Third Floor Common Room, Wednesday Afternoon

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

It had taken a few moments to figure out the DVD player, but Merlin did as he was told and just pushed buttons until it worked. It was a surprisingly good method.

He sat back, ready to watch this porno thing that Emmett had said would be interesting.

And in the first five minutes, he couldn't quite understand the draw of this sort of entertainment. It was only like Morgana and Gwen in the fact that they looked vaguely similar. The way they talked and the room they were in certainly didn't look like any castle he'd ever seen. And, really, those dresses were just terribly impractical for a lady or a servant. They must be terribly cold--

Merlin's eyes went very big as the dress issue was solved and they ladies started kissing. The only sound he made was the verbal equivalent of a keysmash.

[[Open like a common room where a wizard is being scarred for life is!]]

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[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Open?" Merlin squeaked. "I didn't know it was--this when I started it!"

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Oh. Inara tried not to giggle. "What did you think it was?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"A television show! Like a soap opera!" Not that he really knew what that was either.

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"No, I think those generally involve more slapping and hair pulling," she said, based on the one or two she'd seen, then glanced over at the screen, "and less of that, because that's just unrealistic."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"The dresses hadn't looked right," Merlin added, quick to jump on this being wrong.

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"No, of course not, but I can see that they're rigged somehow to come off easily, which is just tasteless. Don't they have more respect for themselves? This isn't at all erotic, it's just tawdry."

Before she really got off on a rant, she smiled at Merlin. "Not that I blame you, of course. Clearly you didn't mean to watch anything of such poor caliber."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"...there's better?" Oh god, Merlin was intrigued.

Inara was an evil woman.

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Oh, of course! This isn't sensual at all, and the lighting?" She sniffed scornfully. "There are some that make it feel as if you're right there in the room, as a voyeur, while two people make what is practically art."

Another sniff. "I could do better than this, and I'm still relatively new at it."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"You do this sort of thing?" Merlin asked, eyes wide. "I mean, not that you're not pretty enough for it. You're much more so than those girls. I mean. I think I should be quiet now," He added sagely.

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

She laughed, but not meanly. "Thank you, I'll take that as a compliment. To answer your question, no, I don't, but I've definitely watched enough to understand the difference between erotic and stimulating and this."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"People watch this quite a bit here then?" Merlin said, pretending his wasn't as red as he was.

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Honestly, I have no idea," she admitted. "Most people, as far as I know, tend to watch this in the privacy of their own rooms, either alone or with a loved one."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Why would they watch it with a loved one?" When they could be doing with that said loved one.

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Some people find it stimulating to watch," Inara said with a shrug. "It's not my place to judge."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Stimulating?" Give him a moment. "Oh!"

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Grinning, Inara asked, "So, am I to take it that you are rather new to this kind of viewing?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"There are--" He waved his hand a bit. "Drawings back home. But nothing like this."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Hopefully there's nothing like this anywhere else eit--are those horses???"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin's eyes went wide. "Oh god..."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Well that's just disgusting," said she who didn't judge. "I mean, think of the poor horses. That's got to violate some kind of animal cruelty law."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin was whimpering now. "Oh god."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"It's okay," Inara said, reaching out to put a comforting hand on Merlin's arm, "It's not real. Not even close to real. We'll be fine."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I am going to massacre Emmett for this."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Why?" Not that she had any idea who Emmett was...

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"He loaned me this to help me understand television shows here."