This is going to be a bit of a disappointment for some of you... :D
Oh well, read on and find out. I do feel that this relationship is better than the cliched thing everyone is thinking of... :DSee if it SHOCKS YOU!
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After a long Hiatus period on this story due to my writer's block - my muse is finally back with me!
So I will have loads of interesting plots again - hopefully.
Guess what goes here? Yep, you got it.
its: Happy readings! Love. Eh.
"Sit." He commanded.
And so she did – not like she had any other choice to be honest. At least the horsemen were wary enough of her that they held onto her arms at all times – and that made walking easier. She crawled onto to the pale white sheets. The room was fairly luxurious, with golden edged wall papers in a pattern of tacky roses. It looked like another other room in Prince Eric's palace. Ariel suddenly missed her old wooden walled room back at the ship.
"You still can't talk?" Prince Eric sat down across from Ariel, in a golden chair that had cushions with rose patterns. It had been long since they had seen each other - might as well start off nicely, Prince Eric decided.
Ariel nodded. The horsemen tossed her a notepad and a pencil. Oh how she missed her leather bound notebook back on the ship. Ariel picked the notepad up, and scribbled down some words.
What do you want with me?
Prince Eric laughed. "A little bit uneasy - are we?"
The horsemen laughed along. With a raised hand to dismiss the horsemen, Prince Eric grinned mischievously. "Well, we are man and woman, in the same room. There's even a bed right where you're sitting. And we are very alone. There's hardly anything that cannot be done, is there?"
Like a red paint stained paintbrush dipped into a cup of clear water, the red blush spread out on Ariel's creamy face. Surely he cannot mean… She suddenly felt very afraid. She had only done it once, and it wasn't even a good memory. Ariel cringed back onto the bed.
"Look how afraid you of me!" Prince Eric laughed again. "If you're so afraid, why did you come along with us willingly? You could have let your pirate come to your rescue." Eyeing her with new interest, Prince Eric continued, "You've found something you want to protect, haven't you?"
Ariel wasn't sure what to respond. She just looked into the distance. Did she feel like she should protect Hook? Try to give him less trouble? Those were two very different things. Did I… She wondered, do it to make him safe or do it to give him less work?
Watching her deep in thought, Prince Eric chuckled softly, as if in a little bit of relief."You've changed a lot, Ariel."
It hurt to watch Ariel's eyes dim like the day when he told him that he was going to marry another. He never felt the type of emotion Ariel felt for him, and sometimes - he felt like maybe he deserved the stab. When he saw her on the street today, Prince Eric's mind never clouded with anger. It was only a feeling of remorse - that he should have never let her felt he loved her. He never wanted to hurt her, but by protecting her like her older brother and not being able to return her feelings - he did, hurt her, eventually.
Ariel was no longer the soft fragile girl he found on the beach, she was strong now, and could support herself. My role as a brother would probably end here, Prince Eric thought to himself, teasingly. The pirate must have saved her from her heartbreak... Maybe he was a little jealous - like a brother would be jealous of his sister's new boyfriend.
While Prince Eric thought in silence, so did Ariel.
It had been long since anyone called her Ariel in a tone like this. Hook never called her name and Smee always held a little more unneeded respect when he called her "Miss Ariel".
She pointed to the same sentence she wrote on the notepad. What do you want with me?
Prince Eric leaned back into his golden chair and made up his mind. "Nothing, really."
What?
"I just wanted to piss the pirate off," The corner of his mouth struggled to suppress his immature smile. "He cares for you a lot, and I suppose I was little angry at how disrespectful he was to me."
Wide eyed, Ariel couldn't believe what she was hearing. She was here… because little Prince here decided he wanted to piss off Hook? Not because she tried to kill him?
You're not angry?
"What?" Prince Eric stared dimwitted for a second. "Oh." He recalled their previous encounter in response to him choosing the slutty princess over Ariel. "Aw, no, she was a heck of a princess anyway. For a while when I got married to her, I wished you would have really killed me. The only thing good about her was the sex. She was getting on my nerves too much anyway."
Eyeing Ariel with what he thought was seductive, he continued, "I kinda wished I married you instead… Look what a fine woman you have become!" He raised his eyebrows and haughtily looked at Ariel's exposed upper chest.
How immature! Ariel's elegant scribbles squished into a mob of angry swirls.
"Yep, immature and devastatingly handsome," The prince carried on, "That's me, Prince Eric – now currently single." The prince boasted, "Of course, I am extremely kind and forgiving too – for forgiving a certain mermaid who tried to kill me because she was jealous of my old wife…"
The Notepad hit his devastatingly handsome face.
"Ok, chill," Prince Eric took off the playful mask. "Really, it was like a little revenge plot – I'll let you go after you spend the night here – just to get him on his edge a little."
You promise to let me go tomorrow morning?
Prince Eric had to stop himself from rolling his eyes, "Women, always asking questions! Yes, of course! I will let you go to your pirate tomorrow morning! You guys can have your hot heated silent sex tomorrow – you'll just have to wait tonight!"
We don't have sex! She wanted to yell, but she couldn't so she threw a pillow at him instead.
"Violence is not allowed in the palace!" He hissed playfully, and ducked behind a pillar. Escaping from there, he dashed for the door and lingered for a bit. Grinning like a five year old on his first day to the museum, he repeated, "No sex tonight!"
Another pillow hit the door. The room was in complete silence after the door closed with a loud thud.
We don't have sex. She repeated stubbornly, the message directed at no one.
Tell me! were you shocked?! :D Who knew Eric was such a jealous bro? :D
Obviously, Ariel knows now - but HOOK DOESN'T. Let's see him cat fight for Ariel over nothing!
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