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Post by Aeré Jupal on Oct 21, 2009 15:19:39 GMT 1
It is about 0500 in the morning.
Aeré walks down the hall way, still half asleep, and already feeling a upcoming head ache, reminding her that she shouldn't work that late every night. She is missing enough hours of sleep, as it is.
It is early. She doesn't have any meetings before 0800, but she has to be at the Senate at 0700. And she couldn't sleep anymore.
She can hear the water running in the bath room, but doesn't really notice it, as she opens the door and walks in.
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Post by Seth Vall on Oct 21, 2009 15:43:39 GMT 1
Seth is used to getting up early. It's got nothing to do with his job, it's just the way he's been raised. Get up as soon as you're awake, and get the most out of the day. He knows by now, that Aeré is not much different. She is a practical woman with an important job, and she works from early morning to late evening.
But 0500 in the morning?? He wouldn't have predicted that, even if he was a Jedi. Therefore, hearing silent footsteps in an apartment he believed to be the only one awake in, made all his alarm bells ring. Best thing to do? Get behind the door without giving away he has heard anything.
As Aeré enters the bathroom, he is about to slap his forehead with his hand. That is, if both his hands had not been busy holding a towel and a blaster.
"Good morning, senator." There is a slightly dry tone to his voice, as he lowers his blaster. False alarm...
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Oct 21, 2009 16:03:38 GMT 1
His calm voice is almost like a yell in the silent room.
Aeré almost jumps from the floor and spins around towards the door, quickly looking for something to defend herself with. All this talk about assassins from Seth seems to have made some points. She stops all of a sudden though, as she recognizes her bodyguard.
"What are you doing in here??" The words burst out of her mouth, before she has a chance to swollow them again.
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Post by Seth Vall on Oct 21, 2009 16:06:49 GMT 1
Seth casts a glance at the shower where the water is still running. What he is doing??
"Trying to take a shower."
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Oct 21, 2009 16:15:14 GMT 1
Stupid question. Aeré knows that. She can't quite figure out, what made her even ask. The answer is pretty obvious....
Wait...
Aeré seems to look at him for several seconds. Then she quickly looks someplace else. Anywhere else than him. He is only wearing a towel, you stupid goose!!
"Yes, I can see that.." she answers, biting her lower lip.
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Post by Seth Vall on Oct 21, 2009 16:21:03 GMT 1
Had Seth not had manners, he would probably just have shoved her out the door.
"Right..."
"Give me five minutes, and I'll be done. Okay?"
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Oct 21, 2009 16:24:17 GMT 1
Aeré has already placed her hand on the side of her face to block the sight of her bodyguard out.
"Of course..." She nods slowly, still not looking at him. The door. Where is the door. To his right. Right. "Sorry."
Then the Naboo Senator practically flees out the door and slams it behind her.
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Post by Seth Vall on Oct 21, 2009 16:30:44 GMT 1
Seth grimaces as the door closes behind the senator. What a morning... He looks at the door again, as if hoping that a lock had suddenly appeared there by magic. Nope. Still no lock. Stupid living-alone kind of bathrooms...
A few minutes later Seth leaves the bathroom, now properly clean, dry and dressed.
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Oct 21, 2009 16:41:51 GMT 1
Aeré is nowhere to be seen. It almost seems, as if the Senator had fled the apartment. But the door to the balcony is open.
The Senator had wrapped her silk gown tightly around her, as she watches the Coruscant skyline. The sun is not yet up, but it will only be a matter of time.
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Post by Seth Vall on Oct 21, 2009 17:25:29 GMT 1
Seth looks around for Aeré for a few seconds before locating her at the balcony.
"Bathroom is yours now, senator. What do you want for breakfast?"
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Oct 21, 2009 18:08:46 GMT 1
Aeré seems to wake up again from her study, and she turns around to look at him. For brief moment, before she looks away again, remembering the imbarassing episode a few minutes earlier. "Just..." She makes a wave with the hand not clutching her gown. "Think of something. I am sure that you are fully capable of such a thing."
Then she quickly walks past him and enters the bathroom down the hall.
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Post by Seth Vall on Dec 1, 2009 13:18:09 GMT 1
Seth doesn't bother chasing the subject, and just leaves the senator to her self.
He walks out to the kitchen, looking around to see what is usable as breakfast. He recall Aeré prefering a light diet, so dark bread is probably out of the question for her. He takes some of that for him self, and ends up making the senator a bowl of fruit and yoghurt. Why would she have that in her apartment, if she didn't like it? Then he makes some coffee.
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Dec 9, 2009 21:50:47 GMT 1
In the bathroom Aeré takes off her robe and steps into the shower. She puts shampoo in her hair and washes it out, before massaging balsam into her thick hair. She closes her eyes for a moment, sighing deeply. This was not the best start on a new day. On any day. Surprising her bodyguard in the shower was.... not a good start at all.
She leans out of the shower cabine to grab a towel after washing all the balsam out of her hair. Her foot slips, all of a sudden.
Aeré manages to yelp out in surprise, before she falls and hits the back of her head against the tiles on the floor.
Then everything turns black.
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Post by Seth Vall on Dec 9, 2009 22:52:22 GMT 1
Seth is beginning to feel just a little more awake after finishing his first cup of coffee. He may be used to getting up early, but coffee is one of those small everyday addictions he'd rather not be without. Cigarettes too, but he tries to keep that at such a low rate that it's not really an addiction.
His thoughts are suddenly interrupted. By a scream. And the sound of something hitting something else.
Sith spit...
Seth runs towards the bathroom as fast as he can. No sign of intruders, and the door to the bathroom is still closed. Could someone have entered trough the bathroom window? Only one way to find out. He pushes every memory of how the morning has been up till now away, and opens the door, hand on his blaster. First thing that caches his eyes is Aeré lying on the floor, clearly unconscious. Immediately Seth checks behind the door and in the shower, but no one is hiding. She must have slipped by herself. Great. He kneels down beside the senator, quickly checking her pulse and breathing.
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Dec 9, 2009 23:05:34 GMT 1
Aeré's pulse and breathing is normal, but it looks like her head had a violent collusion with the floor tiles. She doesn't react the Seth's presence or anything else. A drop of blood draws a thin line from her temple down her cheek.
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Post by Seth Vall on Dec 9, 2009 23:28:28 GMT 1
Seth allows himself to draw a deep breath. Alive. Good. He lifts her head gently with one hand to check the wound, before deciding it's safe to move her. He picks her limp body up from the cold floor and carries her to her bedroom. He puts her down on the bed, making sure she lies so she can breathe freely, and covers her with with her blanket to keep her warm. Then he calls for a doctor to look at her.
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Dec 11, 2009 0:17:23 GMT 1
It takes a couple of hours, even after a doctor arrives to look at her, before Aeré finally shows some signs of life. She moans quietly and moves a bit, before she winces and puts a hand to the back of her head. She is lying on the side on her bed, which she remembers that she left this morning. But how did she get back onto it again...?
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Post by Seth Vall on Dec 14, 2009 20:37:47 GMT 1
"How are you feeling, Senator?" Aeré's bodyguard is at her side the moment he sees her begin to wake up.
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Dec 14, 2009 22:45:40 GMT 1
"Mmmm...." Aeré moans painfully again and opens her eyes a bit to look around. "What... What happened?" She is feeling cold. Not cold as she would, if she forgot to close her window. Cold as if she fell asleep with her hair wet. She has tried that before. But she didn't go to bed...
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Post by Seth Vall on Dec 29, 2009 11:37:19 GMT 1
"You fell," Seth explains. "In the shower. A doctor has been here." He kneels down at the side of her bed.
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Dec 29, 2009 18:15:22 GMT 1
"Oh..." Aeré blinks a couple of times, making a face again. She feels a little desoriented, but that's possibly from waking up. "How did I get here?"
She starts to sit up, feelign a little less dizzy. "What time is it?"
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Post by Seth Vall on Jan 2, 2010 12:51:28 GMT 1
"I put you in bed when I found you. And the doctor advised your staying there until tomorrow at least. Your office has been informed of your day off." He casts a quick glance at the crono. "It's well over 0930."
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Jan 2, 2010 14:05:48 GMT 1
"What??" Aeré looks at him in disbelief. Tomorrow? Does he have any idea about all the meetings, she has to go to today?? All her plans?? Not to forget the reception tonight..
"No." She pushes herself up in a sitting position. "I'm not taking a day off. And I'm already late!!" She is about to stand up, when she notices something else. Her clothes - are missing. "You put me in bed, you say?" She looks back at him. "Without my clothes?"
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Post by Seth Vall on Jan 2, 2010 14:32:36 GMT 1
"The doctor advised you took a day of. So that's what you'll do." Seth's face is calm as durasteel. As always. "Should I have dressed you before carrying you? Or just have left you lying on the floor?"
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Jan 2, 2010 14:49:05 GMT 1
Aeré sends him a glare that could've frozen him into a pillar of ice. She is about to answer him, that yes, she would've preferred being dressed before carried to bed - but then she closes her mouth again, rethinking her answer. "Neither. I wouldn't like the idea of getting dressed by you nor left lying on the floor. And I'm not taking a day off. You can argue all, you want, but I have work to do." She wraps her blankett around her and stands up to make her point clear.
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Post by Seth Vall on Jan 2, 2010 14:57:18 GMT 1
Seth stands up, his eyes not shifting one bit under her icy glare. "I'm afraid I have to insist, senator."
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Jan 2, 2010 15:05:22 GMT 1
"Good, then insist all you want," Aeré answers cooly and walks over to her closet. She is still feeling uncomfortably cold, but she has wasted too much time to take another shower. "You're noone telling me what to do."
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Post by Seth Vall on Jan 2, 2010 15:42:04 GMT 1
"I am responsible for your safety. That includes protecting you from yourself." Aeré may be stubborn, but so is he...
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Post by Aeré Jupal on Jan 2, 2010 15:51:09 GMT 1
"I don't need..." That last word was almost hissed out... "... protection from myself, Mr Vall. I need protection from everyone else." She opens her closet and chooses a robe to put on. Then she looks at him, a stubborn expression on her face. "What are you going to do? Hold me back? Beg me not to go to work?"
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Post by Seth Vall on Jan 2, 2010 15:54:43 GMT 1
"Lock the door and call the doctor?" Still no sign on his face that her harsh tone has the least effect.
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