House elf to Renata Leynier

[hernes-son.livejournal.com]

"Do not drop it, I beg you," cautioned Robin, and the house elf nodded cheerily. Robin watched it go, the pot of fragrant white flowers held carefully out before it. He smiled to himself; he had included no note, but she would know who they were from.

Pleased with himself, he shouldered his bow and quiver and headed out through the courtyard toward the meadow.

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[hernes-son.livejournal.com]

Robin helped her to sit up, tugging the sheet up to cover her carefully - some temptations were more than human flesh could bear. "Foolish indeed, given the abundance of food here."

He tilted her chin up to look into her gray eyes. "Is there aught else I may do for you, beloved?" This was not about physical intimacy - Robin would never challenge Renata's limits in that way. And there would be time enough later.

[renata-leynier.livejournal.com]

She wrapped the sheet about her, and smiled up into his face. "Nothing at all, sweetheart, except to explain how I can tend these plants without sunlight! I should hate to see them languish here in the dungeons. A funny thing it is, too, to say that one lives in a dungeon; it does not feel like one at all, does it?" The room was not luxurious by a long shot, but it was comfortable, hardly a cell. "Perhaps there is some charm that can be used, to give them a light more nourishing than a candle ..." she mused.

[hernes-son.livejournal.com]

He grinned, touching her cheek. "You have discovered my cunning plan," he teased. "These - lily of the valley, they are called - they do not require much light, for the deep forest is their home. You may give them all that they need by taking them outside once each day, for about an hour." Robin smiled then, aware of this plan's shortcomings. "But I know that you cannot always take an hour for leisure. If you truly cannot be spared from your duties, I can take them, or a house elf will."

[renata-leynier.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps we might go together," Renata suggested.

[hernes-son.livejournal.com]

He bent and kissed her swiftly, almost chastely. "And thus have you uncovered the plan within my cunning plan," Robin said, his gaze soft on her face.

[renata-leynier.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you are clever," said Renata, both amused and touched. She made sure to find her robe again before she stretched up to requite his kiss with another.

[hernes-son.livejournal.com]

This kiss was less chaste, full of longing; Robin pulled away before he really wanted to, knowing he was testing limits he ought to avoid. He leaned his forehead against hers. "I should go," he said quietly, with a smile. "If you need me, and when you are ready, I will be waiting."