Room 204, Mid-morning
Oct. 17th, 2005 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindred_spiritGil is in his room, sitting at his desk, book open in front of him, notes in the margins and scrawled across the top sheet of the neat stack of paper next to the book, but he's staring out the window, a little lost in thought.
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Date: 2005-10-17 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-17 03:41 pm (UTC)"Anne," he says, face breaking into a bright smile. "Good morning."
[ooc: There's a formal invitation to the party in Amy's journal, if Anne wants to use it. 'Cause Amy does things like that.]
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Date: 2005-10-17 03:43 pm (UTC)"Amy and I are having a tea, this afternoon, and we were hoping you'd come." Her smile is very bright.
"We even made apple pie."
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Date: 2005-10-17 03:46 pm (UTC)"I'd be delighted," he says, prompty. "Thank you. Are you expecting any other guests?"
He doesn't mention
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Date: 2005-10-17 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-17 03:52 pm (UTC)"That sounds perfect," he says. "And, yes," he says, looking back at the desk. "British history."
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Date: 2005-10-17 03:56 pm (UTC)"May I?" she asks, looking towards the books questioningly. "Which period were you looking at?"
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:01 pm (UTC)"Of course," he says, stepping back to let her into the room. Aside from the shelf full of books, his room lacks most of the personal touches Anne and Amy have added to theirs. "And it's Henry VIII and his children."
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:07 pm (UTC)She knows, of course, that there's nothing really wrong in being in Gilbert's room, but--
Reading the pages casually mostly hides the faint flush on her cheek.
"He really had quite a few, didn't he? I suppose kings would need more children than everyone else, though."
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:12 pm (UTC)"Just the three," he says, still standing near the door. "Two wives per child."
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:17 pm (UTC)So why is Anne making mistakes?
She looks up, surprised.
"Oh," she says, blankly. "Of course. Silly of me, I must have been thinking of someone else."
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:21 pm (UTC)"Have you been studying lately?"
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:25 pm (UTC)"But I've been busy with other hobbies, as well. Amy and I were baking yesterday, and I had another piano lesson, and must practice that as well."
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:34 pm (UTC)"How is Amy? She certainly seemed more cheerful, the day we met."
Change of subject? What change of subject?
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:38 pm (UTC)"You'll have to wait a while. Yrael is adamant I learn the basics well, first."
But mention of her friend brightens her smile, and she looks up.
"Much better, I think--she's gone to talk to Caspian, muttering something about forcing him to sit down and eat. But she seems a good deal more cheerful, lately."
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:49 pm (UTC)He's probably wrong about that, really. But he feels a little sorry for Caspian.
"I'm glad to hear she's more cheerful. She's charming."
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Date: 2005-10-17 04:59 pm (UTC)"It was one of her fairy gifts, after all."
She laughs, turning to look out the window.
"I wonder what it must have been like, knowing that fairy godmothers were going to come and gift you at birth, with cleverness and beauty and goodness and wisdom. I used to imagine it, of course--I remember asking Matthew, the first day he brought me to Green Gables, if he'd rather be divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or
angelically good. Poor Matthew. I think he was rather talen aback."
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Date: 2005-10-17 05:06 pm (UTC)And then he laughs, thinking about solid, practical Matthew Cuthbert being presented with that question by a red-headed, eleven-year-old Anne. "What did Matthew pick?"
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Date: 2005-10-17 05:20 pm (UTC)"Oh, yes. She has fairy godmothers, you know, and they gave her gifts. You'll have to ask her what they were, I only remember that they were quite nice. Although one of them was Ordinariness."
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Date: 2005-10-17 05:26 pm (UTC)"Amy has fairy godmothers? And one of them made her ordinary?"
Gil stops to think this over, trying to get his mind around the inescapable paradox of Amy's being ordinary.
"How ordinary can you be if you're only ordinary because of magic?"
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Date: 2005-10-17 05:33 pm (UTC)"You'll have to ask her, I suppose. I'm glad she's Ordinary, though--I think it'd be harder to live with an Extraordinary Princess, though she'd still be Amy, really, underneath."
She thinks.
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Date: 2005-10-17 05:40 pm (UTC)"Well, she's charming no matter how she got that way, and I'm glad you made friends with her," says Gil, dismissing the quandry.
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Date: 2005-10-17 05:45 pm (UTC)"True," she says, easily. "And so am I. She was so very kind when I was here alone for the first week, you know. She's one of the best friends I've ever had."
That list inludes Matthew, Gil, Diana, and Katie, the girl in the mirror.
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Date: 2005-10-17 05:49 pm (UTC)There's something in Gil's eyes for just a second. Because . . . because even though one of her best friends was there, and very kind, Anne has just described herself as "alone" in the time before he got there.
"I'm glad she was here for you then," he says, just a hair later than he should have replied.
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Date: 2005-10-17 05:53 pm (UTC)Nor does she particularly want to think about why she no longer feels alone, now that he is here.
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Date: 2005-10-17 05:56 pm (UTC)"Anne," he says, and then apparently changes his mind about whatever he was going to say. "I suppose you have a lot of setting up to do, for your tea party."
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Date: 2005-10-17 06:02 pm (UTC)"Yes," she says, not quite knowing what it is she's saying.
"Quite a bit. I--I'm sorry, for interrupting your studies. We'll see you at four o' clock, then?"
She's made her way rather quickly to the door, her skirts swirling about her feet.
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Date: 2005-10-17 06:04 pm (UTC)Gil's face is a little flushed as well.
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Date: 2005-10-17 06:07 pm (UTC)A swirl of skirts and she is gone across the hall.
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Date: 2005-10-17 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-17 06:14 pm (UTC)Gil: *is puppy*
Caspian: *is knowing*
Amy: *is knowing*
Anne: *is oblivious* More tea, anyone?
All others: *facepalm*]
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Date: 2005-10-17 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-10-17 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-17 06:32 pm (UTC)Plus, there's canon. We gotta plot with that, or find some way around it, I guess.
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Date: 2005-10-17 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-17 06:38 pm (UTC)