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Post by Greenie on Dec 14, 2008 21:27:37 GMT -5
Mia squeezed his eyes closed even tighter. "How can I change what I don't understand?" He whispered, his tortured expression transparent of his emotions. What did this mean for them? Christopher had never yelled so loud, or so harshly - and he had no response. For once he had no wish to yell or snark or bitch back, he just wanted them both to leave so he could find a way to get rid of the pain.
They certainly weren't.
The ferret acknowledged the ear flick by twitching the ear in response, but found himself mostly unable to move otherwise in response. His knees were wedged uncomfortably against his chest, which was now soaking wet thanks to it's proximity to his head. His tears just got harder as he thought about the situation he was stuck in - for now he was able to keep it silent, but his lungs weren't usually very good at cooperating.
Having withdrawn into himself once he'd realised Christopher was going to give hm nothing solid, he barely heard Rosemary and wasn't paying any attention to notice her amazing capability of shutting the saluki up.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Dec 14, 2008 23:36:13 GMT -5
Christopher went to open his mouth but shut it again when the squirrel-wolf did the same. He was turning a furious bright red under his fur. This wolf girl was pissing him off and he was helpless to help Mia. He didn't like the idea of any of it.
Rosemary made a worried sound as she watched Mia cry. She wasn't good at this... unless it was family. That rarely happened though, and Sage was easy to fix.
"Please don't cry," Rosemary said as she nudged Mia carefully. "Really. It's not a big deal. You two can work this out civilly, right? What's bothering you Mia?"
Christopher remained silent, glaring at Rosemary with something deeper than a burning hatred. The girl tried to brush the back of her neck where he was staring. It was like he was planning to leap across the room and strangle her.
He was quite tempted.
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Post by Greenie on Dec 16, 2008 17:17:30 GMT -5
Mia glanced up for a split second when the yelling (slash talking) paused for a few moments. Christopher was an odd color.. Not that he was one to talk, covered in tears and spikes as he was. What could he do, though? He couldn't form coherant words to give to Christopher, to explain anything, and he could no less explain to Rosemary what was wrong or why he was crying; to ask him to explain why he and Christopher were fighting was far, far beyond him.
What was bothering him? Life was bothering him, but that wasn't going to be specific enough for her. He had no wish to explain his "reasons" for his self-loathing; when he voiced them, even to himself, they sounded petty and unfounded. Nevertheless, they refused to go away.
The ferret took a deep breath and tried to stem the tears, but he kept glancing up at Christopher, and everything just flooded back at him. Finally he shoved himself off the bed - away from both of them - and sat facing the wall to try to clear the scattered remnants of his thoughts.
Maybe they would go away if he pretended they weren't there.. or maybe they'd just get more mad.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jan 4, 2009 18:15:19 GMT -5
"You are such an idiot!" Christopher threw his hands up in the air. "You just don't get it do you Mia I can't--ARGH!"
It was a rare occasion that the Esterberry couldn't form words properly. Today, however, was one of those days. How could explain that Mia was being an idiot hurting himself by moping around like a bump on a log.
Rosemary narrowed her eyes at the canine. Seriously. This was ridiculous. "I'm sorry you've been so stressed lately. I'm sorry everything has been a complete and utter mess for you Mia. But... you can't just lay there in bed." She leaned forward and gave him a careful lick. "Come on. I'm not going to leave because you're silent and angst filled. I would be a shitty friend if I did something like that."
Christopher continued to fume in the background.
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Post by Greenie on Jan 14, 2009 17:52:55 GMT -5
"I'm well aware of my idiocy, thank you," Mia spat out, unable to contain the hurt he felt at those words. He stared at the wall, taking deep breaths to try to at least physically relax himself, if not emotionally. That, at least, was going to take a while to calm down.
At Rose's words, he squeezed his eyes shut for a moment before he attempted a reply. "Rose, I know you won't believe anything I say right now, but will you please try to understand that there's nothing anyone can do to make me feel better? I need to sort this out myself, and that's not something I can do when surrounded by people whose only intentions are to reaffirm the original problem. Not that you specifically are doing that, but.." The ferret dropped off, unsure of how to continue - or how to further avoid specifying that Christopher was just making him feel as though he was holding up a cesspit.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jan 15, 2009 14:12:17 GMT -5
"I reject your reality and substitute it with my own." Rosemary said flatly as she looked at the ferret sulking in the bed. "I'm going to speak for Christopher right now, and I'm going to try to translate for him. What he's trying to say is that he loves you and he doesn't want to see you hurting like this. Neither do I. So frankly I'm not going to walk out of the room until you roll out of that bed and tell me... what the hell is wrong. I don't care if you think it doesn't make sense. Just speak from your heart!"
She nodded emphatically to drive her point home.
Christopher opened his mouth in shock and for once he had no words to counteract Rosemary. He simply flailed and turned a brighter shade of angry red. How dare she speak for him like that! How on earth did Mia end up with such horrible friends?
"How--"
"Shuuuuut~up." Rosemary said with a tail twitch.
Christopher twitched as he formulated horrible ways to make the squirrel-wolf hybrid suffer.
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Post by Greenie on Jan 15, 2009 22:13:20 GMT -5
Mia rolled his eyes at Rose's original words, what about reality now? He had no reality to be rejected, really, so it hardly made any sense. As she continued he struggled not to laugh. Christopher, loving him? RIGHT. Clearly, her idea of love involved red faces and lots of angry expressions, since that's all Christopher was giving off. There was nothing he could interpret as loving there.
He was tired of this interrogation and Rose essentially lying to him to try to make him feel better. Nothing was going to work, really - he was perfectly fine being upset, as much of a paradox as that sounded like. She wanted to know what was going through his brain? Fine. He'd tell her, but she wouldn't like it one bit - and he wasn't going to stick around to see the reaction. She said she wanted him off the bed, didn't she? "Fine. I'm a worthless person. I can't manage a stable relationship with my mother, let alone Christopher and whatever the hell he means to me, and whatever delusional way you seem to think I mean to him. If my personal life weren't fucked up enough with that, I have a son I'm forcing to have no life because I have no other options, I'm practically fucking emaciated because I have no ambition to eat, I can't sleep, I have fucking glass spirals all over my body and as if that weren't enough, my bindings fucking broke. So not only am I useless as a person, everytime I turn around I have a physical reminder about it. LET'S NOT FORGET, I've also managed to fuck up my job. My new boss thinks I'm some sort of delusional idiot that loses control of their magic whenever she isn't specifically watching me for it, I nearly blinded her and I'm so incompetant that I can't keep up with something as easy as paperwork. Is that enough, or do I need more reasons to hate myself?" As he went on his voice got louder and louder until he was yelling, but abruptly at the last sentence he dropped down to a deadly quiet voice, daring her to contradict him.
Before she had a chance to reply, though, he shot off the bed and out the door without looking at either of them, the speed at which he left slamming the door shut behind him.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jan 15, 2009 22:46:05 GMT -5
Oh.
That failed.
That failed fantastically.
Rosemary sighed as she sat there in silence. Mia had bolted out of the room like a bat out of hell. And she was left with a fuming dog. Who cursed and exited the room as well.
Great. She made a giant mess of things.
You know, you should probably leave him alone if he's whining like that.
"Yeah, yeah. But I'm not. I'm going to go and find him. You know that." Rosemary muttered to the voice in her head as she hopped of the bed. Maybe he would be in the kitchen? That seemed like a good spot for him to be in.
Did he really think all that about himself? Did he thing she was lying just to stroke his ego? It was a frustration filled ordeal. Why would she do something that stupid? Did he honestly thing she was so bloody shallow?
Where was that damn ferret?
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Post by Greenie on Jan 15, 2009 22:51:35 GMT -5
Au contrare, Mia had no intention of going anyplace there might be people. He'd activated his speed ability and had shot down to the basement, much to the consternation of several unfortunate hallway-going people. He might have knocked one of them over..
The ferret closed himself into a store room that was blissfully empty of people, sat in a corner, and cried until he couldn't breathe. It took him about five minutes, but he got the worst of it out and was at least able to look around him and realize he was sitting on a tub full of sweet potatoes. Not the best of chairs.. And there were piles and piles of canned strawberries, which he absolutely despised. The smell was making him want to puke.
He left the store room and wandered around the lower floors, his mind blissfully blank.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Jan 16, 2009 15:09:36 GMT -5
Epic Fail.
Rosemary found herself wandering the entire court of Spades. Her ears pressed against her skull as she listened to Forge make random off hand comments every once in a while. Really, both of them were being utterly useless.
And then she spotted a wanderer.
It only took... how many hours?
"AHAHAHAA! I SEE YOU THERE MIA!" She shouted and launched herself at the King. It never occurred to her that it was a bad idea. He did have Spade speed after all, and the only thing behind Mia was a very solid wall.
Of course it was too late now. She couldn't stop herself in midair unless she used her ability to poof. But she didn't really want to use it on this occasion. She had no reason to skip out on the depressed Mia. Plus she had every intention of righting Mia's depression, even if it meant dragging him to a therapist.
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