With a smirk she flipped the switch to the generator, which began to make a soft whirring noise. It was annoying in all honesty and was going to slightly dampen the experience, but she didn't care and figured he wouldn't either. "What kinda Hawthorn vacay would it be without that bullshit?" she asked, pleased to finally have a way to phrase their shared experience. They were two people and Chel detested the idea of being one, but she did like being able to attach herself to something willingly.
Chel took to the pile on top of him, debating for a moment to throw the plan out the window and do something else for the rest of the night, but thought better of it. That would inevitably be how the night ended anyways. Instead she rolled off to the side and hooked one of her legs around his.
It was (of course) only when she got comfortable that she remembered- "Ah!" Moving to the cooler, she flipped the lid and pulled two bottles; one to hand to him and one for herself. "And beer." Because that was important. Chel being Chel, there was also water to the side if he wanted it.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:18 pm
"Don't jinx it." He leaned over to give her a short kiss, not unlike Chel's many idle motions, before getting his beer. He tilted it to clink with hers before taking a gulp. "I'm honestly impressed with how much you planned this, babe."
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:20 pm
"What's that s'posed t'mean?" she asked, sticking her tongue out before hitting play on the TV, leaving their conversation to have a small background noise of ads from the early 2000s.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:26 pm
"I mean that you usually work on the fly," he replied over the background buzz of generator and outdated ads. "But I'm glad you took care of the honeymoon. I wouldn't have done nearly s'good of a job."
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:41 pm
And maybe some people wouldn't understand, but to hear someone say what you did made it easier on me was the single kindest phrase that Chel could hear. She had lived her whole life with the internalized belief that she was a burden, that she only brought trouble (and in some part, it was true), but knowing that she had done something good made it worth it.
"Yer the love of my life," she said, somehow serious and flippant at the same time. "You deserve it." She meant it, but shut her mouth up with a drink before she said anything stupider.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 3:32 pm
"You've been spoiling me and raising the bar, more like." Jack half-smiled. "Not sure how I can follow up for your birthday without being subpar."
The menu began its first loop, part of the screen melting into various action scenes while familiar music played. He settled more into their nest, looking as relaxed as could be.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 5:18 pm
"Be there," she told him, "Good a follow up as any."
She fumbled upwards one more time with a frown (why did she keep getting interrupted damn DVD play yourself-) but as she hit the play button she said, "Everyone thinks this one's the best one." It was- it had the big battle, the happy ending, the hero...
Chel squished back into Jack's side and gave him a small kiss on the corner of his mouth before nestling underneath it on his chest. She was glad to know this one wouldn't end with a plate. "Starts pretty lame though.."
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King picks up the story from the end of The Two Towers. The film begins with a flashback sequence where we discover how the character Gollum(Sméagol) first came across the One Ring. Before becoming Gollum he was a hobbit-like creature known as Sméagol. Sméagol was out fishing with his cousin Déagol who, after being pulled in to the water, discovers the One Ring In the river Anduin. Sméagol demands that Déagol gives him the Ring for his birthday, but Déagol refuses which leads to Sméagol strangling him to death and stealing the One Ring. After killing his cousin Sméagol escapes to the Misty Mountains and slowly mutates into the creature we know as Gollum.
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 2:42 pm
"Laaaaaaame." But the appropriate look was hard to maintain with that constant stream of happiness in him. Jack would just have to figure something out, as usual. Their time in the cafe had inspired him at least.
At first he was going to ask if Chel hadn't skipped a part, as he didn't remember either of the characters on screen. Then again, he probably wouldn't remember several of the main hobbits either. Once The One Ring came into play, it dawned on him. "We already knew this happened," he said. "Does it matter to get the play by play?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 2:47 pm
"It's sad," she told him, "He just killed his cousin for a shitty ring."
As gollum returned to his hideous form, Chel frowned a little, remembering her nightmare wherein she'd fallen into a similar form, too skinny, dying. It made her cling to Jack a little harder, but she said nothing and continued staring at the screen.
"Frodo's dumb though." Odd and perhaps hypocritical words coming from a person that trusted nearly everyone.
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As this sequence ends, we see Frodo, Sam and Gollum approaching the mountains of Mordor, with Mount Doom's eruptions disturbingly close.
Gollum is still leading them and Sam continues to have bad feelings on where Gollum will lead them to, however, Frodo has full trust in the creature.
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 4:28 pm
"A lot of people died over the ring," Jack shrugged off. He knew the point was to sympathize with Gollum/Smeagol, but it was an ugly creature with petty motives no matter how it was sliced.
Noting her squeeze but saying nothing, he took another gulp of beer. "They don't really have a choice at this point. It's follow the traitor or get lost and captured, even with the volcano right there. Crawling with Darth Eyeball's minions and s**t."
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 4:37 pm
"Thas why gollum would kill you and I'd make it t'the volcano," she snubbed him, poking his side for emphasis before taking her own drink.
As the scene opened on more random extras talking, Chel let out a short, satisfied sigh. "This s'nice."
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:14 pm
"If a freakish imp is able to kill me after everything else failed, I deserve it." Assuming it got the right one, he almost added, but clones weren't particularly happy topics to think about on one's honeymoon.
Jack hummed in agreement. "You know what would have made it better? Coffee ice cream." Nevermind how to keep up a freezer as well in a remote castle; he just wanted to avoid being too wrapped up in the peace.
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:18 pm
Chel being Chel, she leaned over to the cooler and opened the lid producing just that.
"Was gonna wait til after the graveyard, but yer wish, my command, love." She handed him the carton and kissed his cheek in the same motion.
Then treebeard came on screen and Chel whistled. "How 'bout that- two happy boys, one stone."
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The plot then switches back to the flooded and ruined Isengard. Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, King Théoden, Gamling and Eomer, arrive at Isengard where they meet with the Hobbits, Merry and Pippin, who are busy eating salted pork and blowing pipe weed. On entering Isengard, they are informed by the Ent Treebeard that Isengard has been taken over by the Ents and that Saruman is imprisoned inside Orthanc.
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:57 pm
There was a beat, and then a, "God ******** damn it," and then a laugh and a shake of his head. "Stop being perfect, it's weird." He nudged the ice cream back towards the cooler; later was a better idea anyway.
Owain naturally perked when he saw the return of the ents, and Chel could see Jack roll his eyes good-naturedly at the excitement. "How are these little shits still alive?" he asked as Merry and Pippin went about their business. "Frodo and fatass actually have some purpose, but these two are just hitting conveniences to stay alive."
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:05 am
"Weird?" she said with pursed lips, offended at the thought while she put away the ice cream. "Yer the one that married me!"
She hooked her arm around Jack again and pulled him onto her this time. "S'not a crime to not be big an' important," she pointed out. "Some of us just wanna get high."
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