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Post by Herbert von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 22:56:57 GMT -5
"I am not," said Herbert crossly. "You're going to give me a fit, there's a difference."
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 22:58:46 GMT -5
"Herbert, please," he said gently, coming around to kneel before him.
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Post by Herbert von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:01:37 GMT -5
"Stop, you're being embarrassing-"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:03:46 GMT -5
"No one loves you as much as I do," he said, taking his son's hands. "You're so delicate and childlike, and the world is so harsh and cold to all of our kind-"
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Post by Herbert von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:05:09 GMT -5
"I know you do," said Herbert, peevish with a rising sense of embarassment and guilt. "But I'm not that little anymore, and with Alex - I know things will be better now that I have Alex-"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:06:01 GMT -5
"But we don't know if he will stay forever," Johannes said gently.
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Post by Herbert von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:07:16 GMT -5
"Of course he will," said Herbert, standing up abruptly, putting down the sligovica with such carelessness that it sloshed onto the table. "I don't do any of the things you do that drove off Sarah-"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:08:41 GMT -5
Johannes stood to face him.
"And what is that?"
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Post by Herbert von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:10:53 GMT -5
"I don't make him stay with me, he can go if he likes and he stays with me because we're in love - and I don't think I'm any better than him, and he isn't afraid of me, and - and I'm going to turn him when he wants, when he's ready, and not in front of a hundred other vampires because I - because I'm hungry!"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:13:23 GMT -5
"Where does this sudden objection come from?" Johannes asked, frowning.
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Post by Herbert von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:14:07 GMT -5
"Because I- because I'm finally happy here in the city and now you want me to go back!"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:15:51 GMT -5
"Need I remind you of how many little conquests you tried to devour back home? That boy who was over the moon for Sarah, what was his name-"
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Post by Herbert von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:18:16 GMT -5
"His name was Alfred, and he's here in New York City too," Herbert said without thinking, too riled up from this strangely important-seeming fight to consider that things he'd learned in confidence from seeing Sarah would be a bad idea. "Sarah met him at a meeting place for vampires. He lives in an apartment full of vampires and he washes dishes and vati, don't you see, things are different here for us, I don't need you to be safe anymore-"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:21:37 GMT -5
"Then call up all your little Amerikaner friends," Johannes said coolly, "and tell them we're having a ball in a few days. They could use the culture."
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Post by Herbert von Krolock on Mar 6, 2016 23:22:52 GMT -5
Herbert gaped at him and blinked, though fewer times than he would have before he got the glasses.
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