One Fine Day.
By Bra's Unrequited Romance
Disclaimer- I don't own Howl's Moving Castle. Too bad, sniff. I really love the movie. All of the movie belongs to Hayoa Miyazaki, the person that wrote the book and Studio Ghilbi
The sun shone brightly through the window, filtering the chloroplasts onto the two beings in slumber on a luscious bed.
The moving castle rocked as it came to a halt and unfortunately rocked so that it woke the couple. Slowly the large contraption descended and came to rest on may green grass that had been licked with dew in the twilight.
Howl yawned then stretched, careful not to hit the delicate female next to him. Rubbing his head, Howl's cerulean eyes moved over to Sophie. She was awake but groggy, her brown eyes opened and closed as she sighed.
"Getting up?" Howl murmured in her ear, a soft smile playing on his lips.
"Hmm…" Sophie groaned, yawning a small one, but then settling back into Howl.
Howl scoffed a little and using a delicate hand, strung Sophie's starlight hair, then lifted her heavy head off his chest and captured her swollen lips with his.
Untwining, Howl got out of bed and slipped on his thin cloth shirt that had been removed before he had gone to bed. Howl descended the stairs to find Calcifer munching on a piece of wood, and his apprentice munching on some ham.
"Calcifer, would you warm the water for a bath?" Howl asked stopping halfway on the stair case.
Calcifer, who was quite enjoying his log, and the scraps of ham Markl was throwing him murmured out a sight huffed, "Fine."
Walking up the stairs again, he couldn't help but smile when he heard the water running in the bathroom and couldn't help but ponder the perverted thought of how she looked.
Howl loved the woman in the bathroom; it was something he could not hide. He loved everything about her, the little squeal she made when she was somewhat frightened (Usually when he took her flying), her starlight hair to her smile, everything about her he loved. And yet although he had only known this woman, well in this form for about say a week. He had felt he had known her all his life.
Making his way downstairs again, Markl asked him for permission to leave the castle for he thought the town they were based near was somewhat interesting. How he thought it was he would never know. Actually thinking about it more, he didn't exactly know where his beloved castle had made rest.
Taking a pan from the wall, he placed four rations of bacon on it before cooking them over Calcifer, who in time, muttered that he hoped that all his bacon burned. Howl couldn't help but chuckle as he cracked two eggs and fed the shells to Calcifer who munched them happily.
Taking the pan off of Calcifer who licked the sides of it with his flares, Howl suddenly noticed that the normally crimson Calcifer had turned a beetroot pink and was staring over at the stairs.
Interested in what would make Calcifer do such a thing, Howl turned head towards the stairs.
"Um… Howl… I- I-… I have no clothes." Sophie blushed a little, as she felt Howls wandering eye on her.
"That doesn't matter… I'm sure no one would mind if you…" Calcifer shut up as he received a quick glance from Howl.
"I think I would have some clothes up in my room… If you look in my wardrobe, there should be something there, they should do until we get you some clothes, and I think Markl went out to the town not too far from here. We'll look there after breakfast."
Sophie nodded and then made her way up the stairs, making sure nothing slipped and was seen by those wandering eyes.
"So are youse two going out now?" Calcifer asked as he wrapped himself around the steel spike of the fire place.
"Yes, we'll be back in a while. If Markl comes back…"
"Tell him to read chapter seventy eight of his text," Howl butted in, his cerulean eyes sparkling.
"Okay…" Calcifer dragged on,
"Have fun," He called to the retreating couple, "Get me something will you, maybe some coal… Chocolate… Anything?!"
"So where to go first?" Howl asked softly in Sophie's ear.
"Howl… Heh, we're back in my home town…" Sophie exclaimed looking at the main square she was so familiar with.
It just so happened that the castle was connected to an abandoned house just around the corner from one of the busiest parts of town.
"Do you have a problem with that… I thought you would have liked that," Howl said as he took Sophie's arm in his and walked along the road towards the main square.
"I don't mind, it's fine, I quite like my town," She said as she looked at her father's hat shop when they walked past her old house.
"Good," Howl chirped, "Now we can go buy you some new clothes. And then maybe we'll work on lifting that curse for you hmm?"
Sophie nodded, "yes."
Sophie didn't look that bad seeing as she was dressed in Howl's clothes. Black pants, a large, baggy pink shirt, it wasn't a bad fashion choice. Too bad women didn't wear pants, they wore dresses. Heh, oh well, maybe she'd start a new trend.
"Sophie!? Sophie is that you sweet heart?!"
Sophie turned around to just see a woman fling at her and push Sophie to the ground, while Howl put his hands on his hips and laughed.
"Oh Sophie! Sophie! I missed you so much, oh you look so much younger, but your hair! Oh Sophie thank god!"
"I missed you too mother," Sophie said as she wrapped her arms around her sobbing mother.
"I thought you left again," Honey cried hugging her eldest daughter.
"No mother, it's okay, I'm staying," Sophie reassured her mother, who was still on top of her on the ground.
"You must move in with me! Stop working as a cleaning lady, come move in with me and my husband, oh Sophie you'd love him!" Honey said as she got up off her daughter and to her own two feet.
"No thank you, ma'am," Howl interrupted, taking Sophie's hand as she got up.
"Excuse me I don't think you can make up my daughters mind," Honey interrupted Howl, shaking a menacing finger at the young wizard.
"Mother, I don't really want to move in with you, I have a family now," Sophie explained, holding onto Howl's hand a little tighter.
"Oh okay… Oh I am so rude, excuse me young man, I am Honey, Sophie's mother and you are…"
Howl smiled a little, "I am Howl."
Sophie's mother fainted.
"Mother? Mother?"
Honey's vision was blurred and she couldn't remember anything. All she could remember before blacking out is that she had found her beautiful eldest daughter.
"Sophie?" Honey moaned, touching her forehead with a delicate hand.
"Yes mother it's me, Sophie."
"Oh, Sophie, how long was I asleep for?" Honey asked.
"Only a few minutes, we just took you into the shade," Sophie explained.
Wait 'we', who's we?
"Oh Sophie, I just had this horrible dream!" Honey cried as she sat up, "I just dreamt that you were hand in hand with that murderer with no heart, you know the one that eats the heart of beautiful girls!"
Instantly Honey noticed that Howl was no where to be seen.
"Mother… Please…" Sophie begged, "His name is Howl."
"Honey! He's a murderer!" Honey cried out, grabbing her daughter's hands and shaking her head furiously.
"Mother you don't even know him, how can you say he ever done such things?! They're all rumours!" Sophie cried.
"You love him?" Honey asked softly as her anger died down a little.
"Yes," Sophie replied, "Very much… We're a family. You should come visit us."
"Sophie?" Howl sang, swinging around the corner of the alley way.
"Yes?" Sophie asked, noticing that her mother also looked at him.
"Come on, I've found you some clothes," Howl motioned for them both to follow him.
"Oh Howl, it's lovely, but I can't afford it, we can't afford it," Sophie protested looking at the lemon dress in the window of a dress makers shop.
"This dress is special though…" Howl wined, smiling back.
"I don't know why you just didn't use your magic anyways Howl," Sophie said.
"I can use my magic for anything, Sophie; I want some things to be special."
Sophie couldn't help but smile as Howl talked to the shop keeper before he purchased the dress in which was packed into a cream box.
"Where do you get your money Sophie?" Honey asked suddenly, "I don't want to be rude dear you know I never want to be rude, but you don't work… I'm assuming Howl doesn't either…"
Sophie smiled and tapped her nose, Honey in then time smiled as well.
"Well ladies, we have gotten everything we have travelled into town for. Sophie, you don't need anything else?" Howl asked, eyeing off his true love.
"I just need to get something for tea tonight; there was a food stall on the way here, I'll just get something there," Sophie smiled.
Howl's eyes travelled over to Honey's.
"Do you?" Howl asked.
Honey shook her head and answered, "no".
"Alright then, my lady, would you like to accompany us back to my home?" Howl asked Honey, his eyes sparkling with interest.
"Oh I really don't know… My husband… Oh of course, why not," Honey gave in.
"Well then, we'll make our way back," and with that, Howl linked arms with Sophie, gave her a quick peck on the cheek and they started to walk.
The heavy bolted door opened and the wheel above switched to yellow as the three figures walked through.
"About time you got back, I was getting lonely," Calcifer whined.
"Well don't worry, we're back now," Howl said as he placed the round box on the table.
"Calcifer, where's Markl?" Sophie asked, looking up the stairs to see if she could spot the boy.
"On the balcony, playing with Sulieman's dog," Calcifer answered, grabbing a log.
"Hey, whose that lady, she keeps staring at me," Calcifer asked, noticing the lady who was staring at him with a blank look.
"Oh, Calcifer, you've met her before, this is my mother," Sophie introduced.
"Correction, I've seen her before, never met, as for you lady, I am an extremely powerful fire demon named Calcifer!"
"Oh… Hello," Honey timidly raised her hand for a little wave then put it back down.
"Sophie! Sophie!!" A voice cried as it stormed down the stairs.
"What Markl?" Sophie asked as the young boy ran towards her. Howl lent on the bench and looked on in amusement.
"Heen did a trick! Heen can fly!" Markl exclaimed, pumping his hands.
"Did you read chapter seventy eight?" Howl asked, leaning over Sophie's shoulder.
"No…" Markl sighed then retreated up into his room to find his text.
"You're horrible, you just ruined his moment," Sophie teased.
"He's my apprentice, not my son," Howl smiled back.
"Are you two going to get married?" Honey suddenly burst out.
Howl choked on his own spit.
"I- I think it's a bit early to say that… I mean, Sophie still needs to have her curse broken…" Howl spluttered.
"You aren't pregnant are you Sophie?" Honey looked over to her daughter.
"No mother!" Sophie cried.
"Oh, well I must be off, look, I'll see you later honey, you must come visit me and your new step father some time, you know, he would ever like to meet the eldest of his step daughters," Honey said, and with that she excused her self and walked back out into the street.
"The nerve of that woman," Calcifer suddenly burst out, "Blhhhh," he spat as his tongue waved in all different directions.
"Hm, come on lets get lunch started, I don't feel like a salad any more," Sophie huffed and pulled out a frying pan.
"Aw man…" Calcifer whined, "This is not part of our agreement!"
Never the less, the cold metal frying pan was placed on Calcifer and he was forced to cook.
"So…" Howl whispered as he crept up behind Sophie, who jumped when she felt his hands on her stomach, "Pregnant huh?"
Sophie let out a groan of frustration and rested her head on Howl's shoulder who just chuckled.
HELLO!! It's Bra again, if anybody notices! Hope you like my little doodad. There will probably be more little chapters coming in. Maybe a bit of comedy, eh eh. Lol, man am I gunna have fun with this step father!
Anyways, please leave a review. I would be very much appreciated!
(They make me work a little harder :P)
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