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Post by Hotaru King on Mar 3, 2012 16:47:02 GMT -5
The redhead took his hand, standing to her feet. "That sounds nice." she said to the swim. Her free arm was laying at her side instead of trying to cover her stomach like she would normally try to do. Had she tried covering the scars before? She didn't have an idea as to why she ever would, they were just another part of her, right?
He called her Darling again and she paused. "Umm... What do I call you?" she asked him, looking up at him again.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Mar 3, 2012 16:54:57 GMT -5
Archer smiled at her as they started to walk to the stairs. He'd come back later and douse the lights. "You can call me Archer for now if you'd like. You can use dear or other names like that when you feel comfortable with it." he answered. No need to push such things on her yet. She'd need to get to that part herself rather than have it forced upon her like everything else.
They reached the top of the stairs and Archer pressed the buttons to open the panel and turn out the stair lights. He continued to open the freezer and stepped through then helped Hotaru through. He closed the panel then the freezer and continued onto the kitchen. "Go ahead and head upstairs and get your swimsuit on. There should be one in one of the drawers for you. I'm going to grab a few towels and get some things ready. Come back down here to the kitchen when you're ready." he said with a smile letting her hand go and giving her a light push towards the stairs.
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Post by Hotaru King on Mar 3, 2012 17:36:24 GMT -5
The two arrived back in the kitchen and she nodded. "Okay, whatever you say." she said, making her way up the staircase and into her room. She went through the dresser and found the swim suit Archer mentioned. Unsurprising to her, it was a black bikini, something that would no doubt show the scars on her torso. She quickly changed and made her way back to the kitchen, waiting quietly for Archer to return.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Mar 3, 2012 17:47:12 GMT -5
Archer came back downstairs dressed in his swim trunks and had two beach towels thrown over his shoulder. He reached the kitchen and saw Hotaru standing there. He smiled to himself over the bathing suit choice he had for her. He grabbed some water out of the fridge with one hand and took Hotaru's with the other.
Archer lead the two of them out back to the pool. He'd had an 8 foot tall fence put up around it with spikes on the top to make sure intruders couldn't get in. The place was nice and secluded now, perfect. "There's a hot tub over there," he said nodding to the other end where the tub bubbled up. "Bathrooms are of course in the house and the pool down at this end is 8 feet deep so be careful." He released her hand and walked over to the chairs he'd pulled out earlier. He laid the towels down on them and set the water on the table between. "Go ahead and get in first. Your choice on which one." he said smiling as he gestured to the pool and hot tub.
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Post by Hotaru King on Mar 3, 2012 18:04:59 GMT -5
Hotaru looked back and forth between the pool and hot tub. She figured the pool would be too cold to just jump into first thing, so she settled with just sticking her feet into the hottub and sitting at the edge of it for the moment. She turned her head over to Archer. "Is this fine?" she asked him to be sure. She didn't want him mad at her after all.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Mar 3, 2012 18:13:29 GMT -5
Archer smiled and nodded. "Don't worry 'bout me, do what you wanna. We're here to relax remember?" He walked to the other side of the pool where the diving board was, above the deep end. "Time to do a bit of showing off." he muttered to himself with a slight chuckle. He walked to the edge of the board, braced himself, bounced and dove into the deep water. His hands touched the bottom then he turned and pushed against the bottom with his feet, shooting up. "Wahoo!" he yelled laughing as he broke the air. "Talk about a waker uper!" he called to Hotaru with a laugh. "Damn water is freezing!"
Archer laughed again and swam over to the edge of the hot tub. He leaned over the side of it with his arms in the hot water as he looked over Hotaru with a slight smile playing at his lips.
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Post by Hotaru King on Mar 3, 2012 18:49:32 GMT -5
Hotaru watched Archer jump off the diving board, giggling to herself at his laughing and remarks. She smiled back at him when he made his way over to her, pushing back a little of the soaking wet hair that was clinging to his face. "What's that smile for?" she asked him. Something about this felt really odd to her, she couldn't put her finger in it though. It was probably nothing she thought, so she paid no attention to it.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Mar 3, 2012 19:05:47 GMT -5
Archer smiled wider and shrugged. "Oh nothing much, just smiling at you. Such short time and such large changes." he said the last part more to himself. "Your scars look great against the that black suit by the way." he said with a wink. "So what do you think of the house and pool?"
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Post by Hotaru King on Mar 3, 2012 21:42:53 GMT -5
The redhead simply giggled at the compliment, not the least bit phased about mentioning her scars. When he asked her opinion of the house and pool she looked around them for a quick second before looking back at him. "It's lovely." she said with a smile. "I... don't see anything wrong with this place." Again, that odd feeling was creeping up in her, she had no clue why.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Mar 3, 2012 21:52:28 GMT -5
Archer smiled in return. "Great, glad you like it." he said as he pulled his arms out of the hot water and sunk back down into the pool. "Why don't you come get in the pool. It's not bad once you've got in." he said kicking back away from the hot tub.
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Post by Hotaru King on Mar 3, 2012 22:07:59 GMT -5
Hotaru nodded. "Whatever you say." she said, pulling her legs out of the hot tub and into the pool. She slid in from there, flinching a little from the sudden cold she felt from the water. She rubbed her arms a little, though she knew it wouldn't do much good to warm her up, she'd just have to swim around and get use to it.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Mar 3, 2012 22:21:53 GMT -5
Archer smirked and started to swim across the pool. "What do you feel like doing with the kids for the rest of the week?" he asked as he floated along on his back. "I'm not sure what to do and I thought you may have some ideas."
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Post by Hotaru King on Mar 3, 2012 22:33:01 GMT -5
Hotaru blinked. "Kids...?" she asked, tilting her head just a little. She instantly remembered a little girl in a poofy black dress and a man in white who seemed a little too immature for someone his age. "Oh, that's right... kids." she muttered, shaking her head a little. How could she forget her children? They were her little angels. "Umm... What have we done with them lately? I can't remember for some reason..." Why couldn't she remember?
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Post by Archer Speirs on Mar 3, 2012 22:44:34 GMT -5
Archer frowned as he saw her face. Of course she wouldn't remember much. She'd been scared into submission. "We played in the game room one day. The others few days we really didn't do much. So what do you say we do?" he asked as he swam in circles around her.
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Post by Hotaru King on Mar 3, 2012 23:00:16 GMT -5
"Umm..." she murmured to herself. "Well we could always bring them here, I'm sure they'd have a blast." she said, trying to think of something else. "Is there something we could do outside of here...?" she asked him curiously. That was another thing she couldn't quite wrap her mind around, the world outside of the house(or mansion?). She knew she'd been out at one point, there was no way she hadn't been after all.
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