So, I'm unfamiliar with the plot of the play, so if that does not match this, don't mind me please. 😭
"One pill after each meal, Eight." Jade rubs her back, trying her best to provide the little one the comfort her mother would. As the test subject runs to spend her time in the rainbow room, she accidentally runs into Peter.
Jade frowns immediately, and Peter notices.
Peter helps a desperate Eight out of the room and locks the door.
"What do you want?"
"I-I have a problem."
"What did you do now?" Jade questions, her focus completely on the book in front of her, deliberately ignoring his gaze.
"Nothing. I don't know how—" Peter begins.
"If you did nothing, how do you have a problem?" She sounds done. She can't believe he has the nerve to show up after what he had said yesterday.
"I- I was thinking about yesterday. About your- uh-"
The sound of Jade slamming her book on the desk shuts him up.
"So now the sight of my clothes is making you bleed? Is that what you're implying?"
"No. No, I'm not bleeding." He shakes his head. Something about the glare from Jade makes him feel small.
"Care to elaborate how the fuck my clothes are related to your problem, Ballard?" Jade spits.
"I couldn't stop thinking. I tried not to. I swear. But I kept thinking. And it hurt. I couldn't stop thinking and the more I'd think the more it'd hurt. Well, it doesn't exactly hurt but it also does." He doesn't realise what point he starts yapping.
"Listen to yourself, Ballard. You sound crazy!"
"I do not know what's happening. But I swear I'm not lying."
"You're not lying?"
"I'm not."
"So explain your fucking pain then."
At that, Peter finds himself looking at everything in the room. Everything except Jade.
"Cat got your tongue now?"
"It's just . . . It's embarrassing."
"Well, it should be. Leave." She dismisses him with a wave of her hand and picks the book back up.
"No, I swear, it's a problem and I don't know what it is."
"Fine, show me where you're hurt. Go on."
When Peter doesn't move, it infuriates her.
"STOP WASTING MY TIME."
"It's a little private." He gulps.
"What do you mean?" She glares.
"I'm not sure if showing you would be appropriate. Can we just talk about it instead?"
"I've seen you undressed before, Peter." She sighs. "Stop testing my patience."
"Not that undressed." Peter looks flushed, the heat slowly creeping onto his face. Jade could swear the tip of his ears turned red right in front of her eyes.
When the realisation hits her, she understands his state of embarrassment. However, she still cannot understand what he meant by it hurt to think of her.
Oh.
"Okay, why don't you sit on the bed, yeah? Make yourself comfortable." She whispers, attempting to soothe him. She feels guilty for having been so dismissive of his problem.
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Bewitched | Henry Creel (18+)
Fanfiction"You know, if you'd like though, I could call you Peter in secret, when nobody is around. In fact, I could call you anything else you'd like me to call you too." She tilts her head to the side, the tiniest hint of a smirk on her face. "Why would I w...
