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Slevin Kelevra (wrong_guy) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2008-09-01 02:16:00

Entry tags:

eric draven, irina derevko, moirae, slevin kelevra

In fairy tales or folk legends, knights always go off on these sprawling epic adventures and quests, and nobody gives a shit what happens to them in the end. They finish and go home and the story wraps, or they die. If they go home, we never know what happens to them.

I'm not saying I'm a knight or a hero. I'm just saying at the end of a lifelong quest? You get bored and you drink a lot and you start to wonder if it was worth it at all. Then you just take a nap.

Wouldn't make for very good endings to epic poems. Better to leave Ulysses sailing off and leaving his son in charge.

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	flings_dice 2008-09-01 03:49 am UTC (link)
	But to sail beyond the sunset? It is a much better ending... ... than say, a watch and 'goodbye'. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 02:48 pm UTC (link)
	I miss that watch. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	la_derevko 2008-09-01 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	Is your life any better for completing your quest? If not, perhaps you should find a new one. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 04:23 pm UTC (link)
	I'm more at peace. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	la_derevko 2008-09-01 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	A rare prize, some would say. Some people aren't born for peace, even if they think they are. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't choose the life I've lived. It was forced on me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	la_derevko 2008-09-01 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	I know that feeling, to a degree. But now that you don't have to live that life you don't know anything else, do you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 07:06 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	la_derevko 2008-09-01 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	You are not alone. Though I'm sure it makes little difference to you. At least here you have a chance to attempt normalcy if you want it. My name is Irina, by the way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	After my childhood? Probably not. Slevin. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	la_derevko 2008-09-01 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	Mine was spent in KGB training camps. I was seventeen when I applied, for the good of the Party. The mere fact that I can tell that to anyone I want right now is kind of a reward in itself. It's nice to meet you, Slevin. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Irina wrong_guy 2008-09-01 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	I was twelve when my entire family was killed by the mob. They hired a hitman to kill me too, but he couldn't. Took me in, taught me the trade. I plotted every day to bring down the guys who did my family. Now they're dead, and I'm sort of lost. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Slevin

la_derevko
2008-09-01 10:14 pm UTC (link)

My family basically forced me to go into government service - I had two sisters and my parents could not afford to keep us all. I was made into the perfect agent. Until I was sent to America to marry a CIA official and was stupid enough to fall in love. We had a daughter, and then I had to leave them to return to my mission. I still don't know what that mission was.

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	Irina wrong_guy 2008-09-01 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Slevin la_derevko 2008-09-01 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't tell you to elicit your sympathy. I told you to remind you that you aren't alone, and at least you knew what your mission was. It could have been worse. It could be worse still. You're alive. Well spoken. Handsome. Where do you live? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Irina wrong_guy 2008-09-01 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	True. Still. I'm in Miami. Yeah. It's worse. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Slevin la_derevko 2008-09-02 10:07 am UTC (link)
	A placid existence among old people. You don't look like the type to enjoy that. Move to London. New York. Use the portkeys as often as you can. I've been able to go home to Moscow once or twice since being here. It's more than a bit strange seeing your own grave. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Irina wrong_guy 2008-09-02 02:29 pm UTC (link)
	I could do that, but I'm enjoying indulging in my own self-loathing for the moment. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Slevin la_derevko 2008-09-02 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	I suppose everyone deals with stagnation their own way. I'm investing my husband's funds in case he ever comes back, and finding someone to rent our flat in Washington. I'm moving either to Paris or back to London. See? Movement. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Irina wrong_guy 2008-09-02 07:41 pm UTC (link)
	Divorce? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Slevin la_derevko 2008-09-02 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Disappearance. People come here and then they vanish. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Irina wrong_guy 2008-09-02 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	That's worse. I'm sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hangmans_joke 2008-09-01 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	Better to finish the quest and find a new one than be eternally stuck in the middle. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	You can only be an instrument of vengeance once. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hangmans_joke 2008-09-01 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, but until you are, until that lustful duty is fulfilled, you've got a goal. At the very least, it's a distraction from the reason you're doing it. That is unless something halts things inevitably, at which point there's no longer anything but an unattainable ideal. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	It's done. The thing I spent pretty much my whole life working toward, I finally did. And I thought I had another thing to spend my life working on, but she's gone now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hangmans_joke 2008-09-01 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	Now that is a shame. People come and go here, step on and step off without warning. I'm sure she misses you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	I hope so. I'd never loved anyone before her. I'm Slevin, by the way. Slevin Kelevra. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hangmans_joke 2008-09-01 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	And that's the problem with love. It's sublime when it's here, and nothing is ever the same again when it leaves. Eric Draven. Good to meet you. Slevin is an unusual name. It has an epic poem ring to it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	I think she'll come back. I hope she'll come back. Eric Draven does too. Slevin Kelevra just sounds Jewish on the best of days and like a science fiction geek's lovechild on the worst. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hangmans_joke 2008-09-01 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	When hope is all you have, all you can do is hope. Hah. It has a cadence to it, though! Despite its aforementioned qualities. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	I do. Well, it should. It was chosen very carefully for me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hangmans_joke 2008-09-01 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Good. Oh? What does it mean? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	Bad dog. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hangmans_joke 2008-09-01 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	Your parents sound like such kind, considerate people. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	I wouldn't know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hangmans_joke 2008-09-01 10:49 pm UTC (link)
	I see. You know, this seems like the sort of thing better spoken of in person. There might even be a beer in it for you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 10:53 pm UTC (link)
	You know, I do like beer. Where are you? I need an excuse to escape Miami anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hangmans_joke 2008-09-01 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	New York. There's a bar relatively close to where I live...[address]. I've never been there, but it seemed nice from the roof. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	wrong_guy 2008-09-01 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	I know New York. Be there soon. (Reply to this) (Parent)