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Tweak says, "Gimme moar!"

Marley Brenin (thecaringgift) wrote in nosuchplace,
@ 2008-08-25 23:37:00

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giles audley, marley brenin

Wednesday: September 26, 2007
Who: Marley and Giles
When: Late Afternoon
Where: Garley forest cottage
What: Time to talk

Marley shifted in her seat, eyes looking downwards in attempt to convince herself she wasn’t trying real hard to get a certain someone to understand that she was tired of playing a waiting game. She tried a few things to get Giles to speak. Tapping her fingers obnoxiously, singing, sighing in ways that proved she was annoyed. But still she got nothing. It figured. She planned the perfect time to corner Giles while he was sitting down and now all she was granted was silence and frustration on her end.

Finally she put her feet up on the table and slid down so her shoes were near in her father’s face. “I’m going to keep trying to do something that irritates you until you start talking to me.” She waved a foot back and forth. “You can’t just grumble everyday when I try talking to you. You got to say something. Even if it’s just go away or something.” She folded her arms before she slid back in an upright position. Clearing her throat, Marley fumbled her fingers and held a much more serious expression.

“I’m serious. I know this is weird and all for you. But it’s not like it’s easy for me, either. Stop being so grumpy and just talk to me. It’s not like I expect us to hold hands and frolic around in the woods.” She shrugged, giving him a pout. “I’m a big girl. I've learned well. Lucky for you, you missed the hard work.” There was a teasing look in her eye. She figured if she poked at him a bit she could at least get some words in return.

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thecaringcurse
2008-08-27 11:31 am UTC (link)

"If you think you are annoying me." He looked at her directly, his eyes evident of the annoyance she had been causing him. "You're right." Giles looked to the side and drew out a breath but it was not defeated. "Doesn't mean I'm going to break down and give you some soap opera sob fest. I let you stay here, wasn't that good enough?" He squinted an eye as he inspected her over, luckily she took more of her mothers traits so he could claim he was just babysitting a whiney teenager he found on the road. "And what the hell is up with the hair? Looks like a carrot exploded all over you and you haven't showered since. If I lost you, you're head could be a giant GPS system."

Giles folded his arms on the table with a smug smile. Only fair she would give him a not so subtle kick in the nads for not 'being there' for her as a snipper. "I prefer to be around during the hellish bitchy age where the daughter tells me how to do my job. You know, acts like I am the child." He gave a quick tilt of the head. "Anything else to say?" He batted his eyes sarcastically.

They were like two people in a bitch fight through the past few days. They maybe looked at each other for a moment and his..He shuttered. His daughter was trying to be the mature one who tried to talk it out. He on the other hand went on walks or simply said he 'had to pee' or 'walk the dog' they didn't have. He should have known they would end up in a situation that felt like a giant death match.

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thecaringgift
2008-09-01 09:28 pm UTC (link)

Marley gave a small laugh. “Is that a trick question?” She had so much to say. The words could rush out and be hateful, could be filled with questions and could be everything in between. “First of all, I have to say that I think you are pretty damn low.” She crossed her arms and held her head high at that statement. “Mum did a lot to prevent from telling you she was pregnant and you knew all along. Yet you didn’t even come to see me. I understand that maybe you didn’t want to ruin my life and all that for a good excuse. But we barely made by, the least you could have done was helped us survive.” She ruffled her hair and paused taking a minute to prevent herself from yelling. “Then when you finally see me, you think you redeem yourself by letting me stay here. You haven’t. You don’t even speak to me. You just glance at me like you regret meeting mum. If you don’t want me here just say it instead of making me feel like a giant pile of crap.”

She drew up her knees so she could rest her chin on one of them. “You know. I know being an empath gives me leeway, but I sensed emotion from you when we met at the festival. So it was a fool of me to think that perhaps you would have an ounce of feeling in yourself to want to take care of me. Now, I sense nothing. That’s because an empath to empath can be very dangerous. Like the war of the minds.” She put her palms on the table preparing to leave. “Oh who am I kidding, you are probably not even listening.”

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thecaringcurse
2008-09-01 09:32 pm UTC (link)

Giles gave a huff, of course he was listening. Okay, maybe sort of listening. He was one of those people that liked to hurt others and leave with the sense of feeling like the winner. How come he couldn’t turn the switch off with his own daughter? Ah, yes. Because he just met her. It made him feel even more horrible that Marley sometimes looked so much like her mother. What he meant by sometimes was how she smiled, how she looked when she was hurt. He had forgotten Imogen a long time ago, or so he told himself. So Marley was just a distant remembrance.

“I-“ he grabbed her arm, preventing her from leaving. God, it was hard to deal with such sappy emotions. How did people do this? Yet how did he do this? Live such a life with a strong emotional barrier. That was their first problem. His parents were harsh and Marley’s mother and whomever took care of her were the gushy touchy ‘oh come here I love you’ type. They had a long way to go and he had no idea how they were going to make it. Not to mention he couldn’t comfort, he couldn’t use ‘warm’ words and he couldn’t be responsible if his life counted on it. Not if it didn’t have a medical purpose to it.

“I was listening..please don’t leave.” He thought the moment was for once okay. “And by the way, if I am not mistaken you are eighteen, so you have to leave if I ask you to.”

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thecaringgift
2008-09-01 09:36 pm UTC (link)

Marley gave a somewhat softened gaze as she sat back down, looking over at her father, if he wished to be called it with a sweetened gaze. "You’re going to suck at this. I know you will for awhile. But it is okay. I mean, what can you do right? It’s not like you were there since I was little.” She bit her lip, hating the way that sounded but for some reason she felt no need to take it back. After a long moment of silence she took out a picture of Giles she had seen when she was a child and handed it to him. “I saw this when I was a kid. She gave it to me. She had tons of pictures of you all over the place. It used to piss of Pierce, mum’s boyfriend. He tried to marry her..but.” She swallowed hard. “But I think she was still kind of hoping-” She waved a hand to dismiss the thought. “Anyways, point is. That’s how I knew and everything. Looks just like you now. You are just cranky and have scruff and all. You haven’t aged all that much.”

Her feet shuffled underneath and her hand extended to try and get the picture back. “I, I like that picture. It’s the only one I was able to get back. The other pictures are back home and you know, I obviously can’t go back to get them. Please. I would like it back.”

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thecaringcurse
2008-09-01 09:45 pm UTC (link)

Giles looked at the old picture of himself. It was him, he remembered it like yesterday. Usually his cranky ass mind tended to forget good times. “This..she kept this? I look like a miserable old fool.” That’s what he was now. She warned him that if he took the path of medicine he would be nothing but a miserable old-“We were at some beach.” He looked at her. “Knowing you, you just want to know everything. You know, tender moments crap.” The Brit went back to the picture. “I refused to go swimming and she took that picture while I was bitching. I never was a ray of sunshine. Remember that. Don’t go on believing that I ever had a nice streak. When she talked about me being ‘who I was’ it just meant that I had a better chance of being stand able.”

He reluctantly handed it back to her. “You’re right. I would suck at a father. So, to answer your accusation from earlier of me not helping you keeping your heads up..That’s why I didn’t return to you guys. I figured it was better for you to angst over having a crappy father instead of seeing a father who left every night to go to work, was detached and preferred work over people. I think you would have had a better chance of feeling like I didn’t ‘love’ you then, more than you do now.” He rubbed his creasing forehead. “And who gives a crap about my approval of love? Parents are pains in the asses. Eventually all you want is for them to go away. They always want to know where you are going, when you will be back, yada yada. That’s all you missed.”

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thecaringgift
2008-09-01 09:49 pm UTC (link)

Marley rolled her eyes as she took the picture. “ I want your approval because that is what mum would have wanted.” She tried to leave it at that. Maybe it would be a little overwhelming for him to know what happened. “Trust me, this moment would have meant a lot. I was surprised to see you here. But since you seemed very wrapped up in yourself, it is no shocker to me that you are alive.” She knocked towards him. “Must be difficult to be somewhat mean yet have emotions at the same time. Maybe that means that naturally deep, deep deep somewhere you are a loving person.”

She wiggled her brows and set a foot on the table. “I’m glad we talked at least a bit. It’s better than you ignoring me. You have no idea how awkward that made me feel.”

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thecaringcurse
2008-09-01 09:54 pm UTC (link)

Giles did wonder what happened to Imogen so he asked casually. “Car accident?” He looked towards the opposite wall. “I just had a feeling. Cancer doesn’t run in her family and car accidents just happen to be a common bitch.” That sounded insensitive. Didn’t it? “..Just to be you know. Not running towards diseases.” He then have a disgusted huff. “I am an asshole. No if ands and the rest. When you answer the question we are done with this. Maybe everyday I can answer a question a day or something. Or the deal can be you can stay and I'll talk as I am ready. The father duty is exhausting as hell. Think of it this way, I am an old fart. Answering too many questions could kill me or something. Father duty, done.”

This fact was true, though harsh. “If this virus didn’t strike Marley, we probably would have never met. So, you are lucky I’m even doing it this way. Not to mention I am letting you stay so be quiet and take the offer. ”

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thecaringgift
2008-09-01 10:00 pm UTC (link)

Marley have a scolding look, a warning glare in her eyes. “Always going back to being so rude, I see." She got up, getting ready to leave to enjoy the fresh air. “She died trying to tell you about me. When really you knew about me all along.” She passed him and set her hand on his shoulder for a moment. “I guess we do have something in common, father” She made sure the word sunk in, he couldn’t deny being a her flesh and blood. “We both could have stopped her.”

Marley may have been much nicer than Giles, but she was capable of having a bit of venom in her. She gave Giles a slightly dark look as she turned to look at him in the doorway. “Don’t wait up for me. Remember, I am eighteen now.” With that, she went off into the refreshing air, beginning the life between herself and her father.

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