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Characters: Emilie, Ciaran, and the Devlin clan Setting: January 1st. The Devlin Penthouse, Central Park West. Content: Emilie? Also swearing, sexual references, and possible violence Summary: Emilie and Ciaran are discovered by her family. Awkward and Humiliation await. 8V Emilie startled awake, gasping for air like the newly risen dead. The room was still dark, though the barest hint of sunlight peeked out from under black velvet curtains. She was confused, dizzy, blearily looking around her room for the source of what had woken her, and finding instead that she'd been resting her head on someone's chest. Her eyes dragged upward until she recognized who the hell she had been sleeping face down on top of. "Hmph," she made a small amused sound, smirking down at him. A dull ache that seemed to cover her whole body just served as a simple but effective reminder of the night before. Not that she really needed it with a naked boy in her bed. Unfortunately the sound that had woken her chose to repeat itself at this moment. 'Emilie! Wake up! It's New Year!' Several voices clamored from behind her door, the door-knob jiggling despite being locked. " Fuck." Emilie peeled herself off of Ciaran, twisting and sitting upward in the bed. The triplets were some of the last people she wanted to see right now. Other than her dad. …Who was home for once. " FUCK!" Tags: !incomplete, emilie devlin
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Ciaran was pretty good at filtering out noise when he was drifting off to sleep, but the words 'dad' 'home' and 'gut you' managed to find a way through his sleepy haze and into his brain.
Suddenly he was wide awake.
Emilie had stolen the bedclothes, but being cold was really the least of his concerns. Even the open curtains only served as a minute distraction to what was one of the fastest clothes hunts he'd taken part in.
One day he would drop everything in one place. One day he would get undressed right next to the bed and leave all of his clothes in one easy to find pile. And maybe one day he wouldn't sleep over when a girl's father was at home.
Ciaran was on the way to being half dressed. He pulled his jeans up around his hips, fastened them but gave up on the belt; he'd sort that out later.
He found his t-shirt, which was inside out, hanging over a chair. Turning it the right way, he pulled it over his head, completely oblivious to the rather fun mess his hair had become and went in search of his boots.
They weren't together of course, that would be too easy. One had to be all the way across the other side of the room and the other had to hide, didn't it? Because you weren't rushing enough without having to get down on your knees and look under things to figure out where you were stupid enough to ditch your right boot.
Ciaran found it eventually. Sitting on the edge of the bed, he pulled his boots on and started to fasten up the laces. As he did, something occurred to him about the intrusive noise he'd heard. "...that wasn't someone trying to open your door before, was it?"
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From: babalon |
Date: January 15th, 2011 04:42 pm (UTC) |
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Now at the door, Emilie opened it a crack, hoping she could keep him at bay with it somehow. He was dressed like he always was; button-up shirt, pressed slacks, Italian leather shoes... even on a day off with the family. She supposed that the lack of a blazer made it casual.
"Green again, Emilie?" Thomas raised an eyebrow at his daughter, looking rather unimpressed. "You know how your mother feels about the hair."
"Dad," She stared to argue, a scowl quick to form on her face. Emilie scoffed in frustration. It was no use to argue with him, he would always win. She learned from the best, but he would always be a little bit better.
After a couple of quick words in Latin, and a ruffle of her fingers through her hair-- she was back to her natural straw-blonde.
"Hey, cool." Her dad grinned, "That's a neat trick. Why don't you teach me how to do that sometime?" He joked.
"Why? You want to go blue on weekends?" Emilie smirked, and they both laughed. It was almost a perfectly normal family moment. Hallmark-worthy. That was until Thomas's smile dropped into a scowl. It was not unlike Emilie's, though her father's was more practiced, colder, worn.
"So where is he?" Thomas's voice grew as cold as the expression on his face.
"Where is who, Dad?" Emilie blinked at him, making a face as if he were asking something ridiculous and she didn't indeed have Ciaran stashed away in the closet.
"Don't lie to me, young lady." He pushed open the door and started to look around the room.
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From: babalon |
Date: January 16th, 2011 12:17 am (UTC) |
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Emilie watched helplessly from the door. She briefly considered hexing him, but it was something akin to pulling a gun on her dad. Something about it didn't sit quite right with her.
"See?" She insisted, still trying to feign innocence. What else could she do? Admit to the strange boy in her closet? He wasn't her boyfriend, she had no real obligation, but there was no real guarantee how her dad would react and… she did sorta liked Ciaran enough to not want terrible things to happen to him. "Nobody here but me."
"Not done looking," Thomas responded gruffly, flipping the mattress over to check under the bed.
"Dad!" Emilie almost yelled. "There is nobody here. Can you stop fucking with my shit now?"
"Watch your mouth," Thomas snapped back, glancing back to his daughter only for a moment. Something on the floor next to her bed had caught his eye. "What's this?"
He reached down to the floor and picked up a thin, light wand. Completely the opposite coloring of Emilie's.
"It's a wand," Emilie replied as if he were retarded. "What does it look like?"
"It doesn't look like yours," Thomas smiled at her. He knew. He knew just like she knew.
"I have two."
"No, you don't." Thomas was chuckling now, pointing at Emilie like she had just told him a good joke. "It looks a bit longer than yours," He noted, holding it as if he were testing the balance of a sword. "He tall, then?"
Emilie opened her mouth to say something, shutting it immediately. How did he? …Her mother was filling him in on the wizard world, no doubt. She scowled. Of course she was telling him about wizards. It fucking figured. Twelve years of silence, and now she was telling him goddamn everything.
"Oh, so he is?" Thomas grinned, nodding before raising his voice just a little bit louder. "You can come out now, son."
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From: babalon |
Date: January 16th, 2011 11:19 pm (UTC) |
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"Nice of you to finally join us," Her father replied, still grinning; though that grin seemed anything but friendly.
Emilie watched their interaction cautiously. "Dad, leave him alone."
"Now, Emilie. We're just talking." Thomas crossed the room, eyeing Ciaran as he got closer. The teenager had a few inches on him as far as height was concerned, but Thomas Devlin was not a small man. Older he may have been, but he wasn't frail.
"Thomas Devlin," He introduced himself, offering his free hand to shake. In the other, Ciaran's wand remained balled up in his fist like an unsheathed knife, the tip pointed at the ceiling.
"What's your name, son?"
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From: babalon |
Date: January 17th, 2011 12:57 am (UTC) |
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"Oh this?" Thomas asked, holding the wand to the side to take a better look at it, though he only glanced at it for a moment.
"How rude of me." His smile dropped, and he made no move to return the wand to its rightful owner. " I suppose you'll be wanting it back then? ...But you see, Ciaran. I'm not so sure I can do that."
"Dad," Emilie protested again, but Thomas spoke over her.
"By coming into my home unannounced-- without my permission, you have disrespected me, you have disrespected my daughter, and you have broken the law. Why should I extend common courtesy when you refuse to do the same?"
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From: babalon |
Date: January 17th, 2011 12:22 pm (UTC) |
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"Thomas, have you been harassing Emilie's friends again?" Samantha asked, already knowing the answer. "You know you're not supposed to do that anymore. Especially after what happened last time."
It was by this point that Emilie had her face in her hands, wishing that for once in her life that God would strike her dead on the spot. There was a reason why she didn't bring people home usually-- and it had nothing to do with her family's social standing.
Thomas, meanwhile, was still glaring at Ciaran, not having moved a muscle aside from glancing back for a second as his wife made her grand entrance. He said nothing.
"Oh, don't be ridiculous," Emilie's mother scoffed at Ciaran's muttering. "I insist that you stay. I'm terribly sorry. Thomas has been so terribly protective over Emilie since the accident."
"Mom," Emilie grit a protest through her teeth, bringing her hands down just far enough to express her horror.
"What?" Samantha responded innocently, but mostly ignoring her daughter. As she normally did. "We were just about to sit down to breakfast and you are more than welcome to join us... I'm sorry, what was your name?"
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From: babalon |
Date: January 18th, 2011 09:29 pm (UTC) |
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"Smooth by the way," Emilie laughed, looking snide. She had to laugh, otherwise she'd be just as ridiculous as her crazy-ass parents. Though it was probably too late for her on the crazy front.
"I thought you were dead for a minute there," she mused, slipping by him to grab something warm from the closet. Witch or not, there was still about three feet of snow outside. "Guess Mom made him get rid of his gun."
She slipped on a thick black hoodie with a complicated set of clasps on the front and stepped into some combat-looking boots that zipped themselves.
"They're probably using the upstairs dining room, but if we can slip past it, we can just walk right out the front door," Emilie shrugged. It sounded simple, but nothing in the Devlin house ever was.
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Ciaran's mind was also wandering, but not in the same direction as Emilie's. As he fixed the back of his collar he thought about the breakfast he hadn't had yet. Upstairs Emilie's parents were sitting down to know knew what? Hash browns and bacon and eggs and pancakes, three rounds of toast, waffles, sausages and fried tomatoes. Maybe it wasn't, but considering the state of their house (two dining rooms, what the fuck?!) they probably didn't skimp on the most important meal of the day.
Emilie's reply dragged him out of his thoughts. She sounded a bit...distracted. Ciaran turne to look at her. "Oh, okay." Well, she seemed fine now. Nevermind?
He followed her to the door and, once she'd checked that the coast was clear, into he hallway. Ciaran tried not to take in too much of the ridiculous opulence as they moved down the hall and kept his eyes fixed on Emilie's back.
This place was insane.
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From: babalon |
Date: January 20th, 2011 12:42 am (UTC) |
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Emilie walked down the hall as quietly as she could. Slow, even steps were the key. Truth be told, it wasn't that difficult, the carpeting in the hallway was plush. As they neared the kitchen, she stopped, glanced behind her to check where Ciaran was, and peered into the doorway briefly. They'd have to pass the open door to get to the exit, and she didn't want to catch anyone's attention.
Her mother and the live-in maid were at the far end of the kitchen, looking away. Turning toward Ciaran with a finger to her lips, she nodded toward the kitchen door. She then pointed in the general direction of the front door, and signaled for him to follow her.
Kitchen passed. Everything was fine. She turned the corner, only a couple of yards from the front door. It was easy, really. Or she thought it was easy.
Farther down the hallway, past the front door, her father was just exiting the bedroom he shared with her mother. He looked suspicious already and they weren't even at the door yet. Could have been their coats. "Where are you going?"
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From: babalon |
Date: January 28th, 2011 11:16 pm (UTC) |
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"You smoke?" Emilie's dad frowned a little bit further. Unlike Ciaran, Emilie was still only 17-- not old enough to smoke cigarettes in New York State-- and not old enough ever to smoke, according to her father.
"How old are you?" But before he hand even finished the question, Emilie was already butting in.
"He's eighteen, Dad. Jesus. Ease up, would you?" She actually didn't know that for sure but it couldn't hurt, could it?
Well no more than... everything else that had happened this morning.
Thomas frowned at her, but nodded a little after a few moments. "Okay, but breakfast is ready soon." And with that he trudged off to the kitchen.
They really were home free.
Emilie smirked at Ciaran a bit, entirely too pleased with herself, despite the fact that it was his excuse that had gotten them this far.
"C'mon."
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