Rilo Kiley - A Better Son / Daughter ( Read more... )

*is mad as hell right now, pacing the lobby and scowling at her attendants, all dolled up for her date (her mother's idea -- so taken with the idea of young love and if you only got to know him better --) and she doesn't care where they're going, she's going to scratch his eyes the moment she sees him, just for making her wait*

*it's the sort of spring day that doesn't quite know it's spring yet, there's a chill still when you go outside and Hamlet's in the black hoodie that always makes him look tiny, for someone so tall, fingers barely peeking out the sleeves -- he's at the park, sitting on a swing alone, and it's hard to say how alone he is -- pushing himself back and ( Read more... )

*can't spend his days alone and expectant, but he can't go back to the palace, either -- he's still suffocated there, can't speak or think or breathe, and sometimes looking at his uncle is bad enough that he might attack him in a blind panic (-- the guards would drag him away -- but he could, he could); Horatio's lodging-house is too close to the ( Read more... )

*Laertes told him to rest, and he wanted to (wanted to obey -- when it comes to winning the love of a father, he doesn't know what to do, except to behave, to obey, to stay out of the way -- of course he was never going to be anybody's equal), but in Laertes's apartment he thought of all the wrong things, thought of a morning in bed teasing and ( Read more... )

* was up all last night, patient and cheerful at first, but the later it got (all the bars must be closed now), the more he had to think (something might have happened), the harder it was to let go of the thought  (somebody heard -- somebody knows -- something must have happened --) and he's been wandering, sleepless and possessed, thinking only ( Read more... )

*the princess of Denmark is sitting in the lobby, wearing a black dress and black lace gloves, fingers curling, uncurling in front of her as she watches their shadow-patterns shift, all childlike attention -- she's been odd, these past few months, since her father died and her uncle became king, and today she is going to meet the man he has told ( Read more... )

Qu'est-ce pour nous, mon coeur, que les nappes de sang ( Read more... )