Bring Me To Life {Juliet}

[jules]

Juliet couldn't help but grin widely when Marcus said she was indeed worth it. She got that butterfly feeling in her stomach too, one that made her feel as if she were weightless. Nudging him was probably not the best idea, she nearly knocked herself flying. She recovered by laughing and standing back next to him. But before she recovered herself fully, Marcus lifted her up and over his shoulder. She laughed and squealed hysterically, "Jeebus Marcus! LET ME DOWN!" She was so out of breath from giggling that when he swung her around back down to the ground she had to bend over for a moment and catch her breath. Of course, she shouldn't have let her guard down, as he started tickling her sides. She squealed again, grabbing his hands with her own and trying to force him off. Bit of a silly idea really, he was so much stronger than her.

Once Marcus did let go of her, she felt her heart beat faster and faster. Juliet's wide brown eyes looked up at him as she laughed, she shook her head at him, grinning widely. "You nearly killed me!" She exclaimed laughing loudly. Once again she bent over to get her breath. Marcus apologised to her, stating she was just 'so damn cute and irresistible.' Jules composed herself and placed her hands gently on her hips, "Well you're one to speak Marcus. I bet I know where you're ticklish... but I of course can't say it out loud," Jules pretended to flick her non-existant long hair and turned her head over her shoulder to look at him, "I'm a lady after all." She winked but couldn't help but burst out laughing. She loved this, being herself around someone. It was so different than the way she usually acted around people.

The two of them reached the boxing hall within a matter of minutes after the teasing process. Jules pulled her membership card out early and began waving it around as if she had pixie dust. They're encounter with Candice was brief but Jules couldn't help but whisper to Candice that Marcus was indeed a keeper. She had never met a man like him. Jules didn't realise she had said it so loudly and turned to face Marcus with her eyebrows raised and her lips turned up into an innocent smile. Marcus told her he thought she was a keeper too and she grinned at him and ran away through the doors. She didn't need to say anything, she just said everything to exclaim how much she liked him.

Jules ran straight to Joe, the ginger giant. Marcus followed behind her swiftly. She loved the chemistry between the two men, they were so teasing each other, yet it was playful, there was no spite behind it. Jules truly felt herself around them, as if she had known them for years. Marcus then pointed at his face, Jules reached up and gently grabbed it with her little hand, "See! How gorgeous is that?!" She let go, still laughing at the pair of them. Of course Jules did hear Marcus say 'potential', but she was just too shy to say anything about it. Instead her cheeks turned crimson and she ended up hanging her head and biting her lip. She felt like school girl.

Jules suddenly felt bad about mentioning the ladies changing room, she had seen the cleaner; a little Chinese woman who obviously loved her job but was just too slow to clean everything at once. "Maybe just hire some more help? That little old lady is so sweet! She gave me a fortune cookie last week!" Jules pulled the fortune out of her jeans pocket. 'Do not fear someone new coming into your life. They will bring you love and happiness.' Jules placed it gently in Marcus' hand and smiled at him. She realised, if anyone had come into her life this week, it was Marcus, and he had already brought her love and happiness. She could quite happily be with him all the time, and never want him to leave. As she was about to run to the changing room, Jules heard the two teens in the ring taunt her. Jules could stand up for herself, she had a right mouth on her sometimes, but she didn't have to say anything really. Marcus stepped up. She heard his voice change from the soft, flowing Irish to the sudden angry Irish she had heard in the pubs in Dublin. "Yeah damn right! I'm small guys, but I'll teach you both a lesson. Handicap match anyone?" Jules grinned at Joe who would obviously love to see a handicap match. "Ah leave them be, they're just jealous m'dear. Watch, you're both going down suckers!" Jules turned her back to them and pulled her shoulder bag off her back.

"Ok I'm going! Be back in a few." Jules ran off to the changing rooms. They were empty of course, she hadn't met another female who trained here yet. And they actually looked clean, the little Chinese lady was there, mopping the floor. "Nǐ hǎo!" She said, smiling widely at Jules. During the years Juliet had learned little bits of many languages, and actually loved when she could put them into play. "Nǐ hǎo miss..." "Lí. Ma name is Ling Lí. You are Juliet." Jules tilted her head, losing her smile. "How did you know that Ling?" The Chinese lady smiled, "I know things. That fortune I gave you, you still have it?" Jules nodded at her, placing her shoulder bag down on the wooden bench. "Ah good. Because you have met that person today haven't you? Marcus, the man who run this place." Jules smiled ever so slightly. "He will love you like no other, just be careful of someone who is also in the hall. Be wary of the people around you Juliet." Jules watched as Ling continued cleaning, as if she hadn't just said all of that to her. Within a couple of minutes, Jules was changed. When she emerged from her cubicle, Ling was gone. Was that real? Or was it just her imagination running away with her?

Jules still contemplated the short conversation with Ling as she entered the main boxing hall again. The two teens were waiting for her in the ring eagerly. Jules ran towards the ring, running between Joe and Marcus and slid under the bottom rope. She placed her gumshield in her mouth and lifted her eyebrows at the two boys. She saw one of them whisper to the other. The shorter, ruder boy shouted as his friend. "What do you mean you're scared to hit her?! She's tiny!" "But she's so little, I might hurt her." "Good!" Jules frowned as she looked at the larger boy, he was easily taller than Marcus, and probably as tall as Joe. "No I'm not doing it." He jumped over the top rope and jumped down to the floor. "Pussy! I'm gonna tell everyone in school about this!" The larger boy moved around the ring to Marcus and Joe. Jules kept her eyes on the other teen in the ring, his eyes were wide and full of hatred. What the hell had she done?

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[marcus]

When Marcus had lifted up Jules onto his shoulder, and she screamed out for him to put her down, he began to laugh so loudly, it was a wonder he hadn’t dropped her, but no, he was holding onto her firmly enough. She was also giggling though, so he knew that she wasn’t being overly serious with her demand that he put her down. However he did eventually swing her around his shoulders and eventually placed her back on the ground in front of him, but he had then went in and grabbed at her sides and began tickling her. He couldn’t help himself, he was in such a good mood now, and Jules was so much fun. He did eventually stop tickling her though and apologised saying she was just so cute and irresistible. He was constantly grinning as she looked up at him and told him he had nearly killed her. He shook his head, “I’m sure glad I didn’t kill ye loike, I don’t think I could live with meself if I did that ye know.” He shook his head again and laughed.

He then watched as she put her hands on her hips and spoke saying he was one to talk and she bet she knew where he was ticklish, but she couldn’t say out loud as she was a lady. Marcus raised both his eyebrows at that, still grinning at her. “Well, just got to get ye on yer own with me loike then, so ye can tell me.” He chuckled and winked at her. He really had lost his heart to her in a matter of what? It must only have been a couple of hours, if that. She had truly won him over and he was almost certain he had fallen in love the moment he saw that smile of hers.

After Marcus had caught Jules’ comment about how he was a keeper, he had bent down to her ear, and said she was a keeper herself, she turned and gave him an innocent smile. Ah, there went that smile again he had fallen in love with. He didn’t have to say anything, not that he had a chance to anyway, as she went running into the hall. It was fairly obvious there was a definite attraction there from both parties. At first Marcus was a little worried he might have been the only one feeling it and really didn’t want to make a fool of himself had he made a move for no reason. He had then followed Jules into the hall, where he and Joe had a bit of a teasing moment with each other, they were always like that.

When Jules grabbed his face with her hand, he felt his skin tingle under her touch, such a small hand on his face, and yet the feeling was unmistakably good. He had to grin at her words, “It’s very gorgeous aye?” Marcus replied, not being big headed, but just teasing along. Joe shook his head, “Well, listen, I’m a man with an eye for the ladies, you aren’t going to get me saying he looks good, I’ll get talked about it.” Joe said and laughed shaking his head. The chemistry between the two was clear to see, and Joe began to wonder just how long the two of them had been seeing each other, or was this all a new thing? Marcus had, after all, taken time out because he had split up with his previous woman.

When Marcus had mentioned about getting a new cleaner in if she wasn’t doing her job right, Jules seemed to immediately jump to her defence. He should have expected it of her though, Jules was so nice, and it would be a surprise if she had said anything bad about anyone. She suggested getting more help and then Jules mentioned something about being given a fortune cookie, and the next thing the note from the cookie was placed gently into Marcus’ hand as she smiled at him. He looked down and read it, and his heart skipped a beat literally. He couldn’t help but smile back at her, “Never believed any of these things ever came true, guess this is just proving me wrong, aye?” He then passed it back to her putting it into her hand, and as he did so, let his hand stay there for a second, as he enjoyed the feeling of her hand in his own.

Then the two teenage lads had a go at Jules calling her midge, and hobbit which had fired Marcus up a little because his protective side came right out of him. He was soon telling the lads off, but Jules being Jules, which Marcus had already picked up on quite quickly, seemed to be alright with it, teasing back and then telling Marcus to just leave it and that they were probably jealous. Marcus soon calmed down and just smiled at Jules, “Alroight then, but they put another foot wrong, they’re both out the door moind.” Jules then said she was off to get ready so she could show him what she had learned so far and he watched as she headed off toward the changing rooms, while he kept an eye on the two lads in the ring. Marcus then decided to speak with Joe while he waited on Jules coming back. “Have those two been like that with Jules often?” Joe just shrugged, “Once or twice, especially the smaller of the two.” Marcus raised his eyebrow as he looked the smaller lad over. He wasn’t overly impressed with him. “Keep yer eye on them alroight? Especially the smaller one, I don’t want customers upsetting others.”

Just then Jules came back into the hall, and Marcus easily went back into a softer mode and smiled at her as she approached them. He was about to say right, let’s go and show me what you can do, when he overheard the lads in the ring talking. He really didn’t want Jules to see his angry side, but then it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if she could see how protective he could be of her when it was required. However, he decided to just leave it and see if anything actually happened. Then the bigger of the two left the ring, and Marcus watched as he left the hall. Of course with his back being turned and watching the other leave, he didn’t see the smaller of the two lads head toward Jules, and he turned just in time to see him hit Jules hard enough to knock her gum shield out knocking her over sideways. Marcus saw the blood at Jules’ mouth and rage just took over him.

“I focking told ye to behave, what the fock is that all about? What the focking hell has she done to ye loike?” He looked at Joe, “Help Jules up will ye please.” He went right toward the lad, and grabbed him by the chest, pushing him back against the ring. “What makes ye think it’s alroight to hit a woman loike that? Give me your membership card, now.” Marcus demanded, the lad then went into his pocket and gave Marcus the card, with one hand pressed against the lad’s chest; he used his one free hand to easily snap the card in half. “Membership focking cancelled, ye’re banned, just in case ye’re too thick to get it loike.” He then pushed the lad out of the ring and continuing to grab him he made his way to the door and threw him outside. On his way back in, he spoke to Candice, “If that lad shows his face in here again, ye call the police roight? I just banned him; he’s got no membership here anymore.” He passed the snapped card through to her, and ran back into the hall.

He quickly jumped into the ring and without hesitation he began gently wiping at the blood around her mouth with a clean handkerchief. “I’m sorry about that Jules, he won’t be back. Are ye alroight?” He knew it was a stupid question, looking at her she was far from alright, he then pulled her into a gentle hug, he couldn’t help himself, his instincts and feelings for Jules kicked in at full speed, and the next thing he knew he kissed her on the cheek. “I’m going to make sure nobody ever hurts ye again, I promise ye.”

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