021 // Action | Accidental Voice

[pileof_ashes]

[This? This is the sound of a house being torn apart from the inside out. Furniture, mirrors, walls - nothing is spared in the face of Rosalie's wrath. Emmett, her husband is gone. Not a single item of his remains and there is no doubt that he has been sent home, but none of this registers in her mind as she destroys the house that for a few

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[slaying]

[There is an awful lot of silence. It stretches until, finally, buffy can't handle being just a voyeur any longer. She speaks up even if she hasn't spoken to this vamp in a while.]

I know it doesn't help, but...sorry.

[pileof_ashes]

[You're right, it doesn't.]

They shouldn't have given him to me if they were just going to take him away.

[slaying]

[Buffy could launch into a tirade about how much that makes it sound like her husband's an object, but she keeps her empathy up.]

People come back, sometimes.

[pileof_ashes]

[Can we forget for a moment that Rosalie's a bitch?|D]

"Sometimes" isn't good enough.

[slaying]

Not good enough is as good as it gets.

[The 'tough love gloves' are out.]

[pileof_ashes]

I refuse to accept that.

[And out comes her stubborn streak.]

[slaying]

Well? Maybe that kinda gumption is a good thing. I'm not sure.

[pileof_ashes]

It's actually what keeps me from ever truly being happy. I'm never content with what I have. [She's had nearly a century to discover this about herself.]

[slaying]

Were you content, when he was here?

[pileof_ashes]

No. It's amazing that he puts up with it, really.

[slaying]

He must really love you.

[pileof_ashes]

He does. I probably don't deserve him. [But she's selfish enough not to do anything about it.]