Milk and Frills
-- Muuf. --
I'm... tired.
No, fredd, it's not the end. o O; There won't BE an end unless I SAY there is an end. XD
::Huggles Vyctori:: Me luffs you. ^_^ Thanxx uberz for the pic! *o*
Akiko-san: If I got on my hands and knees and begged and grovelled at your feet for ten hours, would you do it? O_O ::Worships almighty Akiko-sama:: ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY AKIKO!
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Milk and Frills --
-- The acursed things (In Felix's opinion)
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Felix glared balefully at a glass of milk situated before him on the table, then scowled at his sister, who was making faces at him behind Mia's back.
"Why did you make me come?" Felix growled to Picard.
"Don't be mad, Felix. It'd be rude if we didn't come, anyhow."
"But why'd you make ME come?"
"Felix..."
"I hate milk." Felix grumbled. Picard chuckled.
"It's not so bad, love. It's just milk."
"It comes from a bovine planning to take over the universe." He hissed back, biting into an oatmeal cookie hesitantly.
"You really do have too much time on your hands..." Picard sighed.
"Care to share what you two are talking about?" Mia asked, overhearing their whispers.
"Uh, no -- " Felix started.
"He still thinks cattle are going to take over Weyard."
"Picard!"
"It's a virtue to be truthful!" Picard yelped before Felix could rain a Ragnarok on his head. "Um... right... Ms. Feizhi?"
"Men who are honest are well-respected in Xian," Feizhi said primly, taking a sip of tea.
"See?"
"Shut up." The Venus adept took a pillow and whacked him over the head with it, then sat down in a huff.
"You act so immature for your age, Felix." Jenna teased, her chocolate- colored eyes twinkling in merriment.
"So says the girl that's making *faces* at me." Felix shot back, and Mia whirled around to face the Mars adept. Jenna looked at her innocently. "Mia, you don't keep an eye on her."
"Don't blame Mia!" Jenna shouted.
"Yeah, it's not her fault you've come out so bad!"
"Felix!" Picard yanked Felix back down on his seat. "Maiming your sister in public would do plenty for your reputation!"
Ivan snickered, and Isaac cuffed him over the head.
"...I hate cows." Felix grumbled hotly.
"We know you do." Picard answered.
"Including that one, over there." He pointed at his sister. Picard raised an eyebrow.
"Felix......"
"They're all *evil*."
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[A/N: Poor Felix and his paranoia of cows. ^_^; Maybe that's why he's afraid of Ashley, the Apocalypse child... She adores bovines. ;;]
[Felix: You're MEAN! *Pout*]
[Taylor: Awww... ^_~]
Felix was grumpy.
...That was the understatement of the year, Picard mused.
"You're alive, Felix. Be thankful for small mercies."
"*Small*? I'm lucky I'm not a pile of charred ashes."
"There, you've got it!"
Felix glared at him, then crossed his arms over his chest in the 'I'm-moody- and-unhappy,-have-a-problem-with-it?' kind of fashion.
Picard frowned at him. "Are you still mad that your little sister beat you up?"
"Be quiet."
"What was that? ...So you *are* still moping!"
"Picard, I'll eat you for breakfast." he threatened.
"That sounds nice." He replied cheerily.
Felix kicked him under the table. "You're a pervert."
"You don't like me being a pervert?"
The Venus adept turned a variety of colors -- red, purple, blue, then back to red.
"You're turning into a berry." Picard said, poking his nose. "Either that, or you're trying to be a rainbow."
"S... shut up." Felix mumbled, a bright cherry red.
Picard got up and moved over to Felix's side of the table, taking the smaller adept's hands into his own.
"My pet is all shy now," Picard whispered into his ear, using the name Felix found most abhorrent. "I think I know a way to get him to come out of his shell..."
He kissed Felix teasingly, darting like a sparrow from one place to another -- his lips, his cheeks, his eyelids, his neck. Felix whimpered softly, his hands sliding from Picard's and hooking into the Lemurian's hair. And when Picard found his lips once more, several things happened all at once.
Something clanged into a pot on the countertop -- loudly. The force of this impact knocked the pan onto the floor, making another loud clatter. All this noise shocked Picard, who then -- accidentally, mind you, but one must always be suspicious of a Lemurian's motives -- clamped down on Felix's bottom lip with his teeth. (Most painful. Poor Fewix.) Felix, then, yelped, flailed, knocked Picard over, which sent him tumbling as well. This landed them in a rather compromising position, and when Jenna, Mia and Feizhi came running in, Felix got the rather dreary feeling he was going to roast over a spit soon, speared on a metal rod.
"...Um?" was the first word to break the silence.
"...Er..." Felix started. "...It's not what it looks like?"
"What are they doing?" Feizhi asked, her large purple eyes blinking rapidly.
"You sure you wanna know?" Jenna stared at her in amazement.
"Jenna!" Felix scrambled up, tripped over his own feet, and landed on Picard's stomach. The Lemurian wheezed. "I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry!"
Picard could only do so much as sigh.
"Okay, so, first... What were you two doing, or would it be better for my ears if I didn't know?" Mia looked between Felix, who was once again bright as a ripe cherry, and Picard, who looked... well... dead.
"I, um, we, uh, so..."
"We're going to get no where if you ask Felix, Mia, that's common sense." Jenna reached down and helped Picard up. "Ask him, he's the more knowledgeable one."
"Heeey!" Felix whined.
The first words out of Picard's lips were, "Does she know?"
"Know what?" Feizhi blinked some more.
"...No..." Jenna said sheepishly.
"Jenna..."
"I'm sorry, but there's never a 'right' time!" Jenna said exasperatedly, shaking her hands up and down. "And you never know what her reaction will be -- "
"About what?" Feizhi yanked on Jenna's ponytail unhappily. "What's going on? Even I do not know what's going on in your minds..."
"It's better that way," Felix muttered. Picard kicked his ankle.
"Uh, well... About that..." Mia started slowly.
"Here." Picard yanked Felix -- who was still nursing the bruise welling up on his recently kicked ankle -- into a long kiss. After he pulled away, he brushed some hair out of Felix face and pressed another kiss to the Venus adept's forehead. He turned to Feizhi. "See?"
A thud.
Jenna, Mia and Feizhi peered around Picard to stare at Felix, who had fallen to the ground in a dead faint.
"Was that supposed to happen?" Mia asked of Picard, who shrugged.
"...Did I miss something?" Feizhi said blankly to the air.
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Was it possible he fainted from lack of oxygen? Picard was musing later that day as he held his blanketed bundle-o-Felix on his lap. (*Snark* That's such an amusing phrase! 'Bundle-o-Felix! XD)
"I'm not cold." Felix told him again.
"You're shivering."
"So?"
"Jenna will maim me if she found out you caught hypothermia because I, a Water adept, and a healer, did nothing to stop it." Picard said evenly, tucking Felix's brown head under his chin. "And, you look so adorable when you're like this."
"Because I'm *vulnerable.*" Felix grumbled, trying to wiggle his way out of his cocoon but failing miserably. "And you like that. Is that your hand on my posterior?"
"Oh? Whoever said it was?"
"...Jerk."
"Feeeelix!" Jenna's cheerful voice rang throughout the house as she and Mia trundled in from their expedition outside. "We found Shine!"
"Am I supposed to be thankful?"
"What happened to you?" Jenna poked at Felix's nose with her index finger. "You look like a human cocoon."
"SEE?" Felix snarled to Picard, who ignored him and continued to cuddle with his precious bundle.
"I don't want him to catch cold." Picard said to Jenna, ignoring Felix's grumblings and cursings as he wriggled about in his jail. Jenna giggled, showing them her outstretched palm with the small Djinni sitting in it.
"I told you not to leave the cabinet open," Mia sighed, puffing the pillows. "Because Shine could get into the sugar."
"It was fun!" Shine squeaked, running up the length of Jenna's arm and leaping up to her head. "Isaac looked funny in a tow -- "
"Okay, you've had enough sight-seeing for today... I have to go apologize to Isaac..."
"Sight-seeing?" Picard asked.
"I pity Isaac." Felix rolled his eyes.
"At least it wasn't you." Jenna replied, setting Shine to herself and walking back into the kitchen for a cup of hot cocoa.
"You forget, our Djinn have seen everything and know everything." Mia sat down on a nearby chair, taking a brush and running it through her long hair.
"Don't remind me." Felix scowled, turning a beet red.
"We all saw more than we wanted to that day..." Picard chuckled and squeezed him.
"Pfft. You probably enjoyed it."
"Who says I *didn't*?"
"See, you ARE a pervert."
"You would be a pervert, too, if you had such an astoundingly cute thing for a lover."
Felix whimpered into his blanket/cocoon as Picard and Mia laughed.
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Feizhi was most perturbed. Picard loved Felix. Felix loved Picard. And all, as Garet said, was fine and dandy. She narrowed her purple eyes. But something was still wrong. ...She wasn't angry, or sad, or shocked! Yes, that was it! She rose from her seat and walked over to the window, where a fresh breeze was blowing in and making the curtains flare up. In Xian, such a thing would be considered dishonorable, and would get one dismissed from his family immediately.
And she, being of a well-respected family of Xian, could not go awry on the path of life. She stared, confused and bewildered, up at some clouds in the baby blue sky. But whoever said she was going *awry* to begin with? There was no harm in love, whether it be for a woman or for a man, right?
There was a knock at the inn door, and she went to open it. Isaac, looking a bit dizzy, was trying to flatten down his ever unruly hair (Feizhi thought that all the men of Vale seemed to have this problem).
"Isaac! What are you doing here?"
"Er, well...." He teetered. Feizhi moved to help him, but he gripped the doorpost instead of her arm. "Kraden... wants to talk to you..."
"But why do you look so inebriated?"
He wobbled, and this time, Feizhi had to take his arm and lead him inside. She dragged him to a chair and forced him to sit down. With her hands on her hips, she awaited an answer.
"Have you ever heard Kraden *talk* before, Feizhi?" He shook his head to clear up some of the Kraden-fogginess.
She pondered his question a moment before answering, "Why, yes I have!"
"Did he talk to you for at least half an hour?"
She twitched inwardly. Wasn't that the time the old man teased her about -- ?
"No, at the most, it was probably five minutes." Feizhi said in an even tone that, thankfully, did not belie her nervousness.
"R-really?" Isaac looked a bit as though a stunning revelation had come to him. Feizhi blinked at him worriedly. "Well... He wants to *talk* to you now..."
She was confused once more. "Is there something bad about this *talk* of his?"
"He goes on... and on... and on... until Weyard pretty much withers away from hearing so much." Isaac squeezed his eyes shut, and Feizhi felt a pang of sadness for him, then a much stronger thrum of anger towards the old man.
"And he *talked* with you, Isaac?" She took his hand and stroked it, gently, then smoothed out his hair. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," he replied, somehow feeling better with the slightest of her touches. He swallowed. "But you better go..."
"Oh, I should! It is never polite to keep the elderly waiting!" She jerked away, as though she were burned. Isaac blinked.
"...That is, unless you want to ignore his request and go out near the waterfall." His eyes twinkled with a new light -- mischieviousness.
Feizhi stopped in her tracks. If what Isaac had said about this elderly man was true -- then was she actually risking her life in going? But it wasn't polite to ignore requests, especially those of well-respected seniors...
...That was in Xian, though.
"Let us go to the waterfall, then."
"I didn't know it was in you, Feizhi! I'm most -- pleasantly -- surprised."
The Xian lady blushed and took his outstretched hand. Father would have such a fit when he heard... if he ever heard.
As Ivan had said: What he doesn't know won't kill him.
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Felix, as to be expected, was hating his cocoon more and more as the day wore on.
"What are you doing?" He yelped as Jenna *snugged* him around the waist and he felt his hair being lifted out of the cloth. "Jenna!"
"You're so waaarrmmm...." She purred. Felix twitched.
"Get away from me, you vile being!"
"Felix, you hurt my feelings. Would you consider me vile?" Picard asked softly, from his other side. The Lemurian pressed a wet kiss to his jawbone. Felix meeped.
"What are you -- "
"Jenna, would pink or yellow look better?" Mia called from the top of the stairs. In her hands were lengths of ribbons of various colors.
"I'M NOT CROSSDRESSING!" Felix yelled, pulling away from Jenna and Picard and landing in a heap (Once more ^_~) on the floor.
"Aww, Mia, you ruined it!" Jenna whined, stepping over her brother, who was shrieking like a banshee.
"I'm sorry, Jenna." Mia ran down the stairs, moving the ribbons to one hand so she could hug the Mars adept and press a kiss to her cheek. "But maybe we could still...?"
"NO!" Felix wailed. "The last time was more than enough!"
"Just for the look on Feizhi's face?" Jenna frowned. "Well..."
"The Semi-Annual Vale Beauty Contest is this weekend." Picard said, picking up Felix and stuffing a pillow over the deploring Venus adept. "We could see what happens when they crown him the winner..."
"But wouldn't they *know*?" Jenna's large brown eyes were shining in a devious way, despite her words. "Isaac and Garet and Ivan -- they'll know it's him!"
"Jenna! I'll kill you!" The pillow screamed.
"But Feizhi won't need to know! And if we make him pretty enough, everybody else won't know!"
"And, they're allowing entrants from Vault and Lunpa and Kalay this time! We can say he's from elsewhere!"
Jenna paused, contemplating these things. Then, without warning, she burst out laughing like a maniac, running upstairs. Mia, worried, as was usual, followed.
"This will be fun, trust me." Picard told the shuddering pillow.
"Fun my ass." It muttered. "The last time Jenna had me in frills..."
"That was for Halloween in Madra."
"I can't believe Sheba and Jenna made me go as a *girl* for that acursed party!"
"You made a noble lady, or so they told me. ...If I'm not mistaken, weren't you *supposed* to be a noble lady?"
"Shut up..." The pillow said weakly. "Why can't I just nap in peace?"
"You said so yourself that when one has conniving siblings, peace is an unknown word."
The pillow seemed to cry.
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End
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Oog, that was icky. e_e; But hey, I thought: A crossdressing!Felix and an evil!Jenna would make things interesting, no? Mwahahahaha. And because Picard crossdressing is overdone in Japanese GS fanart. XD Go look at Vyctori's art collection sometime, if you haven't done so already.
Akiko-san, pleeeez draw the picture! There's only ONE other Picard x Felix picture in existence (That I know of...), and it's not even that well implied! ...Actually, I had this extremely well-drawn picture of just Felix and Picard's heads... It was on a Japanese oekaki board. Picard's eyes = Freaky. But it was the LAST picture on the LAST page, so when another picture (One of Sheba, and it was TACKILY drawn...) was posted, it went: BAI BAI! ::Sob:: It's the same one I told you about, Taylor. There wasn't anything bad about it, but it appeared as though Picard had said something to make Felix BLUSSSHHH....
Ah well. Bloody oekaki boards.
Updates will continue sporadically... I need to work on The Elements now. I haven't even STARTED Agatio's chapter. ;-; ::Runs from Vyctori:: PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON ME, O GODDESS!
-- Muuf. --
I'm... tired.
No, fredd, it's not the end. o O; There won't BE an end unless I SAY there is an end. XD
::Huggles Vyctori:: Me luffs you. ^_^ Thanxx uberz for the pic! *o*
Akiko-san: If I got on my hands and knees and begged and grovelled at your feet for ten hours, would you do it? O_O ::Worships almighty Akiko-sama:: ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY AKIKO!
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Milk and Frills --
-- The acursed things (In Felix's opinion)
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Felix glared balefully at a glass of milk situated before him on the table, then scowled at his sister, who was making faces at him behind Mia's back.
"Why did you make me come?" Felix growled to Picard.
"Don't be mad, Felix. It'd be rude if we didn't come, anyhow."
"But why'd you make ME come?"
"Felix..."
"I hate milk." Felix grumbled. Picard chuckled.
"It's not so bad, love. It's just milk."
"It comes from a bovine planning to take over the universe." He hissed back, biting into an oatmeal cookie hesitantly.
"You really do have too much time on your hands..." Picard sighed.
"Care to share what you two are talking about?" Mia asked, overhearing their whispers.
"Uh, no -- " Felix started.
"He still thinks cattle are going to take over Weyard."
"Picard!"
"It's a virtue to be truthful!" Picard yelped before Felix could rain a Ragnarok on his head. "Um... right... Ms. Feizhi?"
"Men who are honest are well-respected in Xian," Feizhi said primly, taking a sip of tea.
"See?"
"Shut up." The Venus adept took a pillow and whacked him over the head with it, then sat down in a huff.
"You act so immature for your age, Felix." Jenna teased, her chocolate- colored eyes twinkling in merriment.
"So says the girl that's making *faces* at me." Felix shot back, and Mia whirled around to face the Mars adept. Jenna looked at her innocently. "Mia, you don't keep an eye on her."
"Don't blame Mia!" Jenna shouted.
"Yeah, it's not her fault you've come out so bad!"
"Felix!" Picard yanked Felix back down on his seat. "Maiming your sister in public would do plenty for your reputation!"
Ivan snickered, and Isaac cuffed him over the head.
"...I hate cows." Felix grumbled hotly.
"We know you do." Picard answered.
"Including that one, over there." He pointed at his sister. Picard raised an eyebrow.
"Felix......"
"They're all *evil*."
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[A/N: Poor Felix and his paranoia of cows. ^_^; Maybe that's why he's afraid of Ashley, the Apocalypse child... She adores bovines. ;;]
[Felix: You're MEAN! *Pout*]
[Taylor: Awww... ^_~]
Felix was grumpy.
...That was the understatement of the year, Picard mused.
"You're alive, Felix. Be thankful for small mercies."
"*Small*? I'm lucky I'm not a pile of charred ashes."
"There, you've got it!"
Felix glared at him, then crossed his arms over his chest in the 'I'm-moody- and-unhappy,-have-a-problem-with-it?' kind of fashion.
Picard frowned at him. "Are you still mad that your little sister beat you up?"
"Be quiet."
"What was that? ...So you *are* still moping!"
"Picard, I'll eat you for breakfast." he threatened.
"That sounds nice." He replied cheerily.
Felix kicked him under the table. "You're a pervert."
"You don't like me being a pervert?"
The Venus adept turned a variety of colors -- red, purple, blue, then back to red.
"You're turning into a berry." Picard said, poking his nose. "Either that, or you're trying to be a rainbow."
"S... shut up." Felix mumbled, a bright cherry red.
Picard got up and moved over to Felix's side of the table, taking the smaller adept's hands into his own.
"My pet is all shy now," Picard whispered into his ear, using the name Felix found most abhorrent. "I think I know a way to get him to come out of his shell..."
He kissed Felix teasingly, darting like a sparrow from one place to another -- his lips, his cheeks, his eyelids, his neck. Felix whimpered softly, his hands sliding from Picard's and hooking into the Lemurian's hair. And when Picard found his lips once more, several things happened all at once.
Something clanged into a pot on the countertop -- loudly. The force of this impact knocked the pan onto the floor, making another loud clatter. All this noise shocked Picard, who then -- accidentally, mind you, but one must always be suspicious of a Lemurian's motives -- clamped down on Felix's bottom lip with his teeth. (Most painful. Poor Fewix.) Felix, then, yelped, flailed, knocked Picard over, which sent him tumbling as well. This landed them in a rather compromising position, and when Jenna, Mia and Feizhi came running in, Felix got the rather dreary feeling he was going to roast over a spit soon, speared on a metal rod.
"...Um?" was the first word to break the silence.
"...Er..." Felix started. "...It's not what it looks like?"
"What are they doing?" Feizhi asked, her large purple eyes blinking rapidly.
"You sure you wanna know?" Jenna stared at her in amazement.
"Jenna!" Felix scrambled up, tripped over his own feet, and landed on Picard's stomach. The Lemurian wheezed. "I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry!"
Picard could only do so much as sigh.
"Okay, so, first... What were you two doing, or would it be better for my ears if I didn't know?" Mia looked between Felix, who was once again bright as a ripe cherry, and Picard, who looked... well... dead.
"I, um, we, uh, so..."
"We're going to get no where if you ask Felix, Mia, that's common sense." Jenna reached down and helped Picard up. "Ask him, he's the more knowledgeable one."
"Heeey!" Felix whined.
The first words out of Picard's lips were, "Does she know?"
"Know what?" Feizhi blinked some more.
"...No..." Jenna said sheepishly.
"Jenna..."
"I'm sorry, but there's never a 'right' time!" Jenna said exasperatedly, shaking her hands up and down. "And you never know what her reaction will be -- "
"About what?" Feizhi yanked on Jenna's ponytail unhappily. "What's going on? Even I do not know what's going on in your minds..."
"It's better that way," Felix muttered. Picard kicked his ankle.
"Uh, well... About that..." Mia started slowly.
"Here." Picard yanked Felix -- who was still nursing the bruise welling up on his recently kicked ankle -- into a long kiss. After he pulled away, he brushed some hair out of Felix face and pressed another kiss to the Venus adept's forehead. He turned to Feizhi. "See?"
A thud.
Jenna, Mia and Feizhi peered around Picard to stare at Felix, who had fallen to the ground in a dead faint.
"Was that supposed to happen?" Mia asked of Picard, who shrugged.
"...Did I miss something?" Feizhi said blankly to the air.
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Was it possible he fainted from lack of oxygen? Picard was musing later that day as he held his blanketed bundle-o-Felix on his lap. (*Snark* That's such an amusing phrase! 'Bundle-o-Felix! XD)
"I'm not cold." Felix told him again.
"You're shivering."
"So?"
"Jenna will maim me if she found out you caught hypothermia because I, a Water adept, and a healer, did nothing to stop it." Picard said evenly, tucking Felix's brown head under his chin. "And, you look so adorable when you're like this."
"Because I'm *vulnerable.*" Felix grumbled, trying to wiggle his way out of his cocoon but failing miserably. "And you like that. Is that your hand on my posterior?"
"Oh? Whoever said it was?"
"...Jerk."
"Feeeelix!" Jenna's cheerful voice rang throughout the house as she and Mia trundled in from their expedition outside. "We found Shine!"
"Am I supposed to be thankful?"
"What happened to you?" Jenna poked at Felix's nose with her index finger. "You look like a human cocoon."
"SEE?" Felix snarled to Picard, who ignored him and continued to cuddle with his precious bundle.
"I don't want him to catch cold." Picard said to Jenna, ignoring Felix's grumblings and cursings as he wriggled about in his jail. Jenna giggled, showing them her outstretched palm with the small Djinni sitting in it.
"I told you not to leave the cabinet open," Mia sighed, puffing the pillows. "Because Shine could get into the sugar."
"It was fun!" Shine squeaked, running up the length of Jenna's arm and leaping up to her head. "Isaac looked funny in a tow -- "
"Okay, you've had enough sight-seeing for today... I have to go apologize to Isaac..."
"Sight-seeing?" Picard asked.
"I pity Isaac." Felix rolled his eyes.
"At least it wasn't you." Jenna replied, setting Shine to herself and walking back into the kitchen for a cup of hot cocoa.
"You forget, our Djinn have seen everything and know everything." Mia sat down on a nearby chair, taking a brush and running it through her long hair.
"Don't remind me." Felix scowled, turning a beet red.
"We all saw more than we wanted to that day..." Picard chuckled and squeezed him.
"Pfft. You probably enjoyed it."
"Who says I *didn't*?"
"See, you ARE a pervert."
"You would be a pervert, too, if you had such an astoundingly cute thing for a lover."
Felix whimpered into his blanket/cocoon as Picard and Mia laughed.
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Feizhi was most perturbed. Picard loved Felix. Felix loved Picard. And all, as Garet said, was fine and dandy. She narrowed her purple eyes. But something was still wrong. ...She wasn't angry, or sad, or shocked! Yes, that was it! She rose from her seat and walked over to the window, where a fresh breeze was blowing in and making the curtains flare up. In Xian, such a thing would be considered dishonorable, and would get one dismissed from his family immediately.
And she, being of a well-respected family of Xian, could not go awry on the path of life. She stared, confused and bewildered, up at some clouds in the baby blue sky. But whoever said she was going *awry* to begin with? There was no harm in love, whether it be for a woman or for a man, right?
There was a knock at the inn door, and she went to open it. Isaac, looking a bit dizzy, was trying to flatten down his ever unruly hair (Feizhi thought that all the men of Vale seemed to have this problem).
"Isaac! What are you doing here?"
"Er, well...." He teetered. Feizhi moved to help him, but he gripped the doorpost instead of her arm. "Kraden... wants to talk to you..."
"But why do you look so inebriated?"
He wobbled, and this time, Feizhi had to take his arm and lead him inside. She dragged him to a chair and forced him to sit down. With her hands on her hips, she awaited an answer.
"Have you ever heard Kraden *talk* before, Feizhi?" He shook his head to clear up some of the Kraden-fogginess.
She pondered his question a moment before answering, "Why, yes I have!"
"Did he talk to you for at least half an hour?"
She twitched inwardly. Wasn't that the time the old man teased her about -- ?
"No, at the most, it was probably five minutes." Feizhi said in an even tone that, thankfully, did not belie her nervousness.
"R-really?" Isaac looked a bit as though a stunning revelation had come to him. Feizhi blinked at him worriedly. "Well... He wants to *talk* to you now..."
She was confused once more. "Is there something bad about this *talk* of his?"
"He goes on... and on... and on... until Weyard pretty much withers away from hearing so much." Isaac squeezed his eyes shut, and Feizhi felt a pang of sadness for him, then a much stronger thrum of anger towards the old man.
"And he *talked* with you, Isaac?" She took his hand and stroked it, gently, then smoothed out his hair. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," he replied, somehow feeling better with the slightest of her touches. He swallowed. "But you better go..."
"Oh, I should! It is never polite to keep the elderly waiting!" She jerked away, as though she were burned. Isaac blinked.
"...That is, unless you want to ignore his request and go out near the waterfall." His eyes twinkled with a new light -- mischieviousness.
Feizhi stopped in her tracks. If what Isaac had said about this elderly man was true -- then was she actually risking her life in going? But it wasn't polite to ignore requests, especially those of well-respected seniors...
...That was in Xian, though.
"Let us go to the waterfall, then."
"I didn't know it was in you, Feizhi! I'm most -- pleasantly -- surprised."
The Xian lady blushed and took his outstretched hand. Father would have such a fit when he heard... if he ever heard.
As Ivan had said: What he doesn't know won't kill him.
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Felix, as to be expected, was hating his cocoon more and more as the day wore on.
"What are you doing?" He yelped as Jenna *snugged* him around the waist and he felt his hair being lifted out of the cloth. "Jenna!"
"You're so waaarrmmm...." She purred. Felix twitched.
"Get away from me, you vile being!"
"Felix, you hurt my feelings. Would you consider me vile?" Picard asked softly, from his other side. The Lemurian pressed a wet kiss to his jawbone. Felix meeped.
"What are you -- "
"Jenna, would pink or yellow look better?" Mia called from the top of the stairs. In her hands were lengths of ribbons of various colors.
"I'M NOT CROSSDRESSING!" Felix yelled, pulling away from Jenna and Picard and landing in a heap (Once more ^_~) on the floor.
"Aww, Mia, you ruined it!" Jenna whined, stepping over her brother, who was shrieking like a banshee.
"I'm sorry, Jenna." Mia ran down the stairs, moving the ribbons to one hand so she could hug the Mars adept and press a kiss to her cheek. "But maybe we could still...?"
"NO!" Felix wailed. "The last time was more than enough!"
"Just for the look on Feizhi's face?" Jenna frowned. "Well..."
"The Semi-Annual Vale Beauty Contest is this weekend." Picard said, picking up Felix and stuffing a pillow over the deploring Venus adept. "We could see what happens when they crown him the winner..."
"But wouldn't they *know*?" Jenna's large brown eyes were shining in a devious way, despite her words. "Isaac and Garet and Ivan -- they'll know it's him!"
"Jenna! I'll kill you!" The pillow screamed.
"But Feizhi won't need to know! And if we make him pretty enough, everybody else won't know!"
"And, they're allowing entrants from Vault and Lunpa and Kalay this time! We can say he's from elsewhere!"
Jenna paused, contemplating these things. Then, without warning, she burst out laughing like a maniac, running upstairs. Mia, worried, as was usual, followed.
"This will be fun, trust me." Picard told the shuddering pillow.
"Fun my ass." It muttered. "The last time Jenna had me in frills..."
"That was for Halloween in Madra."
"I can't believe Sheba and Jenna made me go as a *girl* for that acursed party!"
"You made a noble lady, or so they told me. ...If I'm not mistaken, weren't you *supposed* to be a noble lady?"
"Shut up..." The pillow said weakly. "Why can't I just nap in peace?"
"You said so yourself that when one has conniving siblings, peace is an unknown word."
The pillow seemed to cry.
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Oog, that was icky. e_e; But hey, I thought: A crossdressing!Felix and an evil!Jenna would make things interesting, no? Mwahahahaha. And because Picard crossdressing is overdone in Japanese GS fanart. XD Go look at Vyctori's art collection sometime, if you haven't done so already.
Akiko-san, pleeeez draw the picture! There's only ONE other Picard x Felix picture in existence (That I know of...), and it's not even that well implied! ...Actually, I had this extremely well-drawn picture of just Felix and Picard's heads... It was on a Japanese oekaki board. Picard's eyes = Freaky. But it was the LAST picture on the LAST page, so when another picture (One of Sheba, and it was TACKILY drawn...) was posted, it went: BAI BAI! ::Sob:: It's the same one I told you about, Taylor. There wasn't anything bad about it, but it appeared as though Picard had said something to make Felix BLUSSSHHH....
Ah well. Bloody oekaki boards.
Updates will continue sporadically... I need to work on The Elements now. I haven't even STARTED Agatio's chapter. ;-; ::Runs from Vyctori:: PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON ME, O GODDESS!