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Dollface ([personal profile] got_your_tongue) wrote2009-03-31 11:33 pm

For Sweetheart

Doll's in the bar, doing her level best to take up an entire booth for herself.


(She went a few rounds with Donny--turned the tables on him this time--and worked a couple sentences. She thinks she's got the weirdness worked out of her system. She thinks.)


She's nursing a glass of bourbon, making liberal refills from the bottle on the table. There may also be some humming.

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-11 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
That gets a snicker out of her, and another grateful mini-hug.

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-12 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Sweetheart sniffles, lets out a teary, "Ah, shit," and kisses Doll's collarbone.

"You okay?"

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know."

She shifts slightly. "C'mere." Scooting onto the bed a little more, she tips them both back so that they're lying down.

The fact that this makes it easier for her to wrap herself around Doll is not incidental.

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
There are a lot of things going through Sweetheart's head right now.

Most of them involve her own death, about a year after (Nita) she celled Jasmine. Some of them involve wondering whether the woman Doll met is going to die like that.

Some of them involve Timeheart.

In spite of Doll's presence and caresses, Sweetheart is finding it impossible to relax.

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know. No. It was -- all a long time ago." Her arms tighten. "It's all a long way away."

A breath; two; three.

"Just -- stick around?"

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Thanks."

Sweets lets go of Doll long enough to rub her own eyes, then goes back to clinging cuddling.






"Have you ever met anyone Downside that you knew when you were live?"

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Mm."

Breathing.



"Are you sure you're okay?"

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Wh--"

She makes a small noise, shakes her head slightly. "Never mind."

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Some things take a long time to change.

"What bothers you about it so much?"

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sweets does wince.

"Think you're going to feel like that if you see her again? The -- wanting to hurt her."

(Doll is a torturer. If Sweets can't deal with the fact that she enjoys hurting people, she shouldn't be here.)

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
She props herself up on one elbow to look at Doll.

". . . Okay." She strokes Doll's cheek lightly.

"You can't find out who she is by hurting her. She's been hurt too much."

[identity profile] notveryfearful.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
That, Sweets would like to seal with a kiss.

"Thanks."

(And another quick kiss, just because.)

Laying back down, she manages to summon up enough humor to add, "You'd probably find out more about her if you could get her into bed, but I didn't really figure out bisexuality until I was Downside."