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Post by Baroness Elina Cali on Jun 13, 2011 22:11:33 GMT -6
Elina looked around the bedroom thoughtfully before she began her usual process of getting ready for bed. Henry was out in the living room, on the couch. She had yet to give him a chance to sleep in the same bed with her because he continued to show her that he would not stop his whore-some ways.
The problem at the moment, however, was that she wasn't ready for bed. She wanted to run. It had nearly been a week now since she moved in and Vaan had enforced his curfew. Elina hadn't gotten to run under the moonlight in two weeks now... She looked to the moon through one of the bedroom windows and studied it. The full moon called to her. It called to her. It taunted her. "Come, Elina, run in my light." She closed her eyes and took a deep soothing breath before looking around the bedroom. That was it! Elina was sick and tired of this curfew nonsense and she wanted no more of it!
She looked around the room for a moment before she walked out onto the bedroom balcony and looked down towards the ground. The sheets would make it down there... wouldn't they? Well... she was about to find out. She hastily walked to the bed and quietly began to strip it, tieing sheets together to create a rope of sorts. She had to get a few extra sheets from the linen closet, but she managed to make a rope she thought was long enough. She studied her handy work before giving a nod of approval as she tugged on two that were knotted together, testing their strength. Wouldn't want the rope to give way on her during her climb down after all.
The soon to be Princess didn't bother putting on shoes or anymore than the bandeau style magenta and grey stripped crop top and black yoga shorts she wore. She would be taking them off to run shortly anyways. She carried the long rope of sheets to the balcony and began tieing it around a sturdy column. To be honest she was surprised there was no one patrolling below the balcony given how desperately Henry had tried his escapes through the week. She licked her lips and looked around for a moment, making sure the coast was clear before she pushed the sheets over the railing. She looked around once more, grinning before she carefully climbed over the ledge of the railing and slowly began her descent down to the ground, keeping a firm grip on the sheets as she slowly scaled down the three stories to the ground.
She closed her eyes and let out a sigh of content as she felt the cool grass under her feet and between her toes.
Freedom.
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Captain Dawn Roseburn
Captain of the Guard
'I have no desire to be Queen. I only wish to be by his side.'
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Post by Captain Dawn Roseburn on Jun 14, 2011 6:58:08 GMT -6
“How are they doing?” Dawn’s golden brown eyes glanced between the two guards at the doors to Prince Henry and Lady Elina’s suite. The two guards, one a large male that almost rivaled Angel’s size minus a few inches and the other a female who still needed to see a few more seasons of fighting before she looked anything like a warrior because right then all Dawn could think was ‘Fashion Model’, both glanced between each other for a moment making Dawn wonder what had happened in the room. They wouldn’t have been standing there if they believed one had left the room without permission or before the sun’s first light. The only reason they might be making those sideways glances were if they had been forced to listen to acts they’d rather not have. “There was some heated conversation for awhile, Captain, before it got really quiet about five minutes ago.” The male replied being smart enough to face Dawn but look just to the left of her eyes not wanting to give off the impression he wanted to challenge her rank. The last guard to have attempted that hadn’t lasted four minutes in the fight with Dawn and she had made sure the majority of the guards had seen the fight. Those that didn’t heard about it and maybe had an exaggerated telling but it worked in her favor either way. Pushing the guards aside, Dawn leaned forward until her ear was pressed against the brand new door King Vaan had ordered installed before all this mess had begun. Her ears picked up movement from the back of the suite, a pair of feet moving around in an almost calculated routine, but the steps were too light for Henry’s large feet leaving only room for Lady Elina. There was no way Henry could have snuck another woman into the room without Elina trying to eat him alive. Growling softly, her mind instantly thought back to the only escape route left in the room, the balcony. Angel and her had discussed it with the king the same day he had engaged Henry to Elina, they all thought neither of them would attempt to either leap over the railing or to scale down the wall. Depriving them of fresh air had never been the plan, it had been to force Henry to ease up on his old womanizing ways to maybe allow Elina to kick him into shape. “In the morning, report to Angel. Tell him, Captain said to make you both run through course L.” The two guards groaned knowing they hadn’t acted sooner on the strangeness of how quiet the room had become after a fight between the Prince and future Princess. Course L meant they were deprived of their sight while Angel and a few of his best would hunt them in the woods forcing them to rely on their ears and sense of smell to save their skins from being nipped at and cut. Dawn didn’t play around about her job of protecting the royal family, even from itself when she had to. Giving the guards a cold stare, they both shut up before she rose up to her full height and allowed her real voice to surface making them more compliant to her orders. “Stay here, keep watch, and don’t even think of falling asleep.” Turning on her heels, Dawn left the two guards to make her way outside. It wasn’t until she turned the corner so she was out of sight of them that her feet picked up into a light run. Her legs pumped, pushing at the floor until she worked her way outside right under the balcony where she found a long line of sheets swaying in the light breeze only to be halted in it’s moves by a body climbing down it. Crossing her arms over her chest, she pulled her Captain’s expression on, removing any emotion but annoyance at having to collect the noble woman. She had to admit that she was impressed it had taken Elina this long to attempt her first chance at escaping the room when Henry had been trying since the second day. “What’s it going to take for you to go back to your suite without me having to throw you over my shoulder like a pup, Princesa?” Speaking up, she waited until Elina’s feet touched the cool grass and made sure she was forcing the Baroness’s back, hoping to scare her, plus it helped the wind was carrying her scent away from Elina’s nose. Dawn wasn’t against throwing the lady over her shoulder to dump her back in the suite for the rest of the night but going the long way so every lycan, servant, and whoever was in the halls would see the Lady acting like a child. And she wasn’t against putting a lock on the balcony window as well if Elina thought to try this trick again. Dawn was a fast learner, in the position she was in she had to be, and there would be no mistakes a second time.
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Post by Baroness Elina Cali on Jun 14, 2011 9:37:12 GMT -6
She was so caught up in the fact that she actually thought she was getting away with this that she wasn't paying attention to her sense. Had she been paying attention she might have heard whoever it was coming up behind her as she lowered herself from the sheets to the ground safely.
Busted.
She tensed when she heard the unwelcomingly familiar tone of Captain Roseburn. Damn it! Was it too much to ask to go running for a while? No... why couldn't Dawn just give her an hour? That wasn't exactly long enough to go hunting like she'd plan, but it was certainly long enough to give her a little time to run off the steam Henry had managed to build up. It was starting to become a nightly routine. Come in for curfew, try and have a civilized dinner together, fight, go to bed. It's not that she wanted to fight with Henry. It was that he was so damn frustrating and he knew exactly what nerves to pull. Like that first night they were moved in together. He knew just how to piss her off and he had succeeded.
It was a wonder she didn't murder him by now. As much fighting as they did, it was only a matter of time before she actually did murder the man. She sighed and turned to Captain Roseburn, looking her up and down. "All I want is an hour in the forest...that's all I'm asking from you, Captain." She spoke quietly and calmly. She didn't want to snap at the Captain. The woman was only doing her job. Elina couldn't blame Dawn for that. It was her job to keep the royal family safe and in a few months time, Elina would be a part of the royal family. "Please, Captain... I haven't gone for a run in weeks. I swear after an hour I will come back in quietly and calmly." She doubted Dawn would actually allow her a run in the forest, even if it was only for an hour. Elina didn't think it would hurt to do a little bartering though. She might actually be kind and considerate enough to actually allow her an hour.
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Captain Dawn Roseburn
Captain of the Guard
'I have no desire to be Queen. I only wish to be by his side.'
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Post by Captain Dawn Roseburn on Jun 14, 2011 10:18:37 GMT -6
Clearly someone had been counting their chickens before they even hatched from how tense Elina got when Dawn’s voice filled the silent night air. Already, her eyes were glowing slightly to allow her sister wolf to see what was taking place and to allow her the ability to see even with the full moon over head. Tapping her boot lightly on the grass, she arched an eyebrow waiting for a reply. This wasn’t the first time she had to handle a royal trying to sneak away while she was on watch, at least Henry had been more creative when he’d done so before getting engaged. His latest schemes didn’t have their same flare and made the Captain question if he was really trying to escape or just put up a front that he didn’t want to be with Elina. Either way, it wasn’t her problem. All she had to do was keep him in the room until dawn.
Dawn didn’t care if Lady Elina hated her for what she was about to say, she didn’t care if the whole island thought she needed to relax and live a little. In fact, there were few people she actually cared what they thought about her anymore. Most nobles weren’t on that list. She took her job serious because it was a serious job, half the time the members of court didn’t even realize how many times she and the guards had stopped an attempt on either the King’s life or a number of his pack’s lives. They didn’t know because she made sure the guards were well prepared for anything so to keep a low profile. Uncrossing her arms, she cracked her knuckles to loosen them up in case the situation called for a little muscle work.
“You want me to give you an hour of free time and risk my job? I don’t think so.” Dawn loved her job; she loved the routine of it and knowing where she stood in life. There was a lot she loved about her job, a portion of it being the excitement and thrill of the hunt. The other portion took a complete moron not to figure out that she just enjoyed being around Vaan. She wasn’t about to risk everything so the future princess could roam the nights unattended. “Unlike you, Princesa, I’m constantly fighting for my position and over the…many years I’ve held it, here’s the shocker, I’ve come to enjoy it. I’m not going to jeopardize it for you to run in the woods like a little cachorro.” She wasn’t about to say ‘I’m sorry, I’m just following orders’ to Elina because it would have been a waste of her breath and she might start looking soft. And Dawn was anything but soft. Her words were cold and stern, spoken in the tone of voice as a mother who had caught her bebé sneaking out of the house at one in the morning. For a moment, her eyes glanced up the length of the cloth rope seeing a light go on up in the room making her wonder if Henry had awoken to see what had become of his fiancé. Leaving no room for Elina to get any ideas, her eyes were instantly back on the young lycan waiting for her next move.
“Unless my orders change, your butt stays in that suite. Your presence in that room is probably the only thing keeping Prince Henry from sleeping around.” And there was the other reason that Elina was being forced to stay in the room. It was clearly driving the prince nuts that he had to share a room with a woman who wouldn’t let him screw her until he learned the meaning of monogamy. In truth, Dawn truly questioned how long the prince would last before he either slept around or charmed Elina into his bed, but again, not her problem.
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Post by Baroness Elina Cali on Jun 14, 2011 14:23:57 GMT -6
Elina just looked down at the ground as Dawn gave her a scolding. She felt like a pup who was getting in trouble over something. It was a feeling Elina had never enjoyed as a pup, and she certainly didn't enjoy it now as a grown woman. and the way she called princesa didn't help any in Elina's discomfort. She tensed even more before she looked up to Dawn. "Stop calling me that..." That's all Elina could think to say at the moment, because it was annoying that Dawn called her that. Elina wasn't ignorant. She knew why Dawn called her princesa. It was the same reason that she called Henry principito. For one thing, Elina wasn't a princess yet. She never wanted to be a princess. Not by this means anyways. And for another, it came off as snide and sarcastic. It grated on Elina's nerves, and at the moment, her nerves were not in the best shape to be grated.
She may have been 80, but there were still times where she had trouble controlling her inner wolf, and right now it was gnawing on the reins of control. "Don't ever call me that. I'm not Henry. I'm not a spoiled selfish prince who continues to act like a pup. " And that's all it took because if she couldn't have her run to blow off steam she was going to have the biggest bitch fit she could to blow off all the steam. "God forbid a woman should want an hour outside of that... that... cage you people call a suite away from that... infuriating man, who does nothing but piss me off. I just wanted one god damn hour away from this place. Away from guards and curfews and the court and snot nosed mistresses. Away from him." Elina was not expecting to get anything out of this rant she'd been holding in all day other than to vent some of her frustrations.
Once she was finally done with her rant she closed her eyes and took several, very deep, slow breaths to calm herself. She felt a little better now, but she still wished to run. It was very unfair that Vaan was imposing this curfew on her when she did nothing wrong. She sighed after a moment and looked up to dawn, whiping imaginary lent off her shorts. "I'm sorry about that..." She glanced to the rope of bed linens before she ran a hand through her hair.
"No, actually.. the only thing keeping him in are the guards at the door." She said gently as she ruffled her hair a little. She had originally put him out on the couch to keep him from running around with other women, but there was only so much she could do to stop him. Adrienne and Zia didn't take to Elina's threats as many of the other ladies of the court did. He could easily slip off to the village and sleep with Zia or slip into Adrienne's quarters for a quick row in the sheets during the day. Unless Vaan intended to keep them locked in their suite all day and night, the curfew did no good for Henry or Elina. There had been several occassions over the week where they needed space and had no where to go because of their nightly confinment to the Sunset Suite.
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Captain Dawn Roseburn
Captain of the Guard
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Post by Captain Dawn Roseburn on Jun 14, 2011 15:18:24 GMT -6
Why did Dawn have to sound like the worried mother? That wasn’t in her job description. Of course, it had been in there that she would start to think of Vaan’s sons almost like her own or at least her own brothers, not that she’d ever say that allowed. Her sister wolf had watched over Richard and Henry since they were babies, over those years she grew attached and wanted only the best for them. Damn Henry for allowing his own abandonment issues to get so out of hand his father had to step in to shove his life into some sort of order. “I’ll call you what I see you as, because if sneaking out of a suite like a pup is your idea of how a lady should act then you are indeed a princesa, not the woman I know you can be.” Glaring down at Elina, she held nothing back from her cold stare at the other woman wanting her to realize how much she would do to protect the royal family and how much she would give just to make sure Henry’s life didn’t explode in his face.
Keeping her mouth shut, she allowed Elina her moment to bitch and moan about her ‘tough’ life and wanting to run free. Dawn wasn’t about to say the young woman didn’t have it hard on some parts, hell if someone told her who she was going to marry they would likely get punched in the face so hard it would scar. As the young she-wolf finally began to shimmer down, the Captain spoke up once more. “Thank Luna, you’re not Henry. If you were I might have to actually hurt you for the stupid stunt you just pulled.” Even though the words came out harsh, there was a small smirk on Dawn’s lips knowing she really would give Henry a knock in the head for climbing down the side of the palace. It wouldn’t have been the first time she’d hit him for trying something stupid, the first time she spanked him had been for sneaking away from the palace when he was a little pup. It had been a light pop to his butt, but it had left an impression back then.
“Don’t apologize to me.” Because Dawn wasn’t worthy of it and it was a waste of breath. The words didn’t hold their normal bit to them; instead they came off soft in the way a submissive wolf would whimper trying to ask for forgiveness. She knew better than most how demanding the wolf could be when caged up for long periods of time. Her own had been terribly hard to control back as a young guard in the palace walls for days at a time, the worst were the full moon nights much like the one right then. That brought a whole array of sympathy from her heart for Elina because of her situation. She knew how annoying Henry could be, that boy somehow knew just which buttons to press when a lycan wasn’t on guard around him. Something told her, which had been one of the lessons she’d taught him which he had learned too well.
“Keep telling yourself that, Lady Elina, but you don’t know him as well as I do.” Dawn had seen many sides to the prince, but this new one. The one that allowed love to show from his eyes for small moments, that Prince she hadn’t seen in so many years. Not since he was a little pup. Turning her eyes once more upwards, she cocked her finger for Elina to follow her and started towards the woods. Amazingly, her boots didn’t make a sound over the grass or when her feet hit paved stone that made a path towards the edge of the woods. Walking over to a tree, she leaned against the trunk so her body was half in the woods and half still in the palace yard so she could keep an eye on the balcony while staying in the shadows. “I can’t give you an hour, but for the next twenty five minutes I’ll be standing right here.” That was the lady’s quo to start running because Dawn was keeping track of time in her mind.
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Post by Baroness Elina Cali on Jun 15, 2011 0:22:16 GMT -6
Elina was more than surprised by Dawn's statement. She was a little hurt. Elina did her best to carry herself as a real lady did. She did not appreciate being considered spoiled and immature, as Dawn considered her when she used that word. She met Dawn's gaze, frowning. "I have a right to be myself every once in a while...If that means trying to escape by scaling the palace wall then so be it..." She hated the very idea that Dawn might regard her as she would Henry. Selfish and thoughtless. Elina was anything but selfish and thoughtless, but you had to be a little selfish sometimes. You had to think about yourself and your own feelings sometimes, and at the moment, her feelings were telling her she really needed a run.
Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't all a bed of roses and satins sheets being a nobleman or woman... It was miserable most of the time actually. All the stuffy classes and lessons. All the stuffy people who thought they were better than everyone else in the room. Greedy, money-hungry people. There were many days where she wished with all her heart that she could be normal... like Dawn... have a normal life and not be the brunt of the gossip. Oh, she heard the things going around. Their engagement had been announced just a few days ago during court and now there were whispers running about how Elina couldn't keep her soon to be husband in line when it came to women. It was painful to hear those rumors and know they spoke the truth for the most part. People who lived outside of the court all think that being of noble birth is all silver spoons, luxurious items, and servants to do your dirty work, but there was more to it than that. There was a lot more to it.
She couldn't help but smile a little as Dawn said what she would do if Elina were Henry. She could imagine Dawn doing a number of things to Henry for his idiocy. He was always so good at getting in trouble. She had heard a few stories around the court growing up about Prince Henry's adventures. Her smile softened a little as she thought about the story of him wandering off from the palace to the village marketplace.
Elina frowned softly before she looked down to her feet, swirling her toes through the grass in a very child-like manner. Everyone except Elina seemed to think Elina was the right girl for this job. She saw no difference in Henry now than she did the very first time she ever met him. She didn't know what the others saw in her, but she certainly didn't feel like she was making any difference in Henry. Yes there are moments where she thought she had managed to peak his interest, but in the end he continued along with his womanizing and attempts to get out of the suite. And Elina certainly didn't see whatever Dawn saw.
She looked up, watching Dawn as she made her way to the pathway, but not towards any palace entrances. When Elina realized what Dawn was doing she smiled weakly and approached her. "Thank you." She murmured the words softly and before she knew it she was off through the woods. She ducked into a thicket to undress and change before she bound out of the bushes, racing through the forest, letting her sister wolf have the reigns for a bit. She ran, and she ran, and she ran. She could have run forever at this moment, but after a while, she turned around and took a little more time in her return, knowing that she would be stuck in that suite the rest of the night with Henry. She came back a few minutes late, giving Dawn an apologetic look while she gently groomed leaves and twigs out of her hair.
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Captain Dawn Roseburn
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Post by Captain Dawn Roseburn on Jun 20, 2011 7:53:37 GMT -6
At her place by the tree, Dawn kept an ear out for any movement coming towards her location that might jeopardize Elina’s run through the woods or her job. She wasn’t as heartless as most around the palace liked to think, but it was a good front to put on when she had to handle snobby nobles who believed she wasn’t worthy of her rank as Captain or walking around in the palace. Being heartless and cold had saved her many times from breaking down under whispers behind her back, it had forced her to be stronger, faster, and stealthier in all her movements. Sometimes, she would stay in that state of mind for days that she lost track of the real Dawn until her sister wolf dragged her to the surface. Like right then. Lady Elina was in need of a friend, she couldn’t be that friend but she could give her a helping hand for a few minutes of freedom. A freedom that for Dawn, she was slowly losing by growing more and more attached to the royal family. She blamed Henry and him being such a cute little pup when he followed her into town when he was growing up. Before his mother left him and Vaan. Before he became a womanizer. At times, she wondered if the Prince hadn’t followed her and cried when she wasn’t guarding him, would she have stayed as long as she did? There was only so much a woman could be put through over one man before she couldn’t take anymore and left.
The rushing of leaves alerted the Captain to Lady Elina’s return just as the twenty five minutes was up. “I’m sorry I couldn’t give you an hour, but guards change in fifteen minutes and someone was bound to notice your little rope in the breeze.” Reaching over, Dawn removed a few stray leaves Elina had missed in her hair, almost in a motherly nature. Pausing, as if realizing what she was doing, her hand lowered back down to her side while the soft, warm expression melted away from her face. In that moment, she was back to Captain Dawn cold hardened bitch. It was the only way she survived being in the palace. “We all have to do things we don’t want to, my lady.” Some of them did have more options then others, but sometimes they had to suck it up and deal with whatever was handed to them. Elina wasn’t going to get out of being Henry’s wife, Henry wasn’t going to get out of marrying Elina, and Dawn wasn’t going to be leaving her Captain position unless someone forced her to. The only difference was she stayed out of loyalty to Vaan and a pathetic desire to be near him.
Nodding towards the pathway back towards the balcony, Dawn lead the way keeping a close eye on their surroundings. She wasn’t going to let anything happen to Elina, not in the short distance between the woods and her suite. “You want to know why everyone believes you can change Henry? Because you aren’t going to let him step all over you. You’re not the type to sleep with him and let him forget about you the next day.” All the principito’s conquest had allowed Henry to slip away in the morning before they could say or do anything. They had let him screw them and be dazzled by the title of Prince. Elina saw through Henry and his games. It helped that she clearly liked him as well to make him work for her affections.
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Post by Baroness Elina Cali on Jun 20, 2011 18:19:42 GMT -6
She let Dawn take care of the twigs and leaves she had missed. It was such a motherly gesture. One that Elina had never seen from the woman. One she would like to see more often from Dawn. Elina wished Dawn didn't have to feel like she had to prove herself to everyone. She certainly didn't have to prove herself to Elina. Elina had always thought that the Captain was the perfect woman for the job. She was loyal and she actually cared about the royal family. That much Elina had seen over the past few weeks since she was officially announced Henry's fiance. She did what she had to to protect the royal family. "Captain... Thank you... thank you so much. It may have not been the hour I wanted, but I'm just happy to have gotten a chance to get out under the moon. And away from Henry" It was true. Elina just needed some way to vent, and she certainly had nothing to do to vent her frustrations but stare at wedding magazines. That did nothing to vent her frustrations with Henry. As a matter of fact, that was the last thing she wanted to do after having a row with Henry. It just reminded her how miserable her marriage was going to be. Her marriage was doomed to fail before it even began. That is honestly how she felt, but she knew it was inevitable, so she made the best of it she could of the situation.
She didn't know what others saw in Elina. Yeah she could see through Henry and the wall he had managed to build around his heart, but what good was that if he constantly fought to open up to her. Her thoughts went back to the fight she had earlier with Henry at Dawn's words, still not sure what Vaan or the Captain saw in Elina. It was a wonder she hadn't murdered him yet as much as they fought. At the rate they were going it certainly wouldn't be a surprise should she end up murdering Henry during this entire process. The man was so infuriating! And he knew just which buttons to push! It just made him even more infuriating. She studied Dawn for a long time as Dawn talked to Elina about how she could get through to Henry.
What was it everyone saw that Elina didn't? She sighed as they made their way to the entrance of the palace from the gardens. She could just see Henry now, gloating about how she got caught trying to sneak out of the suite. She would have gotten away with it if she had just worked a little more quickly, but she had wanted Henry to think she was doing her usual nightly routine. If he heard her scurrying around the bedroom he would have grown suspicious. She sighed and looked to her bare feet as they entered the castle. "Do we have to go in through the front? There's not some sort of secret passage that can sneak us into the bedroom so Henry doesn't find out I snuck out?" She would probably never hear the end of it if Henry knew what Elina did.
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Captain Dawn Roseburn
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Post by Captain Dawn Roseburn on Jun 20, 2011 19:06:01 GMT -6
“I’m sorry he’s so much trouble. You should have met him before his mother…he was a sweet boy. Cutest thing ever. Couldn’t hurt a bug but had such courage. He reminded me so much of King Vaan.” The memories brought a smile to Dawn’s face, instantly lightening up her features making her much more approachable. Glancing back at Elina, she made sure the lady was keeping pace with her so they didn’t run into any guards that might question why she was out of the suite. Of course, if any of them had a brain cell they would look the other way and pretend the lady wasn’t there. “Now he tries to pretend he doesn’t care about anything but sex. I miss my little cachorro.” Right then, she didn’t care if she revealed more about herself than she liked to a noble lady. It was in the way she carried her shoulders, stiff and barely moving as she walked that gave away how bone tired she really was with her job.
Biting down on her lip, Dawn tried not to laugh at Elina’s request for a secret passage in to the suite. Of course there was one. Each room had one in case of an attack or fire. Dawn, Vaan, Angel and Richard knew every single one just those types of events. That had been one of the first goals she had accomplished right after becoming Captain. “If I showed you that then I would really have to keep an eye out for you at night more so than before. And trust me, I’m tired of chasing after royalty around this place and the woods. It gets old fast.” Or maybe it was just Dawn getting old. That thought made her almost laugh. She was almost three hundred years old, that wasn’t old, compared to Vaan or even the Chancellor. Then again, at least they had kids. She’d be lucky if she found a mate she could stand since the one her wolf wanted was off limits.
“I can’t tell you how to get through to him all I can say is listen to your wolf. She won’t let you down.” Pausing in the hall, Dawn turned slightly and gave Elina a very hard calculated expression. For a moment, her wolf rose up from the depths o f her dark brown eyes until they seemed to glow golden brown in the dimly lit halls. “If you, for any reason, hurt him, I will hunt you down and use your pelt as a door mat. Understand me?” Her wolf vanished from her eyes before giving Elina a small smile, both apologetic and an attempt to not be so serious. “The same goes for you, if he hurts you, tell me. That cachorro isn’t too old for me to put him over my knee like I did when he was a little one.” The other guards had been too afraid to spank the Prince when he got out of hand, Dawn had gotten so fed up for his little antics one day that she pulled the boy over her knee and spanked him once. It wasn’t as hard as it could have been, but it had left an impression so every time he thought of acting up she was there to stare down at him, daring him.
“When you get in there, smile sweetly if he brings this up. Act like nothing happened. Let him have his moment to poke fun and brush it right off your shoulder.” The best way to deal with Henry those days was to just let him try and do as much damage was possible before he ran out of steam. He acted big and bad, but deep down that boy Dawn knew was still there wishing for love and affection. Sadly, the affection he tried to gain from females was the wrong type his soul needed. The Prince needed someone to understand him, to be his equal. Her hopes rested on Elina being that woman because if she couldn’t get through to him, no one could.
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Post by Baroness Elina Cali on Jun 21, 2011 14:03:27 GMT -6
"I wish I could have met that Henry." The words were murmured faint as the two of them walked at a well enough pace. She really would have liked to met Henry. It was a side of him she had only heard of. Never actually seen. Elina studied the Captain thoughtfully as she spoke of Henry before his mother's abandonment. It was obvious that Dawn thought of Henry as her own pup. She had heard the stories of how Dawn was more of a mother to Henry than his own mother. Rebekah was just a power hungry woman who enjoyed her position as queen. Why she ran off with that vile bloodsucker was far beyond Elina. She would never do what Rebekah did to Henry or Vaan for that matter. She would never leave her mate and pup like Rebekah did. "I wish... I could make him see that I would never leave him... not like his mother did." She didn't want Henry to think of her like that. She wasn't going to leave him like she did. She just wish she knew how to make that clear to him. To make him see that she wasn't Rebekah, but Elina.
She hated the pressure her current situation created. There was so much weighing on her shoulders for this. She hated it. She wished with all her heart that her and Henry could have been given more than three measly months. If she had more time on her hands she wouldn't feel so frustrated or stressed .She wouldn't be freaking out over all these wedding plans she had to go over with Gerard and her mother. And that was all on top of trying to win Henry over to her. She would happily offer the man affections if he would only grant her the one thing she asked of him. She only asked for his fidelity. Did that seem like such an awful thing to ask of him? To be faithful to the woman he was about to share the rest of his life with? She looked back up to Dawn after a moment as they began the trek down the halls of the castle.
She looked to for a moment, thinking of all the things Elina had done so far to entice Henry over to the "dark side." It was amazing how much of an iron will the man had. "I'm afraid I'm running out of ideas, Captain... perhaps if I just ignore him for a while..." But would ignoring Henry be that smart of an idea? He would certainly try to win her attentions. Maybe it was the best way to get him whipped into shape actually. He would be more inclined to get the attention he seeks if she ignored him enough. She just didn't know. She wasn't used to Henry being so... closed off with his charm and seduction. She thought of the dance they used to do before their engagement was announced to them. She thought of that day in the music hall for a moment and smiled weakly at the memory. What had happened to the dance? Surely it wasn't over? A part of her missed that sexy dance they had together. She wouldn't mind dancing with him again.
She gave Dawn a weak smile and nodded her head. The truth was that batting her eyelashes and walking away from whatever he said was easier said than done. He knew just which buttons to push to get her started. It never ceased to amaze her. If he pushed just the right button, that was it. She was on him like stink on a skunk.
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