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Louis found Josiah by the cages, after all these years he still knew his friend well enough. Of course the greeting wasn't a warm one, but he didn't expect one either. Josiah remained mad, very much so and at this point Louis wasn't even sure exactly why he reacted this way. While Josiah sat in the cage with the snake crawling on top of him, Louis stayed outside, looking through the iron bars. It was a strange metaphor that wasn't totally lost on him, yet he wasn't sure who was locked up and who…

Louis sat there and he couldn't help but listen to the people talking about him and Josiah. He wondered if they always did, but only now decided to do ot this openly, either way, Josiah never lost his smile ever before. Sure there probably were times in which Louis and Josiah had been mad at each other for more than ten minutes, but that hardly ended up in Josiah looking like he wanted to kill someone. Josiah made clear that they didn't make up and that he didn't want any talk going round regard…

Louis woke up early, as always and he still lay in the net spanned across the big tent. He didn't get much sleep, usually he was fine, but that night his scars hurt and he had had troubles breathing. Still, he got enough sleep to be the first to get up and climb down the beam. He washed himself, changed his clothes, then started to disassemble the tent, at least what he could do alone. Eventually he heard people get up as well. They were getting ready for the day and preparing breakfast. He was …

Louis left, still none the wiser. He didn't wabt to argue or fight, he wanted everyone to be happy and enjoy the night. Maybe in his absence everything would calm down. Louis went on to check the ropes and beams, the seats and stalls and person after person wandered to their designated places. Louis opened the gates to the circus himself, welcoming thwir visitors that already lined up before it. He greeted them and smiled while Arthur and Jack collected their money for the tickets. The mass pour…

It seemed Josiah didn't want to have anything to do with Louis today and he wouldn't press him. He didn't want to fight and he also didn't want others to fight over them. He thought leaving Josiah in peace would resolve this matter, but apparently it didn't. While Louis was busy helping everyone as much as he could, the talk continued. "Please, just stop fighting, all of you.", he pleaded with another smile on his face. There was really no need for this, especially not on his behalf. "I am fine!…

Louis smiled, seemingly unbothered by their fight from before and acting like it hadn't happened. It seemed like he wasn't sure why Josiah was upset, what made him look so down and grumpy today and why he looked past Louis as if he wasn't there. Yet he wasn't bothered by it and intended to care for Josiah today, in hopes of cheering him up, but that wouldn't work out. His hand was gripped mid work and Louis looked at Josiah with a bit of shock in his blue eyes. He never touched him harshly like …

Louis hurried out so he could fetch the requested costume. On the way out he ran into Josiah, quite literally. Their shoulders bumped into each other and while Josiah steeled himself, stoically looking ahead, Louis turned. "I'm so sorry.", he told him, but his friend just moved along without even turning towards him. For a moment Louis just stood there, like a lost child whoms parents simply left without him, but he soon enough remembered his current task and hurried along. He fetched the costum…

Leila looked at Arthur kind of confused. "You still have parents?", she asked. Most of the children here, her included, didn't have any. They all had been abandoned, but Arthur didn't construct his sentence in a way that would suggest his parents suddenly died. It seemed like they were still alive. "Did they hurt you?", she asked somewhat concerned, bu figured, that this topic was definitely not for now, or maybe ever. She shook her head. "Nevermind that. Come, I'll help you back on the platform…

"Of course I'm alright!", Leila proclaimed, then slowly got up, elegantly balancing onthe ropes without getting her legs stuck in the holes. She offered Arthur a hand to help him on his feet too. "How did it feel? Do xou wabt to go again? Or just sit on thr platform again? We can also sit here.", Leila offered. Connie haf already climbed out of the net again and was doing some warm up exercises on one of the platforms. She figured Leila and Arthur didn't need her right now and she needed to get …

"That's just how it is! They like it more that way.", Leila explained with a shrug of her shoulder. She held on to the little boy still smiling and she gave him time to assess what he was relying on here. The net was save, she was sure of that, she'd jumped and fallen into it countless of times. When he started to stumble over his own words she giggled. "So you want me to pick you up! You're just too polite to ask for it. It's fine!" With those words she leaned down a bit, crossed her arms under…

"It never ripped as long as I am here. When I started to perform up here the net stayed, but as I grew more confident we removed it. For the show it will be gone. People love the thrill when watching, you know? They love to have this gut feeling, being scared for us, just what you feel when you see us jump. It's part of the experience.", Leila explained cheerfully. "As I said, at some point you won't be scared anymore. Louis told me that it'll feel like walking eventually and he was right." Leil…

"Yeah! It doesn't look as high anymore once you've been up here a long time, you know?", Leila smiled and looked at her partner who joinded them soon after. She looked back at Arthur when he seemd a bit more open to the idea that this might be fun after all. "A lot of fun! You fly for a moment and then you land softly. There is nothing more to it." All of them looked down when Josiah was yelling something and Connie was saluting to both men, Louis included. Leila turned her attention back to Art…

"It's not silly!", Leila quickly exclaimed and giggled once more. "And you don't have to sleep up here. I'm just saying, I did, so I get used to being up here an now I'm not scared anymore." She could have demonstrated that, but she promised Louis to stay with Arthur, until he came back up, so she just sat here with her feet dangling down the platform. "I didn't want to jump into the net either, but once Louis got me to try it, it was actually kind of fun. You fly for a while and then softly lan…

"You are safe. And I won't fall either.", Louis strongly replied to swat away every worry Arthur might have. He was sure this boy profited from someone pampering him, like he was pampered in his previous rich life. He was sure that he wanted someone telling him, that he could take all the time in the world and that there was no pressure, but there was. Pempering him meant he wouldn't be able to pull his weight around here and that meant he couldn't stay. He needed to face his fears and Louis bro…

Arthur knew that he was hardly someone the kids trusted, much less with their lives. Josiah was too lenient but at least Arthur would believe him if he told him that he wouldn't be hurt. For all Arthur knew Louis could try to get rid of him, having him have an accident, but Louis would never do anything like that. "Even if you fall, you won't hurt yourself.", Louis reassured him, then shook his head. "I hurt myself before, but not badly and not by falling from here. It happens, but people also h…

Arthur hadn't been this scared when climbing up, but it probably was due to the fact, that he didn't look down until Louis called out to him from way down there. It probably looked higher from up here than from down there. Louis actually couldn't remember his first time up here and he couldn't remember if he was scared. He knew Josiah wasn't fond of heights, not this high up at least, so he probably took pride in the fact that he was also good at something back when they were children. Louis had…

Louis was actually impressed that that little boy climbe up there without any fuss. He was scared, but he neither cried, nor did he complain, he didn't even freeze. Louis made sure to give him enough rope so he could continue climbing, but he wasn't a monster, he held the rope tight, so Arthur felt some pull all the time, even if he had slipped, he'd only fallen a few centimeters. He was harsh yes, but Arthur already signed the contract, there was no need of scaring him and Louis also didn't fin…

Arthur was smart, Louis could see that in his curious eyes that looked at everything here, not because it sparkled, but because he was interested in the workings of all the lights, banners and other contraptions that, would come evening, enthrall everyone that sat foot into the big circus tent. Louis wondered if he'd even seen a show before, but he could hardly remember every face he saw. Right now the tent looked rather unspectacular. There were flaps opened to let some daylight in, it wasn't d…

Josiah didn't tell Louis everything either, but he knew better than to ask him again now. His friend wanted to sleep and be slightly upset it seemed. He also wasn't as serious about Louis' question as he hoped he'd be, but whatever the case, he let it be. He didn't come here to fight and he wss sure Josiah didn't want to either. Once they both lay back to back in the tine bed, Louis closed his eyes, but he wasn't able to sleep, he knew that. He could have the most exhausting of days and still, e…

Everything Louis did he did for Josiah and the childrens sake, even if his friend couldn't see that. Josiah rarely was upset, but now he was and Louis deemed it better to just shut up. He could keep promising him that he'd tell him if he could, that he wanted to, but his friend would never understand that it wasn't a choice Louis made, not at all. How could he? None of this made sense and that was also why Louis thought staying away from him was the better choice. Still, even though he was angry…