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I could never take the place of magic and fighting in his heart. No matter how hard I try, if the Council requested him, even on his own birthday, he’d go running. If it was my dad’s funeral, he’d go running. (Well, my dad’s not dead, but he was close to it, and he left me in the freaking medical wing ALONE. Same thing, right?)
It’s always been this way, Jessie. I don’t think even I, his best friend, could change that.
What? Are you serious, Liz? Roman loves you! He just doesn’t express it correctly! I mean, the two of you are rarely seen without the other, and when you guys go on jobs, you two are the perfect match! You’re Absolute Defense, and he’s Absolute Offense!
I know that. He doesn’t let me forget. He’s just waiting for the right time to ask me to marry him, so I can be some sort of “perfect magical” baby-making machine for him. And knowing that, I wouldn’t let him touch me with a fifty foot pole. Jerk off.
That’s not true and you know it. Sure, he does want kids with you, but I doubt that’s the entire reason.
Wouldn’t put him past it.
True, but he does love you more than that. Why would he go such lengths just to be beside you all the time? It’s not like anyone in the temple’s gonna wanna kill you. (As a matter of fact, it’s freaking impossible for you not to see it coming, but that’s not the point.) He may say the only reason why he wants you is to have kids, but it runs deeper than that. And why would he chase you all the way to the next town over when he knows you were just buying some supplies?
He does care, Lizzy! He’s your best friend, and you’re his: you two should know better!
I do know him! And I know very well that we’re just friends! I may love him but he doesn’t love me the way I want him to.
Besides, the only reason why he’s so worried about me is because, one) I may be Absolute Defense, but just because I can feel it coming, doesn’t mean I can dodge it if it can get through my barrier, two) I’m his ******** machine, and three) he’s my best friend, and I know he knows I know he’ll always have my back.
Eliza, Eliza, Eliza. When will you learn?
The day when pigs fly, obviously.
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Jessica, Eliza, and Roman are three monks at the Temple of Fon. (Or at least they’re in-training to be monks, but that’s not what the topic is.) And for as long as anyone, particularly Jessie, can remember, Liz and Roman have had their eyes on each other.
They were called the Lucky Pair because their combination was the most powerful of their age bracket.
She was a trainee in the art of Absolute Defense, a technique used to both guard, reflect, deflect, absorb, and nullify any attack or oncoming projectile. This magical spell is around her twenty-four seven, and she almost never takes it down. The problem with this is that, though she may be able to stop any attack, and though she may feel it penetrate her barrier, it doesn’t mean a dagger will be stopped on impact, and it doesn’t mean she’ll be able to dodge in time.
He was training to master Absolute Offense. This spell mainly works on the muscles and eyesight, giving both tremendous power and horrific accuracy. Roman only uses this spell in time of need, and only uses it as his finishing move when he’s alone, but when he’s with a certain someone, this spell is always activated. This spell also heightened the user’s senses. And while this is good, he cannot use it more than five times a day, each time lasting thirty minutes. Anything over that, he’ll begin causing irreparable damage to his body.
The two being raised together, they knew a lot about the other, but they never knew the other’s feelings.
But with Roman’s intense loyalty to the temple, Liz feels like she’s second best. She also knows that the council elders at her temple are pushing Roman, the strongest boy at the temple, to find someone suitable to have a family with. And though she’s flattered that Roman is finally chasing her, she feels like he’s only doing this to please his beloved temple, and not for the sake of loving her.
Oh, Jessie can so totally prove her wrong.
 Ukeire · Sat Feb 27, 2010 @ 12:39am · 0 Comments |
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