WHO: Nina and Amidio WHEN: November 2010 WHERE: Austin, Texas WHAT: Over-protective siblings is a normal thing. Everyone does that. It's all fine. (Charlie and I may be obsessed. Watch us spam) WARNINGS: violence, incesty talk at the very least.
Nina was the good one. She was always the example held up for her brother, always the why can't you be more like Nina? when he screwed things up and got into fights. It wasn't even so much that she didn't have the desire to sometimes yell and break things, it was just that Nina desperately needed to be liked by people and so being friendly and good and nice twenty-four hours a day meant it was almost impossible for people to find real reason to dislike her. Nina protected her emotions by hiding behind the girl who was always happy and always ready to help out.
Yet Nina was sure that no one would call her the good one anymore, not if they knew the things that she and Amidio did in secret when they could manage to find enough privacy. There was never enough though. They (or at least Nina) didn't dare do anything in the house when the parents were asleep or if they were due home. It was too risky. She'd die if they ever found out about what Nina was doing. Nina and Amidio guarded their dark secret fiercely, a thing made of lust and need that seemed so fragile when she thought about it.
She was so scared of people finding out that she started ignoring him in public, not sure if she could remember how they used to be before they'd been this. She apologised in the darkness to him afterwards, made it up to him in all the ways that she could, but it was just so much easier.
Though what Nina hated more than having to act that way was watching the girls around him. He had his little group of misfits (Nina didn't know if he really considered them 'friends' or just people he spent time with) and some of them were girls. Some of them were girls who Nina thought were far too interested in Amidio.
She hated seeing it. It made her furious watching some girl drape an arm around her twin, whisper in his ear, throw herself at him like some filthy tramp when Amidio was Nina's. He promised her that, that no other girl was here, but still she hated each and every other girl that was allowed to look at him like that in public. Nina could never do that.
One of the girl's was called Grace but Nina didn't think she had any of that at all. She'd seen her yesterday crawling onto Amidio's lap and laughing, flicking her hair about, wearing that low cut top. She was a fucking slut and Nina hated her so much.
She could never convince herself that the act had been one of passion. She stewed and planned it too long over the course of the night for it to be that. Nina didn't want to be a good girl and she didn't want anyone else touching her brother. She'd make that clear.
She knew where Grace lived and knew which way she walked home from where Amidio and his friends hung out. It was easy to run into Grace in the alleyway she cut through and it was surprisingly easy for Nina to lift the piece of piping she'd found and bring it down on the other girl's head. Nina didn't want her to die. She told herself later and she was almost sure that it was true because she'd thrown that pipe away after she'd hit her just once and then instead started punching her, busting up that pretty little face so no one would want her. Grace tried to fight her off but the blow to the head had clearly stunned her, giving Nina the upper head. When she finally pulled back, breathless, her fists were covered in Grace's blood.
She leaned in and her words were a hiss. "You tell anyone this was me and I'll come fucking kill you."
Then she turned and walked out of the alley, heart trying to escape her chest with adrenalin and hands buried deep in her pockets.
It was over dinner that someone called Amidio and it was clear they were talking about Grace. Nina excused herself and slipped down to her room, sitting on her bed while she caught her breath, knowing Dio would come talk to her soon and praying that little bitch hadn't talked.
He hated when she ignored him during the day. It cut into him and made him act out even more then he usually did. He spend all his time hanging out with the other people who never fit in and tried to pretend everything was normal.
A few people asked if he'd fought with Nina, or if she'd finally wizened up and dumped him like the disease they made him out to be. The ones who said the latter paid for it in blood.
He never noticed the girls. Ever since he and Nina found moments to be together he'd lost interest. No one else would let him do the things Nina let him do and while he hadn't heard her scream for him again anything was better then nothing.
When the phone had rang he'd slipped out to take it, frowning at the news before letting some things fall together. Amidio was smarter then he let himself be, because it drew attention and he didn't like it, and noticed things about Nina no one else did. Like the faint marks on her knuckles that hadn't made sense before, but now did.
With a half assed excuse he slipped from the dinner table to Nina's room, knocking once and moving inside, watching her. "You alright?"
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[info]awaitingstorms 2011-02-11 02:27 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select She had a magazine lying on the bed in front of her when Dio came in and she looked up at him, expression forced into blankness. "Hmm?" she asked and then. "Wasn't really hungry. Who was on the phone?"
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[info]foxy_devil 2011-02-11 02:38 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He glanced back, closing the door a little and walking to her side, gently taking her hand and brushing his fingers over her knuckles. "Nina, we said no more secrets. That was Rick, apparently Grace is in the hospital. What happened?"
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[info]awaitingstorms 2011-02-11 02:42 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Nina curled her hands into fists before putting them behind her back. A pointless gesture since he'd already seen them. She didn't know if she should lie, say that she'd been provoked. She'd never done anything like this before in her life. She'd once slapped a boy at school when she was eleven for looking up her skirt and then run crying to Amidio about it. Nina was the quintessential straight-A good girl.
Truth. Had to be truth.
"I didn't like the way she looked at you," she whispered.
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[info]foxy_devil 2011-02-11 10:07 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He sighed and sat down beside her. He had enough issues with her keeping her distance, with not being allowed to joke and tease like he'd had before. If she kept this from him, he'd not react well.
He set his arm around her shoulders at her whisper, "oh baby." He kissed her temple and sighed. "She's nothing to me. God everyone knows Grace will put out for anyone. I don't want her. I don't want anyone," his voice lowered to a frantic whisper, "not anyone but you alright?"
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[info]awaitingstorms 2011-02-12 03:30 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Nina couldn't look at him. "I don't know what happened," Nina said, rubbing her sore knuckles. "I've never- I just wanted her to hurt. I hit her with this piece of steel piping and then I just kept punching her." Nina used to be so vocal about her dislike for violence. What was happening to her?
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[info]foxy_devil 2011-02-12 03:48 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Gently he took her hands and ran his fingers along her knuckles. "You keep it all bottled up I think. It's fine that you don't like violence, but if you push all of it down it explodes in things like this. I'm not saying be like me, mom and dad would have a fit, but find ways to express it." He shrugged, "pick up some self defense classes or something. Mom keeps going on about it and you'll get to release some of your anger in good ways. I'd let you hit me, but...yeah."
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[info]awaitingstorms 2011-02-12 03:58 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Nina looked at him and smiled with a little bit of amusement. "I don't want to hit you," she assured him. Then she smile faltered and she asked, "we're okay though?"
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[info]foxy_devil 2011-02-12 04:05 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He grinned and released her. "Good." He nodded, "of course we are. I'm not angry at you, just next time tell me first alright?" He rose and kissed the top of her head. "I'll make an excuse for you."
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[info]awaitingstorms 2011-02-12 05:54 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "You're not freaked out?" Nina asked him with a little confusion. "That I went crazy with jealousy and put some girl in hospital?"
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[info]foxy_devil 2011-02-12 06:01 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select "Well I'm worried about you, but no not really freaked out. I mean, yeah you could have been a little gentler with it and need an outlet for all that pent up anger, but you're my Nina." he shrugged, "and besides, I'm your bar to stupid things to do. I'm pretty sure you can't get under it."
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[info]awaitingstorms 2011-02-12 06:04 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select She liked that even when she'd done something as reprehensible as this Amidio was still on her side. She stood up as well and then leaned in and kissed his lips gently. "Thank you."
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[info]foxy_devil 2011-02-12 06:22 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He smiled to the kiss and brushed a strand of hair behind her ears. "You and me remember?" He glanced back, "I should go." He stepped back, missing her presence but there was nothing to be done about it.
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[info]awaitingstorms 2011-02-12 06:29 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Nina nodded, wishing he could stay but knowing how precarious their relationship was. "Love you," she said, using it in place of any 'good night'.
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[info]foxy_devil 2011-02-12 06:48 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select He smiled at that, "love you too." then he left before he was too tempted to stay to make an excuse for her as he had promised.