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Ned ([info]bakersman) wrote in [info]labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-06-11 00:58:00

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Entry tags:complete, day eleven, ned the piemaker, olive snook

Who: Olive and Ned
What: A revealed secret that's a looong time coming
When: Day 11, afternoonish
Where: Olive's room
Rating: Put a PG-13 on it for safety's sake
Status: All done!



It was only across the hall, but the walk from Ned's room to Olive's felt like the longest of his life. Chuck had known his secret right away. Well, minus the telling her that he was responsible for killing her father part. Which was pretty major and the cause of his current dilemma with her. But she'd known about the finger from the very beginning. She sort of had to, it was the whole reason she was alive.

No one was ever supposed to know. Ned had worked his whole life to keep it a guarded secret. Then Emerson had caught him and blackmailed him, and while they were roughly friends in the end, it had started rocky. But no one else. No one. And that had included Olive. How crazy did it sound that he could touch something and bring it back to life? It was like something out of a storybook.

Or, apparenty, a television show. Who knew?

Despite his resolve not to speak a word until he could do so without singing, Ned made the trip across the hall, Digby trotting at his heels. He gave his faithful friend a smile in thanks for the moral support, but ultimately, he was still the human and still had to be the one to knock on the door.



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[info]ittybitty
2009-06-17 08:49 am UTC (link)
Olive wrinkled her nose at his descriptions of the dead guys. Olive had seen dead guys before, but not exactly in the way he was describing it now. Ew. "Remind me to be thankful later that I didn't ever go to the morgue with you guys." Right now she was still stung at the fact she'd been left in the dark for so long.

And then he'd gone and talked about Chuck. Like it was no big deal, like Olive didn't hate her for managing to get Ned to love her when Olive never had. Well he wouldn't say never. Blasted double negatives. She sighed and didn't comment on Chuck's usefulness at the morgue, she just nodded and hoped the conversation would move past her quickly.

Olive may have understood, but she was still rather upset about the whole situation. But she was also conflicted. She was grateful not to have another secret to add to the pile of secrets she already carried around, but also bothered that they hadn't wanted to tell her. Now, that wasn't to say she didn't understand. She wasn't sure she'd go boasting about this sort of power, either.

When he started to speak about his Mother, Olive's eyes widened and she felt tears welling in her eyes. "Oh my God. Ned, that's... what a terrible thing for a little boy to go through." She couldn't imagine bringing your mother back to life, only to discover that once she touched him again (which was inevitable) she would die all over again. And for Chuck's father to have been a variable in all of that seemed to make it that much worse. She felt her little heart break into a million pieces for the loss her best friend and the man she loved had experienced.

When he finished speaking, she nearly vaulted out of her chair, launching herself at him. She hugged him tightly, wanting him to know that she was sorry, that she sympathized with him. She really wanted to tell him that things worked out between Ned and Chuck, but she didn't know how he would take it. She knew he would be happy, of course, but she seemed to be getting closer to him lately and she didn't want any sort of wedge to drive them apart. Especially a wedge named Chuck.

"I'm so sorry, Ned." She let him go after a while, and as she sat back down in her chair she knew that she had to tell him the truth. It was another secret, and they really didn't need that many secrets between friends. "I think she must have forgiven you because after I got back from the Nunnery, she moved back in with you." She sighed and gave him a small smile. There, she'd said it.

"Listen Ned, I think we need to get all the secrets out in the open. If there's anything else you want to tell me, you should tell me. I don't really want to keep your future from you, but I will if you want. I'm sure it's strange for you. Hell, it's strange for me." She gazed across the table at him, waiting.

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