Havelock Vetinari (
oneman_onevote) wrote2010-02-14 04:17 pm
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Extremely melodramatic AU: The revenge!
The castle is chill, in the hallways, and dark apart from pools of light created by torches placed at wide intervals on the walls.
Havelock is moving, if possible, even more silently than usual. He'd be twitchy if that wasn't a surefire way to mess up your stealth. The shadows are blending obligingly around him, more strongly here than they had in the bar.
Puck can take care of himself, he knows that, but also holds out no hope that any of this is going to be particularly pleasant.
Havelock is moving, if possible, even more silently than usual. He'd be twitchy if that wasn't a surefire way to mess up your stealth. The shadows are blending obligingly around him, more strongly here than they had in the bar.
Puck can take care of himself, he knows that, but also holds out no hope that any of this is going to be particularly pleasant.
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"And I care little for yours. Though I suspect my understanding of you, mistress, somewhat surpasses yours of me."
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"Vell, ve all have our illusions."
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"So far as bluffing rejoinders go, madam, I admit by now I expected better of you. You are so able with a blade, after all."
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She turns sideways absently, stretching out her hands to warm them in front of the fire.
"You know vhat you know, I know vhat I know... It matters little."
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"Ultimately, perhaps. We are not, I suppose, enemies in the traditional sense."
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Heroic types do tend to get irritating, even for lady vampires.
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"Besides which, despite Havelock's attempts to instruct me, I am afraid I remain a rather abysmal pupil in the combative arts."
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"Just as vell then."
She glances up.
"Ah."
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...
The room is ominously quiet, but they both seem to be in one piece.
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(Yeah, yeah, he knows he's not fooling her. Sometimes it's about the principle of the thing.)
"--Oh," he says.
"Hullo."
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Apparently he passes muster, as she continues briskly on.
"It seems your friend may be staying for a time. Find him somewhere?"
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For the record.
"Certainly," he says, however, and inclines his head at the door, eyes going to Puck.
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"Ought I to be worried?" he says under his breath, smile unmoving.
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"Call for Igor to settle him in when you find somevhere," she tells Havelock. "Then come back here for an hour and we vill run through an exercise or two."
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Havelock gets a realer smile.
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(The fact that he can't smell any blood on Puck also helps. He had worried, against reason, but persistently about that.)
"Do you want to stay?"
Because if now, now would really be the time to make an exit.
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"Do you want me to stay? I shall be happier where you are, but she implied I should be more hindrance than help."
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"...I honestly feel you would be safer elsewhere," he says. "I doubt she plans to murder you in your sleep, but she does like to make use of people where she can."
This doesn't actually address the question of what Havelock wants, but perhaps that's too much to ask for.
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A tilt of his head.
"Do you think she shall make better use of me than you will?"
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"She does have more practice," he points out.
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He smiles faintly.
"But you have all my will, and she has none of it."
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"I won't tell you to leave," he says. Mostly because he doesn't want him to, and it's a personal weakness of which he is very aware.
"Advise you that it might be wise, yes."
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He leans in on tiptoe to press a kiss to Havelock's cheek.
"I regret to report, though by now you must be well aware, that 'wisdom' has never been a particular attribute of mine."
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"Then I'll be sure to let you know when it becomes urgent," he says.
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