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Three's Company [Active]

Character(s): Urd, Eden, Genie
Content: The love triangle begins?
Setting: Urd and Genie's house, M6
Time: ASS KICKIN TIME
Warnings: Someone's hair is going to get pulled. (Spoiler: it's Genie's.)

This was the last thing Urd wanted to deal with. She was no stranger to the jealous hysterics of other women (and though she'd never admit to it, she'd had some jealous hysterics of her own), but this was different. She'd always tried to avoid being the other woman, as open with her romantic needs as she was. When it came to romance, Urd needed complete and utter devotion. She needed to be the only thing her lover thought about! The center of their world!

But how could that happen if an old flame showed up? An old genie flame? Arms crossed, the goddess paced in the front hall of the house she shared with the best friend she had under these domes. The friend she'd been exploring other options with. The friend she was madly in love with at this point.

Why didn't he tell me? In her agitated state, Urd completely ignored the idea of conflicting timelines, even though she'd certainly had some experience in that area as well. Instead, her imagination was filled with a number of possible reasons why this had never come to light, the worst being that he still had feelings for Eden and that Urd had imagined his feelings for her being mutual. In fact, it was this very scenario that had her lightly thumping her forehead against the faded wallpaper in the hall as she waited for Eden to show up.

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There were three problems with this entire situation. One, Genie doesn’t remember Eden, or the fact they were together. Two, there was no way back to Agrabah. Three, there’s another girl in the picture, and her name is Urd. If there’s one thing Eden can’t stand, it’s someone meddling in on her man. Great, why does love always feel like a battlefield?! “Hm…” Eden thought outloud, “Was that Jordin Sparks or Pat Benatar…?”

Oh well, that doesn’t matter, what matters is that there was something needed to be dealt with here. Woman to woman, mono e mono, just Urd, Eden and their magic! As soon as Eden arrived at the Victorian house, she cleared her throat. Straightened herself out, chest held high she opened the door as quick as lightening, as she made a dramatic background music sound effect blare out when she entered. “¡Hola! Mi nombre es Eden. ¡Usted tomó a mi hombre, se prepara para ser castigado!”

Eden stood there for a minute or two… Then realized something, “Whoops, slipped into dramatic Soap Opera mode for a minute there. Excuse me one moment.” She closed the door, then opened it with the dramatic music blaring again, “Ahaaaaaah, Urd! At least we meet… Not on journals! How do you do?!”

Urd froze as the door burst open, right in mid-forehead abuse. She was fully prepared to launch back a retort in dramatic Spanish when Eden started over completely. By the time the door re-opened, she had composed herself into cool aloofness, leaning against the wall with her arms crossed and smirk on her face.

"So you came after all. You have guts, I'll give you that." The smirk faded and she walked towards Eden, never breaking eye contact. "I'm sorry it had to be like this. Another genie would have been great as a friend. But I'm staking my claim now and I have no plans on giving him up, not even to you."

Sneering, oh guts eh? Is that what it comes down to? Gurl, you messed with the wrong genie if you think you’ve got the upper hand. Eden puts her hand on her hip in sway, “And I’m not one to give my sweetheart up without a tussle myself, mm-mm gurl, you have no idea who you’re messing with today~!”

Ready for anything this goddess can throw, Eden cracked her knuckles, “SO~ How shall we settle this~? Baking contest, Tic-Tac-Toe, Pretty Pretty Princess, 52 Pick up? Because anything YOU can do for Genie, I can do better. I can do anything better than you!”

"Would you just calm down for three seconds?" Urd sighed, taking Eden's wrist and tugging her down to eye level. Her lips pressed into a line, she stared at Eden flatly. "We need to talk before we launch into a contest." Even if a contest sounded like a perfect way to get rid of this meddling green-skinned nuisance. She dragged the genie further in, heading towards what had originally been her sister's tea-room and now served as a household-wide sitting area.

"Sit down and make yourself comfortable." Urd sat (or rather, floated in a sitting position) opposite, pulling a rather large bottle of sake into her lap and going about pouring herself a drink. "Now, you're sure my Genie is your Genie? No case of mistaken identity?"

“Gyeg-!” and Eden was pulled down to Urd’s eye level. Staring back at her blankly, giving a couple of blinks, lips dropped in a slight pout. Eden was then dragged in, still with that ‘what just happened’ expression as she floated her way in with Urd. Eden made her way to sit down across from Urd, giving a smile as looked around them. Oooh, it does look nice in here.

Oh-Right, focus Eden, focus! She turned her attention to Urd, giving a firm a nod, “Positive. I know that Genie anywhere. The same Genie I met in Agrabah alright, alright,” rubs her chin, “Unless he’s got a twin brother he never told me about. But the chances of that are so slim.

Eden then gave a shrug, “Anyway, it’s gotta be him. But why he doesn’t remember is beyond me. Now that Zelos guy did mention something about Paixao and it’s apparent memory problem. Do you know anything about that?”

Urd paused, her cup poised at her lips. He didn't remember? She frowned before knocking back the sake in a single gulp. "...it's hard to say. What some might call a memory problem is usually a problem of time." She leaned forward, hair floating behind her in lazy curls, as if she were underwater. Drawing an invisible line on the carpet between them, she continued.

"Say this is the stream of time." She placed her sake bottle on said line. "This is you. You've met Genie and had your...eh...dates or whatever, and everything's fine. Paixao took you from this point." Urd then placed her empty cup further behind the bottle on the line.

"This is Genie. Strictly speaking, he hasn't met you yet because he was trapped here at an earlier moment in time. He never got the chance because his timeline was interrupted and changed."

She looked up at Eden, her expression a mix of annoyance and...empathy. "I'm sorry, Eden. It's not that he forgot, it's that he doesn't have the memories to begin with."

Hiding may not have been the bravest option but at that time it certainly felt the safest. The two women were unpredictable and could quite possibly have had anything in store for him. For that reason, Genie crept soundlessly through the house, peeking cautiously into each room before he entered. He had certainly heard Eden enter but there had been little noise that had followed. It was worrisome. Could something have happened between the two? He peered into the living room and pondered the possibility of one of the two picking up a candlestick. Or, perhaps he would find one of them with the rope in the library? What about the conservatory with the revolver?

As it would turn out, it was in fact the tea-room (or open area tea-room now) with the ochoko that he would find the pair. And from what he could tell, the two were conversing with one another in a perfectly civilized manner. Genie blinked numerous times at the sight before finally taking in the sounds and listening in to their conversation. He gasped quietly and turned away, having caught just the last of Urd’s words. ‘…it's that he doesn't have the memories to begin with.’

“Time?” Eden said, as she held her fingers around her own teacup. She glanced down at the stream of sake, holding her breath as she observed in thought. Eden watched where her timeline laid, then where Genie’s own timeline was placed. She crossed her fingers over her lips as she processed this information, furrowing her brows. So that means, they really have never met.

Eden looked down giving a sigh, “Oh… That would make more sense though wouldn’t it?” She glanced to the side as she tucked a string of hair behind her ear, “There would be no way for him to get those memories back, because they never happened to him…”

There was a slight gaze over Eden’s eyes, as she gripped her teacup slightly and bit her lip. This just made things a lot more complicated now, didn’t it? She gave sigh, “And that time you guys spent together… That would make more sense as well, wouldn’t it?” Not that she wanted to give up on this, but it all came together, at least the reasons did. Eden rubbed her temple, feeling a strong headache and sort of frustrated emotion she couldn’t describe take over her. If all the things that could happen, this?

Giving another sigh, Eden put her hands across from her on the table. “Well…” Eden said as she looked away, a faded sort of grin came, as she spoke, “Chances of genies like us falling in love, usually are not very good, but to see that he can. Makes it less…” Eden cleared her throat as she glanced back at Urd, straightening herself back up, staring back into her eyes intensely, determined to not fail at her faith. The small smile still on her lips as she spoke, “You must be really something wonderful, Urd, to catch his eye.”

She watched Eden consider this information in silence over the rim of her cup. Regret and compassion threatened to well up in her at the sight of that sad, wistful look in the genie's eyes, but she would not pity her. She was a genie, full of light and laughter like her Genie, and that deserved respect. Still...a small, quiet part of her almost wanted to do anything she could to help her. If only it didn't mean giving up the man she loved...

Urd set down her cup and was about to attempt some sort of pep talk when Eden grinned and completely took her by surprise. Unable to look away from the gaze leveled directly at her, the goddess froze. Of all reactions she might have expected, this wasn't one of them. "Ah...I..." Before she could stop herself, she held up her hands and laughed nervously. "I don't know if I've caught anything, really!"

Edited 2012-03-07 15:52 (UTC)

On any other occasion, Genie would have burst into the room bearing chocolate, roses, and a mariachi band to drown out such doubt. Such talk was nonsense. To think she hadn’t caught anything was outright absurd. The goddess had easily had him from the start, going so far as to leave him howling in the middle of their kitchen more than loud enough for their poor neighbours to hear. There was no mistaking what she had helped him find. What they shared. He had seen his share of magic but nothing compared to that which Urd had shown him.

… Or was it just a lie; had he been alone all this time? When she had said she did not know if she’d caught anything, did she mean that he was no prize? No, she couldn’t have. Could she? Genie placed his hands over his mouth and scooted closer, eager to hear more.

Oh Urd, you may look like a sweet vixen. Perhaps one would even say like a siren if Eden was completely blinded by jealousy of looks alone. However, she knew Genie, this wasn’t on looks or how seductive one could be. But how beautiful the heart is, all genies know that is what truly matters the most about somebody. So if Genie likes you for who you are, you must truly be a worthy opponent on the battlefield of love. Eden kept her sincere smile as she tilts her head toward Urd as she spoke softly, “One may never know, but that’s for us to look for, right?”

Eden closed her eyes in thought as she picked up the teacup to take a sip. Then place her cup back down on her saucer, “We both love him… I know I really do, deeply and truly, from the moment I realized how gumdrops and pepperoni taste better when they’re together,” she said with a slight chuckle, recalling the falling tower of pizza and their funny little meeting.

“There must be a moment for you and Genie as well, knowing him, it’s always something really out there but just… Perfect,” Eden said as she folded her fingers under her chin. She gave a wistful sigh. Remembering each and every good time they spent together. Even if Genie can’t remember, she can, and boy were those memories just so wonderful and magical.

Oh, why did she say that? Internally, Urd was back to slamming her head into the wall. After so many years of giving Keiichi grief about not saying three simple words to Belldandy, now she was getting stage fright in front of her rival? What the hell was this? An expression somewhere between frustration and misery on her face, she watched Eden silently.

Goddesses thrived on love. Finely tuned to human emotions -- as emotion gave the purest energy to them -- they was no way Urd could deny the strength or purity of Eden's feelings. They radiated off of her like her own green glow. Feeling her stomach clench, Urd slunk down a little. This was the absolute worst.

"Eh?" Her pity party came to a screeching halt at Eden's next words. Sitting up straighter, she frowned. "A moment..." She looked down, lightly putting her fingertips over her heart. She could feel Genie's power there still. It would always be a part of her, fueling her and sustaining her even when her own strength fell apart. That was surely proof that she meant something to him. But had there been something before?

"He...he's saved me. So many times." Ugh, why was it so hard to put it all into words. Feeling her face heat, she frowned sullenly into her cup. "I think it was probably when we combined our power to help push back the darkness." A memory flashed -- the two of them on the roof of Genie's apartment, surrounded by supernatural darkness, tangled up in magic string and staring into each other's eyes.

Suddenly she cried out in frustration and roughly put her fingers through her hair. "It doesn't matter! Stop being so forgiving, dammit!" Their roles reversed now, with Eden calm and collected and Urd spoiling for a fight (anything to get her to stop saying embarrassing things), the goddess desperately needed a distraction.

Genie refrained from sighing at the thought of gumdrops and pepperoni. The mix of flavours and textures were nothing short from heavenly. But surely the combination had been the same result as so many other discoveries; by accident. Or were there no such things as accidents? Eden’s arrival to the city, had it been fate? If they were truly destined to meet it seemed not even Paixao could separate them.

He peered into the room once more, focused on the other genie. The universe held many mysteries but none as curiosity than Eden herself. He could not recall the last genie he had seen, if there had ever been any. And thought it was rude to ask a lady, he could not help but long to know, how old was she? Where had she come from? Had she too spent the last ten thousand years in wait of something? Something old, something new? Maybe even someone… blue? It puzzled him how someone he knew absolutely nothing about could know so much about him. Usually it was the other way around. He had so many questions.

But through all the excitement, and fog of question, he had not forgotten Urd. It was easy to be distracted by new things, shiny, magical, genies in particular. However, the goddess had far from yet to leave his mind. He thought back to that night when they had tried to stop the Darkness. The way their magic had blend with one another, it had been something else. Genie smiled, for a moment sure he could feel what he had that night before Urd’s frustrated shout brought him back.

Eden carefully listened to Urd’s words. They pushed back the darkness together? For a moment Eden held her breath, then the outrage came from Urd. Well that took Eden by surprise, as she bit her lip as she leaned back from the goddesss. Well, Eden wasn’t going to take that. Eden’s brows furrowed in return as she leaned in, her lips frowned at Urd, “Don’t you dare fight that feeling! You and I both know this is important, because this is about LOVE!”

Standing up as Eden held up her hands, almost at a loss, as she closed her eyes in concentration. She took in a deep breath, then counted to three, before she could open her eyes to look at Urd and speak again, “Of course I want to know your feelings for him, I want to know if it’s true as it is mine! As much as it pains me to hear how you guys spent so many days together it’s still-…” Eden gripped her fists, as she dropped them to her sides, as her began to glaze again as she looked to the side, “It’s still important to know, rather than to be left in the dark. Not ever knowing the reasons why.” She let out a breath, her emotions almost about to take her over as well. Eden wasn’t going to let it. She wanted to fight it, she wanted to be strong, and to fight in what she believed is right here.

She hadn't expected Eden to shout back. Urd, stunned into silence, froze in her outraged pose as she watched the other genie. Ah, geez, this was getting serious...on the one hand, she was impressed at Eden's courage at admitting to her feelings so readily. On the other hand, the more Eden spoke, the more vulnerable Urd felt. And when Urd felt vulnerable, she got angry to cover up her weakness.

"I think we've talked enough!" she grumbled, standing up and stalking to the door. "There's nothing else to say, so just --" Urd flung open the door. "Get out!"

Genie held his breath, still as a statue as Urd trudged her way past him and to the door. He had been so focused on their conversation he had not so much as thought to move from the door as their voices drew near. The genie watched the goddess through wide eyes, stunned by the display. He had hoped it possible for the two to meet an agreement but maybe he had only been fooling himself with such thoughts. Still, that did not prevent him from calling out to the two.

“Wait!” he reached out dramatically, holding the pose until he realized what he had done. Getting between the two women was sure to end poorly. Genie hadn’t exactly thought any of this through, all he knew was that he had to do something. “It can’t end like this.”

Eden gritted her teeth, just having about enough of Urd’s shenanigans, and gave out a, “FINE!” Before she turned around and heard a familiar voice come into the room. Her eyes widen before she turned around to see her old boyfriend before them. She was quiet for a moment, as she looked at him. Eden spoke almost in hushed voice, “G-Genie?”

Taking a step forward, Eden held up her eyebrow in curiosity, but almost pained. She really didn’t want him to hear over any of that, she held her hands together, “How long… Have you been listening to us?”

Genie was here? She hadn't even noticed his presence, which was as clear an indicator of her shaken state of mind as anything. She slowly turned to face him, in time with Eden, but her words stuck in her mouth. Feeling a pang in her chest at the wistful longing in Eden's voice, Urd glanced away and remained in her sullen silence. She couldn't even look at him now, caught somewhere between resentment at his eavesdropping and shame at what he might have heard.

“Awhile.” He admitted, head held down in shame. “I didn’t mean to but after you arrived it was so quiet, I was worried something had happened.” Genie rubbed the back of his neck, displeased by the impression he had made on Eden. The first time he got to meet her, the ‘love of his life’, and it had to be like this. “I’m sorry,” he turned to look at Urd, well aware of why she would not look at him in return. “To both of you.”

“I understand if you do, but please don’t go, Eden.”

Eden fully frowned when she heard he was around for while. She looked down in shame. Oh dear, this wasn’t how it was suppose to go at all. Eden shook her head quietly, “There’s nothing to apologize for Genie, it’s not your fault.”

Looking back up Eden folded her arms as she looked to the side, “I-I know but… Urd…” she glanced over to her, knowing she didn’t want Eden around. Not that it’s surprising why, but, she can already feel how tense this room was. She looked back down holding the back of her neck.

If she thought Eden's sad, wistful expression was heartwrenching, nothing could prepare Urd for the impact Genie's expression left on her. In his face, she didn't see just shame -- she saw regret and disappointment. So when Eden glanced at her, the goddess felt her stomach flip. Why did it feel like they were blaming her for everything? She didn't do anything wrong!

She sighed roughly, hands dropping to her sides. "Ah, geez. You don't have to go, okay? In fact..." The next words out of her were grudgingly given, hard won. "...you can stay and catch up with Genie." I owe him that much. And more. Urd glanced between the two djinn, flustered and insecure and irritated.

"I'm just gonna...go." Then she turned and stalked out of the house, slamming the door behind her.

Edited 2012-04-20 02:32 (UTC)

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