{FAILED LOCK FROM LARSA}

[bentflame]

Why would someone give me gifts and want to go places with me when he very well knows that I'm not exactly found of him? Especially considering how, despite what he says, it's been clear that he's not very fond of me, either?

This is why I hate people.

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[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Who?

[solidork.livejournal.com]

An old family friend.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Why?

[solidork.livejournal.com]

[he laughs bitterly as he explains.] He is a good friend of Lord Gramis, and he just so happens to have a granddaughter that is my age. While I do appreciate that he would think of me this way, I have no intention of marrying just yet. Had Vayne been the Emperor, I am sure that her mother would have been my future sister-in-law.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

... You just held a marriage ball; what do you mean, you're not thinking of marrying?

[solidork.livejournal.com]

I did not hold it, Senate held it. I was merely attending. My fiancee was just murdered by her own father and her family branded a traitor. Marriage is the furthest thing from my mind.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

[... LOL that hits close to home]

Oh.

[solidork.livejournal.com]

My brother, he died in a vain attempt to reign history back into the hands of man, and yet man is the one that wishes to control one another. It ... is rather ironic.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

[playing with a strand of Rachel's hair]

[solidork.livejournal.com]

[looking over and smiling ~*~ SO LOVINGLY ~*~. He kind of wants to cuddle closer.]

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I wish we were still living in the house instead of this hotel. The Joker already found us here.

[solidork.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, Dr. Cuddy does not wish to move?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

... That house has bad memories for her, and we were going to move anyway. But I don't think she wants to live here forever.

[solidork.livejournal.com]

That is not what I mean. Something is stalling her from moving forward. She is a woman that allows nothing to threaten her from what she wants, yet she stays in a place that represents the short-lived.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

She worries about the future. She probably thinks that if she bought us all a house it'd jinx things and we'd disappear, or something.

[solidork.livejournal.com]

Perhaps! She loves you all very, very much.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I know.

[solidork.livejournal.com]

I am glad .... you know that sort of love.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I don't want anything bad to happen to her. But if it does, it WON'T be because of me.

[solidork.livejournal.com]

Who would blame you? [He sits up, APPALLED.]

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

You.

[solidork.livejournal.com]

[and the moment is ruined.] I blame your opponents. [sigh; story time.] They would have used you as a reason to hurt her. It would never be your fault.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

You said I would be sealing her doom. Not them. Me.

They want to kill me, not her. And I'd never let them.

[solidork.livejournal.com]

I ... just did not want to see you lose her [like he lost his Father and his brothers.]

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I would never let anything happen to her.

That's why I'm killing Cain.