Title: Anytime
Summary: Jane has never seen a day go by where Jester hasn't made a smile. Why is today any different. JaneJester. For Mars.
Inspirations: Jane and the Dragon; smile; Cuthbert
Song to Listen to: Paper Chase – The Academy Is…
Interesting Fact: I almost fell in a man-hole thinking of this. No, seriously.
Dedicated To: You know who you are. Explained after this fic.
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"Jester? Are you all right?"
"I'm…perfectly fine, Jane. Why do you ask?"
"Well – for one thing, your hat is off, you are sitting on a rock in the middle of nowhere and you are not smiling like a fool."
"Not everyone has to smile, Jane."
"But you always smile."
"Not today, Jane."
"Smile, Jester."
"I'm sorry but no."
"How about if I make you smile?"
"You cannot make me smile, Jane…no one can."
"Oh don't be so depressing! You can always smile!"
"Well I cannot now."
"I can make you smile, you know."
"No, you cannot."
"Yes, I can and…I will show you how!"
"Ja – mmph!"
"…see?"
"Thank you, Jane."
"Anytime, Jester."
"You do not mean that, Jane."
"What?! Of course, I mean that!"
"No, you do not, Jane. You may mean that now but when someone brave and tall and dark and handsome helps you save Kipper Castle from some attack, you will just forget all about your stupid friends and run off into the sunset with him to save all the neighboring kingdoms."
"What?!"
"Jane, please excuse me, but I have to go and compose a ballad or play the lute or do cartwheels or do something that Jesters' do…"
"Jester – stop, please, why are you acting like this?"
"I know when I am not wanted."
"What?! Do you have a fever? Have you completely lost all sense? Am I really so – oh Jester, is it my fault? Oh no, I scared you with that ki – thing I did to you, didn't I? Oh Jester, I'm so sorry – mmph!
"Jane. Never apologize for what your heart is telling you."
"Fine! I won't! Now stay here and continue what you started, you stupid Jester!"
"…what did you say?"
"If you leave me, I swear that I will send Dragon for you and then make him drag you back where Iwill flog you until you never mention leaving the castle again! I may be unladylike and bossy and I may disregard the rules and get angry easily and have untamable hair but I am certainly not that vile for you to leave me! …Am I?"
"Jane, what are you talking about?!
"You hated the ki – thing, didn't you? I'm sorry I really am but you are my best human friend and I had to see you smile and you were talking strange, and, and, and - "
"– Jane!"
"Mmph!"
"Thank you, Jane."
"Anytime, Jester, anytime...but please stop talking about leaving or having some stupid stranger help me save the castle. When I do save the castle, it will be with you and Dragon. Not that donkey Gunther or Sir Theodore or King Caradoc or some stranger but you and Dragon, my best friends."
"I will be here, Jane. As long as you want me."
"Good – now wear your hat and smile, you fool."
"OI! SHORTLIVES! I FOUND A NEW JOKE ABOUT CUTHBERT! WHO WANTS TO HEAR IT, THEN?!
"I think that's my cue to leave, Jane."
"Do you want to get flogged?"
"Um…no? Heh heh…"
"Then sit."
"Yes, milady."
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This has to be one of the worst things I have ever written.
And I have written a lot of crazy stuff; it's actually a response to a friend of mine here.
She wanted a speech-only drabble of my current obsession.
So here, bum! Enjoy the atrocity!
Leffie