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[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

[And Delia is in the bar, feeling mildly bored, but bearably so. Outfit of the night is a black turtlenecked jumper with an ankle-length velvet skirt that looks like snake-skin...]

[well, she's always been fond of symbols, really.]

[over to her normal booth, she draws her legs up and curls into the corner, reading 'The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde']

[every so often, there can be heard a faint giggle from her booth.]

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[moroccofor1year.livejournal.com]

*Penny wanders over*

Hey sweetheart, you mind if I bug you?

*the small sad smile is getting les sad but still she hasn't managed a good smile unless provoked into it, for a while*

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

But of course, Penny, [she shuts the book and looks; her own smile fading]

Penny, what's wrong?

[moroccofor1year.livejournal.com]

He's been gone for almost two weeks, I'm going insane.

*she frowns*

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

[she pats the booth-seat next to her]

Your Ares?

[moroccofor1year.livejournal.com]

*she sits*

Yeah, the problem with dating a war god is there are wars most of the time and sometimes he has to be there. So, I am alone here and miserable.

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

[she gives Penny a quick hug]

Oh, Penny...

[moroccofor1year.livejournal.com]

I'll be okay. I just am not really fond of this whole thing.

*she is thrilled with the hug but pulls back quick because she shouldn't get comfortable, that would be dangerous*

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

Understandable...I remember when all the knights had to go to the Tusiane war.

[moroccofor1year.livejournal.com]

*she nods*

There's a war back at my home, they forced men to go just because they needed more soldiers. It was not fair but it was war and war isn't fair.

*she shrugs*

I guess I'm just lonely.

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

Yet again, understandable...[she has her arms folded across her knees, and rests her chin on her wrist]

I haven't seen anyone I know for ages.

[moroccofor1year.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Polly, she's the only girl here that is from where I'm from. I guess it''ll be all right.

*she wraps an arm around Delia's shoulders*

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

[she smiles at Penny, and moves in closer to the embrace. She really has been so terribly lonely]

It's just, not even Alanna, and normally her and I just snip at each other. [she sighs] Alex has gone found himself a boyfriend, and I haven't seen Thom since forever as well.

[moroccofor1year.livejournal.com]

*she understands lonely so very well so this is so nice, she cuddles in closer herself.*

I have friends here though probably wouldn't make it without them.

*she smiles at Delia*

[eternal-boy.livejournal.com]

Nick is walking towards the couches when he hears the giggling and peers in...and then looks vaguely confused. He's pretty sure that's her, but he can't be positive because things read from the blood can be blurred.

"Would you...happen to be named Delia? I'm...a friend of Alex's."

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

[yes, yes they can. Certainly given how Delia and Alex have behaved in the past...]

[the slender girl looks up, and raises an eyebrow]

Yes, I am. [noting the pause, she closes the book and straightens a bit] Would you be Nick?

[eternal-boy.livejournal.com]

He smiles and nods.

"Yes, I'm Nick. It's...it's nice to meet you. We were just talking about how I should the other day."

He holds out his hand.

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

Really? [she asks, placing her hand on his for him to kiss.] Meet any of the others?

[eternal-boy.livejournal.com]

He does so with an elegant low bow. He was raised a nobleman, after all.

"Certainly. I'm teaching Thom to paint, actually."

He grins, boyish and pleased as he returns her hand to her.

"And you? May I perhaps enquire as to...what was so funny?"

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

[some of the calculated watching fades from her face...it's a matter of personal opinion if she has actually stoped, though]

What? Oh, you heard me...I'm just reading some of Oscar Wilde's plays...and the comment about losing both parents through carelessness was amusing. [she smiles at him]

[eternal-boy.livejournal.com]

Nick smiles.

"He was something of a card, yes."

He gestures to the seat opposite her.

"May I?"

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

[she nods, watching him with seemingly vapid green eyes] If you wish to.

[eternal-boy.livejournal.com]

He smiles at her, boyish and naive-looking.

"I do. Thank you."

He settles down, placing his drink on the counter. It is red, too red for wine, and too thick as well. The coppery scent might give it away.

"May I be frank?"

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you can be, most people manage it at some point in their lives [she says, not letting her eyes fall onto the drink]

[she knows that smell too well]

[eternal-boy.livejournal.com]

He nods, still smiling.

"Yes, so I've found at well, and I've had a very long life so...I suppose I'm due for it. But the point is this."

He peers at her, looking her straight in the eyes.

"I love Alex. That's the long...and the short of it. We had a rocky start, but at this point...I'd die for him. Kill for him."

He looks at her.

"And you are his friend. So...where does that put us?"

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

[she meets his eyes...and lets the vapidness fall. Her fierce, hungry, ambitious intelligence blazes through...but also, to those perceptive, the fact her shield that holds her together is pittied and cracked]

I do not know. I also love him...Nick. Not as you do, but once you've been practically living with someone for six years, through the things we have...

[she leans back in her seat, watching him as a hawk might a snake - trying to see if it is prey or predator]

I know you hurt him. I know you hurt him badly. Very well, I cannot pretend to have done less. He is, though, the one person that I know well who hasn't tried to use me. The one person I trust without thinking. The one person I love without any degree of pain.

I don't know, Nick, where does that put us?