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It isn't as if Grey has found a sense of peace in the two days since he's seen Rat. He hasn't found the solution, an answer to his existential crisis. But he remembers where Rat lives. And, carrying the cat once again, he finds his way to the building and to the door and he taps his fingers against it. There were flowers on the side of the walk as he'd come here and he plucked them and they are already starting to wilt, even as the cat tries to eat them. Silly cat.
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Date: 2014-09-28 09:14 pm (UTC)Through the door, it sounds as if a woman is speaking and Rat almost doesn't hear the quiet tapping, wrapped up in his reading Romeo & Juliet out loud. It takes Cravat's attention to make him notice, the golden mouse leaping onto his shoulder.
Peering through the sight, he recognizes Grey and opens the door.
"Hello?"
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Date: 2014-09-28 09:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-28 09:24 pm (UTC)Cravat, however, runs down his arm to take a look.
"It's a mouse. And too curious for its own good."
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Date: 2014-09-28 09:27 pm (UTC)The cat, too, pops his head out of the sling, only not to say hi, but to hiss.
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Date: 2014-09-28 09:49 pm (UTC)"Did you need something?"
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Date: 2014-09-28 09:53 pm (UTC)Grey shakes his head to the question, going back to watching Rat's face. He came to bring the flowers, to say hi. To see him, he supposes.
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Date: 2014-09-28 10:04 pm (UTC)When Grey doesn't present any immediate answer, Rat nods and leans forward to close the door behind him. "You want water or something?"
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Date: 2014-09-28 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-28 10:15 pm (UTC)"Here." He passes over a glass of water.
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Date: 2014-09-28 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-28 10:25 pm (UTC)"You okay?" He doesn't know what else to ask, to say.
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Date: 2014-09-28 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-28 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-28 10:45 pm (UTC)ROMEO
101 Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET
102 Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO
103 O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
104 They pray — grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
The words seem nearly foreign.
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Date: 2014-09-28 10:57 pm (UTC)"Ay me! O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet." His voice is soft, heavy with the ache of love and conflicted emotion.
"'Tis but thy name that is my enemy."
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Date: 2014-09-28 11:01 pm (UTC)Grey shifts easier, settling on the chair to watch. He shifts the cat against his chest, urging claws to be put away.
Love. Is it that strong?
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Date: 2014-09-28 11:04 pm (UTC)"Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. O, be some other name!" he pleads as Juliet.
"What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for that name, which is no part of thee take all myself."
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Date: 2014-09-28 11:06 pm (UTC)Coming together, anew ... is that what this means?
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Date: 2014-09-28 11:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-28 11:27 pm (UTC)A different kind? He raises his head to Rat. Please keep going.
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Date: 2014-09-28 11:49 pm (UTC)Playing Romeo, the male role, is somehow odder for him. The only men's parts he's taken are Mercutio, Puck, and Ariel and often then he plays them from a place between genders.
"What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, so stumblest on my counsel?" he skips Romeo's next lines, continuing as the lady. "My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound. Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?"
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Date: 2014-09-28 11:51 pm (UTC)Hope. Love, connected to hope. Oh, Grey feels something lurch in his chest. He's leaning forward now. Love can make someone know what they are. Who they are.
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Date: 2014-09-28 11:58 pm (UTC)"What?"
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Date: 2014-09-28 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-29 12:07 am (UTC)"I don't always know that I believe they're in love, not really...When I'm Juliet onstage, I play it that way..."
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