::Open RP - Anne Awakens::

[mistressshirley.livejournal.com]

Anne remembers her first kiss oh so clearly... the first brush of his lips against hers, the taste of his mouth, the soft pressure of his teeth...

"Ryuuji..."

It comes out as a sigh, another daydream wrapped in impossibilities, illusions of brilliance and wonderful futures layed out like gauzy gowns and towers of marzipan. Such things had been with for ever, it seemed, never really heeding her half-hearted banishments in favor of more adult pasttimes.
And oh, she'd wished that the sweet boy - that beautiful man - had been something different. A sliver of bright reality among the mosaic of sweet lies she'd pieced together. A cornerstone. A single perfect brushstroke that would lead to countless others...
But she'd heard the dark rumors of meddlesome gods and unrequited love, and an innate sensibility (which always surprised her when it showed) insisted that her beautiful suitor had been nothing but another victim.
To say nothing of her! Her heart had been broken, ripped from her chest with claws of iron. Marilla's most fervent unspoken warnings had been proved true all in one instant, and it was all Anne could do not to write, and be picked up forthwith. Only the dread of one-thousand looks that would read 'I told you so' prevented her - and maybe a smidgen of innate sensibility.


So she lies on her bed, staring listlessly through gauze curtains. Occasionally a house elf will peek around one of the posts, and ask some question or another, but she hardly notices. Such things were commonplace now, although Marilla would surely scold her for taking advantage of the poor beasts.
"It only proves how far-gone I am..." She thinks listlessly, and smiles slightly, unconsciously.

Her thoughts are interrupted by a particularly persistent House Elf. "Missus... Missus... Missus... Missus... Missus... Missus..." The little thing sighs dejectedly when Anne insists on ignoring him, and sighs deeply. "Missus..." He pleas one more time, then shakes his head. Almost as if in pain, he takes a bit of the skin of her calf, and pinches it. Hard.
"Missus!"

Anne jerks, and stares for a long moment at the house elf, before sighing. "Oh, what is it Gangrene?"

"Missus told Gangrene that OW! at three o'clock Gangrene should OW! tell Missus that it is time for her OW! exercise."

Anne scowls protectively, and takes the bedpan the elf had been bashing his head with, and places it on the nightstand. Gangrene lunges for it, but Anne holds him back with a slim hand. "Yes... yes. Thank you."
Standing, she stretches, then puts on a light shawl over her gauzy nightgown - the same nightgown she'd been wearing when...
She shakes her head violently, and pushes past Gangrene (who is repeatedly stubbing his toe on the foot of Anne's bed) to the window. It unlocks easily under her familiar fingers, and opens on greased hinges. A small terrace covered in thick ivy lies just outside of it, and she climbs out and begins to ascend the creepers with steady grace.
Somewhere below, students practice on their brooms, their calls shrill from distance. Anne ignores them, long since learning that to look down can be fatal, and that the only escape is up - up to the hidden pavements and galleries and rooms sealed off from the rest of the castle long ago...
Secretly, she hopes someone will find her up here, and give her an excuse to no longer be alone.
ANYONE but Ryuuji, that is.


((Open to just about anyone... especially to our students from Gormenghast, and Ryuuji :D ))

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[dice-addict.livejournal.com]

((*dies* So tempting, especially since Ryuuji just got dumped. Quick question though - what are we saying happened on V-Day? They kissed, but what else apart from that? I think that Ryuuji would have taken her off-world, to a real castle and boat, and had tea with her on the river, then in the nighttime, dragged her to a formal ball and introduced her to everyone as his princess without par, Anne Shirley. And taken her back home to Gryffindor, and woken up in the morning back to normal, and hoped she figured out it wasn't really him but never actually owled her or anything. XD))

[mistressshirley.livejournal.com]

((Anything you like, really... Anne's just pissed because none of it was real :P
And she's sulky - been hidning out in her room for almost a month now, being incredibly anti-social and stubborn. The more Ryuuji did for her on V-day, the more pissed off she's going to be when he shows up...))