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Lady Argentum Draconis Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:01 pm
good care of us...You've just been a great father" he said twisting the word. "a*****e..." the kit snarled.
"And don't give me that look...I'm the only one with enough balls to get out of there. Lawrence won't leave the b***h and Lyon's a ******** coward..." he said. He resisted the urge to throw his helmet after the exchange with D. Figures he wasn't wanted, but he already knew that anyway.
D winced slightly as York finished speaking. In the last five minutes he'd seen that Raleigh was explosive and wouldn't take kindly to that last exchange. He sighed as he was right. He patted his partners arm and then went to the bed room and put the pistol away and then ducked into the kitchen to make drinks. "Tea or Hot Chocolate?" he asked. If nothing else it gave him something to do.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:19 pm
York rubbed his temples, closing his eyes. "Hot cocoa, please," he replied to D. He then turned to Raleigh. An irrational rage was growing. If there was such a thing as karma, what had he done to deserve this? True, he was a thief and a coward, but he couldn't help what he was, and he felt that the loss of half his sight more than made up for that. Why Raleigh? he asked angrily. Why does this one have to show up? "I couldn't take care of you," he snapped. "It was worth my life to so much as look at one of you, let alone take you home with me. I tried taking care of Lyon, and guess what happened?!" He spread his arms wide, laughing hollowly. "I got slashed open. I was punished for being a good father to my sons. I've suggested a hundred times to your mother that I take care of at least one of you, and she has thrown a fit of hysterics every time! I can't ******** take care of my own ******** sons, do you know how much that hurts, Raleigh?!"
York sighed heavily. "Now look, you've made me lose my temper." He leaned forward, his elbows resting on the table, face buried in his paws. "If you want me to take care of you, or at least give you shelter, fine. I will."
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Lady Argentum Draconis Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:42 pm
Raliegh ignored the question from the kitchen and glared at York. "Oh, so you're children aren't worth risking your life for? I see." he said nodding. "You're a ******** coward. At least I know where Lyon gets it from now." he said looking up at York eyes hard. "And it evidently doesn't hurt enough that you'll do something about it." he said with a growl.
He then snorted. "As if you were getting a choice in the matter...I'm not going back to that ******** apartment." he said.
D emerged from the kitchen as the pair seemed to have reached a lull. He glanced between the two of them and set a mug down in front of York and then one in front of Raleigh. He didn't know if the kit wanted it but he figured it wouldn't hurt to show him a little kindness...
He took a step away from the table and looked between the pair, and was suddenly struck by how much Raleigh looked like York. Take away the eyes and the curls and the kit was the image of his father...Not even Yvette looked that much like him. He stood there for a moment taking this in and then shook himself.
"I'll go make up the bed in the spare..." he said quietly, slipping into one of the other rooms. While he knew York needed him he knew his presence wouldn't do anything except maybe upset the kit more. He sighed and shook his head. What have we gotten ourselves into this time.... he wondered.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:23 pm
Venemously York glared across the table. "Yes," he replied testily, "I am a ******** coward. I don't like pain, it's a weakness. I was never a fighter. My job was to unlock the door and get the hell out of the way of the 'real' freelancers. Besides, it's hard to fight when you're half-blind." He smiled crookedly and pointed to his left eye, nodding to D as he left. "I'd risk my life, Raleigh, but I have many obligations." He shook his head. He's right...I've been a coward. I ought to try harder. Who'd think I'd be shamed into it by Raleigh? "As for your living here..." He shrugged. "I won't object. I would never send anyone back to that place. Never. No matter who they were." Thoughtfully, he took a sip of his hot cocoa, watching his son apprehensively.
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Lady Argentum Draconis Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:48 pm
"Obligations to your real family I suppose...Lawrence, Lyon and Me are just baggage huh?" he turned his head and stared at the room that was York and D's. "Figures they were actually right about something. Why the hell did she ******** have to sleep with You! Of all the dumb ******** she had to pick you...goddamn it..." he said crossing his arms.
He snorted and shrugged. "Its not like you have a lot of options." he said glancing over at York. "I know where you live now." he said.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:12 pm
With one furious movement, York stood, chest heaving angrily. He closed his eyes and clenched his fists, mentally willing himself to regain composure before he tried strangling Raleigh. I am not my father, I do not kill... "Yes. Obligations to my mate and daughters. And I would give anything that she had not slept with me. My life's bad enough as it is without being knocked up by a madwoman.
"And as for knowing where I live..." York shook his head. "This place is heavily locked. Only four people can get in here: Yvette, Delta, Kyna, and me. Maybe Lawrence and Lyon; from what I hear, they have my knack with keys. But even then they'd need training." York sat down, still holding back his anger thinly. Every time Raleigh opened his mouth, York hated him more. No! I don't hate him! He's just...frustrating, that's all. I love him. He's my son.
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Lady Argentum Draconis Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:24 pm
Raleigh looked up at York. "What are you gonna do? Hit me? Big deal...hardly be the first time I've been struck." he said shrugging indifferent to York's anger. He was used to people being angry with him, wanting to hurt him, this was no different.
"How great for them...little thieves in the making...Screw that...I can hotwire anything..." he said. "And Anything does mean Anything...even your precious locks." he said. "******** Kleptomaniacs..." he muttered.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:38 pm
Suddenly York was nursing a raging headache. His left eye blazed with pain and he rubbed his temples, exhausted. "I'm not going to hit you, Raleigh. I never struck your sisters, I'm not going to strike you. I don't plan to attack my children in any way." He wasn't in a mood to argue anymore. He had lost the fight and he knew it. He barely had the energy to defend the last accusation. "I became a locksmith through a fascination with locks, not because I enjoy stealing. However, it is one of the few things I can do, lacking most other skills." He finished his hot cocoa and stood up. "I'm going to check on your room. Are you hungry?" he asked.
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Lady Argentum Draconis Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:47 pm
"Great...not only a coward and a thief, you're useless as well...just great...How to be par for the course." Raleigh said leaning back in his chair. He snorted and looked over at the kitchen. "I think I can manage." he said.
D was just about to peek out when he heard York say he was coming to check. He sighed and absently smoothed the already smooth comforter on the bed again and waited for York. If he showed up now York wouldn't have much of a reason to come in here. And D could tell more than anything his lover needed a few precious moments away from that child with him.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:06 pm
"Good," York murmured indistinctly. He stumbled down the hall to the spare room, sinking down next to D and wrapping his arms around his partner. "Delta," he muttered, "Maybe it's time I told you...why I am the way I am." He had put it off for a long time, but ahead of himself he saw a task that seemed all the more daunting without someone who understood what he was going through. York leaned against D and nuzzled into his fur, his tail wrapped around his lover.
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Lady Argentum Draconis Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:12 pm
D snuggled into his partners embrace. gently nuzzling his bare chest. At the sound of York wanting to tell him though his entire frame began to tremble. He'd wanted to know for so long...he couldn't help but feel excited despite the circumstances. "I'm here, York." he said quietly wrapping himself tightly around his lover, knowing he needed the reassurance. He knew this wasn't going to be easy for York and he needed all the love and support D could muster. "I'm here..." he murmured again.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:08 pm
York nodded, purring as D nuzzled against him. He held his mate tight and took a deep breath before starting. He stared at the wall blankly, his eyes on the kit he was once--and the kit that now sat in the main room. "My parents hated each other," he began flatly. "I don't know why. They never told me why they hated each other. But they did."
He sighed and shifted. "It happened just like with Cary and me. They got drunk, thought they fell in love, and slept with each other. I appeared not long afterwards. By the time I was a kit, something had happened between them. They hated each other. Each one pretended to love the other while playing cruel jokes on each other. When I had emerged, they pretended to love me." He shook his head. "That's how I first learned not to trust people. They said they loved me, but if I didn't stay sharp, I would be killed." York grinned, but it was not a happy smile. It was a cynical smile at the lunacy, the madness, the danger inherent in a world where one false step could result in an ironic accident. "Because they both believed that the other actually loved me, my parents tried to kill me to hurt the other one.
"I locked myself in my room sometimes. Once I figured out how to make a crude lock, I got interested in them. That's how I started on my path to being a locksmith. When I was about Raleigh's age, I learned to fight back, not just defend myself. After that, the attacks...stopped. But I still liked picking locks. Eventually, I moved out of the house. I wouldn't say I became a kleptomaniac. I just had an urge to break into things. Needless to say, the authorities didn't believe that. I got into bigger and bigger trouble until the Project found out about me and took me in. At first I was grateful, then I learned more about what we were doing. I hated it." York smiled at D and kissed him. "The rest you know. I met you and felt better about Project Freelancer...eventually."
He sighed. "So now you know...now you know why I try to be a good father. And why I'm facing my biggest challenge yet with Raleigh...help me?" he added softly. "Tell me when I'm going overboard or get angry with him..."
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Lady Argentum Draconis Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:18 pm
D took all of it in. He trembled slightly feeling the hurt and loneliness his partner had suffered. He didn't need to be inside York's head to know...he could read it in his partners body language. He nuzzled into York wishing once more for the ability to cry. Even if they wouldn't help it would be better than nothing to help York know that he understood. "I'm so sorry, Love..." he said quietly clinging to York. Things made more sense now...why York had always stayed on the outside. Not even a member of his own squad, just a careful and quiet observer.
But to his own dismay it explained more about why he was sitting here with York rather than any other AI in the project. He frowned slightly and nuzzled into his partner. It didn't matter anymore. He was here and York loved him and he loved York. That was the important thing. Not the reasons they'd been put together.
"You did a wonderful job with the girls...and while Raleigh is more...complicated...you'll do a good job with him." D said. he then looked up at York and straightened his glasses. "And of course I'll help...after all..." he said with a faint smile. "I'm here to assist." he said leaning up and kissing York.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:50 pm
York shook his head as D clung to him. "Not your fault. Things just...worked out that way. They're better now, though, now that I've met you." He caressed D and held him tight, closing his eyes as he reveled in the feel of his partner against him and the knowledge that at last he had found someone who meant it when they said they loved him. He could trust D, trust him with his life and everything else he held dear.
"Of course I did well with the girls," he sighed. "They were easy to deal with, a real pleasure. Okay, occasionally they got into trouble, there was the occasional mishap, but generally speaking, they were easy. Besides, I had you, and they respected us. Raleigh's going to be a challenge." He laughed as Delta said his old catchphrase. Lovingly he caught his lover into a kiss. "Yes, you are. And where would I be without your assistance?" York asked him playfully. He sobered up quickly, though. "If Raleigh is like me, I want to raise him like I should have been raised. Raise him gently and with love..."
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Lady Argentum Draconis Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:03 pm
"And Patience. You're going to need a lot of patience with that boy, York...He's hurt and angry...just remember that..." he said after breaking from the kiss. He caressed York's face and looked into his partners good eye. "Just don't forget you love him...If you can I can...no matter where or who he came from..." D said quietly. "He's a part of you...and I love you and everything that is you." he said.
Raleigh coughed from the doorway. He hadn't heard anything York and D had been talking about but watching the two of them entwined in each others arms as enough to tell him what had been going on. Screw any other reason.
"Are you going to ******** on that bed before I sleep on it or can I actually have a bed that is free if sexual fluid?" he said dryly. He watched D blush and cling a little tighter to York which just made him roll his eyes. "So...what do you say?" he asked.
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