Heart to Heart Date & Time: Thursday, February 2003 | evening Post Type: RP Status: Closed: Complete Character(s): Lisa Turpin, Michael Corner Location: Lisa's flat Summary: Lisa and Michael finally air some things out.
Lisa sat cross-legged on her bed, staring down at her hands. Clasped between her thumb and forefinger, she had a woman's wedding band, and the man's lay in her open palm. She turned it so the light caught the delicate pattern engraved on its surface: a dragon and a phoenix, not warring, but working together to protect the wearer. One was all-powerful, long-lived, and terrifying. The other was lithe and beautiful, and held the promise of rebirth. She'd never really given serious thought to something like wedding vows, and especially not to the symbolism of a ring, but she thought her mum's family had had the right idea in designing these. They practically radiated with an energy that could protect a union that was as everlasting as marriage was supposed to be.
Except they hadn't exactly worked the last time, had they?
She sighed and replaced the second ring in its box, keeping the woman's ring clasped between her fingertips. Lisa wished she could remember her mum wearing it, but even her dad had stopped wearing his by the time she was old enough to notice something like that. She only knew about them at all because he'd shown them to her, and because she'd heard Aunt Imogen talk about them. Being the elder sister, she would have gotten them, except that her husband's family had its own heirloom bands, and they'd chosen to use those instead. It seemed unfair that these were lying dormant. Her parents should have had so many more good years before these would be passed to grandchildren, or even great-grandchildren.
Normally she didn't linger on those sorts of thoughts, because her mum had been gone a long time. Twenty-three years now. Even her dad had mostly moved on. But it was hard having possession of the rings now, with being given the responsibility to continue their legacy. She'd barely reconciled herself with the idea of dating a guy, much less bloody marrying one, but these rings felt so damned important that she couldn't stop thinking about it.
And Isaac....
Her chest tightened and a lump formed in her throat. If she was truthful with herself, she was thinking a lot about the rings and what they meant to her family...but mostly she was thinking about him.