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 Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:12 pm
"I'm almost always here."
She shouldn't trust him like this. She shouldn't be reaching out to him with the personal part of her life. She knew his kind was capable of horrible things but she cared about Benitoite and wanted to see him happy. Against her better judgment she wrote down her cell phone number on a scrap of paper and gave it to him.
"Call me. Anywhere you want to meet me I'm there. It doesn't matter when. Just...stay safe."
She gathered him up into a hug again, holding him tightly. It was easy to envision him as one of her students or one of Harmony's friends that called her mom, too. The curse of motherhood was also the blessing in it. She felt maternal toward anyone too young to bear life on their own and that maternal instinct seemed to latch onto the teen in front of her. He needed someone to trust, guidance.
She'd drawn her line in the sand, so to speak, and he knew where she stood with him and with the Negaverse. She knew enough to trust one and be very wary of the other. She didn't want to see the haunted look in his eyes.
"You're a gentle soul. Don't let them destroy that spirit, too. Don't let them turn you into someone jaded and comfortable with hurting people that you want to help. No loss is ever acceptable."
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 9:33 pm
"I will...just don't expect it to be a normal place...like a coffee house." That would look very odd. To most people he'd appear normal, if dressed a little oddly. But to any senshi it would really be odd and standout. They'd bust down the cafe door and go for him, he was sure of that. He wouldn't put anything past them any more.
The cell phone number was pocketed, he had her number but it was ok to not let her know that. It wasn't lying to her. He could get in touch with her now as Benitoite and talk to her, someone who was like a substitute for his mother who he could talk to. He could tell her what he wished he could tell his own mother, but couldn't.
Fighting back tears, which burned in his eyes, he tilted his head back and blinked several times to work them away. He couldn't let them fall, even as he hugged her tightly. "Already have I done what I never sought to do...never shall I again. I suffer for my ill actions, actions I cannot take back nor make up for. I can only reset my course and suffer my punishment." He spoke, his face pressed against the one offering him comfort and the words he needed, so desperately, to hear. "I will stay on the path my morals dictate to me from now on." He couldn't let someone shake him from that path...not now. Though somehow a voice whispered in his mind that he would again kill, that he would have to one night. He would one night have to fight again and kill. It was a matter of time.
"I have to go...I will...find you when I have need. I promise." Oh god he would need her, she was what he needed so very much and he would treasure her and hold her close for as long as he could. He hoped she would never turn her back to him.
"I-Thank you...good night and please...keep yourself and your daughter safe." He couldn't teleport like he wanted so he had to turn and jump off the stage and make his way out, his pace sedate, arms about himself and his head ducked down. He hoped he wasn't seen by any senshi who might be students here. Pushing open the theater doors he stepped out into the hall and let the doors close behind him. For a moment he felt like letting his legs give out from under him but he fought that and hurried his pace now. Out of the school and to a place he could power down. The break down of tears was had once he reached his parked car. It was safe here, he could cry now.
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