closed 🪶⚡ all i really, really ever want is under the mistletoe

[garudas]

Who: Cidolfus Telamon & Benedikta Harman.
Status: Closed.
Where: Around places.
What: Cid and Benedikta follow a lead and sneak into a fancy holiday party. Event stuff TBA.
Warnings: it's them, what do you want from me



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[garudas]

Oh.

[She turns around, acting surprised, but she kicks the bottom of her dress back into place when she realizes that it's crooked.]

That took longer than expected.

[Her eyes flit down to the tray of food. Did he really...?]

You would keep your pregnant wife waiting?

[ramuhs]

[There's just a quirk of his lips as he first makes sure the door is locked behind him before moving further in to set the plates and glass on the table.]

I wanted to make sure my love was resting well.

[And then a fuller smirk.]

Except I thought heard her wings fluttering about instead.

[garudas]

Did you?

[Ignoring his smile and instead examining the food tray he's brought. She picks up a cracker and nibbles on the corner, lifting a perfectly arched brow at him in the dark.]

You must have imagined it because I have been here all this time.

[ramuhs]

[Uh huh.]

Then you will have already looked around the room to see if there was anything of worth?

[garudas]

No.

[A pause, silence as she munches, the only sound being the distant music and the crispiness of the cracker.]

I was waiting for you.

[ramuhs]

[He'll just watch her for a moment and nod his head as if in understanding as walks up alongside her.]

Then I should regale you of what I learned from the maid. Of course this was after I sing praises of your beauty and wit, your strong support for the business I am starting—which I should tell you so we won't have conflicting stories later.

[garudas]

[She bristles a bit at that, turning away from him and pretending to pick at more of the food.]

The maid that seemed so very charmed by you.

[ramuhs]

[He sees that bristling and just subtly moving to the other side.]

Oh? How so?

[garudas]

[A glance over her shoulder at him before her entire countenance changes to something mimicking the maid, and her voice takes on a less sharp and more wistful tone.]

"Oh, how very charming of you! How sweet of you...! I would have remembered you if I had seen you before~"

[ramuhs]

[An arch of the brow.]

Now when did you hear that?

[garudas]

[Ah, shit—]

When you were in the hallway. It's not as if she was very quiet about it.

[ramuhs]

In the hallway...which one?

[garudas]

[She whirls around to him, her cracker hanging halfway out of her mouth before she rips it from between her lips.]

Enough questions, Cidolfus. Let us start looking...!

[A pause, and her eyes go to the drink.]

Did you get a peach drink?

[ramuhs]

[He holds up the glass.]

A special non-alcoholic peach cocktail just for you.

[garudas]

[She purses her lips together, hesitating before she takes it.]

You could have said literally anything else and yet you chose that.

[ramuhs]

And what is so wrong about getting my sweet love her favorite flavor?

[garudas]

You know very well what is wrong with this.

[She takes a sip, and her face scrunches against the sweet peach juice, and there will be an audible groan to her voice.]

I would have preferred wine.

[ramuhs]

Ah, ah, but that wouldn't be good for our little egg.

[Smirk.]

[garudas]

Our little what—!?

[She throws a cracker across at him!!!]

And what if rumour begins to spread, hm!?

[ramuhs]

[He'll half-heartedly deflect the cracker, letting it fall to the floor with a laugh.]

What, as if anyone would know!

[garudas]

The maids will all gossip about the sweet man who took such good care of his wife who is with a baby. And then they shall point you out the moment we step foot into their view.

[She sips at the drink, only half as angry at him as she is pretending to be. Everything else that he had said had been far too sweet for her to be mad about it.]

"Look at that good husband taking such good care of his wife and child!"

[ramuhs]

So?

[He pulls up a chair and sits down next to her.]

That just makes us all the more unassuming...and perhaps more vulnerable.

[Yet he says that with a mischievous grin.]

[garudas]

[She pouts at him.]

Or you simply wanted everyone to believe and admire you for being the most doting husband.

[She leans over him and flicks him gently between his brows.]

I might have preferred you charming her instead.

[ramuhs]

[There's a small wince, but he laughs as he picks up a cherry tomato and holds it up to her.]

Would you?

[garudas]

[She stares at that tomato for a few beats before she simply leans further and takes it between her teeth, making sure to nip at his fingers on the way.]

Yes. At least then I could have set the record straight.