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 Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:32 pm
Contrary to anyone who might have found this "Strange New Behavior" troublesome, which they might since it was being slapped in their face by the sheer absence of the normal, exuberant, if in his own way rather wonderful, though Zink would never have admitted that in public... Scheelite, that everyone had grown to know and love, and be frustrated by. Zink found the behavior, refreshing, if odd.
He liked the long silences, they suited him as much as they ever had, he even hoped, in some small way after seeing the violent rages that Scheelite had been possessed of in the presence of 'Lyra', that he was rubbing off on Scheelite.
Why WOULDN'T he want Scheelite to act as he did in some ways, as far as HE was concerned it meant that Scheelite might rise in the ranks to a position that would give him the respect and admiration he suspected that they BOTH wanted... though it was a melancholy pride. If he spent any time thinking about it he might realize just how much had been lost to that 'serious face' and 'brooding' acid green eyes. It wasn't "Schee" anymore...this was a new Breed... some strange evolution born of long silences and loss.
"If you were in need though, you are I think aware that I'm willing to listen." He said after that long pause of his own thoughtfulness.
He paused again turning his head out, and over familar spans towards where his own house lay, where he assumed his cousin was sleeping. Safe enough, despite his mother's own increasingly strange behavior, not that he blamed her. Beth lost her mother, but his own mother, lost her twin. How strange that must be... driving her from TV dinners and a few drinks to guzzling a bottle of whiskey the moment she got home...
"I think.." He said turning his thoughts back to the present company, he thought, a safer train of thought.
"I know... we will do very well for ourselves Scheelite, in the long run of things, we will do very well indeed."
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Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:59 pm
"Thanks man, I appreciate that. I'm here for you too...always."
A lot of his frustration came from just not knowing what to do. It seemed like so many people he had cared about or been acquainted with died or simply dropped out of contact with him. It was infuriating to someone who craved, no needed, attention as much as this particular teenager did. How do you explain the feeling of losing so many? From friends to family to mentors..all -gone-. At least he still had Zink. Nothing would happen to Zink if he had anything to say about it.
"I'm gunning for the top...I know you are too man. We'll get there, both of us. Together, just like captain status."
He paused a moment, acid eyes shifting to glance at Zink before looking back out over the city.
"But first...there's just one thing I have to do to really move on."
Scheelite shifted, digging in his pockets for something. Within moments he had pulled out a packet of photos, stored away neatly in the envelope they had been picked up from the store in. His other hand held a lighter from who knew where.
"Take the past..."
Here he waved the photos at Zink, the other boy having just a moment to glance at them before they were moved away. They appeared to be photos of a small blonde-haired child with what looked like family. There were other photos, but no chance to see what they were.
"Burn it up..."
The lighter moved to the edge of the photos, quickly setting flame to them. The papers twisted in Scheelite's hand, quickly growing distorted as they burned.
"And let it go."
Song quote finished, Scheelite released the burning photos to the wind. They blew away from the building, most of it turning to ash and slowly drifting to the ground.
And with that, Scheelite let out a relieved sigh and seemed to relax...at least a bit.
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Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:08 pm
Zac's eyes darted after the ashes, watching them turn from small embers to grey and white scattered flakes only to fade into the night, the taste and smell of their burning lingering where memories and history were shooed away to fade like dying stars.
"So long as it is learned from... Lord knows it gets repeated often enough." He shook his head and shifted slightly frowning.
"Something has to give, in the grand scheme of things, let's pray its not us."
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Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:56 pm
"Learned from. Memories forgotten, lessons not."
Schee shifted again, though this time it was just to scoot that much closer to Zinkenite. Comfort, even if they weren't embracing. Scheelite had seemed to pick up a bit of Zink's unease with that as well.
"It won't be us. It can't be us. And that's that."
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