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 Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:22 pm
Theo shook his head as he climbed out of the car. "Still," he said. "I should have been able to stop them before they started." He closed the car door and walked around to her side. "I'm not supposed to leave the palace grounds without guards," he told her. "If I had been following the rules, this wouldn't have happened. I'm sorry."
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:33 pm
Elizabeth got out of the car and shut the door while still facing Theo. She took a step forward and placed her unharmed hand gently on his chest. "I am not going to accept your apology because it was none of your fault. I asked you to take me and you did, we just didn't think it through, that is all." she said looking up at him. She did not blame Theo for what happened and she didn't want him to blame himself either.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:36 pm
Theo didn't seem comforted by her words, far from it. "I'm going to be king in a few nights," he said. "I'm going to be responsible for an entire kingdom. The next time I don't "think things through" it could mean someone's life." He couldn't afford to not think things through. Tonight, Elizabeth was sexually assaulted. A week from then, someone could end up dead.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:45 pm
Elizabeth made a fist over his chest and she casted her eyes to the ground. "Well I should be the one sorry. I am the pathetic one that needs protection constantly." she removed her hand from his chest and placed it on the opposite forarm. "I am just a trouble to the mind. You won't have to worry about me after the marriage." she then looked up him momentarily before stepping around him to enter the household.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:51 pm
Theo's eyes widened, whether in shock or horror he wasn't sure, possibly both. He opened his mouth to say something but she was already walking away. He knew she probably didn't mean to hurt him... but he felt like he'd been stabbed in the chest. And he would know, he'd been stabbed before, even if it hadn't been in the chest.
He shook his head, trying to get a hold of himself once more. He followed after her, though more slowly than he normally would. "You're not trouble and you're not pathetic."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:03 am
Elizabeth shook her head. She spoke as she continued walking. "Yes I am and you know that. You have to protect me ever since I came here. I am just a trouble to everyone." she hadn't noticed that she was crying until she felt a tear run down her cheek and down the side of her neck. She let out a shaky breath and turned around, but she did not look him in the face, she couldn't. "I promise to you that I will be out of the way after we are married." she didn't want to say the words, but she thought that was what Theo wanted.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:11 am
Theo took a deep breath but it didn't help. He had been about to say she was wrong, that she wasn't trouble, but he didn't. She had spoken again before he had the chance and the words had just vanished. He stopped walking and closed his eyes. I shouldn't be feeling this, he thought. She's just a human. We've only known each other a week, not even. He reopened his eyes. "Fine, if that's what you really want," he murmured. Then, he turned and walked off, disappearing into the fading night.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:17 am
Elizabeth watched his retreating back as her tears fell faster. She shook her head and turned and continue to the household. She entered the home and she closed the door and slid down it. She thumped her head against the door. 'Of course I don't really want to be away from you after their marriage but I didn't want to be trouble to anyone.' She closed her eyes and just let the tears fall freely down her face as she sat there, blocking anyone from entering or exitting the home from the back.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:21 am
Donovan walked down one of the hallways, hands stuffed into his pockets, whistling as he walked. He seemed to be in a better mood than the last time he'd seen Elizabeth. He actually seemed... content. He turned the corner, immediately spotting Elizabeth. He raised an eyebrow and walked over to her. "Well, well. What's goin' on here?" he asked, as if the last time they'd met he hadn't drained some of her blood.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:26 am
Elizabeth didn't stir from her seated postion as she heard his voice. "Go away, I don't need you bothering me right now." she said with venoms in her words. She of course remembered every moment from the last time they meet and she wasn't to happy to see him again. It also added to her alright ruined mood.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:29 am
Donovan rubbed his jaw with one hand as he watched her curiously. He would have expected her to run off screaming but not to tell him to go away. "Hm. You're not scared, which means you're too pissed off to be scared," he said, half to himself. "So, what did that brother of mine do?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:35 am
Elizabeth opened her eyes and they locked onto him. "Nothing, he wasn't the one that did something." she said before she pushed herself up to a standing postion. "If you aren't leaving then I am." she said turning, about to walk away.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:38 am
Donovan tilted his head and followed after her, his curiosity taking over an tiredness he'd felt with the approaching dawn. "So, if he didn't do anything, that means you did. And yet you're here and he's not," he observed. "What'd you do?" He wasn't going to drop this.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:43 am
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:44 am
Elizabeth looked at the corner of her eyes at him. "It has nothing to do with you now leave me be." she said in a cold flat toned voice. She looked away from him and speed up her walking to speed walking. Tears that had dried up moments ago threatened to be released again at the thoughts running through her mind.
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