model_pilot (model_pilot) wrote in kobols_legacies, @ 2008-04-30 21:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | (completed scene), (l) avalon |
A shoulder to lean on.
While not very fast on her feet or graceful, Dani could lumber forward on her own power once she was on her feet. Still, she didn't mind the assistance from her friend as they made their way up the short steps into Sting.
The young woman sighed in relief as she sank into the VIP chair and put her feet up. "The next time I get a wild hair to come down to the deck before the babies are born, Rhys has my permission to chain me to the bed." She joked, trying to relieve the tension in the air from what the other woman had gone through.
"I'll make sure he knows, but you want to see he uses silk ropes, not chains, sweetie, less pain!" The laugh was still brittle, but she managed to sit down in another of the seats in the cabin. There was no slumping, her body still tense, muscles tightly coiled still in response to the attack and desire to lash out. If she stopped long enough to analyse it she would have admitted that she was incredibly grateful for Dani having been there - she didn't want to think just how much she might have lashed out at the woman if she hadn't had Dani to focus on and keep herself in check.
"You're right, silk ropes it is!" Dani laughed along with her friend, letting her hands rest on her swollen midsection as she watched her friend.
The two women sat there in silence for several minutes before Dani couldn't stand it anymore. "Niki, what in the worlds happened?" She burst out, her eyes wide. "I don't think I've been that shocked at another person in years."
Anika swallowed hard, knowing this moment was going to come and hoping hard that it wouldn't, but now it had.
"She accused me of being a drug smuggler, and Sting of being illegal." Her voice was tight, and dropped a few levels as it thickened. "And that I must have run guns before..." Despite her eyes widening she couldn't stop the tears that now welled up, her chin lifting defiantly as she blinked them away, the anger bubbling up again at the poisonous accusations.
Dani's jaw dropped at the words that tumbled out of Anika's mouth. "She what?" It was hard to believe, but she had no reason to think Anika would lie to her. The two women knew practically everything there was to know about each other after three years, and Anika wasn't the lying type.
Accusing Anika of being involved in illegal activities was like dropping a lit match into a pool of tylium fuel, given what had happened with Bryn. The argument obviously had badly shaken her friend, and at the sight of tears Dani gathered Anika into a hug as best she could reaching over the seat.
"Oh Niki, you poor thing..."
Her throat tightened and it hurt something fierce as Anika tried to swallow but couldn't. The malicious venom in the woman's words, the intentionally barbed accusations, in front of the whole hangar, in full hearing of anyone and everyone present...
She squeezed her eyes shut as the tears overflowed and she tightened her hold on Dani. She wouldn't cry. She wouldn't give the bitch any more power over her, would shut her out. Inhaling deeply her voice was still a little shaky. "It's okay, really. She'll get what's coming to her, you know the goddesses will see the balance is found." She had to believe that, it's what gave her the strength to stop from slamming the woman into something hard, despite her intense desire to as the vile, inflammatory words had dripped from her tongue in full hearing of all, as if they were based on some irrefutable facts and not the creation of her apparently disturbed mind.
"She's beyond clueless, and she proved it at the end." Shaking her head she looked around Sting's cabin. "I just wish Sting and I could get off this damned ship and never have to set down here again."
Dani frowned at the remarks. She was friends with both women but couldn't defend Jilleen's actions and how they'd given Anika yet another reason to be distrustful of the military. "It's ok to cry, Anika, nobody but you, me and the twins here will know. It's healthy to let it out, don't bottle it up inside and let it eat you."
Note: This continues from the events in Briefing Anika