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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 16:18:41 GMT -5
"Fine," she mumbled.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 16:48:27 GMT -5
"I have more than enough. I promise."
He casually pushed back his sleeve and began tightening the cuff holding his right hand on.
"Do you feel comfortable explaining what happened?" he asked gently.
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 16:49:59 GMT -5
She put her arms around herself. "Maybe not in this nightgown," she confessed, not meeting his eyes.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 17:29:58 GMT -5
"Here..."
He slipped off his own sweater and held it out to her.
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 17:32:20 GMT -5
She looked back at him. Her eyes did not entirely avoid the unbuttoned top of his collar as she look it and put it on. It was huge on her - and warm from his wearing it.
"Thank you," she said subduedly, lowering her gaze.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 17:37:40 GMT -5
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 17:49:03 GMT -5
"It's just that I've already told Loki," she sighed. "No, I can tell you."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 17:50:10 GMT -5
"It doesn't have to leave this room."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 17:54:25 GMT -5
"You understand, I didn't want to," she said, looking up at him, feeling the tears pricking her eyes. She repeated it with greater intensity. "I really didn't want to. But I... I did want to. Does it make sense? How can I -" She bit her lip, feeling the tears drop to her cheeks now. "How can I feel any of these things - fear or- or disgust - when he didn't, he didn't force me, he didn't have to- I wanted him, and I, I enjoyed it, and he knows that. And that's why he's... He's going to make me come back, he knows that, I didn't make it a secret and I can't take it back - I just wish that I could make it so that it had never happened-"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 18:08:42 GMT -5
Adrian put his hand on her shoulder.
"Trust me," he said, "I've been there. You don't have to go back."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 18:20:39 GMT -5
"It was.... so hard to walk away... I had gone there intending to tell him we shouldn't meet anymore, because he'd kissed me the night before. He said he was infatuated and almost fed on me - well. I thought we shouldn't risk it. But he..."
She frowned, trying to remember the specifics, trying to remember the order in which the details presented themselves, but unable to do so without really opening herself up to the memory.
"Everything he said guilted me somehow. Like I said I did... want him... he said to prove it. He actually gave me a stake and told me to kill him when we went... upstairs, and I said I was still frightened."
She couldn't shake her guilt at her genuine desire, and the complete wantonness with which she had given herself to him. She couldn't forgive herself for that. But the more she spoke of this, the angrier she became.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 18:25:53 GMT -5
"It sounds as though you were coerced."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 18:28:32 GMT -5
"No, I think I... wanted it too much, for it to be that," she said uncomfortably.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Oct 20, 2015 18:33:16 GMT -5
"Either way, you don't have to go back to him."
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Post by Teja on Oct 20, 2015 18:36:02 GMT -5
"I don't know what else to do," she said, her face contorting with fear. "He'll know I'm avoiding him if I don't and if I break his heart - oooh. He'll outlive me, you know."
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