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Tweak says, "You are beautiful"

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

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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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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)

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