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Melpomene, Greek Muse of Tragedy. And Singing. (greek_tragedy) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2009-08-15 18:46:00

Current mood:	morose
Entry tags:	cassidy turner, melpomene

Who: Cassidy Turner and Melpomene
Where: ... Malaysia.
What: Meteor shower, and sulking. Mostly sulking.
Warnings: ... adorable sulking?

Mel leaned against the door, resisting the urge to tell Cass she didn't care what he wore. Not that she did, granted, but she could see where he might choose modesty over complete comfort, given his normal attire for such activities. She contemplated knocking, but chose to wait, not sure if he wanted to slip out or what... it was easy to tell he wasn't feeling all that, and unless she completely missed the mark, he needed time to mope without feeling like he should be doing something else. And if there was one thing she absolutely excelled at above all others, it was woe.

She held a blanket in her hands, not sure what the terrain would be where they were going, spacing out a bit as she waited, mentally searching out the best destination.

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-15 11:01 pm UTC (link)

Having to get dressed and presentable was a chore for Cass at that point. He'd spent the past couple days locked in his bedroom, barely eating, only talking to Henn and fighting occasionally with Soren - which he knew was stupid of him. They both agreed, but they agreed so passionately that their slightly different viewpoints made it seem that they were on opposite sides of the debate.

Still, he managed to put that out of his mind for the moment and get into a set of clothes - a tight fitting shirt made of velvet and mesh, and loose fitting slacks that were more suited for a goth club than an outing to watch the meteor shower. He ran a brush through his hair quickly, and then decided that rather than mess with his tangle of hair, he put it back in a ponytail. He walked out after a few minutes, fully dressed, save for the distinct lack of eyeliner, and instead of his contacts, he was wearing his glasses. "Sorry that took so long," He muttered to Mel, and gave her a quick hug, careful not to knock around the soda he brought out of the kitchen on his way out to the front porch.

"Ready to go?"

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-15 11:06 pm UTC (link)

"Really, Cass... I don't know why you're not just sitting around all dressed up with no where to go, waiting for my call..."

She offered a mild smile and leaned into him lightly, touching just enough so that when she transported herself to where it was dark, he came along with her - She knew he could be a bit weird about contact, and didn't want to disrespect that.

When she turned, they were on a hill with a slight incline, in a field of some sort... without any civilization anywhere near by. The night was clear, and brighter than usual, the Perseids already streaming across the sky. Without a word she spread out the blanket and took a seat, waiting for him to follow.

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-15 11:12 pm UTC (link)

Smiling faintly at Mel's comment, he shook his head, closing his eyes just long enough to let the scenery shift into a night sky, and a hill. He looked around himself to get a bearing of where they were, to acclimate himself to his surroundings. He quietly sat down beside Mel, and there, Cass sat with the six pack of soda bottles, unsure of what to do or say.

He looked positively world weary. After a moment of complete silence and looking up at the streams of shooting stars, he murmured, "I never know what to do during the Perseids. They say you should wish on a shooting star, but what if there's so many, that you can't count them all? And if you know they're going to happen, does that even count?"

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-15 11:24 pm UTC (link)

I don't know... I've never been good at wishes. At least not ones that counted for anything. An optimist would say the night is yours for wishing on whatever you want, I guess... a pessimist might say it doesn't count. A pragmatist would say it doesn't matter, and a realist would say wishing on space rocks is just silly."

She shifted a bit, spreading her legs out in front of her and leaning back on her elbows, her head canted towards him. It was rough seeing him like this, and while she had no idea what was going on, it was obvious it was bothering him down to the bone.

"We could be fatalist, and just admit that someday, one of those rocks will hit the earth and destroy it."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-15 11:35 pm UTC (link)

Cassidy, for all that had been bothering him, couldn't help but chuckle wryly at Mel's insight. "Fatalists aren't usually aware of the statistics. That's statistically improbable, but not impossible. It has happened before, of course, not to the point of global destruction, but meteors have hit. The likelihood of a meteor that size actually hitting earth is so phenomenally slight that I doubt that it would happen in my lifetime, or really, any time in our perceivable future." He looked over at her with a small, tilted smile.

"Still, for all my scientific perception, I'm a superstitious man. I think that wishing is futile, but it still lets you envision what you want, and with that, you can better make it come true for you."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-15 11:50 pm UTC (link)

"Ahh, but see... it might happen in my lifetime. But yes, not any time soon. And there's nothing wrong with wishes... although it might be greedy to wish on all of them. Maybe just one or two. Maybe only if you believe in too much of a good thing?" She shrugged a bit. "Like I said - I've never been good at it."

She tilted her head back to look at the sky, face lit up just a bit. "I do like them, though, whichever way. The meteors, I mean. They never get old... and it didn't seem like an alone activity. So thank you for coming."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-15 11:57 pm UTC (link)

With a small smile, Cassidy sunk down, stretching his legs out before him and he sunk to his elbows, nearly mirroring Mel's position, and he set the soda to the side. He looked up at the sky and sighed, "Thank you for having me." His eyes followed a particularly bright meteor across the sky and he shook his head. "Right now, thousands of people are doing the same thing. They're all looking up at the sky and appreciating something that is both predictable and chaotic. It's never the same, but every year, it's back, to dazzle us. I wonder, Mel. Do you ever feel small? I mean, insignificant in the way only the infinity of space can make one feel. It would be odd, to think that someone eternal would have a chance to feel that way, I think."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 12:05 am UTC (link)

"Why so odd? I mean, there are those of us who've never felt it, I'm sure... It would never occur to Ares or Aphrodite or Apollo, I bet... but in the grand scheme of things, being immortal doesn't make me any more significant than anyone else. Less significant, in a way."

After a moment, she eyed him speculatively. "You sound more deep thought-like than sulky. I hope I'm not ruining your bad mood." Because a good bad mood should never be wasted.

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 12:13 am UTC (link)

"No, I'm letting myself think about other things, distracting myself from the whys. The bad mood's still there. Though, it's more introspection and upset than it is anger. I'm sure you understand." He shrugged one shoulder and pulled out his tin of cigarettes, and the lighter he kept around when Soren wasn't readily available. He didn't yet light one, however, and just sighed.

"Sometimes, I wonder why it is that Soren and I got so caught up in a complicated affair like we have. We came here, to the past, both bachelors, both of us completely disregarding all things even considered romantic, and now, here we are, a year later, married twice over, the both of us, and it doesn't seem to be working. It works well between Henn and I, because we're long time friends, and she's empathic to me, and I to her. We understand and fit into each others life, but... Sable. She seems so hellbent on being what I am in the group. I don't know if it's jealousy, or fear, or if she's just doing it to spite me, or because she wants to be more like me. Whatever the reason, she always manages to find a way to get under my skin, no matter what it is." He finally lit the cigarette and pocketed the tin and lighter once more.

"Sorry, I'm unloading, that's not fair to you."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 12:30 am UTC (link)

"If you can't unload to a friend, Cass... who can you do it to? I told you I didn't need happy moods -and I'm the last person to try to cheer you up."

She shrugged a bit, laying flat on the blanket as she crossed her arms behind her head. "Well, your type of relationship is special... it's not going to work for most people. And maybe Sable isn't as ready for that sort of polyamory as she thought she was. Loving someone... truly loving someone, and knowing you'll never be the same to them as they are you to you? Is really, really hard.And it's something you either learn to live with, or you walk away from." She ruminated on that for a moment, remembering all too well what it felt like. "I don't know Sable, really... we've met, but that's all. I'm not sure what you mean, though, by trying to be you?"

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 12:49 am UTC (link)

"She wants from Soren what Soren feels about me. I don't think that could be possible. We've been together, in various ways, since we were toddlers. We know each other better than anyone, or anything else. She wants the love he has for me, for herself. And when she can't get what she wants out of that relationship, she goes to Henn. I'm entirely convinced that she's only putting on airs with Henriette, just to spite me, because no matter what happens, the last person on her mind is her. It hurts me to think that maybe, Henn is being played as a vie for Soren's attention, or mine, or something." Cassidy shook his head and took a bitter drag from his cigarette.

"And Soren's caught in the middle, between Sable and me, and it's making him sick and tired, and I've never wanted to hurt him in that way. I refuse to let him get sick over this sort of thing. But there's really nothing I can do. Sable's my cousin, and Soren's my best friend. I can't tell them that it's not working, because it's not in my power to do it. But it really, really isn't." He chuckled coldly and scowled. "And I haven't told anyone but you. That's how it is. I don't want to tell anyone else, because if I do, then I'm the bad guy."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 01:05 am UTC (link)

"She doesn't seem to be the sort to accept second place well. Not that it's really second place, I know... but perhaps to be the less passionate love. It takes a particular sort of person to be ok with that. Gaia knows I spent long enough doing it... then I found something better. For me at least. Of course, that all went away when the tornado came. But still." She flashed a light smile, rolling onto her side to be able to face him.

"I'd suggest maybe not letting Soren see how you feel about it all, but I know that's ludicrous - you're way too close. Not sure you could, even. I don't know why there has to be a bad guy, but you're right... it has to be between them, at least, to determine what will happen. Only they should define their own relationship. I just hope Soren does what's best for Soren, and not what he thinks is best for everyone else. You know, it's entirely possible she doesn't even realize what she's doing."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 01:19 am UTC (link)

"Soren always does what's best for everyone else, it's in his nature to be selfless, and that's one of the very few things that I've always told him he could do better with. Sable, however... I think it's just that she's young. We're all young, especially considering the age of many of the people we know, you included, but she's only nineteen. Her mind is all mixed up with making a family, and trying to fit in and be someone and something not only is she not, but I doubt she could ever be. She was raised on the road, and she doesn't know what a home is, or what a family - a real family - is like. The only family she ever had was her mother. And now she's trying to settle down with three different people who know what it means to be a family, what it means to have a home. She's trying to assimilate herself into a preset ideal that she's thought up, trying to mold us into that preconceived notion of what a family and home is." He paused and then rubbed his forehead with the back of his thumb, sighing.

"I suppose, in short, she's got issues that I can't fix, and then she has the desire to fix everything around her, and that's impossible too. It's... tough." He shrugged one shoulder and flicked the ash from his cigarette, still watching the sky.

"Still, you're right, I hope that they can understand that either this will work out, or it won't. It'll break Soren if it doesn't, and Sable too. And I'll be the one to pick up the pieces. Sure, people can say what they want about me being responsible, but I don't want to be responsible for that."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 01:36 am UTC (link)

"We do tend to say Youth is wasted on the young.... always so anxious to be older." She offered a light grin. "Even ignoring my incredibly advanced age... You're all young, even by mortal standards. And.. it's really possible she's not old enough or mature enough to be able to deal with it properly. When you say she's trying to fix things around her... are they things that need fixing, or things that aren't fitting into the cookie cutters? I don't know... I'd think someone used to being on the road and making their own way would sort of understand that home and family are what you make of life, not some Very Brady ideal. It can't be easy on her, knowing she's the odd man out, and trying to fit in."

Curling her arm under her she rested her head on it, still on her side as she split her attention between the sky and Cass. "As for Soren... selfless is all well and good until you're hurting yourself with it. And maybe it needs to not work before it can work. If that makes sense at all."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 01:50 am UTC (link)

"She fixes everything but her own behavior, it seems. I have no patience when it comes to certain things - not because I don't want to, mind, but because my brain won't allow me that luxury. But when it comes to how I live, she tries to make things 'better', by moving things around, or leaving things out... Just the other night, she and Soren were arguing, for example. And I truly didn't mean to eavesdrop, but I can't help it when things are that passionate. Soren hit a window and broke his knuckles, and instead of dealing with the argument at hand, knowing well that Soren is fully capable of ignoring the most ridiculous things including pain, and can heal himself besides, she tried to shift the conversation and mend him. And then she tried to get him to take sympathy on her for no reason." He sighed petulantly, recalling the vivid emotion of exasperation and anger he felt when she refused to listen to anything that Soren said. It reminded him that everything he'd ever said to Sable had gone unheard and unheeded. It reminded him that as often as she said she was trying, that her actions showed nothing to that end.

"It makes perfect sense. Soren assures me that these are just growing pains of the relationship. That this is necessary to move on and move forward, and to make things better for all of us. And I'm not trying to paint myself as faultless, I know quite well that my own anger towards my cousin has a great deal to do with what's going on. I suppose I am a bit of a fatalist. I'm always seeing how things will go wrong, or could go wrong, and I'm always bracing myself for that moment when the shit will hit the fan. And I always wind up blaming myself for it, because when it does happen, I always say, 'I should have known how to prevent this.' Truth is, I don't ever know how to prevent things. All I ever know, all I've ever known, is how to fix things when they're broken, not to prevent breaking in the first place."

He stubbed the cigarette out in the grass, before rolling the tobacco out of the butt, and pocketing the remainder, so he could throw it away when he got home. "That was a mouthful. I'm sorry."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 02:01 am UTC (link)

"Well... to be fair, concern for a loved one when they hurt themselves is pretty normal, even if they can fix or ignore it. But if it was a diversionary tactic, it's kind of playing dirty." She didn't know Sable well enough at all to really be making any sort of judgments, but she was mostly going off of what he was saying, and didn't really see it as being judgmental, trying to treat it as more of a hypothetical. "And sympathy is...well. Always seems sort of low, I think. Not really the sort of thing needed in an argument. Of course, we've seen my mature ways of dealing with someone I love bothering me, so anything I know should be taken with a few grains of salt."

"Things happen, you know. They always will... and playing what ifs are only good for preparing for the future, not beating yourself up over the past. You say you're angry at her... is it because of this whole thing, or something else fueling it? Not that you have to answer. But Cass?"

She reached over, punching his arm lightly with her free hand. "Stop apologizing."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 02:10 am UTC (link)

He chuckled and rubbed his arm, shaking his head and biting his tongue to hold back another apology. Cassidy couldn't help it, the laughter or the apologizing. But he wouldn't say so. "It's just this. I thought we were over this months ago, but every time I think something is over and done with, it comes back up. I don't know how much more of this I can take, really. It's been a year. If it doesn't work out soon, I'm just... I don't know what I'll do, but I'm certain it won't be something constructive."

He laid down and put his hands under his head, wrinkling his nose at how greasy his hair was at the roots, and how many more tangles there were that he'd missed with the brush. "And Soren's been spending time at Mordhaus. I wouldn't necessarily care, usually. But he's been hanging out with Teja. I know they're friends and all, but If I had a dime for every time I wanted to tear that redhead apart, I would be rich from that venture alone. It's not that Teja is specifically bad to Soren, it's just that he's a... very peculiar sort of short-fused, over-reactive berserker and I wouldn't put it past him to do something very, very stupid."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 02:25 am UTC (link)

"I hate to say the B word, but... maybe it's in order? At least to let everyone calm down a bit and be able to think without tempers so high..." She shrugged again, smirking lightly as he started to laugh. "And no laughing! there's no laughing in sulking. We're doing it wrong..."

She hid her own grin as he settled back, nodding a bit as she listened. "I don't know Tejas... or really anything about Mordhaus. Even with a short temper, if they're friends, well... You can't worry all the time, you know. Or you can, but it leads to ulcers. sounds like when it rains, it pours."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 02:35 am UTC (link)

He looked down with a sheepish grin. "I think it's the company, to be honest, misery loves it. And love makes me smile. So I blame you." He looked back up and stretched faintly. "I do worry all the time. I've been told that I could fret about anything, and I believe it. Still, it would be nice to one day have absolutely nothing to fret over. And it's my worry and fatalist way of thinking that was what provoked me to do some very stupid things on your behalf, Melpomene." He winked at her and then poked his tongue out. "If it weren't for the worry, I don't even want to think about what could have happened."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 02:47 am UTC (link)

"Aww... I can't even inspire good woe any more. I completely blame Mr. Chaucer. He's ruining me completely." Her voice held a smile, however - she didn't seem to mind a bit. "At least I can still manage to get someone to eke out a decent tragic play - now I just need the world to want to see something other than the latest Broadway adaptation of a movie they already saw. Sadly, Disney on Ice doesn't count as the right sort of tragedy."

"And... you've got a good point there. But here is something to be said for living for the now, and not worrying over yesterday or tomorrow, you know. Luckily, part of the charm of being me is being able to be eternally grateful for your worry, and still tell you you shouldn't do it. At least not to the extent that you do." Her nose wrinkled as well, and she shivered slightly. "I still can't sleep right after that."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 02:52 am UTC (link)

"I know it's not much, but I have dreams, as you know. I'd have them more often, if it weren't for a lady I met through a friend of my father's. She mixes up certain herbs into teas and they keep the dreams at bay. before that, she was just mixing up certain teas for me to just sleep well, since I've got a problem with sleeping in the first place. So maybe you can go see her, her name is Missouri Moseley, she's a dear woman. I'm sure she could help you, even if you aren't human. She's helped weirder creatures than deities." He shrugged. "If everything were easy as drinking tea before bed, there would be no issue. I personally enjoy tea, though."

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	greek_tragedy 2009-08-16 03:00 am UTC (link)
	"Missouri Moseley... that name sounds really... Oh Gaia." She had the grace to look absolutely chastises as she sat up. "She offered to make me tea, and I said I'd go pick it up, and then something happened, and I completely forgot about it. Zombies or Ares playing Yente or something... It's like I'm having senior moments or something. Gah, I've the manners of an underworlder." (Reply to this)

1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 03:08 am UTC (link)

"Heh, figured she'd have found you if I didn't suggest her, first. I'm sure she's got it waiting for you, though. She's not the type to lose patience with people who forget their orders. She'll probably whack you with a ladle, and that'll be that. After all, I'm not sure time flows the same for humans and immortals. You have so much life, and each day for you is like the blink of an eye. She's probably very understanding of that." He soothed, and patted her shoulder lightly. "lay back down, she won't be going anywhere any time soon. And if it comes down to it, I'm sure I can find some sort of thing that might help you. After all, not all the books that my ancestor had decided to leave with him. He probably had a compendium of herbal remedies for all sorts of creatures and ailments. It'll just take a while for me to find. The library is still a bloody mess after the move. And then there's the library of Captain Teague, if Bill didn't have it, I'm sure Teague did. Or does. I haven't heard much of him, lately."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 03:19 am UTC (link)

"Still, terribly uncouth of me. I shall have to remember to go do that, so I can apologize profusely. It used to be so easy... if you had bad dreams you either found out why Morpheus was annoyed at you, or fed Phobetor pastries until he fell asleep."

She grumbled lightly as she settled back down on the blanket, sighing, before shaking her head lightly. "And look at you. Now you've managed to get me to talk about things, trivial as they are. You know, there's probably people who could help go through all the books. I know it might be a bit hard... losing people isn't easy."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 03:24 am UTC (link)

Cass' spirit dropped again and he sighed. "It's a hard process to lose someone who was so like a father to me. I still have faith he'll be back, if only to keep myself from despairing too much. Captain Teague - no relation to my father, by the way - wasn't much a friend to me, but there was a deal that if he were to disappear, his library would go to Bill. And when Bill left, he left the libraries to me. I honestly don't know thing one about books other than how to handle them properly and how to read them. Soren's more the scholar than I am. Regardless, if they're in any sort of order, I can encourage a couple of my friends to help me look through the library and hopefully, we'll find something that may be of use to you. ... And then we'll give the library to someone who knows about books."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 03:33 am UTC (link)

"Cass..." She laughed lightly, reaching her hand out to rest it on his shoulder. "Don't be silly. If the tea doesn't work, something else will... or, Gaia forbid I actually work through the issues to make them go away. But I'm not going to let you and your band of merry fellows waste time reading all sorts of texts in vain hope of finding something. It's not that big a deal. I don't even mention it to most people. Speaking of people a bit too selfless for their own good..."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 03:39 am UTC (link)

"You mentioned it to me, though, knowing somewhere within your heart or head that I'd try to find a solution. Really, Mel, I love you dearly, but sometimes, you just need to take the help that's given to you. And really, I've been meaning to take tally of the libraries to see what we've got and what can be given to a proper library, where the books can be kept safe and taken care of properly. It would be no trouble at all to put forth that little bit of extra effort to find something remotely useful. Though, if you need a psychiatrist instead, I've got one of those, too."

Cass put his hand over hers, and although it was gloved, the heart and emotion behind his action was there. "And it'd be the least I could do, since you let me vent all this at you tonight. Friends help friends."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 03:54 am UTC (link)

"Oho... and how the tables turn. I'll assume trying to claim it's different because I'm a goddess wouldn't fly..." She grinned lightly, in truth rather glad that that sort of thing would never work.. It was so very strange having people off the mountain treating her as a friend and person first, ignoring for the most part what she was. "We'll see how the tea works... though I'm curious about this psychiatrist sort. That sounds incredibly tempting, in a really uncharacteristically self-absorbed sort of way. I mean, in that it's tempting to me for self-absorbed reasons. Not that going to one is .... you know what I mean. But maybe I'll take you up on the book offer. Or at the very least, ask for access to them."

She leaned up and towards him, just enough to place a light kiss on his cheek. "Friends helping friends... that works. And I do like having you as a friend." Settling back down, she tilted her head back toward the sky. It wasn't quite the sulkfest she'd planned, but he seemed to feel a bit less horrid. It worked for her.

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 04:02 am UTC (link)

He looked down bashfully when she kissed his cheek, but Cassidy wasn't daunted, "You're a goddess? Gasp, and awe, and massive shock, Mel! When were you going to tell me that?" He laid back down as well, and kicked one leg up so his ankle was against the other knee. "You're a wonderful friend. I feel so especially blessed to have the friends that I do. You, Ares, Gigi and Jesus, and that's just the deities and quasi-deities. I don't know how it happened, to be perfectly honest. I feel so odd, knowing that I'm friends with people that happen to be worshiped. And how very... pardon the use of the term, but how very human all of you truly are. When I was learning about the various deities, I never thought that they'd have issues, like trouble sleeping, and marital woes, and being misunderstood. It's a relief to know that even gods have personal problems. If you don't mind my saying."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 04:20 am UTC (link)

"Oh no! My secret! It is out. Whatever shall I do?" She held her look of insta-woe on her face for a split second before her nose crinkled up and she stuck her tongue out at him. "There's nothing wrong with calling us human... most histories talk of man being made in gods image, right? They're not talking about your eyes and legs and hair. It's all of our foibles and insecurities and such. Sure, at least where I'm from we all sort of personify different aspects, but we affect each other as much as affect humanity. We just also have longer to deal with it - in some cases, it means things get resolved. In some, it means a slight disagreement becomes a grudge that's lasted forever. And we don't have the same shot at redemption.. at least not most of us."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 04:31 am UTC (link)

"Though you have an eternity to do with as you will, whether it be let the problems simmer and become even worse, or resolve things in time. Humans sometimes only get one chance at something. We've got regrettably short lives, and most of us while away our our years, doing things that we look back on as foolish wastes of time. I suppose my doing everything I possibly can to fill up my time with things I'd like to remember stems from that knowledge - that I'm only mortal. And the threat of," and here, Cassidy waggled his fingers mysteriously, "The Turner Curse looming over my head, that probably helped me take nothing for granted. We Turners are a very early-dying lot, after all." He spoke in a stuffy, bookish way, obviously mocking his ancestor with it.

"Though I won't argue it, it makes me understand that by the time my life comes to an end, I'd better have done something to be remembered for."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 04:45 am UTC (link)

"You'd be surprised, maybe, how often humans are envied their one shot. Perhaps not enough for any of us to actually want to die, but we're rather fickle. Some more than others." She eyed him as he got all mysterious, her brow lifting lightly. "The Turner Curse? I'm sure I don't like the sound of that." She waved her hand lightly with a grin, dismissing it. "Nope, I've thought it over and I don't approve at all. I shall not allow it. Although filling your life with things you enjoy shall continue to be permitted. And you shall be remembered. Never, ever fear that."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 04:51 am UTC (link)

"Was that your way of saying it's against the ruling of a goddess to have me die young? Well, I'm glad to know that I'm not permitted to leave a beautiful corpse, but I'll be sure to keep it in mind if for some reason, someone wants me dead. I'll say, "No, sir, you cannot kill me, a goddess refused!" And while they're boggled, I'll run away!" He snickered and shook his head. "Though, I will admit, Melpomene, as glad as I am that I'm blessed to be your friend, and blessed by you and your rather boneheaded brother, that I don't much care for playing with an upper hand. The rest of the mortals get jealous if you've got the favor of a deity, and all."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 04:59 am UTC (link)

"Forget the goddess thing... I mean really, as these things go, I'm rather low on the totem pole. You're still not allowed to leave a beautiful corpse. First of all, if you die young, and dragons attack, I'm kind of SOL since you told me you'd slay one... for some reason or another. And second... I'd be genuinely heartbroken. And the world has not seen that sort of woe." She grinned, turning her head towards him. "I hate to break it to you... my sort of blessing doesn't give you like, +3 on armor or anything. Ares may have +3 armor, but you'd have to explain what it is before he could give it to you. We're not nearly as useful as we seem."

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1stbornextreme
2009-08-16 05:02 am UTC (link)

"A D&D reference, see, that's why I like you. You're the nerdiest lady I haven't married." He pulled out his cigarette tin again and sighed. "And you're plenty useful. You make me feel better, even though I really ought to be sulking and woeful, as is tradition when I've had a bad day. Week." He shook his head. "Not only that, but you listen, and you do have good advice, even though you don't think so."

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greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 05:12 am UTC (link)

"I know... " She sighed. "Sulking and woe were my plan! With some moping on the side... something worth getting dressed for! We'll have to try again. Perhaps something a little less serious. And don't even joke about marriage! He could be lurking anywhere..." Melpomene smiled, expression going slightly more serious. "I know you've got a house of people and family, but sometimes someone a little removed has different perspective, you know? And I will always listen. You should know that."

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	1stbornextreme 2009-08-16 05:16 am UTC (link)
	"I do, now." Cassidy said, reaching over to rumple Mel's hair. "And thank you so much for being here with me. Thanks for inviting me out. I probably would have sulked more effectively in my room, but this was constructive, and for once, I don't feel like I'm a thorn in someone's side." (Reply to this) (Thread)

greek_tragedy
2009-08-16 05:27 am UTC (link)

"Without thorns, roses wouldn't be nearly so prized." She nodded sagely, well aware it didn't quite fit what he was saying, but it sounded good. And of course you're welcome."

Content, she laid her head back and returned her gaze to the sky... it really never got old, the way the universe looked at night, particularly with this sort of occurrence. "Let me know when you want to go back."

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