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 Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:13 am
The other Zodiacs left the clearing in pairs. She waved to Grayson as he headed down towards the trail (they had already had four hugs goodbye, and since he'd been nice enough to give her a piggyback ride up the hill she didn't see a need to demand one for the ride now). Also, Grayson would probably scold her if he saw her--
"Sue, could you stay for a little bit?"
It did not sound like she was angry. It sounded more like it was Elke, being Elke, which was to say 'sees nothing wrong with bitching someone out one second and asking them to wait after the next because she isn't certain what bitching out is'. And Sue turned around, the look on his face one of annoyance, as the other Zodiacs vanished out of sight on their way back to civilization. She waited until she couldn't hear Andeon hitting on Giselle any longer, and then she tackled Sue.
The pair of them crashed to the ground, and Elke recovered first. She straddled his chest with one fist raised in the air like she intended to punch him, monologuing in French the whole time: "Chat stupide! Je ne crois pas que vous diriez cela, vous ne pourriez pas probablement être celui stupide--you don't even do anything--"
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:51 pm
Sue had known that Elke was upset. He could be a bit thick-headed at times, granted, but he wasn't stupid - there wasn't an instant during that whole meeting that Elke hadn't been wishing for him to choke on his spit and die, so far as he could tell. He'd known that there'd be some confrontation following this the next time they met - in truth, he was somewhat relieved that it was going to happen straight away, and not be some bit of unpleasantness waiting for him a week or a month down the road.
What he hadn't been ready for was for her to ******** jump him. He was thinking some screaming, some tears - a lot of girly, passive stuff that made him uncomfortable, but really didn't matter much in the end. But while he'd stood there, sighing in an irritated manner and preparing himself for the annoying ordeal he was about to face, Elke had launched at him like a goddamned linebacker - maybe a quarter the size of one, he was ashamed to say, but she had some umph behind that tackle nonetheless - and took him flat onto his back.
"What the god-danged-- ELKE." He was roaring fairly well, once the shock of innocent little Elke smacking him down had passed. "GET THE HELL OFF!"
He hadn't tried to shove her off, yet. Sue was a little worried that if he tried, he might fail, and then he'd have to live with that for the rest of his life.
"And speak English, for God's sake! What the hell's got you so bitchy?!"
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 6:09 pm
She fell silent obediently, lowering the uplifted arm to rest her hands squarely in the middle of his chest. "Negaverse agents don't wait for you to get into a ready stance," she said, sweetly, with a radiant and innocent smile--or, you know, it would be radiant and innocent if she wasn't sitting on him after tackling him to the ground. Not having her hands balled up in his shirt might help, too. Just saying, she probably wasn't going anywhere.
"Negaverse agents don't get off just because you ask." The smile became a frown, an ugly frown, and, in the manner of someone naively testing something, she slid one hand up to his throat, her palm across his windpipe. She wasn't trying to choke him, she was just... experimentally settling the side of her hand against his collarbone, her thumb on the pulse point. Just resting her hand, right? Hopefully. "You're not Zue," she said, "you sound like him sometimes but you're not. You don't fight with us. You don't even like us. You wouldn't care if all of us died, would you, you'd just go back to hanging out with Foramen."
Her voice became shrill as she continued, "So you scold us? At least we're trying! At least we do something. You aren't even trying! You're just... what are you even doing? You aren't doing anything!"
Then she leaned back, tossing her hair. "I'm telling you all of this because of that, you know. You're like a little baby. You need to be walked through everything, don't you?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:39 pm
"The hell are you getting at, Elke?"
It was an instant response. It wasn't like Sue wasn't getting the message - rather, he was willfully trying to ignore it. The more she talked, the cloudier the expression on his face got. He wasn't shoving her back, yet - he was just sort of stiff, barely tolerating her, like a fat cat too lazy to bat away an overstepping kitten. Or at least, that's how he'd rather her to see his reaction.
The truth was, she was hitting the mark - every damn time. He simply didn't know how to respond. Elke found every thought and fear he was suppressing, and spat it out at him. Sue wasn't Zue. The Guardian Cat was supposed to be him, but they were damn near separate beings; they'd lived their own lives at the same time, had their own priorities. Sue tried to be him, but he was just shamming his way toward what he hoped to be some sort of legitimacy.
And as for his feelings toward the Zodiacs, well... there were two sets. There were the ones he had from knowing them at Barren Pines - the "real" feelings, the ones that he understood, could support with experience - and then there were the instincts. Serve, protect. Sue cared about them... but it was superficial, maybe. If Elke weren't also Sailor Virgo, would he have ever let her get away with talking to him like this? Not a chance; he'd have taken a swing at her long before now.
But there was one thing Elke was wrong about. He was trying. He was doing his part the best he knew how, and (given that he didn't know the least bit how) then some!
On that merit alone, Sue considered himself justified; on that merit alone, he scowled and made a move, at last, to his own defense. "Will you get off already," he growled as he grabbed for one of her upper arms, meaning to yank her down to the side and off his chest.
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:17 pm
If anything, his seeming nonchalance pissed her off more. And that really was the only word to describe cutesy, tiny little Elke Arma: pissed. And wasn't that a change? She forgave everything in record time for everyone else, except Sue. He hit her with a golf club and she still brought it up, but Grayson had bit her, Grayson had scarred her and she loved him the most of anyone. Hero had shot her, and Elke respected her. It was only Sue that she held such a grudge against--only Sue.
He grabbed her arm on the bad side and pulled, drawing out a pained gasp; she almost went over, but tightened her legs and gripped at his collar to barely stay in place. In the end, she was very small, and he was built like a brick wall. He'd win eventually, but she still said, "I won't move until you admit it."
Admit what?
"Admit you were wrong," she continued, "admit you weren't right to yell at all of us when you're not trying, either. You don't patrol with any of us, you ignore us, I never see you except when you come to yell at me." And then, the piece of evidence she thought most damning, "You hate us."
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