Chise noticed that lately Elias has been pretty quiet. Not just that, but he had also been talking with her less, and it seemed like he had something on his mind, judging from how he's been opening his mouth only to close it again. But if he didn't want to tell her about it just yet, she decided to wait for him, seeing as how she trusts that if it was really important he would probably hide it better (which upset her a little, since he should be saying if something like that was going on).
So she waited. She waited, and waited, and waited.
Weeks had passed since their last outing, when she had brought him to a carnival that had started up in the town recently. And ever since then she knew that Elias had been thinking about something, more so than usual, and no matter what each time she prompted him or asked him if anything was wrong he would seem to speak, then change his mind and say something else.
Now she wondered what to do, lying on the grass as she pointed out shapes of clouds in the sky above.
"What do you think, *Rutsu?"
She turned her head to her right as Ruth laid his head on her stomach, locking his gaze with hers.
"Maybe he's just being shy," he answered, and closed his eyes in fondness at the warmth of his owner.
She sighed. "Maybe," she said, more to herself than to the grim.
But what could it be, she wondered? What was it that caused Elias to become so quiet that he might actually be shy? Normally he would just ask her a question as soon as the time was right, and never showed any signs of having kept that question in mind for how long.
She blinked, and the apprentice mage turned her eyes to the front door of the house, which was closed. She stared at the vines and their leaves which covered the walls, but truth be told her focus was elsewhere.
While her eyes seemed to stare at the vines just beside the window, she was really focusing on Elias as he sat on his chair. He seemed to be thinking, his mind wandering as it usually did when he was there. With an open book in hand which he wasn't reading anymore, she observed him close his eyes - and after a few seconds passed, open them again.
Then suddenly he shifted his gaze towards her - as if he knew that she was watching. Watching him watching her.
She blushed slightly, quickly turning back to the clouds and pointing at one, telling Ruth that it looked like a fairy. He played along, knowing that his master was just trying to distract herself, and said that it looked like a dragonfly, and that he wanted to eat it.
Chise laughed at that, and he smiled fondly inside.
As she laughed, Chise made a resolve to continue to wait for a little longer. If Elias didn't want to tell her just yet, whether it was because he was shy or not, she would be patient. She would wait for when he felt the time was right, or until he felt comfortable, because in a way, it was pretty magical already for him to have these emotions which he claimed to not have before.
Author Notes:
*Japanese pronunciation of Ruth, I think. I put it this way because it sounds more natural like this, since that's how she says his name in the anime.
Hey! So, I'm back with another chapter of The Good, The Bad, and A Little Bit of Magic! Yay.
I'm not really sure whether this chapter's quality was as good as the first, but I hope you liked it! If you have anything to say about it though, just leave it in the reviews!
Also, for those of you waiting for the next chap of "Gone" and "The Next Disaster" among my D. Gray-Man fanfics, I'm really sorry I haven't posted anything yet! I haven't been in the mood to write it, and when I try the quality just isn't the same! It makes me want to cry. But I promise I'll try to update as soon as I can, so stay tuned!
I also have a two Haikyuu! fanfics I plan to write, one of which will be a Halloween special! (I wasn't able to write it before Halloween finished, sadly, but it's going to go up anyway.) So look out for those, plus an upcoming BNHA fanfic!
I'm not really sure when I'll be posting those (hopefully soon), but for now, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, as well as any of my other stories you may have read. If you enjoyed this one, leave a comment in the reviews!
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- animellow