« Prev 1 2 3 Next » Reply Share Thread Facebook Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn MySpace Email Go to Previous Thread Next Thread Please make a selection first Author Topic: You Have My Attention (Freya) (Read 526 times) Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 15:41:54 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Freya seems pleased by the answer! "In a way I believe I'm grateful to you. His upbringing didn't do much for his social skills. It's terribly sad. I think he tries so hard to connect with people with his experiments, and he's content with the easy negative attention he gets from it." Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 17:01:36 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Freya's words surprise and even leave Rebecca momentarily flustered. The last time she'd even been told by someone that they were grateful with her in any way was young. It is, again, not what she expected, but she listens with a nod and recovers herself. "I can understand that." On a personal level, as well. Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 18:56:57 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Oh, do tell." Freya says, very interested in this personal experience of hers. Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 19:11:12 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Rebecca suspected Freay would want details, but Nosferatu twirling around them in a tutu was a more likely event.  Of course, there was always the chance she would dig around and find out for herself. "You work with what you have," she says with a uncomfortable shrug. "Sometimes, that includes other people's opinions or their reactions. Sometimes you adjust, or make something new with them." « Last Edit: Oct 21, 2015 19:56:37 GMT -6 by Rebecca Jefferson » Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 19:59:36 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top As Rebecca had guessed, Freya didn't seem content with that answer. There would be a slight pressure in her mind as Freya would start forcing her way in deeper. "Mmmhmmm?" Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 20:10:19 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Would you please stop?" she asks irritably. Abby's first impression upon digging would indeed be more of the entitle rich girl impressions and flickers of memory, though not just because she felt she was entitled to poke around in people's brains. She'd throw out the same level of information Freya had given her and hope it was enough. She'd shared some of it already before, but only tiny bits with Mike, who knew what it was like to grow up alienated in a small town. Sure, metas were more accepted than they had been in the, but some mindsets take generations to be rid of or normalized. "Look, I'm assuming that you already know what my power is. Now imagine growing up in a dying hick town where metas are still too weir to accept and are someone a government side job that they're still lying about. "Now, imagine what those same people think and do when you have a more destructive power." Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:01:22 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Freya pulls back once Rebecca starts to talk, not even mean enough to look smug about what she did. She looks like this is just how things go. "Why wouldn't you just kill them?" Freya blinks, tilting her head. "Powerful enough to defend yourself and make an example and yet instead you choose to let them injure you." Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:10:29 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Because it's wrong and woudln't do any good?" Rebecca seems genuinely confused by this question. "I was six. One kid, one parent, and a town of a few thousand. Things would only have gotten worse along the way." Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:16:30 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "A few thousands? Please, you kill one and they'll all cower. They were clearly afraid already, but they intimidated you and took advantage of it." She doesn't seem concerned with the very young age of six. Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:24:28 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Is that what you would have done?" Her answer is momentarily forgotten as she stares, horrified. Freya would get a flash of pain from a memory that had come closer to the surface with her question, though. It's one Rebecca's never let go of. Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:35:36 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Well if not me then-ah!" She holds her temple as her brows furrow. "Well, well, well." Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:36:48 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Rebecca waits for Freya to collect herself, shifting her weight to one foot and resisting the urge to cross her arms over her chest. Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:38:45 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Freya takes in a breath and straightens herself up. "I looks like you had something to share." Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:46:19 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Not really." It was interesting to note the flash of pain that came with her having a memory. "It wouldn't take much to look through my file or an archive if you really felt the need to know." Already proven by said brother. Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:54:15 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Hm, but that's not nearly as fun." Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:55:03 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "It's not supposed to be." Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 21, 2015 23:56:25 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Says you." Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 22, 2015 0:02:39 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "If you want your mind and personal feelings pried into by someone just because they can, go for it. It'll be a blast." Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 22, 2015 0:09:19 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Darling, I've never had someone NOT in my head." Freya laughs. Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 22, 2015 0:13:17 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top That was disturbing to think on. Rebecca actually felt sorry for her, considering this brief experience was exactly that - brief. "I'm sorry to hear that. It does not, however, give you right or reason to poke about." Even though Freya's words alone clearly suggested otherwise. Time to turn the conversation away from this. "Yes, you or someone else would have probably done something more violent about it. Unless I wanted everything and everyone worth something in my life destroyed, there was no reason for me to do so." The less pained, more faded impression that there wasn't a lot of someones. Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 22, 2015 0:17:01 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Freya's happy to let it die. If anything, continuing on this topic would potentially make her painful thought resurface. "Why would it destroy your life, exactly?" Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 22, 2015 0:24:14 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top A frustrated sigh from Rebecca this time, along with the sensation of repressing another memory, this one more lonely and confused than painful. It would save them both a headache, and was less private than the one before. There were connections between the topics her questions reached out to. "Because it was just me and my father against pretty much everyone. We didn't know if i had a limit to my powers then, or much else. Even with time, he's not a meta. I am. Turn against them, they turn against him. I wasn't going to destroy the rest of his life." Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 22, 2015 0:27:20 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "You could have just left." she says flatly. "Was your father so selfish he couldn't leave this life behind to find a better one for his daughter? There are countless places who are more accepting of us, you know." Make her talk. Back to Top   Rebecca Jefferson Legend Defense Will it be you this time? [send pm] Joined: October 2015 Gender: Posts: 4,354 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 22, 2015 0:33:20 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "We did," Rebecca says flatly. This time, her arms do come up to cross her chest. She doesn't like the way Freya is speaking about her father, but undoubtedly, she's not the first. Most people used to talk about him like he was such a saint to keep her. "Funny how you have to have the privilege of money to be able to do that. Or see specialists who can try to help. We couldn't do both. When we could, we did." Her words come at a sharp clip. Back to Top   Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 You Have My Attention (Freya) « Oct 22, 2015 8:54:44 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Freya smiles. "Ah, well, then what exactly is the problem?" What's the point in looking so depressing if things turned out well in the end? My goodness. Back to Top   Reply Share Thread Facebook Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn MySpace Email Go to Previous Thread Next Thread Please make a selection first