04-Can't even do that right

[lovemarked]

This is the most horrible, ickiest thing I've had to do since I got here.  I don't want to talk about it.  I don't talk about it.  I don't even think about it... most days.  I really don't... fine.  I'm sorry, Thomas.

It was about four years ago.  I was asleep when they brought Thomas home, but I was out of bed by the time they brought him into the

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[browning_baby]

... Thomas is a lucky man.

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[browning_baby]

I don't see why he calls himself a monster. He's pretty damn far from it.

No, it is hard for me.

Several. Not family, really. I never fit in with them after Mom died.

Jean-Claude and Nathaniel and Micah... among others.

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[lovemarked]

I know, tell me about it. He can be so hard headed some times.

The fact that it is hard makes it this moment that much more special.

I have more family here than I ever did back home.

Tell me about Jean-Claude. I've always had a thing for that name.

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[browning_baby]

So he's always been like that?

You spill any of this and I will so deny it.

It just shows that family can be chosen. The pard...

He's a vampire back home. We're bound together. He's... as beautiful as his name. I hated him at first. Vampires are open and welcome citizens back home. He always drove me crazy trying to get to know me and get close to me. Thank God he's so stubborn.

Tall, pale, back hair in long waves. Scarred and strong and French.

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[lovemarked]

I'd have to 'fess up to what I'm saying in order to spill any of what you're saying. I promise that this is just between us girls.

So, you have a thing for vampires or the tall, pale, dark haired thing?

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[browning_baby]

Oh, that's the thing! I used to be a vampire executioner. I hunted rogues when they went all bad. Ironic since I ended up bonded to two, which is a completely different story and close to so many, and not just vampires, either.

I think my line of work, both of them, put me in positions to spend time around so many different preternatuals.

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[lovemarked]

Vampire executioner by trade or for pleasure? What is the other line of work?

What do you mean, bonded? Wait, there is a question that should come in front of that. What are the vampires like on your world and what do you mean by bonded?

... and not just vampires, either. What else?

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[browning_baby]

By trade. I was born a necromancer like my grandmother. It didn't manifest until I was older. My necromancy gave me an edge over the vampires.

Well, from what Thomas told me, there's several different kinds of vampires where you come from right?

Back home, there's one kind really, but different bloodlines carry different 'gifts'.

Jean-Claude Marked me to save my life. Sharing of blood and such. Later on, we developed a much stronger and deeper bond with a werewolf and became a triumvirate.

.... weres. Wolves, leopards, rats, lions...

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[lovemarked]

Yeah, there are different kinds. How many depends on who you ask.

What did the creation of a "triumvirate" do for you and the others? Something that sounds that important had to have had effects.

I always wanted to meet a were. I've found the idea rather romantic since I was a little girl. Then again, the idea is one that was fed on the teen fiction section in the library.

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[browning_baby]

Added power. A lot of it. Bonded like I am, it adds on a lot longer lifespan (not counting on the job perils), strength and speed well beyond a human's, as well as accelerated healing; always a plus.

I know a lot of weres. They're... interesting.

I carry were in me, too, thanks to enough bites and scratches and such.

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That must have made things interesting with Thomas. I was really more like putty in his hands. I was addicted to him, to what he did to me, for a long time. Then I was forced to go cold turkey.

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I still get shocked by the hair sometimes. Like after I've gotten out of the shower and I take it down from the towel. For whatever reason, every once in a while, I'll expect it to be black again. Then it falls down in these damp, snow white faux-dreadlocks and I'm forced to remember it all over again.

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[browning_baby]

I can't even imagine what it was like for you. Do you have any idea how brave it was; what you did? Even out of love, it was still something so drastic and beyond call...

It's just not something anyone else would do. Not in this day and age.

I admire that. Respect it.

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[lovemarked]

We're being honest here, right?

What I did wasn't brave. It was a complete act of cowardice. I couldn't live without him, so I decided to die. He was the only thing that could make it quiet in my head. His touch. I was afraid to live my life without that so I took the coward's way out. I would have done that and more to save him, but still...

Please don't respect me for that.

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(ooc: forgot something)

I couldn't even do that right.

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[browning_baby]

Giving your life for someone you love is always a selfless act in the end.

Then I should say I respect you for being so calm about all this. If it was me, I never would've actually listened.