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ladyfirestarterThe desert's chilly at night. She's brought a jacket.
Charlie sits on a particular rock a few miles from the Taos complex, knees drawn up and arms wrapped around them, looking at the moon.
I am looking for someone who can take as much as I give
And'll give back as much as I need, and still have the will to live
She hasn't been able to reach Prometheus for over a month now. Not from here; not from Milliways. She's still in the habit of taking out the little clay figurine at odd moments, running her fingers over its rough-smooth surface in something like meditation.
She's doing it now.
'Cause I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
But I feel forsaken, you know like the things I gave away
The fallout of things at Tet has left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. The security guy, Stuart, that's upsetting; the Board member, Adamson ... that's sickening. Treachery from inside. Treachery from above.
Lot of good people, she told Charles Wallace.
And blood and fire are too much for these restless arms to hold
Her blocks have to stay up while she's on the campus, for fear the kids will pick up on her negative emotions. She's alone now, and can let down the blocks and look at what's behind them: anger, and fear, and a bewildered sense of loss.
And I'm calling you, calling you, from ten thousand miles away
Over and over her fingers slide along the kouros, as though counting off prayer beads, and no answering warmth comes.
Charlie sits on a particular rock a few miles from the Taos complex, knees drawn up and arms wrapped around them, looking at the moon.
And'll give back as much as I need, and still have the will to live
She hasn't been able to reach Prometheus for over a month now. Not from here; not from Milliways. She's still in the habit of taking out the little clay figurine at odd moments, running her fingers over its rough-smooth surface in something like meditation.
She's doing it now.
But I feel forsaken, you know like the things I gave away
The fallout of things at Tet has left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. The security guy, Stuart, that's upsetting; the Board member, Adamson ... that's sickening. Treachery from inside. Treachery from above.
Lot of good people, she told Charles Wallace.
Her blocks have to stay up while she's on the campus, for fear the kids will pick up on her negative emotions. She's alone now, and can let down the blocks and look at what's behind them: anger, and fear, and a bewildered sense of loss.
Over and over her fingers slide along the kouros, as though counting off prayer beads, and no answering warmth comes.
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Date: 2008-01-20 06:32 am (UTC)Prometheus reaches out and pulls her to his shoulder.
He doesn't say anything, for the moment.
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Date: 2008-01-20 06:38 am (UTC)"I don't know how he could do that."
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Date: 2008-01-20 06:54 am (UTC)"I'm sorry."
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Date: 2008-01-20 07:17 am (UTC)One hand slides behind his back; the other rests loosely curled against his chest.
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Date: 2008-01-21 06:02 am (UTC)It's another apology, peering out from behind the statement.
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Date: 2008-01-21 06:13 am (UTC)She doesn't pull away.
"Sorry about ... coming apart all over you."
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Date: 2008-01-21 06:21 am (UTC)(You were there. I remember now.)
"Oh, hell, I've seen messier."
(It shook us from the mountaintop.)
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Date: 2008-01-21 06:23 am (UTC)"Hell, you've seen messier from me."
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Date: 2008-01-21 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 06:31 am (UTC)She nudges him in the ribs, gently.
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Date: 2008-01-21 06:43 am (UTC)Still ticklish there, you know! Slightly!
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Date: 2008-01-21 06:45 am (UTC)"So," she says, trying for a cheerful tone. "We all caught up now?"
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Date: 2008-01-21 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-21 06:55 am (UTC)She shifts now, stretching one arm upward in exaggerated fashion.
"Good to have that out of the way."
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Date: 2008-01-24 03:51 am (UTC)Eyes trained on the arc of her arm.
Light-hearted: "So, you doing anything tonight?"
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Date: 2008-01-24 04:09 am (UTC)Her arm comes down and settles across his upper arm and shoulder.
"Come here," she says softly.
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Date: 2008-01-24 04:22 am (UTC)He's compliant. He's missed this.
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Date: 2008-01-24 04:30 am (UTC)So has she.
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Date: 2008-01-24 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-24 04:50 am (UTC)... That's going to be difficult if you don't take your mouth off his, Charlie.
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Date: 2008-01-24 04:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-24 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-24 05:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-24 05:50 am (UTC)The teasing humor drifts away like smoke, as she threads her fingers through his hair and moves in to kiss him again.
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
What she's lost isn't here. But something else she needs is.
I am intense, I am in need, I am in pain, I am in love
Something she still has.