bitchprince ([personal profile] bitchprince) wrote2010-09-24 12:22 pm

Banquet Hall, Camelot, Friday Night

It had been a week since certain... events. Arthur's position had been reinstated, and he had very, very subtly informed his father that he really did not want to know any of the details about his marriage bed.

Ahem.

(It had been harder than he'd anticipated to keep a straight face, which was probably relief.)

Now, King Uther had ordained a feast in Arthur's honour, to celebrate the return of his titles. The servants in the castle preferred to refer to it as the 'Thank-God-I-Am-No-Longer-Married-To-A-Troll feast', though none of them would be caught calling it such out loud. Perish the thought.

There was plenty of wine, there was plenty of food, and as the night went on, the nobles loosened up -- which meant the servants got to dip into their fair share of drink, too.

It was a good night.

[[ for they who are here! ]]

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Katchoo loved truly horrible ideas. What was wrong with that?

She had no ulterior motives whatsoever -- and by the way, would you like to buy a bridge? not Bridge -- about wandering Merlin's way with another tray of cider and drawling, "Can I not offer you another one, there?"

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Really?" Katchoo, you're a horrible person.

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
And you love it, Merlin. "Well, y'know," she said, in her best impression of one of the flightier serving girls (or an airheaded celeb groupie at one of Darcy's parties, it was really the same principle), "this tray's awfully heavy with all these drinks on it."

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Merlin giggled snickered like a manly man. "You should never do that again," he informed her, but took a drink to help out.

Okay, two drinks.

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Never do what?" asked the horrible, insidious enabler.

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Talk like that," Merlin replied a bit too loud for the whisper he thought it was. "It's... weird. Like Arthur bein' polite to stupid people."

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
"You mean --" Katchoo took a breath and pitched the flighty giggle-voice up a notch. "Like thiiiiiiiiiiis?"

Yes, Katchoo, like that. Stop it. It's freaky.

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
"SHHH! People will hear you!" Shout some more, Merlin!

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
"What was that, Merlin?" Never giggle like an airhead like that again, Katchoo. "I couldn't hear you over -- oh, was that you shouting?"

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
"SHHHHHHHH!"

A beat.

"...I am not!"

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course you're not!" Katchoo ratcheted up the volume a few notches on that one, which might be shouting for some people but wasn't yet in danger of reaching Epic Katchoo Yelling Levels yet. "You haven't had enough to drink for that yet!"

. . . upside, she wasn't doing the creepy giggle-voice any more?

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Merlin's eyes went wide and he struggled for a moment to hold onto both drinks and drag Katchoo away, but mostly only succeeded in splashing himself with cider and bumping into her. "Shhh. The king will heeear."

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh, domino effect -- Katchoo ended up with cider sloshing onto her from the tray.

"I'm not being as loud as you," she insisted, but in a stage-whisper this time.

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Hallway," Merlin hissed. "Hallway!"

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay, okay!" Katchoo set the tray down on a nearby table and started hustling hall-ward. "What?"

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"We can't yell," Merlin informed her after taking a long sip of one of his ciders. Mmm. Cidery. "People will talk."

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Right." Katchoo actually looked genuinely apologetic at that. "Don't need you under any more fire. God knows you've had enough crap to deal with lately."

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
"And then Arthur will be all sad and we can't always go swimming," he informed her solemnly. Then, after a moment, "We didn't really swim."

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Katchoo didn't use the high-pitched ditz voice this time, but she let her eyes go wide the same way. "You didn't?"

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Doof." Katchoo flailed an arm vaguely at him, with the half-formed intention of poking at his nose. "Kinda like me and Francine didn't actually go fishing?"

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
OMG, KATCHOO. OMG.

"...you didn't?"

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
DON'T LOOK SO SHOCKED, MERLIN.

"Not," Katchoo replied, a smile twitching around the corners of her mouth, "unless that's what they're callin' it these days."

[identity profile] bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh." Merlin blinked a few time. "I don't polish Arthur's armor like I told you. We just have sex."

A beat.

"A lot."

He sniggered, holding onto his cider tightly. "It's nice."

[identity profile] thismaskiwear.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
"So I've heard," Katchoo told him pointedly -- though possibly not pointedly enough, given the cider. "But somethin's gettin' polished, all right, innit?"