Morded
Mordred got everything set up, Faolan consigned to Vortigern's care for the moment. A sigh, and then he switched on the recorder.
"Hey, Gwen...haven't heard from you lately...so I just thought I'd drop you a line to tell ya that I'm still thinking of you. Here's hoping you're alright. I'd write or something...but words were never my thing. Not really. Always seem to screw them up." He laughed slightly. "Can never say the right things, to make you see how much I love you, and how much I die when you're not around. Yeah, well...I know we can't go back to the way things were in the beginning, before I made everything a mess. But hey, a guy can dream that maybe he can make things right. At least a little bit. I always used to love watching you sleep. You always seemed so peaceful, not that you weren't beautiful when you were awake as well, but you were calm when you slept. Anyway...I'm getting distracted. Never have been a great fan of rock, it's more Vort's style then mine, but I heard a few songs that made me think of what I wish I was able to say to you. So. Here they are." Mordred took a breath, and pressed play for the music.
"How the hell'd we wind up like this?
Why weren't we able
To see the signs that we missed
Try and turn the tables?
I wish you'd unclench your fists
And unpack your suitcase
Lately there's been too much of this
But don't think it's too late
Nothing's wrong just as long as you know that someday I will
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
Well, I'd hope that since we're here anyway
We could end up saying
Things we always needed to say
So we could end up staying
Now the story's played out like this
Just like a paperback novel
Let's rewrite an ending that fits
Instead of a Hollywood horror
Nothing's wrong just as long as you know someday I will
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
How the hell'd we wind up like this?
Why weren't we able
To see the signs that we missed
Try and turn the tables?
Now the story's played out like this
Just like a paperback novel
Let's rewrite an ending that fits
Instead of a Hollywood horror
Nothing's wrong just as long as you know someday I will
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright but not right now
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
I know you're wondering when
(You're the only one who knows that)
I know you're wondering when..."
He scratched his head slightly. "So yeah...Nickelback's alright, I guess. Here's something else. Made me think of you." He put on the music for the next song, once again, backing tracks only.
"We got the afternoon
You got this room for two
One thing I've left to do
Discover me
Discovering you
One mile to every inch of
Your skin like porcelain
One pair of candy lips and
Your bubblegum tongue
Cause if you want love
We'll make it
Swimming a deep sea
Of blankets
Take all your big plans
And break 'em
This is bound to be a while
Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder (I'll use my hands)
Your body Is a wonderland
Something 'bout the way your hair falls in your face
I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase
You tell me where to go and
Though I might leave to find it
I'll never let your head hit the bed
Without my hand behind it
you want love?
We'll make it
Swimming a deep sea
Of blankets
Take all your big plans
And break 'em
This is bound to be a while
Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder (I'll use my hands)
Your body Is a wonderland
Damn baby
You frustrate me
I know you're mine all mine all mine
But you look so good it hurts sometimes
Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder (I'll use my hands)
Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonderland..." his crooning voice trailed off as the
music wound to a halt.
"This one you can get Angel to translate for you. Eh. Well, you could. Might not want to. I don't know. Far be it from me to say who you share this with. Anyway. Mam used to sing this...sometimes. Before...doesn't matter. Here it is."
"Ahm don-ot tee my sohn,
Wen ahv wen, wen ahv wen,
O vun-oy vow'r ee von,
Wen ahv wen.
E'er cas-tell ok-oo hen-no,
Ride eet-ee droy ah he-no,
Hen die-lee yown seeth un-tho,
Da dee mentra, mentra Gwen.
2. Oth fline my mon-eth my'th,
Wen ahv wen, wen ahv wen,
Gwell ee-tee dor-eeth die'th,
Wen ahv wen.
Wel un vum rike-gahn hun-nee
Uhr ow'n gan ben dare vun-ee,
Vod un uh cas-tell leh-tee,
Da dee mentra, mentra Gwen.
3. Vee pee-ar cas-tell hoon,
Wen ahv wen, wen ahv wen.
Tee ell-lee view me oon,
Wen ahv wen.
Un rig ung has-tell Cro-gen,
Ee-oo barch-ee ev i bare-chen,
Ah chum-mur veen uh var-gen,
Da dee mentra, mentra Gwen..."
(You're known to Welshmen free,
Fairest Gwen, fairest Gwen,
From Gower to Anglesey,
Fairest Gwen,
That castle by the dell there,
A noble people dwell there.
This night we can spend well there.
Won't you come now? Come now, Gwen.
2. Do not ride farther on,
Fairest Gwen, fairest Gwen.
The day will soon be gone.
Fairest Gwen,
Oh, put your hand in mine now,
And do not fall behind now.
A castle bed we'll find now.
Won't you come now? Come now, Gwen.
3. This castle's owned by me,
Fairest Gwen, fairest Gwen.
Inside it you can be,
Fairest Gwen,
As queen of Castle Grogen
For cherished years unbroken,
And take me in the bargain.
Won't you come now? Come now, Gwen)
"Yeah, that's kinda it. So. Hoping this finds you well...thinking of you, missing you, loving you. Mordred." He clicked off and rubbed his face with his hands. Before he could lose his nerve, Mordred 'ported the cassette tape, wrapped prettily to Gwen's coffee table. He sighed, and then started to clean up and then went to collect his son.
OOC:
'Someday' by Nickelback
'Your Body is a Wonderland' by John Mayer
'Mentra Gwen (Fairest Gwen)' Author unknown.
Gwen
Gwen hopped out of the shower, drying her hair.
"Dammit, I'm getting a haircut," she muttered as she struggled to get the tangles out.
She sighed and wrapped herself up in a robe and braided her hair while walking out to her living room to watch TV. She looked at the box on her table.
"Huh," she whispered.
She picked it up and stuck it into her tape player and pressed play. She sat down as Mordred's voice came onto the tape. As she listened, her eyes twinkled with tears and she smiled. It finished and she went into her room and got dressed, then picked up her phone and dialled in Mordred's number.
Mordred
Mordred ran into his room, and picked up the phone before it stopped ringing. "'Allo? Wolf here." He settled down onto his bed.
Gwen
"Well hi there, Mordred," Gwen drawled lazily into the phone. She lay back onto the couch.
"So, got your tape. It was wonderful, thank you."
Mordred
"Gwen! I, uh, I didn't expect to hear from you so soon," Mordred stammered. "So, you liked it?" He asked slightly shyly. "Not much, really..."
Gwen
Gwen let out a laugh.
"Well, I found it when I got out of the shower, so I figured I'd listen to it."
She took a deep breath.
"I loved it. Thank you."
Mordred
"Yeah, well, you're welcome." Mordred smiled slightly, pleased to hear she liked it. "I meant it. All the stuff I said. It was easier to say some of it...onto the tape."
Gwen
"Uh..."
Gwen paused.
"What are you doing at the moment?" she asked casually.
Mordred
"Nothing. Got my chores done, so I could convince Scott, that yes, I could be trusted with the sound equipment. You know how he is." Mordred chuckled slightly. "So yeah...doing nothing except talking to you."
Gwen
Gwen smiled.
"Cool, cool. Well... um."
She took a deep breath.
"You feel like coming over, we could watch a few movies, maybe get some food?"
Mordred
"Yeah, yeah, that would be bloody fantastic." Mordred's grin got wider. Vort?
Yeah?
Look after Faolan for me for a few hours.
Should you really-
Look, if you need me, I'm no more then a thought away. Ok?
Alright.
Oi, whelp?
Yes, da?
I got to go for a few. But Uncle Vort and Uncle Spike'll take good care of ya for me, ok?
Oh, ok.
"Yeah, Vort'll take care of the whelp for me. So, ah, guess I'll be right over. See ya in a few."
Gwen
Gwen hung up and took her hair out of the braid and shook her head a few times, letting her ringlets fall naturely. She put the phone back on it's hook and waited for Mordred.
Mordred
Mordred put the phone back down, grinned, then jumped up and punched air in triumph. Yes! He sniffed under his arms, shrugged, then decided to at least change his shirt. New black shirt on, and his boots laced up and he 'ported to Gwen's lounge room. He looked around for her, smiling hesitantly and running a hand through his hair. "Gwen?"
Gwen
Gwen stepped out of her bedroom, still running her hands through her long hair.
"Hey you," she said softly, walking over and kissing his cheek softly.
Mordred
"Hey..." Mordred said back quietly. He raised his hand to touch her cheek, then moved it back to his own hair, not knowing how far she really wanted to go. "You look...wow. But you always look wonderful. So...what movies did you want to see?"
Gwen
Gwen shrugged.
"It's up to you. We can stay here and rent, or flick, which I'm excellent at, thanks to a certain mutation... or we can go out."
Mordred
"I don't know what's on. Whatever you want would be fine with me," Mordred said honestly. Anything as long as he was with her.
Gwen
Gwen smiled.
"Well I don't feel like going out, coz I'm just so so lazy."
She looked over at him.
"And to be completely honest, I'm a little jetlagged. Been doing a lot of work overseas lately."
She sat down on the couch and gestured for Mordred to sit next to her, then extended her arm and shot electricity at the TV, smiling as it turned on.
"Ah, everything is so Gwen friendly."
Mordred
"Ahhh, should everything just bow down and worship you while they're at it?" Mordred quipped as he sat down next to her. "So, how is your work going?"
Gwen
"Hell yeah, I'm like a queen in this domain," Gwen replied with a teasing tone in her voice.
She stretched out and lay her legs in Mordred's lap, flicking lazily at the TV.
"Ehh, been pretty good. An influx of jobs overseas... was in London, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney... just everywhere. It's been pretty fun, I hadn't been to Seoul in a long time, and I got to go, catch up with old friends, got paid a huge amount too, so that was fun."
She closed her eyes for a second.
"So what have you been up to?"
Mordred
"Ah, not much. Faolan's been pretty good...except he keeps sneaking up on Nathan and freaking the poor guy out. Don't know quite how he manages it..." Mordred shook his head slightly. "Chores, homework...talking. You know, just stuff." He thought. "Actually...something Scott wanted me to ask you when I saw you next...can you keep an eye and ear out for news of Xavier? He just...disappeared. Apparently it's not like him, and I can tell the teachers are worried. Especialy after both of our top security personnel left. Although, there's two angels on campus now."
Gwen
Gwen's eyebrows knitted together in worry.
"I'll keep a look out for him, get in contact with people, see what I can dig up for you guys."
She sighed.
"I hope he's alright. And wait... you have angels on campus? Things definitely got more exciting after I left."
Mordred
"Oh yeah. Both Angels of Death. Well, Emily still is. Loki...something happened there and he got demoted. He has to guard these two idiots called Jay and Silent Bob. Now, Bob's alright. He doesn't say much...as you would think. But Jay...doesn't shut up. And I swear, if he curses around Faolan anymore, I'm teleporting him some place where they'll wash his mouth out with soap." Mordred scowled. "Not the nicest or most politcally correct guy..."
Gwen
"I can imagine, thank God I got the hell out of there then. Although it did have it's perks."
Gwen settled back down in her seat.
"So what else is new?"
Mordred
"Sergei had a minor meltdown when he found out his family in Russia died about nine months after he entered the labs. There's a biiiiig patch of dead earth in the lawns we're not allowed to go into. He blew up a lot of trees too. Can't blame him really, poor bastard. Think he's basically dived into the vodka bottle and he hasn't come up for air yet." Mordred shook his head sadly.
Gwen
"Ick. Sounds rough."
Gwen sighed and flicked absently through the channels.
"I guess it's been a rough time for everyone," she commented offhandly.
Mordred
"Yeah." Mordred nodded slowly. "Fates hate us, the world's against us. Nothing we can do but survive..."
Gwen
"Yeah, that's one way to look at it, I guess."
Gwen kept the channels flicking, as she returned her gaze to Mordred.
"You feel hungry or anything?"
Mordred
"Don't mind me, I'm overly pessismistic. Really have to stop spending so much time with Jono and Sergei." Mordred grinned at her. "I'm not hungry, but if you want to eat now, that's cool."
Gwen
Gwen smiled and shrugged.
"Nah, I'm not that hungry, I was just wondering..." she trailed off and concentrated on the TV, trying not to make things awkward.
"Sooo..."
Mordred
"How's the Angel gang?" Mordred asked. "Has someone finally killed the crossbow wielding psycho? *Really* not liking that he aimed a ctossbow at Vort."
Gwen
Gwen shrugged.
"I haven't been in to see Angel himself, but Gunn did drop in for a visit. Angel went bad, and chaos was ensuing. He needed a break from hunting and patrolling, so he crashed here a few nights, just to get away from the stress."
She sighed.
"Angelus went to Tulsa, and kidnapped Faith and tortured her. They re-ensouled him, so, I don't know how everything is now."
Mordred
"Nasty," Mordred commented. "At least Spike's soul is permanent...how did he lose it, do you know?" Then he looked worried. "Spike's soul is permanent as far as we know...oh, that brings in a whole nother level of paranoia. Lovely."
Gwen
"I think Cordy said it was sleeping with Nyx. Moment of happiness and all that rot."
Gwen shrugged and stopped on a cartoon. She grinned.
"Hehe, I used to love this when I was a kid. Sailor Moon."
Mordred
"You know, you think the gypsies would have used a curse with no escape clause on it. I mean really..." Mordred shook his head. "Oh god, this is that thing Siobhan's hooked on. Sailor Mars! Sailor Moon! Oh, Tuxedo Mask!" He snickered. "Bloody hell, someone shoot me now."
Gwen
Gwen let out a laugh and changed the channel again.
"So, what do you feel like doing?"
Mordred
"Don't care so long as you're somewhere nearby," Mordred said. "I don't know...do you want to go down to the video shop and rent a few flicks out? Or should we just keep flicking?"
Gwen
"Yeah, let me just change into something going outside the house worthy," Gwen said, gesturing at her sweat pants and singlet.
She stood up and went into her room, grabbed a pair of jeans and put them on, the grabbed a jacket and her wallet and headed out to Mordred again.
Mordred
"Ok, so guide me where'er you will. Let us go and hunt down the videos, milady," Mordred said jokingly. "Ah, the dreaded video shop...haunt of such beasts as small whining toddlers and soccer mums." He grinned at her.
Gwen
Gwen smiled and led him out the door. She turned to lock it, just by touching her hand to the metal plate. She twilred her car keys in her hand and they went down and hopped into her car. She started the car and drove them into the city, and parked outside on of the video stores.
Mordred
Mordred opened the door and got out, closing the door behind him. He waited for Gwen to join him. "So, what's your fancy this evening? Romance, comedy, mind numbing violence, horror...? Or a mix of all of them?"
Gwen
Gwen shrugged as they walked into the video store.
"Um... not sure, anything will do."
She browsed around casually as her eyes flicked over the movie titles.
Mordred
Mordred watched her, trying not to be obvious that he was watching her as he pretended to look through the videod on offer. This was...nice. Normal, almost. And so little of what they did was normal... He shook his head slightly. "Find anything you want to watch, love?"
Gwen
Gwen turned to Mordred.
"Ehh, I don't know. You pick, I could watch anything."
Mordred
Mordred whistled slightly as he looked at the videos in the aisle they were in. His eyes fell on something, and he picked it up. "A John Cleese one. Haven't seen this one...'Dangerous Creatures'. Up for some oddly funny British comedy?" He raised an eyebrow as he looked at her.
Gwen
Gwen smiled.
"Yeah, sounds good."
She nodded to a guy in the next aisle.
"Hey, I've gotta go talk to this guy about work, I'll be back in a sec," she said to Mordred and headed over to talk to him.
Mordred
"K, pet." Mordred tapped the video case against his hand and hummed slightly as he waited for her to come back. No point lining up if he didn't have a membership card for the shop. He tapped the video some more as he waited for her to finish her talk.
"Hey..." Mordred looked up, startled as a female voice broke into his absentminded drifting. "You looked lonely." Cute, slutty and American super bitch, he classified the blonde girl quickly.
"Nah, I'm just peachy, ta for asking." Mordred stepped back. She followed, smiling. "Look, I'm here with someone..."
"Doesn't mean you have to leave with them," she suggested.
"Sorry, ducks, but I don't swing your way." She looked puzzled. Mordred sighed. "I'm *gay*, darrrling. What, do I need to hit you over the head with it?"
"I could change your mind."
"Sorry, darling, but you're not my type. I prefer brunettes." Mordred backed off more. The girl's smile went predatory.
"My friend's a brunette."
"Good for her."
"Him, actually."
"Him, whatever. Look, what do I have to do to convince you I'm not interested?" Gwen, hurry it up please, love. Save me from this maneating shark.
Gwen
Gwen chatted with the guy for awhile about her last job then she turned to leave.
"Hey Gwen?" he asked.
"Yo?"
"Do you think... maybe one day..."
Gwen paused, she didn't like where this was heading.
"We could go out, for a friendly drink?"
"Um... yeah that might not be the best idea."
"Well, if you change your mind..."
"If you wanna know the truth, it's just that I'm sorta seeing someone. And if that doesn't work out, well then I'm planning on not dating. Ever again. So, it's not you."
The guy shifted his weight uncomfortably.
"Sorry then."
"Oh, yeah, sorry too," Gwen said and started to leave again, when he grabbed her arm. "Yeah?"
"Um... there's a job coming up, that I'll need a partner for... so, if you're interested... I'll get my boss to give you a call."
"Oh yeah, sure. You know how to find me." Gwen turned and left to get Mordred.
Mordred
Mordred was getting more and more edgy as the girl didn't leave him alone. When she put her hand on his arm, he'd had enough. "Look, slutty, maybe you didn't get me the first time. Are all Americans this stupid, or is it just you? I'm not interested. I wouldn't be interested if you suddenly became my ideal bodily type in a woman.. I told you I was gay because I wanted to let you down gently. You're not seeming to get my none too subtle signals. My girlfriend is over there. She's smarter, nicer and more bloody gorgeous then you could ever hope of being. Even after several thousand dollars worth of plastic surgery. And she's got something you can't buy. A personality." He threw off her hand almost violently. The blonde gaped at him. "Now, sod off, Barbie doll. Go find yourself some safe guy to hang with."
"You can't mean that..."
I mean every bloody word. Now, go before I do something permenant to your mind. I'm mutie, baby girl. He grinned at the obvious terror in her eyes, and she quickly turned and walked away. "Thank god, I thought she was never gonna leave. Some people need to be hit over the heads numerous times with a two by four to get the point hammered in. Right, shall we rent this and go?" Mordred walked hurriedly over to Gwen's side.
Gwen
Gwen grinned.
"Yeah, cool, let's do this thing."
She flipped out her video card and led him to the line. They rented the movie and then went back out to the car.
"Did you wanna do anything else while we're out?"
Mordred
"Nuh...umm. Probably a good idea to get going," Mordred said while trying to make it none too obvious that he was looking for police cars. He could see the blonde babbling away into a phone. "I kinda told blonde and slutty in there that I was a mutant. Police might not take kindly to a telepath threatening to hurt someone through their powers. It was the only way I could get her to sod off! Told her I was gay first...and even that didn't work." He gave Gwen a sheepish look.
Gwen
Gwen grinned.
"Looks like we both got chatted up tonight," she said, not willing to reveal anymore.
She unlocked the car and once Mordred was in, she took off back to her house. She got out of the car and locked it once Mordred was out, and headed upstairs to her place, unlocking it.
Mordred
"Ok, I have...absolutely no idea how to work your machine. How about, I just stick the video in the slot, and you make it work?" Mordred eyed the formidable multimedia equipment. He slid the video into the machine, then stepped back to let Gwen handle it.
Gwen
Gwen grinned and wiggled her fingers.
"Watch the master at work."
She shot a bolt of electricity at her player, and it started to work.
"Ah, Gwen friendly. I love my place."
She went over and sat on the couch.
Mordred
"Didn't we discuss this earlier? I stand in awe at your feet, oh goddess." Mordred smiled as he sat down next to her and the previews rolled on. "Should we skip the previews and get to the movie?"
Gwen
Gwen grinned.
"Damn straight you do!"
She hesitated, then snuggled up against his side. She unfolded a blanket from the side of her couch and spread it over them, then flicked her hand at the VCR, making the video start to fast forward.
Mordred
Mordred smiled slowly, and then hesitantly raised his hand to stroke her hair briefly. "I think we're gonna hit the movie soon...ok, stop!"
Gwen
Gwen shot a bolt of electricity at the player and grinned, then settled back down into Mordred's side, reaching slowly for his hand and taking it gently.
Mordred
Mordred was in heaven. She was at least holding his hand...it was a start. He could cope with this. It was when he didn't think he'd ever see her again that he had problems. He watched the movie in an ecstatic daze, and thought dimly he'd havta rent it again later. He really wasn't watching it properly, and it did look funny... The film ended and Mordred sighed. "So...what next?"
Gwen
Gwen looked up at Mordred, with a small smile on her face. She leant in carefully and kissed him softly, wrapping her arms around his neck timidly. She pulled away after a second.
"I don't know, whatever you want to do is fine with me."
Mordred
"Food, maybe? Pizza?" Mordred suggested.
Gwen
"Sounds like a plan."
Gwen lifted the phone from the hook and ordered a delivery to her house, getting a pizza that both she and Mordred liked. She hung up.
"Right, well we have twenty minutes till it's going to be here."
She flicked the TV on to cable, and started surfing through the hundreds of channels she had. She stopped on one of the movie channels.
Mordred
"Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Grail." Echoed from the screen and Mordred laughed.
"Oh, classic. Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail. They're not even up to the rabbit yet..."
"Well, I'll ask 'im, but I don't think 'e'll be very keen-- 'e's already got one, you see?"
"What?"
"He says they've already *got* one!"
"Are you *sure* he's got one?"
"Oh yes, it's ver' naahs." The French soldier on screen bent down a little to talk to the other soldiers hidden behind the ramparts. "I told 'em we've already *got* one!" They laughed. Mordred chuckled as well, and chimed in on the next line.
"Well... ah, um... Can we come up and have a look?"
Gwen
Gwen giggled and snuggled back into Mordred's side.
They watched the movie for a bit, then she heard a knock on her door. She got up, grabbed some money from her wallet and paid the pizza guy. She walked back into the living room.
"I come bearing gifts."
Mordred
"Ah, food. Food of the goods...you know, it's really, really hard to find a pizza place that delivers in London? We're so far behind in that aspect." Mordred reached out for the box and put it on the table, flipping the lid open. "Mmm."
The movie continued in its general silliness. "We are the knights who say Ni! Ni! Ni!"
Gwen
"It's because you British are all so shirty," Gwen teased, sticking her tongue out.
She got up and fetched some cups, plates and drinks from the kitchen and brought them back out to Mordred.
Mordred
"We're not shirty...we're...dignified. And I'm not either British! I'm Welsh," Mordred said in a semi-snotty tone. "But British people are supposed to be dignified...not that you could tell it by this lot."
"Therefore, we must give you a test, a Test to satisfy the Knights who say Neeeow ... wum ... ping!"
"They are terrifically silly..." Mordred said thoughtfully as he put a slice of pizza on a plate and proceeded to inhale it.
"Firstly. You must get us another shrubbery!"
"More shrubberies! More shrubberies for the ex-Knights of Ni!"
"Never did understand why they wanted the stupid things. I mean really, shrubberies..." The movie continued in spite of Mordred's general disapproval.
"A path! A little path for the late Knights of Ni!" A chrous of 'Ni' erupted from the knights.
Gwen
Gwen rolled her eyes good naturedly.
"Shirty."
She munched happily on some pizza, watching the movie.
Mordred
"Am not," Mordred said mock-huffily.
"You've said it! Aaaaarghhh! ... We've said it ... Wwe're all saying it."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. It, you stupid knights! It, it, it!" He glanced at Gwen. "I have bad movie watching skills. It's Vort's fault. He always yells things at the screen. I just picked it up."
Gwen
Gwen giggled.
"Oh well... I guess that's what you get from being shirty."
She leaned into Mordred's shoulder and was about to get comfortable when the phone rang. She heaved a sigh and lifted the phone.
"Hello?"
She paused.
"너는 무엇을 하는가 나를 필요로 했는가?" (What did you need me to do?)
"Mmmhmmm... 언제? 나는 저것을 할 수 있는다. 안녕." (When? I can do that. Goodbye.)
Gwen hung up and got up to scribble the details down on a piece of paper.
"I'll be back in a sec," she mumbled to Mordred, then went into her room to make a phone call.
Mordred
"Ookkaaaayyy." Mordred raised his eyebrows slightly then continued to eat pizza and watch the movie. He had such a strong urge to eavesdrop...maybe. No. He wasn't going to do it. Faolan would see it, and how was he supposed to convince his son he shouldn't do it when he did it? Mordred resolutely kept his eyes, ears and mind on the screen.
"What manner of man are you that can conjure up fire without flint or tinder?"
Ah, Tim the Enchanter. If Gwen didn't hurry up, she was going to miss one of the best bits...
Gwen
Gwen lay on her bed while she spoke on the phone to the guy she'd seen in the video store.
"He wants it done as soon as possible?"
She sighed.
"Yeah, I can, I think. I don't have anything lined up for the next few days, so it's possible."
She looked over the details again.
"But we're gonna need some things. And we're gonna... yeah, I know. So we'll meet up at the bar, then... then go from there?"
Gwen sat up.
"I'll have to, yeah. We'll need to bring them back in. Shouldn't be too hard, not with the combined effort. Yeah. Yeah, cool, bye."
She hung up and headed back out to Mordred and sat by his side, resuming her attention to the TV.
Mordred
"Just in time. They're about to meet a fearsome and unholy beast," Mordred told her.
"But follow only if you are men of valour. For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a monster, a creature so foul and cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair ...therefore sweet knights if you may doubt your strength or courage come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty pointy teeth."
"What an eccentric speech..."
The movie continued, Mordred grinning.
Until he chimed in on some of his favourite lines.
"There he is!"
"Where?"
"There."
"Behind the rabbit?"
"It is the rabbit."
"...You silly sod."
"What?"
"You got us all worked up."
"You cretin!"
That is not an ordinary rabbit ... 'tis the most foul cruel and bad- tempered thing you ever set eyes on."
"You tit. I soiled my armour I was so scared!"
"That rabbit's got a vicious streak. It's a killer!"
"Oh yeah, dangerous, dangerous bunny rabbit..." Mordred muttered. "Just you wait, you idiots..."
Gwen
Gwen chuckled as the bunny flew through the air and killed a bunch of knights.
"Run away!"
She laughed again, and fiddled with her cell phone.
Mordred
"Three. Well, we'll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit's dynamite."
"Would it help to confuse him if we ran away more?"
"Shut up. Go and change your armour."
"You twat!" Mordred jeered. "Sorry, Sir Robin always annoyed me..." He ate more pizza as the knights fetched the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
Gwen
After a few minutes, Gwen felt herself getting tired, she lay against Mordred and then fell completely asleep.
Meanwhile, her cell phone rang, but she was too deep in slumber to notice or hear it.
Mordred
Mordred wiped his hand on his jeans, then reached over to get it. He didn't want to wake Gwen up. He pressed the right button, and put it to his ear. "Hello?" He said absently as he watched the bunny get blown up.
Gwen
"Hmm, this isn't Gwen, and I know I have the right number. But hello. Look, can you just pass a message on to her for me?"
The guy paused.
"Tell her that Mark called, and there's a change of plans. I'll come to pick her up instead, and we'll go together to the bar. Oh, and tell her to wear the black dress that she bought the other day. Thanks, bye."
Gwen let out a contented sigh, still asleep.
Mordred
Mordred just sat there in shock. He'd thought...they'd been getting on so well. He'd...oh god. He got up carefully, so he didn't disturb her and went to find a bit of paper. He scribbled a note.
Gwen,
got a call from Vort and had to get going. Didn't want to wake you. Mark called and he said there was a change of plans. He'll pick you up and you'll go together to the bar. Wear the black dress you bought the other day. Have fun with Mark. I'm sure you will.
Mordred.
Mordred looked at her again as he placed the phone around the message and put it on the table. He hesitated, then kissed her forehead gently before 'porting away, heart aching. If she didn't want him, why didn't she just say so? If she was going out with someone else...
Gwen
Gwen opened her eyes a few moments later.
"Mordred?" she said sleepily. She flicked the TV off and looked around then spotted the note on the table.
She lifted it and read it quickly, then nodded to herself and padded into her room and went to sleep.