Petal 09 -- IM/Action

[shylyintrepid]

[Jehan is out in his garden today, weeding and planting and basically being a son of Demeter. Not his poisons today, thankfully, but his flowers. Daisies, roses, tulips--all the flowers.]

I'll be making flower crowns for May Day next week, if people are interested! I know it's not really a holiday but after this odd winter, I feel it would be appropriate to celebrate the spring in some way.

[He smiles and goes to cut the rainbow before making a soft "oh" sound and turning back to it, blushing]

Oh, and...Nico, I. I was wondering if you would like to go with me on a trip of sorts. To Venice! Marianne has gone to visit her girlfriend and she said that if I wanted to stop by now that I can she would treat me and a friend to dinner. So...yes. Do you want to go to Venice?

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[shylyintrepid]

[Jehan sighs. What is it with this camp?!]

I don't want to scare him away, Gabriel. He's not exactly comfortable with his sexuality, you know.

[Plus what if it ends like Zane?]

[angeliaforos]

I know he does, thanks.

[He lies back in the dirt - he'll get the orange shirt washed later - playing with the beads of his camp necklace.]

I'm no kid of Aphrodite - what do I know? But what I know is - I gotta hunch, JP. I have a feeling he'll...be pretty happy if you actually went the whole nine yards.

[shylyintrepid]

But what if he isn't? What if he panics and I lose a friend again?

[angeliaforos]

...Prouvaire, do you trust me?

[shylyintrepid]

Most of the time.

[angeliaforos]

Good answer.

[A beat.]

Trust me on this one.

[shylyintrepid]

Why?

[angeliaforos]

Because...because I just have a feeling, alright? A really strong one. And I'm not trying to steer you wrong here.

[shylyintrepid]

I know you're not. I'm just...

[He sighs]

I don't want to hurt him. Or myself.

[angeliaforos]

I know, JP.

[He shakes his head a little, patting the ground next to him.]

You're both demigods, man. Strong ones. You'll figure out a way to make it work.

[shylyintrepid]

[Jehan flops down next to Gabe and promptly puts his head in the other boy's lap]

Neither of us are very good emotionally, though. And you're the only one I'm admitting that too, by the way.

[angeliaforos]

[Gabriel has to snort at the action, but runs a few fingers through Jehan's bangs.]

Yeah, I'm aware. Join the club, Jehan.

[He's not admitting to anything outright, but he's feeling pretty fucked up emotionally lately, too.]

[shylyintrepid]

It sucks.

[angeliaforos]

[Putting on an upper-crust, robotic British accent:]

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

[This is a Star Wars reference, Jehan.]

[shylyintrepid]

[He squints up at Gabe]

Should I know that quote?

[angeliaforos]

Star Wars. I'm telling you - once you get past the whole 'space western' thing, you'd really like it. Got all the great markings of a great Greek hero story. Misunderstandings, crazy battles with insurmountable odds, siblings separated at birth, the most kickass princess you'll ever see. I mean - I pretty much just quoted the robot Greek chorus.

[shylyintrepid]

Ambiguously gay best friends? All good Greek hero stories have possibly gay best friends.

[angeliaforos]

Mm, I think you could interpret it that way, if you wanted it to.

[shylyintrepid]

Look, as long as there's no "Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus are cousins" type thing, where literally everyone knows they're a couple but the creator is trying to hide it, I am okay with open interpretations.

[angeliaforos]

[That gives him a pregnant pause. Sure, Gabriel knows some - okay, more Backstreet Boys songs than he would like to admit - but even his reference pools are only so wide and mostly American-made.]

Jean Prouvaire, what in the hell are you talking about?

[shylyintrepid]

Sailor Moon! The anime and manga that totally has the story of Serenity and Endymion as the basis for the main love story? Sailor Scouts?

[angeliaforos]

No, man. I never watched that.

[The 'it was for little girls, isn't it?' is left silent, because he knows how this ends and he really doesn't want Elizabeth on his ass. He's trying to do better, in any case.

Plus, he sort of kind of likes the backstreet boys and knows three whole members of one Direction's names. So he's one to talk.]

[shylyintrepid]

Oh, you're in so much luck, they're doing a new anime this summer and Marianne has the new manga volumes--she's the only reason I know of the series, but I loved it. You should really try it!

[angeliaforos]

Jehan. I've never watched one of those in my life.

[He played the Pokemon games, but he never really watched the anime before, so even that's out.]

[shylyintrepid]

Sailor Moon's the only one I ever watched myself. It's almost like a faerie tale, really, or an old-fashioned myth, but with pretty girls and lesbians instead of buff guys.