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 Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:47 pm
Daniel's stomach was twisting into knots.
He'd made sure to arrive early - too early, perhaps. Way too early. Early enough that the waiter was probably wondering if he'd gotten stood up, but Daniel didn't care.
This was one of his favorite restaurants, an italian eatery that made the most amazing pizza he had ever tasted. Pizza was good, right ?! Not too fancy, not too... normal...
Oh god, oh god, oh god, ohhhh goooddd... And then there was the flowers. He hadn't really thought before sending them, and now it just seemed obvious that it had been him. Drat.
He just couldn't stop fidgeting, but Ume was due to show soon now.
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:05 pm
She was wearing one of those roses twisted into her hair, the thorns carefully removed and one of the leather-leaf ferns carefully pinned into place to frame it in the twist.
She wore her favorite dress for the weather, it was light lolita had just enough color to keep it from looking like she was heading to a funeral, she'd almost tailored the color out of it, as she had several other of her dresses but she was glad now that she hadn't.
Her boots were classic victorian, black and white with small shiny black buttons and she wore lacy fingerless gloves, just as an added touch. "I didn't keep you long did I?" She called.
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:26 pm
When the lady made her appearance, Daniel couldn't help but feel a little under dressed. She was positively gorgeous - that dress really suited her.
And was that a rose on h- oh crap.
Yeah, he was about as opaque as a transparent sheet.
"No, no." Well, not of her own fault - he had no one to blame but himself for how long he'd been sitting here. "It hasn't been long at all. Didn't take you too long to find it, I hope ?" It would have probably been better if he had gone to pick her up, but... too late for that.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:18 pm
"No not at all!" She assured him but there was worry on her face, she'd worn the rose hoping it was him, but he looked so ghostly just then...was he alright?
She brushed fingers against his arm gazing up at him in wordless concern, if she'd known he would have such an adverse reaction to roses she would never have worn it. "Are you alright? You aren't allergic to roses are you?" She asked anxious, perhaps it wasn't him...oh dear, oh dear indeed.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:10 pm
"Ah, no no no !" Crap. Oh crap. Really... This was a little pathetic, really.
Way to make an idiot of yourself, Daniel. "You look very lovely." That had come out easy. Uh. "I just... I..."
The rest didn't. Unsurprisingly. It didn't look like she was mad, at least... "I just... Was it too much ? The roses ?"
Well, there went the admittance.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:18 pm
She looked relieved if she looked anything, "It -was- you" She said with a rush of delight and, surprising even herself rushed forward to put her arms around him "Thank you...thank you SO much their beautiful, SO beautiful!"
She squeezed him around the waist grateful that it was someone she truly liked that had sent them, that there would be nothing awkward about it besides their own shyness.
"Thank you." She said again drawing back with a blush. "I...hoped it was you."
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:08 pm
Daniel was taken completely, utterly, by surprise - eyes going wide and instantaneously turning a very vivid shade of red when he found himself into her hold. Slowly - clumsily - he closed his own arms around her.
He... could get used to this... He really could.
He let go when she moved again, expression turning to a shy smile even as his blush showed no sign of fading. "I- I was worried it was too much..."
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:18 am
"It wasn't too much." She assured him with that same smile. "It was very much not too much, it was perfect. That's the first time any one has EVER sent me flowers too." She said glancing away with a demure blush before turning back, her smile returning.
"Thank you..."
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:21 pm
The first time ? This seemed so hard to believe, though he would never accuse her of lying. Had no one noticed her before ? Howe couldn't they ?
Had no one ever seen how beautiful she was, inside and out ? "I... Im glad..."
The moment might have been perfect - had it not been for sudden screams and a dark shadow darting right in front of the restaurant.
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:21 pm
She started, almost habit, to reach for the small clutch purse she held, inside it was of course her henshin pen. She never left anywhere without it with her these days. But she stopped herself, he was right there, RIGHT there, he'd know if she transformed... she needed to keep him safe...she just knew that, but at what cost? And what of the people screaming, she couldn't leave them either... "Y...Monster..." She said, almost saying Yoma, but thought that might give away something she wasn't sure she should if she called it another name than 'monster' or 'terrorist'.
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:55 pm
What ?
God.
DAMN !
"Do I have a magnet for these things..." He let out without truly thinking, not realizing that he'd just given away that he'd nearly been monster sandwich a couple times already.
So Daniel did what he did best - grap Ume and hide under the table. Which was good, because now it was coming their way.
"We... just hide here and someone will come beat it up." Right ? That's ALWAYS what happened... He had pulled his cellphone and was halfway into texting some sort of cryptic secret code when he remembered something important.
Chris was at camp.
...A good hour away from here.
...Problem.
Through, while he was having this realization, he wasn't looking at Ume, trusting her to stay nice and hiding like a safe person would.
To say that he was unaware of what was hiding in her purse was an under-exaggeration.
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:07 pm
Who did he think he was texting? He was so sweet to try and protect them like this but... she really couldn't stay. She prayed he'd forgive her and made her escape as quiet as she could, a soft rustle of skirts and hurried steps for the nearest hiding place she could find to fumble out her pen and cursed the name of any monster who would interrupt her first real honest to god -date-.
She took a deep breath and then uttered the transformation phrase, what ever would he think if he knew she were one of the 'terrorists'. He might never forgive her...what then?
She stepped out again, the harsh clack of her boots almost adding to her confidence as she moved forward.
"Monster..." She called after it, feeling its presence like a dark wave against her skin, she followed the press of that feeling, "You want a tasty treat COME and get it... In the name of MuCephei, and for my Princess... Prepare to BLEED."
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:35 pm
Daniel only noticed that Ume was gone when he noticed the sound of those heels - eye widening. s**t. s**t. s**t. s**t !!!!
Where had she gone ?!
He looked around the room in complete panic, until his eyes fell on MuCephei. She was... ? There was something, the shadow of a memory, something he could not truly pinpoint, but somewhere in the back of her mind, he could have sworn he had seen this outfit before.
His mind never even came close to thinking the woman standing here was in reality Ume. No, what he struggled to recall was the few seconds he had seen as she walked into the alley to save him for the corrupted senshi holding him.
The monster looked rather unimpressed with the senshi's entrance - it snarled and went straight for her. She was, after all, standing in the way of a few tasty starseeds...
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:46 am
She used her needles first, they were the safest when there were civilians around, less likely to do serious or scaring damage unless she hit something truly soft or vulnerable... like an Eye.
"Leave them ALONE." She said in a moment of fury. Was it things like this that killed her sister... or was it the young men and women in their strange more military uniforms.
What was it that they had said to turn Beth to their side...what power had they held over her that they could ever have done such a thing? One thing was certain...they would not have Daniel.
"BAD BLOOD!" She said and flicked her wrist, a sharp snap of a motion coupled by her forward step as she rose to meet it mid way.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:15 pm
Daniel wasn't moving - it was part fear and part just plain knowing better, really. Under this table was like his little fort, really.
This girl seemed to know what she was going, so he might as well stay out of the way... But what about Ume ?
He couldn't... What if something happened to her ? And why had she ran ?
Too many questions. The monster looked busy... So he darted, from under one table to another, hoping to see where she might have gone.
The youma screeched as the needles hit home, but Daniel's movement caught it's attention...
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