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Post by Phoenix on Jun 5, 2008 16:47:38 GMT -5
Phoenix had to cover her mouth to stifle the sudden burst of laughter that threatened.
"I'm sorry," she said. "That's just... surprising."
At the very least.
She looked at him for a moment with something like pity.
"Look... Ben. Maybe it's better if you don't find him," she said gently. "He's... he's not the same man who left. I'm willing to bet."
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Post by Benno on Jun 5, 2008 16:55:56 GMT -5
Benno stared at Phoenix "What do you mean?"
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 6, 2008 19:30:22 GMT -5
*She sighed.*
"You seem... really sweet. I don't want you to get hurt--and I have a feeling that meeting your brother again might be more of a surprise than you're ready for. He's... not like you."
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Post by Benno on Jun 7, 2008 1:23:22 GMT -5
Benno sat up straight, his face contorting in confusion "Vell I am knowings he isn't vreligious, I mean sat's vhy he left, boot-" he blinked a few times, his hands wrapping around the ties of his bag "-I am not understandinks vat you are sayings, ees he bad?"
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 7, 2008 23:49:13 GMT -5
*Phoenix felt sort of sick. She wished she hadn't started this conversation at all. It wasn't her place, and now she was feeling really uncomfortable. Benno did seem like a sweet guy.*
"That's sort of relative, isn't it? But... I'd say your family probably wouldn't approve. He runs this place, you know."
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Post by Benno on Jun 8, 2008 0:02:43 GMT -5
"I vas hopinks sat eet vas joost a title" he sighed "everysinks I vas thinkinks aboot heem, all tweested oop een mein head now" he smiled at her trying to reassure her that it was all right, she seemed terribly uncomfortable with the conversation, he imagined there was something she wasn't telling him.
But he wouldn't press it.
"Ven ve vere younger, he used to sing to me, he had se moost beautiful voice."
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 8, 2008 0:47:50 GMT -5
*Phoenix smiled.*
"Still does," *she said.* "Would you tell me about him? What he was like, as a kid?"
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Post by Benno on Jun 8, 2008 0:59:05 GMT -5
"Sen he kept oop his singinks, sat's good" he squinted up his face in thought "he vas somesink else, he vas alvays gettinks een to troubles, only somehow he found a vay to makinks it seem like eet vas sere fault ung got avay vith eet."
He gave a small chuckle "Boot he vas alvays een good spirits, ven you vere around heem you couldn't helps boot smile."
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 8, 2008 1:35:53 GMT -5
*Phoenix laughed.*
"He sounds exactly the same," *she said.* "But you--you weren't like that."
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Post by Benno on Jun 8, 2008 18:07:42 GMT -5
"Oh no, me und heem, ve vere complete opposites vreallly, I vas alvays quiet, deed my school vork, vere he had many friends, I deed not. Boot he still treated me good."
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 9, 2008 11:46:53 GMT -5
"I can imagine that," *Phoenix said, and she could. For all the things she knew about the Emcee... he'd been good to her.* "He was good to me, too," *she said.*
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Post by Benno on Jun 9, 2008 14:31:22 GMT -5
Ben smiled "He must like you" his voice slightly more cheerful.
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 9, 2008 14:48:31 GMT -5
"I like to think so," *she said. Truthfully... she never knew what the Emcee really wanted. Beyond sex, drugs and rock 'n roll.* "Listen, if you haven't got anywhere to go, in the city, I hope you'll let me show you around. Let me put you up."
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Post by Benno on Jun 9, 2008 15:04:18 GMT -5
"I vas staying at-" he stopped remembering what Madame Defarge had said about divulging information without thinking "vell I had a place to stay, boot sey are currently downsizink, so I guess I don't."
He blushed.
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 9, 2008 15:58:51 GMT -5
"Hey," *she said, reaching out to gently touch his hand.* "I don't mean anything forward, y'know. Just a place to stay. If you want it."
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