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Post by Phoenix on Jun 24, 2008 11:45:54 GMT -5
Phoenix smiled. She had no idea what war he was talking about. Vietnam? But it didn't matter.
"I'm glad. But Ben... I do hope you'll be careful."
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Post by Benno on Jun 24, 2008 18:39:30 GMT -5
((I was in WWII fighting them bleedin Nazis! *shakes cane*))
He smiled "Oof course I vill, I haf to be rounds to make sure I can help other peoples vright?"
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 25, 2008 10:22:40 GMT -5
"Glad that's settled, then," Phoenix said. "If I can do anything--I mean, I can't join a revolution, but anything else--I hope you'll tell me. There's always room for you on my couch."
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Post by Benno on Jun 25, 2008 17:07:16 GMT -5
"Dat ees all I vould ask" he grinned yawning slightly.
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 25, 2008 17:17:16 GMT -5
Phoenix being Phoenix, he could have asked for more--like the bed, and her in it--but she didn't push it. She could see it wouldn't be welcome. So she laughed and picked up the dishes to put in the sink.
"To sleep with you," she said. "You can be helping people falling asleep on your feet."
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Post by Benno on Jun 25, 2008 17:27:05 GMT -5
Benno laughed "I dink you are vright" he stretched and stood up from the chair "no vone helped anyvone from dere dreams I'm afraid" he walked over to where she was standing and placed a friendly arm on her waist "danke schon" he placed a shy kiss on her cheek, as he would have done his own family and went over to the couch, almost immediatly falling asleep.
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 25, 2008 17:31:40 GMT -5
Phoenix stood there for a moment, flushing expectedly at the contact, before taking herself off to bed. Where she had many strange and unmentionable dreams about brothers with identical faces and woke up convinced that it had been far too long since she'd gotten any.
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Post by Benno on Jun 25, 2008 17:35:35 GMT -5
**THE NEXT MORNING**
Benno sat in her small kitchenette with a cup of coffee in his hand, waiting for Phoenix to awaken.
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 25, 2008 17:38:04 GMT -5
Phoenix emerged from her room in a slightly short robe--it was all she had--and started at the sight of Ben. She put a hand up to her face, pushing back her rumpled hair.
"I'm sorry," she said. "I work nights, so I've gotten used to sleeping in," she explained. "I guess you found the coffee all right, though."
Still a little bleary eyed, she shuffled over to the pot and poured her own cup.
"Did you sleep okay?"
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Post by Benno on Jun 25, 2008 17:40:45 GMT -5
"Vonderful" he smiled and raised the coffee cup up in a sort of half salute "und you?"
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 25, 2008 17:45:03 GMT -5
Phoenix smiled wryly to herself. "Well enough," she said, hiding her thoughts behind her cup.
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Post by Benno on Jun 25, 2008 17:50:30 GMT -5
"Vell here's hopinks for a better sleeps een de future" he raised his cup again and took a sip. "I vas thinkings," he stared down at his cup "do you und my brother haf some sort oof vrelationship? I means out of de employee, employer vrelationship?"
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 25, 2008 18:05:43 GMT -5
Phoenix turned deep red and considered lying. But she knew she was a terrible liar.
"We... there's no... We're not together," she managed. "But we've been... close."
She took a sip of too-hot coffee.
"Does that bother you?"
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Post by Benno on Jun 25, 2008 18:16:50 GMT -5
Exhaling Benno sipped his coffee "No, no I don't theenk eet does" he looked up with a sad smile "eets joost-" he scrunched up his face "-eets joost eet ees a lifestyle I am not used to."
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 25, 2008 18:19:14 GMT -5
"I figured that," she said. "I'm sorry to tell you things about your brother you'd rather weren't true. But... things are different, here. People are different. It's not all bad."
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