One x One: Vampicorn & Nightshade2012

[Vampicorn]

"The kitchen?"
Nathan laughed
"Are you sure that'd be safe for someone who is hungover and clumsy as heck to help out with"

[Nightshade2012]

"Then follow me around or something!"
Elizabeth said, near shouting, at his response.
"I do not trust you to do my other chores in your state, Nath -- sir, if I may say that. They are very precise and your parents expect them done a certain way."

[Vampicorn]

Nathan glared at Elizabeth
"I'm not an incompetant, bumbling, drunken idiot, since that's what you seem to be insinuating"
he said stiffly
"I can help if you stop being so uptight about every little thing. The only reason I didn't want to be in the kitchens is so I can be with you and actually help you!"
Nathan said, regretting his words right away as he realized their possible double meaning

[Nightshade2012]

Elizabeth stiffened slightly at his words, picking out the double meaning in them.
"I did not mean to imply such things, sir,"
she said quietly, turning away to fuss with some of the things in her room.
"I have good reason to be uptight and worried. Lord knows that if I get fired from this job for messing up, my family will suffer because of the shortage of pay. The older a woman gets, the harder it is for her to find a high paying job, because the nobles only want the pretty faces working in their houses and will only pay them well! I try my hardest to earn your parents' trust and string out my employment here as long as I can. If I can get them to see that I am a competant maid who is willing to do her work without complaint and does it right the first time, maybe I can get lucky and stay here for a very long time. So I apologize for wanting to keep my job!"

[Vampicorn]

"Well excuse me for actually trying to befriend a maid, someone who is supposed to be helpful instead of cringing at every word I say!"
Nathan said, his voice rising slightly
"I have some pull over my parents and I can help you stay, or have you fired, so stop pretending that I'm your enemy! All I want to do is help you, and to have a friend that isn't drunk twenty-four-seven!"

[Nightshade2012]

Elizabeth winced at his words, because they were true. She almost missed him saying he wanted to have a friend. He wanted to be her friend?
"I -- We -- Very well,"
she sighed, giving up.
"I apologize for my words, sir. They were out of line. If you'll please follow me..."

[Vampicorn]

Nathan's glare softened, he had finally gotten throug Elizabeth's hard shell
"So what will you-- I mean we, be doing?"
he asked, following her

[Nightshade2012]

"Lots,"
Elizabeth replied vaguely, heading up to some of the main floors of the house.
"Since you're awake, I need to make your bed, pick up anything off the floor, take any dirty clothes for me to wash later... Then when that's done I dust the pictures of your family in that one hallway, and the instruments in the music room. By then your parents will be up, so I'll do what I did for your room in theirs..."

[Vampicorn]

"Oh, ok, I'll do my room and you'll get started on the other stuff, ok?"
Nathan asked, trying to keep the list fresh in his mind
"Where should I put my clothes after I pick them up?"
he asked her

[Nightshade2012]

Elizabeth wasn't going to argue that this was her job, not his, anymore.
"Outside of my room will be fine,"
she said softly.
"I will was them later."