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Tweak says, "What is this? A missle launch"

Anthony D'Oro | St. Anthony (findwhatwaslost) wrote in nevermore_logs,
@ 2012-08-05 23:16:00

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saint anthony, veronica reppyi

Who: Veronica & Anthony
What: Making up for being the absent Saint boyfriend
When: Monday afternoon
Where: Veronica's place

Anthony knew he was in for it this time. When you saw your girlfriend's sister more than your girlfriend, the world was just upside down and inside out. Monique had told him as much that morning, when she marched into his inner office and gave him what he'd privately dubbed the 'scary stare'. Because it was. It made lesser men quail under its power.

"You need to go see V," she'd announced, pinning him to his chair. "You haven't been by the house in weeks, she has to get updates about you from me, and that's just not on, mate. Get up, go get her some flowers and some lunch, and take some bloody time off. There is nothing in this office that can't wait a few days."

"OK, OK!" he said, raising his hands in surrender. "I'm going, I'm going, lay off the scowl."

So he'd picked her up a nice bouquet of summer flowers, along with some Indian food, and knocked on her door. "I am a terrible boyfriend," he told her when she came to the door. "And I wanted to try and make it up to you, at least a little."

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vreppyi
2012-08-06 04:59 am UTC (link)

On the whole, Veronica tried to understand when Anthony was busy. He was a Saint, and he had Important Things to do, but still. She was young and wanted a bit more attention for herself.

She'd complained about that to her sister, and when she opened the door to Anthony with flowers figured Nikkie had passed the message along. In her own way.

"I'm not arguing the first point." But she smiled and took the flowers. "But this is a good start. Thank you. Not completely off the hook though." She

could

be angry, but he was apologizing so there was no point to that.

"Come on in. Bernie's in school."

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findwhatwaslost
2012-08-06 10:23 am UTC (link)

"I know, and I don't expect to be," he said. "But I've heard I've been slacking, so I'm here to try to fix my mistakes. And my mother gave me a piece of advice once, a long time ago. She told me, 'When you care about someone, Fernando, you don't disappoint them'. Fernando was my birth name, I don't know if I ever told you that. But I've been a letdown lately, and I know that. And like Nikkie said, there's nothing in the office that can't wait. I've set it up so the police refer the cases they would've given to me to another agency for the next week. So if you want to do something...I've got nothing but time."

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vreppyi
2012-08-06 04:13 pm UTC (link)

She watched him and smiled. Maybe it was a Saint power in that you couldn't stay angry at them, but it seemed to work. Shaking her head she pulled him down into a kiss before letting him go. "Babbling there

Fernando

." He wasn't going to live that one down.

Chuckling she moved inside and into the kitchen to put the flowers in a vase. "I do try and understand. You have important things. I'm not the only one who needs you. And I get I'm probably the first relationship you've had in a long time, but these kinds of things take work and I don't want to have to keep chasing you down." She frowned and paused to look at him, "so if you think you can't do this, I have the right to know."

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findwhatwaslost
2012-08-09 05:38 am UTC (link)

He grinned. "Oh, hush. My mother picked it out. And yeah, I do that when I'm nervous."

"First one ever, actually," he said quietly. "So I literally have no idea what I'm doing. At all. Yes, there are things I have to do, and people who need me, but it's not fair to you to get lost in the shuffle. I'm literally out of my time and trying to catch up to modern America. You should hear my double in Padua laugh at me sometimes. I...I really want to make this work. But I'm probably going to need your help."

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vreppyi
2012-08-09 09:09 pm UTC (link)

She sighed at him, "You have to let me help Anthony. You can't hide in your office and then remember I'm with you. I'll only wait for you for so long, and maybe that's cruel but I am young and unlike some don't get to live forever."

She glanced to one of her son's drawings, "And there's more then me to consider in this. Realize you're taking on two things here, one of them a demi-god. Just, please promise me I won't have to keep running after you?"

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findwhatwaslost
2012-08-13 08:11 am UTC (link)

"I'm not asking you to wait forever, that's not fair to you," he said. "So please believe me when I say I'm more than willing to let you help me. I could really use that right now."

That hit him like a punch to the gut, and he realized just how much his actions affected the people around him. "I promise," he said quietly. "I like spending time with you and Bernie, and if I have to prove that to both of you all over again, then I will."

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vreppyi
2012-08-13 08:17 am UTC (link)

She handed him a cup of tea and sighed, "maybe. I like you Anthony but I often feel like I'm doing everything alone here. And I'm not saying that to keep hashing on it, but it feels true. And I get this is a big first for you but you said you loved me right?"

Smiling she set her hand on his arm, "and love is more then saying it. Go with your gut. If you make a mistake, you correct it and learn from it. And seriously you're like god knows how many years older then me and the girl who got pregnant at 16 is giving you advice." She smirked at him. "Live, alright? If God's real, I'm pretty sure He's going to frown at you just existing."

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