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 Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:24 pm
Dionysus' leg bounced impatiently as he waited. He was exactly where he said he would be, when he would be. So what the ******** was taking so long. Had that corrupted twit Kerberos duped him? Did he really know how to contact Persephone? Ugh. The blonde senshi scowled. This whole damn thing was a ******** mess.
Why the hell was Persephone suddenly sending texts for. As far as he knew, Corrupts didn't have senshi phones. It was just Order senshi.... So unless she'd duped some sap into borrowing it... Though if she was Order again, then why the ******** couldn't he find her when he searched the city from head to toe? There had to be something else going on. Maybe something had happened again that he didn't know about.
Persephone always did have a knack for being vague as ********> He thought bitterly to himself. Even back then. He never got more then the generic answers, and that had always been after he begged her six ways from Sunday. Unless she was talking about Tall, dark and Nega-creepy.
Always Tall, dark and Nega-creepy. Never not tall dark and Nega-creepy.
Dionysus snorted as he shifted his position on the wall. This was taking forever.
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:03 pm
Persephone was distinctly nervous. It was hard, to think of what might happen, meeting someone she had known before. She remembered so little - just pieces, fragments of the person she had once been.
But everything was an opportunity, she supposed, and so she would take the opportunity to meet someone she had known, as presented to her through Damocles. The meeting place was set, the time was set, and she had the name of the person she was meeting.
Dionysus.
She could feel an Order aura, and she moved towards it, hands claimed in front of her and shivers running through her. They were nerves, but also excitement. Maybe she would learn something!
So the tiny Dark Mirror stepped into where she could see the person she was meeting, presumably. He was so tall - and so wonderfully familiar.
"Dionysus?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:25 pm
He turned when he heard his name called. The first thing he saw was her outfit.
Oh.
Well that explained it. That explained a lot actually.
"You have got to be ******** kidding me. Though then again, no. This probably isn't a joke is it?" Dionysus said, pushing off the wall he was leaning on. "You're a ******** Dark Mirror now?? How is that even possible?! ******** is it even possible? Christ, next you'll tell me you got some new kinda power or can do something weird. Well you know what? I don't even ******** wanna know about that."
"What I do ******** wanna know Persephone is why. Why do you keep doing this. Not just to yourself, but to me, to Aludra and to ******** ANYONE else who gave a god damn s**t about your a**. Do you even remember any of us? What the ******** we all went through on your behalf? Do you remember what the ******** happened. You ******** called us together in the middle of the god forsaken night with NO viable means of protection outside the fact that we were god damn 'magical people'. No cats. No nothing. And they ******** found us, Seph." He pulled out a pen, and threw it at her again. An action he'd done once before with her. He'd yelled at her then too. It seemed like that was all Dionysus did with her. Repeat history.
"Biela died because of you."
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 12:31 am
Once, Persephone has told Hvergelmir that she couldn't have gone back to Order, because they wouldn't want her back. Surely everyone who had once considered her friend and ally had long turned their backs on her when she fell, and fell again, into Chaos's embrace. There was no way they would ever open their arms to her again.
This felt like confirmation of everything terrible she had suspected, because he was yelling at her, dredging up whatever it was she had done to make her flee Order - she remembered a death, a failure, her fault, but now it was all back in a rush of fragmented images of horror and pain.
"I made the wrong choice," she said, and her voice cracked and broke. She could feel tears welling up, but it wasn't fair, wasn't her right to cry, not when he was angry for a hundred legitimate reasons.
So she swallowed back her tears and brought her hands up to her face and tried, very hard, not to weep.
Reaching out to catch the pen was automatic, and she held it between her fingers, cold horror settling into her chest.
"I know. I - I ******** up, it was all my fault. I brought her body back to her father and then I abandoned you all and it's no wonder you're so angry." Then, she swallowed.
"If I'd showed up Order again - if I had stayed purified, because I was, for a little while, I sent you a message - would you have wanted me back?"
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 12:45 am
"Everyone makes wrong choices Persephone. Everyone. It's what we ******** do to fix them that counts. But I can't ******** figure out what you're doing anymore. When I last saw you, you were a god damn Corrupt. You had holes in your skin. And you know what, I can't even begin to tell what's truth or dream anymore. There were times, I swear to god, that I was right there by you and I was one of those things. But I'm still here. So I don't even ******** know anymore Seph. I can't even begin to figure it out."
"Why the ******** didn't you stay!" He shrieked. "What the ******** can the Dark Mirrors offer you that the Corrupts couldn't? What the hell was so important you had to do whatever the hell it was to become one of them? It's still ******** Chaos Seph. You shouldn't be that. You never were that."
The blonde huffed and stomped over to her, snatching the pen out of her hand when he was close enough. "I was on my ******** planet when I got that damn text. And I wasn't by myself. Aludra was with me. Let me ******** tell you something Persephone. There's this stupid little run down hut on my excuse of a space rock. And do you know whats in there? A ******** picture, of two people that look remarkably like us. We, they, whoever it is in the ******** picture, were happy. Do we look happy now Seph? When did we freaking last look like we were happy?"
"I ******** wish it could go back to that, but it doesn't look like it's ever ******** going to."
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 1:23 am
Persephone swallowed, and wrapped her arms around herself. "There -- there was a bad future, that people saw in dreams and in visions. I was a Princess, and I corrupted you. And Aludra, and so many others, and it was terrible and wrong." She sniffled. "I'll never be that, now. I couldn't -- I couldn't stay with the Negaverse, it was too terrible, too...too much." How could she explain herself to someone she had betrayed? Betrayed twice, even?
"I was never good enough for Order, I was never a hero, I was never what anyone needed, but Leto needs me and she loves me and that's why I chose the Mirror." It didn't matter if he knew who Leto was, not in that moment of pathetic stumbled explanations. But nothing she said would ever make any of this right, or even close to right.
There was something warm inside her at the thought that he really did want her back, that he would have maybe not cast her aside, but it didn't matter in the end.
"I'm where I need to be, Dion, don't you see? I never should have joined the Negaverse, I should have gone to the Mirror from the beginning - but I never belonged with Order."
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:55 am
"No s**t!" He hollered, throwing his hands up in the air. "But guess what Seph. Just because you won't be that princess or whatever, doesn't mean Alu and I won't end up right back over there." Just because she changed her outcome, didn't mean that didn't effect the others. "At most, you've just opened a door for anyone else to screw us over."
"No one ******** asked you to be a hero Persephone. We all just wanted you to be you. Do you think everyone on this side is a hero or some sort of saint? Hell no. It's a ******** side and what color uniform you wear. It's a ******** word. But it's what you made of that word that counts." It wasn't like it was some sort of competition. See who could be the most... Orderly, or something. Yeah, everyone was doing a marvelous job of that.
"I don't see Seph. I just don't. I don't get why you think you belong there, when all that I use to see, was us. We were a ******** family. You were like a sister. You may think you were never needed by anyone, but I needed that. You belonged with me. With Aludra and with anyone else who wanted you."
"But I get it now. I was wrong."
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:53 pm
"I won't let them have you," Persephone said. Not that there was much she could do, if the Negaverse did come for them, except bring them to Leto instead. And would that be any better? She would still be taking their choice away, just to have them selfishly at her side.
She took a deep breath. "You asked me to be a hero the minute you wanted me to be a leader! The minute you made me responsible for that team - that's when you wanted a hero, not just me." She wrapped her arms around herself and stepped back. "And I was never going to be good enough. I'm not smart or tactical or brave or charismatic. I'm just...me. So I'm better here, just Princess Leto's girlfriend and nothing anyone would ever want to rely on."
She sniffled. "You're sweet, Dionysus, but i think you lost me a long time ago."
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:49 pm
"Oh no. No no no no no. Don't you DARE say the team was my idea. Because it wasn't. YOU came to ME and asked what I thought. You came to me, a ******** CHIBI SENSHI and asked me to be part of it. YOU collected and talked to the others. YOU formed the team. I told YOU it didn't sound like a good idea to do with out more experienced people, but MY mistake was going along with it because it was YOU. So don't you DARE blame me for your ******** screw up. That's not FAIR Persephone."
The young blonde scowled at her, as if her entire presence offended him. "Fine then, go on being nothing more then 'Leto's girlfriend'. Don't think no one around hear heard what went on last year. Everyone knows that they attatcked the Dark Mirrors and that someone ganked her seed. Yeah sure, you saved the day by ******** shoving it back in. BIG ******** DEAL. She probably feels sorry for you. Friendly reminder it was both Order AND the Negaverse with its corrupts that attacked them. So yeah. GO OFF with the stupid idiots no one seems to trust or care for. PERFECT PLAN PERSEPHONE."
He snarled as she sniffed, his eyes narrowing. "I lost you? Is that it? Really? Because judging by the way you're talking about how you were never meant for Order, I, and the others like Aludra, never ******** had you in the first place. Good to know both our ******** efforts were wasted in looking for you. You didn't wanna be ******** found in the first place."
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 7:22 pm
"I didn't mean -" Persphone started, and then she shook her head. It didn't matter what she meant, because he was already so angry. Her hands clenched into fists, and she bit the inside of her cheek. This was all so pointless - no one she used to know was happy to see her like this unless they were Dark Mirror too.
She blinked - the events he was describing weren't familiar, but why would he lie? There had been an attack on the Mirror, then, and she had...saved Leto's life? Was that why Leto kept her around? Because she felt indebted to her? Maybe, but it wasn't fair to think that way when Leto had gone so far, even gone against the Negaverse, for her. "I did save her, and maybe the whole world is against the Dark Mirror, but that just makes us stronger."
She turned, to leave, because this was all so painfully poinless. But before she did, she halfway turned back.
"No, maybe I didn't want to be found. No one who comes looking for me ever wants to find me, they just want to find the person they want me to be. Why did you want to see me? To remind me of how badly I ******** up? To try to get me to come back? What the ******** was the point of all this, Dionysus?"
She paused. "I'm not sure there was one at all."
And then she started to walk away.
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