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Post by Derek on Jul 19, 2010 21:50:37 GMT -5
((the damn roof needed some brooding))
Derek looked out across Paris, contemplating how very beautiful it was, and how it must look in the daytime. He would never again see it in the day--in fact, he never had. He sort of vaguely regretted this. What he really regretted was that this city would go on changing, while he would stay the same. He envied the tiny little people below--their lives so insignificant, but so ephemerally beautiful.
He sighed, looking very handsome and sad.
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Post by Blandine on Jul 19, 2010 22:32:04 GMT -5
Blandine was looking very lovely and innocent, which appeared to be her default mode (damn those marauding helpful faeries) but her skirts were proving very cumbersome. There was, in fact, some heave-y cleave rising and falling of her bodice as an effect of exertion. She clutched a small telescope, with which to stargaze.
A good distance away from any lurking strangers, she flung herself non-literally down, telescope tripod rattling.
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Post by Derek on Jul 19, 2010 22:38:13 GMT -5
Derek had heard her coming up the steps, because of his super-human senses, but paid her no mind. People rarely noticed him, especially since he tended to lurk in the shadows of the statues and, being a vampire, he couldn't help but sort of melt into them. Unless he looked at someone; then his eyes seemed to glow out of the dark, but they were not doing this now.
When he finally did look over, as a result of the rattling about, he could not help but be a little stunned by her beauty in the moonlight. He stepped dramatically out of the shadows, inexplicably drawn to her.
"The stars are brighter in the country, you know," he informed her.
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Post by Blandine on Jul 19, 2010 22:42:45 GMT -5
"I've never been to the country," she said wonderingly, before being appropriately startled by the full-grown human-ish male striding out of the darkness towards her. Quickly, she spread out her skirts, as to be sitting more delicately, and began setting up the tripod.
"But the air's cleaner up here. It's a bit--" Blandine clamped a hand down on her hat. "Windy, though, isn't it?"
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Post by Derek on Jul 19, 2010 22:44:51 GMT -5
"I hadn't noticed," he said, his voice a soft murmur. His eyes had wandered down to her heaving bosoms and back still hadn't left her face.
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Post by Blandine on Jul 19, 2010 22:58:27 GMT -5
It was, in actuality, likely a poor choice to be on a windy rooftop seemingly made for romantic midnight rondez-vouses in heavy skirts and a flimsy hat, but she looked quite picturesque, with a curl of her spun-silk hair falling over her forehead.
"Really, quite. And it looks like rain. Who are you?"
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Post by Derek on Jul 19, 2010 23:06:23 GMT -5
"I am Derek." He bowed deeply.
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Post by Blandine on Jul 19, 2010 23:07:22 GMT -5
She dragged herself to standing position, and affected a delicate, charming curtsey, but tipped over.
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Post by Derek on Jul 19, 2010 23:09:56 GMT -5
He watched in horror as she went toppling over the edge of the roof, plummeting towards certain death.
Well, it would have been certain, if he had been a human. Which he was not. For the first time thanking his Affliction, he suddenly went running down the stairs at the speed of sound, arriving below her just in time to catch her gently in his very strong arms.
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Post by Blandine on Jul 19, 2010 23:13:54 GMT -5
Blandine quite sensibly shrieked, she wasn't stupid, and flailed out a little as the gust of wind caught her. In the split second of being airborne, she cursed whoever invented crinolines. She swore very loudly in her mind. She wondered if you black out before you hit the ground. But before she could test that out for herself, she was plummeting through the blackness--
Into a stranger's arms. Impossible. Naturally, it knocked the wind quite painfully out of her.
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Post by Derek on Jul 19, 2010 23:28:02 GMT -5
Derek didn't even flinch. In addition to having super-human hearing and speed, he was incredibly strong. He furrowed his brow, concerned.
"Are you alright? ...other than the falling?"
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Post by Blandine on Jul 19, 2010 23:31:25 GMT -5
For once she had an excuse for seeming permanently rather stunned.
"That hurt! But you caught me, so..."
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Post by Derek on Jul 19, 2010 23:45:27 GMT -5
He made a face as if he were suddenly remembering an appointment. In fact, he was reminding himself that prolonged contact with her would likely Tempt him, which would result in his biting her. He doubted she would appreciate this, and decided he should go find something else to eat.
Gently, he set her on the ground and fled into the night, moving so fast he seemed to disappear.
He had not even learned her name.
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