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 Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:44 pm
Oh dear.
Dax sighed and followed after her.
"Nadia-" He called out, voice as gentle as he could manage.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:47 pm
Nadia was already outside, getting into her car. People were watching her like a freak at the circus.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:48 pm
And, undoubably the large man that followed her out would only make them watch more.
"Please talk to me, Nadia."
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:51 pm
Nadia was at least marginally logical at all times. Standing in a bra outside, not so much. Getting out of the car angrily to talk to Dax in a fit of tears? Slightly logical.
"You probably didn't hear about it. I mean, I don't figure you read the newspapers out on the docks," she started, and then went in a totally different direction, "How much do you know about Elves and pregnancy?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:52 pm
"I don't read." He told her quietly, slipping off his coat and offering it to her. "And I don't know very much at all about what goes on with women's systems."
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:54 pm
"See, we don't...do that girl thing. With the bleeding. Not sure why, but we don't," the poor girl explained, "So we never know if we get pregnant until we start to blow up. When we do, our bodies can hold off for ********' millenia until we're emotionally ready for the kid, and then it explodes in fetal joy and pops out in, like. Two months."
Uh-oh.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:57 pm
"All right." He said quietly. "So there's going to be a little one around the house soon. Why did you ask me about reading the paper?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:58 pm
"Because there was this guy a while ago that went around making meat-puppets out of girls. He took me. Beat me up good. Heard the cops coming and said something about wanting to 'spread his glory'. He raped me, Dax. And that's the last time I had sex."
...uh-oh.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:00 pm
Dax gave a little murmur of not-english, closed his eyes.
"Oh... Nadia... I'm sorry." Carrying your rapist's kid couldn't be good for the mind or the heart.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:03 pm
"Yeah. And I don't want this ******** baby. But the ******** baby is too developed to abort." She was sobbing now, not yelling any more.
"I don't want his baby, Dax. I want you and Nico. I don't want this baby."
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:05 pm
Dax sighed, gently reaching for her.
"You'll have me, Naddy, and you'll have Nico. And if the baby comes and you still don't want it, well, I know there are good people out there. I'm not going to force you to do anything, and I'll be here for you." He said softly.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:07 pm
Nadia collapsed into his arms.
"I want it to be yours."
Ah, and the truth came out.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:09 pm
Dax sighed, held her tightly, kissed the top of her head.
"I'm sorry. I wish it were, too. But I won't care for it any less."
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:12 pm
"You shouldn't have to take on all my baggage."
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:14 pm
"We've all got baggage, Nadia." He tried tipping her head up so that he could smile at her. "I've got no problem helping you carry yours."
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