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Tweak says, "I'm your father!"

Piper Wood (piperwood) wrote in landing_rpg,
@ 2009-08-09 08:52:00

Who: Piper and Tony
What: Talking
Where: Outside the library
When: Before rounds
Rating: TBD

When she had first started walking to meet Tony that evening, Piper hadn't been entirely worried about what it was Tony had to tell her. As she got closer to the library, however, she was in an entirely different state of mind. If it wasn't anything bad, wouldn't Tony have just told her over the journals? Why would he have asked to meet her somewhere to tell her face to face? What was so horrible that he felt uncomfortable saying in writing?

Piper had reached their meeting place before Tony and rested her back against the wall as she waited. It could be good news, right? It could've been such good news that he wanted to see her face when she reacted.

But Piper wasn't exactly leaning toward optimistic these days, and she sighed as she let herself acknowledge the situation she was in, and tried not to think too much about what was about to happen when Tony appeared.

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slythjunior
2009-08-10 08:15 pm UTC (link)

Tony looked away for a moment when she demanded to know why he didn't tell her. He had hoped she wouldn't get made, but it may be unavoidable now. So he was just going to have to tell her the truth.

"I didn't even hear them talking about it till the last week I was home. They didn't know I heard them talking either," Tony said explaining. "I guess I was... just in denial myself. I didn't want to believe it," he said looking at her now. "I thought it would go away. Dad would come to his senses... but still no word of her leaving. But no official word about getting married either. So I don't know," Tony said lifting his hand up to pinch the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes. "I'm sorry. I should have told you sooner."

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piperwood
2009-08-10 08:55 pm UTC (link)

It was hard to stay mad at him sometimes. He got these looks that made her feel... bitchy for yelling at him, or he'd do little gestures, like pinching the bridge of his nose that showed how stressed he was, and how little her being angry was helping, but today she pressed on.

In all honesty, she wasn't really angry at him so much as she was angry with her mother and the situation in general, but she, of course, didn't realize that.

"So I guess you're my stepbrother now," she mumbled. That was so much worse than sharing a brother. There was no avoiding that. It was in your face inescapable, relationship-ruining disaster. "I guess that's it." She picked up a scrap of parchment laying next to her, crumbled it up and tossed it bitterly to the side. "There's really nothing else to say, is there?"

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slythjunior
2009-08-10 11:05 pm UTC (link)

"If not now, then I will be," Tony said, though he didn't exactly want to admit that. This was why he'd been in denial. Why he didn't want to tell Piper. It hurt, more than anything. He wanted to be with Piper. At least he thought he did... but now his parents had ruined everything.

"I guess not," he said when Piper asked if there was anything else for them to say. He didn't know what, if there was anything else. He could apologize, but what good would it do.

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