Just a nice Sunday in the park... [OPEN]

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WHO: Rue, and OPEN.
WHERE: The Park
WHEN: 8/23, late afternoon-ish
WARNINGS: Um, none.
SUMMARY: After failing to find Mytho, Rue goes to the park and sulks rests.
FORMAT: Paragraph.



She couldn't find him. She had gone to the place Duck had told her about, only to find an empty, albeit suspiciously lived in apartment. She had gone everywhere after that, looking for him in every place she could think of, even going so far as to ride in one of those ugly yellow taxi things.

Now, exhausted and frustrated, she sat down under a tree in the park, to rest until she felt like searching again. One by one, a group of crows begins to join, settling into the tree above her head, beady yellow eyes watching her as if waiting for something. She wasn't too happy about their presence, but made no move to shoo them off.

Rue knew that Fakir was with him, that he had hidden him somewhere. Even after being proven time and time again to be useless, the foolish knight still thought he could just take Mytho. No matter, she would find him, and Mytho would return to her of his own free will.

After all, with the Raven's blood, he was hers now.

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He gave a small snort, getting to his feet and dusting himself up. "No. But he has. For now."

He looked over at Rue with a smirk. "So nice of you to finally show up, by the way. A little late to the party, are we?"

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Rue stood up with him, glaring slightly.

"You know I had no choice in when I'd come here."

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He looked around, surveying the park again. "It's interesting, really. All the time you were at my side, whispering into my ear, clinging desperately to me, we had nothing by failure..."

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She flinched at his words. It was true, they hadn't been able to get any hearts back at home. But that had nothing to do with her, it was Tutu, always interfering, that stopped them from getting what they wanted.

"So its true, you've taken hearts? Why? Father isn't here."

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"Because I want them. Isn't that your line, Kraehe? What you want you'll take by force? Yet you always failed again and again. Why is that, I wonder?" The Raven Prince asked, turning to look at her.

"Maybe I'll take your heart as well... if you truly love me as you say..." he smirked, running a finger down her chest, resting it over her heart.

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Rue froze. He was right, no matter what she did, she could never get what she wanted. No matter how much she tried to win him, he never loved her, never so much as looked at her, when she would give everything for him.

Everything...

"Do you want it?" she asked slowly.

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"Of course not," the Raven Prince responded flippantly. "What good would a heart like yours do me?"

He winced slightly as the original prince within him fought to surface, but kept his hold. The strength of the Raven with in Rue made it far easier for him to stay in control.

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Of course he didn't want her heart. He was right, what use was a heart like hers, a heart that was black and brittle, a heart that couldn't even win a prince? Still, it hurt so much when he refused it.

Trying to push down the bitterness rising in her throat, she forced herself to speak.

"Stop taking those girls' hearts. You don't need them."

He's such a little bitch, poor Rue.

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He gave a chuckle, turning away from her with a smirk. "I want them. So I'll keep taking them," he said dismissively.

Even though it never satisfied him... the need to feel loved, to cradle those fragile hearts close to him...

He paused, looking back at her with another smirk. "Are you jealous?"

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"Its pointless," she said evenly. "Without giving them to Father, what on earth can you do with them?"

An awful thought crossed her mind. He wasnt'... eating them, was he?

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"Why would I want to give such precious things to your father?" the Raven Prince said with a creepy smile, eyes glittering. "I want the entire world to love me, and only me. I wouldn't give him even your useless heart, Kraehe..."

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"You don't need them!" Rue said, feeling stupid, inadequate. "I will love you."

It was a pointless thing to say, she knew. How could her love replace the love of the whole world?

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"Your love isn't good enough."

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"Why not?" she asks, before she can stop herself.

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"You should know the answer to that, Kraehe," Mytho smirked before turning to walk away.

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"Wait!" she called out. "Where are you going?"

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"To look for a pure heart... That damned Fakir stole the last ones I was given..." he said with a small scowl.

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"You can do that later," she said, reaching for his hand. "Come home with me."

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Mytho looked down at her hand a moment before looking up at her again. "And where would that home be?"

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"In that building our dogtags are the keys to," Rue told him, taking his hand gently in hers, face a bit desperate. "I'll show you."

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"Going to try and hide me away like Fakir did? Try and make me your doll again?" His mouth was curved in a smug smile, but there was a bitter tone to his voice.

Staying with Rue would be better than staying with one of the girls he had taken the hearts of, but the spiteful part of him wanted to make her feel like he was doing her a favour, agreeing to stay with her.

That tainting blood that made him want to hurt everyone, especially those closest to him...

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"Would you rather go back to Fakir? He's the one who wants to lock you away." And take him away from her.

He was being cruel on purpose, she knew. But it didn't matter. As long as he came back with her in the end, she would be happy.

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Mytho's face contorted into a mask of anger. "No. I won't go back to being his puppet any more than I'll let myself be controlled by you or your father," he said coldly, giving her a small glare.

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"I don't want to control you!" she half-shouted, then, remembering herself, speaking more gently. "I just want to keep you safe. Please."

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"Of course you do, Kraehe. That's what this is all about, after all," he smirked, moving into her personal space. "Tainting my heart so that you can claim me as your own, turning me into the Prince of the Ravens... it's all to try and make me love you, and only you, isn't it Kraehe?" His voice was dark and smooth as he reached out to touch her cheek. "Yet if I asked it, you would give up your tiny, desperate heart, thinking that a love as pathetic as yours could satisfy me..."