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Sep. 19th, 2007 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Rapunzel was watching Alex sleep again. She seemed to be doing a lot of that lately. She had been babying him since they'd gotten back to the bar, and thanking God silently during every moment of it that he was around to baby. Tears welled again at the thought of how close he had come to not coming back at all.
They had been brought back to the bar by Cait, and dumped somewhat unceremoniously through the door; Rapunzel had been in a daze. Alex had passed out soon after returning, and so she had enlisted the help of a kind red haired witch who levitated him gently up to her room. He had never even stirred Rapunzel had undressed him and cleaned him up as best she could.
He was still sleeping, but she was sure it was just sleep now, and not something more sinister.
She brushed a lock of hair off of his forehead, and leaned down to kiss it.
They had been brought back to the bar by Cait, and dumped somewhat unceremoniously through the door; Rapunzel had been in a daze. Alex had passed out soon after returning, and so she had enlisted the help of a kind red haired witch who levitated him gently up to her room. He had never even stirred Rapunzel had undressed him and cleaned him up as best she could.
He was still sleeping, but she was sure it was just sleep now, and not something more sinister.
She brushed a lock of hair off of his forehead, and leaned down to kiss it.
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Date: 2007-09-19 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 12:41 am (UTC)She turns her head and looks at the clock.
"Just after eight. How do you feel? Are you hungry?"
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Date: 2007-09-20 12:44 am (UTC)"But yeah, I am hungry."
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Date: 2007-09-20 12:49 am (UTC)"What would you like to eat? I'll run down and get it from the bar, and we can have a bed-picnic."
Just having him awake and talking is helping her mood. The tears have vanished (hopefully before he saw them) and she gets to her feet.
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Date: 2007-09-20 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 12:56 am (UTC)Her voice is laces with concern.
"Well, I'll get you a tray and well get you filled up. After all that snow in Bahamut, I'll never like winter as much again. I'll bee right back."
She presses her lips to his forehead again, and hurries down to the bar. When she comes back, she's got enough food and coffee to feed four people.
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Date: 2007-09-20 12:58 am (UTC)"As for nightmares...not so much a nightmare as just strange stuff. But all fading fast."
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:00 am (UTC)"You didn't have the flu...it's all right for you to eat."
She takes a triangle of toast and nibbles on a corner.
"I want you strong again, leg and all."
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:03 am (UTC)And pauses.
"Raps, I got something on my mind."
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:06 am (UTC)She looks up at that last bit, worried.
"What is it?"
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:08 am (UTC)And for the first time in a long while, the always confident Alex Knox sounds nervous, and seems a tiny bit tounge-tied.
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:12 am (UTC)She can feel the tears pricking at the back of her eyes again, and squeezes his hand, remaining silent. If he needs to say it, then she'll deal...if she can remember to breathe.
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:15 am (UTC)"But it's more than that to me now. It has been for a while. And I had to let you know...
"Rapunzel, I am so much in lvoe with you.
"And that's all I needed to say." He holds his breathe again, and hopes that he hasn't gone and say something stupid.
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:17 am (UTC)Her heart pounds in her chest, and she can feel the trembling in her hands as she gathers herself.
“I wasn’t ever going to say the words to you; saying them would make them real. Telling you I love you would open the door on so much potential change and disaster for both of us…but not saying the words doesn’t make them untrue.”
The tears are escaping, rolling down her cheeks, though she isn’t really crying.
“I do love you. I don’t know what that’s going to mean for us in the future, but I just…I couldn’t…I didn’t know how to tell you.”
She bites her lip, not knowing if any of that made any sense at all to him, but not having the courage to say more.
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:22 am (UTC)"You just did, didn't you? And..." He takes a deep breath and then takes her hands, leaving the coffee alone for now. "And I don't know what's going to come next. For you or me or us. But the way I hear it, people fall in love all the time, and sometimes there's disaster and change. And sometimes there's good stuff.
"I think we can get some good stuff."
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:26 am (UTC)The tears are a mixture of happy and frightened ones, but mostly happy.
"I think we've earned it."
She kisses him again and again.
"Alex...I love you. It feels really, really good to be able to say it."
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:28 am (UTC)"I'm gonna tell you something. Remember the lake party? All those gorgeous women wearing almost nothing at all? It was a guy's dream come true. And I couldn;t take my eyes off you, Bot for a second.
"After it was over, and we were back here, I looked at you and actually thought I was falling in love. And I was. How about that?"
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:35 am (UTC)"You just sort of crept into my heart and made yourself at home, a little at a time. It was so gradual that I didn't even realize it was happening. I could tell myself that being so proud of you for your columns, and awards and your enthusiasm for life was just a friend being glad for another friend. I don't know how long I was lying to myself."
She gives him a watery laugh.
"And then I was afraid that my favorite reporter was going to see through that lie. He's incredibly clever that way."
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Date: 2007-09-20 08:43 am (UTC)"And..." He pulls her close. "And how you reacted, there. I kinda knew then."
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Date: 2007-09-20 01:51 pm (UTC)She rests her head on his shoulder, stretching out beside him.
"I guess sometimes it just got too big to hold in."
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Date: 2007-09-20 02:22 pm (UTC)"But one of the things we have is honesty. I mean, I am the Seeker of Truth, right?"
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Date: 2007-09-20 03:50 pm (UTC)Joking aside, she feels like a weight has been lifted.
"I haven't been in love for centuries...it's kind of new for me, too. I guess we take things one day at a time for now, huh?"
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Date: 2007-09-20 03:56 pm (UTC)"And you are not my sidekick. You are my partner in crime. Or crimefighting. The Seeker and the...the Princess of Honesty? Or whould that be Queen, or Countess?"
And that smile? In part it's because the idea that she'd fall for him when there was no one else for that long makes him feel like he is something really special.
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Date: 2007-09-20 04:02 pm (UTC)She shifts a little beside him him, and reaches down to pull a spoon from the tray from under her hip.
"I think I've ruined most of your breakfast."
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Date: 2007-09-20 04:09 pm (UTC)"As for breakfast...maybe in a while we can walk downstairs and I'll see how my leg is doing? I think I'm ready for people again." And Raps should be able to tell that he's still not quite himself from that comment.
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Date: 2007-09-20 08:02 pm (UTC)She's probably going to be bossy for a while; their adventure in Bahamut had scared the hell out of her, and she isn't eager to let him out of her sight until she knows he's strong enough.
"We have to get you up and around so you can run rings around those kids you're supposed to be mentoring back in Gotham."
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Date: 2007-09-20 08:07 pm (UTC)"But I'm staying here until those kids don't ask any questions about why I'm limping or need a cane." And he does, though he's gamely pretending he can walk without one for a moment.
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Date: 2007-09-20 09:58 pm (UTC)"You'll be up and about in no time. And if anyone asks why you're limping and grin at them and say it's my fault."
"Paris sounds nice, but it's just being alone with you that's the real treat."
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Date: 2007-09-20 10:34 pm (UTC)"You are incorrigable, you know that?" He looks for his clothes, even as a thought occurs to him.
"Raps, how are you doing? Since we got back, I mean."
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Date: 2007-09-21 01:24 am (UTC)She finds his clothes for him, and begins helping him get dressed.
"I don't think I've gotten much sleep, but that's something I can catch up on."
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Date: 2007-09-21 02:08 pm (UTC)"I promise the next time I get shot, you can take as much care of me as you want."
She puts a hand to his cheek.
"We're quite a pair."
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Date: 2007-09-21 02:15 pm (UTC)"But I have much better idea. How about neither of us ever get shot again? And we take care of each other anyway?"
He buttons his shirt and then slowly puts on his pants and shoes. This is the hard part, and even with the bandage over the wound, it hurts.
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Date: 2007-09-21 02:30 pm (UTC)She kneels down in front of him, shooing his hands away and helping him with his shoes.
Shew walks to the corner and retrieves an impressively carved cane/walking stick.
"I got this from the bar earlier. We'll take the elevator down, too."
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Date: 2007-09-21 02:35 pm (UTC)He studies the walking stick. "Oooh, nice. All I need is a bowler hat and I can be just like John Steed. Only you are prettier than even Emma Peel." That's how much in love he is. He's forgotten even his boyhood crush.(And should he ever chance to meet Ms. Peel in the Bar, he might go all fanboy, but Emma will just have to get over her disappointment that he's off the market.)
"Shall we get some breakfast, my love?"
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Date: 2007-09-21 03:44 pm (UTC)"Let's."