The night was amazing, Robin, Allan and Lyn had really put a lot into the decorations and the arrangements in that room. they even sat people according to what they had requested, at least in her case they did it! She had requested to be sat with Lance Shade, she felt a huge crush for that boy and she wanted to spend that day of friendship and love with him. She knew that he cared about her, so maybe there could be a slight possibility that he really felt a little crush for her? Well it would be good to find out, but that night she wanted to share a perfect friendship dinner! if Lady Venus liked to grant them with something else, then... it would be great too.
so that night, she dressed up in the better way she could, she even asked for some help from Miss Yates to look nice and like a fine lady that night and not like the common forge-mecha-girl that she was everyday in the forges or in practices. She wanted to look beautiful for Lance. ronan wasn't really good with that, but Nova hoped he would be totally immersed in his chat with Allan to notice her and Lance. She knew that ronan and Allen would share a table right next to hers and on the other side it would be that red heaired girl from fourth and that son of Neptune. So she waited at her table, she waited wearing that beautiful blue dress, she waited for Lance.
Lance didn't have dress clothes. He didn't need dress clothes. Heck he just had to buy all new clothes because he grew out of his old ones in less than a year! It wasn't really painful, those growing pains he was supposed to have. Maybe a little extra popping here and there, which was weird when you were double jointed. Especially when your elbow started to bend the wrong way and audibly pops and feels better, but them people try to drag you to the infirmary. Not so great, but what was a demigod to do? This was Valentines day, which he had gone to last year with Gwen. She was really nice, and promised to find him a girl friend. He hoped she found a guy to spend this Valentines with because he really didn't want someone playing match maker.
He was nervous, a complete wreck because this year he actually liked someone. Here he was about to have a dinner date with her. His dad told him not to date until he was sixteen, and while this wasn't exactly a date date, it was still almost kind of one. Bring the girl a present. Lance didn't have much money again this year, and honestly he hadn't been practicing his sewing like he had last year. He was so busy learning other things and practicing with his bow, and a little with daggers. Sneaking hiding, so many things he lost track of sewing. What would he sew for Nova anyway? She hardly wore dresses and always got her clothes messy. He wouldn't mind if she wore it every day and stained them black with grease, as long as she liked them. But he felt she wouldn't like too much getting anything he made her dirty.
Bathed. Hair combed to the side. Hat worn all day to secure said hair and keep it from going everywhere. Nice clothes. Not the overly nice type, he didn't want to dress up too much. Show up in a tux and he didn't even know what kinds of clothes she would wear. He wanted to be able to match her no matter what. Suit? No. Maybe? The jacket thing, he'd seen some older guys wear them with tee shirts. Lance definitely had t-shirts. The dress slacks weren't that hard, you get a solid color. He picked a bit of a gray-blue. Not like black that lint stood out on. Did they match? Lance thanked Fotruna for the fact they did, he hadn't even checked that before getting them. He was so nervous.
He was pretty sure if he wore a tie he's asphyxiate himself. The loose collar of the shirt already felt tight enough. His black shoes weren't the shiny type, and he bought them a bit large to grow into. Even his pants he bought large and just hemed them in. He at least knew how to do that still. He found the table before he found Nova, though she was sitting right there.
Cute. Adorable. Sweet. Lovely. She was everything. She was more! The dress fit her perfectly. White and innocent, with a fiery red ribbon. It looked so nice on her, and the adorable way her hair was. It looked like a little crown around her head, but in a braid. The rest of her hair tumbling down under it. A little fairy princess. “You know as a fairy princess you should have flowers in your hair. Pretty sure it's fairy law.” Nothing extravagant, in fact all the flowers he hand picked himself. He really hoped the Ceres kids wouldn't mind too much. He just could afford the ones in the store.
While siting at their table, Nova looked around, everything seemed to be done by nymphs and fauns, maybe not, maybe it was just the extreme dedication of the people who made all of that. Not even herself that was gifted as a craftswoman, could have done such amazing work there! She definetely had to thank Robin, Allen and Lyn, they were the real stars that night, the ones who had to be crowned that night and be thanked by all the ones in the room. Other people started getting to their places at the tables, all of them were dressed in a very nice way.
Nova looked down at her dress and wasn't sure if she was dressed in a proper way. but if Tessa thought it was a good and that it would look good on her, then it should be like that. she breathed deeply trying to calm down, she felt her heart beating really hard, she was nervous, Lance would be there soon and she didn't want to seem too nervous. She looked around and smiled at Ronan, then looked at the other side and smiled at the girl with the plants' gift. then back again to her hands on the table. Why didn't she bring her pad, she would be finishing some blue prints.
Moments later she heard the voice of Lance, sweet, smooth voice of his. She looked up to him and smiled at him widely as if he had just gave her the best gift possible. "Lance..." then she blushed at his words, a fairy princess... well she definetely seemed tinkerbell at his side, he was so tall and she was so short! But a princess!! well she had never thought of herself in such way. she smiled at him as she placed the flowers on the crown of hair that Tessa had made with her hair. "that is... nice of you..." she said and then looked how handsome he looked in that suit. "you look like a prince charming... you know?" she took one of those flowers, wild little flowers, but she adored them and put it in the hole on the flap of his coat. "now, we match..." she giggled.
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He had a good number of flowers, a bouquet of about twenty in all colors shapes and sizes. He had learned the hard way a few times which ones were poisonous to the touch, irritants, thorns. He spent a lot of time in those woods, especially when he followed Rhiannon around. Now he went in there to train his dexterity, just run around in random areas without tripping. Fast as he could. Sometimes he'd even have his bow and arrows on him putting an arrow in the general area of cut down limbs, the little rings they made was a good natural target. Knives and daggers too sometimes, throwing them to hit their mark. He normally hit the tree, if that helped. He needed a lot more work, even little Lyndis was better with her bow and arrow then he was. That little robot he helped Nova design for the girl was proof enough.
His fingers snapped of the top of the flowers, settling them in her hair with only a bit of the thin stem to hold them in place. The weave of her braid was tight enough to hold onto them, and it stuck out from her head so he could scoot the flowers through the hair and out the other side. Now she had white, purple, blue and other colors in her lightly ginger hair. He had only the hanging flowers left, baby's breath, honey suckle, and other bell shaped flowers in clusters. A ribbon had kept them all together, and he had to tie it again to give her what remained. “These are...I mean of course, for you.” he smiled a bit goofily at her. A bit of blood flushed his face, leaving him with some rouge on his cheeks. “T...thanks...” he looked at his suit, and disagreed a bit with her in his own mind. He didn't think he looked much like a prince, perhaps because he imagined a sash of some kind and a crown. A bit different clothes too, not something so normal like a suit or even a tuxedo. Then a flower came into view as Nova tucked it into his pockets button hole. He laughed with he, a low soft laugh that complimented her giggle. Giving her a gentle kiss on her forehead. She gave him kisses on his cheek, so this should be okay shouldn't it?
Stepping over to her seat Lance pulled Nova's chair out for her, ready to scoot it back under her when she sat down. “What did you fill out on the card for dinner?” he was curious, Robin was rather tight on his security with about everything. Keeping it all on his person, and last Lance knew he put everything up in flame when they were done. That was certainly someone concerned about security for you.
Nova blushed deeply as he placed the flowers among her hair, she really made a personal mental note to thank Tessa when she saw her again, the dress had been perfect and also the braid, she felt like a princess or even better a fairy. Tinkerbell for Peter Pan where Lance was Peter, and only him! then she looked up at him, then she looked at the flowers, the remanent ones in the bouquet, she smiled at him and took the flowers gently in her hands. "Thank you... I've never been given with flowers before..." she said and then too a seat after he moved the chair for her.
She then put the flowers on the table in front of her, she didn't want to kill them with the heat coming from her hands, that would be sad. then she looked at him when he sat down next to her, her heart bumping hard and fast in her chest, she didn't know why, but she liked the feeling, she felt alive and happy. He asked about the dinner and she smiled then put her index on her lower lip and thought remembering. Then she told him. "I thought that Minestrone Soup, Potato skins, Cajun chicken linguini Alfredo with a side of roasted vegetables, Molten lava cake. Hot cocoa and Jam cookies. would be good for dinner... and you?" she asked with an innocent smile.
It was a little strange, there was only maybe three or four choices in each category but they ended up with only one thing the same. He wondered if maybe he should have snuck into Robin's folders before checking off what he wanted. He didn't want to have the exact same thing she did, but it would have been nice to have a few similar things. Mostly because he was just that kind of romantic. To happen to have the same things, though he was trying to shy away from taking information that wasn't given freely to him. He liked it, but didn't at the same time. People felt like their privacy was compromised, which he didn't like, but he liked knowing things about them. Especially the people he cared about. Not too many of those, but that's what made them special.
He rubbed the back of his neck, something he had picked up doing when he felt nervous or uncomfortable. As long as he wasn't trying to keep a straight calm face at any rate. “Well I got the salad to start with, and the seafood mushrooms. Salmon for the main course with roasted asparagus, and apple pie for dessert. Then that last course I thought hot cocoa and gingerbread cookies would be good.” he gave her a Mercury kid smile, a little foolish but happy. Sure there was the well known mischievous Mercury smile, but Lance almost never had that. Only sometimes when making up inventions with Nova. “It was hard to choose between the lava cake and the apple pie though. Maybe hard to pick from anything on that list. They all sounded so good.”
Nova looked at him with a wide smile when he was telling her the dishes he had picked up from the list, she had heard some girls that it was so romantic to pick the same dishes than your date, but to Nova that was boring, maybe yes a nice coincidence that you thought like him, or that he thought like you, but wouldn't it be better that they had different likes? not all of them maybe a match among a pool of possibilities? that would be nice! because the rest of possibilities would be a surprise! something new everyday to know about the other person! Like a new set of circuits that you could find and discover how they worked!
"Yes!! so difficult to pick from some of those!" she said and then thought for a second and smiled looking at him again. "well... we can do this if you agree... I can share my dishes with you if you share yours with me! that way, we would be able to taste at least two of each category, what do you think?" she smiled at him with that innocent but rogue pixie smile of hers, it wasn't a smile from Vulcan, maybe not even from Belloa, maybe it came from her human side. The one that made her way different from the rest of the Vulcan kids.
“That's a good idea.” Lance said with a grin “Guess that's why you're the inventor.” she was always better than him at coming up with good idea's, even simple ones that might not have to deal with electronics. “Careful though, I'm related to Mercury so I might end up eating all the food.” he joked, with that goofy grin of his. He enjoyed being with her, almost like he was himself again. Not the overly shy person he had become, though he hoped he wouldn't change to be exactly how he used to be, just a little more talkative. A little more outgoing, and that's what it felt like being around Nova did to him.
The flowers where brought out and placed on the table, he had to admit he hadn't expected to get any. One had a note attached to it and out of curiosity he glanced over it. Ronan. Looking over at the table he gave a nervous smile before sitting a bit straighter in his chair facing Nova again. He wasn't exactly sure what he did to make Ronan dislike him so much, but he wished he could make it better. He liked being around Nova, and really wanted Ronan to like him too. It was probably just one of those things though. Maybe because Nova was getting older, and very cute. Boys might be a no go, though Nova could be interested in girls or Lance could be interested in guys. He only wanted to be friends with her. Twelve was too young to be dating anyway, or Thirteen. She had only just had her birthday four days ago, so he was still a little in transition. Like when he turned fourteen. Or when he shot up four inches. That kind of hurt, growing pains he guessed. It was weird when he stood next to Lilith again, after following her and sitting more than standing tall when they would hang out. He was suddenly taller, when he used to be a few inches shorter than her.
The salad and soup came out, and Lance had to admit the soup smelled great. He never really knew what it was before, it hadn't sounded too great. Probably because he wasn't very fond of beans. They just had a weird texture. He thought about the potato soup though, but it seemed a bit heavy for a starter. Along with the potato skins. He'd fill up before the main course! “Did you want to pick at any of the vegetables before I put dressing on?” he asked before shaking up the italian dressing.
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Sitting at the table suddenly they got some roses, Nova got few of them compared to other girls in the room, but she didn't care how many she got, but the sender. She was sure that those who had sent her flowers had thought of her and they totally meant it when they even chose the color for her. A Yellow one from Ronan, she smiled at that rose. Ronan was so sweet, he was huge but his heart was maybe even bigger than he was! Then she saw the lavender rose. SHe blushed when she saw it and then looked at Lance and smiled at him. She leaned at him and kissed his cheek. "I love the flower!!" Grins.
Then she sat straight on her chair and looked at the other roses, most of the anonimus, which she found exciting, those roses were cute and meant cute things, so she just smiled at them. Then the first dish came to the table, she got her minestrone soup and smiled at the smell of it, then looked at Lance and his salad. "Well... I don't eat that much, I'm too small to eat a lot, so... if you eat my food it will be great!" Giggled and then looked at his salad again and picked a carrot and some cucumbers. she tasted them and smiled. then pushed her soup slowly at him. "the salad is good, want to try my soup?" smiles at him handing him the spoon in case he wanted to taste it.
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CENTURIONS:
FIRST COHORT: Kit Albright
Christopher Ashby
SECOND COHORT: Michael O'Connell
Lucius O'Connell
THIRD COHORT: Bruno Steinmetz
Mattan Ballas
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