the channels before she went and grabbed his laptop. She did a quick hotel search in Rochester and eventually booked a room at the Marriott. It was a bit out of her price range, but since Danny had so kindly accepted her rash proposal, she figured the least she could do was keep him out of a Motel 6. She gave him the check in details and explained some of the seminar itinerary, "I don't know, Daniel, cake," and sat with him for another hour or so before she left to run the rest of her errands.

The next morning she came back to his place and the pair drove to the airport. She was more than relieved to be riding on a private jet; less people, less chatter. Danny was chatty, of course, but at least she knew that about him before "marrying" him. Within an hour or so, the couple arrived in Rochester. They checked into their hotel later that morning; once they reached their room, Jessica almost immediately dropped her bags and crawled into bed. The seminar didn't begin for another few hours and she would need the energy for it. They had a long day of cake tasting ahead of them.

"What?" Jessica fixed her narrowed stare at the man working the registration booth as he explained to her that there was a baking seminar, but it was apart of a special raffle promoted on the website. By signing up for "The Bliss Relationship Seminar", they were automatically entered into the raffle and could potentially win tickets to the baking course. There would be no cake here.

"Mrs. Randrew--"

"Rand-Drew," she corrected tensely, feeling a heat rising in her cheeks as the look on her face grew more severe. She'd made a mistake and signed them up for couple's counseling. Fan-bloody-tastic. The volunteer gingerly handed her their name tags and smiled apologetically before calling up the next couple. Jessica took Danny's wrist and pulled him out of line with her. "We're leaving."

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shaolaoscion
2016-06-28 11:30 pm UTC (link)

This was fantastic. Danny was trying his damnedest not to grin (and failing spectacularly). It was rare that he got to lord anything over Jessica Drew. She met most boasts and teasing with long suffering surliness; a witty repartee here, a withering eye roll there. That was just how she operated, and Danny had long since come to accept that the real bedrock of their friendship was a connection over shared childhood trauma and that generally she simply tolerated him. Which, really, he figured was a compliment as far as she was concerned. But for once he had the upper hand and it was not an opportunity he would let go to waste. "We are not," he answered, and happily peeled his sticker name-tag and slapped it onto his chest. Daniel Randrew was ready for his marriage seminar.

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	spiderwomanout 2016-06-28 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	Jessica Rand-Drew was not. She blinked, pausing mid-escape. She still held onto his wrist, giving it an impatient tug, a pleading attempt, before a dumbfounded look flashed across her face, and a sharp, soundless gasp caught in her throat. The gleeful look in his eye made her predicament all the more real and harrowing. "Oh god, you're serious." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shaolaoscion 2016-06-29 12:30 am UTC (link)
	"Absolutely," he grinned and headed for the open doors into the meeting room where the seminar was being held, giving her no choice but to trail along behind as long as she had a grasp on his wrist. "We came all the way up here," he pointed out. "You wanted to come, we're not backing out." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

spiderwomanout
2016-06-29 01:45 am UTC (link)

"But there's no cake," she quietly lamented, rooting her weight to the ground, one futile attempt at stopping Danny before they passed the doors. Worse than not getting her way was begging for it, and frankly Jessica would blast her own face off before she gave Danny the satisfaction. He already seemed quite happy with himself, and glared into the back of his head as she grudgingly followed him to rows of chairs. It was a very eclectic group that filled up the room, and yet somehow, no matter how vastly different some people looked next to their significant other, they still complemented each other in some way. Jessica and Danny, with the sunny grin on his face and the dark scowl on hers, still must've looked like complete opposites. She claimed an end chair before he could (easier to escape if she had to, and she had a feeling she would), and sat down, feeling quite betrayed, lip pushed out and her arms crossed.

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shaolaoscion
2016-07-03 11:34 pm UTC (link)

Danny was happy to exchange smiles with anyone who caught his eye, and he thought the crowd was interesting. He draped an arm over Jessica's shoulder when they sat down, with a sidelong glance for what he was sure would be a murderous reaction. He wore a feigned innocent expression and returned to watching the other couples. It turned out to be a relatively small group, and Danny wasn't sure if that was by accident or design. What it meant for he and Jess though, was a more hands on approach than they'd expected once the first of seven seminars got under way. The first, Bliss 1: The Worst Marriage Advice in the World, began with a few speakers discussing the different "rules" couples follow when they're dating and married, and at the end of a third speaker's presentation he began going around the room and asking couples for examples of things they did differently now that they were married.

It was difficult for Danny to keep a straight face when he gave his answer after a show of pensive thought. "I don't really do enough to keep the romance alive." When the speaker asked him to elaborate he shot a sidelong look at Jessica and said, "We're so comfortable with each other so now it's not a big deal to me to pass gas around her or come in and plop down on the toilet while she's trying to do her makeup in the morning. She's my queen, and she deserves better." He hung his head in apparent embarrassment to hide a smile. The man only seemed slightly nonplussed, agreed how important it was to take steps to keep a spark alive by maintaining some mystery and boundaries. Then he turned and posed his question to Jessica, holding out his microphone to her while Danny watched her expectantly.

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spiderwomanout
2016-07-04 07:47 pm UTC (link)

She'd hardly listened to anything the speakers were saying, instead, turning over in her mind the thousand ways she could kill her 'husband'. It was probably the worst advice anyone could give here, but god, did it put her in a state of bliss. Even before the seminar began, she'd had to hide her homicidal daydreams, expertly tucked away now behind an attentive smile and relaxed shoulders, even though the thought of having to share anything at all with these strangers made her skin crawl. By the time Danny finished speaking--she'd managed to keep her resentment well repressed to laugh lovingly, oh you--Jessica was well prepared to take her turn in this silly game. As if she needed some time to think about it, she let her eyes wander and sighed thoughtfully.

"I suppose I'm not as affectionate as I used to be," she answered, "It's like, I've got him now, so I don't have to put in as much effort anymore to show him that I love him back. I don't need to send him a cute message or say 'I love you' everyday after I wake up and before I go to bed because it's something he should already know. I see I've taken him for granted." She sounded apologetic at the realization. "But the truth is, I love him so much I could smother him." Jessica's eyes were fixed on Danny's, a fond grin on her face, though only he would see the murderous glint in her eyes. "Squeeze him until his head pops off, really. It's that smile of his that does it, charming isn't it?" After the laughs (and affirmations) around the room faded away, Jessica continued, flicking her gaze toward the speaker. She gave Danny a faintly charged ~~warning~~ pat on the knee. "What I feel for him is electrifying." And all you have to do is show it in a way that matters, the speaker encouraged, (Jessica sat back in her seat and smirked), which led them into Bliss 2: Love Rules.

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shaolaoscion
2016-07-23 04:53 pm UTC (link)

To his credit, Danny absorbed the energy of her shock pretty well with only a slight grimace that did not supplant his stupid grin. As the seminar continued they were handed sheets outlining the the "Rules of Love" with encouragement for participants to write their own notes and addendum then go around the room reading them out loud. Danny's were sufficiently preposterous but he did an excellent job of selling them, and while the speaker scrambled to coincide Danny's apparent views with the seminars message before he moved on to Jessica, Danny leaned in to whisper, "Come on, it's a little fun.." He was doing his best to make the best of a mistake; it didn't have to be a terrible time. Plus there was the added bonus that if they stuck it out, there was still the cake class certificate (which he reminded her of as the speaker turned to her for her take on Love Rules).

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