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 Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:18 pm
Siddie sat crosslegged behind one of the chimneys that jutted crazily from the roof of the monster dorms, stroking a brush almost absentmindedly down Clove's long belly. The drutten was stretched out half-asleep in its mistress's lap, its fur gleaming black and well groomed; Siddie had apparently been at this for some time, brushing her mini and thinking in quiet solitude as the afternoon shaded into evening.
She had skipped afternoon classes, for once.
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:23 pm
Sammy had forgone her jacket and boots for this, climbing buildings often worked better without the extra weight. It had been a few periods since she had seen Siddie, the shadowghoul had been making her attend classes for graduation rather sternly the past few months, but when she wasn't there Sammy knew something was up.
When she went to look for Siddie she had found both their dorm rooms empty, and that left one place to go when the ghoul wanted to be left alone.
Tugging herself up the last of the way onto the roof she made her way around a chimney leaning over to peek above Siddie's shoulder. "Okay, one class, you got lost in a visual novel game. Two and I think maaaaybe you're sick, but three and no sign of you in our rooms you're totally sneaking away and not telling me."
Sammy slid around the chimney taking a seat beside her ghoulfriend one arm moving easily over her shoulder to slip closer to her, even offering Clove a short scratch to the belly, "You okay?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:44 pm
Siddie looked up when Sammy came into view, proving that she was in fact paying attention, not completely lost in thought, or at least not so deeply that she'd lost track of her surroundings. She moved over a little to give Sammy a spot on the flat area where she liked to sit and leaned her head on her ghoulfriend's shoulder as Sammy settled down, soothing Clove with an absent scritch behind one ear before the drutten could protest the movement.
"Mama wrote me a letter," she said.
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:18 pm
The dead ghoul shifted lowering her shoulder for Siddie before resting her own head against the black midnight curls of the other. An arm wrapped around her shoulder the other gently stroking clove to help silence protests about attention for himself.
"Ah. Family stuff. What was the letter about this time?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:45 pm
"She wants me to come back for the holiday party," Siddie said, and fell silent for a few moments, stroking the pads of Clove's paws with a finger; usually she would have smiled at the mini's indignant, ticklish chirps, but she remained sober now. "So she can show me off."
"I'm not going," she added suddenly.
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:10 pm
Sammy sat up tilting her head ever so slightly, "Parties aren't bad really..." She grew silent with Siddie frowning a bit as something was clearly off. "Oh." Sammy frowned a bit, both arms moving to hug Siddie now gently. Sammy knew how it felt for Siddie, to be a pet more then a child it seemed. Almost like a tool then a person.
The conversation shifted suddenly though.
"Really?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:23 pm
"I used to want to grow up to be just like Mama, you know," Siddie said, and sighed, a slow, feathering exhale. "She was so pretty, so good at everything, always knew what to say at just the right time, and she could buy anything she wanted and she was better than everyone. Or that's what I thought then." She leaned into Sammy's arms. "I think she was trying to arrange for me to have a good life. I do. I ... just don't think that's so good a life, any more."
She looked off over the campus. "I'm tired of lying, Sammy. I don't want to go back and I don't want to pretend I do any more. They don't know who I am and I don't - I don't think they really want to know."
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:29 pm
Sammy listened quietly, a small part of her quietly wished she could have even had what Siddie had now. A family. Dis functional, possibly controlling and corrupt, but a family. The closest she had was sitting beside her and the other part hated her with a passion.
"I never had a family, anyone to really live up too. I always looked to Red for that and look at me now." She shook her head a bit. "They did want good for you, Barth is... in some ways good. But if it isn't what you want then it isn't." Purple flames gazed off with Siddie's own distant gaze watching the skyline of the campus.
"That they wouldn't like me, or us. Or anything that's happened since we started here?" She looked back at Siddie proper, "What ever you do, you know I'm here with you. Through it all."
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:37 pm
"If I hadn't met you," Siddie admitted, "I probably wouldn't have been so bothered. About doing what my parents wanted me to do. I don't think I would have, anyway. You make me think about things." She rested one hand over Sammy's bony hand, smoothing her fingertips across the black bones.
"I want to do what I want to do," she said after a moment. "Not what other people want me to do. I don't - maybe I don't quite know what that is, but I've got tired of people telling me what I want."
She turned her head a little to kiss the corner of Sammy's mouth. "Thank you."
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:44 pm
"Do you think you would be happy if you hadn't met me? Or someone at all?" Bones twisted and shifted to twine with flesh the sense of warmth growing as they settled closer. Siddie was the closest thing she had to a pulse.
"You're always free to do what you want. The only thing I can ask for is to let me come along no matter what happens." The kiss on the corner of her cheek was met with her own hand, cool flesh brushing Siddie's cheek tipping her chin just a bit higher so their lips would meet.
"You're more then welcome."
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Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:19 am
"I don't know," Siddie admitted honestly. "I thought I was pretty happy then. I can't imagine what I would have been like if things had gone differently." She squeezed Sammy's hand, interlacing their fingers.
She nodded a little and kissed Sammy lightly. "That's what this is, right? Coming along on whatever happens, no matter what happens, both of us?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:47 pm
Sammy chuckled at Siddie's honestly, a soft lazy smile across her face. "You would have likely married Barth, I mean, it's not like it would have been a bad match. Or maybe you would have found another ghoul to run you astray of the family plans?" Fingers twined, lips touched she only smiled more.
"Exactly what it is." Hands shifted and moved tugging both ghoul and drutten into Sammy's lap proper cuddling her closer, leeching the warmth from the shadow to warm the cold of her flesh. "Guess the real question is what we decide to do next then..."
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 1:44 am
"Maybe, if he didn't have Calder." Siddie shrugged one shoulder. "I guess I would have gotten along all right with whoever ... better if it was a friend, of course, but I always sort of thought as a scareling that you just ... married who you married and you made the best of that. That was how it was. I don't - I'd rather be with you."
She nestled into Sammy's lap. "Maybe I'll show minis for a living," she said, her voice taking on a joking lilt.
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 6:42 am
The mention of Calder made Sammy grimace a bit, but thankfully Siddie in her lap wouldn't see it, the look passed and she continued to cuddle Siddie closer.
"I never even thought about it really. Not till I found you I guess. I was never really raised knowing how to care for others or anything like that I spent a lot of time just... in a bad place." She didn't go into details about her past much.
"Mmm what about training them? Lil Drutten Circus show? Or maybe daycare stuff? Even try and get a job working with Malcolm maybe."
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:01 pm
"I'm glad you're in a better place now," Siddie said softly, and twisted to put her arm around Sammy's waist, settling comfortably into her embrace with the ease of familiarity. She settled her head against Sammy's shoulder again.
"Do you think Professor Malcolm would take an - I don't know, an apprentice?" she asked, a little shyly.
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