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Kuvira ([personal profile] betterthanwu) wrote in [community profile] lukeoutbelow2015-02-12 09:52 pm

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Stiff after the long drive, Lisa rotated her head on her neck and stretched kinks out of her back on the walk to the little cafe where Arnold had wanted to meet her. It was bitterly cold, but she wasn't too bothered. She had her green wool jacket. Ethically sourced, it hardly bore saying, she knew something about everyone and everything involved from the sheep and alpaca to the young woman who'd applied the buttons, and tailored expertly to her frame. It had a certain military flare and while Lisa couldn't condone just about any military she knew well, she had to admit it looked good on her.

"Just a tall chai, please. 'Lisa' is fine." She found a stool, grateful this place was sleepy just now, and checked her designer watch. He might be caught up in a project, or just met an unusually large and fluffy dog. It'd hardly be the first time. She smiled with fond resignation, thinking back.
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-02-24 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well trained by now he obediently moves to the seat, and wraps his free hand around the one she reaches out to him.

"Oh Lisa-love. It could be worse, you're right but that is a terrible thing to start with. But I'm sure, the you that I fell in love with here, is the same spirit as the you in that world, and you would have made the right choice."
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-02-25 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh no." Arnold's hand around hers is warm and reassuring and he squeezes.

"The hardest choice of all. A life, or your principles."

He is quiet for a while then.... "If I were that young man, I would have wanted you to chose your principles. Every time. It's what I love about you. That you're so very, very strong."
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-01 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh Lisa, that is a horrible choice! It must have hurt your past self so."

He smiles back at her fondly.

"I am sure it is the other way around."
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-01 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Arnold flinches visibly, and then his jaw sets and his eyes flash, and he brings his other hand (the one with the marriage ring) across to lay on hers.

"I am not surprised. I... I am jealous, yes. But Lisa is my wife, whatever your other self might have been. Maybe the self I was had a wife, but I don't care about that. I married you, and that choice I would make again and again." He grins at her wryly, the flash of possessiveness fading.

"I suppose I will get used to being jealous"
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-02 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
He ducks his head shyly "Sorry. I think some of that might be him, as well. Elves are apparently faithful for life. I know that whoever this man was he is in your past, and so... but irregardless, I love you now, and it isn't whoever I was in the past who tells you 'forever', no matter what might have been."
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-03 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
"That's what I love about you" He smiles at her, "Always so practical. You keep my feet on the ground and my heart light."

He hopes that too, even as he hopes he never learns if his other self had a wife.

"Well, I suppose we'll deal with things as they come then. If we have to, we can both just leave the boundaries and stay outside. Thorir told me he wrote notes to himself, I can do the same - that way, we'll know to keep an eye on Liam"
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-04 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I only tell the truth" He retorts and cannot help the flash of disappointment, although he nods.

"Alright" He says wistfully. "If you think so, then I won't argue. It isn't as if I can't visit often, and you the same. Liam probably wouldn't want us both here, anyway. He'll get annoyed with me soon, just watch."

And then he smiles, because this is Valentine's Day, and Lisa should be smiling. "Besides, we'll always have Skype" He drawls at her.
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-06 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
They are too awesome to be allowed to exist in the same place for long.

"I will make sure to tell him. I do believe he has a place of his own, actually - which I am sure he will remember soon once he gets tired of having me underfoot."

Arnold laughs and gets up to offer her his arm with a grin. "Of course, whatever milady wishes. Home? Or shall we go out?"
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-07 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly. It simply wouldn't do!

"Of course" He smiles and escorts her, pleased that she feels like indulging his occasional playful wish for courtly manners. "I have a nice bottle of champagne in the fridge that we can share."
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-08 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Only the best for my lady" He assures her and waves Jeeves off to slip into the drivers side of her car.

"Of course. I've been told I can expect to age in reverse, at least, as far as probably my late twenties? Perhaps gain some height. Those seem to be the things that others have noticed physically. After that... weapons skills, maybe, and memories, seem to be the main thing. I'll keep you up to date."
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-09 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Jeeves is used to it.

"Mm - well, I suppose folk might think you a cougar, love, but if you dislike it, I will leave when it happens" He promises.

He guessed that much as well, and it saddens him - elves, the stories say, are immortal, or close to it. If Lisa has not echoed the ears, not here in the boundaries of Locke... she is not. And he refuses to live immortal without her.

"I admit, I am rather hoping for something useful or fun! Did you know Thorir echoed a golden harp and the skill to play it?"
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-11 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
"I sometimes feel like I can't" He shoots her a grin but mostly keeps his eyes on the road. "I'm lost without yoU~" He croons and then laughs and stops. "As often as I can, yes, absolutely."

It isn't so much the though of immortality that he minds, so much as the thought of forever without Lisa. It wouldn't be worth it, he thinks.

"Not terrible as such, but certainly he had no skill with it before!"
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[personal profile] bythewaves 2015-03-14 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"We will" Arnold nods, eyes on the road. "The same way we get through everything yeah? Together. I'll try not to get in too much trouble."

It is inevitable, he knows. But he can try and mitigate the damage.

"Hm. Well a bard might be fun! But I was rather hoping for magical powers, like the stories in the books, you know?"

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