Post by shava on Dec 21, 2012 0:22:56 GMT -5
Vincent had chosen a corner of the courtyard easily seen from both the castle entrance and the outdoors and wide enough for two to sit in without being near at all either. It was going to be a tricky meeting for sure, especially as he had to be very very careful how he handled her little brother. While he was sure logic wise he could easily dominate the other boy, he needed something more subtle in the extreme. Unfortunately, he did not have the time to craft something truly epic and convoluted, but he had to try. Thus he sat there, wand up his sleeve and looked out into the tree border, separating the courtyard from the lawns and thought, carefully.
He hadn't been there but an hour when the younger man entered from the castle and stared at him warily. Vin resisted turning even though he felt the focus on him and knew eyes were upon him as the sound of someone walking through instead came closer. Then he did turn his head and nodded at the young man approaching. Cern for his part hesitated mid step, almost as if he wanted to leave quickly. "Alright, Moon, I'm here." Vin motioned at the other space, leaving it up to him how far he sat away and nearly grinned as the boy chose the farthest corner. It was amusing how easily it was to gain a reputation in this place... "I appreciate you coming, Summerby, I really do. I don't want to cause your sister more pain then this stress has already caused her." Cern frowned, sure that was a poke at him, but Vin held up a hand to forestall comment. "I don't want this to turn into a blame game, Summ-- look, can I call you Cern? It would be a lot easier. That's a mouthful of a name just like mine. Call me Vincent if that's okay with you."
Of course, it made things much easier. Cern nodded and said "All right, M-- Vincent." Nodding, Vin let it pass; it didn't solve anything, it just made it easier to deal. "Right then, I don't blame you for your reactions, okay? If it was my older sister Char I'd be mad as heck and worried as hell about her being with anyone. Fortunately for me, she's not settled down yet. But although I have not asked Keela about it, I suspect you are going entirely off rumors, right? Any facts directly? Observation?" Scowling at the immediate thrust into the heart of his weak point, Cern objected on general principals. "Maybe so, but there's more then rumors. There's also eight girls I've heard about who've been talking. So the rumors have teeth." Vin shook his head amused and annoyed at the same time. "What if I told you only two of those have teeth? The others are making up stuff with no basis for proof? And I'm not denying those two, mind you, I hadn't met your sister at that point. At least three of them are from the same time as the real two."
Cern frowned. "Now, add into that that in the dorm I have enemies. I don't give a damn about all the pureblood nonsense, but I have a family line to keep up for my mother's sake, not my dad's. See, my grandfather locked her into a real mess of a curse which I'm not going to explain cause it's none of your bees-wax, but if I don't keep the line going she dies." Now Cern's eyes opened wider and Vin nodded. "Seriously? What father does that to his--" Vin interrupted, mostly because it would be something he didn't want to get into right now. "Oh he was more then a jerk, trust me. Mom spit on his grave and got the headstone removed. ANYWAY, that's just to say I don't give a damn about the blood mess, but then again I don't have a choice. I planned on going to another continent to find a wife cause really, politics of blood here is a mess." On that Cern actually felt the same not that he had ever expected to hear it from a Snake.
"So we came into conflict when your sister decided to kiss me while she was skipping stones. Did she tell you that part?" Surprised, Cern shook his head a moment. "Wait wait, she said about the kissing, but skipping stones? What?" Vin nodded, "I'd never seen it done. I was down there sitting in the quiet when I saw her skipping stones. Caught my attention as I'd never seen it done before." That made Cern tilted his head, getting into this without meaning to. "Never skipped stones? Man, I've been doing that since I was little!" 'Not as well as Keela...' he thought to himself. "Yeah well, it was new to me. Anyway it caught my attention and I asked her about it. And we got started talking and then out of the blue I must have done something, who knows what, she suddenly all out kissed me." He shrugged, giving the other an apologetic look.
There was no need to explain why he mentioned it. Even as guys on opposite sides of the fence they both knew what that one meant!
"So that's how it started. I've been very careful to not push her and she spent most of the last year not understanding why I was still interested." They traded a look of such sameness that Cern had to shake his head to remember who he was talking to and about what. It seemed surreal to be here with a guy he thought was really nasty bad and hear him coming across like a semi-normal guy caught in a situation. Cern could almost sympathize, almost. But it was his sister after all...