05 | We need to talk... | Closed

[imaginationswoes]

Who: Airy Miller and Nathan Drummond
Where: Holly Ridge Room 201
When: Backdated to May 3rd


[It's taken her a few days to work up her courage and finally talk to Nathan. It's annoying when you see someone everyday and there is something on your mind but it just isn't forming into words. Instead the topics of conversation have been about the weather, breakfast and Airy making things form in the apartment which usually ends in a fit of giggles on Airy's end.

She's talked to a few people about her future and she needs to talk to Nathan but deep down she's a chicken. Like anything that fumes just beneath the surface is comes out randomly and without much forethought.]

Nathan I need to talk to you!

[Not the way to start a conversation.]

I mean... you're off today right? Can we... [She motions with her hands.] Talk about some stuff? Or hang out and talk. Stuff that involves talking.

Comments

[thelastdruid]

You're...the Airy I knew over a year ago, before all the terrible things that...that happened to you, and to the people you care about. I just got back, and I know that it's been a burden, and that it'll always be a burden.

I don't...I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to have to carry it anymore, ...and I'm part of it.

[He pauses, running a hand through his hair.]

I kept you away because I'm part of it.

[imaginationswoes]

[Airy listens but there are parts that don't make sense to her. She bites her lower lip, trying to stop herself from shaking.]

Then why am I here?

[Why is she staying with someone who doesn't even want to be close to her? Which means they really aren't friends and that fact alone breaks her heart.]

If you want to keep me away I'm leaving Nathan...

[She doesn't look back, she turns and pushes her way threw the door. It isn't like he wants her around anyway so she has no reason to stay. She wants to cry and after that conversation she doesn't want Nathan to see.]

[thelastdruid]

Airy, wait!

[He runs to the door of their apartment after her, trying to stop her in the hall.]

Airy, please, don't do this.

[imaginationswoes]

What?

[She's walking very quickly and already at the end of the hall. There are tears gathering in her eyes but she's using all her strength to hold them back.]

Don't do what? Leave? We're stuck here Nathan. It's not like I can leave Genessia.

[Airy raises her palm to press against her right eye. Anything to stop from crying.]

[thelastdruid]

It...it's dangerous out there, Airy. I... [He takes another breath.] I don't want anything to happen to you.

[imaginationswoes]

Nothing's going to happen to me Nathan.

[She sounds exasperated and even if she goes back to her room she might just sneak out the window. They're on the first floor and her window leads to the back alley.

Airy wants to tell him that he shouldn't be concerned, he shouldn't care but her words are caught somewhere between her mind and her throat.]

[thelastdruid]

Yeah? [He scoffs, his anger and frustration at his own failure welling up again.] You mean like nothing happened when you were drugged at the Library?

[imaginationswoes]

[His words stab painfully into her chest.]

It won't happen again. Trust me.

[He probably doesn't trust her...]

[thelastdruid]

You can't promise that.

[He looks down.]

And I can't protect you. That much is obvious.

[imaginationswoes]

[Airy's eyes move towards the floor and she listens to the painful drum of her heart.]

Fine, I'll go to my room then.

[She steps forward keeping her gaze down as she walks.]