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Jae will eat your heart out (stealyourheart) wrote in st_margarets,
@ 2015-11-30 22:30:00

Entry tags:

character: davian rivera, character: jae song, location: dustin's tomes & volumes

Thread: Friends in Need
WHO: Jae Song & Davian Rivera
WHEN: Nov. 30, after classes
WHERE: Dustin's Tomes & Volumes

It'd been a week since she'd agreed to meet Sorin. He told her he was going to try to help her. To pull Eunji out of that painting. To have Jae face her friend who spent the last fifty years trapped there. It was that reason in particular that Jae texted Sorin and said she had to work. She didn't really. Not yet. She called Dustin as soon as she could, pleading for a shift, and he was happy to provide her with one. Sorin understood and Jae felt bad for lying but there were some things she felt prepared for and some things she didn't. She'd been so desperate to get Eunji out that now seeing the real possibility of it happening scared the life out of her. She panicked. She was still panicking in a way. Because Sorin was waiting for her to be ready and Jae didn't think that she ever could be. For a girl who never procrastinated an assignment and made a point to remember things, this avoidance said a lot about how she felt about seeing Eunji again.

Her eyes closed as she placed a book on a shelf. The classes let out for the day and Jae attended her clubs and meetings before heading into Camden to work. It was just Dustin and her at the bookstore, and not many people wandered into the store to purchase books. Most of those that did come in were just there for Dustin. A reason that Jae understood on some level. And it was why she was grateful that when she heard Davian's voice in the shop, Dustin was out to grab some food for his break and currently not in the store.

"I'm back here," she called to him and then walked around a shelf to spy her demon friend, "He's getting some food and the store is empty except for me. You can stop doing that." There was always patience in her voice when she spoke to Davian. Not necessarily tried patience, though right now there was a hint of that. While Davian was probably the person she'd come the closest to since coming to the school, sometimes he could wear on her nerves. But she knew that beyond the surface, Davian was amazing. Kind and loving, and one of the best people she ever knew. Despite being over three hundred years old, Jae didn't really know all that many people, but even if she did, Davian was someone that people often underestimated and looked down on. It's what made her so protective of him.

"Are you on break?" she then asked, knowing he also worked in town but at Duke's Diner where he washed dishes and emptied out their orange juice supplies on a regular basis.

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stealyourheart
2015-12-21 07:48 pm UTC (link)

Davian would help her. That was a relief, in a way. Though she knew that Davian wasn't going to be around her all the time. She'd just have to hope he could help her think of excuses. Davian was generally good about coming up with excuses . . . that involved sleep. She pressed her lips together tightly and nodded, putting some faith into her friend. because he was her friend.

"What if I'm never ready? And she's there for hundreds of years?" Jae asked, still feeling the panic but having Davian assuring her she didn't have to do it soon and then he suggested a lie. "I'm bad at lying."

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antitestament
2015-12-22 08:07 pm UTC (link)

"Well shit, I don't know. How are we even sure this kid can do the job? Maybe he's just a hack." Davian gave a shrug, but then another thought occurred to him and he fixed Jae with a direct look.

"Sometimes you just have to do shit even though you're not ready for it. Look at me," he gestured to himself. "I'm the biggest fuck up in this school, but you know what? It's working out." he smiled, sharp teeth flashing. "And I know it'll work out for you, too."

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stealyourheart
2015-12-23 06:33 pm UTC (link)

"He has the power to do it," Jae said, "I . . . walked in on him one time and he had summoned something from a book. He's been practicing too." Which meant that he very well could pull something like this off, which was led to her terror and stress. Funny how the one thing she claimed to have wanted for so long now sat before her, ready to happen, and she tucked her tail and ran.

Jae looked at him seriously, "You're not that, you know." She sincerely didn't believe that either. Davian sometimes prided himself on things but she knew by now that his failures actually did bother him. He would sleep them off to ignore them, but he had to force himself to shut down every time.

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antitestament
2015-12-26 09:20 pm UTC (link)

Davian didn't have a very deep understanding of magic, but in the time he'd been in the demon commune, he'd seem demons work some powerful stuff. And then, coming to the Academy, he'd been given even more reason to be impressed by magic. So he didn't bat an eye when Jae told him Sorin was summoning something from a book. Why not? Magic could do anything, or so Davian believed.

"Hey," Davian pointed at her nose and gave her a stern look. "You're not going to change the subject. I'm too fucking smart for that." he smirked though, and then clipped her chin with a hook in his finger. "Let's go get food. We can talk some more about how you're going to grow some balls and get ready to see Eugene again. Or whatever the fuck her name is, fuck." It was a hard one for him to remember, much less pronounce.

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stealyourheart
2015-12-27 07:41 am UTC (link)

The way Davian said Eunji's name was probably the best English equivalent to it. Jae smiled at him and said, "I'm not changing the subject. Just correcting you. That's what I do." Usually it was just his manners, but sometimes she had to point out to him that he wasn't as much of a waste as he thought he was. In fact, she didn't think he was a waste at all.

"Eugene works," she said, "And I can't go until Dustin gets back. There's no one else in this store working except me." She gave him a stern look and then the bell rang, signaling Dustin's return. She looked his direction and before she could ask, he noted Davian and said, "Jae, go ahead and take a break."

She didn't say anything, only smiled, and then grabbed Davian, dragging him out before he could say anything to embarrass her.

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