Chance Avaritia "Greed" (better_than) wrote in nevermore_logs, @ 2013-03-29 22:17:00 |
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Entry tags: | greed, zoe hansen |
Who: Greed and Zoe and [NPC Mary the preacher's daughter]
When: Friday afternoon
What: Tackles, new girlfriends, old girlfriends and deals to be made...
Where: Streets, icecream shop and Greek restaurant.
Zoe couldn't believe it was Friday. She hadn't spoken to Greed since Monday and she hadn't seen him for over a week and a half. Yet he still managed to crush her by telling her about blowjobs and makeout sessions. It was behavior that showed he wasn't ready to be with her. It hurt. But she rather know now. She just thought Lithuania had been.. special. But all it did was give Greed a lot of guilt. She put it out of her mind and was a lot more calm about it than she thought she would be and carried on with her life.
She was thrilled when she got a new job and it was at a toy store, the largest one in New York, FAO Schwartz. She was leaving the store after getting her schedule and other materials. She was running dangerously low on money and rent was coming up. Plus work kept her mind off Greed.
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It wasn't easy for Greed. He couldn't put into words the mixed bag of feelings that was flooding in and out of his body. The boy that got to have Zoe, and the sin that wanted to have her.
His focus for days had been off. He hadn't talked to her, texted or seen her. He missed her but didn't realize how much when he was with someone else. Mary had wiggled over a few times, each one ending like the last----with a mountain of guilt. Greed had done as Zoe had expressed. He tried and tried again. Thursday night he had hit up the club with Mary and a few of her friends. There was some dancing, a few gropes (from both sides), and some tongue, but that emptiness Greed couldn't shake. He was surrounded by dozens of sexy females and only one came to mind. He was becoming his own dancing monkey.
He left Mary there at the club with her friends, spending his night not with a girl in his lap but killing zombies with his controller. He may have had no contact but he had the memories, ones buried so deep Lust couldn't get them. He had tasted heaven, and it had slipped away.
That afternoon he had been passing by the store, looking for something to tangle his attentions with. Running around with kids always was a treat. He would turn that store inside out for days. He had been looking at the window display salivating over something when he caught a glimpse of a familiar ass in a familiar set of jeans. When he looked up to her face, Zoe was mowed down by an excited Greed like a puppy.
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Zoe had just put the paperwork in her bag when she let out a yelp as someone slammed right into her. And down she fell into the grass with an oof! as it still hurt. She was freaked out at first but she recognized those arms that grabbed her, “Chance!?” she ugh’d and let her head softly hit back against the grass. She thought she was getting mugged.
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He petted her face with his hand, excited to see those big brown eyes and button nose. He'd grown antsy without her, without Lust. Greed wasn't a lone wolf, he liked company in the same way Lust needed touch. Greed was a hoarder of attention.
He'd thrown her down in a tackle like a line backer, it was amazing he hadn't broken anything. Before he let her up he pelted her cheeks with kisses.
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She was happy to see him if not completely shocked. She grinned but frowned when he petted her face like he’d just found his lost puppy. She couldn’t help it and laughed, rich and soft right into his ear when he dropped kisses all over her cheeks. Her arms loosely went around his neck and she looked at him, “Hi.” she wasn’t happy with him still, but she’d missed him.
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Nearly two weeks. Nearly the same amount of time he'd spent getting to explore her. Things he didn’t want to forget. Things Lust would have taken from him in this amount of time.
It may have been a shock to her but not to her the kiss that followed on her lips. ___________________
She leaned back but not far enough that she could avoid getting captured by his lips. Soft pillow lips that always made her forget everything. Like the fact they were in public and kissing on the ground like teenagers. Her hand curled against the back of his head, the fingers traveling down to the nape.
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Jesus he had missed that. That simple touch and smack of her lips were like electricity through his body----something he had been missing in this little experiment of his. Mary was just that. Someone to put in front of him to see a reaction, what his mind was telling him to do. He threw himself into compromising positions to remind himself of Zoe. To keep Lust on the ropes because Greed wasn't going to forget. Mary wasn't a distraction, she was the reminder of what he wanted. Zoe had said to try again, he had and sadly he was setting Mary up for a threesome she didn't sign on for. His mind wasn't where it was before leaving the country.
He didn't let her touch him when she hit spots that his body had reserved for Zoe. After that one blow job, she was lucky to get anything past a kiss. Greed was testing his own limits and seeing not only did his mind want Zoe, his body did as well.
He picked himself up off the poor girl after a few more pecks against her smooth lips. He gave her a hand, pulling her up out of the grass.
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She took his hand automatically to get helped up, not thinking about the fact that most likely she wasn’t getting it back. She tried to tug it loose subtly but it was clamped on tight in his paws. She looked down at herself and she had mud stains some grass sticking to her, she even had a few blades of grass in her hair. “I’m going to guess this was a surprise?” since if he had been stalking her she doubted he’d have waited this long to tackle her.
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Her hand was a magnet to his, he twirled her around and back in his arms for one big squish in his arms. "Yes!" He was practically beaming, still bouncing on the balls of his feet like a hyperactive pet.
He suddenly forgot that he was supposed to meet Mary somewhere around here. But now he had something even better.
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She grinned when he twirled her and squished her to him again. Say what you wanted about him but she didn’t know a single man on the planet that would greet a girl like that. She gave him a look but that soft smile slid in place, “So... that means you’re not ready, this just was a coincidence.” he wasn’t supposed to see her till he was ready.
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"It is coincidence." But he was happy. Happier than he had been in weeks. He wanted to cling to her like glue, because it was so inappropriate.
It was then that Mary stepped in with her long legs and semi-blonde hair. She was gorgeous but Greed didn't even do more than glance over his shoulder when she called out his name.
Mary? Who was that? His favorite person in the world was right in front of him. He may not have been ready this week, but by the reaction of his mind and body at seeing Zoe on a whim, it was more clear cut than either of them had thought.
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Zoe was going to say something logical and rational and she tried to ignore how could it felt to have Greed’s arms wrapped around her. But before she could say anything A pair of legs with blonde hair was in the picture.
She wriggled around in Greed’s arms and kept looking at Mary as she said, “Uh.. I think someone’s trying to get your attention..”
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Mary waved as he looked over his shoulder again. Suddenly, he was put in an awkward situation that most boys would try to back peddle out of. Not Greed.
"That's Mary." He stepped back still clinging to Zoe's hand. He looked at Mary with a bright grin. "This is Zoe."
Mary was a little taken back. This was bold if anything. "Your girlfriend?" She asked looking Zoe over, not as disrespectfully as Lust would have, but she was a little prickly.
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Zoe’s eyes got as big as saucers. Was he kidding her with this? Mary? As in sucked my dick Mary? Was he really introducing her to-- was he really still seeing that girl? This was the weirdest.. she could kick him but instead she gave a nervous smile to the blonde.
“I’m not his girlfriend.” she said it in a way that suggested that was not gonna happen any time soon for Greed’s benefit. She yanked her hand out of Greed’s and extended it to the girl, “Nice to meet you.”
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Greed's bottom lip hung out in a pout. Zoe thought nothing of her hand being jerked away but he stared at his empty one for the longest time. Even more annoying was the fact that she disregarded the girlfriend title. It was possessive, it was a term he liked being given to something he treasured. He'd never gotten to use it before.
Mary didn't grab Greed's hand, but she took hold of Zoe's with a firm shake. She felt like the other woman. She knew he was flighty, but no idea that he had someone else on the side. She punched him in the arm. It was supposed to be playful but it was a little harder of a punch than she'd intended.
"Silly goose. You forgot about our date?"
Greed looked at her flatly. "It's icecream. Not a date." He was hungry. She'd texted.
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Zoe smiled at Greed with fake brightness, “Sounds like a date to me!” she looked at Mary with the same smile, “He’s commitmentphobic. How long have you guys been dating?”
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Greed shot Zoe a death glare. It wasn't a date! Where the hell were these girls coming up with the assumption?
"It's not a fucking date! We've fucked a few times. That doesn't constitute this as a date."
Mary was a bit surprised at his outburst. "I met him a few weeks ago at church." She was ready to slug him in the face, but she wasn't going to take this too personal.
"Sorry sugar," she pinched his cheek. "It is a date." He instantly was turned off by her touching and petting, it was obvious he didn't like being groomed by her.
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Zoe sighed with exaggeration, “Chance, remember when I told you that if you spend time with a girl outside of actual sex that’s considered dating?” she batted her lashes at him.
“At church? A few weeks ago.” she gave Greed a look. A few weeks ago was right before he went with her to Lithuania. And now they were back, she couldn’t put out so he was getting sucked by Mary and now was dating her. Did Zoe really expect anything less? “That is adorable. I was actually on my way home so don’t let me interrupt you two cute kids.”
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"My father is a preacher." One look at her attire said otherwise. She definitely did not let church get in her way of having fun. She pawed at Greed's ear, that move he said he hated when she rubbed it between her fingers in some kind of intimate way. He looked like he was ready to murder her right there on the street. He could shove her in front of traffic. She was getting in his way now, that would make this short lived.
"Join us!" Greed said with the bat of his own lashes. Like he was really going to let her walk away? Like fucking hell. He grabbed at Zoe's hand.
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Zoe smiled again, “Oh that’s sweet. Chance is a church going boy, never misses a service.” Mary’s clear mine mine mine behavior with Greed didn’t go unnoticed and Zoe had a good mind to let him continue dating this chick as payback.
She deftly moved her hand away before he could grab it, that sickly sweet smile in place, “Oh no. Two’s company.” she held up two fingers in a V for victory sign, “Three’s a crowd.” she held up three fingers and wiggled them.
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Mary put her arm around Greed's with a soft smile. So who was this girl that had the boy so ecstatic? He certainly wasn't this excited to see her. "Why don't you join us. Chance seems eager for you to stay." She was more than curious. He had been a complete sloth for days.
Greed dropped his arm like a limp fish. "Don't," he warned her through a thin lip. There was a bus making its way down the street. She would do well to get on it or become a bug on the windshield.d.
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Zoe smacked him with the back of her hand on his arm, “Be nice to your date.” she smiled because this was kinda fun to watch. She hated him right now but knowing he was miserable made it bearable.
She nodded at Mary, “Maybe for a few minutes. He’s just excited that I got a job at the toy store, that’s all.” not that Greed had known that but Zoe was quick to brush aside any sentiment Greed might have for her.
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"A toy store?" He asked light hitting his eyes. Mary noticed how much he seemed to beam around this girl. It wasn't just excitement, it was something else.
"So how do you too know Chance?" Mary asked curiously while Greed pushed on ahead of them.
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Zoe just responded with, “Yup. The one you mauled me outside of.” and then she ignored him, her attention on Mary. “Nothing too exciting, he dropped his wallet, I returned it, now we’re friends.”
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It was an awkward situation that any boy would evade quickly. Greed was tackling the idea of what his normal boy feels and Sin self wanted. They were both right there in front of him. Mary a carbon copy of himself and Lust without the vindictive streak, and Zoe....
His Sin self had to be sure this was a decision Greed was ready for. What did he want more and how could he have his cake and eat it too? Would a Mary be the last or would he tire of them the same way he usually did.
Zoe was unique. She was still there after six months. Mary was treading on dumpage after a few weeks (days if he was counting only after Lithuania). She struck the nerves that had grown to accept Zoe, and it was all wrong.
He bought two cones of icecream not even offering the girls one. Mary made the mistake of trying to take one of his, thinking he'd redeemed himself by buying her one.
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Zoe was used to his non-sharing ways though she’d slowly started to get him to share with her in ways he wouldn’t consider it sharing. Everything was a trade, a deal. He had to still feel like his Sin even if she was getting him to do things that seemed non-Sinly.
She steered Mary by the arm away from Greed and his cones, “My treat.” and she bought the girl a cone and herself a small one, she didn’t have much money and she didn’t want to spend much on the walking L’Oreal billboard next to her but Greed wasn’t going to take care of his date.
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Zoe was cozying up to the preacher's daughter. Licking away on his icecream he watched the two. "Why don't you two go out on the date, I'd enjoy that a lot more." Because Zoe was far more friendly with the girl who sucked him off than he'd expected. It made him mad as he pouted over his icecream.
"How long have you known this psycho?" Mary asked.
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Zoe looked at him but still ignored him, answering Mary instead, “About seven months.” she didn’t correct her because Greed was psycho. And Zoe was getting the funny feeling that he wanted her to scream or cry and yell because he wasn’t relieved she was staying calm, he was looking irritated. And she would never give him the reaction he wanted.
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"Why don't you stay and she leaves," he pointed between them with a mouthful of cone.
Mary did look at him aghast at the statement, because he sounded so serious. She uncrossed her legs from the seat she had taken, ready to toss that icecream right on his head or down his pants. Had she been mistaken that there was something going on between them?
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Zoe put a hand on Mary’s arm, her nose wrinkling just a little not really wanting to touch any part of her. She looked at Greed, “No need to be rude to me, I was just leaving.” Greed had sorta pointed between them and Zoe let Mary think that she was mistaken, Greed had asked Zoe to go.
She stood up, “Good luck.” she said to Mary and then looked at Greed and quirked a brow, “You two have fun.”
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Greed was still pouty when Zoe started off. Mary grabbed his arm stiffly. "What was that about?" She was still a little put off. "You've been horrible since you got back into town." He'd refused her a few times. She put it off as him being tired, she had made excuses. But today was pure pissed. "What am I here for Chance?" Asking why he bothered to have her around if he was going to continue being such an ass.
He wasn't answering her. They generally didn't talk but she was confused. "Am I mistaken that there was something here?" She forced him to look at her, pushing him at his chest. When he started to laugh she pushed him again.
"You were mistaken." He stood, she followed, standing a whole inch taller in her heels.
"Because of her?" Greed's eyes went dark as she dragged Zoe into it. Mary had seen the change. "I see," she stepped back dumping what was left of her icecream on his shirt. "It's one or the other Chance," her hands went on her hips. She might have been a sex toy, but this was more than that. When Greed's head shifted in the opposite direction she shoved past him. "Call me when you're over yourself."
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Zoe didn’t have a car and she didn’t feel like taking the bus so she walked back to her apartment. She paused when she got to the greek restaurant where she and Greed were sorta going to have their first date before Patience crashed it. Know what, she’d never gotten to actually finish a meal at the place so she went in and placed her order for a gyro and fries. She sat a table with a sigh waiting for her order.
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He shook off the melted icecream, pulling out a fresh t-shirt from the backseat of his car. He didn't even watch Mary walk off until he was stripping his dirty shirt off for a new one.
It was a fine piece of ass in the distance, but it was more obvious now what the rest of him wanted. What had walked off in the opposite direction. He pulled on the fresh shirt, starting up the car to stalk Zoe from a distance with his car. He drove slow until she shot into the Greek restaurant, in which he followed. He couldn't resist ordering his own batch of fries.
"Did you get the fries?" He said sliding into the seat in front of her, tossing his keys on the table.
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Zoe was surprised that he was there but she only showed it with a slight raise of her brows. “Yep, waiting for my order.” She picked up his keys and held them out to him, “Was nice running into you again.” very politely kicking him out.
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Greed shoved his keys back her way, his playful protest. He wasn't leaving. This was a public place wasn't it? He had every right even if it wasn't.
"That's it? You're not going to say anything?" He couldn't explain anything if she didn't shove it in his face.
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She pressed her lips together and put his keys down on the table again. She blinked rapidly and gave him a look, “What do you want me to say?” her eyes dropped down to his chest where she noticed he was wearing a new shirt.
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Greed looked down at his shirt looking it over. He read it to himself outloud, which out of context sounded a little dirty.
"I'd eat you," he said with a smile. "I have eaten you." He expected her to laugh, cry, pelt something at his head, but something.
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Zoe just kept the same stoic look on her face. Jerk bringing that up, she was not going to crack. “Yup, you have.” because it was true, he had eaten her. Her order number was called out so she got up to go get her food. “Excuse me.”
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Greed followed her for his own order that followed. He sat back down, stared her in the face. Still...nothing.
"I didn't want to be alone." He finally blurted out. "I wasn't dating her." He hadn't.
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After they sat again, she took a small bite of the gyro, wow food from here, what a trip. She raised her gaze to him when he blurted that out. Still no emotion on her face, “When you sleep with someone and spend time with them outside of the bedroom, it’s dating.” she repeated that again as if she was explaining a math problem.
Her eyes went back to her food, “You’re a big boy, you can not be alone and date whoever you want.” it just wouldn’t be Zoe.
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"Things can't go back the way it was. I wanted to see if it could---" see if his Sin self and human self could come to an agreement. Zoe hadn't even asked, "but I want you." But she had told him to try and try again when he'd told her about Mary going down south a few nights before. So, he had but it made him realize the more he wanted Zoe. Nothing seemed able to compare with what he'd experienced in Lithuania with her.
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She sighed and looked tense tilting her head to the side and looking at the gyro. “I told you to take time and to see me when you’re ready. Today was a coincidence, you didn’t seek me out. You were with Mary. So.. maybe you should take some more time.” because he always wanted her. And Mary, and other ass, and everything. She just didn’t want to be part of the collection anymore. She wouldn’t ask him to give it up but she had her own standards for herself.
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It still wasn't the answers he wanted from her. "Zoe---" that guilt he'd felt before tripled. Now it practically burned inside the way feelings did when he was in a deadzone.
"I couldn't see Lust. She'd make me forget. I can't think about you with her." He reached for her hand. He had to feel her.
"You wanted me to be sure and I am." He couldn't find that out without testing himself.
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Zoe’s hands shot up to hold the gyro for another bite, a subtle way of avoiding his hand. She didn’t believe him entirely. “You can think about me with Mary? Sleeping with her I can twistedly understand on some weird level.. but you’re dating her....” her voice trailed off softly. It hurt. Because she couldn’t give him blowjobs or sex and it was crushing he did it with other girls. But getting ice cream? The little things? She could do that.. and he still picked someone else.
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"I'm not dating her!" He slammed his hand on the table. He didn't see it that way. He'd never looked at it from the angle that Mary had actually liked him. He was going after a dream they'd lived in in Lithuania. He was damn well going to keep hanging on to it.
He slapped his hand down again. "I didn't fuck her," she was making him a whore again. He had before their trip but not since he'd gotten home.
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Thing was, she believed him when he said he didn’t have sex with Mary. Because Greed was many things but he wasn’t a liar. She knew he’d slept with her before, but not since. She hoped if he had slept with anyone else, he would have called her up and told her. No matter how much she hated it. But it still didn’t make sense completely. “Then why are you spending time with her where you guys aren’t rubbing on each other?” she was sure that they’d at least heavy petted since Monday. It was Greed, there was no way he didn’t.
She gave him a look and lightly smacked the side of his head, “She likes you, you boob.” a girl like that who was only interested in sex spending time with him outside of the bedroom? Mary had a crush on Greed. Zoe wanted to let him know because she was sure it’d change the situation and she wanted him to know all the cards.
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Mary had been a prop. She was like the cardboard cutout standing beside him so he didn't feel so alone.
"Because I couldn't see you and couldn't see Lust." He sounded exasperated, she should have understood that. He needed the company because an excess Sin alone was just pathetic. "She was just...furniture."
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“Furniture that you can make out with..” she hadn’t meant to say it but the more they talked, cracks in her mask were appearing. She was hurt. She couldn’t help it. She didn’t like seeing him date another girl. It was his choice but she hated it.
She was frustrated herself because furniture or not, it presented a big problem, “So what happens next time we fight? Or I have to go somewhere and I can’t see you for a little while? What happens if you’re alone? You’re going to call her right back up?” if he said a flat out no she’d know he was lying, but she didn’t want him to say yes either. The fact remained this was going to be a problem.
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Greed stuffed some fries into his mouth with a shrug. "I don't know." He didn't. They had to work with this here, he was willing to, but the options were limited. Telling him he couldn't have something always ended in catastrophe.
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Zoe inwardly sighed and screamed in her mind. But she stayed composed on the surface. She knew Greed bolted if he felt he was being boxed in and she was dangerously close to doing that. She knew what he responded to but was too emotional herself to act clearly. She took another bite of her gyro to use the time to think, silence on the table for a short bit. Her eyes flicked to his for a moment, she had an idea. He was not going to like it.
“Do you remember how on our birthday last year you asked if there’d been anyone close since my last boyfriend and I told you I had an ‘almost’?”
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He'd crammed another handful of fries in his mouth. Their salty seasoning was to die for. He swallowed the big lump of potato in his mouth, eyeing her suspiciously.
"Yeeeeaah?" The word was drawn out because she was edging toward something he didn't think he'd approve.
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She looked him right in the eye and didn’t set it up, just flat out said, “It was Gabe.” she put the gyro down and folded her hands on the table. She was going to explain it but fuck it, she wanted him to stew in it for a few seconds.
“When he first moved in, we were really attracted to each other. But I was in college and working, he was working and auditioning, we didn’t have any time to look pretty or pretend to be fake happy or nice so we ended up getting to know each other and being friends. One night, he had a bad time so we went out, got a little drunk, came back... and nothing happened. We almost kissed but we were too good friends by then to ruin it. We were alone in this big city and it would suck if we didn’t work and then he’d have to move out. So, we tangled but didn’t kiss or do anything else.” she was going somewhere with this but she wanted Greed to digest this first. She also tried to downplay it because she knew Greed had an insane jealous streak. She needed him to not like it, not see red and try to kill Gabe.
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Greed tried to imagine the tree tangled with her, it was like a gorilla attacking a pigmy monkey. It was a little disturbing, the look on his face reflected the imagery.
"I've been stabbed in the head with an ice pick before. I died." He blurted. It seemed random, but that's about what hearing her story felt like.
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Zoe blinked, “Um....” she really didn’t know what to do with that piece of information, “That sounds-- oh.” painful. How clever. She cleared her throat and looked to the side and then back at him, “Yes, well.. I mean, nothing ever happened. We never even kissed. I love him like a brother. I just wanted you to know.”
“Back to what we were talking about though..” she took another bite of her gyro, a smaller one. “If we decide to do this and you get lonely, you should be able to call Mary or whoever. That’s your life and your choice.” and then came the catch, “But.” she looked at him, eyes like that of a businessman trying to broker a deal, “All I ask is that you tell me about it. If you sleep, kiss, fool around with any girls, be honest. I get it, you don’t want to be alone. And you shouldn’t have to be. But part of the deal would be that I get to do something then that you wouldn’t really like but would have to be understanding of..” she raised her brows a little to see if he was on board so far.
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"It gave me a headache. Bloody business." He rubbed his temple.
"Where are you getting with this?" He already didn't like what she was cooking up.
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“You can do what you want with other girls as long as you’re honest about it with me. And if you want to kiss them or have sex with them or whatever then that’s fine.” she gestured with her hands to show how fine it was. “But then you’re going to have to be fine with me going with Gabe to LA for his next audition. Without you stalking me, which means you can’t even enter the state of California while I’m there.” she wasn’t stopping him from other girls, by all means, he could bang all of them. But in return he’d have to be aware that she’d get to spend some time away from him with the guy he hated. So it wasn’t making him choose, it was just a cause and effect sort of situation. That was the deal.
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"To do what with him?" He raised a brow in suspicion. It was incredibly biased for him to do one thing and say she couldn't do the same, it was part of being possessive.
He had told her about Mary hadn't he? She hadn't even asked. She was giving him a out of jail free card with conditions. She was getting good with her deal making habits.
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“None of your business. But so your head doesn’t explode, probably not anything sexy. We’d be sharing a room though because we’re poor. We’d probably have dinner, maybe go out to some LA night spots..” dinner, dancing, almost like dating but without the kisses.
“So I won’t complain about your girls, as long as you don’t mind that I’d go to LA with Gabe for a few days, no questions asked or huffing.” if he didn’t want her to go with Gabe, especially now knowing they had ‘almost’ once, then all he had to do was not fiddle around with other girls. The choice was totally up to him.
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"You really almost made out with a gorilla?" The guy could eat her. Literally.
He cleaned his face off of potato seasoning, still chewing down that thought. He sighed heavy, leaning back in his chair, letting it tip nearly off all but the back legs and then settled back on the floor.
"You're getting good at these...." He pointed at her, wiping his hands then another exasperated sigh. It almost seemed like he would turn down the offer, he could feel the sweat bead on the back of his neck. He wiggled his hands through his hair, that little ice pick stabbing him over and over again. Greed wouldn't let her free. More importantly he wasn't losing his best friend. He needed that as much as he needed sex now.
He set out his hand stiffly for a shake, a grunt following. "Alright."
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“The gorilla was equally shocked when he found I did make out with you.” both guys cringed at the thought of her with the other, in her mind they were on equal ground.
She waited patiently with a poker face, nervous that he wouldn’t agree. But then he did... sort of. She looked at his hand but didn’t take it. There was slight hesitance as she looked back at him, “We need to talk about your sister...”
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Greed retracted his hand, letting his arm suspend in air. "Lust isn't part of this deal Zoe." That was his catch. He didn't just stop anything with Lust. If he did Zoe was road kill.
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She rubbed her arm, knowing this was dangerous territory. “I know. I get it. You stop sleeping with her, she’ll kill me and ruin you. But.. what’s to say that you honor our deal and maybe stop seeing other girls... what if you just... go see your sister all the time..” it was a loophole in the deal and she knew it. She also knew that the more he saw Lust, the more he forgot her. He knew it too.
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"You know that's a thin line," he wasn't playing games now. He was serious. She was trying on a box but poking holes in the top to give him air. She had tried this deal in so many words before, before when Lust hadn't ever been part of the bargain, and he'd agreed then.
"I forget things with Lust." The longer he spent with her, the more of his nasty side came out.
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She hadn’t been playing a game since the beginning, maybe he was finally realizing that. “I will never ask you to choose between us, Chance. And I know you’ll spend time with her. But like you said you forget things with her. So.. where does that leave us?” how much did he want sex and passionate kisses that he’d go to his sister for it? The more he got it from her, a piece of what he had with Zoe would fade away. She didn’t know if Greed was going to do it often enough that eventually there’d be nothing left.
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"With Mary at least I didn't forget anything. Lust is different." He knew she wasn't asking him to choose between her or his sister. "I see Lust when I need to." When he needed something, when both were horny bastards or when there was hanging on to the Sin that was there....
But Zoe never tried to take away the Sin. Suppressing it was dangerous. It held too much back for what they really were. He had to respect her for that, not many could deal with what he or his siblings were.
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She held onto her arms, almost like she was trying to protect herself from his words. She repeatedly softly as she looked in his eyes, “Where does that leave us...” he had lots of needs and urges. His sister was a big part of his life. Zoe was willing to work on it with him.. but it wouldn’t work if he couldn’t remember her or what they had.
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"Then don't let me forget. Pester the ever loving shit out of me." She was drawing up. He held his hand out again, leaving it there for her to take, the same arm he'd tattooed his inner wrist. "I don't fuck Lust all the time if that's what you're thinking." The problem is when he wanted Zoe, he wanted Zoe.
He thought a for a good couple of minutes. "You have to promise me when I want you, I get you. You give me Kansas and we've got a deal. On all of it."
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She softened when he told her to remind him. There was something very sweet about that. It also kinda put a lot of responsibility on her as well but she wanted them to be equal. So she could do that.
Her eyes stayed on his and she slowly reached her hand out but didn’t take, it just hovered over his, “I’ll give you Kansas, whenever you want. As long as it doesn’t mess with work too much or existing plans I can’t get out of. Which is rare so don’t make a face. And.. you’ll come see me soon after you see Lust?” so she could help him ‘remember’, she wrinkled her nose a little, “After you shower.”
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"You've got a deal." He poked her nose with his finger. This is what Greed was good at. Making deals. He was the Sin version of Rumpelstiltskin.
"Lust thinks you’re history. If I can't remember how to walk when I leave her, how am I gonna know to come see you?" Lust had a way of making his brain go to mush the moment he gave in. It didn't mean he wouldn't find a way. "Unless I tell you beforehand." He quirked one fuzzy brow to see if that flew in the right direction.
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Zoe frowned and curled her hand into a fist so it wouldn’t go in his, “Whoa, no, no deal.” they weren’t having a deal till they ironed out the details. She took her hand back and made a disgusted face, “No.. that would drive me crazy.” she didn’t have any ideas at the moment how to solve this. She rubbed her temple feeling a headache coming on.
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"What?" He wasn't about to stop there, they'd made progress. "Have any suggestions then?" He was curious where she could go with this.
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She sighed and folded her arms on the table, dropping her head into it, “No..” came a slightly pouty whine where she was just so ready to give up. She didn’t have any suggestions. She didn’t want it to be this hard. They were so close to finalizing a deal, to getting to be together, but there was always a roadblock. “I just wanna take a nap.”
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Defeatist attitudes is not something Greed comprehended in the way humans did. Simply put he wouldn't let Zoe either.
Greed jostled the table until she looked up again. "Don't give me that." He jostled again and again until it rattled against the floor. "I could text myself like an alarm clock..." He made her look at the tattoo. "That's why this is so important."
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She looked at the tattoo, first time in person and it wasn’t red or blotchy anymore like in the photograph. She was in awe of it, her fingers brushing against it lightly as if afraid it was wet paint and would get smeared off. Despite the tension of the situation she smiled a little. It was the sweetest thing anyone had ever done in regards to her. She was literally part of him now. They were their own pair of turtledoves, she wasn’t alone. She raised her eyes to his, “I don’t want you to start hating it..” meaning setting the alarm clock, getting the text, etc. it was a lot to remember and have to do for a simple thing like having a good time with his sister. She didn’t want him to grow to hate it and then hate her.
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"She wears off after a while once its out of my system." He hadn't forgotten about her after seeing Lust the last time. It was when Lust knew he was playing games, when she wanted to slam him down and drown him with her. He looked down to the spot her fingers traced. It wasn't going anywhere.
"We'll deal with it. Right now she thinks I'm fucking Mary..." He paused with a serious tone. “You aren't giving up. Not now."
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Her fingers still traced the tattoo, pausing when he said they’d deal with it. ‘We’, it wasn’t often he said that, he’d started saying it more now. She grimaced slightly at the mention of him fucking Mary. This was the weirdest relationship ever. “Really?” she raised her gaze to his, sad brown puppy dog eyes looking at him as she asked wryly, “Can I give up later?”
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"Nope. Don't even think about it." He couldn't take those eyes. Why were they so fuckable and be nothing more than these deep brown orbs? It was the Milky Way in those big pupils.
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“Too late, I’m planning my escape route as we sit here.” her fingers were still on his wrist as she narrowed her eyes and turned her head to the side eyeing him, “What....?” he had that look on his face.
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"Your eyes." He was glued. "I wanna fuck them so hard..." He spoke as if they had set him into a daze. He hadn't even blinked.
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She bowed her head and laughed a little, “Umm.. please don’t. That’d be really gross and painful.” she raised her head with a soft smile, those eyes of hers looking at him with love.
She leaned forward a little, “So.. same deal as before?” she held her hand out to him this time, “You get to keep me as long as I get to keep you...? Plus all the stuff we discussed.”
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It wasn't a promise as much as it was a bargain. A compromise. It was for his benefit, how could Greed really turn it down? He got to keep his prize. She got to keep hers. Zoe was grabbing on to what she wanted. She was showing her greed which got him excited.
He took the hand she offered. "It's a deal."
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She gripped his hand firmly in hers and tilted her head with a cocked brow, “Since when do you seal a deal that way?” she yanked on his hand so he’d have to lean forward and she kissed him since he didn’t have the proper sense to kiss her.
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Any bystander that overheard their conversation would have found them crazy. They hardly had a normal relationship, physical or otherwise.
He smashed into her lips with a pleased smirk. "That is more like it." He pulled back with another quick kiss. "I got to go to work." He thumbed the side of her face. "Saturday?"
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She smiled and nodded, “Yeah.. tomorrow’s good. We’ll do something.” she shook her head as she popped a fry into her mouth and then held up one to his because lord knew he’d try to just claw it out from her mouth if she didn’t include him, “I keep forgetting you’re the only person I know that actually loves his job.”