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Somedays aren't yours at all

Feb 04, 2011 23:39

Who: Knives Chau and Gideon Graves
When: Friday night
Where: Gideon's room (10C)
Summary: Matthew's dead. Knives is having a hard time coping. She goes to Gideon.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Language and angst. So much angst

( They come and go as if they're someone elses days )

gideon graves, knives chau

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wasnotthecat February 5 2011, 07:13:40 UTC

Gideon is in a pisspoor mood himself. You're not the only one blaming yourself, Knives--the only difference is that you'd being willing to admit it, to others and to yourself. Gideon was still caught fast in the clutches of denial. Matthew had just been idiotic, fighting with Todd in the first place and then not calling a healer for himself. So it wasn't his fault that the other ex was dead. He might be their leader but he wasn't their goddamn baysitter.

... Right?

He's just laying on his bed, staring vacantly on the ceiling, when he hears a soft sound outside his door. He growls faintly, sits up, and then crosses over to the door and swings it open, about to rebuke whoever is outside. To tell them to go the hell away.

His angry words die on his lips when he sees Knives there, curled up at his door. He flounders around for a few more and ultimately fails, the only thing managing to make it past his lips at this point a surprised and confused inquiry.

"...Knives? The fuck are you doing here?"

kniveschau_down February 5 2011, 07:56:59 UTC

Knives stops crying immediately when she hears Gideon's voice--or at least she tries to stop. Some tears manage to slide down her cheeks before she could catch them with her sleeve.

She doesn't dare look at him. While she's slowly becoming more familiar with him, she's still embarrassed to be caught crying. Outside his room and in the middle of the night now less.

She listlessly shrugs at his question. "I don't know. I don't even know. I just am, I guess."

wasnotthecat February 5 2011, 08:04:02 UTC

Gideon frowns as he notes the tears rolling down her cheeks-- the girl was obviously shaken up. He knows Matthew was extremely attached to her, he just didn't know how close she felt to him--until now. She might have been naive and fangirlish at times, but she could be downright tough when she needed to be--and the fact that she's openly crying means she's taking this hard as hell.

And as much as he hates to admit it, a part of him sympathizes with that. After all, it wasn't so long ago that he watched the demise of someone who he cared about deeply over the networks.

"You didn't make the trip for nothing," he sighs, leaning against the door frame. "Would..." He pauses, checks the halls. Empty. "...Ugh. Do you want to come in?"

kniveschau_down February 5 2011, 21:36:31 UTC

Knives hugs her knees to her chest, staring at the ground like it is the most fascinating thing in the world. She should have just stayed in her room. It was so stupid of her to come to Gideon, especially when she has no idea as to why.

Even though he's been pretty nice to her lately, he still doesn't consider a friend. Not really. Or if even he did, he would never ever admit it out loud, which stings more than him just brushing her off as some stupid kid. Even though she said she was fine with it, she really doesn't like being someone's secret friend. She doesn't want to be a secret anything.

"Really?" At his offer, she looks up at him in surprise. "You wouldn't mind if I did?"

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