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 Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:11 am
Warren nodded and headed in the direction of the lake, glad that Rose hadn't asked for a better reason. He didn't mind manual labor, it was relaxing in a way.
Looking over at his companion, he could tell he surprised her when he offered to help. He had no idea what she thought about his helping but he hoped she didn't make it into more then it was. He liked roses and didn't mind helping them to grow. "Have you grown roses for long?"
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:15 pm
Rose eyed Warren secretly. No one really ever conversed with her unless it was to make scathing remarks. As such she found herself in unfamiliar territory.
"I used to grow roses around the base of my tower a long time ago," she said nonchalantly. "I had to leave them when.....well it doesn't really matter why I left them. When my new owner took me in, she set up a special place for me to grow plants. There's not a lot of space for a large garden at her condo."
She shrugged, not exactly sure that anything she'd just said was of any importance to him.
"What about you? No offense but you're not exactly the type to like gardening,"
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:16 am
Warren listened quietly to her story and knew there was more to it then she was saying, but that was okay. It was her story to tell, and if she didn't want to expand on it to a pratical stranger, then he didn't blame her. It wasn't like he was gonna tell her all his sorrid past either.
Shrugging, "I've alwayed gardened up until I moved here. My mother was the one with a green thumb and I would help her. When she was...when she couldn't do it anymore, I took over. Then I moved here and there wasn't a place to do it."
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:00 pm
Rose noticed Warren's own pause. She accepted his story. Whom was she to pry? When her own past was as jumbled as could be?
We both have things we don't particularly care to talk about, she mused to herself. Does life always throw like together at the opportune moment? Does it matter?
"Well," Rose started and then paused. Do I want to do this? She thought for a moment and then decided to go on with what she was going to say. "You're welcome to come play in my garden. I'll even set aside a section for you. Then it won't be mine. It'll be yours."
The fact that Rose had offered this was a very big deal. She never let anyone into her life, let alone share her garden. But with Warren, she didn't seem to mind so much. They were kindred spirits, like attracted to like.
They had reached the lake and Rose set down her buckets. She turned to take Warren's from him.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:16 am
Warren threw Rose a startled look, of all things that could have happened, this was the last thing he expected. He heard talk about Rose while at the shop, it was amazing what one could learn when you blended into the background, and it was rumured she was only kind to her plants. He didn't put much stock in the whispered conversations of the masses, since at the same time they speculated he was here hiding out from the law because he had killed someone. But Warren knew Rose cared for her garden deeply and for her to actually give him a piece of it wasn't something to be taken lightly.
"Thank you, that means more to me then you know." Warren said seriously as he gave Rose the buckets he was carring before starting to fill the ones already set down.
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:25 pm
Rose dunked one of the buckets handed to her into the lake. She set it down and did the same to the other. She then stuck the wooden hanger back on Warren's shoulders and, with a little difficulty, hung the buckets back on the up turned hooks. She did the same with hers and then headed back towards the garden.
"It's really no problem," she commented. "I have more space than I know what to do with. And the garden shed has everything you could possibly want or need, along with seeds if you find you want to plant other things. You're welcome to use whatever it in there so long as you keep it neat and clean." Her tone turned mocking, not at him, but at how others thought of her. "And so long as you can stand to have 'The Thorny Weed' as your garden neighbor."
Rose wasn't stupid. She knew what the others thought of her, and really she didn't quite care one way or the other. But fair warned was forewarned. If Warren couldn't put up with her thorniness, then he needed to leave and not come back.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:08 pm
Warren snorted at Rose's Thorny Weed comment. He too had heard that phrase used by others, but he had no problems with her. If she could handle him then he could handle her.
"So long as you don't mind a Criminally Insane Pyromaniac then I think we will be fine," Warren said using one of the phrases he had heard used about himself.
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:39 am
Rose stopped walking, allowing Warren to come very close to her. She looked into his eyes and frowned.
"I don't think you're anything like that," she said very quietly and very seriously. Then she seemed to realize just how close she was and quickly started to walk again.
Thing was, she'd told the truth. She didn't think that Warren was an Criminally Insane Pyromaniac. It also didn't take a genus to see, that for all the bluster and all the hype that he seemed to stereotype, Warren was nothing like what people thought of him.
Just like Rose really wasn't as mean and horrible as everyone thought she was.
Broken, in pieces, yes. But not gone. Never too far gone.
The trip back from the lake was as short as the trip had been to it, and soon they were back in Rose's garden. She set her buckets down and surveyed the area, trying to get an idea of where she could mark off an area for Warren. She finally decided on the southwest corner, which had plenty of out-of-garden-space if he wanted to expand. She pointed.
"After we're done watering, we'll section off that area, and maybe overturn some new earth, if you decide you want to expand today," she looked at him. "And then maybe some tea and sandwiches. Or whatever. The shed is also equipped with supplies and a small, but fully furnished and working, kitchen. You're welcome to use that as well. I tend to spend so much time out here that I don't go home for meals. Better to have everything I need right here. Less of a hassle."
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:22 am
Warren looked seriously back at Rose as she began to walk away, "I don't think you are a Thorny Weed either."
Looking at the spot Rose was giving him, the possiblities of what he could turn his part of the garden into, bloomed in his head. It meant a lot to him that he was getting a chance to garden again. It always made him feel closer to his mother when he was working in the dirt and by Rose giving him the ability to do so again had gained her a very high place in Warrens mind. To every one else she may be rude but to Warren she was quickly becoming a friend.
"Thank you, I can already see the possibilities of the area. I think I will hold off with expanding just yet, at least until I have what I want to do with the area figured out." Looking over at the area again, he cocked his head and studied it for a bit before returning his attention back to the rest of what Rose had said.
"Tea and Sandwhiches will be good and it will be a nice break after the watering. I like the thought of a garden kitchen, that way you don't have to worry about tracking in dirt to you main home." Warren got a faraway look in his eyes for a second as he remembered the many times his mother had yelled at him for doing that very thing.
Shaking his head, Warren looked back at Rose, "So I guess we should get started with the watering, is there any particular place you want to start?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:19 pm
Warren's first comment stopped Rose dead in her tracks. A warmth crept into her cheeks; she tried to push it back, but it refused to. No one had ever told her that she was anything but a cranky vixen. And if they didn't think she was, well they had certainly never told her as much.
It was nice, she realized, to be treated as an equal again. To be seen as something more than what she projected for herself. But as good as it felt, it still scared her. It had been years since she'd been so close to someone. Her past, because of how violent it was, wasn't something she could forget easily. The lessons she'd learned were integrated into her personality now. It was hard to turn her back on the learned mannerisms.
And yet as much as her instinct told her not to, she wanted to open up to Warren. She wanted to tell him things she'd never said to others because she knew they wouldn't understand. She knew, though, that Warren would.
She cleared her throat and ignored his comment for the moment. Maybe she could address it over tea...
"Of course," she said about his expanding his garden. "It is yours now after all."
She ruffled her wings slightly and picked up a bucket.
"It's awfully convenient. And I'm sure my owner appreciates not having dirt all in the condo," she smiled faintly. She surveyed the garden and pointed to the northeast corner. "I usually start there and then go up and down the rows."
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:27 pm
Warren nodded and picked up his own bucket and headed to the corner. Carefully, he began to pour out the water. He didn't want to use to much of the precious water, since the other plants needed to be watered as well, but he wanted the roses to get the water they needed.
He was progressing well, with the watering and was caught up in what he was doing, he didn't notice how close he had come to Rose. As he turned around to go get another bucket, he came nose to nose to her. He was so close their noses nearly touched. Blushing brightly, Warren looked down and mumbled "sorry" before hurrying over to get the bucket. Mentally he was both, cursing himself for not paying attention to where he was going and thinking of how pretty Rose's ruby colored eyes where.
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:54 pm
Rose practically dropped her bucket as she came nose to nose with Warren. Her own blush crept back into her cheeks. She looked away, nodding as he passed her.
"No problem," she murmured.
He's blushing, she thought, letting her mind wander. She watched as he began to water another section, her thoughts in places she didn't want them to be. Or at least that's what she told herself. No! Stop, stop, stop!! Bad idea, very bad idea. You shouldn't be thinking like that. It'll only screw with your head.
I said I would never go back down that road, but as she watched Warren more, she realized something.
My Goddess...he's so good looking,
The blush crept down her neck.
Focus, she forced her thoughts away from Warren and onto the garden. She finished with her first bucket and headed back for her second. On the way back she passed Warren, trying to water ahead of him.
The rows of rose bushes had been planted a little too close together and this made passing difficult. Especially if you were trying very hard not to touch the person you were passing. But Rose had no choice.
"Excuse me," she said, looking down, voice full of shyness. Her body brushed against his. His fur was amazingly soft, what fur wasn't covered by clothing of course. But she forced herself to focus on the task at hand and continued to water the next section of the garden.
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:55 pm
Warren shivered as Rose brushed against him as she pasted. "It...It's no problem" Warren forced out, trying to sound calm.
He really didn't know what was wrong with him, normally a female didn't effect him that much but Rose had gotten under his fur and into his mind, making it really hard to ignore her like he did with everyone else. He was starting to notice little things about her that he thought were cute. Warren's thoughts warred with each other, I'm a loner, I don't need anyone, was quickly replaced with, The pattern on her fur is amazing, I wonder if she would let me get a better look.
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:10 pm
Rose threw the last of the water onto the last rose bushes. Instead of pushing back past Warren, which she was sure was a bad idea, she walked to the edge of the garden and selected four flat stones. She stuck them into the bucket and walked over to the south-west corner and began to map out Warren's garden space using the stones.
She gave him a good amount of space, a quarter of an acre. Half of it was already covered in rose bushes and the other half was clear ground which Warren could do whatever he wished with. She picked up the now empty bucket and walked towards the shed.
"Come inside," she called to him, refusing to meet his eyes. "When you're done. I'll start some tea."
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:29 am
"I will, thank you." Warren said before heading off to his section for a quick inspection.
Stopping at one of the rose bushes in his area, a small smile formed on his face, I have roses again, I never expected this when I left the house to get away from Azura. After a quick sniff at the blooming flowers, Warren turned his eyes over to the empty area. He still wasn't sure what he wanted to grow, but right now he was just enjoying the fact that he could grow something.
Not wanting to keep Rose waiting, Warren reluctantly pulled himself away from his part of the garden and into the shed. "Do you need me to do anything?" Warren asked politely.
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