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Zacharias Smith (puffheir) wrote in wished,
@ 2010-09-12 11:14:00

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!2003: 09, !complete, merlin toke, zacharias smith

Who: Zacharias Smith and Merlin Toke.
When: September 12th. Afternoon.
Where: Memorial Alley. Sugarush.
What: A random encounter.
Rating: PG for possible rude words.
Status: Closed/Complete.

After standing in line at Sugarush to get himself a strawberry scone and an Italian soda, Zacharias glanced around to find a seat. It was a lazy sort of Sunday afternoon (which was the best type of Sunday, second only to Sundays that involved Quidditch in some way shape or form) and he had decided that he wanted something sweet. Which was what had brought him to Sugarush.

It was suitably busy, but eventually he got and paid for his selections. With a cool glass in one hand, and a scone-bearing plate in the other, Zacharias glanced around to find a place to sit, since walking and eating was both unclassy and not always easy to do.

He found a table for two near the door, against a window, which as perfect for watching people go by (and silently mocking some of them in his head, as he was want to do).

The blonde former Hufflepuff slid into one of the seats (the one which would have his back to the wall, which he liked) and set down plate and glass. His capable fingers took hold of the straw, using it to swish his drink around before he took a sip, glancing up as the door to the shop opened.

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	oh_merling 2010-09-16 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	"Like you? I don't even know you. You-" stole a kiss from me, pinned me back against a countertop and I don't even know how to handle the memory of that nevermind the things I keep seeing. He didn't say that though because it sounded so wrong out loud. "You don't like me, but you'd still fuck me." he said, but there was a question in that too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

puffheir
2010-09-16 09:08 pm UTC (link)

"Exactly. You don't know me and yet you're already acting as though I'm the worst thing in the world," Zacharias agreed sourly. "Like I'm some sort of ogre who's going to club you over the head and drag you back to my cave." Which he wasn't!

He let out a snort then that was far from elegant. "No. I wouldn't. I have no desire to shag you, at all, right now, frankly." While he had shagged near-strangers in the past, he didn't shag people who insulted him!

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oh_merling
2010-09-16 09:15 pm UTC (link)

Merlin didn't even stop to think about how fucked up this all was that the assertion made him relax, albeit just a little.

He looked down at his shoes and then tucked some hair back behind his ear, lost in thought for a second, thought and half-formed impressions of an incident that hadn't happened yet.

"Maybe it's my fault." he said, blurted out before he could stop himself.

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puffheir
2010-09-16 09:18 pm UTC (link)

Zacharias gave him a rather puzzled look, although he was inclined to agree with him. But since the words were blurted out, he wasn't entirely sure what Merlin was referring to. And given his... slightly odd nature, well, it could be anything.

"What, precisely, is your fault?" he asked him, softening his tone, because Merlin looked rather sad, the way he was examining his shoes.

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oh_merling
2010-09-19 07:10 pm UTC (link)

"The... things that happen between us. If you wouldn't, and you just don't want to... but we DO... then it has to be me. Maybe it's me." he pushed fingers through his hair in an exagerated form of his hair pushing tic.

He didn't need any reason to hate his gift, but if what he was seeing was something that he somehow made Zacharias do, and that it was something to him that he knew he would hate, that terrified him so...

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puffheir
2010-09-19 07:13 pm UTC (link)

"I wouldn't right now," Zacharias replied in a pragmatic sort of way. "That doesn't mean I wouldn't change my mind in the future. Don't blame yourself for things that haven't happened. That must be exhausting." It was tiring him out and he wasn't even the Seer!

"Look," he said, shifting his weight to the other foot and tilting his head to the side. "The problem here is that you don't really know me, at all. And I don't know you." And so it all seemed hard to believe, what might happen in the future.

"Why don't you let me take you out. For dinner. Say.. Sunday evening. We can talk and get to know one another a bit. And you'll see that I'm not entirely scary." When he didn't want to be, which he didn't!

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oh_merling
2010-09-19 08:27 pm UTC (link)

Merlin shrugged because it was rare that he had visions of himself, but less rare that he beat himself up over his inability to actually change what he saw; he did feel guilty for the bad things that happened that he couldn't do anything about.

Zach's suggestion was possibly more frightening than being pinned against the counter and kissed. Date? A date, didn't Zach just hear what Merlin had said, Zach wouldn't want it and he wouldn't want it. It was probably the worst thing he could think of doing but his heart overrode his head and what he said was, "Yes, I'm going to be free on Sunday."

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puffheir
2010-09-19 08:30 pm UTC (link)

Zacharias had heard him, and that was precisely why he wanted to take Merlin out. To sit down with him and talk - about things other than visions of what might be, but what hadn't happened yet. He wanted to get to know Merlin.

"Good." He gave a little smile then. And told Merlin the name of a restaurant, and where it was at. "Sunday evening. At seven," he said. He reached out and brushed the tips of his fingers against Merlin's wrist, just a light touch. "I'll see you then." And then, before Merlin could talk himself out of it, he headed down the street.

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