Dr. Linden Cress (zugzwangplay) wrote in theunboundic, @ 2020-06-16 07:54:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! time: july 3 - 9, linden cress, viola rosier |
yeah, I know wrong, I know right
Who: Linden & Vi
What: Follow-up Discussion
Where: The Car, on the way back to Rosier Manor
When: Monday, July 4th (late evening, after bidding adieu)
Linden didn’t react to the mounting tension in the parlor that they left behind, removed enough from the situation that he could be practical and pragmatic. He’d leave the children to their arguments; he suspected Blair would behave like a toddler until the boys finally gave up and took matters into their own hands. It made him feel a sense of smug pride that the woman he was going home with wasn’t anything like that - nothing like Margot, either.
The car was called around without much fanfare and Linden himself opened and closed Viola’s door, allowing the footman to divert his focus elsewhere. And old habit, but one that he was inclined to return to. It’d be good to get back into old routines now, so that when Viola came to her senses and they made their arrangements things could return to normal as quickly as possible. Once the duo was settled comfortably in the backseat of the car, shrouded in the special kind of darkness that is a car ride at night, he turned to her with a slight, smug smile.
“That was a pleasant visit, don’t you think? Here you were, so reticent to come.”