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DOCTOR HORRIBLE! (i_sing) wrote in we_coexist,
@ 2009-02-24 20:44:00

Entry tags:

cupid, doctor horrible, inara serra

Mad Love (Inara; Cupid Challenge)
Billy remembered a pinch on his shoulder. Being the sort of person who could casually drive a spork into his own thigh meant he barely noticed the arrow. Whatever it was, it was unimportant. What consumed the mad scientist's attention was the ebon haired beauty across the way. What was there left to do besides duck for cover.

Billy then spent the next week hiding from his one true love: He wore disguises with fake mustaches, hid in bushes, dove behind railings only to fall down a flight of stairs. There was no way he could make verbal contact with her. He didn't even know her name. She didn't even do laundry.

Currently he sat on a bench at the bus stop, a newspaper was held up high to obfuscate his presence.

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i_dontwhore
2009-02-24 11:43 pm UTC (link)

For the past week, Inara had had the most peculiar, irritating feeling.

The daze that she was in after being asleep? in a coma? for so long didn't help, and she drifted for days, sitting down on a bench to avoid going home only to find the sun setting behind her and her feeling like she'd been there only for a second. Then the feeling began.

It came gradually, creeping up upon her and then making its presence felt like a blow to the chest. It felt like a part of her, part of her heart, was missing and she didn't know where to find it. And the most frustrating thing was, it constantly felt like whatever it was hovered just out of her reach and she couldn't pinpoint it, but it orbited her like a satellite. And never landed.

She spent a week trying to hunt it down, always feeling like she was getting closer and closer only to reach out and grasp at thin air. She was walking, again, the empty space in her heart like a compass, tugging at the tiny hairs on her arms, lighting a path for her feet in neon lights only she could see. She knew it was crazy, but she had to find it!

Him?

Her inner compass needle (the only way she could describe this infuriating, bittersweet feeling) zeroed in, and she settled lightly onto a bench at the bus stop, her hands folded in her lap, trying not to look at the person next to her.

"Why are you hiding?" she asked softly, gazing at her feet.

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i_sing
2009-02-25 11:26 am UTC (link)

"Uh..."

Billy's voice cracked.

"I'm not..."

He kept the newspaper up.

"...hiding."

He blinked. Several times. Billy was clearly uncomfortable being so close to the next true love of his life. The last true love ended up dating his arch nemesis and worse. Clearly romance was not for him. The mad scientist debated the merits of running away then and there. He didn't. Yet.

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i_dontwhore
2009-02-28 07:40 pm UTC (link)

"You are," Inara countered, lacing her fingers together and tapping her fingertips against each other, not wanting to fidget noticeably but unable to hold still - unusual for the normally composed Companion. The whole situation felt unusual to her, but she couldn't pinpoint the source of the odd feeling, rather than the hole in her heart that now seemed nearer than ever to being filled.

"Did you think I wouldn't notice?" she added, her voice soft. He was so skittish, like a wild animal, and she was almost afraid that a rise in her voice or a sudden movement would sent him skittering in the opposite direction. And she couldn't have that. Not when she'd finally found him. "I know you feel it too. The feeling that won't go away... and I felt you watching me."

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