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School Auditorium: MSND rehearsal (4-7 PM FHT)

There are snacks and assorted beverages on a table to the side, and the house lights are up.

The stage lighting is still a little beyond Rory, so the simple overhead fluorescents will have to do for the day.

And by the door, there's a sign-in sheet.

Actors? Your stage awaits.

[~~If you comment before my OCD threads are up, I'll get Callisto to burninate you.~~ OCD is up! Comment away! And here is a helpful link to the full text of the play, and here is the cast list, which will be a bit revised today, yes.]

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"Right. Yes. We need our Titania. And that fairy I'm supposed to be working with."

Lee looks around for Parker, looking for all the world like he's not suffering serious soulpain within but is carefree and charming. Right.

"What! Haughty Oberon? Fairies, skip hence!" Parker's eyes might be glittering from the stage lights. Or psychosis. Tough call. "I have forsworn his bed and company!"

"Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?" he says, holding his hand up and looking furious.

"Then I must be thy lady." Oh, that wasn't a nice smile. "But I know when thou hast stolen away from fairy land." She took menacing step forward. " And in the shape of Corin sat all day, playing on pipes of corn and versing love
To amorous Phillida." Parker smoldered at him, and let all of her frustration come through on: "Why art thou here, Come from the farthest Steppe of India?
But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon," And oh yes, she was definitely thinking of Kara, " Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love-- To Theseus must be wedded, and you come to give their bed joy and prosperity." Bitter, bitter, and yes, more bitter. Drink it down, Lee.

A cold fury mixed with certain desire fueled the response - "How canst thou thus for shame, Titania, glance at my credit with Hippolyta, knowing I know thy love to Theseus?" The handsome Jack Harkness glimmered into view in his mind's eye and he glowered at her. "Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night from Perigenia, whom he ravished? And make him with fair AEgle break his faith, with Ariadne and Antiopa?"

"These are the forgeries of jealousy," and if he was, all to the better, three days without even calling, he could kiss her ass if he was even a tiny bit sincere in that accusation, "And never, since the middle summer's spring, met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead -- by paved fountain or by rushy brook, or in the beached margent of the sea-- to dance our ringlets to the whistling wind," And yes, it *was* fun to do this with Lana, Allie, Quinn and Molly standing right there, "But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport."

Parker got through the rest of the litany of bad omens and worse weather, then finished coldly on, "And this same progeny of evils comes from our debate, from our dissension; we are their parents and original."

Okay, she really shouldn't be this turned on.

He remains austere as he half-commands, "Do you amend it then; it lies in you!" Narrowing his eyes, he watches her carefully before being distracted by her mouth. Softening, he takes her hand and holds it gently. "Oh, why should Titania cross her Oberon?" he continues, much softer, almost purring the words out. "I do but beg a little changeling boy, to be my henchman," he asks, lifting her hand to his lips to kiss.

She let him kiss her hand, but kept her voice icicle-cold as she drew her fingers back, after allowing them to linger only one extra moment.

"Set your heart at rest: The fairy land buys not the child of me. His mother was a votaress of my order, and, in the spiced Indian air, by night, full often hath she gossip'd by my side, and sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands...."

Parker had to wonder how much of what had happened between her and Lee was obvious, especially if you knew about it. She was definitely asking Rory after the rehearsal was over.

"--And for her sake do I rear up her boy, and for her sake I will not part with him." A flash of Jarod's face, and it was easier to keep her voice steady and implacable, and look at Lee as if he were a bug.

His lips seem to burn, his heart races and it's hard to keep his perfect composure. "How long within this wood intend you stay?" he asks, as nonchalantly as possible.

"Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day." Parker let her voice go softer, a little more cajoling. "If you will patiently dance in our round, and see our moonlight revels, go with us," then she narrowed her eyes, "If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts."

Don't say I'm not giving you an out, Lee. It can be like it never happened at all.

He looks her directly in the eye as he has this line memorized. "Give me that boy," he says, meaning something quite different as he says it, "and I will go with thee." He will have things on his terms, not hers.

"Not for thy fairy kingdom." Precise and unequivocal. No conditions. No apologies. Parker looked Lee in the eye, and kept her spine as straight as royalty, speaking her next lines to her courtiers, but never looking away from him: "Fairies, away! We shall chide downright, if I longer stay."

And Parker turned and danced her way off-stage, spinning out of reach, smiling wickedly back at Lee and then disappearing into the wings.

Not allowing her to have the last word, furious for this slight and definitely prefering the "give up the boy so as to get sex" option now, he calls back, "Well, go thy way! Thou shalt not from this grove till I torment thee for this injury!"

He stares at the place where he last saw her, knowing that Parker may be watching him from the wings. He takes a deep breath before turning to look for Zero, saying, "My gentle Puck, come hither."

His gentle Puck ~~totally didn't even know this thread was here, hi~~ came thither.

Lee grins at her before getting back into character. "Thou rememberest since once I sat upon a promontory, and heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath that the rude sea grew civil at her song and certain stars shot madly from their spheres, to hear the sea-maid's music," he says dreamily.

Zero petted his arm. "I remember."

Lee continues the dreamy monologue on the flower, a bit irritated that Shakespeare is giving some propaganda to his number one patroness in this bit, but he finally gets to the crux of the speech and puts one arm around Zero as he points out into the distance where the flower must be-- "Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once: the juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid will make or man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees."

He lets her go. "Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again ere the leviathan can swim a league," he commands.

Zero bounced. "I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes," she promised him, and ran offstage.

A moment later she dashed back across the stage going the other way.

Lee snickered a little before continuing his speech - "Having once this juice, I'll watch Titania when she is asleep, and drop the liquor of it in her eyes. The next thing then she waking looks upon, be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, on meddling monkey, or on busy ape, she shall pursue it with the soul of love: And ere I take this charm from off her sight, as I can take it with another herb, I'll make her render up her page to me."

He shivered slightly at the cruel power in those words.

He then looked for a Demetrius and hair Helen to approach to continue his lines.

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