Temper Tantrum

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"I wonder what everyone else is like.." Jamie mused.

"What do you mean?" Alex asked.

"Our alternates. You two are total smegheads here, and I'm a woman..." He said, making it sound so much more normal than it was. "I mean, what if Seymour wasn't a coward, or.. something..." He said, trailing off at the thought...
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Jade trailed her hand through the water in the fountain. It smelled feintly of chlorine or some such purification chemical. Once again, a small exertion of control on the populus, ensuring they had no free drinking water. The area they were in was full of similarly minded (that is to Twalex and Jaaday) people, the more elite than the common folk running about. The fountain obviously there to help people cool down. It was a pool of water, several meters across by several wide. Various jets, bubbles and sprays gaily spurted about the square into other pools or fountains. It was more a work of art than anything else. Upper class children were running in an out of the jets, some adults were doing the same. It was embarassing to look at really. Jade winced as she adjusted the straps on her shoes again, loosening them.

'How on Earth does that woman suffer these heels all the time? It feels like someone has crammed my foot into a vice. I feel like I'm about to fall over forwards all the time.'

Jamie stood looking hot and bothered in the guardsman armor. Alex sat and tried not to scowl, which was a bit like looking at a dog trying to chew toffee. Jade looked at him and giggled at the face he was pulling. He attempted another smile, it was like looking at Victor Meldrew trying to smile. Jade giggeld again, causing Alex to scowl at her.

"What's the matter Lexipoo?" Jade asked, a mischievous glint in here eye. Alex looked at her warilly, having learned that this probably meant she was going to push him into the water.

"How much longer do we wait?" He grumbled, standing up and out of water-pushing range.

"Till Hasina comes back." Jade stood, mocking a fall forwards so that Alex instinctivly held out his arms to catch her. She grinned looking up. Realising he'd been duped into acting like his double he scowled harder. She prodded him in the nose. "Smile."

"No." He said, whilst trying to disentangle himself from Jade. She wrapped several limbs around him in a complicated spaghetti manouver, preventing his escape. He stumbled and they both nearly toppled into the water, at the last minute Jamie grabbed Alex stabilising the entangled 'lovers'.

"Good job laying low." He hissed. "People are looking" He backed off a bit, attempting to intimidate the crowd into dispersing.

"We need to pretend. I know it's horrific having to fawn over someone as ugly as me, but it's that or get your spleen ripped out by an angry 'deity'." Jade whispered in his ear, the heels putting her on a level to do so with minimal tip-toe. "I don't want to act like that silly bimbo either. It's like being all bug enduced but without the plausible deniability." She finished. She saw someone looking at them, several people looking like they were from the palace. So she did the first thing that came to mind. She nibbled his ear.

He was so surprised, that he let go of her to rub his ear. Jade squeeked as she was no longer held up by Alex and fell backwards over the low wall into the water.

"Oh crap!" He lunged forwards, as Jade emerged from her submerged journey. She scowled at him. Pride having taken a serious bashing.

"That wasn't very nice Lexi!" She whined. A pouting face to rivel that of any small spoiled child sprouting into place.

'Think like a spoiled brat. What would she do?... Ah... Yes...'

She launched spikey shoe, expertly aimed at Alex's head, then another. He dodged them both, with a little yelp of worry, but it put him off guard. She used the oportunity to dart part way out of the water and grab hold of his vest top.

"Don't you dare..." He warned, his hands clamping around her wrists to try and remove her. The temporary tug of war long enough for him to get those words out.

"You brought this on yourself." She said, an impish grin appearing as she yanked him forwards over the wall. He toppled sprawling over the edge into the water ontop of Jade. His body pinning her under water. Whatever they were doing was working, as the crowd, apparently content that the two 'children' acting stupid were the real deal.

They both came up spluttering.

Jade coughed up a lungfull of water and looked up at Alex before another coughing fit overtook. All the Kohl had started to run, his hair was plastered over his face, and the leather clothing clung awkwardly to his body. Alex meanwhile did the same as he got to his feet. Looking at the figure of Jade, silks and fabrics clingining wetly, make-up running in a mockery of something scary, hair in her eyes.

She looked ridiculous.

He grinned.

"Stupid pixie." He said warmly, as she coughed again. He placed a hand on her back as she was bent over sat in the water. She shrugged it off angrilly. "Hey! It was your fault!" He protested.

"You weren't supposed to fall on me!" She coughed, an odd sort of hacking wheese and shoved him again. He huffed as she caught him in the stomach. Alex briefly thanked whoever was up there that she had aimed so high.

"You don't stop hitting me people are going to start suspecting something." He said, trying to calm the enraged Irish woman.

It is amazing how much you can over-react when you injure your own pride and not someone elses. Maybe Jade was just too in character for her own good. Tantrum and all could have been an act. Jade was begining to rant at him, an inintelligable stream of injured pride and swear free insults. He was trying to calm her down, but was running out of options. He was left with only one option. Something that he never thought he would have to do. Something very not Alex, so that he was already regretting the act before it happened.

He kissed her.

Midway through her rant, his lips presed against hers and muted the angry Irish list of Jade insults, up to and including the dangerous: 'you big meanie'. She made a muffled noise as she was interrupted. She tried to pull away to continue her beratement, but he pulled her in closer. His chlorinated form hugging her close. Eentually, her rage (whether real or faked), subsided and she relaxed into the kiss, her hands moving up to run through his wet hair. Feeling the tension in her dissapate, he broke away.

"You going to behave now Kitten?" He said, eyebrow raised.

"Cats hate water." She said back with something between a smirk and a glower.

"Fine." He hoised her up and out of the pool of water onto the dry sandy ground on the other side of the wall. "There."

She crossed her arms and pouted. "You going to make it up to me later?"

"Of course I am Kitten." He said, and smiled. Jade nearly fell over again at the genuine smile.

"You...." She said before she could stop herself, briefly breaking character.

"Yeah. You look like a drowned rat." He grinned, and for once, it was Jade who scowled.

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OOC - Didn't get as far as the feast sorry, got carried away with this idea. :D

As an asside, saw 'Now You See Me' at the cinema, which was all interesting with it's idea about the order called the eye of Horus. Can we use it at all?

Also Pacific Rim. Go see it, it's awesome. :D