i can do anything i want Who: Daisy, Joseph and Marie (NPC) Where: Their home When: Late afternoon Warnings: Violent and disturbing content (NSFW)
Joseph really did not need for Bandit to constantly remind him that Daisy was not behaving like herself. He knew, he really did, he had spent more time around the blonde than the raccoon and he could figure it out all on his own. True, she was acting more right around him than she was otherwise, but it was not quite right. There were these little, tiny things that she normally did that she no longer was. Perhaps she thought that he did not notice since the majority were things that he never responded to in the first place, but the truth was he did. He did not say anything because he did not think that he needed to. Had he not made it abundantly clear that he viewed the matter over and done with? Joseph had gone and done as he did with that woman because of what Daisy had done with that pastor - a man that he wished he could find and send up to his heaven in a blaze more suited to hell - and that was supposed to be that. Since he had been able to move himself past it he figured that Daisy should as well. Why would she do anything else? Except she had burned their bed. And she had been sulking around the house. As though he had done something unreasonable when it had been anything but! One ill turn did indeed deserve another as far as Joseph was concerned and that saying about how two wrongs did not make a right was utter bullshit.
Though he supposed that three would be better yet, which was why he had gone and found the girl from that night. Mary. Marisa. Melina... Marie? Marie, she kept correcting him that her name was Marie and he had remembered it once on their walk back to his house. She had seemed surprised that he came back for her, and Joseph supposed that made sense. He had made no promises and past the vague physical similarities there was nothing of Daisy in her. None of that clinging behavior or need to be wanted and kept and loved... that annoyed him the more that she talked. Joseph had not realized how much he enjoyed that behavior. Oh, it pissed him off to no end on most days, but deep down somewhere he liked it. Daisy acting like that made him feel like the center of the universe and his personality just fed off that. When she acted different it was like it effected him. Not only could he see that her inner flame was flickering slightly but it was having a direct impact on him. Things like that were not supposed to happen, he was not supposed to be so damn connected to another living thing that their mood could bother him. No, he really was not supposed to and yet that was exactly what was happening here. Really, it pissed him off and it only got worse when he realized that he could not fix it by shaking her out of it. Joseph had been around Daisy for long enough to know that while that sometimes worked like a charm, now was not one of them. He knew exactly what she needed to feel better and so he was bringing it to her.
Bandit thought it was funny when Joseph and Marina - 'Marie' - came walking up to the house. He had been sitting on the stairs observing Daisy and making notes on what he should tell Joseph she had not done this time when it happened and he had stuck his little head right through the railings when Joseph locked the door behind them. Then he reached out to hook his arm through Marie's so that he could steer her towards where Bandit had informed him Daisy was. Of course she would be in the kitchen, it was getting on towards dinner time. A crooked grin curved the corner of his mouth as he stopped and reached out for fire. A small flicker sprung up in front of her face, vanishing as quick as it had come. "Daisy, I'd like you to meet Marie."
Marie stared at Daisy and then glanced up at Joseph. "She your roommate or something?"
Joseph shook his head. "She's my girlfriend."
"You didn't say you had a girlfriend!"
"You didn't ask. And shut up, your voice bothers me." Joseph looked back at Daisy and grinned this time. "Say hello to our guest, Daisy. There's a good girl."