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Disclaimer: I own neither the concept, the setting, the title, nor most of the characters. I may as well bear no responsability for this fic, which luckily means that I can blame other people for how bad it is!
The Way We Live Now
-Tales of NDCSH-
37
Getting into the school was not that difficult. Alex had graduated last year, but some of the teachers remembered her and they didn't mind an alumni stopping in to see the Christmas show.
She had come to see Clopin in his element. He'd told her about the assembly, in passing, because he knew she had gone to ND and might be interested. But he hadn't mentioned the fact that he was hosting it. She had remembered that part from last year and the year before- being impressed by the lanky, eccentric kid on the stage who despite being a year younger already had ten times her confidence.
They weren't officially dating, of course. He was too infuriating, and neither of them really had time for it anyway. But she didn't mind seeing him from time to time, especially when he brought her doughnuts.
The show was as impressive as any of the years she had seen before. Phoebus and Esmeralda were back together, thank God, and even from the stage they read clearly as a happy couple. Phoebus was learning Guitar. Esmeralda could really dance, and their friend, the deformed one who was becoming a normal sight throughout the town, had a voice like an angel. But whenever Clopin was onstage, everyone else was ignored.
His presence was electric. He seemed completely at home, and was as funny, as charming, as devilish and mad as ever she had seen him. There was more life in that elastic body and dark, attractive face than whole oceans of normal people could have hoped to contain. She felt proud to think that she had sold him the accordion that he was now employing with such comedic brilliance.
She clapped and whistled at his every jibe and joke, and tried to decide how she would tell him she had come.
Just in case you were wondering why Alex doesn't go to ND...
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Oh, and yes, emo-gyspy, the chinese dragon is indeed Suzanne. ;) It expressed her confusion about her own identity.
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