Hi everyone... I'm feeling a bit frustrated about a number of things today...so I'm sure this'll affect this author's note... I'm reaching a certain point with these oneshots... I still enjoy writing them, but I feel as if they are all a bit rubbish and somewhat repetitive. So I'm wondering if I should just give up, before I ruin other wonderful Niles and C.C. moments...I don't feel content with what I'm writing at the moment...I don't know...and I really want to do it justice but seem to fail miserably. I just wanted to tell you that, in case I should decide to stop writing these oneshots...just so you know what's going on.
Disclaimer: still own nothing...
Episode 6: A decent proposal: Niles:"Don't play coy!I'm getting what I came for, I'll tie you down if I have to." CC:"Niles,you animal.I've never seen this side of you.."
Even Niles had said that she could get lucky, then why had no man approached her yet? She hadn't been with someone in such a long time that she was throbbing inside with an almost painful desire. But secretely she had wished that it wouldn't be just anyone who'd pick her up that night, she had hoped that it would be Niles. So when nothing at all had happened, she had withdrawn into her room with a bottle of champagne. She was beginning to drink herself into an even greater state of frustration, when suddennly the door burst open and Niles breezed inside.
"Give it to me, Babcock!" he demanded and she instantly felt her pulse rate quicken.
"Give what to you?" she asked,in an attempt to sound calmer than she was.
"Don't play coy!I'm getting what I came for, I'll tie you down if I have to."
This statement visibly affected her and so she found herself purring:
"Niles,you animal. I've never seen this side of you.."
She was slowly getting more and more excited as he began to look through her drawers. Her confidence growing she listed all the items of clothing she had brought along and he finally stopped dead in his tracks.
"I'm looking for my wallet." he said, looking clearly uncomfortable.
But it was her who was feeling much worse,completely and utterly humiliated. She quietly explained that she didn't have his wallet and sent him away. Then she went to hide in the toilet,sobbing about the cruelness of the situation. She had made herself completely vulnerable, now he had the chance to use all of this against her. But that wasn't even what bothered her the most. The worst part was, that she had given him the chance for more, but he had made no attempt to take advantage of it. After a while she heard the door to her room being opened and somehow softly knocked on the bathroom door.
"Miss Babcock?" Niles asked.
"What do you want?" she hissed, still sitting in a corner on the floor,hugging herself.
"Can I come inside?" he asked,without answering her question.
She didn't reply but merely buried her head against her knees. She heard the creak of the door and his hesitant footsteps approaching her.
"About what happened earlier..." he began quietly but she cut him off.
"I was only toying with you. You are a servant after all, aren't you?" she spat trying desperately to defend herself.
Her comment stung but he knelt down beside her,taking her hand in his, forcing himself to observe her body language instead of listening to her words.
"I don't believe that." he whispered softly.
"Why do you keep coming back?" she whispered,growing agitated "I hurt you,I insult you,I crush you...but you're still here."
"Now that is easy." he replied with a smile and she lifted her head to look at him "I'm still here because I keep hoping the moment will come when you can finally tell me."
"You predicted I could get lucky tonight...yet no-one has approached me,not even you wanted to touch me...Please,just leave me alone."
"Miss Babcock, I know that my behaviour might be foolish. You get my hopes up so often,only to crush me in the end. And I wish I could just turn around and walk out of your life,but I can't. It would be safer and easier for me, of course, but I don't want to be alone anymore,Miss Babcock. I simply do not accept the possibility that I might end up alone when I know, in my heart, that the two of us could be so happy together."
"What if it wouldn't work out,Niles? I'm a Babcock, you're a domestic...if things went wrong then it could destroy everything. Besides, how can you say all these things when you didn't want to touch me earlier on?"
Niles let out an impatient sigh.
"You know that I've got a gambling problem...it made me lose sight of the important things, but I did come back,didn't I? And I can't guarantee that things will work out...but if we don't try we'll only end up wondering what might have been."
He gently ran a hand through her beautiful blonde hair,before getting to his feet.
"Think about it." he said quietly and walked to the door.
"Kiss me, Niles." he heard her soft whisper and turned around.
His eyes asking the question his lips didn't dare to, he carefully approached her.
"Take me in your arms and touch me,make me feel..."
A softness stole over his features that immediately made his eyes shine with warmth. He lifted his left hand to rest on her cheek while he kissed her tenderly. He then ran his fingers down her face whispering:
"You are stunningly beautiful,C.C. Babcock. Any man would be lucky to have you."
"What are you waiting for then, Bellboy?" she whispered, claiming his lips again "After all, you had promised I'd get lucky tonight."