Icy rain fell down in great drowning heaps as the thunder howled and lightning flashed over the forest. The storm had come up on Adam all of a sudden and he was soaked to the bone. This is what he got for wandering so far from home on a mere whim. "Blast it! I have to find a place to get out of this infernal storm!"
Branches slapped at him as he struggled to push his way through the dense bushes. The rain was coming down so hard he could barely see two feet in front of his face. He knew he had to find shelter quickly before he lost what little was left of his body heat and simply froze to death out here in the middle of nowhere.
What little hope he did have was quickly growing dimmer and dimmer as he continued to force his way through the dark forest. Just as he was just about to give up hope, a huge flash of lightning lit up the area. Just up ahead seemed to be the ruins of a castle. What little he had seen had encouraged him and with a burst of energy he went towards the castle as fast as he could.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity, he made it to the ruins. He quickly dragged himself inside and lay panting on the floor, until he could catch his breath. As his breathing became easier, Adam sat back up and studied his surroundings. It wasn't as bad on the inside as it had seemed to be from outside. True, there was a huge gaping hole where he had come in, but other than that the castle seemed to be in relative good shape. He spied some wood haphazardly stacked up against one of the far walls, and with teeth chattering he went to see if he would have enough to start a fire.
There was plenty of firewood. It had been sitting there so long that it had dried out completely and was brittle to the touch. He didn't have a lighter or matches on him, and even if he had they would have been ruined in the rain. Looking carefully where he had found the wood, he grinned in relief. There was a piece of flint just in the corner. Unfortunately, he had nothing in order to light the wood with.
Adam had passed a staircase on his way over to the wood and he wondered if there would be anything up there that would serve as his tinder. He walked over to the stairs and started to make his way up.

(sorry it's taken me so long to reply I will understand if you don't want to rp please let me know if you would like to continue before I type out my reply)

(Oh no, I still want to rp with you! Please continue :) Everybody gets where they can't reply for a while, fine with me!)

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Marcus had come out gay to his parents several months ago. To say they took it bad, well that was a bit of an understatement. His father had gotten a fairy to cast a spell on him that put him asleep until his true love found him and awoke him with a kiss. He had been left on an upper floor of the castle. And there he slept, to this very day.

Adam started up the stairs, rubbing his arms in order to have some small bit of warmth. The stairs seemed to go on forever but at least the trek was warming him up a little bit. It helped that he was inside and out of the rain too. Finally after what seemed like forever, he came to the top of the tower where a door was standing slightly ajar. He pushed it open after pausing for a moment to catch his breath. Those had been a lot of stairs!

Expecting to see nothing more than perhaps some old furniture, he was more than a little surprised to find a luxurious bed in the middle of the room with what looked to be a beautiful boy sleeping in it. Adam cautiously approached the bed, his muscles tense in anticipation of the boy jumping out of the bed at him. When nothing like that happened when he finally made it to the edge of the bed, he relaxed just a bit.

Reaching out, he pushed on the sleeping boys arm, ready to jump back at any moment at the sign of movement. When nothing happened he shook him a little harder but with no effect. A little confused he looked down at his chest, trying to see if he could see it moving up and down. It didn't look as if it was moving but the boy didn't have the grey cast of death so he leaned down to see if he could hear his breath. He was breathing! Relief coursed through him and he looked down on the boy's face fully for the first time. His breath caught in his throat. He really was quite beautiful and Adam had the sudden urge to kiss him.

"Well shaking him didn't do anything to wake him up so maybe I could get away with just one kiss," he said softly to himself. Gathering his courage he leaned down and softly pressed his lips onto the sleeping beauty's, closing his eyes in the process.

When there lips meet Marcus' let out an almost sigh. His eyes fluttered open and he smiled as he spotted Adam. ::He's not to bad looking..:: He thought to himself taking the other guy in.

Adam flushed and lifted his face away from the other boy's. Oh I feel so stupid. I'll just... Looking down he noticed the boy was now awake. Startled he found himself unable to move away, his eyes opened wide with disbelief. He could have sworn the boy had been unconscious! An errant thought tickled the back of his mind. Something about sleeping beauty...

((not to complain, but can you give a little more detail in your posts? I can only work with what you give me after all....))

((Just be patient with me. I struggle with that.))

Marcus sat up. He looked the young man over. "Thank you." He said with a smile. He was still trying to deal with the fact of what his parents had done to him. He fought back angry tears, he wouldn't cry in front of this young man he didn't even know. "My name is Marcus." He finally said after he fought back the tears.

Adam quickly moved back as the young man went to sit up. He was still in some sort of shock until the young man spoke. He had the most beautiful voice Adam had ever heard. Trying to compose himself, he shook his head slightly. "Um, your welcome?" This was so strange, almost like the old fairy tale sleeping beauty. Of course this would be quite different, seeing as his sleeping beauty was a man and not a woman.

Unable to help himself, he smiled shyly back at the stranger in front of him. He noticed the tears that threatened to spill from the boy's eyes but decided not to say anything about them. "A pleasure to meet you. I'm Adam." He had to struggle not to reach out and brush away the threat of tears from the beautiful man's face.

((lol it's ok. Long as I have a little more to work with it's all good.))

Marcus wanted to mention Adam being his true love but decided the young boy might be weirded out by that. "What day is it?" He asked. He knew he had been put under the spell on his eighteenth birthday. Just then his stomached growled loudly. "You wouldn't happen to have any food would you?" He asked with a smile.

"Well today is the twenty fifth of June. How long have you been asleep?" It couldn't be like the sleeping beauty tales he had heard as a child. There was no way someone would be able to sleep for a hundred years, right? He laughed and grinned when he heard Marcus's stomach growl. "Yes I have a few things with me." He sat down on the bed next to Marcus and rummaged around in his bag for a moment before finally coming up with some cheese and a few apple. "Sorry, this is all I have at the moment, but it should be enough for both of us to share if you'd like." He smiled sweetly at the boy on the bed.

(I had totally forgotten we were doing a roleplay)

Marcus smiled. "That will do fine for now. For how long I've been sleep, well that will depend on the year." He took the apple and chunk of cheese. He wanted to scarf it down but he forced himself eat slowly. He couldn't keep his eyes off of the young man who had saved him. "My name is Marcus." He said with a smile.

(Lol that's ok I had too until I looked at all of my subscriptions)

"My name is Adam and as for the year it's 1908. So how long have you been sleeping for now that you know the year?" He was very curious about this. Adam was also very aware of Marcus's eyes on him. It didn't make him uncomfortable by no means, but it was a little unsettling. Marcus was very beautiful and Adam felt drawn to him in a way he hadn't felt with anyone.

It was bad enough that most people knew about his preference for men, causing most people to shun him. He didn't think he would be able to bear it, if this guy found out and rejected his company for it. Adam felt an urge to reach out and stroke Marcus's hair but kept himself in check. He didn't want to freak him out or anything. Still...with the way the boy was looking at him, maybe he wouldn't push him away after all. Of course it could just be because he had woken him up and nothing more.

"Fifty years." Marcus said softly. "Everything I knew is gone." He had been put under the spell by his family. His own family had had him put under this spell. All because of who he loved. He couldn't believe it had been so long. Though if he were honest he was surprised it hadn't been longer. Who knew that the one he was destined to be with would come along so quickly. Though he didn't dare say anything. He would hate to scare this young man away.