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Post by Lisa on Feb 16, 2010 23:58:59 GMT 10
Title: Either Or (XXI) Rating: PG Length: 144 words Competitor: Raoul Round/Fight: 1/C Summary: There’s somewhere else she needs to be.
“It’s well after dawn,” Kel says, pulling away from him at last. “I’m needed elsewhere.”
He eyes her shrewdly. “Back to his bed, I take it?”
She can feel herself flush. “It’s not simple.”
“It never is.”
“I think he loves me, in his way,” she says, donning her breeches.
“He’s still with his wife.”
She pauses to gaze at him levelly. “As are you.”
“My wife would be showing you how comparably poor my technique is, were she here to make you sigh and wriggle in pleasure.”
“You say that, but you can’t prove it.”
“Stay with me again tonight. She’ll be back in Corus.”
“I can’t.”
“Because his wife is leaving the city.”
She says nothing.
“Kel, you can’t keep this up. It’s going to eat at you from the inside.”
“And being with you won’t do the same?”
He says nothing.
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Post by journeycat on Feb 17, 2010 2:03:04 GMT 10
I love this. I love that Raoul cares enough for her that he's not offended by the fact she has another man, but that she's getting hurt by him.
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Rowena
Training Master
back to school... >.<
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Post by Rowena on Feb 17, 2010 6:33:40 GMT 10
I take it the other man is Wyldon? *cringe* Can't wrap my head around that pairing, but I like the bittersweetness of her leaving Raoul, even though it makes me sad.
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Post by Lisa on Feb 17, 2010 9:34:30 GMT 10
Mandi - Raoul's an odd duck, isn't he? *contented sigh* he really can't blame her for doing something on the side, can he? Rowena - read "The Other Man" and you'll see!
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Post by emberrose on Feb 17, 2010 9:53:03 GMT 10
Raoul is so wonderfully protective in his own odd little ways... Loved it!
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Post by Lisa on Feb 17, 2010 10:50:32 GMT 10
Thanks!!
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