Strange Encounters[Jarod]

[Ruby Gray]

Ruby was engaged. She was engaged. She was in love and she was engaged to her aforementioned sweetheart... it seemed like an impossible dream. For so long she had been afraid of the control she had so sorely lacked. She had been afraid of love, afraid she was too large of a monster to ever contain something as brilliant and beautiful as love. She was a creature of destruction and death, love she be beyond her and yet... Dorian meant the world to her. He was her everything. Earth, moon, sun and stars. Instinctively, she twirled her engagement ring upon her finger. God how she loved him.

A smile graced her face at the mere thought of him and delicately, she perched herself on the edge of the fountain, eyes lost in a haze of wonderous memories as her fingers formed ripples in the fountain. Despite the return of both Cora and Regina neither had made a strike... save for the taking of her heart, but that was a prize she was unlikely to get back. She sighed softly, resting her hand against her chest, she could not feel the beat of the organ that Dorian owned. Cora had taken her heart and it angered her. It should be in Dorian's possession if anyones besides her own. She gave a soft sigh, but her body was relaxed. her lover was away and she was dreadfully bored. She missed him more than she cared to admit.

The sound of footsteps gained her attention, the sun was falling from the sky, the courtyard was mainly cleared of inhabitants, she thought it had been just her and the cool waters of the fountain. She was obviously mistaken. her head tilted to the side as the gentlemen approached her. What could he possibly wish of her? Red was at a loss, but she waited calmly with a patient smile.

[Jarod]

Jarod walked by, as he walked over, when he saw her, as he looked around, then back at her and sighed. He smiled at her, as he nodded to her, politely. "Hello there" was all that Jarod said to her, for now.He looked around, then back at her, as he smiled at her, a sympathetic smile. "Are you alright?" he asked her, as he was curious and rather worried about her, for real and not pretending. As Jarod cared for people, and only pretended to a cop. f.bi, shop owner etc, when he tried to solve crimes, but he never pretended to feel something he didn't feel, and wasn't about to start now.

Where he was at now, he doubted that any of his usual pretends would work anyway, but that was besides the point. What Jarod cared most at the moment was to make sure that the young woman in front of him was alright, and how to help her if she needed help at all. He hated to see people struggle, and did all he could to help, as he struggled a lot and refused to let people go through the same thing that he did. Or something similar to it, as it wasn't fair but very wrong thing. Jarod might have grown up in a bad place, but he was the same boy he was the day he was kidnapped, and he wasn't about to change that. He didn't know the young woman, that was true but he cared for her no matter what. Jarod looked around then back at her once more, as he waited for a reply. He wondered what would she say, as he gave her the same smile as he did before.

Jarod watched her with curiosity, as he waited for her to reply. "Don't worry, I am not interested in hurting you, or anything like that. I am only a friend, even if we only just met!Well I could be a friend, if you let me that is." he said, as he still watched her closely. She reminded him of Miss Parker in away, both because she was beautiful like her, and the look he saw on her face, also he could have imagined it, but he doubted that he did.

[Ruby Gray]

Ruby blinked, emerald eyes following the man before her as he slowly made his way towards her. he seemed to be lost, dazed, confused and internally, she frowned. Was he another hapless victim to this wretched place? Had he been sucked down onto this scrap of a planet with little more than the clothes on his back and his namesake? She sighed softly. She hated this world for the treacheries it had caused. It was cruel and unjust, but Ruby smiled all the same as the man attended her side, no traces of her inner turmoil present upon her face. "I'm fine sir, thank you... who are you?" her head would tilt only mildly to the left, a curious bird.

Silence reigned for a moment as the man seemed to become lost in his thoughts, concerns amongst other things were etched upon his face. She allowed him the moment of thought, she had no pressing place to be, she was in no rush, her mind was good and clear she had been out here most of the morning. She would examine him closely catching the slight ticks of depression upon his visage. That coupled with the strange attire he was swathed in, she was certain he had not come from here. A soft sigh escaped her as she waited for him to pull from his thoughts, when finally he did, his words were gentle, stumbling over themselves a bit, but sweet all the same. She laughed softly. Had she been a true fair maiden his awkwardness would have been endearing but Ruby... she needed someone rough, someone who could handle her and tamed she had been.

"Oh! Please don't fret! I didn't anticipate you meaning me any harm, please, sit." She gestured to the empty place beside her on the edge of the fountain. She waited until he had done so before offering him a gentle smile and her hand. "My name is Ruby or Red, whichever you prefer... What brings you to Aledon m'dear?"