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Grayson Wilkes ([info]glovesmandatory) wrote in [info]valesco,
@ 2008-10-26 17:46:00


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Entry tags:grayson wilkes, ophelia wilkes

[Ophelia!]
Things had been going well -- eerily well, in all honesty. 'Work' - inasmuch as what he did for the Dark Lord could be called 'work' - had him pleasantly on-time, although he had a few ticking annoyances plaguing the back of his mind that he'd have to take care of sooner rather than later.

He palmed the box in his pocket before he apparated to the door of the house he shared with Ophelia, glancing into the hall as he stepped inside. Grayson would be the first to admit that he kept an odd schedule, so there was no telling whether his girlfriend would even be home. He smelled food, but that was more than likely a house-elf preparing the evening meal at the time it had been told to earlier in the morning by Grayson himself.

Stepping into the living room area, he drew off his gloves and shoved them into the sleeve of his overcoat and hung the thing up on its proper hook. He wasn't one to announce his presence, but Ophelia had probably heard the activity if she was home. He slid down into a chair, opting to wait rather than call out to her.



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[info]primrosepath
2008-10-27 02:16 am UTC (link)
"The house elf is doing a surprisingly good job of things lately," she mused. Which, if Ophelia was completely honest, probably had something or another to do with the influence of her boyfriend. For some reason, there weren't many people who had the gall to displease Grayson on purpose, almost as if they found him frightening.

Utterly ludicrous, of course. She couldn't imagine what could be so scary about him. Grayson Wilkes was practically a teddy bear.

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[info]glovesmandatory
2008-10-27 02:25 am UTC (link)
Maybe one of those teddy bears that secretly had switchblades embedded into their paws that snapped out when you tried to hug them?

Grayson nodded faintly, smoothing his hand over her hip once more. "You're ... happy here, aren't you?" A bit of an out-of-the-blue question, but one that he felt nonetheless he should ask before he went any further in his lone train of thought.

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[info]primrosepath
2008-10-27 02:39 am UTC (link)
"Eh?" She tilted her head slightly to gaze down at him, a smile still lurking on the edges of her lips, but tinged with the look of having been taken off guard. "Why such an odd question all of a sudden?"

Ophelia's fingers continued to move through his hair as she spoke, affectionate but now somewhat reassuring as well. "Have I done something to have you think I'm not?"

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[info]glovesmandatory
2008-10-27 02:46 am UTC (link)
Ah, so he had caught her off guard.

"Well, you see..." He curled his hand around Ophelia's wrist to still her fingers long enough so that he could turn to kiss her palm, "...As much as I enjoy languishing in sin, I am terribly traditional when it all comes down to it."

Grayson slipped his hand into his pocket and set the little velvet box atop Ophelia's knee. One spontaneous proposal after another from him, apparently.

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[info]primrosepath
2008-10-27 03:45 am UTC (link)
"Eh?"

It was the same syllable she'd uttered earlier, except this time it was about ten times more surprised--and on top of that, downright perplexed. Her eyes shifted between the box on her knee and his face, trying to discern his level of seriousness, you know, generally just what was going on.

It was impossible that he could be asking her to---? Right? Considering their history with weddings, it wasn't possible that Grayson was proposing (albeit rather awkwardly), was it?

After a long moment, an uncertain hand reached out to pick up the velvet box, and she used her thumb to flip the top open. Inside was---oh. Ophelia's eyes locked on the familiar diamond, unable to tear themselves away even as she opened her mouth to finally speak. "You're serious, aren't you?"

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[info]glovesmandatory
2008-10-27 03:50 am UTC (link)
"I understand, of course, that you might not want the same ring -- if you would be more perceptive to a newer one..." Because apparently he wasn't entertaining the thought that she might say no. They were happy together and they were practically married already, living together as they were. What could possibly drive her to say no?

Except for that whole ... disastrous first wedding thing. Grayson shifted so that he could slide his hands down over her arms, brow arched at her. "I don't think that I'm anything but serious most of the time, Ophelia." He gave her shoulders a light squeeze, though, still waiting for his answer.

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[info]primrosepath
2008-10-27 04:02 am UTC (link)
Well, he did have a point; there were very few times when she had seen Grayson be anything but serious. So it was a stupid question on her part, maybe, but she had a reason, didn't she? This was all a little sudden, after all.

Ophelia's skin warmed at the feeling of his hands on her shoulders, and a smile coaxed itself out onto her lips once more. Her eyes rose from the stone for the first time since he had asked the question---wait, no, that's right! He hadn't asked anything, had he?

Well then.

Forcing herself to frown despite the unbearable excitement that was currently growing in her chest, Ophelia gave the box back to him and crossed her arms over her chest. "I don't know what you expect me to do with this, Grayson." After all, he was not about to get away with doing this wrong twice.

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[info]glovesmandatory
2008-10-27 04:10 am UTC (link)
Oh, she was not going to actually make him say it, was she? Apparently she was. He resisted the urge to do something ridiculous like lose his temper -- because quite honestly, he had been planning to ask properly, but then things had just sort of come out like they had...

"Well, that is a problem." He took the box and tucked it back into his pocket, glancing toward the kitchen.

"You know, I think that dinner's nearly ready."

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