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 Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 3:58 pm
"You don't have a problem talking to her on twitter every day. You didn't have a problem eating cake with her..." He started to look away, "Doesn't explain the rest of them at all. Hanging out with Jordan being 'the wrong people' and what not..." He was about to continue looking away when Jordan spoke again.
His head snapped back to focus on them both eyes wide and cheeks turning slightly red, "J-jealous!?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:02 pm
The hesitation as he scrabbled for another excuse to counter Jordan's question was as good as an affirmation, and by the time he mentally came up with anything to say it was too late to feasibly deny it. He crossed his arms, distancing himself further, his stomach twisting with guilt, aware acting like this was petty and ridiculous, people deserved their own lives. But he felt those lives would be so much easier if they just let him choose, let him keep them to himself.
He knew but he didn't care.
"I didn't know you both were getting along so well."
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:10 pm
Jordan stared a few moments longer. Then he scowled, caught between irritation and a faint, irrational, guilty sort of pleasure at being regarded as worth being jealous over. "Dumbass," he said. "I sure hope you don't really think I'd cheat. He's my friend, and that's it."
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:13 pm
"Why wouldn't I get along with him? He's your boyfriend, and up until getting here we we're friends so why wouldn't I be friendly with him, never mind unlike half the people on this island he isn't insane, depressed, or a jerk."
You're stupid lucky to have someone who even cares about you that much
He kept the last thought to himself, well, himself and Sylvia who was sighing softly in the back of his mind. For a moment he stood there before a slight hint of color came back to his cheeks, "W-wait you don't think that I would, with him...!!"
<< Yes Roland, he thinks your gay. >>
< Screw you >
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:20 pm
Once again the silence rather than an instant no betrayed Rep's doubts. "I don't think you'd cheat." No, he thought it would be a gradual thing, all nice and above board with him pushed aside and unable to do anything about it because he was a b*****d incapable of holding down a friendship let alone a relationship.
Tracey mentally rolled his eyes.
But Rep was finally speaking and the sheer level of paranoia started to show just a bit. "I didn't even know he'd been hanging around with Ace too. He's trying to ******** steal my spot from all angles. He's trying to steal what's mine."
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:35 pm
Jordan glanced at Ro again, his mouth quirking. "He's not trying to steal your spot. Even if he were, it's not up for stealing, seeing as how it's your spot," he told Rep, his tone an odd cross between annoyed and fond. "Anyway, stealing a person requires that the person be willing to be stolen."
He moved closer, set his hand on Rep's chest. "I"m not going anywhere," he said again. Then he added, "But I am going to get pissed if you get jealous every time I hang out with my friends."
More quietly, barely above a whisper. "Please. Trust me a little."
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:42 pm
It was rather awkward at this point, standing off to the side. He was brought up, yet ignored at the same time. "I've only ever gone training with Harrison, no different then going on the Sun course with you Rep." He crossed his arms scowling a bit at the comment about stealing again, "I'm not stealing anything Rep."
Some where in his head Silvya was purring at the closeness between the other two hunters. Roland quietly ignored it arms still crossed.
"I just want to know one thing Rep." He stood up a little bit straighter pondering for a moment before he spoke.
"Did you mean it? What you said about me just being unwanted."
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:55 pm
Finally he seemed to concede a little, frowning with just an edge of uncertainty but nevertheless reassured by the affirmation that no, he didn't want to go anywhere, that it was still Rep's place. The uncertainty didn't go away however, at least not until Jordan placed his hand on his chest, contact that unlike the shoves, was actually permitted and welcome.
It was almost a weight off his shoulders as he took it as a warning that there would be irritation on the horizon if he kept trying to choose who Jordan hung around with. It wasn't his place, it was out of his hands. He physically seemed to sag under the contact, sighing defeatedly, though not resentful.
He nodded, meeting Jordan's gaze as he did so before looking away again, the look said what he did not. Trust he could do.
Ro, nearby was still rankling his pride, getting his hackles up, or would have been if he hadn't had Jordan there close by, keeping all of that in check simply by being. The mist hunter got a look, lazy and unfocused, like a wild animal on a chain aware it couldn't rip out your throat this time but the next time you tugged its tail it would have you.
"If you can learn how to show a little bit of ******** respect maybe I could tolerate you."
But even with Jordan there, he was unafraid to add. "But you ******** point in my face again or touch me and I will wreck your shield and break every ******** one of your fingers."
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:11 pm
Jordan held Rep's gaze a moment longer, the concession silently understood and accepted. Then, aware of the painfully thick atmosphere of sheer awkward, he took a step back, putting on a lighter smile and ignoring the threat. Being Rep's friend involved a process of interpretation and not taking him at face value most of the time; if Ro hadn't yet figured that out at all, the guy was less intelligent than Jordan had thought.
"Now that that's settled," he said, "both of you are between me and coffee."
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:21 pm
The response was not what Roland had hoped for, but it was more then nothing. He stood with his arms crossed looking at Rep, studying that odd look he was being given.
He didn't say anything to the first part shrugging his shoulder, "Is it too much to ask for the same? what you said hurt Rep. I mean that." He paused at the last comment and then said nothing.
<< Don't worry, I wouldn't let him. >>
< I know Sylvia. >
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:35 pm
Rep stared at the other hunter as if he'd just asked him to put on a dress. As far as he was concerned, he'd shown no small amount of respect to him, willing to take him on training runs and offering him as much helpful advice as he could. It was more than what most people ever got from Rep. "Aye well, you getting snappy with me wasn't cake and biscuits either, suck it up. If you think I've not been respecting you then maybe just maybe you need to do your research on me and come back when you have a ******** clue how I work." he growled irritably. He still didn't trust him in the slightest, but he trusted Jordan, that was enough for him.
"But aye. I'm done with this. I have better things to be doing with my time." Despite the fact that he had been sitting rearranging books in alphabetical order when the door had been knocked - a task hampered by his somewhat irregular grasp of the alphabet. Ro got a smirk. "I'll see you around."
He headed back into the room which looked like it had been hit by a very selective whirlwind that only affected books.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:50 pm
Jordan sighed quietly and gave Ro a look of rueful amusement. "Translation," he said, quietly enough not to be overheard by the subject of the conversation. "He likes you, but apologies aren't sufficiently manly. I'm going to have coffee; do you want any?" He headed for the tiny kitchen.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:59 pm
"Sorry about that, I was just... irritated is all." He wasn't sure how to put it exactly. Mostly he was hurt and for once it was a personal kind of hurt. "When I met you no one is around giving out manuals on that to be exact."
Watching Rep go he turned to Jordan who spoke in a hushed whisper, "Noted but uh... I don't think I should go in. Somehow I think that might set Rep off again. But one for the road isn't a bad idea?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:02 pm
Back in the room Rep had washed his hands of the entire argument, instead he sat down on his chair and set about trying to figure out if J came before V in the alphabet. His hot chocolate had gone cold in the meantime, he drank it anyway.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:13 pm
"Yeah, you're probably right," Jordan sighed, and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Sorry about that. If I'd known he was going to get - well, no use dwelling on it," he shook his head and detoured into the room, retrieving an extra cup of coffee and turning off the timer on the pot. He returned to the door and leaned in the doorframe, parking himself firmly in neutral territory as he held out the second coffee cup to Ro.
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