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Post by Liam on Feb 7, 2008 20:06:58 GMT -5
*He tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear tenderly.*
"I... I don't know." *He said honestly.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 7, 2008 20:10:15 GMT -5
*She drew away, sitting on the other side of the blanket.*
"...even if you don't know, I need to know something...anything. I can't keep going on like this," *she said seriously, fighting back tears.* "Every time I'm with you it gets harder to face Tommy."
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Post by Liam on Feb 7, 2008 20:11:32 GMT -5
*He took one of her hands, looking at it.*
"Then don't face Tommy." *He said.* "Don't promise your future away just yet."
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 7, 2008 20:13:37 GMT -5
*She dragged her hand from his grasp.*
"I have to, Liam," *she said quietly.* "My family's counting on me...Tommy's been saving for years..."
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Post by Liam on Feb 7, 2008 20:15:28 GMT -5
*He looked her in the eye.*
"Sorcha, you don't have to marry him." *He emphasized the word 'him,' not implying that she wouldn't not marry, but she simply wouldn't marry Tommy.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 7, 2008 20:17:46 GMT -5
*She swallowed and looked away, out to sea.*
"Ye can't tell me not to." *she said quietly.* "Ye don't have that right."
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Post by Liam on Feb 7, 2008 20:18:33 GMT -5
"And what if... what if I asked you to marry me?" *His voice was soft, uncharacteristically timid.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 7, 2008 20:22:06 GMT -5
*She shook her head, her eyes closing against the pain she felt.*
"Don't be stupid," *she said firmly.* "No one weds a servant they had a summer fling with."
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Post by Liam on Feb 7, 2008 20:23:24 GMT -5
*He was stunned, and speechless for a good few seconds.*
"Is that what you think you are to me, Sorcha?" *He asked quietly.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 7, 2008 20:27:29 GMT -5
"I know it, Liam," *she said quietly.*
"Ye've been away at yer school and experiencing everything life has to offer...and then ye come back t'yer family's home for the summer. No one's around and ye get a bit bored, so why not seduce the laundry maid ye once were friends with?"
*Her voice was soft, and held no contempt, just sad acceptance.*
"Ye've shown me another world and a better life, Liam, if only for a short while; and I'm grateful t'ye fer that. Ye bought me fer a bit of chocolate, and perhaps it shames me a little, but I have no regrets."
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Post by Liam on Feb 7, 2008 20:30:49 GMT -5
*He laughed in disbelief.*
"Is that what you think of me? What you take me for?"
*He took her hand with the other one, as well.*
"Sorcha, you don't have to leave my world... our world. The only thing keeping you away is yourself."
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 7, 2008 20:33:58 GMT -5
"I'm not OF your world, Liam! I could never fit into your world," *she said, a little exasperated.* "I can't be your mistress--I won't! I won't mope around Manderley while I wait for you to come back home to me; and I won't let my parents have the pain and shame of seeing their daughter come to being nothing but a whore!"
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Post by Liam on Feb 7, 2008 20:35:10 GMT -5
*He drew back.*
"Sorcha, that's never been what I've expected of you! I'd marry you and you know it!" *He cried, a little angry.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 7, 2008 20:39:29 GMT -5
"Well I wouldn't marry you!" *she cried out, getting to her feet.*
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Post by Liam on Feb 7, 2008 20:41:27 GMT -5
*He stood as well.*
"And yet you'd marry Tommy and throw your whole future away?! You'll let yourself be made into some kind of housewife and spend the rest of your life bearing children and doing laundry?"
*He sneered.*
"Mrs. Tommy Finlay. I'm sure you're simply overjoyed at the sound of that."
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