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« Sept 7, 2015 16:10:20 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
After a long night of fighting gangsters and either rescuing or kidnapping the Albino--depending on how you look at it--Tyler returns to Aryns where he was staying. Hopefully she would still be at work.

He brings the albino up the side door, looking to get him in and cuffed to a chair as soon as possible before heading back out to his car and grabbing the duffle bag from his trunk with the largest of frowns before heading back in.

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:15:28 GMT -6 » 		Quote
It had been a long night, indeed.

Aryn, however, had stayed late enough, and walks in, having missed Tyler heading back outside. So by the time he rounds the corner to the hall to get back into her apartment, she's unlocking the door!

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:19:38 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
Damn!

He ducks back around the corner, but then had the realization that Aryn will see the Albino when she goes in so he begins walking towards her.

"You're back early."

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:23:29 GMT -6 » 		Quote
The door unlocks and Aryn turns the knob, about to walk in, when Tyler hails her. She recoils in surprise just slightly, but sticks her foot in the door as she looks back over to him!

And eyes the bag, not thinking too much of it at the moment; especially if it was the same as the one he'd been using.

"--oh." Couldn't concentrate? Like she'd say that. "Yeah, I guess? ...working out?"

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:29:44 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
"Uh, something like that." He tries to wedge himself between Aryn and the door.

"I've kind of made a mess today, I'd hate for you to see it." He smiles sheepishly.

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:32:35 GMT -6 » 		Quote
Aryn eyes him as he tries to sneak in, but his explanation seems to satisfy her wary curiosity towards the behaviour.

Still, she gives a soft snort of amusement and opens the door.

"That doesn't sound different from most days~" Which was actually kinda comforting.

She moves in, slipping her bag from over her shoulder.

Obviously that wasn't good enough.

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:34:57 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
He tries to stay in her line of sight, trying to gently get her back outside.

"I know, but is really like to clean up first..."

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:38:38 GMT -6 » 		Quote
He manages to succeed in getting in the way, at least! And annoying her. Her eyes come up to focus on him, narrowing a bit. She plants her feet, obviously not intending to be ushered back out.

"What's with the sudden one-eighty on me seeing the mess that happens to pop up in our place?"

Not 'her' place? She still sounds pretty testy, though!

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:40:41 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
He sets the duffel bag down out of the way and with great care to do so gently.

"There's...stuff I don't want you to see."

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:44:15 GMT -6 » 		Quote
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Aryn crosses her arms, visibly not pleased.

"There's a lot of stuff you don't want me to see, Tyler, chances are I'll wind up seeing it anyway." She took note of the care he used to set the bag down, and now she's more wary.

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:46:53 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
"Yeah, but this you really shouldn't." He frowns.

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:48:28 GMT -6 » 		Quote
She just...eyes him. And blinks, once.

"Is there a literal skeleton in the cl--duffle bag?"

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« Sept 7, 2015 16:49:00 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
"...no..." He eyes away.

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What has it got in its bagses, precious?

Aryn slowly tilts her head to the side and uses Tyler's looking away to side-step around him and hopefully in to their place, further.

"So what's in the bag, then?"

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She does so! In a panic he tries to reposition himself in front of her again so she doesn't see the Albino in the living room.

"Socks. They smell. Get out...!" He goes to gently lift her and set her outside.

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« Sept 7, 2015 17:07:30 GMT -6 » 		Quote
And in his panic and trying to bodily lift her, he's just proving there's something she really isn't going to like going on. She shifts another step to the side and plants her palm on his chest to keep him at arm's length physically...considering he was doing really well at the other kinds. Her attention, at least, is refocusing on him.

"Tyler, I doubt it's socks. If it was, you'd have been like this over them all along. What, exactly, is going on?"

She figures she knows, but...gives him the chance, anyway.

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« Sept 7, 2015 17:09:49 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
He stops. If she looks past him she could see the albino.

"...I wasn't going to do it here. I was just getting everything together."

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« Sept 7, 2015 17:12:06 GMT -6 » 		Quote
She takes a glance. And, while she isn't exactly surprised this is what it is, she's surprised all the same. Her eyes quickly blink back to him.

"Does that make it better, somehow?"

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"You just kind of indicated that it doesn't."

He thought it might have!

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« Sept 7, 2015 17:16:22 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"It doesn't, in my eyes. I was wondering if it did, in yours."

If eyes could bore holes into a person--oh wait, technically, Aryn's could!

She must really like this one.

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« Sept 7, 2015 17:18:01 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
"Not enough to matter, I guess." He sighs.

"But I have to do it." He meets her angry, angry look.

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« Sept 7, 2015 17:21:04 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"But enough to do it and hide it, still, anyway..." She'd be lying if she said she isn't bitter about that. Her hand curls into a fist against his shirt. "I don't want you to."

She must really like this one.

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« Sept 7, 2015 17:23:44 GMT -6 via the ProBoards App » 		Quote
He grabs her hand gently.

"I know. But I have to."

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« Sept 7, 2015 17:37:43 GMT -6 » 		Quote
Aryn presses her teeth together, the muscles in her face shifting as she repeatedly clenches and relaxes her jaw. At least she wasn't screaming or raising her voice, but she's struggling with her own feelings over the matter.

"And I'm supposed to let you do it with a smile..? Because you think--actually, I don't really know aside from what you've said. You think it'll magically make things better? Because you can't deal with the fact that Trent one-upped you when he forced you to unknowingly kill her? Because you're bowing underneath the guilt and just can't? Maybe we're not supposed to be brought back, Tyler."

She had been, of course, but nobody exactly consulted her on the matter.

Since, you know, she'd been dead at the time.

And there hadn't exactly been this 'life for a life' scenario. If Audrey could be brought back without a loss of Tyler's life...she probably would have been on board. But this is different.

And Aryn's selfish. Mostly.

"I'm terrified of this."

...oh. And that.

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« Sept 7, 2015 18:02:18 GMT -6 » 		Quote
"I'm not really a fan of this, either."

The albino grumbles, pulling softly at his handcuffs.

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