Drabble: Talisman (True Blood; Eric, Bill)
Spoilers for "Plaisir d'Amour". Just me, sorting out some stuff.
Eric and Bill. PG. "What are we going to do about this?"
Yes, and there love makes its interstices,
hunger the mother of love as of history, art...
We die, as we dream, alone.
- Derek Mahon, 'Job's Comforter'
Talisman
However elliptical your approach, dogged your demeanor as the snares draw tight - let us be straight - a lie is what you are asking of me. Wipe the blood and splinter the stake, claim ignorance of the night's transgressions. You know it is within my power.
If we hadn't come, you spit, obscenely, like the wounded victim, as if this is a negotiation. If it weren't for you...
To you, Bill Compton, who have violated my house, I owe no favours; to our liege, lesser still.
The girl will be protected. My edict, now, she has done me a service. If you love her, if you truly want her safe, then you will leave her to me.
9 November 2008
Eric and Bill. PG. "What are we going to do about this?"
Yes, and there love makes its interstices,
hunger the mother of love as of history, art...
We die, as we dream, alone.
- Derek Mahon, 'Job's Comforter'
Talisman
However elliptical your approach, dogged your demeanor as the snares draw tight - let us be straight - a lie is what you are asking of me. Wipe the blood and splinter the stake, claim ignorance of the night's transgressions. You know it is within my power.
If we hadn't come, you spit, obscenely, like the wounded victim, as if this is a negotiation. If it weren't for you...
To you, Bill Compton, who have violated my house, I owe no favours; to our liege, lesser still.
The girl will be protected. My edict, now, she has done me a service. If you love her, if you truly want her safe, then you will leave her to me.
9 November 2008