Not Touching

[treatsallalike]

I think that I just embraced the angry woman on the bus that told a small child 'to shut up before she shut him up.' His mother looked scandalized, but the child deserved it after rattling on for nearly an hour straight.

Maybe I just dreamed it all. I...hope I just dreamed it all.

Comments

[venemouslocks]

Why would you get that close to a screaming woman?

[treatsallalike]

If I knew that, I wouldn't be concerned about it.

[venemouslocks]

How do you not know why the hell you reached out and grabbed a pissed off woman? That sounds...really, really stupid.

[treatsallalike]

It's unlike me, as I've already mentioned.

Of course trying to reason with you seems equally stupid. You're the one that Poseidon raped and then threw aside, aren't you?

[venemouslocks]

Hm.

Well, at least from that I garnered the ability to protect myself. Unlike you.

I mean, you were the god that was left in shackles until Ares decided he needed you again. Aren't you?

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[treatsallalike]

It looks like we both learned our lesson about trusting people, now didn't we?

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[venemouslocks]

Yup. The more distance you keep, the better off you are.

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[treatsallalike]

Are you afraid that he'll try again?

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[venemouslocks]

Among other things.

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[treatsallalike]

You sound as though you could use a few allies.

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[venemouslocks]

The last time I had allies, they were attached to my head.

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[treatsallalike]

They didn't seem to do the trick, now did they?

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[venemouslocks]

Quite keen on the obvious, aren't you?

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[treatsallalike]

More so than you are.

What's to keep everyone from just stepping aside and letting him do it again? Or even from watching?

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[venemouslocks]

Do you honestly think I don't expect them to?

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[treatsallalike]

You have other options, don't you?