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Tweak says, "My mind is on vacation"

Juniper Golding (juniper_golding) wrote in labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-04-15 10:17:00

Entry tags:

complete, day six, edward cullen, juniper golding

WHO: Juniper and Edward
WHEN: Day six, early evening
WHAT: More fighting, probably, since they weren't done
WHERE: The woods
RATING: R-ish
STATUS: Complete

Juniper was pissed. In almost every sense of the word. She was angry, no livid at Edward, both for feeling that he had the right to be angry with her for an errant thought, and for the fact that she now sported ten finger-shaped bruises on each arm. She was angry with herself for even having the thought to begin with, because really, it was ridiculous at best, suicidal at worst. And she was drunk. Drunkity-drunk-drunk. The one good thing about the Ren Faire, Juniper had discovered, once she realised that she was locked out of her room, not having remembered to grab her key as she'd stormed out, was that they had some truly wonderful wine. And she'd sampled more than her fair share of it.

And so now, drunk and wet in the dark, and locked out of her room, Juniper was wandering. She wasn't really looking for Edward, but when she heard his mind nearby, her anger redoubled. He was such a twat. She didn't want to see him, but at the same time, she wasn't really done yelling at him yet. Maybe she'd get eaten by a bear or something on her way over there.

No such luck. Standing at the base of the tree Edward was hiding in, Juniper glared up at the dark, unable to see her boyfriend, but knowing he was there anyway. "You're an asshole!" she hollered at him, and then took another swig off the bottle she carried. "If you don't want me, just fucking say it, because I'm not stupid enough to think that this is just about a bloody thought!"

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juniper_golding
2009-04-15 07:39 pm UTC (link)

"I'll have to have you have a listen to these Egyptian tapes a friend made for me," she said with a decided nod. "I think you'd like them." Juniper was so happy that they had more in common than their apparently inability to keep their hands off of each other.

After he was done smelling her hair, Juniper sat up and pulled off her sweater, laying back down in the tank top she'd had on underneath it, getting comfortable and kicking her trainers off and over the edge of the bed.

"I don't have a middle name. Uh...I have a weakness for biscuits - cookies," she corrected with a little laugh. "My dreams..." she hummed, running her fingers along Edward's arm lazily. "Silly little things like climbing Everest or diving to the Titanic. I want to make enough money to build Marsha and Niall a house out on his land..." She bit her lip for a moment and then grinned. "I want to know what a vampire's lair looks like..." she teased, flashing her eyes at him.

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edwcull
2009-04-15 07:49 pm UTC (link)

Edward laughed at her last statement. "You've seen what a vampire's lair looks like!" He reminded her and rolled over to prop himself up on his side. "That big house with all the windows, that's my family's home." Then he had a thought and slid off the bed. "But perhaps you were referring to something else? Put your shoes back on. We're taking a short trip."

Edward was too impatient to wait suddenly and started putting the shoes on her feet for her and then scooped her up off the bed and draped her over his shoulder. He was too impatient to move at a human's pace but didn't go at the breakneck speeds he usually chose.

When he finally set her down it was outside another dorm room. He pulled out the key and unlocked the door before pushing the door open for her to go inside. "One vampire lair."

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juniper_golding
2009-04-15 07:54 pm UTC (link)

"But I want to be there," Juniper mock whined, pushing her bottom lip out to a comical degree and fluttering her eyelashes at him. "Tell me you'll take me home some day," she begged.

Juniper tried to go as fast as he wanted her to, but with one hand and sore arms, it just wasn't going to happen. She squeaked when she was thrown over his shoulder, and got out a "But my jumper!" before the wind was knocked out of her.

She clung to him for a second, getting her balance back, and then looked up with a little grin. "No dead bodies, right?" she teased, before skipping into his dorm room and turning a full three-hundred and sixty degrees, checking it out. And when she looked back at him, she looked disappointed.

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edwcull
2009-04-15 08:01 pm UTC (link)

"Jareth willing," he promised with a smirk.

He couldn't help but laugh at her expression. "What were you expecting? Coffins and skeletons in the corner?" He shook his head and went and took a seat at the baby grand that was taking place of a bed in the tiny room. "I haven't exactly been here since I've been spending all my time with you, but I think for now, it will do."

He let his fingers brush lightly across the keys before finally just starting to play. The melody twisted and changed and grew more complicated with every note and then would slow down and become more simple and somewhat sad.

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juniper_golding
2009-04-15 08:06 pm UTC (link)

"No. I'm in a tank top and wet jeans. This wasn't how I'd pictured this going," she admitted with a shrug, shaking her head at him. "And it's been a blast hasn't it?" she asked, rolling her eyes at him.

When Edward started to play, Juniper leaned against the piano and watched him, getting lost in both the beauty of the music and the beauty of the musician. She sighed a bit and closed her eyes, just listening, not letting herself get distracted by how lovingly Edward stroked the keys, or how at home he looked sitting in front of them.

She didn't realise it, but tears were making slow tracks down her cheeks.

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edwcull
2009-04-15 08:11 pm UTC (link)

Edward glanced up when he smelled the scent of her tears, having now become fairly familiar with it, and feeling terrible for that. He moved over to where she stood and wrapped his arms around her, his mind awash with concern.

"Juniper? What's wrong love? Did you hurt yourself?" He began checking her over in a very mother-hen sort of way and then for the first time saw the bruises he left on her arms and froze. His face contorted into a painful grimace and he looked away for a moment, feeling very much a monster, before looking back at her , concern once more in place, to find the root of the problem.

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juniper_golding
2009-04-15 08:18 pm UTC (link)

Juniper's eyes opened when she heard the music stop, and laughed lightly at his questions before he looked away. Bringing his face back to hers, Juniper went up on her toes to kiss him softly.

"I'm fine...brilliant, as a matter of fact. That was beautiful, Edward," she smiled, brushing away her own tears. "They were happy tears. Moved tears. And maybe a little bit sad," she admitted, but she was still smiling. "Marsha would hear you play once and there wouldn't be a force on earth great enough to make her give you up," she praised, turning up a corner of his mouth with one finger. "Smile. Stop worrying."

Then she took his hand and laid it over the bruises on one of her arms, knowing how bad he felt about that. "You know what this is?" she asked, looking up at him. "This is you, loving me so much, that you'd even protect me from myself."

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edwcull
2009-04-15 08:27 pm UTC (link)

Edward tried, he honestly did, to smile but the muscles of his face fought their way down into an expression of sadness. His fingers stayed light, and very gentle against her, still keeping a good contact, but the force behind it was as tender as if he were holding spun glass. He looked up at her sadly and moved in for a kiss, thinking that if he had to look like this the least he could do was distract her from having to watch his suffering since he knew it hurt her so badly.

He blocked his mind, but not before one errant thought escaped. No, this is me not being strong enough to keep you safe, even from myself.

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juniper_golding
2009-04-15 09:41 pm UTC (link)

JUNIPER: Juniper jerked her head away from his intended kiss and looked up at Edward like he'd stabbed her. "Please, please don't start that again," she begged, clutching at the front of his shirt with her good hand.

"Please, Edward, I can't take it." Those happy tears were gone now, and terrified ones took their place. "Can't we just be happy, at the same time, for ten minutes..." she couldn't even get the rest of it out, Juniper just crumbled against Edward's chest, clinging to him desperately, convinced that he was going to up and leave her again or something.

"Stop feeling so guilty about everything...Just love me. Start from now, fresh and clean. Just love me!"

EDWARD: "Shhhhh," Edward pressed a finger to her lips and smiled at her gently. "Juniper, I'm not going anywhere. Listen I've been very sad and lonely for a very, very long time. It's going to take me a while to get out of the practice of it. I just feel very helpless around you sometimes. I wonder if this isn't what it feels like to be human? To be so drastically out of control."

He kissed her then to sooth her and then brought her over to the piano bench and sat her down beside him. He started playing again, this time the tune was just for her. A tune he'd been composing piece by piece over the last few days. It was passionate at times but also very sad on occasion but mostly very sweet.

JUNIPER: Juniper wiped her face off with the back of her hand and sighed. "Well the first thing you've to do is stop scaring me like that," she demanded, and was pretty tempted to stomp her foot to prove the point, though she resisted. Taking a couple of cleansing breaths, Juniper let him kiss away her worries and then sighed. "I think this is what it's like to be in love, actually," she said with a little laugh. Helpless and intensely passionate. Sounded about right.

Sitting with him, Juniper leaned lightly against Edward's shoulder and listened to the song, closing her eyes again and hoping that this time her tears stayed in check. At least this time, there were fewer of them to be worried about, and she batted them away quickly. "That was beautiful," she said quietly, but shook her head. "I don't recognize it."

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edwcull
2009-04-16 01:44 pm UTC (link)

Her correction made him smile. He hated to admit it, but she was right. He supposed all men in love felt this way whether it was for the first time or the fiftieth. He knew for a fact that even his brothers and Carlisle felt that way on occassion in relation to their respective wives. Emmett was typically better at faking it most of the time, but it happened and the bonds of brotherhood prevented either Edward or Jasper from spilling his secret.

"You inspired that one." Edward let the song melt into a new tune, this one more contemporary and one of Edward's favorites. He let his fingers play over the keys with familiarity and then changed from that into something upbeat and jazzy. He smiled at her playfully. "Didn't you say that you played?" He batted his eyes innocently.

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juniper_golding
2009-04-16 01:49 pm UTC (link)

Juniper turned into a pile of goo at his admission. "You...are the most wonderful man in the universe," she sighed, cupping his face with her hand and kissing him soundly. How annoying, his fingers didn't skip a note. He was too good at everything.

She bopped a little at the change in tune, and then laughed. "Oh that face..." she complained, rolling her eyes. "I play a very little," she admitted, and that was sort of an understatement. "I'm better at singing."

But still, she bumped his hip with her own and then lifted her right hand to the keys before making a face at the brace and broken knuckles and trying with her left hand instead. And given that she was playing the top hand of Heart and Soul it was a miracle she managed to do it at all. "There. The one song I know, and I only know half of it," she laughed, once she was done.

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edwcull
2009-04-16 02:00 pm UTC (link)

Edward pulled her into his lap, cleared his throat and then took her good hand in his. He laid his fingers over her own and started slowly picking out a simple tune using her fingers to hit the keys. He moved his free hand over the other keys and made it a bit more complex. He smiled down at her and then darted down to press a kiss on her cheek. "Oh, I think you play pretty well," he teased. "Even with one hand."

He let his hands slide from the keys eventually and wrapped them around her waist. "This is nice," he commented wanting her to know how much he enjoyed just having her near him. He pressed another kiss to her cheek and then moved down to lay a number of light and ticklish kisses along her neck.

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juniper_golding
2009-04-16 02:09 pm UTC (link)

Settling into his lap, Juniper concentrated on keeping her fingers under his while he lead her in playing. "Oh yeah, I'm a regular Beethoven," she joked, rolling her eyes at him, leaning into the kiss.

Her hands came down from the keys to cover his and Juniper leaned back against his chest, closing her eyes. "Very nice," she breathed, tilting her head to give him better access at her neck and shoulder, giggling softly at his kisses, her skin flushing and her heart rate picking up a little bit. He really was all together too good at everything.

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	edwcull 2009-04-16 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	He pulled away slightly and looked at her somewhat suspiciously. "Very nice indeed, but I'm thinking I've forgotten something important. When was the last time you ate something? And I don't mean the wine you went a little crazy with?" He could laugh at the memory now, though at the time she'd had him scared out of his mind. 'Slightly melodramatic' indeed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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