Then why do I continually have to drag information out of you? Since the incident between your sister and I, there feels like a rift between us.
[Perhaps it had been before that, but the rift was definitely present when she had walked away from him to the point where he had come to understand she might have abandoned their connection entirely. They had returned to a sort of status quo, but there was an undercurrent of tension.]
I suppose that makes two of us in that regard. [He remained calm and his voice even; this might be the discussion they had been needing for some time as much as he didn't want to have it.] Long sleeves and pants? Plus the boy made it very clear to me in his little speech had he had every intention of taking you away and burn everything I have built down. I have let that slight go for you because you weren't certain of your feelings.
[The threat seemed to grow greater each day now. What was he to do? In his own warped world view, he would do what he thought was best for her, for him, for their world. That's what he had done in the past, and that's what he would do. He would be the monster they wanted him to be.]
It's just sex between myself and them. We have no emotional investment in this tryst. [Not entirely true, but he was more lying to himself than to anyone else.]
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Date: 2024-08-25 11:50 pm (UTC)[Perhaps it had been before that, but the rift was definitely present when she had walked away from him to the point where he had come to understand she might have abandoned their connection entirely. They had returned to a sort of status quo, but there was an undercurrent of tension.]
I suppose that makes two of us in that regard. [He remained calm and his voice even; this might be the discussion they had been needing for some time as much as he didn't want to have it.] Long sleeves and pants? Plus the boy made it very clear to me in his little speech had he had every intention of taking you away and burn everything I have built down. I have let that slight go for you because you weren't certain of your feelings.
[The threat seemed to grow greater each day now. What was he to do? In his own warped world view, he would do what he thought was best for her, for him, for their world. That's what he had done in the past, and that's what he would do. He would be the monster they wanted him to be.]
It's just sex between myself and them. We have no emotional investment in this tryst. [Not entirely true, but he was more lying to himself than to anyone else.]