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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:12 am
"It'll be fine." he looked over at her, "Lucky to have eternal nega agent with me. Othervise vould be problem." He kept walking, only noticing the brief shadows that shifted and moved.
It didn't matter to him, he just wanted to make sure there was no people out for easy pickings.
"Yes." he shrugged. "You ask me to live in a future with lies told to you by....your friends. I live in a past vhere truth is still vaiting to be discovered." He looked at her, "You want so badly for me to bend but that is not vay." He was annoyed yes, and he did hate that she asked a question with a question. "That is the burden you have vhen you involve self with someone from the past, is it not?"
He looked at her.
"I have my burdens and you have yours. They vill alvays butt heads. Pretending othervise is harmful to anything that comes later." He shrugged again, shifting his jacket. "I am not some neat thing to fall into place for you." He rose a brow, "Just because you vant me too. Just as I don't force you to change back. I'm annoyed, that is how I vork through things. If that is a problem nov, then you should leave and go back to your friends."
The tone wasn't angry just...was. He stared at her, waiting for her response.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 12:29 pm
"No, it's not the future. It's the present. It's here and it's right now, and that's where I am. Making the most I can of it." She looked back at him, because he was right about not needing to worry about lesser youma at the moment. Still frowned briefly, not liking how easily he threw around lines like 'lies told to you by your friends'. They took care of her. Were there for her. She didn't expect him to understand the depth of that. When she woke up with nothing, they were her something. She ended up falling into step with him since they were talking, glancing out of the corner of her eye here and there at their surroundings. "No. I'm not asking you to bend to my way, or to pretend, or for things to be neat, because they aren't. I'm asking for the compromise. You can't say you uphold the value of being just if you're going to continue to hold things against me that are beyond my control." The memory loss...force her to change back? "It's simply because you can't force me, Officer. I don't doubt you'd try if you had the ability to do so, because you want things your way or not at all." She paused, briefly. "Be annoyed if it's how you work through things, but I'm not here for you to take it out on. Not when I'm trying." She looked back at him. "Because feeling annoyed isn't the problem. It's what you're doing with it."
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 6:07 pm
"Bah!" He made a sound, "Trying. Trying to vhat? Make new connections. Leave old ones in the dust." He could feel the temper simpering underneath the annoyance and added to the pile that he was annoyed with himself, just as much as he was annoyed with Still.
He stalked away from her because he was taking it out on her, and he didn't mean too. It was hard not to be angry though, when she was there, and didn't remember him or his sister. His sister who still called him and asked if he saw anything, heard anything.
How Still was doing. Nadia would ask these things.
"You are not compromising." he whirled around, "You just vant to be right." and then he snorted, "Just as I vant to be right."
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 10:57 pm
She waited him out for an opening again. The corrupt didn't hurry as he stalked on ahead of her, and kept the same pace. Still watched his back though, and felt frustrated, though she masked it. The frustration stemmed from feeling like she had to repeat herself. Things he was mad about, things that were beyond her control, she couldn't fix it. It didn't matter how much she wanted to. She couldn't fix the gaps that made up her life now. When the man whirled around, Still approached and came to a stop before him. She stared at him for a long moment. "I am compromising." She said again, tone steady. "I just told you. I'm building tentative relationships with people who say they were friends with who I used to be. I'm not leaving them behind. You're mad because I'm making new connections, but what else do I have, Sergei? I am not Olga. Any and every connection I make now is new. I don't have any of those memories of who I used to be. They're not just floating somewhere and I'm purposefully ignoring them. I don't have them. You're mad I don't remember, and I'm upset that you don't understand I can't do anything about that, except for what I'm trying to do now. It's why I'm trying to get to know you. It's why..." Well. That he was supposed to try and get to know her. She let a moment of silence pass as she trailed off, her gaze briefly flicking away from him to keep an eye on their surroundings. "It's not about being right. What is there to be right about? It's about listening, trying and adapting, three things you're not very good at right now. This conversation will continue like a broken record that I am tired of, so I ask you, once again, where is the compromise to stop this repeating? I want a solution from you we can work on, not another accusation."
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:20 pm
"Yes, I am no good at it. Nov you have learned something." The snark was pulled back and he ran a hand through damp hair. "Meet my sister." He stopped. "You knov vho is probably, Meet her like this. So she can know." It was the only solution he could think of.
"Nadia is heart broken, and there is only few people that I care more for in this vorld." He tilted his head up and looked Still in the eye. "Even more then vhat ve are trying to do here. I vould throv avay friendship if I thought it vould harm my sister more."
He waited, "That is ultimatum, I knov. But you should knov nov. That is kind of man I am. It is hard to change man like this."
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:47 pm
Maybe if she was someone else, or, well...had been the person she had been before, those words would have stung. No one liked being told they were that easy to give up, but it didn't sting. She accepted it as it was, and the ultimatum, while a hoop, wasn't particularly a hard one. A corner of her lips couldn't help but pull up in amusement. On one hand, she had friends who said don't chase the past and let go of it. On the other, she had people who said run towards it at full speed. The irony was nearly painful. Nadia...the name struck a chord. An echo that resonated, but yet didn't shed any light on any revelations or memories. The name also was attached to one of those photos in Olga's wallet. The beautiful woman displaying confidence in her ballet portrait. "Alright." Still agreed, meeting his look. "Set up a meeting for her and I. Text me the details. I'll go." She stepped even closer to the man, the distance between them scant. "An ultimatum it is. If you're going to hold me to this, I'm going to hold you to one as well. If this is a friendship, like you claim, then start acting like it. Otherwise just as quickly as I reappeared back in your life, I will disappear out of it, and that will be that." Not a threat. Just a fact.
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 2:37 pm
He actually thought she might say no.
He was prepared to fight for her to change her mind but now...
"Oh." He scrunched his nose. "Fair." He waited and then held out his arms. "Nov. We kiss and make up no? That is what friends do?" A twinkle in his eyes said the russian was MORE then content with the fact that he got something out of this meeting and would get more things but what he wanted the most.
Nadia would be given a chance and that was all he could do for his sister and for....Still. That was it.
"Or are ve still fighting?" REALLY QUICK TO AVOID MORE FIGHTING.
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 7:26 am
Still quirked a brow at the man, and then eyed his open arms. "For the record---" She replied, " You started the fight, and I finished the fight." By being the reasonable and mature one. Who was on the side of Chaos, and also not a Police Officer. After a moment she shook her head though, somewhat amused, and came the rest of the way to go into his arms and press herself against him. "I don't think you kiss and make up with all your friends, Malysh, but it's what we'll do, yes." Amongst other things that involved his work car.
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