[OOM] Eiattu - Safe Quarters

[fighting_mad]

The guards know better than to say one single word when high heels click outside the apartment door and the princess enters, red-eyed and pale with fury. It would be dangerous enough to say something ordinarily, and her temper has been even more unpredictable than usual for the past day or two. The two of them respectfully avert their eyes as she walks through the living quarters and into the bedroom.

Rial is asleep on top of the covers, and Plourr trips over to the bed and flops down, curling up with him, tangling her legs in his (and possibly not taking enough care with her sharp heels) and burying her face in his neck.

It would be an awesomely dedicated sleeper who could sleep through the way she's holding onto him.

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[eiattu_pride]

...oh, dear.

Rial sighs and shifts over until he's looking her straight in the eyes.

"Always. Always and forever. No matter if you punch me or hog the covers or snore."

[fighting_mad]

He sighed.

He sighed and, and, that must mean something, and she doesn't know what, but it's not a good something, and she wants to grumble, "I don't snore," but she doesn't trust her voice. She twists her hand in the blanket instead and lets her eyes drop to watch it wrinkle, and she nods woodenly.

[eiattu_pride]

"Hey. Hey, I mean it. Promise."

He's frowning now because she's been all odd lately and this is just...strange. Not really her.

"Plourr, did something happen?"

[fighting_mad]

She takes a deep breath, still watching her fist. "I--"

Her voice cracks.

She shuts her eyes and gives herself a minute.

"I just met a vaping piece of Huttslime in the bar. That's all."

[eiattu_pride]

Uh-oh.

Rial tenses slightly, one hand squeezing into a fist.

"What happened with him?"

[fighting_mad]

"Nothing. Except--

"We smoked a little, drank a little, he hit on me, I said I was married, he said you're probably off kriffing other people anyway, I said fuck off, he said with an attitude like that he's not going to keep you long anyway, who wants a woman with a mouth like that anyway, and I know he was sithspawn and I'm furious, trust me, and I don't put any stock in one kriffing word he had to say but I just."


You want to keep me, right?



The words tumble over each other in one fast sentence; she doesn't even notice when she slips in and out of his exact words.

[eiattu_pride]

Ohhhhh, dear.

Rial pinches the bride of his nose and counts to three.

"Plourr. I'm only going to say this once more, so you're going to listen, okay?

"I love you. I love you so much that I don't know what I did before. I would never sleep with someone else because in comparison to you, it'd just be wrong. I love your mouth, and I don't mind your language one bit because that's just what makes you who you are. And I won't leave you as long as I live. Okay?"

[fighting_mad]

She glances up in time to watch most of what he says, and her face steadily loses some of its pinched look. There might even be the briefest flash of a smile.

One corner of her mouth twists up. "You mad?"

[eiattu_pride]

"Why would I be mad?"

He honestly wants to know.

[fighting_mad]

"The smoking, the drinking, the being stupid. The--" She pinches the bridge of her nose and sighs heavily, doing a fairly decent impression of him. "Was a pretty good sign."

[eiattu_pride]

"Oh."

There's a long pause, and then, carefully, "Your behaviour today has been a bit - odd. And I'm tired. It's just a little frustration."

[fighting_mad]

She wriggles backward and says a quiet, "Okay. You should go back to sleep. Sorry."

[eiattu_pride]

"Hey, it's okay."

He runs his fingers through his hair, yawning.

"What time is it?"

[fighting_mad]

She checks a chrono on the wall. "1330. You have time to go back to bed," she tells him, and she reaches out and (a little awkwardly) runs her fingers through his hair, too, doing a much better job of smoothing it.

"You're astral. Really, really astral," she says softly. "I don't tell you that enough."

[eiattu_pride]

Well, that's somewhat unexpected.

Rial grins a sleepy grin.

"I don't get tired of hearing it."

[fighting_mad]

Plourr was a Rogue, after all. Do the impossible. Expect the unexpected.

She leans over and wraps her arms around his neck, and she kisses him.

"Sleep," she tells him once she finally pulls back a little.

[eiattu_pride]

"Okay."

Hey, he's not complaining. Lies back down, curling into his pillow.

"G'night."

[fighting_mad]

Plourr presses a light kiss into his hair. "It's not night." She gives a tiny smile. "Good afternoon," she says, and she slides off the bed and leaves, quietly closing the door.

It's time, she decides, for food. She's really, really hungry.



(But no chocolate, thank you very much.)