http://austenianhorror.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] austenianhorror.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] bait_backup2010-12-24 02:02 am

I don't want a lot for Christmas, there's just one thing I need

*Tall and undeniably elegant, the tree dominates the room. Live fairies playfully roving within the inner branches like schools of luminescent fish, giving the evergreen an almost alien, restless quality. A dozen floating candles bob around the festive centrepiece, some having even traversed waywardly into the further reaches of the parlour. In the warm, wavering light, Victoria Higgs sits primly, half engulfed by an enormous, fir-green gown. Wine has loosened her posture and as a consequence her hands rest easily at her sides, brushing Regulus's legs. Tellingly, the adults have long left the newly-engaged couple to themselves, only their distant chatter emanating in from another room.

There's an expectant half-smile on Victoria's lips - it speaks of obligations, seasonal cheer and desire.*

[identity profile] spindleform.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
*He usually expects the worst, but this is entirely without precedence as far as he's concerned and is about as shocking as if Victoria had spontaneously dissolved or turned into bugs. Of course he has seen this happening, nearly impossible as it is to live through ones teenage years without bearing witness to some public displays of affection, but he had not thought it would be someone's tongue in his mouth or that it would feel as strange as that. The moment their tongues touch he snatches both her hands into his - not at all violently, but with no attempt to hide his haste - and leans back to look at her with the widest eyes.*

[identity profile] spindleform.livejournal.com 2011-01-04 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
So not just on holidays.

[identity profile] spindleform.livejournal.com 2011-01-04 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Of course.

Well then, I will... tell you, when I come across them.

[identity profile] spindleform.livejournal.com 2011-01-06 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
My mother never mentioned that.