#119 : PG, Satisfying a Craving
Title: Satisfying a Craving
Author: terredancer
Subject: Moonlight & Shadow; Terre, Marcus
Rating: PG
Challenge: #119 - Things You Can't Have (500 words, under an hour)
Notes: Yeah, this prompt calls differently to different characters, and Terre's been in my head since the start of this. Even with JD's interference. I probably need to eventually figure out when this whole issue actually started.
Terre and Marcus had been walking out of one of the restaurants down-town when she'd seen the flow of people coming down the street, with their hockey jerseys, and the occasional addition of face-paint and obnoxious wigs. He had looked around bemused, but she had known what it meant. When he wasn't looking, she slipped away from his side, so quiet that she might have been assisted by her natural magic.
If so, she wasn't aware that she'd done it. She just wanted to satisfy a craving.
She still remembered her hands wrapped tight around the railing, and rising to her feet either with disappointment or elation. The camaraderie of the audience where for a change nobody was fighting against each other, united in a common cause, even if they'd go back to fighting against each other as soon as they walked through the doors back to the outside. She still remembered practically being able to dance all night long, whether her team had won or lost, because the crowd energy was just that contagious.
Marcus finally found her leaning against the monument outside of the arena, watching the hawkers trying to sell their tickets for exhorbent prices, and the vendors, and nearby there was even a horse and carriage. Parking was insane, the crowd was insaner, and it all added to the atmosphere. Once these were things that she would have tuned out as she drifted inside, but now they just reminded her of what she couldn't have.
She knew he was there long before he walked up behind her and rested his hands lightly on his shoulders, only adding additional pressure once he was sure she wouldn't jump. When she didn't respond to his presence, he leaned in and whispered in her ear, "I thought you were going to watch this thing at home. I even sound-proofed the apartment for the occasion."
She didn't smile. Instead, she just told him so softly that if it wasn't for his enhanced hearing, he would never have heard her, "I don't want to watch it at home."
"I know you don't, but don't you remember the last time you tried to go to one of these things after the change?"
Terre's eyes closed. They'd been out to visit Cassie when she'd been practically living in Portland, and she'd greeted them with tickets to a Kings game. They'd gone back down to Los Angeles, and she had actually made it inside and had seen up to the five minute marker in the first period before the crush of people, and the emotional highs and lows of the sporting event started to get to her. Marcus and Cassie had managed to get her out of there before it became worse than just a blinding headache that sidelined her for the next three days.
"I remember," she finally answered. "But it doesn't stop me wanting it."
Marcus had no answer for her, and eventually Terre slipped out from beneath his hands and walked away.
Author: terredancer
Subject: Moonlight & Shadow; Terre, Marcus
Rating: PG
Challenge: #119 - Things You Can't Have (500 words, under an hour)
Notes: Yeah, this prompt calls differently to different characters, and Terre's been in my head since the start of this. Even with JD's interference. I probably need to eventually figure out when this whole issue actually started.
Terre and Marcus had been walking out of one of the restaurants down-town when she'd seen the flow of people coming down the street, with their hockey jerseys, and the occasional addition of face-paint and obnoxious wigs. He had looked around bemused, but she had known what it meant. When he wasn't looking, she slipped away from his side, so quiet that she might have been assisted by her natural magic.
If so, she wasn't aware that she'd done it. She just wanted to satisfy a craving.
She still remembered her hands wrapped tight around the railing, and rising to her feet either with disappointment or elation. The camaraderie of the audience where for a change nobody was fighting against each other, united in a common cause, even if they'd go back to fighting against each other as soon as they walked through the doors back to the outside. She still remembered practically being able to dance all night long, whether her team had won or lost, because the crowd energy was just that contagious.
Marcus finally found her leaning against the monument outside of the arena, watching the hawkers trying to sell their tickets for exhorbent prices, and the vendors, and nearby there was even a horse and carriage. Parking was insane, the crowd was insaner, and it all added to the atmosphere. Once these were things that she would have tuned out as she drifted inside, but now they just reminded her of what she couldn't have.
She knew he was there long before he walked up behind her and rested his hands lightly on his shoulders, only adding additional pressure once he was sure she wouldn't jump. When she didn't respond to his presence, he leaned in and whispered in her ear, "I thought you were going to watch this thing at home. I even sound-proofed the apartment for the occasion."
She didn't smile. Instead, she just told him so softly that if it wasn't for his enhanced hearing, he would never have heard her, "I don't want to watch it at home."
"I know you don't, but don't you remember the last time you tried to go to one of these things after the change?"
Terre's eyes closed. They'd been out to visit Cassie when she'd been practically living in Portland, and she'd greeted them with tickets to a Kings game. They'd gone back down to Los Angeles, and she had actually made it inside and had seen up to the five minute marker in the first period before the crush of people, and the emotional highs and lows of the sporting event started to get to her. Marcus and Cassie had managed to get her out of there before it became worse than just a blinding headache that sidelined her for the next three days.
"I remember," she finally answered. "But it doesn't stop me wanting it."
Marcus had no answer for her, and eventually Terre slipped out from beneath his hands and walked away.