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Tweak says, "Keep your hands to yourself"

Thierry Bellamy & Jonathan Crane are (antiqued) wrote in doors,
@ 2012-10-06 08:48:00

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catwoman, john blake

[Wren M]
[Thanks to the wonders of technology, the only thing in this entry are several links to pictures in a digital photo album. The pictures are out of focus, hardly done with a practised hand, but the objects in them are more than visible. Photographs of photographs, old ones by the look of it. Laughing teenagers, teenagers in a graveyard in New Orleans, a boy and a girl. The fashions date them from early 80s easily. No writing accompanies the pictures.]

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	Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 12:59 am UTC (link)
	[On the journals, after about five hours.] She was beautiful. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 01:07 am UTC (link)
	[an hour or so later] She was. She was a good friend. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 01:09 am UTC (link)
	~~She never mentioned you~~ I don't look like her. I always wished I did when I was little. You were good friends from the looks of it in the pictures. I'm assuming that's you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 01:11 am UTC (link)
	I saw you a couple times when you were a baby, but if you're anything like your mother, I'm sure you're beautiful in your own way. Yes, we were good friends. That's me, a few of our other friends from school. [...] Do you know who your father was, Wren? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 01:13 am UTC (link)
	[Quickly, without any space to think before typing.] She's dead. You can't send her to jail for what she did. [...] Sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 01:14 am UTC (link)
	That's not why I asked, Wren. The past is the past. I'm not here to dredge anything up. Just trying to connect some pieces of the puzzle. Some people. You didn't answer my question. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 01:18 am UTC (link)
	[There's another significant delay here. Nearly an hour.] You're the one bringing up the past, not me. [A long cursor blink before she types again.] Not his name. I know he was really old, and married, and with a bunch of daughters. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 01:20 am UTC (link)
	[almost immediately] His name was Quentin Bellamy. He was married. Had several daughters. And he wasn't that old, not really. Old enough that he and I got along pretty well, though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 01:25 am UTC (link)
	[A longer delay, once which comes with enough pacing that Finch and Gus start to follow her around the living room halfway through. Eventually:] You were [...] friends? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 01:26 am UTC (link)
	Brothers. Thierry Bellamy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 01:28 am UTC (link)
	[Panic. Quiet. Nothing.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 01:30 am UTC (link)
	The past is the past. I've no grudges, no hard feelings. But if you're my niece, I would like to know you better. Your mother was a good friend, Wren. I got into more than my share of trouble with her, and I've nothing but fond memories of her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 01:50 am UTC (link)
	You're telling me you don't care that my maman murdered your brother and nieces? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 01:52 am UTC (link)
	Do I care? Yes, of course I care. But there's nothing I can do to change that. I would rather focus on what we have now. You're family, Wren. And family has always been something important to myself, to my parents. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 01:56 am UTC (link)
	[...] Your parents. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 01:57 am UTC (link)
	My parents, yes. They're still around. They settled in northern Louisiana after Katrina. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 02:22 am UTC (link)
	Oh. I didn't think- I always assumed everyone died. That there was no one but- He wasn't a very nice man, or so my maman said. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Quentin was very much his own person. I was only 16 when he died, though, so my memories of him come from the eyes of a boy who idolized his brother. At least until I found out what he was doing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 02:49 am UTC (link)
	[...] You're a lot younger than he was. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 02:51 am UTC (link)
	By twelve years. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Oh. [...] I'm sorry. That must have been really hard. Dieu, that doesn't sound like enough, but I don't know what to say more than that. Sorry? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 02:54 am UTC (link)
	You've no reason to apologise to me, Wren. [...] You speak French? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 03:20 am UTC (link)
	Oui. Fluently. My maman always spoke French at home. Did you talk to her at all after she left New Orleans? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 03:22 am UTC (link)
	Our family is French. My parents came over before they had Quentin and I. We spoke French at home as well. And no, I did not. I studied abroad for a while, and then went to university. I honestly - I haven't spoken to her since shortly after you were born. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 03:32 am UTC (link)
	Things didn't go very well for her in Florida. [...] What did you study, if you don't mind my asking? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 03:34 am UTC (link)
	Can I ask what happened? History. Always been interested in old things, I guess. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 03:49 am UTC (link)
	She became a prostitute. She was killed when I was thirteen. History. I like that. Maman used to take us into antique stores all the time when I was little. She loved old things. She thought they were romantic. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 03:51 am UTC (link)
	[...] I'm sorry for your loss, Wren. Maybe that's one of the reasons I got into antiques. The history in things always fascinated me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 04:06 am UTC (link)
	It was a long time ago. Are you married? Do you have children? I guess that's kind of a question about history. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 04:36 am UTC (link)
	No, not married. No children that I know of. Just me, myself, and I. Yourself? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 04:50 am UTC (link)
	A boyfriend, and a little boy, and a lot of friends. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 04:54 am UTC (link)
	Are you happy? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 04:57 am UTC (link)
	Sometimes. It's complicated here, and I have a [...] my past is not so good, and sometimes it makes things hard. But you're on here, which means you have a journal - a book, or a phone? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 05:00 am UTC (link)
	If there's ever anything I can do to help, don't hesitate to let me know. Other than my shop, I've a lot of time on my hands. It's a paper journal. Fitting. Though I've recently acquired an iPad after being told I live too far in the past. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 05:13 am UTC (link)
	Thank you. [...] Do you go through your door often? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 06:28 am UTC (link)
	I've only had a chance to twice, now. It's interesting, these doors. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 06:30 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure I would call it interesting. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 06:34 am UTC (link)
	For someone who has only known about this less than a month, interesting works. I take it it's been moreso for you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 06:50 am UTC (link)
	Eight months now, give or take. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 04:28 pm UTC (link)
	And I'm going to assume, by the way you spoke moments ago, that it's been hard? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	I'm really sorry to say this, but I think you'll probably understand once you've been here a little while longer. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	In forty years, I've hard my share of troubles. Whatever this place brings, I'll figure out a way to work through it, somehow. When you've a free moment, I'd like to see you. If you don't mind. I've some pictures you might like to have. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	Let me think it over? This [...] it's a lot all at once. I'll get back in touch with you here? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B antiqued 2012-10-07 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	There's no rush at all. You let me know what you're comfortable with. I've called Vegas home for a couple years, and I don't believe I'll be going anywhere for many more. I have a shop off the strip, if you ever want to stop by. Patch Antiques. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Wren M/Thierry B laminette 2012-10-07 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	Okay. Thank you. (Reply to this) (Parent)