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Tweak says, "You and I - defying gravity!"

Colin Hammond (cloudedwaters) wrote in darkdividerpg,
@ 2014-08-30 14:46:00

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character: eli lasko, character: max lasko, date: 08.14.14, type: group scene

Look at Little Sister
Who: Colin, Eli, and Emma, later Max
What: Visiting family
When: August 14th, Thursday Evening
Where: The Stumble Inn
Warning: Language

Emma had been ridiculously busy for her lack of commitments. Which had Colin even more interested in what was going on his youngest sister's life. While he was the most understanding in the family of Emma's need to make her own way in the world, she could get carried away. Often.

He'd given up on trying to get a call back to schedule time to meet with her and just decided to choose a slower weeknight evening to show up at her place of work. Dressed casually in jeans and a button down shirt, he headed straight for the bar when he spotted his sister's black dyed head. Sitting down at an empty stool, he waited until she came over. "You are a hard woman to pin down, Emma," he teased her. "Did I make inadvertantly make you mad enough not to return my calls or were you just trying to make me play hide and seek?" His littlest sister loved to play games. She swore she hated politics, but there was a set of politics that had to be played with her to keep her from shutting him out the way she had the rest of the family.

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middlem
2014-08-31 10:10 am UTC (link)

She gave him a pained look. "Please don't ask me to do that with my family, Eli. Please, please don't ask that of me. I would give you the moon and stars if you wanted them, but I can't do that. You don't understand. You've only met one of them and for a few minutes. You don't understand the issues, and they aren't something that's going to work out. I can't do that for even you." That finally got a few tears. There were years of resentment and jealousy involved in that issue, and the expectations and requirements they'd expect of her would change her back to the girl she morphed out of.

She thought she had been apologizing, so she was confused. "Isn't that what admitting I've done it wrong and that I need to try to do better apologizing?" It was the closest thing she'd ever gotten around to saying as an apology. The words were hard, it had been hard enough to admit that on its own. She felt bruised and battered after this, and completely insecure. Emma wasn't sure she could fix this.

Then Eli let go and stumbled. Emma immediately lurched forward to grab a hold of him, screaming as he fell. She sank with him as he went to the ground. "Fuck no, I'm not leaving you out here like this! Forget it!" She sat and held him in her arms, rocking back and forth with him against her chest, reaching for her phone to try and call inside the bar.

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