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[August 30] [Original] Our Own Best Enemies
Title: Our Own Best Enemies
Day / Theme: August 30 -- I wanted to see you walking away from me
Rating: PG?
Series: Original (AS, Tam)
Characters: Amber, and Amber
Summary: Amber encounters Amber and gets rather sick of her.
Notes: The first written bit containing some plot points. Like the fact that Amber ends up being the Cíl Lady (you might know her from LEC? She's with Mina and Jonathan?) and the other Amber. Title from a song I've been poking at for years.
“I hated you,” Amber said slowly, testing the sentence, tasting the words one by one, reluctant to flat-out say it.
Amber nodded. “I understand that.” She, too, was speaking carefully, though on her part it was not for any particular fear of the other; she just wasn’t used to this. “But you, in turn, could maybe see that it was not my choice or intention?”
She bit her lips, hard, before spitting out a simple “Screw you.”
“That would be narcissism,” Amber remarked mildly. And once she’d decided to do something about it, she pushed gently at her mind to make it a good idea to leave. Amber was no longer interested in this conversation; the sense of duty she held towards the other girl was not enough to make her tolerate being insulted.
Amber turned on her heel and left, muttering something derogatory of the sort that Amber supposed she had a sort of right to.
Alone again in the moments between having to be the Lady, Amber smiled. It was the first time she’d seemed to be happy in a long time, but not the last.
She was getting better at this.
Day / Theme: August 30 -- I wanted to see you walking away from me
Rating: PG?
Series: Original (AS, Tam)
Characters: Amber, and Amber
Summary: Amber encounters Amber and gets rather sick of her.
Notes: The first written bit containing some plot points. Like the fact that Amber ends up being the Cíl Lady (you might know her from LEC? She's with Mina and Jonathan?) and the other Amber. Title from a song I've been poking at for years.
“I hated you,” Amber said slowly, testing the sentence, tasting the words one by one, reluctant to flat-out say it.
Amber nodded. “I understand that.” She, too, was speaking carefully, though on her part it was not for any particular fear of the other; she just wasn’t used to this. “But you, in turn, could maybe see that it was not my choice or intention?”
She bit her lips, hard, before spitting out a simple “Screw you.”
“That would be narcissism,” Amber remarked mildly. And once she’d decided to do something about it, she pushed gently at her mind to make it a good idea to leave. Amber was no longer interested in this conversation; the sense of duty she held towards the other girl was not enough to make her tolerate being insulted.
Amber turned on her heel and left, muttering something derogatory of the sort that Amber supposed she had a sort of right to.
Alone again in the moments between having to be the Lady, Amber smiled. It was the first time she’d seemed to be happy in a long time, but not the last.
She was getting better at this.