Annabelle Keely (nottinkerbell) wrote in st_margarets, @ 2014-03-16 01:13:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: annabelle keely, character: felix de luca, location: kitsune dorm |
WHO: Anna and Felix
WHEN: Some time after this, March 9th. [Backdated]
WHERE: Outside Kitsune House
The weather was lovely, and Anna was making the most of the fact that there was actual sunlight, feeling the rays kissing her skin as she sat outside of her house underneath the blazing phoenix mural that emblazoned one of the walls. She had a book in front of her, several others scattered around and she had an assortment of things in front of her. She knew that she could cast glamours as she did them on herself without thinking, but she was eager to try and learn to use that ability somewhere else, on something else.
She also had a plant next to her. One of the other students had been sent the azalia by their parents but they’d taken very poor care of it, and now it was pretty much dead, having barely survived the winter months. Anna had a gift with plants, she’d offered to nurture it, so she had that beside her as well, and it was soaking up the sun. Every now and then she let her fingers brush over the plant and it responded by leaning into her touch, the base slowly turning from brown to green a little more with each brush of her hand.
She had on a pair of fitted jeans that flared out at the bottom a little bit and a pair of flat sandals that criss-crossed over her feet. Her toenails were painted a dark blue which matched the colour of her vest-top that clung to her curves and was flattering enough. A leather thong hung around her neck, on the end of which was attached a few feathers that looked frayed, like she’d had it a long time.
Normally, she wouldn’t be studying on a day this beautiful, but this was the kind of study she didn’t hate. Her hand moved over the empty teacup in front of her, wanting to try and make it look different, but nothing was happening. With a frown, she flipped a couple of pages on the book, trying to figure out what she’d done wrong when a shadow fell over her.
She looked up, shielding her eyes with one hand, woven bracelets falling down her forearm slightly, not able to see the figure as the sun was directly behind him so she couldn’t make out any features.
“Hey,” she greeted with a smile because this person, whoever it was, had to be lost. They wouldn’t be a serial killer or anything, because it was the middle of the day and it was so sunny. Too nice weather to be axe murdered.
Felix had pretty much decided that if all of this went pear shaped then he was definitely blaming TJ as if his friend could be held responsible for his apparent inept behaviour, but the devil was in the details or that’s what they said anyways. Spotting Anna didn’t prove difficult. Approaching her however proved awkward as fuck, especially as Felix made a move and then hesitated because really she’d just remember him as the drunk idiot that had pretty much rambled about anything and everything on his mind at the time.
Oh for fuck’s sake.
Felix finally approached, hands in his pockets and small smile on his face. “Uh, hi,” he began, the accent a bit crisper and a bit clearer now his words weren’t so slurred. “You may not remember me but I’m the drunk idiot you helped back to his room the other night.”
Anna’s face broke out into a grin when Felix introduced himself - again - but this time he wasn’t drunk and that was a lot better, in her mind. His accent was hotter, now, instead of being kind of cute. She shifted where she was sitting, crossing her legs and patting the floor near her, indicating he could sit down if he wanted. It was nice to see him walking in a straight line and not collapsing on top of her.
“I remember you,” she said with a nod of her head, tucking her hair behind a pointed ear, skin shining slightly in the sunlight. It really was a beautiful day. “I wasn’t sure you’d remember me, though, considering.”
She tapped the ground again. “Seriously, sit.”
Felix accepted her offer and settled beside her, curling his long limbs beneath himself before he just gave a small grimace followed by a husky laugh. “Yeah, can’t say I blame you for thinking that. I was completely and utterly trollied when you found me.” He ducked his head, ran his fingers through his head and then stole a look from beneath his lashes. “I have the unfortunate or in your case the fortunate habit of being able to remember pretty much everything that happens when I’m drunk.”
And then he realised that could come across as big headed and he hurriedly explained.
“What I was trying to say is that I couldn’t forget you. I mean how often is it that a pretty girl helps out a drunken idiot when others might have just walked right on by?”
“I don’t know… I think it’s pretty unfortunate for you if you remember everything that happens when you’ve had a bit to drink,” Anna pointed out, no longer needing to shield her eyes from the sun once Felix was on her level. Her eyes flicked up as he pushed his fingers through his hair and allowed herself a small moment to just look because, yeah, okay, now he was sober it wasn’t so bad to just look at him for a bit. He was nice to look at. “If you’d not remembered anything, I’d have happily pretended this was our first proper meeting,” she teased.
It was cute how he sort of got himself a bit turned around. “I don’t-” she ducked her head when he called her pretty and mentioned not being able to forget her. She knew he probably didn’t mean it in that sense, but still. It caused a flush of colour to spread over her cheeks. “I don’t think you’d have just been left there. Besides, it was cold. What kind of person would just leave you out there to freeze?” She just smiled at him and tucked her hair behind her delicately pointed ear as it had slipped forward.
“I clearly should have played dumb,” Felix offered with a chuckle before he just toyed restlessly with the grass beneath him, fingers grazing the ends before he just released them from his grip. “Rather relieved I at least had clothes on..” During that whole Wendigo thing he’d been wandering around half dressed and bare footed, it had been a very strange time, but nobody really knew anything about that. “I mean not that I’m in the habit of stripping when I get drunk, but the last time I went wandering in the forest I wasn’t exactly dressed for the weather.”
He glanced up in time to watch the way she slipped her hair behind a slightly pointed ear, he’d noticed them when he was drunk, but thankfully hadn’t asked her about them because apparently he had just settled for embarrassing himself rather than being rude or insulting.
“But I’m not always like that.”
Anna laughed when Felix babbled a little bit about stripping and being half naked. “I don’t know, I don’t think I would have complained if you’d been half naked. You’d have been fucking freezing, though.” She smiled at him, looking at him through her lashes before she brushed her fingers over the wilted plant beside her. It perked up again briefly, trying to do what she was asking of it desperately but it was struggling. Her attention turned to it briefly, a slight downward turn to her lips before she looked at him again.
“Not always drunk? I’d hope not,” she commented softly, “Or not always fully clothed?” she finished with a slight upcurl of her mouth, a teasing sparkle in her eye.
Felix looked a little taken aback by her remark but soon gave a slow smile, the press of teeth evident against his lower lip. Just as he was about to say something in return he noticed the way in which she touched the flower and it responded to her. Not that it was surprising that she had powers because everybody who came to this school was special one way or another.
“Well I’ll be honest with you,” Felix began. “I’m more not always fully clothed than the other so you never know the next time you happen across me I might be bereft of some other form of dignity.”
“Some other form of dignity?” Anna laughed softly, drawing her hand away from the flower to push her hair back again. It was rebellious at best, and frustrating at most, never wanting to do what she told it to. She looked up at him again through her lashes, he was different sober. More… reserved, perhaps? A little more awkward, maybe. She couldn’t quite put her finger on it but then it was possible that he was just feeling embarrassed at the events of the other night.
He was being self-effacing enough about it, after all.
Anna shifted from where she was sitting so that she was on her hands and knees, moving closer to Felix, resting one hand on his knee for balance. Their faces weren’t that far apart. “Seriously, it’s okay. Bad first impressions happen. I’m not holding it against you, so just relax, alright?” Her lips curled up into a warm smile, “And, for the record, if you could arrange for half-nakedness next time I find you drunk on the school grounds, that would be great.”
Embarrassed was definitely a word for how Felix was feeling, especially as he wasn’t in the habit of making a complete arse out of himself. Normally he kept that sort of thing pretty contained. To himself and a few close friends he trusted. Mostly Felix was feeling like he was on the backfoot far as their encounter had gone because it wasn’t like she had made a total arse out of herself.
Of course when he was about to answer her she was suddenly in his space and Felix blinked surprisingly light eyes at her, a honey shade of brown instead of something darker as they had been on that night. He offered an awkward kind of smile before he pushed a breath out, dimple forming in a cheek as that smile turned more genuine and relaxed.
“I’ll have to remember that the next time I’m trying to decide what to wear.”
Anna let out a laugh that was sort of approaching a giggle before she impulsively leaned forward and bumped their noses together. She grinned at him and then retreated with a final squeeze to his knee “Good. I’m glad you’ll take it under advisement.” She winked and sat back on her feet, fingers brushing over the plant again. It needed to listen to her, she wasn’t about to give up on it but it had given up on itself. She wasn’t giving it back to its owner. She’d keep it in her room and protect it, she’d already decided.
The change in Felix’s eyes hadn’t gone unnoticed and Anna tilted her head a little at him, he seemed lighter than normal and she did find herself casting her eyes around as if she were expecting to see the creepy little thing that had been upsetting him so much that night.
“If this was your way of trying to apologise, you don’t need to. Sometimes it’s nice to meet people when they’re drunk first off. Get a better feel for them,” she teased with a slight wiggle of her eyebrows, “Though sometimes they fall on you.”
That creepy little thing took to staying out of the light as if afraid of it. Something Felix was grateful for, especially as it meant he got some peace. He was however going to write home, maybe ask his dad for some help seeing as he needed some sort of charm to keep himself safe. Couldn’t have a repeat of what had happened to send him to the school in the first place.
Anna was strangely affectionate in a way that Felix had only ever known TJ to be, but he always figured that was because he was a wolf so did that mean…?
“One time,” Felix pointed out with a chuckle. “I’ll endeavour not to fall on you again.” He paused and then rubbed a hand through his dark hair. “When I’m sober at least.”
Anna’s eyes tracked up to Felix’s hand when it went through his hair, the urge to push her own fingers through it was still as strong as it had been when he was drunk but at least this time he wasn’t all loose limbed and floppy and looking just- Well. Just.
“You could fall on me sober if you really had to, but I’m not a very good cushion,” she pointed out with an upward curl of her lips again, shifting again so she was sat cross-legged, looking a little impish in her own way. She tilted her head, big eyes focused on Felix. “I’m not really complaining. It’s not every day that a cute boy falls on me. It has to be a first.”
Felix ducked his head as he bit his lower lip at which point he gave Anna a fairly boyish smile. “I don’t know, I seem to remember you being quite comfortable.” He tapped his temple and lifted his shoulders. “I remember everything so you can’t tell me that I’m wrong.”
He pushed a small breath out and went right back to playing with his hair when she called him cute and he figured at least that was something even if he had made a total tit out of himself.
Colour caught on Anna’s cheeks when Felix said that she was comfortable and she let out another soft laugh, the skin of her arms appearing to shine in the light a little, as if she had some glitter stuck to her skin from an unfortunate crafting accident that definitely hadn’t been there a few moments ago.
She held up a hand, “Far be it from me to tell you that you’re wrong, but I’m sure I’d be more comfortable if we weren’t on a staircase and hallway,” she added with a salacious little grin but then she caught herself and looked surprised that she’d said that. She ducked her head - oh dear God why did I say that? - watching Felix play with his hair through her lashes.
Her own fingers curled in the lengths before mimicking his movements and she pushed her hand through her hair, drawing it all over one shoulder. She placed a bookmark in the book she had been reading before Felix had arrived, head turned to watch her actions, though she did look up at Felix again.
“But yes, if you’re going to be drunk outside next time and I find you, please be half-naked.”
Felix arched an eyebrow at the look on Anna’s face and he chuckled softly when Anna caught herself, ducking her head and acting shy which was strange considering how forward she seemed to be about most things. Americans or that’s what TJ would say, Felix, however, was getting the distinct feeling that Anna was just that way.
“Noted,” he said with a nod of his head. “I’ll be sure to do that, the next time I feel like getting drunk outside. I’ll be sure to flash some skin.”
“I’ll bring some dollar bills.” Anna teased, “I don’t think pound coins have quite the same effect, hmm?” She looked at him again with a soft smile and a lift of her shoulders. “So… did you just come out here to apologise for the other night?” she asked, “Or did you have a grander scheme in mind? A non-drunken walk through the woods, perhaps?”
She looked around them, realising that Felix’s attention had been on her the whole time that he had been sat with her which was quite a while, but she’d deduced from their conversation the other night that he was never left alone.
“Yeah, no, I’d imagine they wouldn’t,” Felix remarked with a smirk as he offered Anna a smile. “And I don’t think my underwear could handle all the extra weight.” And the double entendre in that statement eluded him as he realised that for this entire conversation his attention hadn’t drifted once, which was strange for him because he was never alone. Only right now he was exactly that, not one ghost in sight.
Huh, weird.
“Uh… honestly? I hadn’t thought past the apology, but I am open to suggestions.”
Anna wet her lower lip, looking at him carefully before she nodded. “Well, I was just doing some reading, which can always be done another time.” She hesitated, uncharacteristically so, before she just spoke, “So if you wanted to help me put these back in my room, maybe we could go do something? If you wanted to?”
Felix gave a smile and nodded his head. “Yeah, that sounds good.” He rose to his feet and offered Anna his hand, to help her up. It was almost a carbon copy of the drunken night only he was very sober and not likely to struggle with supporting her.
The similarity of the situation and how it was almost exactly mirroring that night wasn’t lost on Anna and it was with a wider smile that she curled her fingers around his and allowed him to pull her up, finishing on her feet in his space, looking up at him with a sparkle in her eyes. “Such a gentleman,” she teased softly, squeezing his fingers, not moving out of his space right away.
Felix smirked and with a playful twist of his wrist he had Anna turning on her foot, “Always.” He soon released her, falling into an easy stride beside her as the two of them wandered in the direction of her room.
Okay so second impression? Not doing too badly.