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Post by Crowley on Jan 17, 2012 0:27:53 GMT -5
Crowley wasn't sure whether he should keep talking or hold Adrien. He felt like a dick. But then he'd feel like a dick holding Adrien, too.
He ended up just sort of standing there uselessly. Like a dick.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 17, 2012 0:31:21 GMT -5
It didn't matter, because Adrien came up and held him, gently, as if he were a thing that would break.
"Crowley... isn't it lonely like this? Isn't what I'm saying better for you, in the end?" he asked quietly, putting a light pressure on his waist by tightening his grip just a bit.
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Post by Crowley on Jan 17, 2012 0:49:26 GMT -5
"I'm used to going decades without really getting close to anyone. I've got friends right now. I'm perfectly fine. It'd be wrong letting you give anything up for me, anyway. You have one life, and I've been around so long I remember the first time anyone bothered to keep track of time."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 17, 2012 0:51:04 GMT -5
Adrien was frowning both because of this rebuttal and because his sense of composure was starting to slip away. He tightened his grip.
"Wouldn't anything change your mind?" he asked, a little frustrated and a lot desperate.
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Post by Crowley on Jan 17, 2012 0:54:12 GMT -5
He shook his head. "Nothing," he said gently.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 17, 2012 0:59:15 GMT -5
"What if I did it anyway?" he asked, stubbornly, temper rising a bit.
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Post by Crowley on Jan 17, 2012 1:04:17 GMT -5
His face hardened. "If you do that, you'll only be welcome here as long as you have no other place to go. And there won't be any nighttime strolls about Paris, you can count on that."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 17, 2012 1:09:11 GMT -5
Adrien actually tensed and pulled back, looking frightened by the change in him.
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Post by Crowley on Jan 17, 2012 1:12:04 GMT -5
"Got it?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 17, 2012 1:13:26 GMT -5
"You wouldn't-"
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Post by Crowley on Jan 17, 2012 1:15:01 GMT -5
"Come off it, I'm not threatening you. But you wouldn't stay any longer than you absolutely had to."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 17, 2012 1:16:06 GMT -5
His lower lip was out and trembling.
"What would be the point in being something that could live forever if you kicked me out?"
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Post by Crowley on Jan 17, 2012 1:17:58 GMT -5
"And why would I want to keep somebody around if they'd actually go and do something that selfish to make me let them stay?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 17, 2012 1:21:43 GMT -5
Adrien gasped and tears started freely flowing. "Is it selfish if for once in my fucking life I go after what I fucking want?"
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Post by Crowley on Jan 17, 2012 1:43:02 GMT -5
Dick, said a voice in the back of his head.
"I'm not what you need, though. I know you think I am, but I'm not, and it can't end well."
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