Post by Griff on Nov 5, 2011 13:54:54 GMT 10
Title: Affair in Blue: Part 2
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: #44 - Rejection
Summary: Jonathan realizes he has something to lose.
(Ten Prompt Request for Katty)
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Jonathan was used to seeing pretty girls. He was the prince; every pretty girl in the kingdom introduced herself to him. Usually, they were utterly forgettable in their fine features. It took an extra light to catch his attention – Something very few girls managed, no matter how lovely.
Delia was the latest exception, but as the social season continued, he was beginning to notice someone else. Cythera was bright, all golden hair and flushed skin. She didn’t have a hard edge on her body. In her soft rose gown, she radiated summer comfort in the cool evening, but Jon had always preferred winter’s beautiful chill.
Roger, it seemed, did not.
That’s honestly what it came down to, in the end. Roger was not a dallying man. He never wasted his time on the lesser nobles that filled the ballroom, instead keeping his socializing to the powerful and purposeful. If he had interest in Cythera, she was more than scattered sunlight in a crowded room.
For once, when Raoul elbowed his way between he and Delia, Jonathan let him have her. She flashed him a dismayed smile, but his mind was elsewhere as he watched his cousin dance.
What was so stunning about Cythera of Elden that merited Roger’s attention? She was nice enough, Jon remembered, and had a pleasant laugh, but there was nothing particular about her. Delia had fire and wit, she was graceful and seductive, but still a riveting challenge. Elden was… remarkably unremarkable. Precisely the sort of girl Jon expected his mother to choose for him.
Was that it? Was Roger finally selecting a bride? For a long moment, Jon felt nothing but a deep burning spite for Cythera of Elden. When Jon realized he was, of all things, jealous of his cousin’s attention, he chided himself harshly. He wasn’t a child and for all Roger always had time for him, Jon was not more important than Roger’s happiness.
Determined to accept this change for whatever it would bring, Jon turned away and eased between Raoul and Delia with a shark’s grin.
When he lay in his bed that evening, Delia’s smell still on his sheets, Jonathan couldn’t stop the stab of fear that one day soon, Roger’s study would be locked when he knocked.
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: #44 - Rejection
Summary: Jonathan realizes he has something to lose.
(Ten Prompt Request for Katty)
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Jonathan was used to seeing pretty girls. He was the prince; every pretty girl in the kingdom introduced herself to him. Usually, they were utterly forgettable in their fine features. It took an extra light to catch his attention – Something very few girls managed, no matter how lovely.
Delia was the latest exception, but as the social season continued, he was beginning to notice someone else. Cythera was bright, all golden hair and flushed skin. She didn’t have a hard edge on her body. In her soft rose gown, she radiated summer comfort in the cool evening, but Jon had always preferred winter’s beautiful chill.
Roger, it seemed, did not.
That’s honestly what it came down to, in the end. Roger was not a dallying man. He never wasted his time on the lesser nobles that filled the ballroom, instead keeping his socializing to the powerful and purposeful. If he had interest in Cythera, she was more than scattered sunlight in a crowded room.
For once, when Raoul elbowed his way between he and Delia, Jonathan let him have her. She flashed him a dismayed smile, but his mind was elsewhere as he watched his cousin dance.
What was so stunning about Cythera of Elden that merited Roger’s attention? She was nice enough, Jon remembered, and had a pleasant laugh, but there was nothing particular about her. Delia had fire and wit, she was graceful and seductive, but still a riveting challenge. Elden was… remarkably unremarkable. Precisely the sort of girl Jon expected his mother to choose for him.
Was that it? Was Roger finally selecting a bride? For a long moment, Jon felt nothing but a deep burning spite for Cythera of Elden. When Jon realized he was, of all things, jealous of his cousin’s attention, he chided himself harshly. He wasn’t a child and for all Roger always had time for him, Jon was not more important than Roger’s happiness.
Determined to accept this change for whatever it would bring, Jon turned away and eased between Raoul and Delia with a shark’s grin.
When he lay in his bed that evening, Delia’s smell still on his sheets, Jonathan couldn’t stop the stab of fear that one day soon, Roger’s study would be locked when he knocked.
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!