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Jun. 20th, 2009 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunnydalealumHer duffelbag is heavier than it should be, as she moves out through the AirTrain lobby and onto the street. She feels slower than before. Weaker.
She feels light enough to spread her arms and soar up into the sky.
The number's still in her cellphone's immediate memory; it's the last number she called.
"Hello?"
She feels light enough to spread her arms and soar up into the sky.
The number's still in her cellphone's immediate memory; it's the last number she called.
"Hello?"
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 12:48 pm (UTC)"Think about it, all right?"
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:49 pm (UTC)"I, I don't even know w-what I would tell them."
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:50 pm (UTC)"That you got your world mixed up with some bad people, and you had to go into witness protection, but that everything's fine now, and that all the bad guys got what they deserved. Of course, you don't want to talk about it, now that it's finally over... But you're okay. You have a good job, working as a secretary-slash-assistant to someone very well-to-do, you have a place of your own, but most importantly-- You have friends who care about you very much."
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 12:51 pm (UTC)"A clever guy who likes Law & Order a little bit too much."
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 12:53 pm (UTC)"It can't go any worse than my not so spectacular reunion a few years back."
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 12:54 pm (UTC)He still hasn't let go of Beth's hand, even if his grip has softened. "Mom thought I had done the right thing and offed myself when I didn't come back from whatever it was I was doing in the woods the night I disappeared. She was so mad at me for coming back and bringing shame to the clan, she spat me in the face. And that was just the beginning of it."
He shrugs, then adds, by way of explanation, "Pyleans don't normally have the emotional range of humans. No music, no love, no nothing."
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:55 pm (UTC)"Your own mother?"
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:56 pm (UTC)"I know. I can't even excuse her by pointing out she's a demon, and I won't."
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Date: 2010-08-13 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 12:58 pm (UTC)Beth's mouth closes hard, and there's a glimmer of righteous anger in her eyes.
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Date: 2010-08-13 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 01:00 pm (UTC)Muffled: "Everybody always wants us to be something we're not."
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Date: 2010-08-13 01:02 pm (UTC)He shakes his head just a second later, smiling wryly. "Challenge people's views of you, sugar. You'll feel better for it."
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Date: 2010-08-13 01:03 pm (UTC)It's plaintive when she says it, but then she blinks, as though unexpectedly stepping into sunlight.
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Date: 2010-08-13 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 01:05 pm (UTC)He's secretly excited for her sake. He can't even imagine being in her shoes, with such a clean-looking slate before her, and he can't wait to see what she decides to do with it.
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Date: 2010-08-13 01:06 pm (UTC)"It's okay. I've got time." She drinks the last of her coffee. "And in the meanwhile ... well, I'm told I still have a job."
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Date: 2010-08-13 01:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-13 01:07 pm (UTC)Her smile widens.
"When's the next event, Boss?"
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