Re: [declan and clementine, marvel]
[Clementine had grown up thinking the whole damn world lived in her daddy's open palm, and it was all for her. She hadn't realized until a whole lot later that things with her daddy weren't right. Lore'd known, but Lore'd gone and left, married up and carted herself full across the country to die, and it had taken a real long time for Clementine to figure things out for her ownself. Turned out that open palm and all that loving, it didn't come free any, and maybe that turned her sour on loving. Maybe Lore taking off did too, because what good was love and marrying if it took you away from folks that needed you? So, she wasn't real keen on Declan having been married, even if there weren't no ring on his finger now. Rings and vow, see, they meant leaving. Declan hadn't ever loved her well, but he'd been there, a summer constant until they both took off in opposite directions, and until now, and she looked at his ring finger real long.
Ultimately, she leaned close and touched where he'd wear a wedding ring, making sure there was just skin there, real warm to the touch. Then, she sat back some as Johnny Cash started up about seeing someone again someday.]
I ain't never talked to Alexander again. Eloise, Jude and Chloe are gone. Figure it's done. Alexander's woman, the one had his baby, she keeps posting and trying to draw him out, but I ain't seen her have any luck. Her name's Ash D. She's Neil's sister. Figure Alexander bedded her on purpose, seeing as it was during all that drama with that family.
[And she reckoned he'd go easy on Alexander. After all, man'd thought he was a vampire since he tried to kill himself all those years back. It was worse than Chloe going and joining a cult, and it was worse than Eloise getting herself committed permanent. No, those full-blood Murphys, they weren't right, not one of them. All that inbreeding, she reckoned, and no point denying anymore that the whole damn family bedded down where it shouldn't.]