tearmeanewone | quatre + voice

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[Backdated to Event End...]

[Voice]

I think that was, maybe, the most haphazard experiment I've been here during. I can't even make a speculation at what the purpose of it was aside from confuse us all.

But I suppose I did meet quite a few people, so perhaps inadvertently its purpose was to remind me of that time when I thought life was much simpler. [That time when she thought no one would ever hurt her, and everything in life was new and beautiful.] And I suppose it gave me my hair back. It's as long as it was before I cut it, now. It's nice, I suppose, but does anyone here give haircuts...?

[Private to Gai - Columbia-Sponsored Unhackable]

How are you feeling? I only grazed you with the lamp, didn't I...? [UNSURE TONE IS UNSURE...]

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Not yet, and I'm hoping they stay that way.

[It's an answer without really being an answer, and he is content to leave it at that unless she decides to press. (He's hoping she won't.)]

You had better not be trying to pull one over on me. You know how that turns out, now.

[He laughs.]

I was just making a reference that apparently doesn't exist where you're from. It's no conspiracy, I promise.

It better be, or I'm going to jump you the second you walk through the door. With a lamp.

Is that a threat or a promise?

Oh a threat, easily a threat. But I do promise to hit you with a lamp if it turns out pickles are somehow code for 'I'm going to take you to New York in exchange for my debts'.

You're in luck-- there's only one place I plan on taking you, and it sure as hell isn't New York.

Oh I don't know, New York might be a good place to visit. What's my other option?

I've already given you a guided tour.

...I'll race you there.

You're on.

[AND IT'S ON.]

[Elizabeth buttons up her blouse, closes her bag and is out the window in a matter of minutes. She is going to win this one, Gai has to get groceries for crying out loud.]

[Somehow this is a competition Gai can't bring himself to care about losing, because either way, the end result is going to be something he enjoys.

... this is still going to be the fastest grocery run he's ever made, and Elizabeth might catch him almost running down the hall to his apartment door, bags in hand...]

[Elizabeth does see Gai hurrying back--from his window inside his apartment. She grins and settles on the couch, stretched out as though she were Cleopatra.]

[Gai's first clue as to what awaits him is the fact that his door is no longer locked when he turns the handle. Not that he expected anything less, it just still amuses him... and maybe turns him on a little.

Okay. Maybe more than a little. His imagination is already running at full steam, supplying him with images of what he might find when he opens the door. Her stretched out on the couch like that? He approves.]

Guess this is the part where I say I'm ready for my punishment game.

[Elizabeth tries to keep from smiling by biting her lip, but she eventually dissolves into giggles.]

Punishment, punishment... Hmm...

[She thinks about it, because she hadn't really planned anything. But if Gai was asking for it, far be it from her to disappoint. After a moment, she thinks of something and, grinning, goes into Gai's bedroom where she's already put her bags.]

[Elizabeth comes back out with one of her corsets, and once his hands are free she tosses it to him.]

Catch!

[Naturally, Gai's first instinct is to raise his hands up to catch the thrown object.

... and then he realizes what he's holding in his hands. NOOO, HIS MORTAL ENEMY. Now that is just cruel and uncalled-for. To his credit, though, he'll hold that corset and try not to scowl too much at it or attempt to shred it with his bare hands.]

I said punishment, not cruel and unusual punishment.

I'm not that cruel. [Elizabeth smirks, and it slowly pulls into a full grin.]

But I have to ask. If you're holding it, what do you think I'm wearing now?

[... oh.

Oh.

That... is a very nice revelation indeed, and suddenly Gai doesn't hate that monstrosity in his hands so much anymore.]

So you won't mind if I throw this into a corner for the rest of the time you're here.

Not at all. [Elizabeth grins--apparently she's not done just yet. She takes a couple of steps backwards, towards the couch.] But... I think the fact that I've already made it easier on you means I have to counter that with something else.

[Namely, she intends to play Keep Away with Gai, just for a little bit. So she keeps herself at a good four-foot distance, just grinning away.]

Oh? And what might that 'something else' be?

[Naturally, Gai takes a couple of steps towards her, because that little tidbit of information about the corset (or more precisely, the lack thereof) makes him eager to see if she is in fact telling the truth about that.

Also naturally, the fact that she moved towards the couch made his brain go straight into the gutter... just ignoring that it had already been halfway there even before that.]

[And that's precisely why she dropped that piece of information before this moment--because he'd want to know if she was telling the truth (which, of course, she was).]

[When Gai advances, Elizabeth gives him a coy grin and steps back.]

[Gai blinks momentarily before realizing what she's up to. It's hot, he can't deny that much, since for him the process of getting into bed is every bit as much fun as what they do when they get there. And he does love a good challenge...

Moving forward again, the grin on his face edging into something more mischievous.]

[So Gai has figured it out. And it looks, to Elizabeth, as though he's intrigued by the 'punishment' Elizabeth has thought up on the fly. But she's a little intrigued by it too--or it might be the fact that she hasn't been alone with Gai in weeks and everything is turning her on.]

[But she also thinks that she and Gai need a little play. Elizabeth moves back with Gai moving forward, looking back as she approaches the couch. And when she gets close enough to it, she steps up onto it.]

[Gai isn't nearly so naive as to think he's got her cornered when she steps up onto the couch. If there's one thing he's learned to expect from Elizabeth, it's that she always knows how to surprise him, so he's not about to let his guard down yet.

Still, he approaches the couch with an almost predatory edge to his smile now. Another thing he's learned is that she likes it when he's playful right back. He may not know what to expect from her right now, but he does know that he can have some fun with whatever it is.]

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