Louise ("LT"/"Elle") Thompson (elle_tee) wrote in btvsal,
This was a grave mistake. Standing outside of the house at one o'clock in the morning, there was no other way to classify what an erroneous misjudgment this had been. It was all so familiar to her, though there was no reason it should have been – save those times that she'd stood outside in the shadows watching the people within through the windows. She exhaled softly and the breath that slipped passed her lips was cool. She didn't breathe in again.
She was a girl of no more than eighteen or nineteen, if 'girl' was what she could be called. Her face, forever youthful, was beautiful in a cold sort of way. Despite her apparent age, it would have been easy to mistake her for older, if only because of the way she carried herself. She moved with a fluid confidence, had catlike reflexes, and the look in her eyes said she'd seen more than any young girl ever should. Had done more, too.
She knew that Jack was inside, just as surely as she knew that Meredith was not. Well, perhaps this was for the best then. It would prolong her reason for being here, but springing this on them one at a time might have been the better option anyway. Her knuckles rapped on the door and she fought the urge to slip into the shadows. Her dark hair was long and beneath the eaves, her eyes might as well have been black, though they were really a deep, rich brown. In a certain light, turned just the right way, anyone could have mistaken her for Meredith Delaney.
She was dressed in a pair of tight fitting jeans, a black satin corset and a pair of heels that, while they added several inches to her frame, didn't detract from her small stature. After so many years missing, Louise Thompson – or simply "Elle" as she was known to most these days (a lengthened form of "L", for Louise) – looked little worse for wear. Still, there was a wariness in her stance. Not only because she realized that she was about to blow Jack's mind, but because even after so much time, the mere suggestion of seeing him face to face was testing every bit of self-control she possessed.