Now and Forever...Itsumademo... - Chapter 11A
Title: Now and Forever…いつまでも…
Author: Mayonaka no Taiyou/Unare Haineko
Pairing: [Juntoshi] Matsumoto Jun x Ohno Satoshi
Rating: R-ish. [I am changing this rating to R due to the direction I am taking with this story. I probably should have done it earlier, but I think it is time to officially change it since I have decided which direction ( Read more... )
“What do you mean? I haven’t done anything. I was the betrayed party, last time I checked,” he shot back.
“Piquet is all about trick taking,” she said, draping an arm over his shoulder familiar as she leaned slightly on him.
“I know that.” He stared at her and threw off her arm violently.
That proved to be a mistake for she swivelled herself over the armrest of the chair to step a well-heeled foot into his crotch. Smiling sweetly at him as she cupped his face in her hands, she increased the pressure over his nether regions enough to make him squirm in discomfort and hissed, “You discarded a card that you should not have. And you know that. That’s why you picked up another card that resembled it. However, it wasn’t the same as the original card. As an upshot, you’ve surrounded yourself with imitations of imitations in the form of your current career, Daisuke and Mr Matsuda. What have you done, mon petit?”
“This whole cover up involving that Matsuda Kei guy and Oh-chan, the Jimusho, and possibly Arashi - what has it to do with me?” he razzed at the devil, refusing to back down.
“You’ve put this cover-up into place, sweetness,” Lady Strange’s voice lilted into a cold timbre as she pinched his cheek affectionately. “You have to undo it. Play it like Janus, and play it like you would chess. You’re a better chess player than you are a card player.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” he snarled, brushing aside her hand.
“Your sleights of hand are to compensate for the fact that you’re not an adept at cards,” she told him, leaning into him and snaking an arm around him. “Whereas with chess, you use strategy rather than diversions to win. That’s what you need, my little Janus. No more diversions, you need a cold and hard strategy to win.”
“Then why the hell did we play cards just now?”
“Silly darling,” she laughed unpleasantly, “you don’t get it do you? All the connexions between PwC, Matsuda Kei, Daisuke, Arashi, the symbolism of this very building, the number 11, and the set up you inadvertently created with that one careless discard of your metaphorical card game - everything goes back to the Jimusho. And what do you find there, hmm?”
“That hand is over. There are no survivors to tell the tale and no records of what happened,” Nino snapped at her.
Lady Strange tilted his chin up and purred in his ear “You can’t change the hand with which you are dealt. All that matters is how you play it. Comprenez? Play it like chess. Watch, observe, think, analyse and strategise. Regroup, rethink, rework and replot. Then see what you have.”
“You make it sound so easy. What about this Matsuda guy, PwC and Oh-chan possibly feeding info to him and the Jimusho?” asked Nino in exasperation.
“We’ll talk about that by and by. But now…” She paused and pecked him on the cheek. “I could eat you... alas, I have to whizz. Tell the bar to put the drinks on my tab.”
“But my lady…” Nino cast a frantic eye over her.
“Tata, mon cher. Until next we meet.” That was all she said before she snapped her fingers and disappeared into her customary black and blue flames.
~~~~~next session up in a bit~~~~~
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And you give our little Nino such wonderful advice it makes me wonder, do you really intend to eat him? I feel that you gain so much enjoyment from playing with your food....but the same could be said for my addiction to Aiba's blood XDDDD
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Piquet and bezique are the only card games I really know, and they're so late Victorian/early Edwardian. Ahem. And the part where Nino deals the cards and cheats by (i) hiding a trump under his palm, and (ii) marking a card with his ring finger - I've seen him do that in the card trick he did on one of the Utaban episodes. Moreover, Piquet is a card game based on "stealing" the tricks from the other player by getting the other player to discard cards you want. It's a cerebral card game, and something I thought Kazu might enjoy. Turns out of course that he's weak at discards. Heh.
I did study economics 10 years ago in pre-university for my GCE 'A' levels, so I do have a healthy interest anything to do with fraud and corporate corruption. *snigger* Obviously, there is a cover up. I could smell it all the way from Daisuke's first appearance chapters back. *smiles* What is Old Iago covering up....
Honestly... You've caught me there. I don't intend to eat Kazu. I want to eat to Kazu, but I can't bear to do so. I do have a tendre for him after all And a healthy lust for his mind as well because I'm not all that interested in the physical side of things. After a while, it gets boring and I much rather get excited talking and dissecting his mind than an hour and a half of physical activity.
I may have tortured him a little with a boot in his crotch and a hand around his throat, but I relented in the end. He ended up with free drinks and a peck on the cheek.
Eek! I may be giving myself away. How unprofessional of me!
You know what's surprising? I've never thought of my advice to Kazu as good. I just tell him what I think needs to be said. Oh, you! *blush* It's your fault I'm lusting after one of my patients. *falls into a sofa huffily*
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Hah! I love that you have a 'healthy interest' in anything to do with fraud and corporate corruption because I have a 'healthy interest' in market and corporate failure, particularly corporate failure. My father (that caudex) and most people believe me to be a pessimistic sadist, but to me, it is easy to grow a business when the economy is booming. That's no fun and of marginal interest to me. I like knowing how corporations that were once considered to be successful manage (even in favorable economic times) manage to commit corporate seppuku. So of course I can appreciate the fraud and corruption aspect. XDDD
Well, just continue to play and lust after the psyche of your food until he bores you. You can eat him then. It's like going to those East Asian restaurants where they have the seafood still alive and swimming about in the tank for entertainment and aesthetic purposes until some sadistic customer comes along and wants to feed a party of 15 with the 'freshest seafood on the menu'. You just want to gain maximum utility before you kill your entertainment. LUST AFTER MY KAZU'S PSYCHE!! You know you want it *waves it on a silver platter in front of Lady Strange who has since relocated to her electric chair*
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"Garcon, get me that fish with the too smug face." That would fly very well. *snigger*
There is only one way to be rid of temptation and that's to give in to it. Or as Oscar Wilde once wrote, "there are only two tragedies in life - not getting what you want and finally getting it." Heh. I'm still miffed the little fellow spurned my entirely not-so-innocent advances. Harrumph. It would be a shame to eat Kazu though. He hasn't bored me, and he has that something endearing that makes me want to take care of him. What's a devil to do in times like these... *sigh*
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Spurned advances? Nonsense. If he gave in too easily, you'd get bored. This keeps you coming back for more helpings of my Kazu. XDDDD Don't worry, the secret of your addiction is safe with me. I will never tell Mephisto.
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True, it wouldn't like Kazu if it were too easy to get him. Oh, the little darling *squeezes him and pats him pointedly ignoring his flailing for help* Oh, good. I won't breathe a word about your addiction for M. Aiba's blood either.
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Addiction *twitches from withdrawal*?! Who said anything about an addiction? *hands shaking* No one here's got a problem, right, Lady Strange?
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