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<blockquote data-quote="orchid blossom" data-source="post: 2718280" data-attributes="member: 12815"><p><strong>Saturday April 8th, 1882, A Philosophical Morning</strong></p><p></p><p>Nanuet awoke first as always, and slipped quietly out of bed trying not to wake Minerva. He adjusted the blankets around her and watched her rhythmic breathing for a few moments before slipping out of the room. He made his way downstairs and decided to take a short walk. </p><p></p><p>After returning he ordered up breakfast for himself and his companions before slipping off to wake Minerva. He asked the clerk to wake the others and let them know breakfast would be ready shortly.</p><p></p><p>Nanuet heads back to his room and puts his ear to the door before entering trying to see if Minerva was up and about yet.</p><p></p><p>Nanuet can hear some gentle singing from inside the room as he pushes the door open.</p><p></p><p>"Good morning mi amore" Minerva greets him "we should get the others and get ready for the train." she says as she hums a wordless tune.</p><p></p><p>A smile flashes across his face and Nanuet responds "Wise words from a wise woman, but I am a step ahead of you, the others should be meeting us downstairs shortly."</p><p></p><p>Nanuet waits for her to finish getting ready and then escorts her downstairs.</p><p></p><p>* * *</p><p></p><p>Chester groans when he hears the knock on the door. "OK. OK. I heard you." After a minute, he gets out of bed and dresses. The deputy checks his weapons and straps on his gunbelt. <em>The sooner we kill Turner, the sooner I can get back to Clarisse.</em> Slapping the hat onto his head, Chester heads to the dining room. The clerk has set a table for the group and Chester slides into one of the chairs. He asks the man for a pot of coffee.</p><p></p><p>* * *</p><p></p><p>Ruby moans as the light peeks through the shades of their room at Big Nose Kate's in Tombstone. Her eyes only open tiny slits she sees chairs on their sides, broken glass and a liquor bottle, towels strewn on the floor and the tub. She searches her memories but can't recall having that kind of fun the night before. She rolls over towards Jake and watches him but doesn't nuzzle him like she normally would, leaving him be as he sleeps. Instead she rolls on her side away from him facing the window. </p><p></p><p>No, Ruby had decided not to further push Jake in any way and as hard as it was for her she was determined to follow through. So her morning ritual of asking Jake if he still loved her and cuddling and snuggling with him was finished, a new ritual yet to take its place. She lay uncomfortably, her head and heart pounding, hoping to fall back asleep before thoughts of Colin Turner again filled her mind.</p><p></p><p>Ruby groans at the knocking but answers the door in the sheet. The clerk quickly leaves the room and Ruby plops down in the chair. </p><p></p><p>"Wake up sleepy head," she says to Jake, We're being summoned to breakfast." As his eyes start to open she asks, "What happened here last night?" She glances around the room, "I would be devestated to think I forgot something fun."</p><p></p><p>Jake sits up and winces when his back complains. The knot on the back of his head throbs once he is upright. Touching it gingerly he leans a hand on his thigh for support and winces again. <em>That is the last time I let you fall asleep in the tub,</em> he considers saying that out loud but instead, "You are teasing me right? You actually don't remember, after all the abuse you gave me?" As he stands, he stretches slowly testing his back. "Lucky for you that I am head over heels in love with you or I might be offended. I think I showed some mighty interesting agility last night. Too bad you can't remember it."</p><p></p><p>Ruby blinks a couple of times and her lips start to form into a pout. She pulls the sheet around herself tighter and looks at Jake with big eyes. "Well I don't know why I wouldn't remember... something strange must have happened. I didnt drink that much." </p><p></p><p>She pauses but keeps staring at Jake., She cocks her head, "Well, was it worth it anyway?"</p><p></p><p>Jake looks at her seriously before saying, "Every minute I spend with you is worth its weight in gold." He manages to hold the serious expression for a few moments before bursting out in laughter and then winces as his back complains. He wipes a tear from his eye that he is not sure whether it comes from the laughter or the pain in his back muscles. "I'm sorry princess, I couldn't help myself. You fell asleep in the tub and you looked so content that I couldn't bring myself to wake you." He glances around the room and finishes, "Looks like I created a jumble getting you to bed." He grins and shrugs which is immediately followed by a slight grimace. "I fell." He carefully crouches down to reach the whiskey bottle still next to the tub. Once standing again he has a sip. "Maybe that'll take the edge off. Help me get dressed I'm hungry."</p><p></p><p>Ruby hops out of the chair. "Oh You fell! Are you that bad you need help getting dressed? I'm so sorry, it's all my fault! You should have just woken me up." Ruby gently pushes Jake on the bed and then she rushes around picking up towels and glass and the chair. Then she grabs Jake a new outfit and gingerly helps him gets dressed, stopping frenquently to kiss his injuries. </p><p></p><p>Jake sits by watching Ruby run around, milking his injury, trying not to chuckle at her. </p><p></p><p>After Jake is dressed Ruby quickly and haphazardly dresses too. She stops to take quite a few drinks from their bottle, trying to take the edge off her own splitting headache. She packs up theri bags and leaves them out the door for the clerk. She glances longingly at the tub, "Baths never work out for us anymore. I guess we should stop trying." </p><p></p><p>She sighs, "Alright darling, let's go for breakfast. I need some coffee or some more liquor." </p><p></p><p>They make their way down to breakfast where they both wave off the cheery good mornings from Chester, Nanuet, and Minerva.. Ruby orders a whiskey and some toast while ignoring the disapproving glances of her companions.</p><p> </p><p>"Can we please just eat and get out of here?” Ruby asked. “We don't want to miss the train, right?"</p><p></p><p>Nanuet makes a few light hearted jests at Jake an Ruby about being morning people, he greets Kate with a smile when she arrives and pulls out a chair for her nods at Chester and refills his coffee. </p><p></p><p>"We have time before the train comes in, I just figured I would do us all a favor and order us breakfast to make sure we started out our journey on a good note. Since Jake and Ruby pay me so well now, the meal is on me, I insist." </p><p></p><p>Platters of eggs, bacon, toast, and pancakes are brought to the table along with butter, milk, syrup and fruit preserves and plenty of tea and coffee. Nanuet digs in with a hearty appetite.</p><p></p><p>Ruby scrunches her nose at the sweet aroma and pushes any plate put in front of her away. She drinks her whiskey slowly during breakfast and sits quietly, waiting for everyone to finish. She doubted there were plans to be made at this point, no one knew what was going to happen. </p><p></p><p>As breakfast is almost over Ruby jumps up, "I'm going to wait outside, get some air." </p><p></p><p>She wanders out the door and finds a nice step out of the way to sit on and wait.</p><p></p><p>Jake stays at the table and let's Ruby go. He remains mostly quiet while he eats. When it looks like the others are done, he gets up and walks into the empty bar. </p><p></p><p>Minerva glances at Nanuet who only shrugs. "Give me a moment with him." She excuses herself from the table and joins Jake alone in the bar. "Senor, you seem preoccupied. Is something weighing upon you?" </p><p></p><p>Jake runs a hand through his hair and sighs. "Senorita, When I was young my mother always told me that the gods worked their wills through humans great or small. I had believed that, much like I had believed in the stories of fairy godmothers, enchanted swords and dragons. As I got older those naive beliefs vanished one after another." </p><p></p><p>He looks down at his boots for a moment, gathering his thoughts and choosing his words. "At the cusp of this year I arrive in Promise City, Arizona to discover that magic is real. More amazing than that I find myself behaving like a knight of old saving my princess." Jake snorts a little laugh. "OK, so not completely like a knight of old, I suppose I have a few more vices." For just a brief moment the concern on his face vanishes and the confident and smart aleck smile breaks through before his face turns serious again. </p><p></p><p>"While I was in Tucson, our friends confronted some sort of dragon creature. I will admit to you when I came back and they told me that story I was convinced they were having some mass hallucination. The locals here do have some dried mushrooms they eat that..., well never mind that for now. Now I find we are confronted with some vile creature that could only have crawled from a foul pit located within some unspeakable darkness. His evil existence shakes my foundations. I have no time now to dwell on these matters, all my energies must focus on keeping us safe and destroying that fiend." Jake looks her in the eyes. "It makes me question a good many things." He is looking at her, but she can tell parts of his thoughts are elsewhere. "I'm not even sure what I am asking you." He goes back to looking down at his well worn boots. </p><p></p><p>Minerva gives him a crooked little smile. She leans back against the bar and eyes him speculatively, mulling over his words carefully before she speaks. "Are you asking me if fairytales are true, Senor Jake, or if the gods are?</p><p></p><p>Are you asking how all the wonderful magic we so innocently embraced at our mother's knee can exist in a world where evil walks unhindered? How our childish fantasies of knights in shining armor and happily ever after can possibly be fulfilled in a world where the gods tolerate such wicked vile monsters as Colin Turner? How, Senor Jake, you ask me, can we <em>possibly</em> believe that the gods represent goodness and light and hope, that our good deeds are the result of their benevolent hands reaching down from Olympus to guide us in their infinite wisdom, that they love and look out for us when they can so arrogantly allow such evil to flourish?” </p><p></p><p>She shrugs her shoulders. “It is quite a dichotomy is it not? It is a question that has left many men bitter and disillusioned, Senor. I do not pretend to know the minds of the gods, but for myself I choose to believe in both fairytales and in the wisdom of the gods. I believe in a balanced world in which the gods grant us our freedom to make our own choices. A world where magic, both good and bad can exist. I can choose to live as the Knight in shinning armor or the wicked villain. I can choose to love or to hate, to live or to die, to run like a yellow bellied coward or to stand and bravely fight. It is my choice to make and I thank the gods for that. Do not get me wrong, I despise darkness and evil, and fear and hate but I do not blame the gods for them, well not very often,” she smirks. </p><p></p><p>“I accept that their existence is the price to be paid for my freedom. It is my abhorrence of them that causes me to relish the love and light and goodness in the world. Have I confused you further Senor Jake?" </p><p></p><p>"Freedom to make our own choices? Seems to me we were witness to just the opposite recently." Jake returns her crooked smile. </p><p></p><p>Minerva scrunches up her face in distaste. "If you are speaking of that misguided priestess of Aphrodite, It is <em>she</em> that chose to try to control us, not the Goddess herself... and we <em>chose</em> not to be manipulated by her. Just as we are now choosing not to tolerate the evil that stalks us this night." </p><p></p><p>"I will say that the freedom to make my own choices is something I do value over most things." He taps his hand on his lips before continuing. "You presuppose Priestess that I am conflicted because I believed the gods were beneficent or benign. Yet you know that is not my belief. I think you may have understood my original question, Senorita. I wonder what is true? Like most of us, who I have become is in part owing to what I believed was real. So many things that I thought were just imagination seem to be real. Where does it end I wonder?" </p><p></p><p>"It does not end senor, that is what is so lovely about life. It is full of magic and mystery. As long as you breathe you will continue to poke and prod and question. It is in your nature to distrust. It is your gift. As long as you continue to question, your perception of the world will continue to evolve... as will you, Senor." She smiles at him gently. "You yourself have admited that you are becoming a knight in shining armor. You have changed since your arrival in this town. I have seen it for myself." She reaches up and gently kisses his cheek. "You are a good man Jake and you are beginning to open your eyes to the magic of the world." </p><p></p><p>"Heh, you put words in my mouth, Priestess. I said I have behaved like a knight of old, not that I was becoming one." Jake smirks, "Chastity was never one of my strong points." Jake pushes his hat down upon his head. "I will think about what you have said; I should have expected a sermon from my friend the Priestess." Jake winks and chuckles. "Confidence is necessary for living the path I have walked. Confidence means not just success but survival. Doubt leads to indecision is ruin. Whether it is at the card table, jousting with words or standing against a man who is moving his hand towards a gun. Silver Jake Cook has to be sure of himself, be sure of who he is and what he should be doing or it is all over for me." Jake shrugs. "Yes of course I make some bad decisions. You deal with that afterwards. Indecision is doom." </p><p></p><p>Minerva's smile flees. "You can be certain that we are dealing with a hidious abomination. The wrong decision is most certainly our doom." She quicky hides her fear and attempts to lighten the mood a bit. "As for the Chastity part of being a Knight in shining armor, I pray feverently that it is not a reqirement since I too have found that I much prefer the alternative." She gives a bawdy laugh and walks away. </p><p></p><p>Jake just shakes his head and watches her walk away. <em>I wonder if I'll ever make myself understood by that woman.</em> He shrugs again and chuckles before going out to find Ruby.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orchid blossom, post: 2718280, member: 12815"] [b]Saturday April 8th, 1882, A Philosophical Morning[/b] Nanuet awoke first as always, and slipped quietly out of bed trying not to wake Minerva. He adjusted the blankets around her and watched her rhythmic breathing for a few moments before slipping out of the room. He made his way downstairs and decided to take a short walk. After returning he ordered up breakfast for himself and his companions before slipping off to wake Minerva. He asked the clerk to wake the others and let them know breakfast would be ready shortly. Nanuet heads back to his room and puts his ear to the door before entering trying to see if Minerva was up and about yet. Nanuet can hear some gentle singing from inside the room as he pushes the door open. "Good morning mi amore" Minerva greets him "we should get the others and get ready for the train." she says as she hums a wordless tune. A smile flashes across his face and Nanuet responds "Wise words from a wise woman, but I am a step ahead of you, the others should be meeting us downstairs shortly." Nanuet waits for her to finish getting ready and then escorts her downstairs. * * * Chester groans when he hears the knock on the door. "OK. OK. I heard you." After a minute, he gets out of bed and dresses. The deputy checks his weapons and straps on his gunbelt. [i]The sooner we kill Turner, the sooner I can get back to Clarisse.[/i] Slapping the hat onto his head, Chester heads to the dining room. The clerk has set a table for the group and Chester slides into one of the chairs. He asks the man for a pot of coffee. * * * Ruby moans as the light peeks through the shades of their room at Big Nose Kate's in Tombstone. Her eyes only open tiny slits she sees chairs on their sides, broken glass and a liquor bottle, towels strewn on the floor and the tub. She searches her memories but can't recall having that kind of fun the night before. She rolls over towards Jake and watches him but doesn't nuzzle him like she normally would, leaving him be as he sleeps. Instead she rolls on her side away from him facing the window. No, Ruby had decided not to further push Jake in any way and as hard as it was for her she was determined to follow through. So her morning ritual of asking Jake if he still loved her and cuddling and snuggling with him was finished, a new ritual yet to take its place. She lay uncomfortably, her head and heart pounding, hoping to fall back asleep before thoughts of Colin Turner again filled her mind. Ruby groans at the knocking but answers the door in the sheet. The clerk quickly leaves the room and Ruby plops down in the chair. "Wake up sleepy head," she says to Jake, We're being summoned to breakfast." As his eyes start to open she asks, "What happened here last night?" She glances around the room, "I would be devestated to think I forgot something fun." Jake sits up and winces when his back complains. The knot on the back of his head throbs once he is upright. Touching it gingerly he leans a hand on his thigh for support and winces again. [I]That is the last time I let you fall asleep in the tub,[/I] he considers saying that out loud but instead, "You are teasing me right? You actually don't remember, after all the abuse you gave me?" As he stands, he stretches slowly testing his back. "Lucky for you that I am head over heels in love with you or I might be offended. I think I showed some mighty interesting agility last night. Too bad you can't remember it." Ruby blinks a couple of times and her lips start to form into a pout. She pulls the sheet around herself tighter and looks at Jake with big eyes. "Well I don't know why I wouldn't remember... something strange must have happened. I didnt drink that much." She pauses but keeps staring at Jake., She cocks her head, "Well, was it worth it anyway?" Jake looks at her seriously before saying, "Every minute I spend with you is worth its weight in gold." He manages to hold the serious expression for a few moments before bursting out in laughter and then winces as his back complains. He wipes a tear from his eye that he is not sure whether it comes from the laughter or the pain in his back muscles. "I'm sorry princess, I couldn't help myself. You fell asleep in the tub and you looked so content that I couldn't bring myself to wake you." He glances around the room and finishes, "Looks like I created a jumble getting you to bed." He grins and shrugs which is immediately followed by a slight grimace. "I fell." He carefully crouches down to reach the whiskey bottle still next to the tub. Once standing again he has a sip. "Maybe that'll take the edge off. Help me get dressed I'm hungry." Ruby hops out of the chair. "Oh You fell! Are you that bad you need help getting dressed? I'm so sorry, it's all my fault! You should have just woken me up." Ruby gently pushes Jake on the bed and then she rushes around picking up towels and glass and the chair. Then she grabs Jake a new outfit and gingerly helps him gets dressed, stopping frenquently to kiss his injuries. Jake sits by watching Ruby run around, milking his injury, trying not to chuckle at her. After Jake is dressed Ruby quickly and haphazardly dresses too. She stops to take quite a few drinks from their bottle, trying to take the edge off her own splitting headache. She packs up theri bags and leaves them out the door for the clerk. She glances longingly at the tub, "Baths never work out for us anymore. I guess we should stop trying." She sighs, "Alright darling, let's go for breakfast. I need some coffee or some more liquor." They make their way down to breakfast where they both wave off the cheery good mornings from Chester, Nanuet, and Minerva.. Ruby orders a whiskey and some toast while ignoring the disapproving glances of her companions. "Can we please just eat and get out of here?” Ruby asked. “We don't want to miss the train, right?" Nanuet makes a few light hearted jests at Jake an Ruby about being morning people, he greets Kate with a smile when she arrives and pulls out a chair for her nods at Chester and refills his coffee. "We have time before the train comes in, I just figured I would do us all a favor and order us breakfast to make sure we started out our journey on a good note. Since Jake and Ruby pay me so well now, the meal is on me, I insist." Platters of eggs, bacon, toast, and pancakes are brought to the table along with butter, milk, syrup and fruit preserves and plenty of tea and coffee. Nanuet digs in with a hearty appetite. Ruby scrunches her nose at the sweet aroma and pushes any plate put in front of her away. She drinks her whiskey slowly during breakfast and sits quietly, waiting for everyone to finish. She doubted there were plans to be made at this point, no one knew what was going to happen. As breakfast is almost over Ruby jumps up, "I'm going to wait outside, get some air." She wanders out the door and finds a nice step out of the way to sit on and wait. Jake stays at the table and let's Ruby go. He remains mostly quiet while he eats. When it looks like the others are done, he gets up and walks into the empty bar. Minerva glances at Nanuet who only shrugs. "Give me a moment with him." She excuses herself from the table and joins Jake alone in the bar. "Senor, you seem preoccupied. Is something weighing upon you?" Jake runs a hand through his hair and sighs. "Senorita, When I was young my mother always told me that the gods worked their wills through humans great or small. I had believed that, much like I had believed in the stories of fairy godmothers, enchanted swords and dragons. As I got older those naive beliefs vanished one after another." He looks down at his boots for a moment, gathering his thoughts and choosing his words. "At the cusp of this year I arrive in Promise City, Arizona to discover that magic is real. More amazing than that I find myself behaving like a knight of old saving my princess." Jake snorts a little laugh. "OK, so not completely like a knight of old, I suppose I have a few more vices." For just a brief moment the concern on his face vanishes and the confident and smart aleck smile breaks through before his face turns serious again. "While I was in Tucson, our friends confronted some sort of dragon creature. I will admit to you when I came back and they told me that story I was convinced they were having some mass hallucination. The locals here do have some dried mushrooms they eat that..., well never mind that for now. Now I find we are confronted with some vile creature that could only have crawled from a foul pit located within some unspeakable darkness. His evil existence shakes my foundations. I have no time now to dwell on these matters, all my energies must focus on keeping us safe and destroying that fiend." Jake looks her in the eyes. "It makes me question a good many things." He is looking at her, but she can tell parts of his thoughts are elsewhere. "I'm not even sure what I am asking you." He goes back to looking down at his well worn boots. Minerva gives him a crooked little smile. She leans back against the bar and eyes him speculatively, mulling over his words carefully before she speaks. "Are you asking me if fairytales are true, Senor Jake, or if the gods are? Are you asking how all the wonderful magic we so innocently embraced at our mother's knee can exist in a world where evil walks unhindered? How our childish fantasies of knights in shining armor and happily ever after can possibly be fulfilled in a world where the gods tolerate such wicked vile monsters as Colin Turner? How, Senor Jake, you ask me, can we [I]possibly[/I] believe that the gods represent goodness and light and hope, that our good deeds are the result of their benevolent hands reaching down from Olympus to guide us in their infinite wisdom, that they love and look out for us when they can so arrogantly allow such evil to flourish?” She shrugs her shoulders. “It is quite a dichotomy is it not? It is a question that has left many men bitter and disillusioned, Senor. I do not pretend to know the minds of the gods, but for myself I choose to believe in both fairytales and in the wisdom of the gods. I believe in a balanced world in which the gods grant us our freedom to make our own choices. A world where magic, both good and bad can exist. I can choose to live as the Knight in shinning armor or the wicked villain. I can choose to love or to hate, to live or to die, to run like a yellow bellied coward or to stand and bravely fight. It is my choice to make and I thank the gods for that. Do not get me wrong, I despise darkness and evil, and fear and hate but I do not blame the gods for them, well not very often,” she smirks. “I accept that their existence is the price to be paid for my freedom. It is my abhorrence of them that causes me to relish the love and light and goodness in the world. Have I confused you further Senor Jake?" "Freedom to make our own choices? Seems to me we were witness to just the opposite recently." Jake returns her crooked smile. Minerva scrunches up her face in distaste. "If you are speaking of that misguided priestess of Aphrodite, It is [I]she[/I] that chose to try to control us, not the Goddess herself... and we [I]chose[/I] not to be manipulated by her. Just as we are now choosing not to tolerate the evil that stalks us this night." "I will say that the freedom to make my own choices is something I do value over most things." He taps his hand on his lips before continuing. "You presuppose Priestess that I am conflicted because I believed the gods were beneficent or benign. Yet you know that is not my belief. I think you may have understood my original question, Senorita. I wonder what is true? Like most of us, who I have become is in part owing to what I believed was real. So many things that I thought were just imagination seem to be real. Where does it end I wonder?" "It does not end senor, that is what is so lovely about life. It is full of magic and mystery. As long as you breathe you will continue to poke and prod and question. It is in your nature to distrust. It is your gift. As long as you continue to question, your perception of the world will continue to evolve... as will you, Senor." She smiles at him gently. "You yourself have admited that you are becoming a knight in shining armor. You have changed since your arrival in this town. I have seen it for myself." She reaches up and gently kisses his cheek. "You are a good man Jake and you are beginning to open your eyes to the magic of the world." "Heh, you put words in my mouth, Priestess. I said I have behaved like a knight of old, not that I was becoming one." Jake smirks, "Chastity was never one of my strong points." Jake pushes his hat down upon his head. "I will think about what you have said; I should have expected a sermon from my friend the Priestess." Jake winks and chuckles. "Confidence is necessary for living the path I have walked. Confidence means not just success but survival. Doubt leads to indecision is ruin. Whether it is at the card table, jousting with words or standing against a man who is moving his hand towards a gun. Silver Jake Cook has to be sure of himself, be sure of who he is and what he should be doing or it is all over for me." Jake shrugs. "Yes of course I make some bad decisions. You deal with that afterwards. Indecision is doom." Minerva's smile flees. "You can be certain that we are dealing with a hidious abomination. The wrong decision is most certainly our doom." She quicky hides her fear and attempts to lighten the mood a bit. "As for the Chastity part of being a Knight in shining armor, I pray feverently that it is not a reqirement since I too have found that I much prefer the alternative." She gives a bawdy laugh and walks away. Jake just shakes his head and watches her walk away. [I]I wonder if I'll ever make myself understood by that woman.[/I] He shrugs again and chuckles before going out to find Ruby. [/QUOTE]
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