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Post by Clayton on Jan 31, 2009 12:07:35 GMT -5
Clayton raised his face from the palm of his hand when he heard Esmerelda's voice. Had his prayers really worked? He looked down at her in relief, still worried about her untamed fever.
When she asked for tea, Clayton nodded and returned to the kitchen. Snatching the pot off the heater, he poured the water and reached for the leather pouch with the herbs. His eyes fell on Tremaine, curious and still angry. Ignoring his feelings, he saw the right herb and crushed it into the water. Sturring a little honey for sweetener, he returned to the gypsy.
"Here, drink this," he suggested, placing the cup in her hand, ready to help if need it.
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Post by esmeralda on Jan 31, 2009 12:29:06 GMT -5
((They were indeed colorless, I doubt Clayton would have given Esme tea mixed by Lady Tremaine. He is not stupid. )) Esmeralda leaned back in exhaustion, after using her last strength to ask Clayton for tea. When Clayton returned to her with a cup, she noticed Lady Tremaine followed him into the living room, placing a tray of tea cups with tea at the table. She noticed both cups were half full with tea. When Clayton returned to her, she smiled, touched by the care he showed her. He even sat by her side, ready to help if she needed him. Esmeralda noticed the devilish smile on Lady Tremaine's face, and knew she was up to something. "Thank you," Esmeralda whispered to Clayton and pushed herself up in a sitting position. When she lifted the cup to drink she smelled an underlying aroma of love herbs. She glanced discreetly over at Lady Tremaine, pretending not to have noticed. So that's what you have in mind, you devilish woman! Well, we'll see about that. No matter what you are planning, I still belong to Kovu!The fury she felt over Lady Tremaine's attempt to drug her was so strong that she found the strenght she needed to pull the trick that popped up in her mind. Thinking quickly, she pretended to drink from the tea, then she started coughing, as if something was stuck in her lungs. She placed her cup on the table, while pretending to cough her lungs out. She hoped she would trick Clayton and Tremaine to look away for a moment. A plan had started working in her mind. How would they react if she mixed the "love juice" into their tea? Would they still be so determined to make her fall in love with Clayton? Did Lady Tremaine have feelings at all? If only her plan worked....
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Post by Clayton on Feb 2, 2009 18:42:26 GMT -5
Clayton watched carefully as Esmerelda sat up and tried to drink the tea. He was ready to help if he had to. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tremaine enter the room with a tray of tea. He gave the woman a look of indifferance, not really in the mood of another smart remark from her. The cat Lucifer sauntered under the table and watched the humans with his sharp eyes.
When Esmerelda began coughing, Clayton moved forward to help, patting her back rhythmically.
"Don't just stand there," he roared at Tremaine. "Get something to help her!"
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Post by ladytremaine on Feb 2, 2009 18:54:47 GMT -5
Lady Tremaine watched Clayton sharply and frowned. How typical of men to turn soft when a young pretty girl needed help.
Sissy, she thought in contempt, but kept her calm demeanor.
"It may help if you give her some of the tea you made her...." she suggested. "It will warm her up so she stops coughing. Another thing to help her, would be to prepare her a warm bath. Don't you see the poor child is cold and wet? Her dress is soaked. She needs a hot bath and a dry and warm nightgown."
Lady Tremaine's intensions with mentioning the hot bath was to humiliate Esmeralda even more by letting Clayton help her with the bath. She watched the man with an ice cold little smile, waiting for his reply.
Esmeralda herself, noticed the rhythmically patting on her back, hoping Clayton wouldn't break her spine in his kind attempt to help her. He was much stronger than she had expected him to be. She hoped silently that both the villains would leave, so she could mix her tea with theirs. If it was the thing she expected it to be... she just might leave earlier than planned....
If only Kovu was here....
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Post by Clayton on Feb 6, 2009 19:24:41 GMT -5
[[When would you like Kovu to get there?]]
Clayton sent a death glare at Tremaine at her suggestions. "It was the tea that got her sick," he snapped.
But as he looked back at the gypsy, he saw that Tremaine had a point. Esmerelda was soaked in mud and water from her scrap with Tremaine. Getting to his feet, he went into the bathroom and drew the gypsy a bath. He couldn't help feeling a little akward and his cheeks were reddening obviously. He just hoped that Esmerelda could take care of herself. He didn't trust Tremaine to keep the gypsy from drowning.
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Post by esmeralda on Feb 6, 2009 19:35:09 GMT -5
((Kovu can enter any moment now. Esmeralda is not as sick as she pretends to be. She smelled the love herbs and refuse to drink them. So she intends to mix them in Clayton's and Tremaine's tea instead, and pretend that she is drinking tea when they drink. Does that work for you? )) Lady Tremaine retreated to find Esmeralda something else to wear, not that she cared for the girl, but to calm down Clayton. He could be useful in her future schemes, and she didn't want to insult him. As soon as both crooks had left the room, Esmeralda sat up on the couch. She quickly poured her own tea into the tea of Clayton and Lady Tremaine, silently praying that it wasn't poison in her tea. She stirred the tea a bit with a spoon, hoping her plan would work. Then she leaned back in the couch again staring longingly against the window. Kovu... where are you, my love? I need you here for my protection.... There will be hell to pay when they find out what I just did.
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Post by Kovu on Feb 6, 2009 20:56:01 GMT -5
Kovu's tense eyes scanned the ground as he sniffed the air for any sign of Esmerelda's scent. He had been following the trail of beads and mud splatters. He saw a tall castle up ahead and hurried towards it. There was a window in the front that looked into the sitting room. Creeping close, Kovu leaned on the window ledge with his front paws and looked inside.
There was a large couch directly in front of him, the back facing him. The room was filled with light, both from candles and a burning fire. His sharp eyes picked up movement from the couch and saw a girl sitting there.
Esmerelda!
With the tips of his claws, he rapped on the window pane, hoping to get her attention.
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Post by esmeralda on Feb 6, 2009 21:01:54 GMT -5
((Awwww. My hero!!! *Glomps her lion and snugglehugs him* <3 ))
Esmeralda looked up when she heard a sound by the window. Her emerald eyes widened in surprise when she saw Kovu standing there, looking at her. Her face beamed with joy, and she looked around to see if she could see or hear the villains.
Everything was quiet so far, so Esmeralda snuck over to the window, opening it to let her favorite lion inside. She embraced him, peppering hs face with kisses, happy to see him again.
"Kovu, I have missed you so much! I knew you would find me!!!" She whispered happily, with both arms around his neck, hugging him tightly.
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Post by Kovu on Feb 6, 2009 22:00:10 GMT -5
Kovu's heart jumped into his mouth as Esmerelda let him inside and embraced him. Knowing that it was still dangerous, he forced himself not to purr too loudly. He gave her a lick on the cheek, noticing that she was still in her dirty clothes. Her skin was warm and he looked at her in concern.
Crouching behind the couch, he listened for any signs of Tremaine.
"I was worried I wouldn't get here in time," he whispered. "What happene Esme? Where's Tremaine? Are you alright?"
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Post by esmeralda on Feb 6, 2009 22:21:50 GMT -5
Esmeralda crouched behind the couch with Kovu, happy to see him again. She kissed him again, knowing how much she had missed him, and her warm tears of joy fell into his fur.
"I was so afraid I would never see you again," she whispered and hugged him.
"I got a fever because of the stab wounds. Clayton surprisingly enough helped me. And protected me from Tremaine. I don't know why he did that. Now they are gone to tap me some bathwater, and to find me warm clothes. While they were gone I spiked their tea with the same stuff they wanted to spike me with."
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Post by Quasimodo on Feb 6, 2009 22:45:54 GMT -5
(.. my turn..?)
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Post by esmeralda on Feb 6, 2009 22:56:48 GMT -5
((Of course your turn! Come on in *hugs* ))
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Post by Kovu on Feb 9, 2009 15:52:04 GMT -5
Kovu kept close to Esmerelda, reasurring her that she was safe. He hated being helpless to protect her from the fever. When she mentioned that Clayton had helped her, he rose a suspicious eyebrow.
"Clayton?" he repeated skeptically. "The same Clayton that has kidnapped you on multiple occasions? I wonder what dirty plot he has in mind now."
At the mention of the spiked tea, Kovu kneeded the carpet with his claws. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Those two would stoop so low and for what . . .? Well he knew very well what Clayton wanted, the same things that he had been dreaming about since he meet the gypsy.
Shaking himself into better sense, he froze as he heard footsteps coming. "Get back on the couch and act natural. I'll be here if you need me."
He was glad that the couch was long enough to hide him completely. He crouched on the floor, his senses reaching out for any sign of trouble.
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Post by esmeralda on Feb 9, 2009 16:17:01 GMT -5
Esmeralda snuggled closer to Kovu, not wanting to let him go. She gave him another kiss on the snoute while whispering to him.
"Clayton admitted to bringing me here, but he also assured me that he didn't want me to get hurt. And he yelled at Lady Tremaine for stabbing me, and made sure she couldn't come near me."
A glimpse of humor lit in her eyes and she whispered to Kovu.
"Don't worry about the fever. I have herbs that can cure it. I think I left them in your suite the last time I was there..... Besides, I play sicker than I am when the villains are near, to keep them away from me. I was relying on they didn't want to catch some germs."
She smiled when Kovu kneeded the carpet with his claws, knowing that he and she shared the same dreams. Her longing for him was showing in her eyes as she wrapped her arms around him and whispered to him.
"Some times I wish you were human again.... I never removed your ring...."
She heard footsteps, and froze, knowing they belonged to Lady Tremaine. Then she gave Kovu an encouraging smile and a last kiss on the snoute, before returning to the couch. She sat down in the same position she had been in when the villains left her, and put on an innocent face expression. Now that Kovu was here, she wasn't afraid of anyone!
Then Lady Tremaine entered the room, carrying a dress that was about Esmeralda's size. She threw a towel and the dress over to the girl.
"Here you are, child. Take a bath and change your clothes before you make us all sick."
Her voice was cold as ice, and there wasn't any sign of kindness in her eyes. Esmeralda stared back. She wasn't planning on staying so long that she would need a bath in this house. She knew perfectly well that Kovu would gladly borrow her his bathroom just to get her out of here.
Thanks, but I don't plan on staying that long....
Esmeralda smiled and decided to act a little.
"I can't..." she whispered. "My fever..... gets worse.... Too weak now...."
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Post by Quasimodo on Feb 9, 2009 16:45:09 GMT -5
With a gust of wind, a dark shadow blew in through the window. The two already in the room did seem to busy with each other to notice anything. Quasi smiled ironically, and was just about to come with a remark, as he noticed the door irked open. As quick and elegant as a monkey, the ghost like shadow crept up to the top of a wardrobe, squeezing himself into the small space between the wardrobe and the roof. As he looked down, and shuddered as he catched Lady Tremaine`s eyes. That look could`ve freezed seas.. in the middle of summer! What this the same charming old Lady from earlier? if so, there weren`t much charm left now. So this were her true colors.. he thought, well she better not try anything smart. He observed her, as she moved into the room.. and came to stay right under the wardrobe.. ( TA DAAAH .. Oh the temptation. It kills us.. XD )
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