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they have all been blown out

Aug 13, 2011 08:29

Characters: Ray (assassinskeeper), Mireille Duroc (unreadability) and Jean Louis Duroc (population_ctrl).
When: 15.08
Where: Ray's house.
Rating: PG-13 for some scraps of domestic violence.
Summary: He's come to take her home. That's all there is to it.

( And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat... )

*complete, *closed, jean louis duroc, mireille duroc, ray, *future-dated

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Mireille - Ray - JL unreadability August 13 2011, 08:18:27 UTC

Mireille hasn’t done much, in the wake of leaving. Aside from her conversation with Jean Louis a moment ago, it has all been very stripped of drama. It takes only a few minutes to walk the distance between Ray’s house and their own… Jean Louis’ house. Upon her arrival, an hour passed by, finding her seated on Ray’s couch, Baudelaire's hellish flowers lying open on the coffee table, but her attention mostly focused on the small dragon. They have been silent. Together. Ray and her. What is there to say? She has left her husband. It should mark an explicit end ( ... )

walkingtheweb August 13 2011, 14:12:03 UTC

Silence has never particularly bothered Ray. But there is more than one type of silence, and ever since he brought Mireille back to his house with him, it's been the anticipatory silence. He knows Jean Louis will not let her slip away quite that easily, and he knows here will be the fist place he goes to look for his wife. It is just a matter of when. And how they will choose to react ( ... )

population_ctrl August 13 2011, 15:25:34 UTC

Even though the other man takes up most of his view, Jean Louis isn’t looking at him at all. Instead, he’s more or less looking -through- his shoulder, gaze sharp and alert. Ray’s words barely register. So, she’s hiding away, isn’t she. And not only that. She’s a woman through and through and of course, she would find someone to hide behind. It doesn’t matter.

“Get out of my way,” he says, more as a warning than anything else. His voice is low and steady, his anger still cool beneath the surface. He doesn't think he's in a temper, not as such. Though perhaps, he's just so far beyond it that he can't really sense it. He isn’t exactly itching for a fight - how ridiculous, fighting over something like this, something that should be so comparably trivial - so he doesn’t immediately try to push past Ray or remove him by force. But the warning stands. It’s not a request. It’s not even an order.

At this point, he's done trying to make this man do anything at all.

unreadability August 14 2011, 12:06:51 UTC

Their words are muffled, but their voices are not. Ray's hoarse, lowered. Jean Louis' darker one. She waits only a couple of seconds before standing, walking up behind Ray - out of reach for the both of them, yet close enough that she can see him, see his face clearly over the squareness of Ray's back and shoulder. The numbness doesn't disappear, instead it mingles with that other emotion - the feeling she has come to associate with him during the past month. Safety. Care. Loyalty. Two battling forces, but neither of them win. And Mireille most certainly doesn't; not when she reminds herself why they are standing opposite one another like this, instead of being by each other's side. Like the institution of their marriage should naturally entail ( ... )

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