paixaorpg | Food, Glorious Food~ [completed]

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Food, Glorious Food~ [completed]

Character(s): Subaru, Belle and anyone else.
Content: Subaru and Belle proceeds to get food.
Setting: Porfavore's (I5)
Time: Late afternoon; Week 2
Warnings: None yet~

The delicious smell wafting from inside the small building that is Porfavore's does not help Subaru's hunger at all. The place seemed very inviting, the wooden plank with 'Porfavore's' painted on it messily and the occasional roar of laughter errupting from inside the place adds to the welcoming atmosphere of the restaurant. Subaru lets himself smile a little as he is reminded of Hokuto's deafening laughter. He can hear Hokuto laughing from behind him, and then scoffing and telling him he should appreciate her shopping trips more and wear the clothes she bought him.

He shakes his head with a smile, trying to wave the apparition away. Even though the place makes him remember Hokuto, it is Hokuto's smile that he remembers, and so he is in a very amiable mood. He is glad that Belle had chosen this place. He loves the human way the sign had been painted. He loves the mixed smell of many kinds of food being cooked and the deafening laughter that one will only ever share with one's close friends. Well, except for people like Hokuto, he muses. She laughs like that to anyone anywhere. He loves her for that anyway.

Subaru says no word to Belle, nodding at her and walking towards the door instead. He does this still with a slight glimmer in his eyes, however, and maybe there is a tinge of emerald in those grey eyes of his.

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“This place seems friendly” She comments as they walk in the door. This reminds me of town a bit. The tavern was always filled with friendly people. A little to obsessed with Gaston though. She hoped they wouldn’t run into anyone like him here.

She could hear laughter coming from within and it made her smile. She liked being surrounded by happy people. Her eyes looked around curiously. These people might be a lot nicer than the ones that were near the gate. They might be used to strangers. She smiled at the server who sat them near a window. She was glad that she liked this name the best. She looked out the window and watched some people go by. Her eyes were peeled for any familiar faces. But she saw none and decided to look at the menu instead.

“Do you know what you would like to eat?” She asked, not because she really wanted to know, but more to see what he was ordering so she could get something similar. She didn’t want to get a meal if he had only intended on a sandwich. She also would know what price range to look at. Though it suddenly occurred to her that she may not be able to read the menu. He had mentioned she was speaking Japanese. She wasn’t sure how that was possible, but if that was the language then it might be the writing as well. She was certain she couldn’t read Japanese. But she was able to understand him and he wasn’t speaking Japanese in her mind. What a magical place!

She looked over the menu, and she was pleased to discover that she could read it. She glanced at Subaru to see if he was able to read it too. She was very curious how this was all possible. Were they all enchanted? Did walking through the gate suddenly make them all able to understand all languages? Now that she thought about it, it was all most perplexing. She wanted to know more about this place and it’s quirks.

After following the waitress who sat them down near a window, Subaru takes the menu placed on the table and proceeds to stare confusedly at the strange names. He is rather glad that he can read the menu, but it does not help any if he does not recognize any of the names on the menu anyway. "I... will take the house special, I guess," he tries flipping through the pages to find something he might recognize. "I don't recognize anything from here, but the house special should be at least edible." He hopes.

"Are you ready to order?" he asks her before calling for the waitress to come back. He does not want to rush her, really, but he is feeling rather faint and passing out after telling her he would protect her from dangerous people would be very embarassing.

“I’ll try that too.” Belle smiled at him. “It has to be good, or it wouldn’t be a special” She reasoned, more for her own benefit than his. She could tell he had been very hungry so she didn’t want to take too long in ordering. Besides, if he was getting it then he didn’t mind the price.

“Yes, I’m ready.” She responded. She closed her menu to show that she really was ready. When the waitress came over, they put in their orders. Belle decided to get water, because that was the safest thing she could get. She knew she’d like that. She looked around at the various pictures on the wall.

“It’s interesting in here” She comments. She was never really good at small talk, but she hoped it might help him take his mind off of his hunger and whatever else was bothering him. “I wonder if there’s a library nearby. There has to be one here somewhere.” There she was talking about books again. So she changed the subject. “Do you think there's a reason we’re in this Paixao place?” It was something to talk about, not to mention something they definitely had in common. They were both there, and quite randomly.

Subaru gives her a small smile and a nod in reply to her reasoning. He notices that Belle probably chose the same thing as he did because she does not want to take too long. He tends to notice things about other people, even though he finds it so hard to notice things about himself. Subaru appreciates Belle's gesture a lot. "Water for me too, thanks," he tells the waitress, sparing her only a glance.

"There is a library here," he says in reply, not really minding Belle's affinity for books. Subaru likes listening to people's stories anyway, it makes him feel helpful, and Belle is an interesting person too. "I can drop you off there if you don't want to go with me to Yuzuriha," he offers, although he rather hopes Belle would stay around. Walking alone is not very nice. Subaru does not answer her last question immediately, looking out at the blonde blue-eyed people of Paixao going about their business while thinking of an answer.

"Maybe there is," he starts. Subaru hesitates, tracing the star-shaped scar on his left hand with one finger. "I was supposed to come to Tokyo to fulfill a prophecy... but you'd probably think I'm imagining things," he lets out a dry chuckle, musing on how he has been imagining things, lots of things. "Yuzuriha and I were going to go to Tokyo in the year of 1999 to prevent the world from ending," he explains, "Suppose some people brought us here so the world will end." Subaru looks away, not brave enough to meet Belle's eyes as he utters the next few words, "but I don't care about the world anyway."

Waving away his explanation with a flick of his wrist, he drags one glass of water closer to him when the waitress placed two on their table. "I still want to go to Tokyo though," he tells her, still avoiding her gaze as he is afraid she might lash out at him for his apathy regarding the world. "There is someone who marked me as his next victim to be killed," he shows her the star-shaped scars on the back of his hands, "He and I have unfinished business." Subaru smirks almost coldly, trying too hard to mimick his sister's murderer. "You can pretend you didn't hear anything from me though," his smile is almost sad now, "I told you too much."

There was a library! She really would have to learn how to use this journal thing, it looked like it had a lot of information in it. She wasn’t sure if she should stay with him longer, or just go to the library. It was her excuse to let him go on his way. Surely he didn’t want her to follow him forever. But not many people liked to be alone. So he might have wanted her to walk with him until he met his friend.

She hadn’t expected an answer to her last question right away. It wasn’t the type of question you could spit out a random answer to. If you answered it honestly anyhow. As she waited for the answer she also watched the people walking about. She thought once again how odd it was that they all looked alike. Other than that they seemed normal enough.

When Subaru started talking, Belle looked at him, growing more and more interested as he went on. What an interesting story he had! She had never met anyone that had to fill a prophecy before. Sure, she herself had been meant to help the Beast and fall in love with him but that was different. And no one told her she was meant to do that. But this was different. Her eyes widened a bit when he said he was meant to save the world. She hoped he made it back in enough time. She didn’t want the world to end while she was missing. That sounded a bit selfish, she thought. But she wanted to be with the love of her life. She looked Subaru over and she decided that Subaru could do it. All the books she read did point to unlikely people saving the world.

“I won’t tell anyone” She says very seriously. She wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize him saving the world. “But why would someone want to kill you?” She paused “You don’t really have to answer that...it’s just very interesting.”

The onmyouji chuckles, rather bitterly even though he tries not to sound too cynical. Subaru does not want Belle to dislike him, not really. "It's not because it's a secret," he throws Belle a small smile, "I don't want you to worry." He can just imagine Hokuto bonking his head and rambling about how she would worry anyway, now that he has told her. "But you'll worry anyway, because you're that kind of person," he finds it ironic that someone else had said the same thing to him once, too.

"Sei-san wanted to kill me because I saw him murder someone when I was six," he explains, absently running his finger on the rim of his glass of water. "I escaped him nine years ago," with this he looks darkly to the rippling water in his glass, "before he left, he... he looked at me in this mocking way." Subaru waits for a few moment before uttering the last few words, "as if I'm not worth killing." Subaru realizes that he left out the story about how his sister tried to save him, and maybe he should tell her that too. But he has told her way too much, now Belle is going to worry over him and it would be Subaru's fault that Belle is not smiling. He lets the silence linger, afraid that breaking it would somehow make Belle despise him.

He looks up from his glass of water and throws a fake smile at Belle, "that was nine years ago, don't worry." He clears his throat nervously, "So... tell me your story." Subaru hopes that Belle will forget his story and move on with hers. Perhaps her story is a happy one, which would be wonderful.

He was right, about Belle worrying. She listened to his story very calmly. How awful for a six year old to have seen that, she thought. Belle was not a violent person by nature, but even she could see why Subaru needed to get back home to finish off this murder business. Although it seemed to her that he might be safer in this city. Not that she doubted his ability to take care of things, but she didn’t want him to experience any more pain. Seeing someone murdered is something that never leaves you. And she had a feeling that there was more to the story, but she would never press him for more. She saw that it bothered him very much.

She took a sip of her water before she started speaking. “My story is a fairytale really” She smiles. “I lived on the edge of a small town with my father. He’s an inventor you know. He made one device that chops wood for you. It was really great, until it crashed and broke anyhow.” She laughs a little. The town didn’t really like us much. They thought my father was too eccentric, and they made fun of him a lot. Especially that awful Gaston” She frowned. She should not have brought him up. He made her so angry! “He was the most, arrogant, conceited, overbearing, jerk you could ever meet” She said with much more anger than she intended.

She blushed when she realized it. “I’m sorry. But you see, he nearly killed the love of my life, and tried to lock my father up in an asylum. But I should say too many mean things. I’m pretty certain he’s dead. He did fall off of the high balcony of the castle after all. But I’m getting ahead of myself.” Belle shook her head to clear her thoughts. She was surprised she wasn’t telling her own story better. But she was still a little preoccupied with his story to think too clearly. She was still wondering if the person he saw murdered was someone close to him or not.

Subaru is very glad that Belle had decided not to ask him further about himself, as he might tell her about Hokuto next, and he might get furious about it and act strangely. He does not want Belle to see that version of him. He does not want to be telling Belle that he does not wish to kill Seishirou, but that he wants to be killed by the man he loves instead. He does not want Belle to try and stop him because he just might.

He copies Belle as she takes a sip of her water, taking a sip from his own glass as well. The water helps curb his hunger a little. Listening to Belle's story makes him feel comforted in a way, because she seems to love her father very much. He smiles as she laughs, maintaining his subtle smile when she starts ranting about this Gaston.

Subaru lets himself chuckle a little as Belle apologizes for ranting angrily about this Gaston. The apologizing is hardly like Hokuto, but the way she talked angrily about Gaston does remind him of his twin sister. "You haven't told me anything about this 'love of your life' yet," he tells her still with a slight smile. Her story is more entertaining than his, he wants to hear more about her, because her story is not so lonely like his.

Belle smiled. “I was going to save him for last. He is the best part after all.” She laughed some. “One day my father went to go enter his invention in a fair. He hoped to win. I bet he would have too if he and Phillipe hadn’t gotten lost.” Even in re-telling the tale, Belle looked extremely worried. “Phillipe is our horse” She added. “Anyway, my father got lost and found this castle. It was huge. And it was not a very inviting place. Of course, it was a dark and stormy night when I first saw the castle. I remember how abandoned it looked. And there were signs to stay out. But I had to go in. I had to make sure my father was safe.”

She paused for a bit. She was glad he was interested in her story. She hoped it took his mind off of the food they were waiting for. She had started to feel hungry too, and glanced around a bit for the server. “He was locked up in a cold room. He looked so small. He kept telling me to run, but I couldn’t leave him there. And all of a sudden there was this voice, screaming at me to get out and that my father is his prisoner. I couldn’t let my father stay there though. He was old and he looked sick from getting caught in the cold. So I offered to take his place as prisoner. The person that the voice belonged to was very surprised at my offer. I asked him to step into the light so that I could see him.”

“He was a huge beast. He had horns coming out of his head and teeth so sharp they looked like they could bite right through me. Seeing him just about stopped my heart. I wasn’t expecting to see a monster. All I could think of was how I might never see my father again and that I would be this things dinner. It was an unfair thought really, but what else was I supposed to think? He wasn’t being nice at all. He sent my father off to the village and it was just him and me. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t scared. But I wasn’t about to let him see that. Of course, if I had thought it through I would have realized that he could probably smell it.” She laughed a bit. “He didn’t make me stay in that cold room. He brought me to a lovely room with a great room. I was confused at first. Why would a beast, give me such a great room if he was going to eat me? But it was in this room when I first discovered that the castle was enchanted. I was crying on the bed when the dresser started talking to me. She was just about the nicest dresser you could meet too.”

Belle thought that after hearing this part, Subaru might think she was crazy and not want to hear any more about it. She paused just in case. She knew he wasn’t having the best of times and didn’t want to annoy him with a story he thought she was making up. Most of the men she had met, wouldn’t like such a story.

Strange, Subaru is sure that he heard of a similar story once. Hokuto liked telling him strange stories like that. She had said that they are called fairy tales, that people think they are not true even if some might be true. Subaru remembers that Hokuto once said that she wanted to be Sleeping Beauty, that she wanted a gallant prince to come and set her free from her eternal slumber. Subaru always thought that Hokuto was more than beautiful enough to be Sleeping Beauty, but he wondered if she had forgotten that she is not exactly a peaceful sleeper. He used to get bruises when they used to share a bed.

Subaru lets Belle finish her story without interrupting, it would be impolite. Her story is hard to believe, but most people don't believe in onmyoujis either. There are so many true things that people don't believe in these days. Besides, Belle does not look like she is a liar or a lunatic, even if Subaru has learned it well that looks are very deceiving. "So... this love of your life," he starts hesitantly, "he saved you from this monster?"

Belle might be crazy, or she might be telling a truth that is harder to swallow than other truths, which are usually more true. In any case, Subaru is glad she told him a story. Stories are always nice. He is not having the best of times, but he is in a reasonably good mood as he notices a waitress coming their way with a tray of food. He sits up in his chair expectantly, trying not to seem to eager at the same time. Muttering a "thank you" to the waitress, he turns back to Belle, "you can continue, if you want."

Belle smiled at the waitress when the food was brought. She takes a few bites of the food. It tasted pretty good, she was pleased to find. A bit different than she was used to, but she could deal with it. She waited a bit before she continued, mostly because she couldn’t tell if he really wanted to hear, and because she didn’t want to talk with her mouth full.

“No actually. The monster turned out to be the love of my life.” She took another bite and then blushed, realizing how that might have sounded. “He was really a prince.” She hurriedly continued. “An enchantress transformed him into a beast to teach him a lesson. But that’s his story.” Laughs a bit. “You see, the longer I spent time in the castle the nicer he became.”

“One night, while I was exploring the castle I found myself in the exact spot Beast told me not to go in. But that does happen doesn’t it? When someone tells you to stay away from somewhere you inevitably end up there.” She paused once more to eat a bit. “He lost his temper that night and began to throw things around. So I ran away. Of course, that wasn’t the brightest of ideas. I ended up being chased by wolves. But the Beast saved me” She smiled. “That was the first night we became friends. From then on, he was friendly. He lost his temper from time to time, but it was nothing drastic. We spent a lot of time together. He even showed me the library and we would read most nights by the fire.” She smiled more with a dreamy look, idly eating a bit more.

After a few moments Belle snapped back into reality. “It was wonderful really. But, I missed my father. Beast showed me a magic mirror of his, that lets you see anyone you want at that moment. My father was sick. I had to go to him. The Beast let me go. He didn’t have to, but he did. I promised I would come back. When I got to my father though, Gaston was there, trying to toss him in the loony bin. My dad wasn’t crazy though. He was just trying to get someone to help me. He didn’t know I was fine. So I showed Gaston the Beast in the mirror. That was stupid. Gaston is a hunter and all he saw was a monster. He didn’t see the gentleness in Beasts eyes. So Gaston went to hunt down Beast, but not before he locked me in the basement. I got out though. And I made my way to the castle to warn him. I was much to late of course, they were already fighting, but Beast was so happy to see me. Gaston stabbed him when he was looking at me. And then Beast threw him off the balcony.” Belle paused. “He might have fallen...it’s hard to tell. Either way he fell. Beast was really hurt too. I thought I was going to loose him.” Belles eyes filled with emotion, re-living it in her mind. “But I didn’t!” She exclaims happily. “Right before my eyes he turned human again. It was the most amazing thing I ever saw in my entire life.”

Subaru tries his best not to seem too interested in his food. While he is not exactly sure what it is made of or what its name is, the food is more than just decent. Perhaps he is simply hungry, but the food tastes heavenly on his tongue. Taking big bites at a time, Subaru tries to keep his eyes on Belle as often as possible. It would be rude to focus on his food when she is telling him a story, after all. Now and then he nods to show her that he is listening.

Honestly, he is unsure of whether she is lying to him or not, but she does seem to be reciting from memory, not making it up. Subaru gives Belle a fond smile, nodding at the ending of her story. "Love is an amazing thing, isn't it?" While he means his words in a slightly darker way, Subaru's smile does not falter as he utters his words. "It can change a Beast into a Prince," and a Prince into a Beast.

Belle nodded. “Love is amazing.” She agreed, completely missing any other meaning his words may have had. She continued eating, still trying to think of what to compare the food to. Belle couldn’t be sure if Subaru believed her or not, but she didn’t much care. She was happy to tell her story to anyone.

Belle looked out the window watching the blonde haired people walk by. She wondered if they were happy here. Some of them had smiles, but it looked to Belle that they could have been acting. None of them seemed to be quite as friendly as the folk back home. Belle looked back at Subaru and smiled. “Are you enjoying the food?”

Subaru is unsure of whether he believes Belle's story or not. It certainly is hard to take in; it is much like those bedtime stories that Hokuto liked so much. And yet, it feels as if he has been living in a dream-like state these past ten years anyway. The smell of cherry blossom is still all around him and it makes everything go behind a hazy veil. It is getting harder to tell real from false lately, but Subaru does not care much about that, really. He supposes that believing in a story like the one Belle just told him would be a good thing, she seems happy about telling it at least.

"Yes, very much so," he does not smile as he answers Belle's question, but his eyes are not as grave as they usually are. He enjoyed the food, he has been living off of instant noodles and nicotine lately, the taste of real food is heavenly. Subaru has finished his food even though he did try not to eat too quickly lest he appear rude, but he makes a show of nudging the bits of food around slightly so that Belle would not feel rushed. He left a message on Yuzuriha's journal that he will join them later, so he has no real need to hurry. "You will meet him again," Subaru is unsure of whether that is a prophecy or just something to make Belle feel better himself.

Belle looked at him a bit unsure. It had crossed her mind of course that she would be stuck here, but she never doubted she’d see Beast again. Until he said that. His words were reassuring, but she couldn’t be sure if he meant in this place or that she would go home again. Or maybe he had even meant in death. And now they were done eating and she had to decide what to do. She drank all of her water, quite thirsty after all that talking.

“I’m finished, if you’d like to go.” She said noticing how he was playing with his food. He said he was going to meet a friend. She didn’t want to intrude, but she didn’t have anything else to do. But maybe she could find Beast here. She had a few hours head start so it was possible he hadn’t arrived yet. And he seemed certain she’d see Beast again. His words really made Belle wonder if he could see the future or not. Or maybe he was just good at making people feel better. Either way she was happy with the words the more she thought about it. “Thank you for bringing me here. I really enjoyed the food.” And she enjoyed his company too. But Belle suspected he wouldn’t believe her if she said so.

Subaru looks up from his food, or what's left of it, when Belle spoke up. He gives her a smile for her being considerate, it is nice of her, and it makes him feel nice too. Despite of how badly the day started, meeting the Devil and all, Subaru thinks that maybe it still has hopes of getting better. Raising his hand to signal to the waiter, he turns around to fish his wallet out of his pocket. While getting out the amount of money he predicts would be enough to pay for the meal, Subaru nods at Belle's words of gratitude.

"No problem," he replies while placing the money on the tab, making sure that it is not less than what he should pay. "Come with me if you want," he tells Belle while standing up. Realizing that he probably sounded colder than he intended, he turns to Belle and gives her a slight smile, "You're nice, I don't think Yuzuriha would mind."

[ooc: should we close this thread once you reply? :3]

Belle got up when Subaru did. She had no reason for not going with him. If she didn’t go with him, he might think that she had just used him for food, and that was not the impression she wanted to give off. He hadn’t had to offer anything either, but he was trying to be nice. Belle didn’t want to intrude on his meeting with his friend. She didn’t know when they saw each other last.

“Well, if you’re sure. I suppose I can come along. I don’t have to be anywhere.” He still had the option of telling her no. And she didn’t mind meeting new people. It would be fun. Besides, if she was going to be here for a long time, she needed to meet more people. There was no need for her to be alone here. And Subaru had warned her that there were dangerous people here. Yes, she decided. She would stay with him as long as she was welcome. It was the most practical thing to do.

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