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 Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:46 pm
For a while, Eve was able to distract herself with hanging out with other friends; listening to Serenade play the piano, discuss about their past life, go shopping with Jada, attend the ball, pestering Seth, but the fact remained that deep down, she was still rather put out that her best friend, her roommate made it extremely hard for her to see her anymore. It didn't really help that Seth reminded her of Rea when they first met. They were both quiet, rather antisocial, and sometimes she even had to ask herself if she was trying to fill the gap or it was just normal that she gravitated towards such people.
...Or maybe she was just thinking too much into things.
Tonight, Eve was, surprisingly, not heading out, but seated cross legged on her bed, laptop balanced carefully on her lap as she tackled her homework. There was another reason for this. She was determined to stay up all night if she had to, to wait for Rea to come back. Rea couldn't avoid her all the time. It was time to stop.
It was time for both of them to talk about this.
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:46 am
It was no secret that Rea was doing her damnest to try to avoid Eve. She didn't try to hide it at all, in fact -- she just didn't show up at all. Being roommates, as well as senshi partners for quite a long time now, she knew the blonde's schedule almost by heart, when she liked to eat, how likely she was to be out with friends, (Serenade, for one,) when she went to dance and when she was likely to be in bed. Even senshidom wasn't safe -- Chloe, having taken it upon herself to teach her how to be a proper 'leader' for their team, had been informing her of everything she needed to know, when everyone was scheduled to patrol, who they were patrolling with, etc, making it easy to keep track of when Flora was out. So that night, when she turned the handle and stepped quietly into their room, she was taken completely by surprise when she found Eve sitting straight up in bed, not out on patrol and very much awake.
She knew it couldn't go on forever. She was just surprised how greatly she had miscalculated the time she could avoid the conversation she knew she was about to have.
Rea's eyes stayed fixed on her best friend's form, expression unreadable as they locked gazes and after a few moment's pause the Senshi of Dreams shut the door quietly behind her, walking further into the room slowly and setting her things down on the bed. She was careful to keep her attention on what she was doing, careful not to be afraid to turn her back to the other girl while she pulled her textbooks out of her backpack, careful to not be afraid to turn back towards her when she rested her ballet shoes on the floor in her closet. And after all that, she was careful to sit down on the bed, facing Eve, resting her hands in her lap.
"You caught me."
And then came that special, slightly ironic sense of humor. She was starting to think it was the only way she knew how to respond in confrontations.
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 12:09 am
Eve was used to late nights. At first, it took her a while to adjust to having a nightlife with patrolling and fighting and trying to find a cure to sleeping in class by practically drowning in coffee, but as the nights went by, her body slowly adapted to it, and she needed less coffee and tea than before. Still, it was stressful, having to juggle senshidom and schoolwork and she barely almost glanced up when the door to their room opened, finishing the sentence she had been working on before clicking the save button and putting her laptop to her side.
There were nights for patrols, there were nights for homework. This night, however, was for catching up with someone she hadn't talked to in days.
Eve only raised an eyebrow as Rea talked, and sat down facing her. At least this would be easier than she had expected; Eve had been afraid that her roommate would just crash on her bed and say nothing despite any poking or prodding. It was a pretty good start to a confrontation.
"Do you hate me because I'm in a different faction?" Hate was a bit of an extreme word, but she used it anyway. The avoiding had really gotten on her nerves.
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 12:55 am
That one really threw her for a loop. Rea jerked visibly at the words, startled so much she braced her hand out on the bed beside her, blinking at her roommate a few times, looking like she had just told her she actually had a secret third arm or something. No, even that she would probably have taken more gracefully -- she might have only quirked an eyebrow at her and told her she should probably get it looked at. But instead of startling her into a stupor, like most people, for Rea it was the opposite. Eve had said just the right thing to get the strawberry blonde girl talking.
"I don't hate you at all!"
Her reply came more fervently than what was considered normal for the eldest Marshall girl, both in voice and action as she leaned forward a little further, as if this would prove it further. Her expression, also, had lost it's usual calm, thoughtfulness, her eyes determined as she set them on Eve's soft violet ones, just a hint of worry lacing her gaze. On the inside, she could feel a tightness gripping her chest, a twinge of guilt eating away there. She had never thought in a million years that her running away (and yes, she admitted it to herself, she had been running away,) would have made her partner and best friend think she hated her. Never thought of it, because no one had ever cared enough to think she hated them. Or cared enough to care whether she hated them or not. Eve had been the one to get closest to the cold, socially awkward girl, the one who had gotten her to really start trying to make friends, the one who had made her really accept that she could work with other senshi! The fact that she thought... that Rea had made her think that she hated her...
A rush of guilt contorted her expression a little, her blue-green eyes searching over her roommate's form for something before she got up, only to realize she didn't know what to do once she got there. Somehow, she didn't think Eve would appreciate it too much if she came to sit on her bed this time like she use to.
"I don't hate you," she tried again, a little softer this time, folding her arms and clutching her elbows, "I don't think it's possible to hate you." She couldn't even ask her why she thought she hated her. Because she knew. And that made her feel all the more guilty.
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 7:52 am
Eve had been strangely paranoid recently. Of course, it stemmed from being avoided by her best friend and roommate, but it was also due to discovering that she had her past life, and according to her dreams, past Flora seemed bent on not letting her remember what it was like back then, as if it was some embarrassing yearbook photo. There were a lot of things to muse over about now, instead of before, when all she focused on was school and shopping. It probably didn't help that she kept all these repressed thoughts within herself; she tried to make herself cheerful by hanging out with her other normal friends, like Jada, Audrey, Seth, but that only worked for a while. In the end, she had to face that it was hard to explain her troubles and settled for keeping it to herself.
That, and Rea's continued avoidance of her, made her a little unsure of their relationship. It was like they were drifting apart, and Eve didn't like that at all.
So, she heaved a sigh of relief when Rea protested; hate was really an extreme word to use, come to think about it. Sometimes, having friends that were quiet and kept to themselves were hard for Eve to comprehend; she didn't know exactly what they were thinking. Rea was quite a mysterious individual.
"Good." She said quietly, eyes locked on Rea's, expression unreadable. "I just, you know... we haven't really seen each other, really had a conversation, or really hung out and stuff. I was, I guess I still am, kind of confused as to why you were avoiding me. I know who my Princess is. You know who your Prince is." Chronos had already explained to her who Helios was, and that Helios, under the service of Prince Endymion. "But our past lives, or whoever we serve, doesn't change who we are, right?"
Past lives were so damn confusing.
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 8:15 am
"Of course not," Rea replied hesitantly, carefully judging her next words before she spoke them, "I just... didn't want to make it harder for you to leave."
And there it was. The truth was there, veiled thinly by hesitant words and precise enunciation, but still waiting patiently, certain that by that admittance, the rest would come. And come it would. It would release the floodgate that essentially was Rea's ever-cautious actions, ever-cautious everything. She was always careful not to reveal too much, knowing that knowledge followed the tired cliche of being power. But she couldn't keep it back, not from her best friend, not anymore. She was always relaxed around Eve, told her everything, everything but this. She supposed, in the long run, she couldn't have kept this from her either. Pursing her lips just for a second in another moment of hesitation, Rea shifted a little where she stood, letting one hand drop from her elbow, giving the blonde a steady look.
"Your Princess is alive. She needs you. They need you, much more than we do right now."
She was not entirely deaf to what had happened to the Zodiacs. Although from what she had surmised, they were trying to keep it quiet, word had leaked about Sagittarius, and through Kunzite she had heard about the missing Opal Crystal. It by no means meant that the Zodiac Guard was lacking, but it was a troubling time for everyone. Rea and the rest of the team had no intense purpose, beyond fighting for Destiny City and the people they cared about -- it was an important cause, to be sure, but it was small change to the Zodiac's operation. She knew that. She accepted it.
A stray breeze rustled the open window Rea had cracked earlier that morning, and the strawberry-blonde girl glanced over at the translucent white curtain, happy for a distraction. Still, she clutched her arms a little tighter, as if the wind had brought a foreboding chill. "Eve... I missed you. A lot. More than I would ever admit to anyone else," she started, letting her eyes fall to the pristine carpet beneath her bare feet before slowly lifting them back to her roommate, "But if I told you that, you'd want to stay, right?"
Taking a slow breath, she sighed softly, sitting back down on the edge of her bed, less rigid than she had been before. The layer of ice she had purposely encased herself in had melted a little. "You're a sweetheart. Everyone knows it. Neither I nor anyone else can ask you to make the decision between your team and your Princess. So I made it for you."
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 8:40 am
"Leave." Eve echoed, that incredulous look settling into her face, mouth open as she stared at Rea. Honestly, she wasn't surprised that the other girl would think this way; how many times had she herself been so conflicted over choosing between teams, then proceeding to be conflicted as to whether she should even choose. And even though Rea thought that her meeting Chronos meant she would leave the Dream Team (Hey, she had been the one who came up with that name!), Eve had still went for patrols with Lyra, MuCephi and Nemesis, although she did have to admit that even then, she was still conflicted.
One reason why Rea managed to avoid her so well was that Eve was also awfully busy with shuttling between two teams, and it was no easy feat. Rea was right; the Princess and the Zodiacs needed her. At one point in time, Serenade had even locked herself up in her room which caused her to make daily checks to rap on the door and ask if she was fine.
"We're friends." Eve said finally, biting her lip, her expression unreadable as she spoke. "We're supposed to miss each other, especially when one is trying to avoid the other." Of course she wanted to stay in the Dream Team. Of course she wanted to stick with the team that she had been in from the very beginning. Of course she didn't want to leave, when Charys already had, and Delphine had followed suit temporarily.
"But I can handle it!" The blonde protested, placing her hands on her hips with a huff. "Like you said, it's my decision! And I decided that I can handle two teams, and the Princess thinks it's wise to form alliances anyway!"
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:55 pm
Rea sat perfectly still on the bed, listening to those last words with an increasingly hesitant look. She didn't want to think she was being skeptical of her best friend. She wanted nothing more than to trust her completely, tell her that she believed that wholeheartedly, and that she really did want her roommate to stay on their team. And yet all she could think about was how exhausted she could see her friend getting, running between the two, trying to do both. Being a senshi was no easy task, and Rea had found that even as a team it was a stressful job. So while she knew the right words to say, the words Eve wanted her to say, the words circling in her head were words of concern, of warning. All she could think about was Sailor Flora, exhausted by doing too much, caught in the clawed talons of the negaverse.
It was always like this. It was something that the strawberry blonde girl always hated about herself, secretly, when she knew no one was looking. She could not be comforting. She was the worst friend that way, not because she didn't care, but because she wanted to protect them... her. Even though Eve probably didn't want to be protected.
Taking a slow, deep breath, Rea nodded, swallowing the concern she felt. "Of course you can," she replied, her voice somehow coming out just as even and toneless as it normally sounded, despite her attempt. Fidgeting a little, she slid a little closer to her friend, blue-green eyes locked purposefully on Eve's violet ones.
"Promise me you'll call me if you find yourself in trouble."
That time her voice came through a little stronger, wavering just a little bit, and she reached into her pocket, taking out the teal and pale blue phone Astraea had given her, like she had given every single other senshi.
"Promise."
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 2:32 am
Eve was stronger than what people gave a blonde energetic teenage girl who loved shopping, credit for. Not only physically strong (although that was mainly due to being a senshi) but also mentally; she knew how to balance her priorities and was confident that she would do well. Besides, she always had her teammates and her friends to lean on. Being a solo senshi was quite a dangerous thing, a harsh lesson she had learned which resulted in a cast and a stay in the hospital. Eve really didn't want to have to go through that again. (Ugh, Linarite would pay.)
Of course you can. That sentence made her shoulders relax and a smile to blossom on her face. This meant Rea approved, and Rea approving also meant no avoiding anymore! Yay!
She glanced down at the phone Rea took out, and placed her hand on it. "I promise." This sentence was emphasized by leaning forward and wrapping her arms around Rea, giving her best friend a firm hug. "Although you should know that the last time Elzo tried to call me, there was loads of static. Astraea totally needs to meet Zue to fix my phone or something."
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 11:47 pm
At first, the strawberry blonde girl stiffened a little as the arms wrapped themselves around her shoulders, her initial instinct to jerk back from the affection. Instead, however, Rea relaxed, the promise echoing a little in her mind with overwhelming relief, and she wrapped her arms around her roommate's petite form, hugging her back just as firmly. Surprisingly enough, she found it wasn't unpleasant -- familiarity had always been difficult, but then again, it was Eve. It was hard for anyone not to smile around the girl. People were attracted to her like bees to a flower.
"Thank you," she whispered quietly, exhaling in a little sigh before pulling back, smiling just a little. It wavered a little, at the mention of the static, and she glanced down at the teal phone she still held, making a thoughtful face before gingerly (and not without a searching look from her roommate) sitting down on Eve's bed beside her. "That's strange... if Zue can't fix it, we can ask Chloe also," She replied, her smile returning again, "Two guardian cats are better than one -- you've got double the help."
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 9:24 am
If Rea had indeed jerked back from the hug like she initially intended to, Eve would have been quite perturbed, not to mention, hurt, but luckily, this did not happen. Having the act of affection returned was definitely a bit surprising coming from Rea the Ice Queen, but it was nice and Eve was confident enough that she would break through anyone no matter how withdrawn they seemed. Success!
"That's a pretty good idea." She replied, perking up. Now the cellphone wouldn't get stuck in a drawer all day and be brought around like it was supposed to, in case anything happened. She promised Rea after all, and promises had to be made. "Maybe they can sort out the whole Zodiac court, Moon court connection differences thing."
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