Name: Midnight conversations
Author: Rain
Disclaimer: Shaman King belongs to Hiroyuki Takei.
Characters: Hao, Jeanne.
"Say," he whispers one day, his fingers intertwined in her hair, "if you had to choose between letting me kill blondie or yourself, who would you choose to save?"
She stares, blankly.
"Him, of course."
That doesn't surprise him; he smiles smugly as he goes on: "And if it was a simple human? Someone you didn't know?"
A silence.
"It wouldn't matter. I'd still sacrifice myself."
"And Luchist?
- I'd still sacrifice myself," she repeats just as softly.
"Now you are being stupid. He betrayed you."
Then she has a small pale smile. "Perhaps. But I still would."
He doesn't understand.
"You have no idea of the risks, little Jeanne. No idea of how tantalizing you are… How deep I could traumatize you if I tried."
She looks up from whatever book she's reading. He's in one of these moods again. She doesn't look phased.
"I could seduce you so very easily. Hold you, kiss you, tell you lies that you'll believe – or even just push you down on the mattress and have my way with you right now…
- Yes, you could."
She still doesn't look scared.
"You don't care?
- No.
- Why?
- Because it wouldn't mean anything."
He still doesn't understand.
"And you?"
It's later in the night and it's his turn to look up to her.
"And me?"
"If it'd be so easy to have 'your way' with me, why don't you do so?"
He stares at her for a while. Her blank expression has to be fascinating for him to spend so much time looking at her.
Then, he laughs, and a lazy hand comes to ruffle her hair as he answers:
"Either because you're not pretty as you think you are and I was only trying to scare you… Either because I have more morals than you think."
Hao: ... Now she does drabbles in english again... *sighs*
Jeanne: ... And she's preparing Echecs and two-three chapters of her challenge. She wants us dead, I'm sure.
Rain: Not at all, I promise. Ugh *sick* please stop talking so loud.
Hao&Jeanne: ... *silence* ... I think a shouting match would do us much good. And to you even more. *begin*
Rain: *agony*