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[August 25th] [The Wild Wild West] A Gilded Cage
Title: A Gilded Cage
Day/Theme: August 25th - It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart finally declares itself in song.
Series: The Wild Wild West (specifically, The Poisonous Posey episode)
Character/Pairing: Snakes Tolliver/Chita McCarthy (she's an OC; he's in my icon)
Rating: K/G
Continued from prior pieces. I realize the referenced songs did not exist in the 1860s, but WWW has always been an anachronistic show. I am almost positive I heard a character sing one of those songs in an episode. Anyway, it's not as strange as Dr. Loveless and Antoinette singing Sloop John B!
By Lucky_Ladybug
I knew for almost the entire time we were married that Chita liked to sing. Heck, she'd spent most of our honeymoon doing just that. But she'd never actually sung for me, just for audiences of complete strangers. When we were going to open our first casino, I thought it'd be a nice touch if she sang at the grand opening party. She thought it'd be nice too.
I was really hoping she wouldn't try flirting with every guy there, like she'd done on the Enterprise. It kind of seemed like that would be a slap in the face to me, especially when it was our casino that was opening. But I didn't like to ask her not to. I guess I hoped that she'd use some common sense under the circumstances.
Luckily, Chita seemed to be of the same mind. The most flirting she did was tossing smiles while she sang. But I probably still should have taken a hint about her true feelings anyway, judging from the stuff she chose to sing. Oh, some of it was innocent enough, but when she got into the caged bird songs . . . yeah.
Of course, at the time I didn't see anything amiss with it. I mean, everybody sang them. But knowing what I knew later about Chita, they sure took on a whole other meaning.
After her performance was done, she bounded over to me and threw her arms around my neck. "So how was I?" she chirped.
"You were great," I said sincerely. "But I'm not the best person to ask, considering I can barely put two notes together."
She laughed. "You don't have to be able to play music to enjoy music!" She kissed me and hurried off to the banquet table.
I looked after her for a minute before I followed, pausing to shake hands with anybody that came up to me and offered praise and congratulations.
"Hey, it may be our casino, but the singing is all Chita's," I told them. "Praise her."
They usually laughed and said they were praising me for finding her. At the time I was still feeling pretty good about it, so I was happy.
After things fell apart, I sometimes thought back on that night and the words of those songs echoed through my mind.
She's a bird in a gilded cage . . .
Goodbye, little yellow bird, I love my freedom too . . .
And I wondered if those were her subconscious thoughts coming out. I wouldn't be surprised.
Day/Theme: August 25th - It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart finally declares itself in song.
Series: The Wild Wild West (specifically, The Poisonous Posey episode)
Character/Pairing: Snakes Tolliver/Chita McCarthy (she's an OC; he's in my icon)
Rating: K/G
Continued from prior pieces. I realize the referenced songs did not exist in the 1860s, but WWW has always been an anachronistic show. I am almost positive I heard a character sing one of those songs in an episode. Anyway, it's not as strange as Dr. Loveless and Antoinette singing Sloop John B!
I knew for almost the entire time we were married that Chita liked to sing. Heck, she'd spent most of our honeymoon doing just that. But she'd never actually sung for me, just for audiences of complete strangers. When we were going to open our first casino, I thought it'd be a nice touch if she sang at the grand opening party. She thought it'd be nice too.
I was really hoping she wouldn't try flirting with every guy there, like she'd done on the Enterprise. It kind of seemed like that would be a slap in the face to me, especially when it was our casino that was opening. But I didn't like to ask her not to. I guess I hoped that she'd use some common sense under the circumstances.
Luckily, Chita seemed to be of the same mind. The most flirting she did was tossing smiles while she sang. But I probably still should have taken a hint about her true feelings anyway, judging from the stuff she chose to sing. Oh, some of it was innocent enough, but when she got into the caged bird songs . . . yeah.
Of course, at the time I didn't see anything amiss with it. I mean, everybody sang them. But knowing what I knew later about Chita, they sure took on a whole other meaning.
After her performance was done, she bounded over to me and threw her arms around my neck. "So how was I?" she chirped.
"You were great," I said sincerely. "But I'm not the best person to ask, considering I can barely put two notes together."
She laughed. "You don't have to be able to play music to enjoy music!" She kissed me and hurried off to the banquet table.
I looked after her for a minute before I followed, pausing to shake hands with anybody that came up to me and offered praise and congratulations.
"Hey, it may be our casino, but the singing is all Chita's," I told them. "Praise her."
They usually laughed and said they were praising me for finding her. At the time I was still feeling pretty good about it, so I was happy.
After things fell apart, I sometimes thought back on that night and the words of those songs echoed through my mind.
She's a bird in a gilded cage . . .
Goodbye, little yellow bird, I love my freedom too . . .
And I wondered if those were her subconscious thoughts coming out. I wouldn't be surprised.