Sweet dreams are made of these...

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A Abigail Hobbs Aiya/Gray Nightingale Adrasteius Anor'thalion Ahsoka Tano Alex Russo Allen Walker Anders Anthony Crowley Asteffiel Axel

B - D Belthazar Spellscry Beverly Crusher Bran Stark Caesar Zeppeli Cayde-6 Cheese Sandwich Clay Terran Coil Cole Davesprite Duke Pantarei

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J - M Jade Harley James Barnes/Jim James Barnes/Winter Joseph Joestar Katara Katniss Everdeen/Nova Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya Kurt Wagner Leanne Loki Maladict(a) Max Caulfield Megaman Mordin Solus

Comments

[mortalcoil]

[he's only eleven--maybe twelve--but he's reflecting almost the exact same look back at her. it isn't rage, but it is a sort of cold, practiced certainty.

because, she's wrong. there is one other way to fix this, and he's done it before.

luckily, he hardly begins to move forward to test either of their skill and resolve, before there's a loud BANG on the door as someone pounds on it with a fist. and a man's booming voice shouting "--COIL!" through the door stops him dead in his tracks.

whoever is out there, they're important enough that he drops his focus from the girl entirely, in order to stare with one wide eye at the door. there's a metal slat slid over to cover a peephole on the door, but he's hesitating to step over and look through it.]

[versusnurture]

[If this had been a few years ago, she would have sat back and let whatever happened, happen. She would have wanted to see it, because her automatic assumption would be that this was Coil's father, and it would be an interesting case study. But now . . .]

[There's loud noises and violent banging and a shout, and Coil freezes, and the fight goes out of her - no, that's not right; the fight redirects. Without a second thought, she passes in front of Coil and crosses over to the door, showing him her back in favor of addressing the bigger threat.]

[Which she does by making a fist and banging on the door right back.]

Fuck off!

[mortalcoil]

[she might as well have banged a fist against Coil's face, for how utterly shocked he seems. all he can do is stare in stark disbelief as she turns and does the impossible and forbidden. she rises up against one of the icons that represent everything that is not to be fought.

and the silence that rings afterward has even more of a presence than the voice had. the quiet in the air is dense, and the boy seems to fear even attempting to breathe it.

the man on the other side seems to have indeed fucked off.]

[versusnurture]

. . . All right.

[It's her voice that breaks the silence in the end, cuts the tension like a knife. She's all business, once she's certain he's gone - although really, even her banging on the door was sort of businesslike. She doesn't fuck around.]

[Instead, she straightens her shirt, smooths down her pants, and comes to stand next to Coil, looking down at him critically.]

He was going to hurt you. Wasn't he?