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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:51 pm
Uh huh that didn't help too much...sounded kind of like what really happened to her. Perhaps the Piper and Malik of this world weren't always the way they had been by the time they stepped into thier own shoes and took over. If so...what had changed? Horribly her mind was creating scenarios by itself. Stop it. So many questions that would go unanswered she guessed. "Thank you." Piper gave a sigh and somewhat of a smiel to Broog. "But really Broog. You can't fix it...its...just me being irrational is all. I'm sure it's all in my head. No need for you to worry yourself."
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:04 pm
"People change Malik, isn't that the phrase your promised is so fond of? Things change and people change with them but that's neither here nor there." She took a deep breath, now or never. Time to take the plunge into the water and pray there wasn't a vicious shark waiting underneath for her to leap into his jaws and tear her asunder. "I offer you the one thing you want more than anything in the world, your dominance over me. I offer you my leash, use it the way you see fit." She would not bow, she would not grovel, instead she was turned so if he turned to look at her she'd be staring directly into his eyes, her violet eyes serious.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:24 pm
Broog eagerly nodded.
"All in da mistrez's mind. yepz. Broogs knowz da masta. and da mistrez is specia. nuttin ta worriez bouts."
Malik glanced at her.
"So. you willing put on what I would have slapped around your neck anyway. let me guess. this is supposed to impress me? supposed to make me think higher of you? Again you emulate Piper in your attempts to win favor."
He took her leash, running it through his hands.
"I recall before, you saying that you would never bow to me. Let me give you a wakeup call to exactly what you put on yourself."
And he squeezed his hand, constricting her collar with the master leash, until the lack of air brought her to her knees.
"Your first lesson. You are not Piper. putting yourelf willingly under the leash does not gain you much favor. your second lesson. now you have knelt at my feet. and your third lesson. I'll accept this at face value. do things that displease me, I'll jsut use the collar as opposed to fighting with you over it."
And he let the grip go.
"You show courage to do what you did. I'll grant you that. but I'll say again, you are not in piper's league. I might not use it on her, but as I just proved, I will on you."
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:59 pm
Another half smile to him. "That's right...all in my head. Now really, don't you worry yourself about it. I'll be happy, I promise. Now you go put that away and rest yourself. Now worries." Yes, all in her head.Where hopefully it was just irrationality. A little wave to Broog as she walked away from him, hands dropping from her collar as she took a seat on the bottom step of the stairs that lead upstairs. Oh great, musing time. Really she didn't know what was wrong with her...feeling jealous over Malik and all. Perhaps it was because he was really the only man she'd ever been with...and thinking of not being with him left her feeling a little lost. This was insane, all this thinking like this...but it wouldn't stop. Her fingers came up to idly trace over her collar and then play with the little arrows that dangled. "I've lost it..." She leaned to the side, head resting on the pole of the banister.
"Lost what?" He was coming down the stairs, hands clasped behind his back. Kieran simply sat down beside her with the inquisitive father look. A blink. "Or is this one of those lost things that no one wants to talk about?"
"I...I don't know exactly what I've lost. I'm just...worried."
"About?" Yes as her father, he was allowed to push.
"Malik and Zahara."
Kieran chuckled well he didn't need to hear anymore to catch what she was probably worrying over. She was young and being pushed into a situation that was unrocked before. Well the waves had kicked up and her little boat she was so confident in was rocking hard. He put his arm around her shoulders, pulling her over to him. "Two drow, one male one female. She showing a prowess in things that make the drow see strength. He is one who looks for such traits, even if it is subconcious." And he let his exampling go as he watched her look turn meloncholly and he let a moment of silence. "He loves you."
"Then why am I thinking the way I am if I should know that?"
"Because you love him too. Do you know how elves stand to live so long and keep what relationships they have intact? We reverie...we relive memories. Everytime his reverie grants him the memory of him knowing the exact moment he fell in love with you...he falls all over again. Just like you do when you find that moment...right?"
"Are you always right?"
"Most of the time." And he mussed her hair, throwing it into chaos. "Collars and perceptions are just those...no more, no less. Now cut it out or I'll rat you out. Then he'll lecture you...and your mother will too." A little sigh at the mention of Fianna and they fell silent again.
"She can't stay much longer can she?"
"No...but you knew that a few days ago, didn't you?"
Piper nodded. "But that's okay...things are relatively right now. And that's all that matters."
"Right...now you quit fretting."
Just because he said it...didn't make it all go away. Inner turmoil was a nasty thing to shake.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:04 pm
She did fall gasping to her knees, tugging at the collar that was restricting her air passage and not allowing her to breathe. She closed her eyes for a moment, catching her breath and then bracing a hand on the ground said, "I didn't do it to win your favor or get some kind of special treatment. You think you know me, Malik. You think I'm trying to emulate Piper, but you're wrong. I willingly snapped this collar on so I could make the choice instead of it being forced on me. Not only that, I'm tired of seeing Piper get upset when you and I fight. So I thought about it and I found a solution. There was no doubt in my mind that you would use the collar. I only had to wonder if you would snap my neck at the first opportunity or not. But please if you understand nothing else, understand this. I do not wish to gain your favor or anything else. As far as I'm concerned you hold the means to make me suffer and that is it. I don't like you, you don't like me and that's fine. But I am accepting your dominion over me. It's the first step. I have made my choice and I don't regret it. But maybe one day, with a bit of work you can possibly look past what you think I am and see me." With that she turned and took another deep breath and walked into the house.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:16 am
"What you are and what I think you are, are the same thing. a drow woman, trained to be a priestess of Lloth. You're a friend to piper, which is why I tolerate you as much as I do."
Mostly talking to himself at this point, before heading back inside himself and heading to the stairs to see Piper there with her father. a father daughter moment? but he had his arms crossed, lightly drumming the fingers of hsi guantleted hand on his other arm.
"Piper, may I speak with you for a moment?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:14 am
She blinked looking up to Malik from where she sat on the stairs with Kieran. He looked none to happy. She couldn't tell if he was doing that 'holding in the anger till I can yell' thing or possibly the 'I'm so irritated I can't even yell' thing. Could go either way. I didn't help that Zahara had come inside earlier none too happy either. Conincidence? No of course not. Then a look at Kieran as he gave her shoulder a push. "You're always on his side."
"I like him, what can I say." A little shrug from him and he took to that thing he did where he instantly looked occupied with something else, or was busy in his own head, whether it be talking or just thinking. "Good luck." With a little wave off to her heading upstairs a moment, to give them privacy and to answer Fianna. Then maybe poke around a little bit.
Piper watched her father up the stairs a moment before returning her look back to Malik, fingers of one hand coming up to play with a few bright red strands of hair. "Yes Malik?" That was the general, 'okay I'm listening' acknowledgement. Whether or not they talked where they stood wa up to him.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:02 pm
"Was it your idea to have Zahara put herself under the collar to try and somehow impress me or make me feel 'better' about her being here? I'm really not enjoying this emulation of you. she keeps acting like she's trying to be like you in order to get off my 'I don't like you' list. It may cut down on teh fight because now I can just yank her collar rather than argue. I don't understand why she has it in her head that being like you is going to score her points with me."
Yes he was a bit irritated.
"Though I have forcibly shown her that having a collar like yours and being friendly with you will not exempt her from it being used."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:15 pm
Piper figured that would be the route of the conversation and she really didn't want to talk about it. But that would make her look guilty of the whole collar plan. Though she was a little upset at the mention of him actually using said collar...after all, Zahara was hers still. But she only shook her head at him. "No, it wasn't my idea. It was hers. I was the one who told her exactly what she was getting herself into, you know I'm into the uncollaring business, not the collaring. And personally, I don't like the idea of it, any more than you do." Because he may be irritated but she felt threatened. Threatened people could be dangerous when they felt too much so. "The only thing I did was take her to Broog, her collar only is like mine because that's how Broog did it." And then she frowned. "And then he wanted mine..." Malik know how seriously she took that too, it was sort of like an offense to mention her collar off. "Though I hardly see it as her trying to be like me...that's not the reason she told me she wanted one." Though it did make her feel a little more threatened if that is what she had told Malik. Or Malik was just wording things in a way Piper wasn't keen on right now. "Though you shouldn't be yanking on that collar without at least glancing at me first...
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:41 pm
"Why woudl he want yours? He knows how you feel about it."
Then a shake of his head.
"MAybe that's just how I see it. I've told her before, she's not in your league. but she's doing things that make me think she's trying to be. I know deep insdie, no matter how much she want's to cover it, she's Llothian. Nothing changes that fast. adn this putting on a collar as a 'peace offering'. Like her willingly putting on a collar is supposed to make me think any better of her. hmph."
He handed her leash over to Piper.
"You can have that, I don't need it. I just don't know what to do with her. I know she's your friend, and she seems to have some hold on those damnable imps like you do. But I don't trust her. I still feel like she's just waiting for an opportune moment for my guard to be down so she can stick a knife in my back."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:42 pm
"Because I was upset and he though he could make my collar better than hers so I would feel special again because I'm being usurped." If that made any sense really at all. But she waved a dismissive hand about it at him. A sigh escaped her and she felt a debate brewing. "Things can change as fast as they want, how do you even know if she was a die hard Llothian anyway? I should be dead if that was the case..." A look at Zahara's leash and shook her head. "No one knows how to approach you other than playing into your apparent ways Malik. You've guarded yourself so much no one else can see what I see or know how to deal with you like I do. Frankly yes, I will say I'm selfish in taking joy in that fact, but that's besides the point I'm trying to make." And she took the leash from him, not intending to argue that point at all. "You think I do? I'm the one in the middle whose name gets used as both offense and defense." Though she ran a hand through her hair in that frustrated manner. He was paranoid as any drow around another drow would be, despite anything and everything. Piper needed to learn to just stop pushing on it all because that was just how it was going to be. Her hand dropped from her hair to hand limply at her side. "I don't know what to do, anymore than you do...and I don't know how to stop all this fighting, or the distrust, or any of the other negative things borne from this...If I try I make it worse if I don't do anything it gets worse anyway."
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:23 pm
"You're not being usurped. not in teh least. why woudl you think you're being usurped? I have no interest in any drow period, much less one of her background. and she was trained from birth practically to follow Lloth. now I don't know anymore than you why she was going to be sacrificed, but still..you don't just shake that off. I wouldn't be surprised if deep down, one of the reasons she prods at me is because I'm male. I'm trying to be at least approachable."
He took her hand and pulled her over to him, and kissed her softly.
"You are always number one, you know that. and no one, especially some coal skinned pain in my a**, is about to 'usurp' you."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:40 pm
"Why would I think that? It's easy to see Malik...you've always been one set in your ways. Your ways have always been collars, intimidation and fear. I put on one of your collars and didn't think twice about it even after I knew what it was, you almost used it once and I still thought nothing of it. I wasn't and I'm not afraid of you." A pause with a shake of her head as she pretty much went limp, leaning her weight against him. "You've always said that's one of the things that attracted you to me...now comes along someone else who is following the same footsteps...and is better then me in a few areas." She could name several in fact, which in essence came naturally for the drow. "You're the only one I've ever really been with...and I just have the instant feeling of being threatened." Piper lifted her head to look at him. Vaguely she thought he had developed a surface elf complex. Wasn't that amusing, she was a proclaime drow complex and him with a surface elf complex. "Things are just so..." So complicated...and she had nowhere to run, no excuse to do so.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:51 pm
"That's right it was. but not in teh way you say it. I was attracted by it becuase you didn't know what ti was when you put it on. you thought of it only as a necklace. when it was reveal in it's nature, I expected fear. I expected you to be afriad that now you know I could hurt you at a whim. and you weren't. Zahara put it on knowing full well what it was, and what coudl come of it. It's not Zahara's bravery in doing so that impresses me. I've seen slaves take old collars off and snap those on without fear."
A slight grin to her.
"It was defiance. You dared me to use it. you taunted me. told me even if I did you wouldn't be afriad, and you at the time didn't know what you were even getting into. You didn't know that I coudl strangle you, or break your neck. all you knew was that it 'tightened' if I pulled the leash."
He rubbed her shoudler with his hand and along her arm.
"There is nothign she does that I find mroe impressive than you. so she has good dark vision. once your father teaches you to handle your own unique vision, her's is nothign special. she's not stronger than you. is it her blade skill? You're bow is more impressive to me. I used to see blade play all the time."
"You're just worried. scared that she'll somehow earn my affections from you? You're forgeting the first rule about the Drow. they don't share bonds like you and I have, they don't mate or marry. why? they can't trust eachother enough to do it. Zahara doesn't trust me, anymore then I her. she trusts you. she relies on you, to keep me in check. nad I rely on you, to explain what I can't. she's got no interest in me, or I in her. She'd just as soon stab me in teh back as I woudl strangle her."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:15 pm
She could think of things to fight his own words with and she could fight him till they both got so angry they would scream at each other. That happy endings weren't always there and the bitterest of enemies can somehow end up together...be it a lasting love or a one night fling. But for once she didn't want to pursue an argument. Rather than try to instill doubt in herself she merely wanted to believe him, take his answers as they were, and also her own father's advice. Reverie did indeed induce that type of reminder and feeling. So where usually she'd frown and start into contradicting she only smiled softly, pushed up on her toes and kissed him gently, letting her arms raise and lace around his neck. "Let's call it I'm young and selfish over what I believe I've earned and is mine." Yes...she'd try to stop the fretting as father had so simply stated. A smile as she let her head tilt to the side some then. "And I'll keep playing referee...but if you two get out of hand, I'm putting you both in time out."
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