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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:53 pm
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Freya sat and gazed at the plate of food. Her mouth watered, and she felt her pulse quicken with anticipation. She swallowed hard and picked up her fork. She was pleased to find out the meat was tender enough that she did not need a knife to cut it. She pierced the cut piece of meat and followed up by scooping some of the mashed potato on it. Finally, she pierced a green bean and lifted the contents to mouth level. Freya took one last look, and then she put the fork in her mouth.
Her diamond eyes glisted with delight. At that moment, in her drunken state, she did not care about keeping up appearances. She brought her palms up to her cheeks, squished them, closed her eyes, and squeaked, "Oishiiiiii!"
She chewed the food thoroughly, swallowed, and sighed with satisfied grin. In a moment of clarity, she went back to her normally confrontative state and glared at Liam. "No one will know about what you just witnessed. Got it?!"
With that out of the way, she ravenously plowed through the rest of the food on her plate. Then another plate. And another. And another. It may have looked to some like she ate to fast to appreciate the flavor profile, but they would be wrong.
Finally, she could hold back no longer. She stood up, grabbed the platter with the ham on it and brought it toward her open mouth. She stopped just short of tearing into it, though. She heard her mother's voice in the back of her mind. It was a memory of when Lokelonni would scold Frey for her lack of manners. She looked from the ham to Liam, then from him to the ham, and then back to him.
"My bad. Didja want some?" she asked.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:18 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:16 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:46 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:59 pm
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Rikki Tikki Travi Alec reached his own hand out and shook Leander's hand with a firm grip.Leander's eyes widened with a bit of surprise. He chuckled with a small, but approving, smile, "Oi, that's quite a grip you've got."Alec, obviously pleased with himself, smiled awkwardly and looked to Kerana. He was about to say something when a gun shot rang out. People began to scream and run. There was only one voice that could be heard over the screaming. It was Rydia, and she was screaming for Kerana.
Kerana ducked her ears lowered as the sound rang out. She looked to Alec and he knew what she had to do. “Sorry dad I need to go.” Without skipping a beat Alec opened a portal with Rydia holding Deora in her arms. She stepped through and Alec followed closing the portal behind him, apologizing in his own way in the process. She saw the situation, the wound in Deora’s lung, a bullet wound. She rushed to her side and hoped it was not too late.
“I hope I’m not too late…” She placed her hands on the point of entry speaking with the white blood cells encouraging them to heal the wound. They listened and the tissue was rebuilt. Deora stopped bleeding and under her hands the wound was heald. Relieved she was going to pull up when she saw a clump of unusual cells. She tried to get the white blood cells to look at it but they only treated them like normal cells. “Strange perhaps I could make it go away directly…”
She touched it and it grew?
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Rikki Tikki Travi Freya gave a dismissive shrug and scoffed, "Psht, whaat? I didn't even notice the savory aroma of baked sweet meats."
Trinity smirked and quirked an eyebrow with an expression that said ‘sure you didn’t’.
Rikki Tikki Travi Her eyes darted from left to right guiltily. Freya then turned Trinity around and playfully guided her to the door. "Oh, get out of here and quit teasing me before I rap your knuckles, you little turd."
“Alright. Till next time.” Trinity walked into the shadow of the door.
Rikki Tikki Travi Silhouette had remained mostly silent through the reunion. Once Trinity was good and clear of Freya's doorway, she decided to speak up. "She made a good point, you know. It was addled by her inebriation, but she stumbled into it."
“Which part, that she may not be the best to give me solid advice? That she tends to be better at advising one in combat than in one’s love life?”
She was obviously avoiding the point she made about ‘blowing up everything because she was scared’.
She sighed, “Is this about trying to get back with Theonis again? You were there when we tried a second time and you saw it did not work.”
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Alec watched patiently as Kerana helped Deora. Every few moments he looked over to Rydia and Ravan. Rydia was in near hysterics, apologizing over and over again. Ravan just stood there with her orbit of snacks, staring hard eyed while Kerana worked.
Alec had promised himself weeks ago that he would never look into the futures, or check thei lifetime, of his friends. It would be too easy to get hung up on, and he would be tempted to always check. But when Kerana looked confused for a moment, he allowed hinself to check Deora's lifetime. He was glad to see that she was not meant to expire there in the middle of the fair grounds. Then he noticed something peculiar. It was winding down faster than it should be. His eyes went dark and he looked into her future.
"Oh s**t! Stop, Kerana! Stop!" he shouted as he put his hands on his girlfriend's shoulders. He yanked Kerana back and gelped her stand up. He looked in her eyes and frantically said, "I'm sorry, but the bullet wound is healed, and we need to get her to an oncologist, now."
He asked Ravan to lift Deora with her power. Before he could finish his sentence, she had complied. Alec cut another rift, that time directly to the Valhala ER. Ravan placed Deora onto a bed, and Rydia called for the staff. Alec went over to Kerana and spoke quietly to her.
"I know I said I would never look, but I slipped. She's sick. It's leukemia. It's not your fault, none of us knew. Hell, she probably didn't know."
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"Yes, yes, and I remember. No, what I speak of is the topic that you're dodging. I've only been with you for a short while, but from waht I've heard you say it seems you are the one who breaks up, and not the one who is broken up with. I don't know how many men you have dated, but I sense that this has been the way of things for quite some time. I believe it is this denial that has delayed the manifestation of your mask. If you cannot be honest with yourself, then you cannot become terminal."
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Freya had just finished her glass when Liam posed his question. She shot him a hard look and slammed her glass down just hard enough not to break it. "I drink so much because ******** YOU that's why!!! Getting right to the heart of s**t, huh?! Gotta get right up in my little ******** up brain pan out the gate!" she shouted.
Freya stood up quickly and knocked her chair back. She paced a few times while swearing audibly under her breath. She put her hands on her hips and stared at the floor. "You wanna know why I drink? Course you do, it's why you asked. No games with you, Liam. Too ******** new and honest. Fine, since we're being honest, and I'm drunk enough to tell you with as little pain as possible, here's why."
She turned back around and hiccuped. Partly because she was very drunk, and partly because she was fighting back tears. " No doubt you've heard about what happened when I was a kid. Probably from Mom or Rydia. Doubt Fenris would've just blurted it out. I've killed a lot of people. Innocent people. Men, women, children, the elderly, it didn't ******** matter. I did it, gladly, because it's what we wanted. Those screams, those eyes and faces, they don't go away. When my sister brought me back, I almost killed myself to atone for my sins. I wanted to spill my intestines a thhousand times for every innocent life I took. But I would only be able to do it once. I had to live, I had to suffer with my guilt. That would be my punishment. Then I tried to atone by killing bad people, but the screaming still didn't stop. It never stops. So I hit the bottle."
"Then, inevitably, some guy would catch feelings for me, or me for them. And I would think about the first and last time I was in love. Then I would realize that I can't let it happen again. Not because I thought I'd go murder happy again, but because I don't deserve to feel that warmth again. I can't, not after what I've done. It's only when I'm fighting that I don't touch it. That's when I need to feel everything. Especially now that my power draws energy from my emotions."
"You wanna know why I drink, Liam? It's to stop the screaming. It's to stop myself from feeling because I don't deserve to feel happiness. And when I do, it's gone and forgotten the morning after. It's so any love I feel is lost in the haze. Because what I deserve, is Hell."
She hiccuped again and dug her nails into the palms of her balled up hands. She did it hard enough to draw blood. She did that to distract from.the pain in her heart amd to keep herself from crying in front of Liam. Even then, at what she felt was her most vulnerable, she refused to completely let her guard down.
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