Kink Me! #27
Kink Me! #27
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Because Arthur’s life never quite works out the way he plans, this is not the case.
Instead, two Fridays later, frustrated with the world and his friends and especially his father, Arthur finds himself in the gym in his building around midnight, working off his frustration with the radio playing softly because his iPod isn’t charged and he was too impatient to wait for it. The system is playing Dragon’s Lonely Hearts, because of course it is, and Arthur mostly manages to tune out everything but the music until he recognizes a voice.
It’s just, Vivian is saying, I knew he didn’t do long term, and that he’s friends with all his exes, but I thought I would be different, you know? She sniffles. I thought he loved me!
Arthur feels a pang of guilt, since he knew Vivian was more invested than he but he’d thought that after a few weeks she would at least be feeling a bit better. In what ways did you stand out from the pattern? the Dragon asks gently.
He … I … she splutters, and Arthur winces and slows down with his weights to listen. Arthur was just … I was the only one he wasn’t good friends with before he dated! she manages triumphantly at last. I mean, we were acquainted through our fathers, but he’s been friends with all the others for ages.
I mean, says the Dragon with more patience than Arthur would have in his position, do you know if he treated you any different from the others? Took you anywhere special, introduced you to family members he didn’t the others …?
A pause, and a sniffle. Arthur gives up all pretence of pretending to work out, feeling both outraged and wretchedly guilty. I suppose not, Vivian says quietly at last. I wasn’t around while he was dating any of them, but I can’t think of anything like that.
Well. It sounds like the Dragon takes a deep breath from the crackle of the speakers. You sound like an intelligent woman, Viv, so you know this already, but I’ll say it anyway: if someone doesn’t change their previous behavior, then they’ll never change the way their relationships end. This bloke-Arthur, right? This bloke clearly has a pattern that’s working for him, and if he’s doing things the same way he’s always done, then sure as anything, he’ll end it the way he’s always done as well.
That right there, what sounds like a clear dismissal of Arthur on a radio show that Morgana is undoubtedly listening to, tips him over the edge into anger, and he slams out of the gym and up to his apartment to get his phone and give this arsehole a piece of his mind with the sounds of some woman singing about how to be insensitive chasing him on.
TBC
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And, wow, that's quite frequent for updates. Not that I'm complaining, thank you for the stalking schedule, I suppose :)
I love Mithian! I haven't read much of her in fic, but I have to say that among Arthur's 'girlfriends' throughout the show, she's my fave! And she seems such a cool and reasonable chick here. I love how she called BS on Arthur 'looking busy'.
Dragon is awesome, I think he actually gave a really good (and quite diplomatic) assessment of Arthur to Vivian. He didn't even particularly corner or badmouth him, and then Arthur being Arthur, flips out. This is so exciting, can't wait to see how this is going to play out!
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I'm looking forward to more.
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Loving it! Looking forward to more of this story!!
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