Drabble Tag
Two Shakespearean Drabble Tags for Hyel. :-)
Challenge: Drabble Tag
Prompt: Olivia/Viola in the Garden (for Hyel)
Word Count: 219
Rating: PG13
Sweet Lady
“Shhh,” I whispered, my fingers on her lips. Yes, Cesario, I know about you. The curve of your hip did not escape my eye, nor the smoothness of your cheek. I kissed her mouth, and she pulled away in shock.
Improper for the duke’s servant to kiss the very Lady whose affections he sought.
And yet, she bent her head, and returned my kiss. Soft lips brushing against mine, soft hands taking my own. So gentle, even as her mouth opened to mine, even as she tasted my mouth, so gentle. How could she be aught but a woman?
I wanted more - much more. But a widow may walk where a maiden may not, and she pulled away when I tried to unlace her doublet. Even still, her breath came quickly, and there was longing in her eyes, mingled with the fear.
“Don’t be afraid,” I whispered.
When I kissed her again, and she melted under my mouth.
She sank to her knees, kissing my hands.
“Sweet Lady,” she whispered. “You are mistaken. I am not what you want.”
I touched her cheek.
“Sweet, Lady,” I replied, and watched her eyes grow wide. “Are you not?”
I knelt beside her, flowers blooming around us. She pulled me into her arms, and this time her kiss was hungry and unafraid.
*~*~*~*~*
Challenge: Drabble Tag
Prompt: Helena/Hermia in the Woods (for Hyel)
Word Count: 175
Rating: R (Maybe)
Note: The spoken dialogue is taken straight out of A Midsummer's Night's Dream. Yay, Shakespeare. :-)
Our Sisters' Vows
I have wept this night already, torn and lost in these dark woods. And now I find my dearest friend turned against me in hate. I do not understand!
“Is all the counsel that we two have shared, the sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,
when we have chid the hasty-footed time for parting us,” she looked at me with wounded eyes. “O, is it all forgot?”
No. No, Helena, my sister and my love, it is not forgotten.
Side by side we sat, embroidering the same sampler, until we were blessed with only each other’s company and could lay our work aside that our two bodies might meld into one. How can you think such things?
“I am amazed at your passionate words,” I reply. Can she hear the hurt in my voice? “I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.” I sought to flee the city with Lysander, my love. She knows this. Why now this fury, this hate? Beloved, I shall weep again before this night is out.
*~*~*~*~*
New Prompts:
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: Iris/Clara : Paint
Wicked (bookverse) : Elphaba/Galinda : Prickly
BSG : Kara Thrace / Starbuck : Dichotomy (Yes, I know, same person. See what you can do).
***
ST:DS9 : Jadzia Dax / Kira Nereace (which I've surely spelled wrong) : Breaking Point
ST: Voyageur : B'Elana/Seven-of-Nine (specifically when she was just barely disconnected from the borg collective and going crazy) : Connection
Sailor Moon : Jupiter/Mercury : Shelter
Challenge: Drabble Tag
Prompt: Olivia/Viola in the Garden (for Hyel)
Word Count: 219
Rating: PG13
Sweet Lady
“Shhh,” I whispered, my fingers on her lips. Yes, Cesario, I know about you. The curve of your hip did not escape my eye, nor the smoothness of your cheek. I kissed her mouth, and she pulled away in shock.
Improper for the duke’s servant to kiss the very Lady whose affections he sought.
And yet, she bent her head, and returned my kiss. Soft lips brushing against mine, soft hands taking my own. So gentle, even as her mouth opened to mine, even as she tasted my mouth, so gentle. How could she be aught but a woman?
I wanted more - much more. But a widow may walk where a maiden may not, and she pulled away when I tried to unlace her doublet. Even still, her breath came quickly, and there was longing in her eyes, mingled with the fear.
“Don’t be afraid,” I whispered.
When I kissed her again, and she melted under my mouth.
She sank to her knees, kissing my hands.
“Sweet Lady,” she whispered. “You are mistaken. I am not what you want.”
I touched her cheek.
“Sweet, Lady,” I replied, and watched her eyes grow wide. “Are you not?”
I knelt beside her, flowers blooming around us. She pulled me into her arms, and this time her kiss was hungry and unafraid.
*~*~*~*~*
Challenge: Drabble Tag
Prompt: Helena/Hermia in the Woods (for Hyel)
Word Count: 175
Rating: R (Maybe)
Note: The spoken dialogue is taken straight out of A Midsummer's Night's Dream. Yay, Shakespeare. :-)
Our Sisters' Vows
I have wept this night already, torn and lost in these dark woods. And now I find my dearest friend turned against me in hate. I do not understand!
“Is all the counsel that we two have shared, the sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,
when we have chid the hasty-footed time for parting us,” she looked at me with wounded eyes. “O, is it all forgot?”
No. No, Helena, my sister and my love, it is not forgotten.
Side by side we sat, embroidering the same sampler, until we were blessed with only each other’s company and could lay our work aside that our two bodies might meld into one. How can you think such things?
“I am amazed at your passionate words,” I reply. Can she hear the hurt in my voice? “I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.” I sought to flee the city with Lysander, my love. She knows this. Why now this fury, this hate? Beloved, I shall weep again before this night is out.
*~*~*~*~*
New Prompts:
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: Iris/Clara : Paint
Wicked (bookverse) : Elphaba/Galinda : Prickly
BSG : Kara Thrace / Starbuck : Dichotomy (Yes, I know, same person. See what you can do).
***
ST:DS9 : Jadzia Dax / Kira Nereace (which I've surely spelled wrong) : Breaking Point
ST: Voyageur : B'Elana/Seven-of-Nine (specifically when she was just barely disconnected from the borg collective and going crazy) : Connection
Sailor Moon : Jupiter/Mercury : Shelter