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Post by Titus Gray/ Tobias on Apr 30, 2013 23:32:09 GMT -5
Tobias turned on her sharply, seizing Delilah's arm, startling her.
"Because they DON'T have a choice, Delilah." He snarled at her. "They don't follow the rules, they're OUT. If they are OUT, they are a THREAT. Two packs CANNOT occupy the same territory." He got right in her face. "You're acting more HUMAN than you ever did before. Where's my Beta, huh? The one who knew, understood, and followed these rules. That didn't give a SHIT about anyone else because she was as ruthless as the next pack-mate?" He looked her up and down, almost disgusted. He shoved her away.
"If you don't LIKE the family that has looked after you... then by all means LEAVE. I'm so tired of your griping." He ran a hand through his black hair. Damn... now HE needed a cigarette... He made his way to his car. Delilah could WALK back to town for all he cared.
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Post by Maria Barnes/ Delilah on Apr 30, 2013 23:47:06 GMT -5
Delilah kicked a nearby tree, "Oh yeah Well FU*K you!" She screamed after him pretty certain he couldn't hear her. He was... not the Tobias she remembered and Delilah was worried.
He would kill another just to have Red and he wasn't backing down. She was having second thoughts she ran her hand through her hair. "Shit!" What the hell happened to the Tobias she used to know this power was really going to his head and she didn't like the person or wolf it made him into. She tore off towards the cabin she would walk to town if she had to.
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on May 1, 2013 9:29:26 GMT -5
As soon as the pack had left, Ruby went to help Victor with the rest of his bonds,"Are you alright? God, Victor I'm so sorry about all of this...."
She'd feel how irritated he'd been through the entire conversation with Tobias, understandable, but it's not like they would have given his voice any recognition even if Red gave him the chance to speak for himself. But now they really don't have a choice, Victor was going to have to change.
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on May 1, 2013 10:17:08 GMT -5
Victor silently stood up from the chair, stretching his legs. As he rubbed his wrists he sighed. "I don't suppose they handed you a lamenated list if pack rules... or did you forget it in your drunken state back at the party?" Red looked as if he had slapped her, he winced, but he was under a lot of stress, anxiety, and exhaustion. "I'm sorry, Red. But when you said you were now 'in', I thought they where gearing up to print the membership cards. NOT that you had already signed away your... OUR... Souls. Because I, the mere mate, have no say in the matter."
He rubbed his sore eyes. "I thought we were thinking about it..." He said, less irritation in his tone. He knew he could not comprehend a wolf's need for socialization with its own kind, nor would he hold it against her, but it was just damn reckless. Perhaps he should have put up more resistance...
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on May 1, 2013 12:00:53 GMT -5
"I know, I know," she crossed her arms and hugged herself," I had no intention of joining when I agreed to go to that party, but I was nervouse and I kept getting handed drink after drink..." Had she known this would be the result of her actions she'd have never gone, as sad as it was to admit to herself there was a strong part of her that just wanted to be accepted- even to her she sounded like a whiny teenage girl.
This had hit Victor like a brick wall, and for that she couldn't blame him,"Look, it won't be so bad... You'll be safe and far away from anyone else.... By the next wolfs moon you'll have everything in control" of course referring to turning him.
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on May 1, 2013 17:59:48 GMT -5
Victor had sighed deeply, then put his arms around her from behind as she held herself, explaining how everything had been so confusing at the party...
But he blinked at her last sentence. "Have... everything under control? WHAT is there to have under control, Red?" Realization slowly dawned on him before she even answered. He let go of her, backing away. "Red, you... you can't be SERIOUS... I'm NOT changing! Certainly not for that asshole's sake just because he says so!"
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on May 1, 2013 18:08:34 GMT -5
She turned around," Victor, he's going to kill you if we don't! I thought maybe initially if this was going to be an issue, we'd just leave.... but he's serious and we have NO other options, we're out numbered, outgunned and backed into a corner"
Red tilted her head and narrowed her eyes," Victor.... is it really that bad...? I mean, being a werewolf is not worse than death"
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on May 1, 2013 21:29:16 GMT -5
"Not having the freedom to CHOOSE... that is worse then death." Victor replied. "Red... I don't WANT to be a werewolf. Not now... anyways. Maybe... someday? But not now; not in my prime." He didn't realize that he was likening "changing" to some kind of dreaded sentence that one must inevitably face.
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on May 1, 2013 21:42:47 GMT -5
"Seriously? See, usually your the logical one, and I get the concept- I do. But this is actually you with your life on the line," Red could feel her own irritation rising, starting to sound it as well," Not in your prime? You mean this is just some sort of BACKUP plan??"
"Why are you really so opposed to the idea? What's wrong with being a werewolf in your 'prime'?"
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on May 2, 2013 7:26:08 GMT -5
Victor sighed in irritation, feeding off of hers as it came wafting towards him. He ran a hand through his blonde hair. He always knew this conversation would come up one day... he just thought it would be MUCH LATER in life...
"Fine... maybe I'm wording it wrong!" He retorted. "I just... always imagined myself being changed... later. Much MUCH later in life... maybe when I retire from the practice, okay?" He looked at her. "It's an adventure that I want to experience... SOMEDAY... but now. When I'm the ONLY doctor in town? I can't afford to wolf out, or feel pent up during long hours at the hospital, or have existential melt-downs over the lack of CONTROL I have. You were BORN with it, Red... as was your mother! It's been an innate trait in you since birth that you have been used to, whether you realized you had it or not."
"I mean, have you ever WITNESSED a human being changed??? Can you ASSURE me that it's a smooth process? Because from what I can glean from Granny's experience.... it was HELL... YEARS OF HELL of her adjusting... that's why she had to live ALONE for so long, on the edge of the village."
Red turned her back on him. "Red... I'm not saying this to hurt you...but... why does it matter? So what if I'm human? It's been working for us pretty well so far."
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Post by Red Riding Hood/ Ruby on May 2, 2013 8:39:26 GMT -5
"It matters NOW because if we don't go through with this, there won't be a chance for later, you won't be around to retire. Victor, I could careless whether you're human or not- I love you, but I can't loose you over this either!"
Although truthfully, there were parts of the werewolf experience she definitely wanted to share with him someday, midnight runs through the woods, howling together at the moon, and she'd be lying if she said she hadn't thought about what a werewolf-Victor would be like in bed... But up till now she wanted to wait until he was comfortable with it.
"If there was another way out... I would want to wait on this too, but I just don't see it," she couldn't bear the idea of loosing yet another person to her werewolf troubles,"... But fine, I won't decide on your behalf, if doing this is such a dirty, beastly option then I won't make you do it!"
Red turned and stormed past him, slamming the door behind her to the bedroom.
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Post by Dr. Whale/Victor Frankenstein on May 2, 2013 9:22:17 GMT -5
"Red, that is NOT FAIR." He yelled back at her, but she slammed the door. He kicked over the chair that he had been tied to in aggravation. "Fine! Just go and.... and BROOD, for all I care!" He did care. But she wasn't seeing overall picture... and wasn't SHE the one who taught him to fight back... not to bow down to what others see you as or think you should be. He leaned against the wall.
And when did Tobias say that he would KILL Victor if he didn't submit? He never heard that come out of the werewolf's mouth... though the doctor wouldn't put it past him. Maybe Red already knew this little rule from when she was in Anita's Pack briefly...
His eyes widened with the thought: Red... KNEW? She knew that this would happen? But she joined anyway??? No... he had to be wrong. She would never put put him on the spot like this... or would she? As intune as they were with one another, they had truly only been together for 4 months, roughly...he was sure that they didn't know EVERYTHING about each other, or how they could manipulate each other. Well... usually manipulation came into play with getting the other into bed in creative ways... but never to manipulate the other to do something that they didn't WANT to do.
Did... did Red actually want this? Maybe not the circumstance in which it was met... but did she WANT him to be with her as a... werewolf? Victor looked down. She asked so little of him and yet gave SO MUCH... what if this was something that she wanted of him? Something that would require a GREAT sacrifice. Just as she had done when she bonded to him JUST to save him...
Whale didn't know how to feel about that. He stalked over to her door without thinking, opening it. She looked up at him, eyes red.
"I don't see your kind as 'beasts' okay? So just... banish that from your mind." He said firmly. He... didn't really have a plan as on what to say next. He stood their in awkward silence, trying to figure out what to say next... but there was just so much going through his mind right now.
"I... I need to think about it, okay?" He finally said. "We'll... talk about it in the morning...I just need to think. And apparently, we have the time to afford that now." He quietly left the room, closing the door behind him. It was only late afternoon, but he went out to the balcony area outside. It overlooked the lake and a lush wooded area. It was a great place to relax...
Or think until your brain burned out. He pulled up a chair and sat, folding his hands in front of him...
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Post by Titus Gray/ Tobias on May 2, 2013 22:52:11 GMT -5
Tobias took a seat at the counter of the diner, waiting for Granny to turn around. She had a fresh pot a coffee in her hands as she narrowed her eyes at him.
"I want to be upfront with you... because I respect you, Widow Lucas..." He said, craving a cigarette. "We have Red and Victor hostage up in the cabin by the lake. She needs to turn him... and I'd rather not think about the 'or else' that is in mind for them." He met her steel blue eyes with his warm brown. "She's gonna have to choose..."
He couldn't read Granny's expression, for she hid it well... but then she retrieved him a mug and poured him some coffee.
"...uh... thanks..."
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"Sorry that my heart attack interfered with your plans to sleep your way down the eastern seaboard!"
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Post by Granny on May 2, 2013 22:54:56 GMT -5
Granny poured herself a cup as well.
"I wondered if they would ever talk about... that... it's GOOD that they are being forced to stare the issue in the face. They rushed into it so recklessly." Granny commented, taking a sip. "But if you hurt her... physically or emotionally.. in ANY WAY... I will hunt you, and kill you."
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Post by Titus Gray/ Tobias on May 2, 2013 22:57:46 GMT -5
Tobias just huffed at the old woman. "Yes, that is your specialty, isn't it?" He replied, taking a sip. "Anita told me that you were the one that led the hunters to your husband's den..." He took a sip of his coffee. "It's a shame you're so attached to human companionship. You would be a valuable asset to a pack. A respected matriarch even, being Anita's mother..."
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