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Post by Eponine on Dec 17, 2007 14:41:08 GMT -5
*She bit back a small sob as she sat down.*
"I can't... it's not just... I'm all wrong for you. Der Tod..." *She couldn't phrase it at all without feeling like she was going to lose her lunch.*
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Post by Marius on Dec 17, 2007 14:46:09 GMT -5
"'Ponine, you're not! Don't worry yourself about it! I know in the past I've been absolutely terrible to you, but I've changed! You're everything I could ever want or need!"
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Post by Eponine on Dec 17, 2007 14:52:14 GMT -5
*She bit back another sob.*
"But that's just it, don't you see? In my own weird, ridiculously twisted and hormonal way, I loved you because you didn't pay attention to me."
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Post by Marius on Dec 17, 2007 14:57:05 GMT -5
"And your loyalty despite my cruelty makes you all the more dear to me. Just love me, 'Ponine, and have no fear, now." *He brushed the tears from her cheeks with a gentle hand.* "Do not be afraid," *he whispered.*
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Post by Eponine on Dec 17, 2007 15:00:54 GMT -5
"STOP BEING THICK TO INCITE ANGST, FREAKIN' ANGSTWHORE."
*She shook her head, pulling away.*
"I can't... I can't go back on my word, Marius. I'm sorry." *She said brokenly.*
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Post by Marius on Dec 17, 2007 15:03:34 GMT -5
"I will NOT sit by and see you unhappy merely for the sake of your word!" *growled Marius fiercely.*
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Post by Eponine on Dec 17, 2007 15:05:46 GMT -5
"But... I'm not... unhappy." *She whispered.* "I'm happier than I've ever been when I see him with his son, when he promises that he'll be around to see him grow up."
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Post by Marius on Dec 17, 2007 15:09:45 GMT -5
"...which means what, exactly?" *asked Marius quietly.*
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Post by Eponine on Dec 17, 2007 15:11:51 GMT -5
*She didn't bother to blink back her tears.*
"That it's not only obligation to my word."
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Post by Marius on Dec 17, 2007 15:17:15 GMT -5
"Who or what is forcing you into this, Eponine?" *he asked desperately, stricken at the sight of her tears.* "Believe me, my love, I'll do whatever I can to free you--"
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Post by Eponine on Dec 17, 2007 15:19:06 GMT -5
"That's just it... I don't need freeing. I don't want to be freed. And that... is why I can't marry you." *She said brokenly.*
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Post by Marius on Dec 17, 2007 15:20:55 GMT -5
"You love him."
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Post by Eponine on Dec 17, 2007 15:24:06 GMT -5
"It's not... it's not that I love him. It's that... I don't love you, not the way you deserve."
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Post by Marius on Dec 17, 2007 15:28:36 GMT -5
"Right."
*Feeling numb with shock, he couldn't meet her eyes. A long moment later, it came to him.*
"Of course I couldn't have expected you would...not after how I've ignored you and now this--" *he gestured to the wheelchair.* "How could I have believed you could ever love me as you did when I'm so...crippled."
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Post by Herbert von Krolock on Dec 17, 2007 15:30:20 GMT -5
((And you used to gripe at Richard, Emily...))
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