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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 9:21 pm
Even if he hadn't known where her house was (and he had), Horace now possessed he handy dandy SPECTRE watch. The walk to towns was uneventful, boring even. He'd only really visited to run around on tops of dilapidated buildings, but the neighborhood America lived in looked nice, almost suburban fairy-tale-esque. After receiving no answer when he knocked on her door (and no sign of life from within as he peered into windows), Horace sat on her porch to wait. He apparently had all ******** night to wait.
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 1:28 am
After leaving Lawr's room she went up to the second floor and found Taym's room devoid of the actual man. Instead of simply leaving, the rifled through his belongings much as she had at the house. There was less of a mess in her wake, but more the odd turning and adjustment of items, enough to say someone had been there, someone had changed things. One his headboard she left a sticky note telling him that standing her up hadn't been cute. She took a few books at random because she knew he liked them. She took several of the pens he preferred. She took a file, a random, useless one about the wiki he'd worked on. In it's place she left a sticky note saying nobody cared anyway. There was a child's drawings, paused over for several minutes where she couldn't understand their importance while knowing exactly why they were important. There is a rustle from the minipet cage and this distracts her. She takes them out to play and then forgets about them until they start crying, and hour later and she thoughtlessly puts them back as punishment for being annoying. Later she'll remember she should have kept them out if she was going to hurt him. She takes very bit of shampoo and conditioner from his bathroom and leaves a sticky note saying he doesn't need them anyway. His shower has been obviously used. His bed has been rolled around on. And then suddenly she is bored entirely and decides to go home. Barefoot and humming, her arms cradling books and bottles and a baggie of weed, America gazed at the figure on her porch and her smiled widened. "Well I wasn't expectin' you to take me up on it, but I've no objections, hun."
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:50 am
He looked up tiredly as she approached, wondering where she'd got the books and soap. Horace wondered what made Jan so obsessed with her - if he could emulate that, would he? But now, she was acting weirder than normal, more erratic, and the blatent invitation she'd given to Jan made his gut tighten. And it wasn't better that she extended the same to him, apparently. If it was'any port in a storm', she could just ******** off and ******** some unattached hunter. There were plenty. Unfolding himself from his position on her porch, he stood. Horace didn't acknowledge her offer, although the thought made his skin crawl. He kept his face carefully blank, except for the tiredness he couldn't shake. "Need a hand, America?" She kept coming around and ******** up everything.
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 1:54 pm
"Just open the door, if you please?" Came her cheerful reply. "I don't trust you my lamp. He said once the thing you were most upset about was the lamp," she tsked. "Gotta watch out for you, now don't I?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:08 pm
He made a derisive noise. "What did you think I'd do - run with it? I'm neither as juvenile nor as stupid as you think I am." Horace moved ahead of her to open the door, holding it wide so that she could pass through. "He was wrong about the lamp, but it's a convenient scapegoat, isn't it?" Following her, Horace swung the door shut behind him. His hand reached automatically to lock it - not out of any actual purpose, but simple habit. He stopped himsel. "You should probably lock your doors, you know." He shrugged and looked around.
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:19 pm
"You already know I used to and why, hun," America passed by with a smirk. She dumped everything she'd taken from Taym on the floor without a thought, instead focusing on the lamp as she stepped over and around the mess that had become of her house. "Do you want to take a bath first?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:31 pm
"But you don't now." Rather than a question, it was a statement. He kicked some of the junk out of the way. It was disgusting, a pig's sty and nothing like the image she presented to the outside. He stepped on something squishy and all of his hair stood on end. Deciding it was best not to move unless America changed rooms, he perched on the armrest of a chair, watching her. "Why, you offering to scrub my back?" He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. Horace felt drained, dull; the fight with Jan having banked his ire into smouldering coals instead of abrely controlled fire. "Not here to ******** you, America. I just wanna know what the ******** that was. Why the hell are you visiting Jan when you hate him and avoid him?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:37 pm
"Because he makes sense, right now," she explained, an echo of her earlier words to Lawr. Reaching up she pulled the tie of her dress, letting it drop to the floor as she passed by on her way to the kitchen. "Are you sure?" The girl called out. "About the ********? Don't want to try and find out what I've got that you don't?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:49 pm
He flexed his hands. "A lot of people make sense when you're lonely. Does he tell you you're something else, something more? Does he talk about the music in your chest?" There was a hard edge of bitterness in his words, a knowledge that he was never going to ******** win. He heard the slither of cloth agains and looked up, only to look further up, averting his eyes. America was damn pretty, but hate did a lot to kill a boner. At her question, he laughed. "Somehow I doubt you've got divinity hiding in your c**t. Anything different in sex is probably your equipment and as far as I know we're quite different there." Knocking a bunch of junk out of the chair, he sat down in it properly. "Why can't you go ******** ******** someone unattached or a fear creature and stay outta my hair?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:59 pm
"We talk about you, sometimes. And human nature." She has a fistful of flav-or-ice sticks, and held the bunch out for him to grab one in an odd display of manners. "We talk about me a lot 'cause I'm his favorite subject." She considered the idea for a moment and then nodded agreeably, "Oh them too, but him as well. You should be glad, he'll like you better if you're angry. 'Specially if you dig real hard into that shield of his. Likes being hurt just as much as hurting, you know."
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:20 pm
He ignored the popsicles, mouth pressing down into a line. "No, he doesn't like me when I'm angry - we know where angry got me last time. And he didn't like me angry tonight. If he did, your b***h a** would've been thrown out of the room the moment you stepped in." And he wanted to do it now, in a way, felt the urge to grab her by the wrist and slam her against a wall. It crawled under his skin and he couldn't tell if he was more mad at her, at Jan, or at himself. "What is it? Are you ******** lonely enough that you wanna ******** everything that moves - destroyed enough of your house that you're moving on to people? So why. Why him, why now. ********, I wish I'd never met you." Horace ran an agitated hand through his hair. "What happened to righteous, better-than-you America?" The America Jones he'd known wouldn't have gone back to Jan, not for anything.
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:30 pm
"That would have made you happy, though," she pointed out with exaggerated patience. "He doesn't treat the things he likes very kindly." She began to saunter toward the stairs, back to him, when the question has her pause. Tipping her head back, she gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling, black eyes beyond Horace's view. "She's tired. She tried, real real hard, to help people and make this place a home."
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:36 pm
"So the solution is to trash the house, ******** everyone, ******** up everyone else trying? That's bullshit." He rose out of the chair, stepped closer to America. He wasn't done talking, anger and frustration apparent in his voice. "Just because you're on a downswing doesn't mean you get to ruin s**t for other people!"
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:41 pm
Blinking she dropped her hazel gaze to Horace and smirked, "Why not? The ******** have you ever done for me, Horace? You've always acted like I'm some horrible person, now you'll have proof."
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:56 pm
Horace made an ugly noise, somewhere between a laugh and a huff od disbelief. "I had my reasons. In the beginning, I was told you were awful, and in the end, like some goddamn self-fulfilling prophecy, you were awful. You've already been horrible to me, so what are you trying to ******** prove now?" he spat, body tense. His right hand shot out to wrap around her wrist, fingers tight, eyes intent on her face. "Anyone else, everyone else, but not him."
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