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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 22, 2012 23:25:19 GMT -5
That hit Adrien pretty hard, and it was obvious. It wasn't just the idea of it; it was that Adrien had some idea of what torture was, or sounded like. She'd heard enough of Marchetti's business doings.
"I am sorree," she said softly. "Everyone I know came wiss me. I did not know it was 1986 until Adrian told me."
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Jun 22, 2012 23:36:29 GMT -5
"It's okay, that was a long time ago, I've had a lot of therapy since then."
Not that it helps being that it's not a alternate personality, but an actual person all together.
"After our last big... altercation, I allowed him to believe that I'd died, I believed then it was the right thing to do. It was selfish of me, and if I could take it all back I would."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 22, 2012 23:38:23 GMT -5
Adrien remembered she'd just said that she'd inform Bruce Adrian Veidt knew who he was.
She didn't say anything about that.
"And zen... Tony?"
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Jun 22, 2012 23:49:59 GMT -5
"Bruce and I are on speaking terms now a days if you were wondering. All has mostly been forgiven."
She headed in to a large lobby "And yes, then Tony" a large smile broke across her face, and she was almost hazy eyed for a moment "I'd known him for a short while through Bruce, he came along, just like Bruce had, just whwn I needed him. But theres never been this sense of, am I going to upset him with a joke? Is he going to brood away for days, focusing on his wrongs? Tony is an easy one to read, he wearz everything right on his face, whether he realizes it or not."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 23, 2012 0:02:31 GMT -5
"Hm, I know how zis is!" exclaimed Adrien. "Wiss brooding, Adrian is like that, with wearing it on ze face, that is Dan, and - Steve, 'e is honest, but I do not read him."
Adrien didn't know how truly little she really could read Dan, for there were some things in his behavior someone else might have picked up on by now, and which Adrian Veidt would have learned in thirty seconds. But she thought Dan was astoundingly easily read, and found it a comfort.
Maybe Dan wouldn't be repulsed by her new body- Dan might be the only one who wasn't.
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Jun 23, 2012 0:43:35 GMT -5
"Mmm" Jess nodded "the brooding can really wear on you."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 23, 2012 0:45:00 GMT -5
"And ze temper," said Adrien meekly.
Adrian had rarely lost his, but the times he had, it had been... formidable.
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Jun 23, 2012 0:48:59 GMT -5
Jess stopped walking for a moment "Bruce's temper was never really projected at me, he always internalized and became upset at himself. The problem was, I did the same damn thing."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 23, 2012 0:50:51 GMT -5
"Adrian...."
Adrien was choking up.
"Once I sought perhaps if I looked like a girl I would not be his secret, so I put on a dress, it was Micaela's Meritites dress, and makeup, and cut my 'air, and showed up in his office. 'E-"
She stopped, quivering for a moment, and then repeated waveringly, "'E-" as though to begin again, and instead she cried.
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Jun 23, 2012 0:58:07 GMT -5
Jess reached out in a motherly way she didn't know she had in her, and took Adrien's hand.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 23, 2012 1:01:24 GMT -5
Adrien let Jess lead her in, sniffling still.
"Sanks."
She sank into the nearest cushioned seat and wrapped her arms around herself, tucking her hands under them, the boobs gently squeezed because of this. She was still unused to them.
"'E locked me into ze bathroom, he shouted at me, he said I was stupid-"
Well, it was probably true.
"He almost poisoned me... ze day after zat. You see, when he came back he carried me to his car and took me home, and the next day I was sick. In December, he told me about it - he brought me a cup of tea, but dropped and spilled it. He told me then that it had been poisoned, and he couldn't do it."
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Jun 23, 2012 1:14:24 GMT -5
"Seems like he's got a few issues to work through" Jess sat across from him pulling her feet up next to her.
"Why on earth would he do something like that? Asset denial or something?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 23, 2012 1:16:38 GMT -5
"...I can't tell you," she said ashen-faced, in a quiet voice. "But for a good reason."
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Post by Queen Dopplepopplus on Jun 23, 2012 1:24:04 GMT -5
Jess shrugged softly "Can't see too many reasons for killing someone you care about, but I understand well enough."
She looked down at the table between them.
Had she killed anyone? Had Dopple? If she had, Jess was sure she would have let her know, one more thing to fuck with her brain.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on Jun 23, 2012 1:28:05 GMT -5
"I've killed someone," Adrien whispered, almost to herself more than anything.
And I'm responsible in part for the deaths of all those in Times Square, at least indirectly I contributed, and I haven't told anyone the truth about that, so I'm definitely helping to cover it up.
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