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◎ c h a r l i e ([info]spinnets) wrote in [info]valesco,
@ 2011-12-26 23:36:00


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Entry tags:anya kalinnikov, billie trimble, carys llewellyn, charles spinnet, delilah spinnet, group, joey jenkins, mirabelle jasper, octavius pepper, penelope fawcett, rose knightley, rupert brookstanton, seth wadcock, therese bonaccord, victoria cadwallader, zoey moran

NEW YEAR'S EVE POST
It felt good to be the host of the party, and not the one creating a scene and making an entrance. Though Charlie would never admit it, the therapy sessions with Healer Bonaccord had...well, he still wasn't happy with everything going on in his life, but it had given him an outlet other than the bar, and that was allowing him let out the pent up stress he'd been bottling in. It was hard to figure things out by yourself, and for someone whose ego was as fragile as his, Charlie was slowly realizing that he needed a complete stranger to release his anxieties.

Of course, he wouldn't feel like he'd completely found peace until he managed to get her in the sack, but that was just a personal goal of his.

At any rate, Charlie was finding that being the host was interesting. Everyone knew you were going to be there, so there wasn't a great surprise when they saw you, but after those greetings were done they were off to see who else had shown up. It looked like a good outcome, but Charlie felt a bit slighted as it was pretty deep into the night and a certain invitee had not appeared in the crowd. With a breath he pushed the door open to the balcony and stepped out into the cool December night.

He stuck his hands into his pockets, spotting some displays of fireworks over the tops of the surrounding buildings. Charlie grinned at the early celebrations and let his shoulder sag.


ooc: guests = quidditch related people + their guest?



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[info]perfectblack
2012-01-03 01:57 am UTC (link)
Penelope shook her head, because she didn't want remarkable words, didn't need them, except for one, except yes, because in that moment she dared to hope for it. The way she had missed Charles, she didn't even know the extent of it until she had seen him. There was a thudding in her chest that almost hurt. She didn't remember a heart beat ever being this painful before, but she couldn't recall a time when it felt as though it had swelled to twice its size, either. Maybe her wish was coming true, because slowly it felt like fighting with her brother, school, anything before and outside of this moment was irrelevant and didn't count. Penelope was gladder for it.

She had played a game with herself, sometime past, when she couldn't tell between dreaming and waking, though the circumstances were much bleaker then. It used to be when she dared not think anything a dream, but here was just the opposite. Though she knew this must be taking place, even with the fantasy-like quality of the encounter, Penelope still could not quite convince herself that it was. "Real or not real," she said softly, closing her eyes. "Are you truly standing here? Is this—really happening, or is it my imagination?" And though she was still clutching him, could feel him there, she was hesitant to open them. Hallucinations could seem tactile. Auditory illusions existed. She knew she couldn't trust her eyes, so kept them shut. But she didn't care now, because it was the best one she could remember having.

Stepping even closer, she clasped his hand in both of hers and rose up on her toes. Leaning into him so her lips were just a sigh away from his, Penelope's grip on his front tightened. "Please kiss me even if it is."

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[info]spinnets
2012-01-03 03:37 am UTC (link)
How could she expect him to form words when her mouth was so close? Charlie felt as if his mind had started to burst into tiny explosions, and whether or not it actually was occurring or the fireworks in the literal sky were starting to go off, he could not tell. He just nodded, unable to answer her question because he bent at the knees, gravitating towards her to seal their distance with a kiss. Charlie wrapped himself around her small frame and pulled Penny as close to him as possible, the ache he'd been carrying around in his chest finally bursting. It was like he'd been walking around, alone and confused for the past three months and now he knew exactly what he'd been searching for.

Merlin---he never wanted to leave this balcony. Charlie knew that this fairy tale of a moment wouldn't and couldn't last forever, but he had no desire to go back to the real world and deal with the mistakes they've both made, he didn't want to try to repair things with her family, he just---he wanted Penelope and the idea that they could be happy together to last him through the night.

"Real, real," he managed to say when he broke away for quick, split seconds. Please let it be real, he needed this happiness more than he'd realized.

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[info]perfectblack
2012-01-03 04:17 am UTC (link)
To say she clung to him was an understatement. Even to ignore everything else, the intellectual, the emotion, to rely just on the physicality of their relationship, she still felt something with Charles she never had before. This was real, it had to be, because merely thinking it wasn't hurt too much. In reality, it scared her, and even hurt her a little on some level, but it was so much better than not having it. Which she hadn't, could only have imagined a pale imitation of, for three long months. A quarter of the year that was coming to a close.

Her eyes fluttered open at the thought, and she paused for a brief second, looking up at the burst of lights exploding in the sky in earnest now. There was the far away sound of cheering, whether from distance or from their unwillingness to be a part of anything happening outside of their balcony, she couldn't say.

As the close of any period in a person's life will inevitably cause, she reflected on where she was a year ago. Charles Spinnet had not existed for her—little had. But in the space of just twelve months—perhaps even less—there was suddenly everything. Right in this precious moment, she felt like she had everything. Curling her hands around his broad shoulders, at the nape of his neck, she broke the kiss but rested her forehead against his. "It's the new year, Charles," she whispered, laughing a little because part of her still disbelieved, because it was the happiest, the best she'd felt since even her shining old memories had a haze of sadness and she didn't know it was possible to feel this way. Penelope kissed him soundly and mumbled against his lips, "Happy 1983."

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