Sorry, bucko

by Eve

Eve stared in amazement at the watch wrapped around her wrist. Had she really done that? She wasn't sure. She hadn't felt anything move through her to make it happen. Not like with the fire. Ever so slowly, the brunette woman shifted the watch off her wrist and over her hand, holding it up in the other one as she stared at it.

"You did not do that, did you?" she asked, drawing her dark eyes toward Kade.

He shook his head. "All you."

"But it did not feel like I had done anything at all," she protested, turning her stare back to the watch. "With the fire, I felt the ability go through me, through all the nerves and cells."

"That was because it's of your creation," Kade explained. "You make the fire happen. With telekinesis, you think it, and it moves. You don't create anything other than the initial thought. What were you thinking when you finally saw the watch disappear?"

Eve blinked, thinking back over the few minutes she'd spent staring at it. "I believe I was thinking that the watch was making a bloody fool of me." The tall man chuckled at the statement. "Other than that, I hoped the watch would simply vanish but not get lost because it looks expensive.." She turned it a bit as she surveyed the device. "What is it, a Rolex? A Cartier? A Dubuis?"

Kade simply stared down at her. "You know, I'm always way more amused than I should be at what you do know while you can't remember your own name." He snatched the watch back deftly, adhering it back to his wrist. "And none of those. It's a specially-crafted piece."

"Like your race car?"

He gasped, his hand clutching at his heart melodramatically. "It's not just a race car," he firmly told her. "It's a work of art. Beauty at its finest."

Her nose wrinkled, her arms crossing in front of her. "'Tis a race car in the end."

Kade shook his head sadly. "You have no appreciation for the arts."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Eve recited with lips pressed together in a smirk trying to mask itself as a frown of annoyance. The humor she had over the silly dispute won out over trying to be annoyed, and the smirk crossed her face. "One person's idea of beauty," She held out her hand, as if motioning toward something of worth, but it was merely a facade, as Kade's watch began to slide down from his wrist and over his hand, gliding through the air and into her own grasp, "will always be another's idea of revulsion." Triumphantly, she held up his watch, a grin splitting her lips now.

Kade smirked, holding his hand out for it. "That sounds so damn much like the eternal animosity between you and-" He stopped dead, his jaw snapping shut and the teeth inside his mouth slightly clicking from the action.

An eyebrow rose over one eye as she handed the watch back to its rightful owner. "Between me and who?"

"No one," he replied, swiftly affixing the watch where it belonged. "Just a stupid joke, really. Nice move, by the way. You're getting the hang of it. Maybe we can move onto other things, like opening and closing doors, writing with pencils, and so on."

Eve didn't believe the issue of his slip of the tongue to be as easily shoved aside as that, but she'd not press it. Not that moment, anyway. Learning about her enemies was something she desperately wanted to avoid while she was having such a good time. Perhaps Kade had the right about ignoring it all.

"Perhaps tomorrow." She sent a sly grin his way, reaching out to hook a finger through a belt loop, jerking him both toward her and to follow her as she turned back toward the house. "Someone had taken it upon himself to exhaust me. I bet a nice, long, hot soak in the jacuzzi will perk me right up."

Posted on Jul 4, 2009, 12:48 AM

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