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Post by Pina on Oct 25, 2007 0:28:39 GMT -5
"A little," *she admitted sheepishly.*
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Post by Julian on Oct 25, 2007 0:34:26 GMT -5
*Julian shook his head, slipping his coat from his shoulders and wrapping it around her, holding her tightly to him.*
"Better?"
((And shall we?))
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Post by Pina on Nov 19, 2007 11:01:51 GMT -5
**NEW DAY**
*After her mad rush to get away from her parents, she slowed down, trying to find the way back to the place. It had been so long... After what seemed like forever, and getting lost more times than she'd like to admit she arrived at what she was pretty sure was the right place. Taking care to avoid the hole in the gound, she peered around the darkness.*
"Julian?" *she called out softly, nervously.*
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Post by Julian on Nov 19, 2007 11:05:25 GMT -5
*Julian emerged from the shadow, all Ben Kenobi translucent, but visible.*
"Oh, princess...are you all right?"
*He knelt to meet her, but didn't touch her.*
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Post by Pina on Nov 19, 2007 11:12:37 GMT -5
*She went toward him, a lost look on her face.*
"I don't know... My mother is here- I thought she was dead! But... but she said that Daddy had put her away in some kind of asylum, and..."
*She shook her head and fiddled with a lock of her long dark hair.*
"I didn't think he'd do that. Now I'm not so sure."
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Post by Julian on Nov 19, 2007 11:17:55 GMT -5
*Julian lifted his hand to caress her face gently. His touch was intangible and very cold.*
"I'm so sorry, my sweet."
*He pursed his lips.*
"Well, he said she had to go away because she was sick, right? Sometimes when people get sick they have very bad fevers. It can...cook their brain, make them forget things or image things that never happened. Perhaps your mother is still suffering the effects, even after all this time. After all...the human brain is very delicate."
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Post by Pina on Nov 19, 2007 11:24:42 GMT -5
*She tried not to shudder at his touch, and shook her head.*
"No, I don't think so. She looked tried, thin, pale... but not crazy. I don't know, Julian... She told me she was never sick at all. That he forced her into the asylum."
*She sighed, looking at the blank wall.*
"She had the man with her... the commodore. The one she wanted to leave with in the first place."
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Post by Julian on Nov 19, 2007 11:30:42 GMT -5
*Julian frowned.*
"Why would Erik lie to you? He only wants you to be happy. Like I do."
*He smiled gently.*
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Post by Pina on Nov 19, 2007 11:41:22 GMT -5
((Why? God, with the amount of shit that goes down in that house... XD))
"I know that. I do. But sometimes people do things that they shouldn't, because they think it would make someone else happy."
*She shook her head, realization dawning.*
"He did it because... because she was going to leave. With me. It's true, isn't it? I know that you know- he tells you everything!"
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Post by Julian on Nov 19, 2007 11:50:15 GMT -5
*Julian's eyes darkened.*
"Prosperpina...he doesn't tell me everything. If he did..."
*His lips tightened in frustration.*
"I would be able to hold you now."
*He tried to soften his gaze for her.*
"If he has...he has wounded both of us."
*He arched a brow.*
"What do you want to do?"
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Post by Pina on Nov 19, 2007 12:00:22 GMT -5
*She shook her head, brushing her hair back out of her face.*
"I don't know. I can't stay here, if it's true. But I don't want to go with them. I won't know what to do."
*As much as she'd wanted to go out into the world and be a normal girl, the thought terrified her. She'd been away from all that all her life- she'd be strange, and frightening.*
"It scares me."
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Post by Julian on Nov 19, 2007 12:04:26 GMT -5
*Julian sat a moment in deep contemplation.*
"You can stay here." *he looked at the room about them*
"At least until I'm strong enough to take you somewhere else. Is that what you want?"
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Post by Pina on Nov 19, 2007 12:12:08 GMT -5
*She took in the bare, cold room around them.*
"I don't think I could," *she said, with an almost desperate look on her face.*
"If I went with her," *she began hesitantly,* "Would you find me?"
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Post by Julian on Nov 19, 2007 12:16:05 GMT -5
*Julian frowned. Erik couldn't survive, not without either of them. There would only be... His jaw tightened at the thought of Christian. But he tried to rational out the situation. He couldn't risk breeding more discontentment in the girl. If only Erik would have let him kill Megan. Then she would really have been dead all those years that Pina had thought she was. He sighed.*
"And if I can? What then, princess?"
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Post by Pina on Nov 19, 2007 12:20:26 GMT -5
*She shook her head, tears forming behind her eyes.*
"I don't know!" *she snapped.*
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