"One Thing"- Chapter 1
This is my second Fan Fic ever written and its in another obscure area Howl's Moving Castle. To be honest I love it so much, read the book, watched the movie and my god, it was amazing. This is going to be short but I said that about my last one and its still not done. Hope you enjoy this.
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Howl loves Sophie and Sophie loves Howl, what more could they want. Howl is ready to take the relationship to the next level but Sophie is still a little scared, will Howl ever get what he wants? And what happens when your getting rejected all the time? Can Howl really take that sort of abuse and will he let his self of steam be trodden on by little Sophie?
"One Thing"- Chapter 1
The cool summers day up in the clouds welcomed Sophie as she wandered out to water some hydrangeas. The sun had always lifted her spirits as she quietly hummed a pleasant tune to herself, immersing herself in the fickle yet calming task. Flowers bloomed all throughout her garden as they chased the sun in her castle. She giggled to herself contemplating the pleasant though of it being 'her' castle and not just Howl's. The thought of him made her heart flutter and a warm feeling in her chest to form.
It wasn't even a month since they had finally told each other of the love they held for one another, thinking over the found memory made her lips widen in a smile and a rose tinted blue come to her cheeks. She never wanted to forget that moment between them, that loving caring feeling she held close to her chest.
Lost in though she never noticed the tall figure creep up behind her with a devilish grin on his face.
"Gotcha", Howl exclaimed. "Ahhh" Sophie shirked as Howl grabbed her waist and pulled her into a bear hug. Water went everywhere and was soon raining down upon them. Howl was now chuckling at the sight of her dishevelled state, "ha ha, very funny" Sophie said as calmly as she could while trying to wriggle out of his grip. It occurred to her that he wasn't budging. She looked up at him to see him wearing a big Cheshire cat grin, looking extremely proud of himself that he caught his prey.
"Howl let me go, I need to water the garden" she tried arguing her way out and Howl's face changed to a heart broken pout "no, I don't want to" he said defiantly, holding her more to his chest. Sophie would be telling a lie if she said she didn't enjoy closeness but she really had to get on and do house work. So she tried a different a approach; "Please Howl, Pretty please, ill hug you all day when ive finished the chores", "no" was the only response she got. Sophie was rapidly getting annoyed with his childish antics and turned round to tell him off like one, "now look here-" Howl's lips swooped down to claim her and finished her sentence for her. What ever Sophie was going to say was completely forgotten, she melted into Howl's embrace and kissed him back, loving the feeling of his soft lips massage hers, it sent a pleasant tingle through her.
Howl broke off the kiss and started placing butterfly kisses up to her ear where he sensually whisper "I want to take you away with me, lock you up in my room until you forget there's even a world on the other side of the door, all I want you to know, feel, see is me", Sophie's whole body stiffened and she became very frightened ' I'm not ready for this, I'm not ready for this, I am not ready for this!' she chanted over and over again in her mind. Sophie tried pushing against Howl to loosen his grip but it wasn't working, panic set in and she didn't know what to do, her breath quickened and her mind went into over drive trying to figure out how to get out of the situation she was in.
All of a sudden crashes and the distinct sound of shattering glass could be heard from inside. Seconds latter Marcle's crying clear and loud enough to hear outside. "he needs me" Sophie shakily whispered so only Howl could hear. Howl let of a disappointed sigh of defeat and let go of his hold on Sophie. She scurried off eyes planted to the ground. Sophie was worried Howl's feelings were hurt but before anything could become of that thought Howl called out "Sophie!" she turned round "Don't forget what I said" he told her before giving her a wink filled with promises she didn't know if she was ready for.
Marcle was on the floor eyes blubbering with a cut knee, pots and pans lay everywhere in the kitchen and the glasses on the table were shattered. Marcel saw Sophie coming to his rescue and wiped away his tears and tried not to cry any more, he didn't want to seem like a baby in front of Sophie. "oh Marcle what have you been doing? We don't need to re-do the kitchen until a month off, some nice changes though" Marcle started to laugh as he heard Sophie's kind hearted joke. Sophie couldn't help but smile at the situations they usually found themselves in, 'well boys will be boys" she though and got to work cleaning Marcle's wound and comforting him.
Marcle explained that he was trying to make himself some food which ended up a disaster before it begun and insisted he helped clean up, "ok my you cannot go near the glass, we wouldn't want you to get hurt again" Sophie replied with a motherly tone. They both got to work placing the pots and pans back in their respectful homes, both too engrossed in thought to talk to each other. Where as Marcle was too ashamed of the catastrophe to speak, Sophie had her mind on other things, namely what Howl said.
Thinking over the very words he used made a cold unpleasant shudder go through her, she had never been approached like that by any man in her life and didn't quite understand what it all meant. Sophie was always told stories of what men and women did together; they hugged and kissed and cuddled and some other stuff that were always kept secret from her. Sophie mused and concluded that she was just very sheltered in her childhood. She never questioned it before but maybe that wasn't a good thing.
Sophie had also heard stories from the girls at work, telling her how despicable men were and how they were only ever after one thing. Frankly Sophie had no idea what the "one thing" was but was always too shy and nervous to ask what it was, from listening in she gathered that it was something to do about the bed and that it certainly wasn't something talked about in public. 'Is that what Howl was talking about?' she was so confused, the feeling she got today was weird and made her scared and she never wanted to feel it again, but if Howl was as persistent as he normally was, Sophie didn't think that there was any way of avoiding it. Maybe she would find out what this "one thing" was after all, but not yet, she could tell by the horrible feeling in her today that she was no where close to ready for what ever Howl was trying to dish out.
Her mind came up with one hundred and one defence plans, ways to avoid Howl and evade all his advances. Sophie felt slightly guilty for planning to give Howl the cold shoulder but she had to do this for her self, Howl would just have to be patient, maybe in the mean time she could find out what the "one thing" that all men wanted was, Howl certainly seemed to want it, 'wait does Marcle?' is it like a gesture? Or a treat? Maybe you can eat It or its something to feel' Sophie couldn't make up her mind, she just couldn't understand what it meant.
By the time she snapped out of her thought the kitchen was clean again and Marcle had disappeared to bed some time ago. Retiring to her bedroom she locked the door behind her and proceeded to strip her cloths off. 'well what ever this "one thing" is, its going to have to wait, I'm tired and I wont let that keep me up all night long' she tried to quiet her mind to sleep and found she was soon entering dream land. Content but still worry in her face.
Finished the first Chapter YAY, it was surprisingly easy compared to the other stuff ive written, maybe its because I'm getting more used to writing or that this was a shorter piece, well what ever it was I hope you enjoyed it and review my work, I'm pretty desperate for feed back, well actually just the conformation that someone has actually read my work :L anyways I'm off to bed now, soooo tired bye! Thanks for reading!