Disclaimer: I do not own the characters I use in this fanfiction. I do not own Shakespeare. However, if anyone wanted to give me a late birthday present, Sanosuke would do nicely,
AN: Back from camp. Cause of all the nice (and threatening) reviews that you guys sent me, and cause I made you wait for so freaking long, I'll try to get this up quick. Much love, all! Will this be the last chapter? We'll see.
The Kiss and The Afterparty
"Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!" Sanosuke pulled Megumi into his lap. "and, lips, O you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargin to engrossing Death!" With this he leaned down and kissed her lightly on the lips.
"Are unconscious people supposed to blush like that?" Misao giggled to Kaoru backstage. Kaoru just smiled.
"Come, bitter conduct, come unsavoury guide!" Sanosuke said, his voice husky with fake tears. "Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!" He rustled into his pocket to pull out a small red vial filled with "poison" "He's to my love." He stage whispered. Megumi in his warm lap felt like he was talking only to her. It didn't help the blushing.
"O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus, with a kiss I die." He kissed Megumi desperately on the lips. Part of the desperation was acting. But the other part... the rational part of Megumi didn't like to think that he actually might genuinely be in love with her. However, it was getting harder and harder to deny.
He rolled to the side, leaving her sprawled on the ground. Kenshin and another actor entered the stage. They shared a relatively brief conversation. On the ground, Megumi waited for her cue.
"Ah, what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance!" Megumi at this started to push herself off the ground. "The lady stirs." Kenshin finished. Megumi ran through her lines with him with ease. She had to resist smiling as Kenshin offered to put her in a sisterhood of nuns. Finally he exited the stage.
Leaving her and Sanosuke alone. The thought made her heartbeat quicken. Even though they were in front of at least a hundred people, she felt like they were the only ones there.
"Go get thee hence, for I will not away, What's here? A cup closed in my true love's hand? Poison I see hat been his timeless end. O churl, drunk all, and left no friendliy drop to help me after?" She wailed, throwing the bottle into the audience carelessly. It hit and knocked out another helpless seventh grader.
"I-I will kiss thy lips," the stutter wasn't in the script. She hoped no one in the audience was a Shakespeare scholar, or she would be in for a few questions as to why she was so nervous. "Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative." She lowered her face to his slowly. She kissed him softly at first, then gradually more intensely. She couldn't really help it. That kiss... there really weren't words to describe it. It made all the other kisses she had ever had seem like kissing a manikin. She finally broke the kiss, her lips burning. With a startling rush, she realized what she had hoped she would never have to face.
She loved him. She really did love him. Goddammit. She closed her eyes and breathed out. Only one more line. Then she could think.
"Thy lips are warm." She stage whispered, touching his mouth with her finger. She knew corpses weren't supposed to be that color red. He was really cute when he was blushing, though.
"Lead boy, which way!" Aoshi yelled from offstage. She jerked her head upwards.
"Yea, noise! Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath!" She jammed the rubber dagger into her chest. "There rust, and let me die." She didn't pay attention to where she fell, and landed right on top of Sanosuke.
It was in character, but still...
A whole group of characters entered the stage and said their lines. Megumi wasn't really paying attention to them. She was just concentrating on the rise and fall of Sanosuke's chest underneath her, and how damn warm he was...
"All are punished." Aoshi ended, in his coldest and most condescending tone. The curtains closed. For a split second Megumi hesitated before getting up. Very quickly she turned away from Sanosuke. Her heart was torn with the realization she had just reached and knowing what she had done to him. The look on his face as he walked away... she had hurt him.
And that was killing her.
"Good job." Kaoru said, punching Megumi's shoulder. She winced and came out of her trance.
"Oh. Uh-thanks. You too."
"Especially that kiss. If I didn't know any better I would have said that you actually did feel something for the guy." Kaoru winked at her and then went over to talk with her other friends, leaving Megumi a devastatingly bright shade of pink.
At that precise moment she caught Sanosuke's eye. He looked.... Well... surprised. She would have expected him to be grinning his signature grin at this point, but there wasn't a trace of a smile on his face. Instead he was watching her. Trying to figure out what the hell had been in that last kiss. Both of them knew that it wasn't just good acting.
Sanosuke's hand had been throbbing all day, a low dull ache. He had gotten kind of used to it. He just thought it was nothing: he had punched Kanryuu a little too hard: that was all. What could he say? The bastard deserved it. But as he helped tech carry the props off stage it got gradually worse and worse until he had to grit his teeth to bear it. A few of the cuts on his hand from hitting the elevator had reopened, and the bruises looked worse. Overall, it was just really a mess.
There was a general sense of euphoria at the after party. No one could really believe that the play they had worked on for months was really over. Kanryuu and his friends were sulking in the corner, watching Sanosuke observantly. Misao and Kaoru were whispering to each other and giggling, every once and a while glancing over in Megumi's direction. No one in the cast had really failed to miss the significance of that last kiss, and they were all waiting to see what would become of it.
Monigue had started a betting pool on how long it would take for them to become a couple. Bets were placed everywhere from three hours to one week.
Megumi and Sanosuke both remained very, very confused.
Megumi was trying to figure out if she had hurt Sanosuke so badly that he wouldn't take her and wondering how to tell him what she had discovered during the last scene of the play.
Sanosuke was wondering why everyone seemed to be staring at him. Besides that, he was wondering what had changed in Megumi. The way that she looked at him seemed to be somehow... different. Like she had realized something that had been on the back of her mind for a very long time.
He watched her as she exited the room. Probably to go outside and think. She seemed troubled. And he knew exactly how that felt.
With alarm he noticed that Kanryuu and his group of thugs had also slipped out of the room. And he guessed that they weren't going outside to think.
Sanosuke pulled himself up from where he was sitting. Looked like he was going to have another 'talk' with Kanryuu. With his group of thugs with him, it would be harder. But then again, Aoshi was one of the people that Kanryuu had hired to protect him. Aoshi despised the guy, and would probably make it a little easier for him.
It would be unpleasant. But then again, Sanosuke wouldn't- couldn't- let Megumi get hurt by those scum bags.
He loved her too much.
AN: Buhahaha there will be one more chapter! Get ready for a little bit of action... Much love to all reviewers. You people rock!
AN: Back from camp. Cause of all the nice (and threatening) reviews that you guys sent me, and cause I made you wait for so freaking long, I'll try to get this up quick. Much love, all! Will this be the last chapter? We'll see.
The Kiss and The Afterparty
"Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!" Sanosuke pulled Megumi into his lap. "and, lips, O you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargin to engrossing Death!" With this he leaned down and kissed her lightly on the lips.
"Are unconscious people supposed to blush like that?" Misao giggled to Kaoru backstage. Kaoru just smiled.
"Come, bitter conduct, come unsavoury guide!" Sanosuke said, his voice husky with fake tears. "Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark!" He rustled into his pocket to pull out a small red vial filled with "poison" "He's to my love." He stage whispered. Megumi in his warm lap felt like he was talking only to her. It didn't help the blushing.
"O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus, with a kiss I die." He kissed Megumi desperately on the lips. Part of the desperation was acting. But the other part... the rational part of Megumi didn't like to think that he actually might genuinely be in love with her. However, it was getting harder and harder to deny.
He rolled to the side, leaving her sprawled on the ground. Kenshin and another actor entered the stage. They shared a relatively brief conversation. On the ground, Megumi waited for her cue.
"Ah, what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance!" Megumi at this started to push herself off the ground. "The lady stirs." Kenshin finished. Megumi ran through her lines with him with ease. She had to resist smiling as Kenshin offered to put her in a sisterhood of nuns. Finally he exited the stage.
Leaving her and Sanosuke alone. The thought made her heartbeat quicken. Even though they were in front of at least a hundred people, she felt like they were the only ones there.
"Go get thee hence, for I will not away, What's here? A cup closed in my true love's hand? Poison I see hat been his timeless end. O churl, drunk all, and left no friendliy drop to help me after?" She wailed, throwing the bottle into the audience carelessly. It hit and knocked out another helpless seventh grader.
"I-I will kiss thy lips," the stutter wasn't in the script. She hoped no one in the audience was a Shakespeare scholar, or she would be in for a few questions as to why she was so nervous. "Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative." She lowered her face to his slowly. She kissed him softly at first, then gradually more intensely. She couldn't really help it. That kiss... there really weren't words to describe it. It made all the other kisses she had ever had seem like kissing a manikin. She finally broke the kiss, her lips burning. With a startling rush, she realized what she had hoped she would never have to face.
She loved him. She really did love him. Goddammit. She closed her eyes and breathed out. Only one more line. Then she could think.
"Thy lips are warm." She stage whispered, touching his mouth with her finger. She knew corpses weren't supposed to be that color red. He was really cute when he was blushing, though.
"Lead boy, which way!" Aoshi yelled from offstage. She jerked her head upwards.
"Yea, noise! Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath!" She jammed the rubber dagger into her chest. "There rust, and let me die." She didn't pay attention to where she fell, and landed right on top of Sanosuke.
It was in character, but still...
A whole group of characters entered the stage and said their lines. Megumi wasn't really paying attention to them. She was just concentrating on the rise and fall of Sanosuke's chest underneath her, and how damn warm he was...
"All are punished." Aoshi ended, in his coldest and most condescending tone. The curtains closed. For a split second Megumi hesitated before getting up. Very quickly she turned away from Sanosuke. Her heart was torn with the realization she had just reached and knowing what she had done to him. The look on his face as he walked away... she had hurt him.
And that was killing her.
"Good job." Kaoru said, punching Megumi's shoulder. She winced and came out of her trance.
"Oh. Uh-thanks. You too."
"Especially that kiss. If I didn't know any better I would have said that you actually did feel something for the guy." Kaoru winked at her and then went over to talk with her other friends, leaving Megumi a devastatingly bright shade of pink.
At that precise moment she caught Sanosuke's eye. He looked.... Well... surprised. She would have expected him to be grinning his signature grin at this point, but there wasn't a trace of a smile on his face. Instead he was watching her. Trying to figure out what the hell had been in that last kiss. Both of them knew that it wasn't just good acting.
Sanosuke's hand had been throbbing all day, a low dull ache. He had gotten kind of used to it. He just thought it was nothing: he had punched Kanryuu a little too hard: that was all. What could he say? The bastard deserved it. But as he helped tech carry the props off stage it got gradually worse and worse until he had to grit his teeth to bear it. A few of the cuts on his hand from hitting the elevator had reopened, and the bruises looked worse. Overall, it was just really a mess.
There was a general sense of euphoria at the after party. No one could really believe that the play they had worked on for months was really over. Kanryuu and his friends were sulking in the corner, watching Sanosuke observantly. Misao and Kaoru were whispering to each other and giggling, every once and a while glancing over in Megumi's direction. No one in the cast had really failed to miss the significance of that last kiss, and they were all waiting to see what would become of it.
Monigue had started a betting pool on how long it would take for them to become a couple. Bets were placed everywhere from three hours to one week.
Megumi and Sanosuke both remained very, very confused.
Megumi was trying to figure out if she had hurt Sanosuke so badly that he wouldn't take her and wondering how to tell him what she had discovered during the last scene of the play.
Sanosuke was wondering why everyone seemed to be staring at him. Besides that, he was wondering what had changed in Megumi. The way that she looked at him seemed to be somehow... different. Like she had realized something that had been on the back of her mind for a very long time.
He watched her as she exited the room. Probably to go outside and think. She seemed troubled. And he knew exactly how that felt.
With alarm he noticed that Kanryuu and his group of thugs had also slipped out of the room. And he guessed that they weren't going outside to think.
Sanosuke pulled himself up from where he was sitting. Looked like he was going to have another 'talk' with Kanryuu. With his group of thugs with him, it would be harder. But then again, Aoshi was one of the people that Kanryuu had hired to protect him. Aoshi despised the guy, and would probably make it a little easier for him.
It would be unpleasant. But then again, Sanosuke wouldn't- couldn't- let Megumi get hurt by those scum bags.
He loved her too much.
AN: Buhahaha there will be one more chapter! Get ready for a little bit of action... Much love to all reviewers. You people rock!