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Senan.
Dare I ask how you had planned on breaking the news, and how many decades off that breaking might have come to pass.
[ ... ]
I'm curious [ ... ] and I should like to know what your dissertation was, and what precisely you made study of.
Regardless, take my congratulations as well, though I'll warn you against believing I'm not irate with you just now.
(...Not so very irate. I'm certain two esteemed authors such as yourselves can discern that I've far too much cause for elation to expend much energy on grudging a quiet-kept book.)
[ ... ]
And, Vitaly.
As it happens.
I may have ordered and received the book already.
I may have unwrapped the thing and flung it into the trash in a show of spite witnessed by myself and Enri alone.
Then, yes, retrieved and read it through.
Well done, the both of you.
Vitaly, I'd harangue you for maintaining presence around the shitshow formerly known as Twitter, but you're arguably one of the few putting it to its rightful use.
Sen, I've no idea whether you've a presence on the same site, though I'd be unsurprised to hear it's another of your omissions, and I'd expect your use of it to fall in line with Kozak's.
Speaking of, would you care to clue Vitaly in onDoes he KNOW and did he know before you told mGiven what we've discussed and my past moods, I can't say I'd blame youI'll add my encouragement toward clueing Rin in sooner than not, though fuck knows they don't need any further reason to sing your praise to every ear.
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[Vitaly:] Darius, are you stalking me? This sounds very much like stalking, which I'm not so sure my boyfriend would appreciate.
[Vitaly:] c:
[Sen:] [...] [...] And the pair of you. Moving along. My dissertation was an expansion of the essays I provided for the book. I do not have a regular presence on whatever Twitter calls itself now, but I won't deny I've enjoyed the occasional shitpost.
[Sen:] Shittweet?
[Vitaly:] It's how he maintains contact with me when we aren't speaking. Let him alone about it, eh?
[Vitaly:] I'm surprised you don't have an account. The amount of damage you could do between voyeuristic offenses and political rants would be enviable.
[Sen:] Truer words. Let Enri have a go, as well. The tales your doggy would tell, Darius Precarious.
[Vitaly:] There, your user name!
[Sen:] Re: your question about news-breaking. You're aware, aren't you, that the things I keep to myself, I do so for a reason? Our connection, my liver, my education. Etc, I have a method to my apparent madness.
[Sen:] In this case, I was truly waiting for the best moment.
[Vitaly:] š¤Ø
[Sen:] Preferably the next time an irritant like our brother calls me Mister anything. "That's 'Doctor', actually." Been fantasizing about it for years.
[Vitaly:] š¤£š¤£š¤£
[Vitaly:] [...] [...]
[Vitaly:] Wait, explain this. 'Our brother'?
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Shit's sake, Sen.
[ ... ]
Another 'omission,' Vitaly.
Unless you and Sen share a brother I've not heard of - a possibility I won't dare to discount - the 'our' speaks of Sen and I and the connection mentioned above, and the implied meaning in 'our brother' is not at all metaphorical.
You know something of my fuckforsaken father, correct Vitaly?
At some point - more recently past for some of us; less recently past for those given to omitting - it was discovered that he is Senan's father, as well.
[ ... ]
[ ... ]
Vitaly. Sen is my brother.
...At the risk of both repeating myself and sounding the part of an abject moron, he's my brother.
[ ... ] It's a fact that astonishes me still. It's a fact I can't mislike in the least, though I wish to fuck certain parties had informed me sooner.
I also grant that both of you had prodigious cause for holding certain secrets from myself, particularly as I was, prior to this past year.
The extended meaning of Sen's remark is, of course, that he is brother to Deforest, as well.
And Delphina, but you'll see readily why Sen here referenced one rather than the other.
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[Vitaly:]
[Sen:] He's died. Well done, Darius.
[Vitaly:] I haven't. I am only thinking [...] this should be more surprising than it is.
[Vitaly:] But it isn't. How is it, the saying [...]
[Vitaly:] 'That checks out'.
[Sen:] I would argue, but it isn't as though I haven't had precisely the same thought a time or two. The similarities are somewhat obscured by height and a broken nose, but once you know, it all makes absurd sense.
[Vitaly:] [...] I should hold my comments about Deforest.
[Sen:] Why? No one else does. Fucking prick, him.
[Sen:] Darius, are you hiding any unknown family members? Between me with you and Vitaly with a son he hid for nigh on seven fucking years somehow, we're looking for a hat trick now, aren't we?
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Fuck's sake before you go thrusting fingers, I don't begrudge you that right. But I am making a point. Vitaly kept his son a secret for six yearsā Or perhaps more properly speaking, found no moment to speak it. (More properly still, was given no moment or cause for speaking a word regarding anything at all.) How long did you keep that suspicion and then certainty of your parentage Senan?
Speak as you wish regarding Deforest, Vitaly. Fuck knows you've a right to it. [ ... ] Fuck knows that right is overdue for speaking.
[ ... ]
One request, however. Vitaly, back me up in noting that Senan is the tallest Scarlett to ever have existed. Without imposing the name upon him, of course; he is and will hereafter remain a Renault through-and-through.
[ ... ]
I'd say you've the record for nose breaking as well, Sen, but I expect Darcy might match you there. As I recall, he'd been at two or three breaks when he left, and the rusted fuck's had decades to improve on that count.
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[Vitaly:] [...]
[Vitaly:] Yes, he's very tall.
[Sen:] [...]
[Vitaly:] [...]
[Vitaly:] Maybe we should talk of something else, eh? It's very good to know these things, but there's no reason to draw out such conversations.
[Sen:] Shite thing to say, Darius.
[Vitaly:] [...]
[Vitaly:] Senan, let it be, yes? It's nothing. He's teasing, you know this. Joking with you.
[Sen:] Loaded fucking joke, suggesting I don't care to publicly state myself his family. Nevermind I'm the one who made the best of being a bastard, yeah? One would think it's enough I felt things gone calm enough to tell you, Darius, but now you're going to play wounded I don't want to tell all the rank shits who'd not give me a seat at the table before?
[Vitaly:] Eh, eh, enough of that, he said he doesn't begrudge you.
[Sen:] [...]
[Sen:] Out of it, Tally. I know what he said. I'd be more like to believe it if he pulled his fucking punches. But heās hurt, so heās lashing out.
[Vitaly:] So have a talk later. Come back to it when allās calm.
[Sen:] Calm? [ā¦] Iāll schedule that for the day weāre all under six fucking feet of earth. Oi, hereās a thought for you, Darius: perhaps Iāve had enough uproar this year without a host of ratfuck elites thinking Iām in for your money. Telling the lot of them Iām Darcyās peasant castoff from East Bumblefuck is tantamount to putting me and mine under a microscope and you fucking know it. Piss and moan about me keeping secrets as you like, but give half a thought to the why of it before implying Iām ashamed of my brother, that I wasnāt swallowing want of that sharing long enough to give myself an ulcer. More empathetic minds would think after this yearās been shaped, more like truth to say I rightly donāt care to field the inevitable conversations targeted to make me ashamed of my mum.
[Sen:] Go on and tell us whoāll catch first insult the minute that circle hears it. Wonāt be you, will it? You arenāt the illegitimate son of a half-black woman what spread her legs for a wealthy American cock.
[Vitaly:]
FuckTake a break from this, Senan. Go see Rin, go have a [...] walk.[Sen:] Brainless shits, the lot of you.
[Sen has left the conversation.]
[Vitaly:] [...]
[Vitaly:] Well, you are definitely brothers.
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[ ... ]
[ ... ]
So we are.
[ ... ]
[ There's a pause in ellipses for ten, fifteen minutes as Darius sets the phone down - half drops, half tosses it to the couch - and buries his head against Enri's chest, arms wrapped tight around him. Eventually explaining the gist of what's happened, what he said and failed to consider. Encouraging Enri to read the messages and mostly, mostly only breathing in the scent and nearness of his love. ]
Vitaly. Assuming you've not absconded as wellIt's on my own head, not seeing that coming.
I didn'tIt isn't as if I haven'tFor fuck's sake I'm not asking him toOne might thinkā
One might think I would learn. Regarding actions and their consequences. Regarding the value in [ ... ] thinking more carefully ahead of speech.
[ ... ]
I'll speak with Sen later.
Assuming he allows it and assuming Rin hasn't barredHe isn't wrong. I [ ... ] have yet to learn the art of restraint on certain axes.
[ ... ]
I did see you attempts at diplomacy, Vitaly. Thank you for that.
[ ... ]
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So Enri nuzzles his husband(-to-be, soon, really soon!) and murmurs love to him. It's okay, Babygirl and I'm here, whatever happened, it's all okay.
I'm always going to be here, Daddy. I promise. We'll handle it together.
When he reads what happened, he hums a note of acknowledgement. Personally, he has his own feelings about hiding family from family, and he knows he's probably going to be unfair to Sen if he took sides. (He already takes a side, so he'll be even more unfair.) Setting the phone aside, he spends the remaining time talking with Darius - yeah, he gets why Sen's touchy about it, but it's still not fair, it feels like shit when people want to hide their relationship with you, and Darius, hey, look at me, listen. You're not a bad person. You're the fucking best.
You're a good man. I'm saying you're a good man.
Sen knows that, or else he wouldn't've told you about any of it. It's just a fight, that shit happens between brothers, yeah?
He kisses Darius's nose then presses forehead to forehead, nudging with a tender smile. It just feels bad like this because you love each other. No one makes shit sting like your brother. Feels like the end of the world - but it's not even the end of today, okay?
He loves you, and I love you. This'll blow over, Babygirl. Just talk to him. ]
I don't like to see you two hurting.
Either of you.
I see you're hurt, Darius. It's not nothing. It's not nothing, either, to have a brother you're proud of, eh? Or one you like, at least. One who cares for you, also.
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Forgive my silence here. I have been speaking with Nova, and also finally had access to hot water for a shower. Oleksei needs a better heater.
The important thing is Nova, or rather, that I mentioned this all to him. He says the anniversary of Senan's mother's passing is soon.
He used to disappear and to drink, but can do neither of these things now?
So. Perhaps it isn't all you and the consequences of speaking.
[...]
He is being thoughtless as well. You deserve to hear this.
...But perhaps some leeway, eh?
And - wait for after this date to pass, but consider the both of you having a conversation about this instead of expressing your hurts through jokes.
I'll say so to Senan, also.
Later. Not now.
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Might have, before Enri.
Might have, without Enriās arms around him, Enriās tender support; without knowing he could and always can trust to his Love - nearly, ah, so nearly his husband! - to meet him, hold him, shield doubts away and guard him from the sharpest storms, the sting of his own teeth.
Thereās nothing more sustaining than his Enriās voice at his ear, Enriās words gifting precisely what can settle Dariusās storm. Nothing more sustaining than to breathe the scent of his Love and mirror the rhythm of his breath, as Enriās touch cards perfect, assuasive through Dariusās hair. Nothing more sustaining than a kiss to the nose that leaves Darius half-smiling, the hurt not gone but softened, brought back into perspective. The world isnāt ending and neednāt end. Nothingās been broken entirely, and Enri, his Enri will always be here, and with him. ]
[ ā¦ ]
So it is.
His mother. [ ā¦ ] Moira.
[ ā¦ ]
Fuck me for forgetting, IThatās reason enough for his [ ā¦ ] absconding. His aggravation with me.
[ ā¦ ]
I donāt[ ā¦ ]
I donāt like to be [ ā¦ ] at odds with him. Not now, in particular, when our wedding is so close.
I
The last time I laid vitriol that struck him, it was weeks before we truly
The last time I gave Rin cause for ire regarding Sen, it
[ ā¦ ]
Youāre correct, Vitaly; this habit of cloaking hurt in joking bears discussion.
Just as youāre correct to hold approaching Senan for a later date. It isnāt what he needs just now. [ ā¦ ] It isnāt at all what he or his motherās memory merits.
That leeway. Of course itās his right. Iāll speak with him, if heāll permit it.
Youāre with your cousin?
[ ā¦ ]
Iāve only just now registered your remark regarding Nova and hot showers.
Fuckās sake, Vitaly.
Granted, Iāve neither room for nor intention of begrudging you that reference, or anything it spoke to.
[ ā¦ ]
[ ā¦ ]
Something for your consideration. There are a number of guests coming from outside of the city. A number of them have secured less than optimal accommodations; I assume in accordance with either finances or availability of rooms. It is my intention to see these rooms improved on, with no need to advertise the fact beforehand.
The first related point: Iāve no idea whether youāve found a place, but youāre welcome to settle yourself into one of my apartments through the duration of your stay. You know I have no shortage to choose from, and it strikes me as the least that I can do. The least of what Iād like to do, as well.
The second point. Novaās is among the reservations Iāve sighted for revision. If this is a fact youād like to take to your own hands, you need only say it.
[ ā¦ ]
Perhaps another point for your consideration, or simply [ ā¦ ] a fact I havenāt stated.
I have missed you.
Iāll be glad to see you again.
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[ā¦]
Yes, please send me the information for Novaās hotel. I would like to take care of that, very much. Thank you.
And - please say nothing to him about it. Let him think it was you. Eventually, he and I will have to talk about money, but Iād prefer it not to happen immediately.
[ā¦]
This other thing, the apartment - itās a generous offer and I would like to accept.
Iād also prefer to pay you rent, and to have a month-to-month contract. There are many reasons, but the foremost, Darius, is that weāre friends, and Iām not in financial need. I wonāt take things from you just because you have an excess. It feels [ā¦] tacky. It would be different if I was a guest in your own home, but a random unoccupied apartment should be rented.
Well. And because of my own situation, itās true I have feelings just now about using relationships for money.
Iāll also pay for the utilities. You arenāt getting around me this way, either.
[ā¦]
What are you suggesting about my shower? I am in a country with infrastructure in ruins; you think hot water is easy to
come byfind?You have a filthy mind. As always. Stop thinking about me and my shower.
[ā¦]
Thatās for Nova. š
[ā¦]
Okay, enough of that. I donāt want you distracted by my plumbing while youāre with your Pup.
[ā¦]
Iāve missed you, as well. More and for longer than you could know.
Iām so glad to see you again, Darius.
Tell your foul-mouth husband I thank him for bringing you back.
And then do one of your punishments on him for saying such disgusting things to me ā eh, or Iāll start telling you all about my showers.
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I beg your pardon, using my own emoji against meYes, yes. As Senās told it, your āplumbingā is a distraction and a half. š
Ah, but then thereās no chance of my being distracted - or sparing so much as a stray thought to Vitaly Kozak in the nude - when I have the perfect cock at hand, and at Daddyās command. š
On which note, you might take care with your requests, Vitaly. I believe youāve heard some measure of how well my Puppy relishes his punishments. Will you, do you think, be spared from bearing text-born witness to the details?
Tsk, tsk, in any case, itās far too late for second thoughts. ššš
(Iāll pass along your thanks, though heāll see this message for himself. He has access to all that I text; something to bear in mind, perhaps? š
Something youāll know, I expect, for the significance it bears.
Ah, and here, a note for my Enriās lovely eyes: What do you think, my love? Should I bring a punishment upon you? >;3)
For the apartment [ ā¦ ] you are an incorrigible wretch. I expect there isnāt any chance of persuading you that you are my guest so long as you remain in any home of mine?
Stubborn shithead that you are, Iāll refrain from arguing over the point. ā¦And, yes, I understand your reasoning, and wonāt speak against it. Iāll have a contract drawn up, and as I expect youāll insist on the point, Iāll send it to you for review before signing.
Look for the details of Novaās current accommodations in a separate text. If youāve any questions, Iām sure I can fill in the blanks.
Related: What you do or donāt do in the apartmentās shower will be your own business. š
It canāt be worse than what the esteemed Jaegers did in the rooms they adopted for themselves. (Donāt fret upon that point: I will not be placing you in the apartment Verne and his sisters settled in. That particular property needs another two or three deep cleanings before it can be of use to anyone.)
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V[ ... ]
[ ... ]
Vitya.
If I may call you so.
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Why is Senan telling you about my plumbing fifteen years after he sees it? It's good, but it's not that good.
That's Rin terri[...]
ŃŠ¾Š±Š°ŠŗŠ° reads your texts.
Yes, I know this significance. Does he? ŃŠ¾Š±Š°ŠŗŠ°, eh, he doesn't let people touch his phone. Well, but maybe he told you this already.
He breaks it before anyone can touch it; did he tell you about that?
One time, he threw his phone into traffic so a truck runs over it. It's spite. He's a spiteful man - like a cat, knocking shit off counters because he feels like doing so.
And you, ŃŠ¾Š±Š°ŠŗŠ°, have a foul mouth.
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Okay now, seriously, this between the three of us: limits. I won't make any threats or ultimatums, but if you want to talk to me, talk to me about something other than sex or how ever you call what you do to one another. Please. At least 75% of the time.
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Why was Verne in your apartment?
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Shithead.
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Dasha.
[ In Ukrainian, [ ] in English: ]
I think this might fit you better. Enri tells me I should [be cool] about it.
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VitalyVitya, IDasha.
It does. Suit me; fit me [ ā¦ ] better. More wholly.
[ ā¦ ]
I did say that Enri has brought me nearer to myself.
Without him, I expect I never would have discerned - certainly, I could not have accepted - this part of what I am.
I would be far less without it; I was far less in my own ignorance.
[ ā¦ ]
Please. Do call me āDasha.ā And you will - I think, and I believe I have reason to trust - remain Vitya to me.
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Regarding Sen, I can only believe he was suitably impressed. Whether heād speak a word of your plumbing now, I canāt begin to say; he mentioned it (āit,ā I say as if possessed of delicate sensibilities; your dick is of course what I mean) shortly after playing what seemed to be an unintended witness. I found the gangle of a man wandering blank eyed and asked what in fuckās name his problem was; he reported in uncharacteristically brief but illustrative enough fashion.
Regarding Verne: Is there ever a satisfactory answer? Iāve learned nothing of his reasons, nor has Mr. Navarro - who lent a hand in moving Jaeger out, and thereby fell into an unfortunate encounter with the sisters - informed me of anything save that Verne retained a photograph from the Y2K debacle.
Regarding myself: I am very like a cat in some regards, as my Puppy well knows. š
And for this matter of limits. Enri and I have consulted, and weāre agreed that 75% is a viable, if perhaps not ideal, request.
[ A photograph follows, almost certainly taken by Enri: Darius and Enri gathered close, both giving a thumbs up to the camera, both looking toward the camera but with eyes fixed peripherally on one another. It may be gleaned that Darius is settled on Enriās lap; itās very clear his arm is wrapped around Enri, and that thereās not an inch of space between Daddy and his Puppy.
Shortly after, thereās a second photograph: Darius and Enri in nearly the same position, only their hands have joined into a heart facing the camera, and they are absolutely, undeniably locked into an ardent kiss. ]
You may keep your comet all you like. I have my emoji, and I have as well my sun, my sunlight, my Sunny Pup. šššÆ
Who has, Vitya, a mouth at once filthy, divine, and eminently beloved by and dear to his Daddy. š
(As well, he is perfectly aware of my habits regarding phones, though I will note I have not ruined so much as a single phone in the past half year. You see how some things change?)
[ ā¦ ]
Did Enri happen to mention that he built a temple for me?
He knows me perfectly, Vitya. And he is the man and Puppy, heart and husband Iāve been seeking all this time.
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This said: you have used your entire 25% in one text.
But, yes, he did mention he gave you a temple. He didn't say he built it for you, however.
I never thought this godhood notion would do you benefit, but I can see that finding a man who loves you as well as worships you has been very, very good for you. So, I was wrong.
I am happy for you, Dasha, and for your Pup. It seems as though you love him in ways that bring him closer to himself, as well.
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I ought to have remembered. I have and I offer no excuse for my negligence.
Your mother[ ā¦ ]
Put otherwise, Iāve been reminded of the nearing date and its significance.
I am sorry, Sen.
I know it isnātI understand itās no simple time for yShe merited better, as do you.
As well, I ought to have consideredā
Well. A great many details Iād [ ā¦ ] neglected. Refused to see, perhaps, or it was simpler not to notice.
If anyone ought to be met with censure, itās Darcy. Perhaps myself, for flagrantly ignoring what should be clear. But āoughtā is unequal to what would
likelyperhaps invariably follow, a fact written clear to anyone who looks upon the matter as a whole.[ ā¦ ]
I
expect Iwished to remain in the [ ā¦ ] felicity of dreaming. Of calling you my brother and having others know you as such, and believing anyone with half a brain would comprehend who in the story ought to be decried.Revelation is a luxury not afforded by your own position, and [ ā¦ ] true, not one without consequences. Few of which would touch me; all of which would fall upon you, and on your motherās memory.
[ ā¦ ]
They are rancid, the shits in my acquaintance.
PerhapsIt might be saidTruly, theyāve no right or claim to know a thing about you. And [ ā¦ ] whatever I may like to have known, I donāt wish to place you in the sights of their slander.I am, as you know, prone to particular variants of tunnel vision.
And to being an incalculable ass.
You neednāt tell anyone, of course. And I will [ ā¦ ] endeavor to aim any lashing out of mine elsewhere.
[ ā¦ ]
I donāt like to be at odds with yIf you find yourself ready toNo matter who knows or not, I am terribly proud to have you as my brother.
[ ā¦ ]
When youāre ready to speak, I would like to. Of this; about Moira, if youāre of a mind to; or of any other matter.
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You're such a shit
You
Of course you'd
Fucking Enri and his fuc
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[ Two hours later: ]
You realize, don't you, that I'm not ashamed of you?
Fuck's sake, Darius, I've followed you around the world more times than I can count, many of those occasions long after I suspected we were kin. You've nearly killed me at least twice and yet, here I am.
I'm not certain what you think about my circumspection with this, but I've told many people. It's a [...] pleasure to do so, really. To tell those who love us both, or tolerate either of us at the outset, has been affirming and [...] quite emotional.
The whole of it is quite emotional, Darius. Surely you can understand why I don't care to tarnish it.
I understand how you feel. I do. I know you prefer to announce from every rooftop all the things that bring you the most joy, but it's not my way. I've never had that impulse, though I'm certain it seems so from your vantage; you're privy to those things in my life that have given me the most happiness because you are one of them.
I keep silent on matters like this because I don't want the good in my life soured. Take it as you will, understand what you're able, when I say that learning you are my brother was one of the greatest joys in my life.
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My mother's memory can withstand the onslaught. I'm not certain I could.
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I'm not certain I care for what this is doing to you, though
I think I might be hurting you terribly
Fuck you, making me weigh her memory against your feelings
That's not fair, I know it's not fair, but fuck you anyhow
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You're such a shit.The trouble is, you mean nearly as much to me as she does, and I recognize I have a choice to make between tarnishing her memory and wounding you rather badly. The wounding having already occurred and the tarnishing inevitable - because inevitably, it will get out - leaves me only to ask for forbearance.
[...]
Not indefinite.
Get married, go on your honeymoon. When you're back again, we'll sit and sort out how to maximize the fallout. If I have to hear a cross word about my mum, I want as many people inconvenienced by the news as possible.
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Darius -
I have every right to be angry, but you forgetting what's on with me doesn't invalidate the hurt. You have every right to be hurt, and I'm sorry to have been the cause.
You're a narcissistic, pigheaded shit and I love you.