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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 4:45 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 4:53 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 5:00 pm
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She took a deep breath, ignoring Lovey as she rubbed at her leg, asking to be lifted so she could attempt to comfort her.
"He panicked, and I.... I didn't know what to do. He curled up and looked like he might go into a fit, so I hit a nurse call button and they showed up and tried to help, but... they ended up using a sedative, I think...I don't know what happened after that," she told her, the strength slowly returning as she resolved to let herself be put on display. "They asked me to leave, and the next time I had finally worked out the courage to actually go back to talk with him, he had already been discharged and left for Grande Ile. ...I guess it was all for the best, though, that I didn't see him then."
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 5:24 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 5:28 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:35 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:49 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:56 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 7:20 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:10 pm
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"I care because Luke is one of my best friends," the brunette responded heatedly, breaking her thus-far neutral expression to aim a glare at Dove. "Since you don't seem to really get it, let me see if I can try to explain it to you. Don't trouble yourself - I'll make a list for you. And just so you're not confused, I'm not rubbing it in - I'm trying to educate you in case you ever get the idea to try and offer emotional support to anyone else, you won't royally ******** up like you did with one of my best friends."
The girl held up one fist and raised a finger from her opposite hand to tick off everything she listed thereafter, "Your first mistake was seeing that letter and not even asking if he even wanted you to read it to him - and you're right, that was none of your business. Your second was not doing s**t to try and calm him down yourself and instead you just called a nurse." So much for being a friend. "Your third was the fact you completely left out that last one when you talked to Rosie so when she did find out about it, it greatly upset her. Your fourth was when you apologized, though I still don't know exactly what you said, but whatever you said you did it in such a way that it made him relive everything he went through the past month and it caused him to blame himself and drive him to the point of asking you to kill him. Your fifth mistake was the fact you could not tell that he was obviously uncomfortable because you kept trying to touch him or hug him - he didn't like it and told me himself how uncomfortable you made him feel because of it, and I'm pretty damn sure he acted like it, but you clearly didn't get the message." With all five fingers out now on her original hand, she switched to the other hand and started there. "Your sixth mistake when trying to help was not realizing that your helping was actually hurting. You just made him feel worse and instead of realizing that and stopping, you just kept going until freakin' Yuri got there and made you stop. Your seventh mistake was the fact you didn't try to help him at the hospital, yet at the park it sounded to me like you were trying so hard to help him that you were also trying to make up for all of the help you didn't try to give him at the hospital."
Sera finally finished and held up all seven fingers and raised her eyebrows over half-lidded eyes, giving Dove a meaningful look. "Seven things. At least seven mistakes you made. Hell, I'm probably missing some that I don't even know about." She paused briefly to allow Dove time to process her words thus far, but not long. "Did you realize any of these yourself? Don't tell me yes unless you really, actually realized any of them, because from what you told me before now, it sure as hell sounds like you barely realized even one, maybe two. You can call this 'rubbing it in' if you want, but I hope at least the next time you have to try and offer emotional support to somebody, you at least learn from everything that happened and what I'm telling you, and that you'll realize when you've gone past helping and straight on into solidly not helping."
"What I am for sure rubbing in, though," she added, her tones hardening along with a glare aimed at Dove, lowering a fist to her hip and pointing straight at Dove with a single finger, "is that you stay away from Luke. If he approaches you, fine; but don't try to help him until you understand how to help people without inadvertently hurting them, and do not touch him. At all."
Sera paused long enough to straighten up and fold her arms over her chest again, then added coolly, "Is that clear?"
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:16 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:32 pm
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Seraphine studied her critically as she responded and sank down into the grass, and shifted her weight to her other hip as she tried to figure out if Dove did, indeed, understand. She said she did, but... Honestly, she wasn't quite sure. She had made her point though, so she simply replied with a single word, "Good."
That said, she moved Luna over to a bench that she could stand on to enable her to push herself up onto the Rapidash's back, side-saddle, and patted the fire-type's neck. "I hope it is," she offered the other girl in parting, and although her tones were not hateful, they weren't exactly friendly, either. That said, she said a quiet word to Luna, who turned and cantered off again in her smooth gait.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:36 pm
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