hooks: Love To Hate You8butterflyboy8March 6 2012, 03:20:34 UTC
Time Period: Post-"Secundus," pre-wedding Notes: Nell telling Victor that Alice has her hooks in him was the very first thing to come to mind when I thought of this prompt, so I ran with it. This is Victor post-Touched, trying to reconcile with his parents before they leave the city. It doesn't go well, mostly because they can't stop saying stupid things like this. Nell, why must you be so stubborn and dumb? The title is the title of a song I like, and I think it fits Nell's attitude here.
“This all really started when she got her hooks into you, didn’t it?” Victor looked up from his tea, baffled. “What are you going on about now, Mother?” “That Alice woman,” Nell snapped. “Dr. Brown might have been the one to bring you here and brainwash you in the first place, but it’s her fault you stuck around so long, isn’t it? She’s the real villain here! Perhaps she’s the one who’s playing havoc with your mind n--” “Don’t.” Nell stopped, stunned into silence by the sudden icy anger in her son’s voice. Victor leaned forward, glaring at her. “Don’t you say a word against her,” he continued, sounding quite the opposite of her usually shy, retiring son. “She’s the woman I love, and I assure you, she is not altering my mind. In fact, it’s only thanks to her that I’m able to talk to you with any sort of sanity at the moment. So leave her out of this.” With that, he leaned back and sighed deeply. Nell studied him for a long moment. He looked himself again, but she could still see a bit of the madness lurking around his eyes. Miss Liddell was the one who was able to keep that at bay? To keep her son - mostly her son? . . .Preposterous. Nell knew the truth. That girl had done something to him. And even if what Victor saying was correct - Well, then Miss Liddell hadn’t done a good enough job.
Notes: Nell telling Victor that Alice has her hooks in him was the very first thing to come to mind when I thought of this prompt, so I ran with it. This is Victor post-Touched, trying to reconcile with his parents before they leave the city. It doesn't go well, mostly because they can't stop saying stupid things like this. Nell, why must you be so stubborn and dumb? The title is the title of a song I like, and I think it fits Nell's attitude here.
“This all really started when she got her hooks into you, didn’t it?”
Victor looked up from his tea, baffled. “What are you going on about now, Mother?”
“That Alice woman,” Nell snapped. “Dr. Brown might have been the one to bring you here and brainwash you in the first place, but it’s her fault you stuck around so long, isn’t it? She’s the real villain here! Perhaps she’s the one who’s playing havoc with your mind n--”
“Don’t.”
Nell stopped, stunned into silence by the sudden icy anger in her son’s voice. Victor leaned forward, glaring at her. “Don’t you say a word against her,” he continued, sounding quite the opposite of her usually shy, retiring son. “She’s the woman I love, and I assure you, she is not altering my mind. In fact, it’s only thanks to her that I’m able to talk to you with any sort of sanity at the moment. So leave her out of this.”
With that, he leaned back and sighed deeply. Nell studied him for a long moment. He looked himself again, but she could still see a bit of the madness lurking around his eyes. Miss Liddell was the one who was able to keep that at bay? To keep her son - mostly her son?
. . .Preposterous. Nell knew the truth. That girl had done something to him. And even if what Victor saying was correct -
Well, then Miss Liddell hadn’t done a good enough job.
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