Zoe (history_repeats) wrote in nevermore_logs, @ 2014-05-01 19:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | greed, zoe hansen |
WHO: Greed & Zoe w/Derek and Digger NPC's
WHEN: Friday
WHERE: Greed's work, Zoe and Jonah's apartment, Broadway
WHAT: Morning delight, afternoon annoyance, Wicked evening
WARNING: Getting frisky in public bathrooms
They spent the next few nights at Zoe's place, Greed had needed his turf but now he needed sex and Zoe was happy to oblige. She was happy that they could otherwise normally he became pent up and exploded. It was barely light out when she felt his scratchy jaw on her neck. "Mmm..." she hummed in her sleep and turned on her side to face him, her eyes still closed as one arm fell around him. When the ticklish kisses continued, she chuckled a little, "Again....?" she wasn't complaining but he hadn't worn her out like this since they'd first discovered they could have sex in her room.
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"I'll be leaving soon..." he nibbled on her ear. He wanted to coat himself with her before he started getting ready for work. He wanted to rub it in Derek's face, like a cat pissing on clothes and going 'HERE SMELL THAT?! MINE!' It was earlier enough that he wasn't going to set himself back. There wasn't even any light coming through her curtains. He rolled them over, sheets tangling around them in a game of twister.
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"Noooooooo....." she whined as he rolled them over and she wrapped her arms around him, "I'm gonna take that duct tape you're so fond of and strap you to me, then you can't leave..." but her eyes were still closed, she was pretty sleepy still.
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He kissed her cheek, nose lightly bumping against the places of her skin his mouth wanted to caress. "Will you now?" He sucked on her neck, hands taking a detour to follow the opposite direction of his mouth. He teased her though threatening to leave now if she didn't open those pretty seal eyes. He was determined to get her in the mood one way or another.
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She nodded, "Mmmhmmm...." she laughed softly as he was being ticklish and her body squirmed as he was trying to wake it up. She wrapped her legs around the bottom of his butt but still didn't open her eyes, "Do I have to be awake for it?" she teased since she knew what he wanted.
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"Hard to enjoy it otherwise...." with her he liked hearing her try and reach that moment, he got pleasure out of it now in a way he never imagined before. She had ruined sex for him in that sense, because now it was involvement between the two of them. There was just no sex for the hell of it. They'd had angry sex, make-up sex, passionate, loving, and all of them were a mix of new emotions.
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She frowned with her eyes still closed and her fingers roaming around on his naked skin, "Mmm... I'd still enjoy it. Sometimes I dream about you. I enjoy it very much..." her voice was laced with sleepy, clearly something she wouldn't have admitted to if she'd been entirely awake.
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"You do? Tell me what you dream about?" he said in breathy whispers as he caressed her skin with his lips and his hands had their own mind, seeing what he could get out of her before she realized she had such loose lips this early in the morning.
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Between how sleepy she was and how his kisses zapped her brain, she wasn't thinking as she just let the words slip out without filtering them, "Me.... you.... a swing...." but it wasn't as dirty as it sounded when the next word she sighed out after one of his hands touched her in a way that made her lose her train of thought was, "...a house."
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Greed paused with a displeased grunt. That had not been the words he'd been expecting. This was dirty talk and she'd turned it all fluffy. She was talking about bunny rabbits and butterflies and he was thinking about all kinds of naughty things. For once, couldn't this girl have a dirty dream and tell him about it without turning red or turning it into something kid friendly?
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She hummed and her slurred speech kept going, "....amazing pool... that we did it in... was... awesome..." but since his kisses and touches had stopped, she quickly went still as she fell right back to sleep.
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Well, that was a little better. Until she went back into that sleepy slumber so he touched her again trying to get her brain and body on board at the same time. "Just the pool? Anywhere else?" he whispered in her ear. This was not going to be a dead end morning. Not when he had to present in a meeting and had to see her ex's ugly face.
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She did a quick inhale waking back up, "What?" and without thinking she said, "Mmm... the roof." which was something she'd never admitted to him. She'd told him about the ocean bean fantasy which he effectively ruined in his drunkeness but this was a new one but she wasn't saying more, she was trying to kiss him since now he was getting her body all wound up.
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"The roof?" That was different. Did she mean like the top of a house or the rooftop they'd spent their first New Year's? After that though she went mum, letting her find his lips and sucking the air right out of her lungs to try and wake her up so she could curl her legs around him like a snake.
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That kiss woke up her body with her mind following behind and she was a pretzel around him as she made out with him, her fingers curling against his skin. When he took a moment to breathe, she finally opened her eyes, shiny brown looking at him like the sun on the horizon.
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"Oh? Decided to join me?" he teased bitting her nose gently. He stared into those perfect brown eyes, saying just as easily what his body did. She was needed on board, and he knew without a doubt that he could turn her on with the flick of a switch, even if that switch wasn't anything more than his morning bedhead and a pair of lips.
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She gave him a sleepy smile when he bit her nose, her gaze was foggy but still full of love as she wrapped her arms around him. She couldn't even think of a clever quip back, just kissed him passionately like they could only do when Jonah was near and gasped when she felt him go in, her legs squeezing tight around him. Screw coffee, this was the best part of waking up...
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He made damn sure that her nails would dig into his skin until she literally couldn't hold on anymore by the time he was done, both of them panting for air to catch their breath. If she didn't have any naughty fantasies for him now, he was certain that would give her a few. He ticked her neck with little kisses, both of them coated in that sheen of sweat and tingly feelings. "Don't think you'll be needing any caffeine this morning."
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Her nails did dig in, he went so hard that he'd have a couple of marks on his neck for the rest of the day. She was still trying to catch her breath when it was over and she rested one hand above her head, the bracelet catching the first rays of the sun that were peeking through her shiny curtains he made. "Ohmygod... I'm gonna need a forklift to get out of bed.." he was always a good lover but he really went at it so she looked at him and asked, "Is today special?"
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"Maybe...." he breathed in and exhaling with satisfaction, another tickly kiss on her neck. "Just a presentation and another meeting today. I needed some inspiration." More like an excuse to have Derek hissing like a cat and backing away. He wiped the back of his neck where he felt the tingle of fingernails. He kind of loved when she held on tight.
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She eyed him, "A meeting...." she groaned, "Will a certain douchebag be at this meeting?" she sighed and looked at the ceiling as she scratched his head lightly. She didn't wait for a reply as she said, "How long is this deal with his company gonna take?" she kinda wanted Derek out of their lives.
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"As long as it takes." Sometimes these things took weeks and months. There were a lot of roosters in the hen house trying to make all the calls. Greed was getting to be a part of it though and despite the asshole's presence Greed had showed himself up with his boss. It was a worthy investment if it meant he'd get a promotion. "Boyfriend number one seems to not catch a hint." he leaned up still sucking away on her neck, probably very easily breaking skin to leave a mark.
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She groaned again, "Does your company really need the deal....." she started to say, not really meaning it. She sighed and enjoyed his kisses on her neck and took in a slow breath when he started sucking on the skin. She wrinkled her nose, "Can you not call him that..."
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"Maybe not but I do. It's going to get me a promotion as long as I don't murder him one night in the back of an alley." There were plenty of times he'd been ready too. Him sniffing around Zoe made it that much more possible. "He might lose a hand one day." He paused for a moment to ask what she wanted him to call him before going back to that soft patch of skin he'd made a little mark on.
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She sighed, "Well at least he's good for something then..." she squeezed him, "If you do murder him, don't get caught. I'm not doing conjugal visits in prison." she made another face, "I don't know.. call him something else. Or call him nothing at all. Do you know how weird it is talking about my ex while my current boyfriend is sucking on myneck?"
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"I can make him a ghost. That's easy." He raised his head to see the little spot he'd made, rubbing his finger. He'd made it in a painfully obvious place, either she'd have to hang her hair lower or wear a scarf. "So, we are going out tonight after I get off work." He'd gotten those tickets days ago in advance. Another attempt at a date with her that showed her off to the world as long as none of his siblings were hiding out. He didn't suspect Broadway to be anything any one of them would be interested in, but he was.
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"Let's just make him a ghost in our conversation." she perked up when he mentioned going out, "Oh yeah? Chinese?" assuming they might drop by the greasy chinese place he liked. They rarely got to go out on date dates.
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"Nope. No Chinese tonight. More like something with a stage and music. I got tickets a few days ago." They'd always made promises to see the show but things just didn't work out that way.
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She was totally awake now and blinked, "Stage and music.... broadway? You got us tickets to go tonight??" she was gobsmacked. He'd gotten tickets last year around this time but she'd been dating Mike and Greed showed up unexpectedly with the tickets and then ripped them up.
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"Is tonight a problem?" He reserved his finger on her neckline. "Haven't I waited long enough to see that show?" It was about time wasn't it? They'd dress up and it would be fantastic.
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"Yes, tonight is perfect! WE have waited long enough." she corrected him and squealed in delight as she hugged him to her, "This is so exciting... we've been talking about this... ohmygod.. since the first time we went to Kansas." she smiled at him, "I can't believe you remembered...."
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"I remember more than you realize." He might have the brain of a gerbil sometimes, but he held a lot of things close. This was something he'd wanted to do for a long time, nothing was gonna rain on his parade. "So wear something fancy."
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Zoe had been pretty thrilled, they so rarely got an actual date night. She had to drop by her work but she'd spend the rest of the day shopping and getting ready. While at work... Since Digger's cubicle was next to Greed's, Greed would find Derek near his space as soon as he walked in. He was showing Digger something on his phone while the guy remarked, "Wow, she's always been a little hottie, huh?"
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Greed was on cloud nine up until he slid back into his seat and he felt that greedy bastard nearby. He stunk, worse than a Virtue. Greed could handle Jonah but this prick was going to end up hung by his tie if he didn't watch it. "Watching porn on your phone again Digger?" Greed asked with a laugh but he had a bad vibe and the urge to throw Derek right out the window.
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Digger shook his head, "Nah man, but if you got any of that, I'd love to see." he said with a big grin to Derek. Derek shrugged, "I don't kiss and videotape... not for lack of trying." and he laughed as Digger handed the phone back to him, the screen side faced Greed and on it was a picture of Derek and Zoe when they were teenagers with his arms around her.
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"Not today buddy." Greed raised a brow though, not so certain they were discussing just the usual porn, though it was no secret Greed had his own porn films under his belt, and with what Digger liked he'd probably found a tape or two. "Seriously?" Greed pointed to the phone, ready to rip it from Derek's hands. "You like to hang onto old prom photos too?"
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Derek raised his brows, "I got those too, wanna see?" he laughed and pocketed his phone, "Oh come on, Chris." purposely messing up his name, "You don't have pictures of that cutie on your phone?" totally well aware that it would be okay for Greed to have them and inappropriate for himself.
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"It's Chance or do you just have a hearing problem." Greed's brows flattened. "Maybe one of these days you'll be smart enough to get that." Greed snatched the phone away, flipping though the gallery as if he should have known these things before. He hadn't know she'd gone to prom. Another thing he'd not exactly get to experience as he didn't grow up like a normal person. He was just always was this form. "You do realize it's fucking weird you are showing off pictures of my girlfriend like she's yours." It was extremely inappropriate. "I have plenty of pictures of her."
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Derek shrugged, "Sorry, it's a weird name. Kinda girly." he looked annoyed but secretly pleased when Greed snatched the phone from him, let the meathead torture himself with pictures of young Zoe and him looking cute and happy. In the prom picture, Zoe had a corsage on her wrist and her hair done up wearing a ridiculous blue taffeta prom dress. She was younger but still very cute. He put his hands on his chest, "Hey, Zoey is a very lovely young woman, Digger asked if I knew her and I said hell yes, I dated that fine ass and regret letting her go. He didn't believe me, so I showed him proof. Innocent." he smirked, "She was mine. And see, you have pictures of her too that you can show off, she's the type of girl you wanna show off, a man would be proud to have her." he said that because Greed didn't. There were no framed photos of Zoe on his desk or on his wall or anything and Derek noticed.
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"You're loss then I guess, the big guy's got her now." Digger might be a punk but he liked Greed. He slapped Derek on the arm playfully as if to say no hard feelings. Greed handed back the phone, "That's an awful tux by the way." Greed would have never even set foot out in something so hideous. And when Derek inserted the 'she was mine' bit Greed snapped back. "She's not anymore." He sat on his desk, thumbing through some locked photos on the cloud. He could see it on any device at any time but only with his permission. It was a locked file, no public folders so his siblings couldn't somehow hack it later. If they didn't know about it, they couldn't access it. His password was so damn long no one in their right mind would keep trying to get through it. He flipped the phone around so Derek could see, the one photo that he couldn't let go of. Zoe had insisted he delete it, but he couldn't. Her curls, her pink dress and her glittery nails. It was just for him.
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Derek looked like he was practically going to growl and he shot Digger a look as he snatched his phone back. Digger let out a low whistle in appreciation as the soft picture of Zoe came up but Derek just snorted, "I always told her curls weren't her thing." he also didn't seem to like the dress much. He made a pointed remark by saying, "Congrats, you got a hidden picture on your phone, but it's smart, if I was tapping half the chicks in this office, I wouldn't want to clutter my desk space with pictures of my girlfriend. Would kill the mood if you got one of those hunnies bent over and they see Zoey's sweet face." and he cackled.
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"What's wrong with it?" Greed was growly, he had every reason to be. When Derek continued to be a dick Greed practically slammed him against the fake cubicle wall. Digger made a whistle spinning back around in his chair. He wasn't getting into that. "You talk like you actually have game, but that's all you are. Talk." His voice got lower as he contemplated actually throwing the asshole out the glass window. "She doesn't want anything to do with you, so catch a hint or I'll drill it into your head." Whatever Derek thought he saw, he didn't know the dark side of Greed and it was in his eyes. Greed wasn't playing games.
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"She doesn't look good in curls." he said matter of factly, he never liked her hair long. He put his hands up, letting Greed be the violent one, "This how your company does business with clients, Chance?" he knocked Greed's hands off him and stepped back, fixing his jacket, "You just have her all confused... because I know Zoey, and there is no way in hell she'd be with you. She's a big girl, if she doesn't want me around, she can tell me herself." even tho she had and he didn't take no for an answer.
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Greed was flustered. He could be destroy this bastard, he didn't realize his own greed for Zoe was what was filling this guy up with his ridiculous ideas. "You need to stop getting personal. You call me Avaritia." Not Chance. In this case his last name meant business. It wasn't cute or a pet name like the rest of the guys called him, or how Zoe called him. "She's not confused just so you're aware, so back off." Greed left the office, he had to step back or he was going to do something that would not only jeopardize his relationship but his job as well and he'd quite frankly had enough of that in the last year.
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Derek might have gone after Greed but his own boss called him over so the battle for now was over. Zoe was out shopping for their big date and Greed would get a text back as she teased Since when does the workaholic take breaks?
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Since your ex decided to get on my bad side. Greed wasn't horsing around, and even though he had a perfect evening planned he was ready to ruin it just to showcase his turf. Derek was infringing on Greed's territory and it was getting to be more damaging than fun.
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Zoe sighed and sat down on a chair in the store as she texted back Do you have the screwdriver?
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This is pissing me off, you don't understand. I'm going to throw him out a window onto the pavement. And he would, she knew that without a doubt. He hadn't answered her about the necklace because he'd had it sent to the jeweler on his lunch break to put it on a chain. So right now at this moment, no, he didn't have it.
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I think I understand more than you realize. Use that super memory of yours. You can throw him out the window if you want but you said yourself that this deal can mean a promotion so try to focus on that and if he brings me up, just squeeze the screwdriver in your hand and know that I'm your girl always. She'd never try to stop him from killing Derek, he'd just want to do it more.. but she hoped she could steer him away from it. He was a killer, she knew it, but he hadn't killed in a long time.
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He hit another string of words that ended up just gibberish as he was letting his anger control him. When the same had happened to her weeks ago he'd played calm. He'd made sure she was reading too much into things. She needed to hold her head up because she knew she got to fuck his brains out when the day was over. The same didn't apply when it came to Greed. It was where his selfish nature bit him in the ass. It was okay for the rest of the world but not when someone was stomping on his ground. Then it became death to them.
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Do you want me to drop by during lunch if you can hang on to your sanity till then? she kinda wasn't sure if he could or not.. and was already thinking of how far away his office was from where she was.
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I already had an early lunch. So that was no good. If he were a smoker he would have had ten more breaks by now and it would be okay. His sanity was slipping, so he wasn't sure what would happen if she didn't come by. He had a suit to pick up after work and the necklace, he couldn't afford to be cleaning a dead body up off the pavement. Blood on this suit would be awful clean.
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Do you want me to come by for a few minutes? when he said he would she told him it'd take a little bit to get there. But when she did arrive, she sent him a text, Special delivery in the lobby for you and she waited there for him with a shopping bag at her feet.
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He was quick to leave his desk this time, taking the stairs as he had before because there were too many people waiting for it. If he waited any longer he was going to end up in jail.
He asks down in front of the main desk seeing Zoe there completely calm as he had been with her weeks ago. He was such a hypocrite.
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Zoe kept looking up every few seconds and when she spotted him, out of breath again, she gave him a look but smiled, "Hey.." and she picked up her shopping bag and walked over to him, "Can I hug you?" she asked because he looked like he needed it.
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He didn't care who was looking. He agreed to that hug because he needed something solid to hang onto. He pressed her tight against him, she was practically sandwiched between his chest and his arms.
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She put her arms around his neck and squeezed him lovingly, letting him hold on to her for as long as he needed. "You wanna talk about it?" she asked sofly and kissed his head.
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"Blood is going to be very hard to get out of this suit." It was his threat that he was losing patience with her past. He gripped her a little tighter. He couldn't let go yet, not when everything was slippery under his feet.
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She nodded and still held him tight, "And it's such a nice suit." she rubbed the back of his neck lightly, "Do you want to tell me why you're contemplating murder? What did he do?" she was worried about him.
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He was a little kid running off the playground tattling about what the other boys did to make him so mad. She was trying to curb his lust for blood because it made him no better than Envy, it made him just as deadly. That place was always a scary place for her, he knew it. It was what had brought out the demon at the convention. However, the Sin had more to back him this time as the Sin had finally experienced the things he had been so jealous about and the Sin was the one who was taking offense now to that rat.
"He noticed I don't have pictures in my office so he's flaunting his own." Of her as if it were his place to be able to. "I don't need to look like a fool in my own office." The guys here really liked Greed and this was testing so much of his ability to do this on his own instead of MAKING it happen.
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She kept rubbing the back of his neck soothingly and frowned, "What pictures?" not understanding why pictures would make him look like a fool.
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"Pictures of you. Its not the point of the pictures! Its the point that hes trying to make me look like a fool in front of these people. This is my turf! My business and he is a thorn in my side that I will be rid of." That meant if he had to take drastic measures he would.
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She squeezed him again, "He's trying to get under your skin and it's working. And the more he sees its working, the more he's gonna dance around like a goblin and do more shit. It's what he does. She leaned back and looked him in the eye, "The only way he wins is if you let him get to you. Is this picture thing the only thing that he's doing to make you 'look like a fool'?" she had an idea but she needed to know everything that was bugging him first.
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Greed was failing this test miserably. "He thinks he's getting brownie points because he holds a figurative position. I'm not some commoner, and he's a fool to think so. I'm Greed god fucking damnit!" This was was not how he was treated.
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She just closed her eyes and pursed her lips as he barked and then she opened her eyes and said, "You sound like my great-grandfather." he was the spitting image of Poseidon and him sneering at mortals. She put her hands on the sides of his neck to get him to focus on her, "You are also Chance Avaritia. The man I love. An intelligent man. A man who is going to show his company how talented and invaluable he is. A man who CAN murder Derek but then will probably not get that high of knowing he is earning his credit and title at this ad agency not with the powers of being Greed but by his own brains and skills."
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He rolled his eyes during her whole spiel, he knew that his angry side just needed to calm down or he would pull a Wrath. That was always dangerous. He exhaled with a grunt boring holes into her eyes. When she put things into perspective it wouldn't benefit him to kill him, but he was in his way and that was a bad place to be. "He needs to lay off."
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She pinched his cheeks because he was being a brat, "You can roll your eyes right out of your head but you know I'm right." his laser eyes had no effect on her, she wasn't scared of him. She was a tiny bit. But she refused to cower. He was her boyfriend and she'd smack him hard if he got physical with her. She had before. She sighed and gave him a sympathetic look saying the one thing he didn't want to hear, "He won't.." her words were soft but she was being honest. "He's a bully and a moron and he won't lay off. He's going to keep pushing if he sees it works. He wants you to fuck up your job and fuck things up with me by becoming a ragey asshole. And you're not a ragey asshole. You're a sweet asshole."
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"Does he think he its that easy? These are the games I play, but I like it here..." he liked his old job too, but this was different. This was something new and Greed was working to get it.
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She rested her arms on his shoulders, it made sense to her that Derek was playing the games Greed normally did, "Chance... have you noticed something about Derek? He hates the fact you're white and have money and your car and everything, right? Look deeper. He's jealous. He's also...... dun dun dun greedy. When I was with him, he was sooooo focused on wanting a private jet and being this BIG MAN and he'd hate everyone that had anything better than him." that was a sadness in her eyes at that last bit but she wasn't going to make this about her so she didn't tell him that Derek thought some other girl was better than her and thats how he treated her.
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"Well he can't steal it back. I've got a better car, will have a better job and a girl he passed up. So he can kiss my white ass." Greed was only fueling the greedy, so he was influencing all on his own. Had he been more level headed he would have enjoyed that, but this was his stuff, and Greed was defensive.
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Zoe raised her brows, "He did not pass me up, I dumped him." like hell she was going to be branded that loser's castoff. She nodded, "More importantly you're the better man. And he knows it." and she smiled a little. Greed may be a Sin but he was ten times the man Derek would ever be and she was proud of it.
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"Well that's not what he says," Greed whispered as if it were some big secret. "I am the best, he better get that through his skull...and hell of a lot more handsome."
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"Yeah well he's a dirty liar.. you better believe your girlfriend over him." and she scrunched up her nose and her lips in a mock mad face but it just made her look like a kitten. She pulled his face closer to hers, "You are. Now give me a kiss before I go up with you and fix this photo thing..."
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She didn't have to ask him more than once. His lips quickly took their hold on hers, hanging on to that taste brute he saw Derek's fat head.
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He never gave her very long kisses in the building, and even tho they were off to the side and out of the way, they were still wrapped up in each other. When the kiss went a couple of seconds longer than what he normally did, she murmured against his lips, "Someone's gonna see..."
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He didn't care one bit and kissed her until the tips of his ears started to burn. She'd feel it, like a volcano that was about to erupt if he didn't stop. It left him a little dizzy, but he could hang onto that for the rest of the day. "I'll see you at 7? I've got to pick up my suit for the evening."
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It made her ridiculously happy that he still kissed her, for the first time not caring what someone at his office might think. She amped up her kiss for just a second to sear him and then broke it. She nodded, "Yeah, I'll be ready. But first, damage control." before Zoe left she made sure to go up with Greed to his office and she didn't stay long but she gave Greed a smile and a squeeze on the shoulder on her way out. Later in the day, Digger came up to Greed's desk, "Hey man, why'd you let Derek give you shit earlier about the pictures? You coulda told him the truth." he gave a grin, "Nothin' to be embarrassed about, I totalllllly understand."
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The kiss at least left his lips a little more red than usual, showing off that he had a girl that liked to suck his face right off. Greed was humming his own tune as he scoured the keyboard with his fingers. He was pumping himself up for the night, more excited than ever to finally see this Kansas based play that he'd been holding out for for over a year. It better damn well be worth it too. He looked over his shoulder with a dumbfounded look as Digger approached. "The truth?" Greed wasn't certain what Zoe had told him, but apparently it was worth mentioning.
"Yeah," Digger said nudging him in the arm. "I'd get distracted to if I had one that hot." He gave Greed a wink. "I get it." The corner of Greed's mouth turned up just a little. It may not have been her intention but Digger seemed to take it into the dirty spectrum. Which, as long as he didn't become jealous competition too Greed could take him thinking he jacked off to a picture of Zoe if it were there.
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Zoe's words did the trick as now no one in the office questioned Greed's lack of girlfriend pictures. Some thought it was sweet, the men gave him grins and punches on the arm. Derek couldn't say anything about it without looking like an idiot. One plus to having dated the moron was she knew how he operated. At home, Zoe got ready, wearing a light coffee colored dress that went down to just above her knees, it was lace and sleeveless like Greed liked but very classy, definitely not a floozy dress. Her hair was loose and open and to one side mainly to cover the hickey he'd left on her neck. She opened the door at 7:03pm, "Three minutes late, I was about to send a search party.." she teased with a smile. Even though Greed often got distracted and could be hours late, when they had plans that he was looking forward to, he normally came bounding in early. She even had her shoes on for once.
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Greed had been busy after work picking up his suit</i> (which was glittery and all kinds of shiny), the necklace which was now on a fancy chain so he could keep it close on him. He also picked her up a corsage. He'd seen something like it in Derek's picture and he'd never used one before, but when he went to the florist (it was right beside the jewelry store) and he'd told her he was going out she assumed he was going to a formal dance. She'd picked out a lovely yellow one (per Greed's request) with pearls and as glittery as he looked. Any girl would be happy to have such a handsome piece on her arm, and the guy presenting it wasn't too bad either. She even gave him a little break on the price because he was so hot.
"I had something else to pick up." He looked at his gold watch. The battery must have been running low. He was never late when he had somewhere important to be.
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She shut door once he came in and gave him a peck on the lips for a hello, "Oh yeah? Is it burgers to sneak into the theatre?" she wouldn't put it past him to try that but she did notice he had something in his hand.
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"No, its actually chicken pita and Greek fries. But that's not what I was getting." With one arm behind his back he held the little plastic container with the pretty flowers. He had matching little gold rose pinned to his jacket. Once he pulled it from behind his back he had a huge smile on his face expecting her to gasp with delight. He didn't realize how off he really was.
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Zoe's smile stayed but turned quizzical as she looked at the box. Was that....? She opened the container and sure enough it was a yellow blinged out flower corsage. She stared at it for another moment and then looked at him, "What's this for..?" he'd only gotten her flowers once, and it was flower singular, and a silk one. At the airport. Oh God.. did he kill Derek? Is that why he got her a flower now?
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"You had one in his picture. Isn't that what you do for something fancy?" It was broadway not prom, but to Greed it was all the same. "You don't like it?" He drew it back to him to look through the plastic container. "I got the pearls..." he thought it was a little more understated than diamonds but Zoe wasn't that flashy.
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It took a moment for it to click and she turned her lips in as she realized he was talking about prom. She held her hands up, "No, no, I love it... just this is the first time you've gotten me a real flower. Normally, you don't have to do it for every fancy outing. Proms are just.. I mean, it's just tradition to get the girl a corsage. BUT," she kissed him, "Thank you. It's beautiful." and she held out her wrist to him, it was the boy's job to put it on.
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"So I don't do that?" He was hoping it stepped up his game, a new memory for her just as she was always trying to make for him. He opened up the box, slipping the stretchy pearls around her wrist which complimented her dress quite nicely.
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It brought a smile to her lips as he put the corsage on her wrist and she admired it. It was so unexpected and so untraditional, she loved it, "You don't have to... but I really love that now you're my favorite person to ever give me a corsage." so it did work, he gave her a new memory.
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"It's got pearls."It looked pretty on her wrist. It accented her skin tone, as did that lace dress that he finally had the chance to take in. "No curls?" Though her straight hair was quite sleek and sexy.
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"It's very pretty." she kissed him, "And we match." her hand rested on his lapel where he had a flower too. She gave him a look with scrunched up lips, "I was going to do curls but someone left this..." and she moved her hair back to show the hickey on her neck, "Straight hair makes it a tiny bit longer and stay put to cover it up." even though her hair was pretty long, doing curls in the front made them bouncy and shorter and she didn't want to risk exposing her hickey neck on broadway.
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Greed whistled when she showed off her neck. "It looks good there, you should show it off." He pushed her hair back to watch it cascade back down in front of her face. "Straight is sexy though, its all sleek." Like his perfectly placed hair.
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She chuckled at his whistle, "Uh-uh, no way, people don't need to see it and get images of..." she wrinkled her nose and waved her hands in front of her, "...you know. Us doing stuff." she smiled at his compliment, "Yeah? Lately you've been finding a lot of stuff sexy.." she had a hint of doubt in her tone, he'd even said he found her baggy sweatshirt sexy.
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"Oh? Is that why you told Digger the reason I don't keep pictures up in my office? Because whatever you said he took it in an entirely different direction." It was no matter, Greed had turned to stud almost instantly and anything Derek tried to say at that point was null and void. "I find you sexy." And it didn't seem to matter if she were in a baggy sweater, straight hair or curls, lace or lipgloss. He simply liked it all.
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She laughed and put her hands on his chest, "He's even more of a pervert than you, I was trying to make it romantic sounding. A rosy pink warmed her cheeks when he said he found her sexy, "Oooo smooth talker."
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"Hey, it proved quite successful. So whatever you said the tactic worked. Now I'm the stud." He was always the stud, Derek just needed a shove in the backseat. "I promise I didn't kill anyone on my way here." He held out his arm with a very arrogant look on his face at the smug compliment. "Ready sexy girl?"
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"I've created a monster." she said with a laugh but took his arm, "So proud of you but the night's young." she smiled, the two of them looking like a very hot pair. "Ready, dorky boy." but she said it with affection, she loved he was a dork.
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"Already was a monster, you just let him come out to play." When they got to the theater it was already dark outside, the seats filling up quickly. "Is this thing that popular?" He ushered them to their seats. Best in the house where they could see the whole stage from above without assholes in the way. Greed hated going to movies when entire rows of seats were empty but someone had to sit right in front of him. It was very disconcerting. He needed to be able to breathe.
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"Yes! It's I think second most popular behind Book of Mormon, which you'd love too I'm sure.." she sat down and squeezed his hand, "What great seats... I can't believe we're finally doing this! This is going to be my first show since I was a kid." she was excited to be on a date with her boyfriend, not that she didn't love their nights in, but it was rare they got to go out without someone raining on their parade.
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Her excitement was infectious. Between the two of them they acted like teenagers. Greed had a comment for everything that came out on stage. What it looked like, what he thought of, he was as random as he was in his usual conversations. They may have been sharply dressed but Greed would never be over the age of ten sometimes. The curtain closed and the stage was empty during intermission which both of them took the opportunity to stretch their legs.
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Zoe took Greed's hand so she wouldn't get lost in the crowd, "I don't think the people behind us appreciated you making me laugh with your green boobs commentary..." but she was amused as they walked to the lobby area where they had refreshments which included chilled glasses of champagne with a strawberry in each glass.
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"She was green! It was distracting." He motioned with his hands around the chest. "They were practically begging for attention hoisted up like that." Especially in such an unflattering color. Did she expect the comic book, zombie-loving nerd to let that fly? He wasn't sure what he expected out of this show so far but it was different----very different. He grabbed glasses of champagne for them trying to figure out how that fat strawberry was coming out. It looked like it was plopped in first before the alcohol. Once he'd downed that quickly he was still trying to get the strawberry out when that disgustingly familiar face showed up. Greed had his head back nose in the glass when Derek spotted Zoe and came over.
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Zoe was grinning watching Greed wrestle with the strawberry, "Use your tongue. On the strawberry I mean!" she quickly corrected, "In a non-pervy way." and she laughed and took a sip of her glass, the flutes were skinny so it wasn't much champagne but she still promised Greed she wouldn't drink the whole thing. Her smile turned into a frown when Derek showed up, "Hi, Derek..." Derek smiled, "Hey sweetness..." and he went in for a hug but Zoe leaned to the side into Greed to avoid it.
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Greed had almost gotten that strawberry when that voice bursted through the air like an astroid ready to destroy it's destination. That fucker. He frowned just as heavily upset too that his strawberry was just stuck in limbo in this glass now, waiting impatiently to be eaten. That was two strikes against him tonight. "I thought I got rid of you when I left the office. Are you stalking me now?" Because really, that was not okay. Greed did the stalking, this was just getting into his personal space too quickly.
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Derek gave Zoe a dangerous look when she rejected him but he smiled at Greed, "I got tickets through the company, same as you so don't flatter yourself." Zoe turned her head to the side and just drained the rest of her flute which was really only two gulps of champagne, completely going back on her promise but this was an emergency.
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Greed nodded with an "o" shape completely not believing the bastard for one second. He was greedy, he was greedy as hell but for the wrong thing. If anything Greed could smell his brother on the guy because only envy carried out jealousy for someone else's things. Looking over his shoulder Greed picked up a toothpick that was laying on the side counter with a few snack-like foods and used it to stab his strawberry right through. The red juice slid down the clear flutted glass, representing quite clearly what he wanted to do to this prick.
"What no date?" He rubbed in. "Must be single for you to try and fish the couples crowd."
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Derek smiled, "Of course I have a date." he looked off to the side and gestured his hand at the redhead from the office that was wearing something so tight it looked painted on and clevage bared. "You know Tiffany." he said to Greed. She pouted at Greed, "You never called." Zoe looked extremely uncomfortable and turned to pluck another glass of champagne up.
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"Oh well at least youve moved on. Funny, I would have thought you would have been more attracted to Lexie. Shes more your type right?" Obviously white girls wouldn't be his thing, so this really was just for show and Greed had called him out on it.
"Sorry Tiff I've got my girl already." Granted he had a sore spot for redheads.
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Derek shrugged, "I don't pick them, they pick me." and he shot a wink at Zoe but Zoe was glaring at the walking pair of tits next to Derek. Tiff smiled flirtatiously, "Oh yeah? Where is she?" she asked. Zoe's voice was icy, "He means me." she took a long sip of the champagne glass, draining half of it, that was about four gulps in her now and she was not a happy camper.
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Second best was never an option for Greed, so there was pride in his face he had the best. Obviously Derek couldn't even admit that. "Sorry for her then."
Greed hadn't even noticed Zoe heading for the champagne until he reached for her hands and it wasn't there. "Hey..." He says in a low voice trying to snatch the glass from her. "You've had enough strawberries."
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Zoe moved the glass to the side, out of Greed's reach but eventually gave it up to him. Mean. "We're heading back to our seats, you two have a nice evening." she said tersely to Derek and his date. Derek smiled, "Aw Zoey, don't be jealous." Zoe's eyes bugged out of her head, "Jealous? Of what?" she narrowed her eyes then, "And don't call me Zoey." she didn't like it, it was what people called her when she was a kid, she was a grown woman now.
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Greed finished down what champagne he wouldn't let her have. It was a complete waste otherwise. Plus, this strawberry was a little easier to catch. He almost choked on it when Derek suggested such a hideous idea. "Of you? Please." He puffed his cheeks out and released the air. "I think we both know who the catch is."
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Derek gave Greed a dirty look and then looked back at Zoe, "Come on, the way you're acting now, you never could stand to see me with a better girl." Zoe gaped at him, "Ohmygod... Derek, stop. What is wrong with you? You and I dated years ago. It didn't work out. And I don't care who you're with now. You want to be with Tiffany, I'm happy for you, you want to be with someone else? You have my blessing. Me? I wanna be with him." and she took Greed's arm.
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"Tiff enjoy that one," Greed said with a nod handing her the empty glass so he could straighten out his jacket and rub a hand down the front. "Think you're just eye candy tonight. Sorry Derek I've got the real gold." He gave him a wink and cleared his throat. It was time to go back to their seats wasn't it?
"Why that guy?" Derek asked, not realizing he'd said it out loud which earned him a slap on the arm from Tiffany.
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Zoe was about to step away from Derek with Greed when he asked her that. She stopped and just looked at Derek with almost pity in her eyes. "I could give you a 100 reasons, he makes me laugh, he's smart, he's creative... but the most important reason is he tries to earn my love and trust... and that's more than I can say about anybody else I've been with." her tone had a finality to it, a gentle warning to Derek to let this go. It had meant a lot to her when Greed admitted he wasn't ready to be deserving of her full trust, it just had made her love him more. With other guys, they would be annoyed at her and think she was overdramatic (which Greed did think at times but he was learning about when it mattered).
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"How can you trust that guy?" Derek was jealous. Maybe he saw Greed in himself and the same heartache. "I'm a different person now." A comment Greed snorted at.
"Trust me you say one thing but you're greedy. No one knows that better than me." And Greed would use it to drive him insane if he kept pushing.
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Zoe bowed her head but kept her arm in Greed's as Derek talked and the two bickered. She looked at Derek gently, "He's shown me I can.. and we're not perfect but we're learning together." she sighed, "I'm happy for you if you're a different person but Derek, so am I. I'm not the little Zoey you knew all those years ago.." she was now the woman that Greed helped her find.
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"I told you Derek you're getting too personal. Back off or I will make it painful." Greed squeezed Zoe's hand.
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Zoe gripped Greed's hand, not wanting him to fight this douchebag. Derek couldn't stop staring at Zoe, he was looking.. dangerous. He looked at Greed and got in his face, "This doesn't concern your white ass, so why don't you back off while Zoey and I are talking." Zoe pulled on Greed saying to him, "Chance, please, let's go back to our seats, we've waited forever to see this show." she didn't want a fight.
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"Did you just shush me?" Greed was going to drag this boy by his tie all around the theater floor until he choked. "You have a date to talk to. Zoe is done with you."
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Derek tried to step in Greed's space again but Zoe dropped Greed's hand and moved in front of him like a shield, she had some liquid courage so she put her hand on Derek's chest and said, "You need to get out of my boyfriend's face. This is a nice night, at a nice place and I don't want to spend the rest of it bailing him out of jail for punching all your teeth out which he will do if you don't stop acting like a dickhead." She just stared at Derek and said, "You need to cool off and let us go back to our seats."
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Derek didn't seem impressed at all. He was too full of greed and envy inside which was always a dangerous combination. "That meathead won't touch me." He stepped aside from Zoe's gentle lecture. "Is that how you play your games. Letting your girl fight your battles?" He was goading Greed and poking with a hot poker all the wrong places. He was about to be lashed out at and Zoe wouldn't be there to save him.
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Zoe moved to still be between them and looked at Derek with a pissed off expression. "You're only using the fact that your company is a client of his' to bank on him not touching you, Derek. It's not a fair fight and you know it." Greed would be devastated if he lost his new job after all the hard groundwork he'd laid to get him on the cusp of a promotion. Derek was trying to bait him to lose everything.
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Greed had already lost a great deal and here was another force trying to take away the two things important to him, his work and his girl. That was his money source and his gateway to new things being severely trampled on. "That's ludicrous," Derek said but he was doing exactly that. For some reason in his head if he brought Greed down a peg or two she'd see how she didn't need him or to be with him. He was delusional, blinded by his own greed, which if he wasn't coming after something of Greed's, the Sin might have commended him for his efforts. As it stood it was a roadblock that he wanted to get rid of. It took a everything Greed had to not pummel the kid into the ground because if he did he'd lose these things. It didn't mean he couldn't prey on the sonavabitch later.
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Zoe put her hands on her hips, "You're such a jerk. You said you're different but no, you're the same jerk you were back then but I didn't lie when I said I was different so we are going to walk away because talking to you is just pathetic." she took Greed's hand and linked her fingers with his and looked at him pleadingly, "Let's go..." her words were simple but the look she was giving him clearly said Derek was not worth losing everything he'd worked so hard for. She didn't care if they went back to their seats or back home but she was not going to let him lose his job again because of her.
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"I could get rid of him right now," Greed seethed through his teeth, but Zoe had already started them away from Derek and his unimpressed date.
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Zoe squeezed his hand and she kept them walking but gave him a kiss, "We all know you could but you didnt and I'm so proud of you." When they were back at their seats she hugged him with a longer kiss.
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It was like Poseidon. There was only so much Greed could take before he lashed out. It was more a feeling of helplessness. Like he wasn't King or could protect the things he cared about. The last time he let it build he'd hurt her. What would happen this time, because if Derek kept going Greed was going to retaliate. He was a Sin. And there was a lot of sin in Derek to work with.
"I wanted to destroy him...." he let her hold him though as tightly as he could.
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"I know..." she said softly and squeezed him, "But you want that promotion more than anything, you're hungry for it and if you destroy him, you won't get it. Maybe after you get it and the deal is done, you can punch him." she kissed the side of his head.
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His ego did get the better of him when there was something posing a threat. Derek was a sickening sort of threat that even a Virtue wasn't at this time. Derek was infectious and could ruin everything. Tiny humans. It was times like this that the Sin did start thinking bigger than where he was with Zoe. She brought him back down to humanity to not destroy because in the end Greed didn't seek to ruin things he just wanted things. "I wanna do more than punch him."
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He was still tense and vibrating with that gross I am the King of the Sins and don't bow to no one attitude. All the hugs in the world wouldn't help but maybe a distraction would, "I'll give you a choice... you can keep talking and thinking about what you're going to do to Derek OR..... we can talk about something else... like wasn't doing something naughty in public on that list of yours...?" she so wouldn't do anything crazy but she wanted to just get his mind away from the dark side where he was on the edge.
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He twitched just a little at the mention of anything that shouldn't be done in public...his mind wondered just enough for her to seep in. Otherwise this whole theater was going to come down with a case of swiping each other's wallets or jumping off the balcony. "Maybe..." he said still a little tense, but there was a crack for her to dive into.
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She stroked the nape of his neck the way he liked, "Can't really be intimate..." since Jonah wasn't there, but she kept speaking softly into his ear, "But maybe we can check out the fancy bathrooms... at least kiss..." she could feel how tight his muscles were so added, "...topless." she wrinkled her nose since he couldn't see, this was way out of her comfort zone but she knew someone was going to get hurt if she didn't coax him to focus on other things.
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This was normally Lust's line of ammunition which instead of calming him down would just press those buttons a little more to see how he would explode. He leaned back up to catch her eyes in his own. She was serious? That was enough there to grab his interest and keep his mind from Derek. The theater might explode and have cops coming in through the exit doors if she didn't.
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Zoe wasn't Lust and she wasn't teasing or baiting him, it wasn't her style.. but that's how much she loved him (and didn't want innocent people suddenly stabbing each other). When he looked in her eyes, she just offered a small smile, those bambi brown's shining as she gave a little shrug of her shoulders as if to silently ask what he thought.
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"You're serious?" He was unsure because this wasn't like her. Of course it was new and exciting, he knew she wouldn't make it a trend which was why he wanted it.
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She hesitated a moment but then took a breath and nodded, "I'm serious." it was different and more terrifying than exciting but it was another show of trust. He showed great restraint in not landing one punch on Derek, he showed his.. human side. So the Sin should get a treat to balance it out. "I mean, if you want to.." this was basically a one time offer, she might not be ready to do something this wild for years still.
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He gave her a quick kiss on the lips. "Then let's go," the Sin knew when an opportunity was presented and how quickly that open window could close.
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She looked nervous and took his hands to get up, "We're gonna have to buy a DVD of this to see how it ends, won't we..."
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"Guess so." He stood up and took her hand. They calmly headed down the stairs, though Greed could not hide the hint of excitement in his step. Back on the bottom floor he paused in front of the restroom doors. "Men's or women's?"
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Zoe was so nervous, she was gripping Greed's hand, she'd never done anything like this in her life! "Um... uh... men's. There's always girls going to the bathroom.." it seemed logical. She hoped there was a lock or something but they had a better chance of being undisturbed longer in the men's.
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When he opened the door he peered in the lavish red bathroom. It was empty so he squeezed in and waved his hand that the coast was clear. There were dull lights and a fancy countertop for the sinks. There were stalls as well which would work so that she had some level of privacy. Everyone was actually watching the show so they had some time. He took off his jacket to lay on the sink counter before opening up one of the red stall doors.
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She blew out a breath and it took her a moment to let go of his hand as he took off his jacket, her eyes continually darting to the main bathroom door as if she expected someone to walk in. She kinda stood there nervously as he opened the stall door.
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He took her hand when she didn't follow him. "There's a lock." He made sure she watched him latch it in place. It was a small stall, but roomy enough to not feel suffocated. He'd picked the one on the end, furthest away from the main door, less likely to be seen. When she still kind of stood there he kissed her.