Firefly (Eddie Redmayne Fanfiction)

Chapter 2: Dance With Me

7:30 a.m.  Turn off the alarm and roll out of bed and into the shower. 

8:05 a.m. dry my hair and put on make up. 

8:40 a.m. grab keys, phone, and get in the car. 

This is my usual morning routine. But no, not this morning. At 7:00 I get a call from a contact named Eddie.'Eddie? Eddie who? I don't know any Eddies?' I thought.

" Hello?" I answered, my voice sounded groggy.

"Rise and shine Ms.Clancie Mailor. You're in for a hell of a day." I recognized that voice. Eddie Redmayne. That's what he was doing with my phone. He put his number in and sent my number to himself.

"Eddie, I have to go to work." I said with a laugh.

"Not today you don't. I called your boss, cleared your whole day. Today, you're mine " Eddie said, I could hear the smile in his voice.

"What did you have in mind?" I questioned.

"Meet me at the park on 4th street in an hour and you'll see."

"What do I wear?" I asked, a little flustered about why he would want to spend the day with me and why he couldn't tell me what we were doing.

" Dress for warm weather," he said after a second of thought. Like he didn't know until just then what we were doing.

" Alright I'll see you in one hour. Bye. " I said as I hopped out of bed.

"See you then, love. bye." and he hung up.

I rifled through my closet and picked out a pair of white shorts and a solid grey v-neck. I jumped in the shower and did a quick wash and rinse and got out. After I dried my hair, I put on very light, natural looking make up. I looked at the time and saw I had 10 minutes to get to the park so I hurried to my car and got there with 3 minutes to spare.

I saw him standing by the huge water fountain puffing on a cigarette. He put it out the second he saw me, as if he didn't want me to know he smoked, which I already knew. I walked up and said, "Mind if I bum one?" he gave me an odd look and smiled.

"Sure thing." he handed me the cigarette and lit it for me.

"Thanks," I said " What was that look for? "

" I just didn't take you for a smoker. I actually like that in a girl. Someone I can share my bad habits with," he said smiling.

I laughed, " Alright Eddie, what do you have in store for me today? "

"Oh,I think you will quite enjoy it. First up, were going down to the coffee shop and I'm going to buy you a nice hot cappuccino, sleeping beauty." he said with a laugh. Apparently you could tell I had only been up for an hour.

I laughed and said," That actually does sound pretty great. "

We walked to the little corner coffee shop across from the park and as he said, he bought me a nice,hot, vanilla cappuccino.

"Alright. So now that you're starting to wake up, tell me more about yourself." he said as I sipped my beverage.

" Well, I grew up here with my parents, I went to college here, and now I do interviews and write articles downtown for the magazine. I'm 25 years old and I live alone in a tiny flat about 6 blocks from here." I said rather plainly, honestly there wasn't much to tell.

" So you've been here your whole life? Have you ever traveled anywhere?" he asked.

" Well, I visited some family a few towns away when I was younger."I said lamely.

" If there was anywhere you could go, where would it be?" he asked. He had this look in his eyes, his gorgeous eyes, I felt like in was hypnotized.

"Venice, Italy." I said. 

"Oh, love, you would love Venice. Especially in the summertime. I promise I will take you someday."

I didn't believe him but still I said okay.

The rest of the day flew by. We went to the zoo and saw all the animals, then we went to the docks and went on a boat ride. After the boat ride, we went to the pier and got hot dogs and chips. By then, it was going on 9 o'clock at night. The sun had set and we were walking along the pier with the music from the live band playing softly in the background.

"Eddie, I want to thank you for the lovely day you gave me. It was perfect." I said sincerely.

"Trust me, dear, it was all my pleasure." he said quietly with a smile. We walked in silence for a moment when he stopped and took my hands in his, " Dance with me," he said. And so we danced, there on the pier with the soft music.