Food, Glorious Food~ [completed]

[onmyouji-subaru.livejournal.com]

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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[belleleera.livejournal.com]

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.

[onmyouji-subaru.livejournal.com]

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."