so close no matter how far

Sounds like everyone’s complaining about bad dreams or somethin’...?

Curious? → Jace/Jade

“You should come in, dinner’s about to be served.” He offered, he glnced at her hand. Expensive. An engagement ring rested on her hand, and he regretted instantly having gone into that damned war. Not like he had a chance. He still did not understand. Though, in a way he did. He was a poor farm kid then, he could not have given her the advantages he could. “Would you like to come inside, just for a moment?”

There was nothing Jade wanted more in that moment than to be able to agree, to say yes and follow Jace inside. To act like the past few years hadn’t changed anything between them, but the truth was that it had changed everything. “I really shouldn’t,” she said softly, glancing down before back up at him. With the way he looked at her her resolve was slipping every second, it had always been like that with him. She was unable to resist.

Sunday Morning (more than) Rain is Falling//Frederick & Jade

“Normal hour?” he questions while looking at the sky, which is somewhat lit up.  Since he drank himself to sleeping in the car, he assumed once he woke up it would at least be daytime if not well into the afternoon.  “You didn’t really miss much, lots of drinking really nothing more.”  Frederick sighs, “Sadly, I have next to no vivid memory of what happened,” he leans in and whispers to Jade, “I don’t even know who that is…or how they got in my car.” 

“Yeah, something that’s later than seven in the morning,” Jade told him with a small grin, realizing he probably had no idea what time it was if he had ended up passed out in a car. “Sounds like a classic Jace party.” The brunette couldn’t help but laugh a little at his last few words, covering her mouth with her hand as she didn’t want to wake the other person now. “Oh so this is your car? At least you didn’t end up in someone else’s. Which is more than can be said for this poor soul.”

Sunday Morning (more than) Rain is Falling//Frederick & Jade

“Ahh shit,” Frederick looks around and realizes that he is, in fact, in the middle of the street, “I’m so sorry, do you need to get by?”  To be honest, he wasn’t sure of how he got there, but since it was a party, he assumed free alcohol was there and things sailed toward this place. “So I assume you were here as well?” he asks, leaning against the the car, holding his head.  

“No, I’m just walking so you’re fine. Other people though might not be too happy, once it reaches a normal hour.” Jade gave a small shrug, pressing her lips together as she looked over at the guy. From his motions she could only imagine what his previous night had been like. “Me? I mean, I stopped by but I never really made it inside, which was kind of the plan all along.” She could tell it didn’t make sense as soon as she said it, but it was the truth. “I take it it was a good time though.”

Sunday Morning (more than) Rain is Falling//Frederick & Jade

Frederick leaned up upon hearing the light sound of fingers on the glass. He cussed under his breath and attempted to crawl out of the back door without waking up whoever was in the front seat. Thankfully, he was able to get out but he stepped on the pavement in nothing but socks and because of the morning dew the were now grossly wet.  He crossed his arms and waddled over to Jade. “Uhh, do you know this is?  I surely don’t,” he asks under his breath as if the person if the front seat is going to hear him outside the car.

Jade took a step back as the guy in the backseat at least woke up, watching as he managed to get out of the car. Taking a closer look as he asked her the question she leaned in before shaking her head, her hair tossing lightly back and forth. “I don’t, no,” she replied, hitching her bag up on her shoulder a little more. “I just wanted to make sure you knew you were passed out in a car in the middle of the street.” A hint of a smile crossed her lips as she took in the yard that was now littered with empty cups, bottles and things she probably didn’t want to even know about. “Although somehow I doubt this is the first time someone’s ended up out here after a party like that.”

Jade had slept fitfully the night before, having only really been outside the party for a little while but that little while was enough to keep her tossing and turning. By the time seven o’clock rolled around and her alarm went off she was wide awake to see it, sighing as she got ready for her shift. Since it was nice out she decided to walk the short distance, taking her past Jace’s house and the few cars that remained there. She wasn’t trying to be nosy but when she saw a few figures lying motionless in one of the cars she tapped her fingers on the window, wanting to make sure they were okay.

Curious? → Jace/Jade

He’d seen her, coming up the walk. He was different now, changed. He was older, blonder, more handsome then the scrawny farm kid that had left for the war. Still, he wasn’t sure what to say to her. He gave a charming smile, anyway, but could find no words.She was beautiful – gorgeous. Not dressed to the nines, like him, but still very , very attractive. He still said nothing, and it was becoming an awkward silence, so finally he choked out, “Huh? Oh…it’s alright….” He said, voice soft, gentle. “Were you coming inside?”

Of course Jade would run into the one person she had been thinking about without even meaning to. It took her a second to think of a coherent response, wanting so desperately to reach up and run her hand down the side of the face that was so familiar to her, even after all this time. “No!” she said quickly, before adding more quietly, “I mean, I was just...seeing what the fuss was all about, that’s all.” Looking for you, wanting to see you for myself would probably have been more accurate. She didn’t move away from Jace as she reached up to push a strand of hair behind her ear, her eyes flickering up to meet his. “God only knows what would happen if anyone found out I was actually here.”