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thecapitol2014-03-21 11:02 pm
gardienne) wrote in thecapitol2014-03-21 11:02 pm
A catch all. Partially open
Who: Eponine and Sigma: Eponine and Felicity: Eponine and Howard: Eponine and anyone else who wants to jump in!
What: A catch all post for catch-ups with various people she's in a bad mood with.
Where: Out and about in the Capitol: locations include the park and a local French style patisserie shop.
When: Some time after Jessica has worked her magic and helped Eponine on her way to a makeover.
Warnings: Eponine should just come with a warning sign, methinks. I'm gonna go on a limb and say 'talk of homosexuality, possibly in a negative light', 'talk of social class', 'talk of Harley's march of shame through the Capitol'.
Eponine and Sigma
Perhaps he knew where to find her? Perhaps he knew that she'd be sat on the bench overlooking the pond where they'd fed the ducks on that gloriously happy day when she came back to the Capitol. She was sat on the bench now, with her feet drawn up, staring at the pond. For once, she was wearing a couple of warm looking cardigans, and a shawl on top of that. She had a thick wooly hat as well, to disguise her newly bald head. What was she thinking? Not much. She was just sort of... staring. Meditating on how she had ended up in such a position, and how she could possibly get out of her mess. She turned her head when she heard footsteps, though, and scowled when she saw it was Sigma. She'd been avoiding Sigma since Harley had caught her, and she didn't want to see him now.
"Go away, Monsieur." Eponine said.
Eponine and Felicity
As the morning stretched into afternoon, Eponine ended up at a new favourite little cafe of hers. She liked it in the patisserie: the owners tried their best to speak French, and they loved having Eponine chatter it at top speed. For her part, she thought it was hilarious. Their French was dire, and it was nice to feel superior to people for a change.
So having had a looong conversation, half in French and half in English, Eponine was sat in the window of the cafe. On the table in front of her were several croissants and a little pot of strawberry jam, and another of marmalade, and a glass of orange juice, and a recorder that Eponine was fiddling with. The owners had asked her to record herself speaking so that they could play it in the cafe and inject a bit of authentic Paris into their business, and she was diligently trying to do as she had been asked. But it was frustrating, and Eponine swore under her breath, before trudging back to the counter. But so cross, so frustrated was she with the recorder that she didn't even look where she was going and bumped into someone awfully familiar.
Immediately, Eponine scowled and her free hand went to the turban style hat covering her baldness.
"Excuse me, Madame." She muttered, keeping her eyes averted.
Eponine and Howard
It had been a long day, and Eponine was quite drained by the time she had dragged herself back to the Tribute Towers. She went straight for the lift, but once inside, decided to just ... just not go to District Three. She didn't think she could cope with Jessica and Maximus and Marius - oh God, Marius. But where could she go?
She ended up on the rooftop. She could be alone up there, at least. Eponine settled herself down amongst the flowers, and lay back, looking straight up at the evening sky. After all of ten minutes, she began to wish that she'd brought food with her, but she was too comfortable, too absorbed in her thoughts about Sigma and Felicity to be bothered to move.
Eponine didn't hear the door open, nor did she hear Howard's footsteps until he was almost on top of her. But , with him barely five feet away, Eponine heard, and turned and groaned. No more. Please.
She closed her eyes, and flopped back over onto her back. "What do you want, Monsieur?"
OPEN
She stayed on the roof all night. It was a little chilly up there, and definitely damp, but she didn't really care. For a while, she simply wandered, pacing the garden backwards and forwards, looking quite the ghost in her pale dress and light pink turban. The singing gave her away, though. Her hoarse voice travelled in the still air as she sang ditty after raucous ditty about love and men and death and murder. But, for a change, her mind was quite at peace. Perhaps things could be different after all?
Her song stuttered into silence, though, as she heard a footstep somewhere behind her.
"Be careful, Monsieur. Or is it Madame? This is not the arena and I do not want to die."
What: A catch all post for catch-ups with various people she's in a bad mood with.
Where: Out and about in the Capitol: locations include the park and a local French style patisserie shop.
When: Some time after Jessica has worked her magic and helped Eponine on her way to a makeover.
Warnings: Eponine should just come with a warning sign, methinks. I'm gonna go on a limb and say 'talk of homosexuality, possibly in a negative light', 'talk of social class', 'talk of Harley's march of shame through the Capitol'.
Eponine and Sigma
Perhaps he knew where to find her? Perhaps he knew that she'd be sat on the bench overlooking the pond where they'd fed the ducks on that gloriously happy day when she came back to the Capitol. She was sat on the bench now, with her feet drawn up, staring at the pond. For once, she was wearing a couple of warm looking cardigans, and a shawl on top of that. She had a thick wooly hat as well, to disguise her newly bald head. What was she thinking? Not much. She was just sort of... staring. Meditating on how she had ended up in such a position, and how she could possibly get out of her mess. She turned her head when she heard footsteps, though, and scowled when she saw it was Sigma. She'd been avoiding Sigma since Harley had caught her, and she didn't want to see him now.
"Go away, Monsieur." Eponine said.
Eponine and Felicity
As the morning stretched into afternoon, Eponine ended up at a new favourite little cafe of hers. She liked it in the patisserie: the owners tried their best to speak French, and they loved having Eponine chatter it at top speed. For her part, she thought it was hilarious. Their French was dire, and it was nice to feel superior to people for a change.
So having had a looong conversation, half in French and half in English, Eponine was sat in the window of the cafe. On the table in front of her were several croissants and a little pot of strawberry jam, and another of marmalade, and a glass of orange juice, and a recorder that Eponine was fiddling with. The owners had asked her to record herself speaking so that they could play it in the cafe and inject a bit of authentic Paris into their business, and she was diligently trying to do as she had been asked. But it was frustrating, and Eponine swore under her breath, before trudging back to the counter. But so cross, so frustrated was she with the recorder that she didn't even look where she was going and bumped into someone awfully familiar.
Immediately, Eponine scowled and her free hand went to the turban style hat covering her baldness.
"Excuse me, Madame." She muttered, keeping her eyes averted.
Eponine and Howard
It had been a long day, and Eponine was quite drained by the time she had dragged herself back to the Tribute Towers. She went straight for the lift, but once inside, decided to just ... just not go to District Three. She didn't think she could cope with Jessica and Maximus and Marius - oh God, Marius. But where could she go?
She ended up on the rooftop. She could be alone up there, at least. Eponine settled herself down amongst the flowers, and lay back, looking straight up at the evening sky. After all of ten minutes, she began to wish that she'd brought food with her, but she was too comfortable, too absorbed in her thoughts about Sigma and Felicity to be bothered to move.
Eponine didn't hear the door open, nor did she hear Howard's footsteps until he was almost on top of her. But , with him barely five feet away, Eponine heard, and turned and groaned. No more. Please.
She closed her eyes, and flopped back over onto her back. "What do you want, Monsieur?"
OPEN
She stayed on the roof all night. It was a little chilly up there, and definitely damp, but she didn't really care. For a while, she simply wandered, pacing the garden backwards and forwards, looking quite the ghost in her pale dress and light pink turban. The singing gave her away, though. Her hoarse voice travelled in the still air as she sang ditty after raucous ditty about love and men and death and murder. But, for a change, her mind was quite at peace. Perhaps things could be different after all?
Her song stuttered into silence, though, as she heard a footstep somewhere behind her.
"Be careful, Monsieur. Or is it Madame? This is not the arena and I do not want to die."
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Howard frowns, stopping rubbing Eponine's hair for a minute. "You know I wasn't kidding when I said I'd kill your dad if he showed up, right? Same for Orc's. And I bet Sigma'd do the same."
Eponine's tale sounds...slightly fictitious.
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"What did Orc's pa do to him? Howard, I am supposed to love him, so you must tell me. Did he hurt him?"
She sighs though. "It ain't nowt, my Pa. You know, it is just what happens where I am from. I didn't much like it, but I never thought so much that it was bad before I came here. I would rather you didn't kill him, you know? Only I just have you back, and I should lose you to prison, or the hangman perhaps, if you did that."
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"Did you see the scars on Orc's hands when he was human? His dad did that. Punched a whole right through them with a machine." Howard shakes his head.
"Is me getting caught the only reason you don't want me offing your dad?"
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"Had he - was he bad? Was his Pa trying to get money?" Her own Pa had punched Azelma's hand through the window of their room to make them look more poor. His act had been bad, but there was at least reason behind it. What about Orc's dad? Could he be worse than hers?
She shifts uncomfortably next to Howard, nudging him with her shoulder. "What other reason should there be? I still love him, if that's what you mean. He's still my Pa, isn't he?"
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"He gave up the right to be your Pa a long time ago. That's all I'm saying."
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"Yeah, perhaps it is so. But he is the only Pa I have and the only one who even wanted me a little bit." She sighs. "Always, I am left behind. I should just get used to it."
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"Don't talk like that. We both get left behind, you know, but you got company in that, right?" He shrugs. "Maybe I can talk to Wyatt again and convince him to want you like he does me. I mean, if he can want me he can want anyone."
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And Eponine is so desperate to keep Howard's friendship now she seems to have it. At his suggestion, she laughs, and slaps him lightly. "No - NO! He shall fall out with you then, and then where will you be? You must persuade him to like me again. I thought he and Eva could get married, you know? And we could all live together. That would have been nice, I think."
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"Do they know each other? We can maybe set them up on a blind date. I can tell Sigma there'll be cats there."
It probably says a lot about Howard's sense of boundaries that he thinks that this is a great idea.
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"Eva said no. She is too old. But Sigma is older. Me, I do not think she likes men now. She is done with men. But I have a love for you. He's the nicest boy I know, nicer than you. Will you meet him? I will make pizza."
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"Very well. I wish to set you up on a date."
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Howard isn't sure how to feel about that. He's spent so much time feeling miserable about his sexuality and pining for people he can't have that he hasn't thought much about the actual acts themselves. Of relationships at all.
"With who?"
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"Please? And then you might forgive me Orc."
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"I'm already over Orc." Mostly. Not entirely, but enough that he can fake it for Eponine, because he cares about her. "But...okay. No promises though, alright? Just one date."
Wanna wrap it?