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Post by Adrien Baillon on Sept 3, 2009 19:29:39 GMT -5
"Into your bedroom?"
He sounded mildly panicked.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 3, 2009 19:31:53 GMT -5
"Well, no. But alerted, all the same. The employees at my other bases are not quite so integrated into my personal circle."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Sept 3, 2009 19:33:45 GMT -5
"Oh," said Adrien. "Well. In fairness, it was more likely to happen at Karnak anyway. I sleep just a short ways down the hall from you. In Paris I sleep in a room in Montmartre. So it's different." He embraced him almost without thinking.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 3, 2009 19:45:53 GMT -5
"I really don't know why you persist in staying there, with what I'm paying you..."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Sept 3, 2009 19:46:50 GMT -5
Adrien looked like he'd been hit in the stomach and stared at Adrian as though to ask him, in mute misery, why he would do that.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 3, 2009 20:09:45 GMT -5
"What?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Sept 3, 2009 20:10:38 GMT -5
"Adrian," he began, but his voice was so hurt that he could clearly not go on. Finally, he said, in a choked voice, "How could you forget?"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 3, 2009 20:19:44 GMT -5
"This is... this is different, Adrien."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Sept 3, 2009 20:20:26 GMT -5
"You know what money is, Adrian..." His voice was very small and very pleading.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 3, 2009 20:23:44 GMT -5
"Is it so terrible that I don't want you scrabbling around struggling to even exist?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Sept 3, 2009 20:25:30 GMT -5
"I don't - I don't struggle - " he said, even as he struggled to keep his voice controlled and convincing.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 3, 2009 20:43:33 GMT -5
"You know I'm only looking out for you, don't you?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Sept 3, 2009 20:58:27 GMT -5
He managed a smile. He was obviously very troubled. "It's so good of you," he nearly whispered. "Thanks. But... Adrian... do you see, do you see why now, that I...?"
He looked down and then lifted his lashes up again, hesitantly.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Sept 4, 2009 18:19:49 GMT -5
"I would have expected the changed circumstances to count for something."
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Post by Nicolas de Lenfent on Sept 4, 2009 20:24:06 GMT -5
Adrien looked at him very seriously. "Maybe the circumstances have changed," he said finally. "But what I did will never go away. Ever." More gently, he said, "You understand that, Adrian, don't you?"
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