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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 22, 2012 0:31:15 GMT -5
"How?" he asked a little dubiously. "You're you. How many times have we been photographed together by now?"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jan 22, 2012 0:33:28 GMT -5
"I could never do right by you in loving you, Adrien. I am trying to in losing you."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 22, 2012 0:35:22 GMT -5
"I told you already. I don't want to be the kid who married the smartest man alive - one of the richest, too - for the grand sum of two months-"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jan 22, 2012 0:49:00 GMT -5
"Not even if I take the blame?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 22, 2012 0:56:10 GMT -5
"No." He sighed wearily, running his fingers through his hair. "It'd make you look bad, anyway."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jan 22, 2012 0:59:05 GMT -5
"I don't care anymore. My pride was poison against you from the start-"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 22, 2012 1:01:07 GMT -5
"Yeah, well, I don't give a shit about you," he practically sneered. "But you're doing a lot of things right now that I don't... want to upset just because of our private life."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jan 22, 2012 1:03:28 GMT -5
He recoiled a little, as though stung.
"...let it all sort itself out without me," Adrian muttered. "Your happiness is what I want now."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 22, 2012 1:05:13 GMT -5
"You can't give me happiness," he muttered.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jan 22, 2012 1:05:46 GMT -5
"A life without me, then."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 22, 2012 1:07:31 GMT -5
"Fine, but not now. I can't handle it, all the... prying. There will be so much prying, and I just can't, okay? And magazines - the kind I read, you know, because I'm just a little idiot with low-class taste in print material, right? - they'll all be saying things about me even if you swear to Heaven that it was you, not me."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jan 22, 2012 1:09:39 GMT -5
There was a long silence.
"...we'll falsify your death," Adrian said softly.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 22, 2012 1:10:57 GMT -5
There was a little shocked pause.
"So you can play the grieving widower while I'm still fucking alive?" he asked, incensed. "No, I don't think so!"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Jan 23, 2012 21:39:54 GMT -5
"I meant it as a means of making things easier for you-"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jan 23, 2012 21:43:46 GMT -5
"Well, it's a shitty idea!"
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