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 Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:53 pm
It had been a long night, and after the last person had been sent home, the last of the trash cleaned up, and everything taken down and set in it's box, they could go home. It was well past midnight now, early morning, and Melvin stepped out into the night and waited as Nash came out.
"Think the headless horsemen is roaming around?" He teased, glad that walking together on such a active Fear night would mean he wouldn't have to worry about Nash walking home alone.
"Ready?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:40 am
He'd taken off the horns and the cape, which were now draped over one arm, Nash sliding his hands into his pockets as he stepped out of the bar. Melvin was there, waiting, which was a nice thing; Nash fell into step alongside him, feeling tired and worn.
"If he is, maybe we can send him to go visit a certain someone. Or someones," he muttered, then sighed.
"I'm ready if you are."
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:55 am
"Think the headless horsemen is into giving head to desperate couples?" He said, smiling at his own terrible joke.
He slid a hand around Nash's back, pulling him lightly closer but not enough to make him trip or uncomfortable to walk.
"Sorry about that. About....all of this. That you're being targeted even when you were doing nothing wrong and went out of your way to help at the bar."
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:59 am
He let out a snort of laughter, in spite of himself. "I sure hope so," said Nash, not resisting the arm around him. It was a cold night but not so cold that he would feel like an icicle within a few minutes, a fact for which Nash was very grateful.
A sigh escaped, breath faintly visible. "So that's the husband, is it?" he said, eyes flicking up to stare idly at the moon half hidden behind the clouds. "Seems like a real piece of work."
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:10 am
He went a bit more somber at the mention of Rodney. "Yeah, that's Rodney. When Lawr and I made our house, Lawr invited a few people to stay wtih us so they wouldn't have to sleep in the basement level. Melody and Rodney. I didn't much care about it, and actually thought it was pretty nice of him. I knew he still had past feelings about family. Rodney always was pretty quiet and spooked easily, so I stayed out of his way mostly. Talked to him here and there but he made me nervous with how tense he always was. I never really hated him back then."
He breathed out and looked ahead. "Then during a mission I found Lawr and him screwing in a tent. Didn't even know they were into each other. Apparently it was a while coming. Lawr decided then and there that since Rodney couldn't be with someone who slept around, that we were over so he could marry him. Just...right then and there when I first found out." He squeezed Nash a little tighter.
"It's been a mess ever since. Rodney turned out to think I was some violent sociopath wanting to tempt him husband at every turn and make him do evil acts, and soon I couldn't even go back to the house I helped build. It just....all came out of left field. It still hurts my head sometimes thinking about it. Like I wasn't paying attention. That I didn't see something that was there and let it happen somehow."
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:30 am
He turned his head to give Melvin a narrow eyed look. "So...he cheated on you?" Nash asked, sounding disgusted. "I mean, I know I do a lot of s**t, but I don't mess around with cheating, that's just a bunch of bullshit. And that's a shitty way of telling someone you don't want to be with them anymore."
It made sense, at least, for Lawrence, because there seemed to be nothing that man didn't stoop to. Nash's feet crunched a bit of cold grass beneath them as they made their way towards the dormitory building, looming ahead a short distance away.
"I don't see how the fact that he threw that in your face is in anyway your fault," Nash muttered. "He's a ******** moron."
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 11:43 am
"Not really. I was okay if he slept around. I knew he wasn't the person I first met, or even the person I knew the second time around. What bothered me was that he suddenly wanted to be loyal to one person, and not even someone he was with that long. He wanted to stay with someone because they forced him to do it. That he just suddenly adopted this idea out of the blue and now is parading about that he is a family man when in the past he admitted he gave up on the idea. It's like he's a drug addict going for a new fix for family. It's utter bullshit." He took deep breathes, the old anger, the old hurt, rising up again.
"It's the pretending that bothers me." It was the fakeness of it all.
"But that's what he believes he wants, and I'm not there to care anymore. I can't do it anymore. I just wish he didn't try to make life more difficult."
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:26 pm
"Ah," said Nash, with a bob of his head. "The whole....cake and eat it too sort of s**t at first. Or something to that effect. He was fine with the two of you just doing your own s**t together and apart until he suddenly decided to cut that off, which is pretty damn shitty."
He wriggled an arm free from between them and slung it loosely around Melvin's shoulders, the lack of much difference in their height making it easy and casual. Hearing of Lawrence's continued - and past - shittiness was somehow vilifying and annoying all at the same time, because it meant that nothing had changed.
"He definitely does like jabbing sticks everywhere," said Nash, with a roll of his eyes. A breeze rifled through the air, ruffling their hair. "It's like he says he wants one thing but doesn't actually take all the steps to do that or something. Or that he's pushing lines hoping something will change."
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:36 pm
"He doesn't get a lot of what he does and the consequences until he sees it's affects on other people. In the moment, it's just him. What he can get and keep and hold onto."
He felt the comforting weight of Nash's arm over his shoulder and leaned in a bit more against him.
"Funny thing is, I never did see anyone during our time together. Not that I couldn't.........it was just, he was who I was with after everything with Rin happened. I didn't feel like I wanted anything more than what I had. Even when things got worse between us, I didn't look for anyone else. It wasn't until it all ended - it's like I forgot what I wanted anymore."
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:32 pm
Nash grunted. Lawrence had yet to actually do anything at all that would make him seem anything less than a shitty psychopath, and Melvin was only reinforcing that belief. "Well, he can't always get what he wants. He doesn't get that option."
He crunched a twig beneath his feet, the dormitory building beginning to grow nearer.
"Who's Rin?" Nash asked.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 7:48 pm
He stopped on the path, still and quiet.
The moon bright overhead.
Looking at Nash, he opened his mouth and then closed it.
Then, after a moment, he asked. "Someone...very close to me....."
He looked across the grounds and then back to Nash.
"Do.........you want to meet her?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:25 am
Nash almost tripped over his own feet as Melvin stopped. He took a hasty step back to keep from overbalancing, their arms still loose around each other, and turned to look at Melvin, his eyebrows drawing together.
"Uh," he said, wondering if he'd gotten into anything. "I mean, yeah, if you guys don't mind."
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:52 am
"No. She isn't far and I should visit." He admitted, taking a breath as he looped himself around Nash, a bit more clinging than normal and more quiet than before.
If Nash had ever lost anyone, he would know the path.A walk through the grounds and further past the buildings. It might have been a bit unwise to visit on Halloween night, but ashes couldn't return.
Moving over a hill, the ground soon was lined with rows of markers in vast rows in all directions. Some stones, the ones that had one, were worn and weather beathen. Others looked recent. Some still had fresh flowers placed and one further off still had a flickering tea candle lit.
Moving through the rows, he stopped at a intricately and beautifully carved headstone. Upon the stone was a picture of a stag moving among a vast array of flowers that feel down vines and petals along the border.
Here Lies
Rin Alder
1989 - 2014
A flower who strived to make others bloom.
"This is Rin. She was the woman I was with before Lawr."
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:32 am
It was a strange situation, overall; Nash couldn't help but feel a sense of impending wariness, wondering whether or not he was intruding on something he shouldn't be. Melvin's tight grasp at least indicated he was uncertain about something, or maybe upset. Maybe the night's events had finally gotten to him.
Nash had never been to the cemetery before; and it took him a moment to connect that that was what it was, the rows of markers making his steps halt for just a moment before he continued to the headstone that Melvin led him to.
"Oh," he said, and then, "s**t, Melvin, I didn't know. I'm sorry."
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:24 am
He looked at the stone, one he had commissioned Rodney to make back when they still were civil to each other. Back before the breakup.
"It's okay. I grieved a long time ago. I've accepted it."
He released Nash to kneel down.
"She was the ine who asked me out and I wasn't realky i to relationships back then. But she was kind and accepting and I worried what rejection woukd do to her. We only dated for over a year. We bickered a lot but we had our good times too. She really liked gardening. She is the one that worked to get the greenhouse rebuilt."
He smiled at the memory before it slolwy vanished to somber memories.
"We went on a mission to the horsemen islands. I took a blow and was too weak to defend myself. Medea showed up and Rin protected me using her body and died in front of me."
"When we got back, I didn't want to believe she was gone. Some hunters said hunters sometimes came back. I hoped for a miracle. I had a vivid dream that said she was looking for a door back and I latched onto it. It felt so real. I was desperate. I felt so guilty for her sacrifice. I rejected any pleas from my friends to break out of it. Turned my back on them and lashed out if they didn't agree with me. Needless to say, I ended up even more alone."
"I was in a dark place - and that's when I met Lawr. He heard what I believed and said he could channel her spirit in him. He entertained my delusions. Later on he admitted he found me pathetic and wanted to help build me back up. It's horrible to say it now but I was so selfish to tarnish her name and accept such a lie. I got close to Lawr in the process. Things got more intimate and he filled the spot Rin left behind. Then it came to choosing Rin or him. I choose him. I didn't know how else to bring her back and wanted to let her rest."
"We dated after that. I found out later what he did, but I was already so invested in him and Rin was already buried in my mind, that I still stayed."
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