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[ivory_gold]

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[teh_alpha_male]

Oh good.

[browning_baby]

...... I see.

[ivory_gold]

No, you don't.

I love you. He loves you. You love us. And all of us hurt each other and none of us want to be done because it would cost us something precious.

I wish it would end, but we will hurt together or we will hurt apart. At least when we hurt together, we have moments of joy to compensate.

During the pain, though, Anita, it is so hard to remember the joy.

[browning_baby]

... that something precious gets tainted each time this shit starts.

Yeah. It is.

The last I remember is when he got me my life back, but now, I kinda wish he hadn't. At least when I was dead, I missed home but knew I couldn't go back.

Now, I just really wish I was there.

[ivory_gold]

I wish he was there.

[browning_baby]

... you'd wish that even though you know how I feel about him?

[ivory_gold]

You would wish to be there and leave us here at each other's throats?

[browning_baby]

You wouldn't be if I wasn't here in the middle.

[ivory_gold]

He lacks discipline. We would kill each other again and again if it were not for care for you.

I would trade him for Jean-Claude without second thought.

[browning_baby]

But that care for me doesn't keep you both from sniping at each other. Neither one of you seem to realize or care that this hurts me more than it hurts either one of you.

[ivory_gold]

Put a muzzle on him because I am not starting this, but I will not ignore him forever, and when I stop ignoring him, one or both of your men will not be going home with you.

[browning_baby]

... I won't stand for either of you to threaten the other.

Ever.

[ivory_gold]

Too late.

[browning_baby]

I mean it Asher.

Please don't.

[ivory_gold]

And I'm telling you that he started the threats and I will not, can not keep ignoring them. You know our culture well enough to know that.

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[browning_baby]

And you should know that as his teacher and his Alpha, and his wife, I'd be obligated to protect him.

You remember my nickname, don't you?