For Morgana

Dec. 9th, 2017 01:36 pm
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Clark liked his job. It made it easy for him to still attend community college and help out on the farm. It was considerably smaller now after his father died. His mother had insisted on it, even though Clark had insisted that he could keep up the farm and do all his school work but she wouldn't hear it. She had insisted that he have something of a social life, even though most days Clark was fairly sure that most days he'd be just fine missing out on that.

"People are great, but hard to interact with, right?" Clark asked, reaching out to pet the large horse in front of him. He leaned in a bit more to let it snuff at him before he held out his arm to take a selfie of himself and the horse. It was less a selfie and more of a "horsie" - which sounded weird - though so he took a few more pictures of just the horse before he sent them off to Morgana.

Clark's father had helped Morgana's dad pick out horses when they were younger. Apparently they'd been friends for years right up to when Morgana's father had died. Jonathan had continued to look after the horses for Morgana and when he died Clark took over the job. Honestly he thought that she probably could have gotten someone else to do it for her but the money was definitely appreciated. Sometimes Clark wondered if Morgana wasn't doing it just to help out- like Jonathan had done when she had died.

Either way, Clark was grateful for the job. Which is another reason why he'd never approached her about the fact that he knew she sometimes came to visit the horses in the middle of the night. Normally that wouldn't be a problem except that she lived in England. And the only reason that he knew she had come because of his super hearing, so it would be an awkward conversation at best.

But what if? What if Morgana could do that because she was like him? He couldn't not at least look into it a little bit. From everything that he could tell Morgana was human, although he was sure that to x-ray and microscopic vision he might appear the same way.

So Clark had decided to leave it in Morgana's hands. That night before heading in Clark hung a bag of apples on a post where she'd be sure to see it in the stables. On it was pinned a note:

M-

I didn't give them a treat today. I figured you might like to do it tonight.

-C


If she wanted to talk to him about it then she could. If not... then he would just let it go. For now.

Date: 2017-12-15 03:46 am (UTC)
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It was alarmingly easily for Morgana to skip continents the way others might jump puddles, she had been doing it so often now that she hardly thought about it. All Morgana did was think about her sweet old horses who were waiting for their goodnight kisses. For her it meant an exceedingly early start, but it was worth it to be able to stand there for a time and breathe them in, listen to the soft noises the made when they realised it was her.

Less easy is knowing what to do when she plucks the note from a bag of apples, that she reads and rereads as she gives each horse one.

Had Clark been in here when she'd done this before? A horse snorted and tried to lip at her face as if he could someone read her mind and agree, but he can't have been. He wasn't the stealthiest person in the world, and Morgana could usually pick all six-foot and some of him out of any crowd. They had known each other practically forever. It would be like walking past Arthur and missing him.

Morgana stays a while longer with the horses before slipping out of the barn. The note didn't say come inside, but he clearly knew she got there, if not how; else he wouldn't have left it.

Luckily, slipping past a door was even easier than jumping continents. The last thing she needs to do is wake Martha.

Date: 2017-12-15 04:36 am (UTC)
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There's still gold in her eyes, faint yet obvious in the darkness when she opens them. Morgana is dressed plainly, her hair in a bun she likely slept in, no makeup, just some jeans and an old shirt for clothes. It was far from her usual look, but then, she had gotten up at dawn just to give her horses a late night (for them) kiss. She waves the note as a sort of peace offering or a "I'm not trying to creep you out". Something.

'Clark.' she says, softly not to disturb Martha or get caught if she happens to go for a midnight snack.

'You've never left a note before.' Clearly, he knew she visited at least once before now else he wouldn't have known to leave a note at all.

Date: 2017-12-15 05:03 am (UTC)
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She watched him, his indecisive move to get up and then he didn't, making her suddenly wonder if her sweet farm boy slept naked.

She probably should've considered for that, but also he must've realised she might come see him if she did find the note...

Morgana sits on the edge of her bed, not taking up much more room than she has too.

'I wouldn't move them, they've spent most of their lives here.' None of Morgana's powers included speaking horse but she still understood them in a way she often didn't understand people. Horses were honest, they let you know how they felt, they made a fuss when they felt like it and sometimes simply seemed to know things.

'How did you know? I didn't see you in there.'

Date: 2017-12-15 05:22 am (UTC)
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'They are.' her father had no magic but he'd had a gift for picking animals. She'd never known a bad creature from the ones he chose, nor their children or children's children. It was as if he could tell there was something different about them.

If only he had been so wise about Uther.

'I wasn't exactly tossing buckets around,' she had always taken care to be exceptionally quiet. The horses perhaps made a bit more noise but a moth could make horses uneasy, there was no reason for him to have believed it was her.

Morgana loses that thought when Clark rises from the bed. Not naked, but certainly close enough that it takes her far too long to remember not to stare and at least pretend she's civilised. But god that boy had grown up since they were children rolling around in the grass. She'd known that, of course, but she hadn't looked before.

'There's plenty of blankets on your bed, Clark, if you're really cold.' somehow she didn't think he was. Somehow she was still staring. Oops.

Date: 2017-12-15 05:49 am (UTC)
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Well, that's certainly enough to make her look up from his very nice... everything. There was genuinely nothing about Clark she wasn't enjoying staring at, no matter how uncouth it was.

Morgana didn't have hearing good enough to even begin to confirm what he's saying but there's something about how he says it that makes her think he's being honest with her. And even if he wasn't, Clark would never get her in trouble...

'You have magic?' she asks, finally, quietly before making a small motion with her hand that she was holding now well above anything flammable and a little flame flicks to life in her magic, bringing back the gold in her eyes.

Date: 2017-12-15 06:01 am (UTC)
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'...And you can't but you can do something.' Was this why their fathers had been so close? It was an unlikely friendship, after all. She changes the shape of the flame, making it into a dancing horse without so much as a word before it vanishes.

Morgana had always thought there was something different about him, but it wasn't as if she knew piles of American boys as a child and then he had been her friend which made him special no matter what else he was.

Date: 2017-12-15 06:16 am (UTC)
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Of all the things she might've expected, alien wasn't really one of them. He was an alien... born on another planet. Yet he was her age, more or less? And being an alien gave him powers...

'Bloody hell. You're not just my, er, a farm boy after all.' she wasn't frightened of him, Morgana wasn't sure that was even a possibility but she did get up. 'You've been listening to me talk to my horses, then? And you can hear unborn kittens god knows how far away...' no, definitely not scared, but curious.

'I wish I was an alien it would make more sense than just being able to-' she makes a motion with her hands and she is gone, then quickly enough she is back but behind him now, leaning up to tuck a daisy behind his ear. 'do that.'

Date: 2017-12-16 06:38 am (UTC)
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'Yes. Among other things, some of which I have less... control over.' but running away had always been a rather useful skill for her and so Morgana had learned. Entirely by accident.

As he floats, her grin widens so much her cheeks almost hurt.

'You can fly!' somehow that seems so much cooler than her ability to vanish. And, well, some of her dreams made a bit more sense now. 'I see the future, sometimes.' she adds, as an afterthought as she takes his hand - seemingly to check if this was all real.

Date: 2017-12-17 05:35 pm (UTC)
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'I've seen you fly in some of my dreams, I always thought I'd watched a few too many movies before bed...' and if any of them had come true, she hadn't been there to see them. They easily could've just been dreams about her friend.

'But the visions seldom make sense, nor do people listen to me when I understand.' Flying seems like a much better skill. Or that excellent hearing of his, though Morgana is sure she doesn't want to hear what happens in Uther's house.

Date: 2017-12-17 06:10 pm (UTC)
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Morgana huffed slightly in amusement, tilting his head back up enough so that she could look up in the eye.

'You can tell me about them, if you like. I kept my own secret my whole life.' she pauses, then adds. 'Well. My Da knew. Possibly Mama...' sometimes she thinks Gwen sees her lazily use telekinesis to get her coffee from wherever she forgot it rather than get up but she's never said anything. Never would.

Date: 2017-12-17 06:37 pm (UTC)
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'Sounds like you better take good care of your heels, Achilles.' If all of his senses were that good, Morgana really did wonder why he didn't know earlier about her. 'That's a lot to carry around and keep secret.' Morgana wasn't sure of the extent of her own powers, a list would ever be incomplete but she does move her hand, opening his window and an apple from the stable flies up into her hand, all the while her golden eyes are on his.

'I keep finding new tricks the older I get, I'm not sure I could give you a good list of mine.'

Date: 2017-12-18 05:12 am (UTC)
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'I was always the freak. You don't know, because you never came to England but I was. Kids know when something is up, and the fact I was rich and "important" only helped so much.' and an orphan.

She imagined it wasn't quite as okay for him, either, but if it was a lie that comforted him then so be it.

'They do, even when I'm asleep and I dream... I didn't do sleepovers much.' She watched him roast the apple and smiled more. 'Clearly I should've taken you camping with me.'

Date: 2017-12-18 05:33 am (UTC)
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'Did Martha and Jonathon give you a "how to be the most American you can be" book as a child?' Morgana asks, smiling all the while. It felt so nice to be talking to him. Really talking to him not just fluttering around the topics she'd really prefer to discuss.

When he calls the green of her eyes pretty she blushes, but lets go of the magic so they fade back to the light green colour.

'I wish we had sussed each other out before now.' not that now was bad, her smile was almost serene as she looked at him, leaning close, biting her bottom lip just a little.

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