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Post by Aquila on Nov 26, 2019 18:32:52 GMT -5
 Michael shook his head. He was starting to think he was imagining things. Lack of sleep maybe? Yeah that must be it. He went back into the library to finish up fixing the grandfather clock, then he cleaned up quickly and efficiently. He strode to the door and started down the corridor when he heard it.
An earsplitting scream echoed throughout the house. It seemed to reverberate everywhere. Michael jerked his head up in surprise but that quickly turned to alarm. It was a woman's scream, but he couldn't make out who it belonged to...Victoria? Julianna? One of the staff? Whoever it was, they were certainly terrified.
Michael started to run down the corridor and as he did he passed the dining room and he stopped and looked inside again. Lucille was in the dining room huddled against the wall. Her hands were clutching the sides of her head. "Mrs Quinton?"
Michael glanced behind him and raised a hand behind him in the vague direction he had heard the bloodcurdling scream. He was sure it hadn't come from the dining room. "That scream..." He trailed off as he focused on his employer's figure. She couldn't have been the one to scream but she somehow looked like she was in pain. He frowned and dropped his arm to his side. He made quick strides across the room until he reached Lucille.
"Mrs. Quinton? Are you alright?" He wasn't sure what happened or why someone else was screaming. He put a hold for the moment on the urgency to run to that scream as he focused on the woman in front of him.
This didn't appear like it was going to be a quiet routine day at all. Addressed: Lucille Mentioned: victoria, julianna Tags: Ellie @patch Notes: Hope this is ok...throwing michael into the action! XD |
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Post by Ellie on Mar 9, 2020 20:38:56 GMT -5
"the fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose"
There was a dark cloud inside her head. She could feel the darkness pushing on her temples and her head hung below her shoulders as the tightness came in and swallowed her mind. The fists she had pressed against her skin did little to soothe the ache that probed her; but it was all she could do.
Then in the darkness and the chaos of her mind, Lucille heard a voice that echoed in the deepest chasm of her memories. Lucille... The tone howled beyond her auditoriums. "Michael?"
The pain ceased. She looked up and back at the door frame with a smile poking out from her lips. Only when she allowed her gaze to focus on the figure in the frame it wasn't the love of her life who greeted her there. It was the man with the same name; but not hers. He wasn't hers.
"Michael." She frowned, turned on her heels, and lowered her hands to hold onto her stomach. "I didn't see you-- is there something you need from me?" Her tone was drastically different from when she had first addressed him. She was softer, lighter, and more fragile.
Word Count: 231 addressed: Michael mentioned: Michael, Max, Eleanor notes: Here it goes... give me what ya got! xd tags: @patch Aquila |
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Post by Aquila on Mar 15, 2020 10:35:51 GMT -5
"Michael?"
He heard his name fall from her lips, his first name at that and for a moment he was surprised she'd address him by his first name. Then he noticed the peculiar change in her expression. It went from pain stricken to a blissful happiness as she gazed at him. He frowned slightly. Something was off though, like she was not really seeing him.
In hindsight, Michael had forgotten her late husband's name had also been Michael. Somebody, Victoria probably, had told him but it had slipped his mind at the present moment. "Is everything alright?"
Her expression changed again, her eyes cleared and her face composed. She seemed to finally focus on him. "Michael. I didn't see you-- is there something you need from me?" The softness was gone from her eyes and tone of voice. She was the employer talking to her employee once more.
Michael paused a moment to collect his thoughts. He felt like something strange had just happened with her but he decided not speak about it and focused on the other situation instead. "Did you hear a scream just now? I was fearing that someone was hurt...but you're alright?"
He turned his head to look out of the dining room again in the direction he thought he heard the scream, but when he turned his head around again his voice softened as he finished his sentence. He probed her eyes with his own. He still felt uncertain that Lucille was as well as she wanted to be perceived. Addressed : Lucille Mentioned : victoria Tags : Ellie @patch Notes : don't know if this is my all lol i feel like i haven't written a post in ages XD |
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Post by Ellie on Apr 20, 2020 16:00:47 GMT -5
"the fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose"
Lucille wasn't sure if she should be embarrassed or concerned: embarrassed because she was so wrapped up in herself that she hadn't heard the scream or concerned because there was no scream at all and her butler had just revealed his true madness.
She shook her head. It was a slow, uninterested shake. "No." Lucille glanced in the direction he lead, but saw nothing but a block of wood glued with paper to give it some 'flavour'. She didn't know why she looked; she didn't really care.
At this point, Lucille considered the butler to be a mad; she wasn't sure if she should shoo him off to invite him to talk. She had done little to make the staff like her. Did she care? She didn't, or at least she told herself that she didn't.
"I'm fine," she answered finally. "Just... I see things, sometimes." Her hands fell to the table, and she saw down at the end of the table, slowly and carefully like she was trying to avoid further pain.
Her mouth pricked up as a light, pained chuckle came from her throat. She had forced herself to remain calm too long. "Have you ever been in love, Michael?" She looked up at him, water in her eyes, glazing over her as she watched him with desperate intent.
Word Count :: 263 Addressed: Michael mentioned: Victoria? Kinda of... notes: I've taken way too long to write up my posts today... motivation? INSPIRATION? gone. tags: Aquila |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2020 22:13:22 GMT -5
Damon came through the walk way. Hungry and I mean hungry. His stomach growled loud enough for others to hear it. He saw his mother and did his what ever smirk. He was bored but most of all he was hungry. Not caring for the cook to fix him something he went to the fridge and started looking for something to make into a sandwich. He pulled out mayo, mustered, pickles and lettuce and cheese he grabbed some type of meat and black olives his favorite. Putting wveryth in ng together he walked away with the sandwich in hand as he began to eat it not caring what his mother would say or do to him later. He was very happy to see the twins at school earlier this morning and could not wait for them to hang out again soon. It has been too long since the last time they last saw each other.
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Post by Aquila on Apr 27, 2020 10:31:34 GMT -5
Michael regarded Lucille with a look that said he wasn't sure she was all there. He saw a similar look on her face as she regarded him. She had said she had not heard a scream and was clearly questioning his sanity as well. He could almost get a chuckle out of this, but Michael didn't have moments when he questioned his own experiences. He was positive he heard a scream but the house had been silent since. It made far more sense in the butler's mind that it was a false alarm. Someone had a fright but was otherwise unharmed, or else someone would have called out and ran to find help by now. Yes, that had to be it.
His attention returned to Lucille, she seemed in a hurry to dismiss him which was not surprising. Now that she seemed okay he figured he'd leave her be. Even when she commented on how she "sometimes sees things" he decided not to comment. She gingerly sat at the end of the table and he hesitated. He rarely pitied women in Lucille's position, they didn't particularly care for their staff but he always remained professional and respectful to his employer no matter what. But it was a job, when Michael had time just to himself he never dwelled on his employer's personal life. It wasn't his business.
"Have you ever been in love, Michael?"
He snapped back to attention at her words. He froze in place and turned back around to face her. He was sure his face read his surprise at her question. Had she asked him to sprout wings and fly away he couldn't have been more surprised. He wasn't sure where this question had come from and for once he was almost at a loss for words. His eyes widened and his mouth opened before any words came out.
"Ah...I don't think I've ever experienced that to be quite honest.."
He gave a little sad smile. He wasn't sure if Lucille was aware of his womanizing reputation, all the women he had become involved with were flings that never amounted to anything. He made sure that he didn't stick around long enough to build a proper relationship. Nobody ever interested him enough to want to know them like that. Most of them he didn't consider as friends either. Friendship is a different kind of love, no? Then again he didn't have any female friends that he didn't have a sexual history with. Except Victoria. When he thought of Victoria a small frown formed on his face. He wasn't even sure what Victoria was to him. His manager? Friend? Something else? His confusion and frustration seeped into his voice. He scratched the stubble on his chin.
"Honestly, I'm not sure I understand what it means to be in love." Addressed : Lucille Mentioned : victoria Tags : Ellie Notes : I don't know what the hell this is XD I just kept writing lol |
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Post by Ellie on Jul 9, 2020 19:03:46 GMT -5
"the fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose"
Lucille felt the exhaustion weight heavy her eyes and shoulders. She could no longer hold her head up or keep her vision straight. She wanted to bury herself into the darkness of her dreams and pray for a new day-- pray to a God that she wasn't even sure existed anymore.
However, when Michael finally uttered a response she found herself giving a little chuckle Part of her prayed that this Michael would remind her of her own; but instead of he.... "You remind me of myself."
She wasn't quite sure where she was going with this; but she felt the weight of the last few months started to pour out and over into the real world, taking her by surprise in its intensity.
"I had never been in love. I wasn't even in love when I was married." She muttered softly, but surely, as if she was talking to an old friend. "But my mother...." She started to chuckle at the mere thought of her mother's madness. "She said I had to marry Michael, or she'd abandon me. So I did...."
Lucille's gaze started to wander far from the dining room. She could see a whole different world laid out in front of her. She could see her old home, the first home that she had ever had with Michael; and her kids were young... running around and laughing with their father. Her oldest was only ten, chasing the little ones and getting chased by his father.
Her eyes closed and a tear fell to her cheek.
"If you do fall in love..." Lucille looked at him then. "Don't wait.... just jump in, because God will take it away from you in a heartbeat." Her eyes went cold, dead as if there was nothing left in there except the memory. "I fell in love too late... don't make the same mistakes I did."
Lucille looked away then, back at the emptiness of the dining room. Her vision was somewhere else, somewhere with fun: laughter and life.
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Post by Aquila on Jul 11, 2020 13:17:09 GMT -5
"You remind me of myself."
Michael's eyebrows raised in surprise at her comment. He hadn't thought that the two of them would have anything in common. He saw them as two people from very different worlds. But perhaps he was wrong. She seemed to see things in him that she recognized in herself. That made him regard her in a different light.
He was surprised again when she began to open up about her marriage to her husband. Revealing things like she had never been in love either to her butler, who had no business knowing these sort of things. He didn't interrupt though, he just let her reveal what she wanted about her marriage. Which must not have been all that bad by the wistful look on her face. She seemed to be daydreaming, perhaps remembering happier days? He was reminded again that this woman has suffered a loss, and was coping as best she could.
"It must have been, must be, difficult for you." he amended his statement to show his empathy at her situation.
She was showing him a vulnerable side, and even a bit of compassion, as she gave him some advice on love. She warned him not to make the same mistakes she had.
"Don't wait.... just jump in, because God will take it away from you in a heartbeat."
"Thank you. You are very kind. I'll keep that in mind." His smile was gentle and held a tinge of sadness behind it. He was not as young as he used to be. Who knew if he'd ever find something like that.
"Hopefully that moment hasn't already passed, and I let it slip away." he gave a little charming, teasing smile then. "If one is never too old for love, then perhaps there's still hope for me."
Addressed : Lucille Mentioned : x Tags : EllieNotes : I do love these characters lol but I still think michael is gonna fall hard for victoria! XD |
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