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ᴄʟɪᴠᴇ ʀᴏꜱꜰɪᴇʟᴅ. ([personal profile] flamebrand) wrote2025-08-10 09:16 am

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thanks for moving us over! 💖

[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-10 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Lucky? I think you might be the only person to use that word. I only try to make sure Tarja has less to worry about.

[Whether that's making sure the children stay out of trouble or their associates don't charge headfirst into fights beyond their capabilities.]
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-10 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
I've been without your company for so long that I'll happily meet that argument. As long as it's soon.
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-10 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
As long as you do the same. I'll be waiting.
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-11 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[And there he is.

Time apart is never easy, but she understands that they can often accomplish more by being in two places at once. Still, it sometimes feels unfair after so much time was stolen away from them. When she turns and sees Clive, leathers a shade lighter from the road, it's all forgotten.]


Clive.

[She greets him with a wide smile. There's always her cursory check--no visible wounds, no gaping holes or bruises or harm that lingers despite being a Dominant. Just fatigue, perhaps, but that can be easily fixed.]

Welcome back. I thought I heard a commotion out there.

[Everyone is always glad to see him, but none as much as Jill. Yet there's that hesitation--manners and etiquette taught to them both at a young age about how a young lord and lady should act, but they're neither of those things, now. They're something else. It's there for a moment before Jill pushes past it to step in and embrace Clive, not minding the transfer of dust from him to her. She missed him too much to care about propriety.]
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-11 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[She smiles into the embrace, and it lingers on her lips as she politely pulls back, hands giving his arms a squeeze before letting go. As much as she would like to stay in them, it's not appropriate, and she thinks they both might expire should someone walk in.]

No, you aren't. I was hoping you'd make it back today and was just helping Tarja to pass the time.

[She motions to a nearby empty bed with fresh linens, neatly made and ready for its next patient whoever that may be.]

How was your journey? Unwelcome remarks aside.
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-11 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
They don't appreciate Torgal for how striking he is.

[As is Clive, but a man of his size and physique tends to draw attention. She misses the days when he would wear his hair shorter and neater, but she understands the need to make the scar on his face less obvious. A shame it makes it harder to see the perfect blue of his eyes.

One day, Jill consoles herself, no one will need to hide. Clive included.]


I will accompany you next time.

[... schedules and duties allowing, of course.]
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-12 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jill follows his lead with a pleased smile. Spending any amount of time with him is a joy, be it at a campfire in the middle of nowhere or a busy pub. Of course, the privacy of his quarters is best, though she keeps an ear out for approaching footsteps. Clive's often needed by far more people than her.

Still, it's nice to have him to herself, if only for a little while. ]


Would you like to get comfortable while I get the drinks?

[It's more of a request than a question, but she doesn't like to order him around. He should at least go and sit--it won't take long, but the sooner he's off his feet, the less she'll fret.]
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-13 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's not missing a limb or bleeding profusely, but Jill can't help herself. It's instinct to look after the man that woukd run himself ragged to keep them all safe. She laughs when he does, but in the end, he listens--and that is what matters most, in this given moment. He can at least get a head start on sitting while she gets their drinks.

When she does eventually make it to his quarters, she calls out rather than invites herself in. Through the door (all this barely nailed together wood and scraps makes it easy to speak through), she clears her throat.]


It was insisted we take a bottle of wine, on the house. I tried to decline, but...

[She shifts, his gil jingling in her pocket. In one hand she holds a bottle and two cups tucked under her arm, and in the other a tray of dried meat and cheese, hastily thrown together for Clive's return. A snack rather than a full meal. Clive is well-loved in the Hideaway, and she had to talk down any attempt to wrestle him up a supper--maybe after he sleeps.]

Are you decent, Clive?
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-13 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jill allows him to free her hands without complaint. She's only glad to see him looking less battle ready. He never takes enough time for himself--she supposes Cid must have been the same. All his time and energy spent investing in his dream, his people, in freedom. Wherever he is, she hopes he's proud.

As she sits, she looks to Clive with a fond smile that comes reflexively. She's proud of him, at the very least.

What he says makes her eyebrows lift in curious surprise.]


Something for me?

[She echoes. Who else, Jill?]
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-13 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Normally, she would get right to pouring for them both. Old habits, old manners, instilled at a young age amongst memories of her father's war table and quietly filling his glass, his smile warm despite the increasingly bleak mood. It's a memory that has become hazy over the years despite her best efforts to remember.

Melancholy is fortunately chased away by the thing placed before her.

(Thank the Founder he begins by explaining a child made this, lest she think he had some hand in it...)

After a stunned moment, Jill laughs, reaching out to carefully lift the stuffed Torgal. It's a little ugly, but entirely cute. She's so charmed she doesn't realize Clive has something else in addition.]


How did they know? Now I won't miss him as terribly.

[Though it would probably look best on Clive's shelf with his collection of momentos.]
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-14 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
["Torgal" has some stuffing coming out of his leg that Jill discretely pushes back in and makes a mental note to stitch up. It's sweet, and she has a fondness for the innocence of children because she knows all too well how fragile it is. No children should have to suffer how she or Clive or Joshua have, torn apart from their families, forced into slavery. Every day Clive fights for that better future.

She sets the stuffed toy back down--facing Clive, of course--and looks to him, flattered.]


I think they just enjoy the opportunity I offer them to pet Torgal.

[When not teaching the boys to sew or the girls how to parry.

The glint of the glass vial catches Jill's eye, finally, and she hums softly.]


And what is that?
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[personal profile] noburden 2025-08-14 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[In that moment he looks like the young boy she'd grown so fond of in Rosaria, shy despite his station and skill with a blade. They really haven't changed all that much, have they? She'd spent many nights in Rosaria hiding glassy eyes as the thought of home gripped her, sometimes out of the blue no matter how many much she told herself that Rosaria was her new home. Now, she finds her eyes glassy again, blinking rapidly for a moment before she can assure herself she won't cry. She misses home--both of them, now--but she's more touched that Clive carefully brought this thoughtful gift back to her. She looks at the vial in her hands and finally lets out a breath, smiling with her own bashful look to him.]

Oh, Clive. I'll cherish this.

[It's a precious thing even without the emotional attachment. She can't remember the last time she wore perfume, given the lives they lead. There's a slight tremble to her hand when she delicately opens the vial and lifts it to her nose.

Some note in it does remind her of a time before she knew Clive and Joshua, when she was young and carefree and watched her mother braid her long hair. Did she smell anything like this? She wishes she could remember with absolutely certainty. But maybe it's okay to simply assume it was something close.]


It's beautiful. Thank you, Clive, I... I think you've robbed me of my words.

THEY'RE SO CUTE

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