Etienne
Etienne was sitting with her back to him, her knees to her chest. Her head on her knees. She was shaking. Softly. Flashes of when she meet him playing in her head. It had been in a cave...filled with water...she had almost drowned...and for her, that would have been terrible. But that Sicilien had help her...saved her.?
When she heard his voice, she first thought he was there to offer her comfort. He knew her...he knew how she was...what being in caves was like for her. But when he walked around the rock and sat down on the other side of her, at first she thought he was there to offer her comfort. But when he began to speak about her being stubborn and hide and seek she knew better...he didn¡¯t care... ?this wasn¡¯t the Sicilien who once loved her once or who cared for her well-being. This was the Sicilien who believed the worst in her. The one who hurt her. The one despite everything, she wanted to save...tried to save...
And when he rudely tried to get her to talk about something she never talked about. Something she nevrr wanted to talk about, she got angry.
¡°Fine,¡± she said harshly . ¡°I will say it. You are a monumental asshat how is that. and I wish you would...¡±she stopped herself....¡±just go away Sicilien." She said standing walking away.
[Sicilien]
"Oh, hoho.? Me?? An asshat?? That's very rich coming from a bitch who pretended I didn't exist some days ago," Sicilien chuckled, smoothing his hair back as he took off his hat and refitted it, but as he did so, Etienne simply started walking away.? The bounty hunter growled, stomping after her as he reached out and grabbed her wrist, forcing her to whirl about and face him.? His grip on her, however, didn't loosen, not until he forced her to get back and sit onto one of the rocks, choosing to continue standing himself.? His brows narrowed as he returned the same glare that she had given him before.? "Stop playing dumb.? I know you're better than that.? You don't get to say your piece and just walk away.? So you're going to sit there and we are going to talk."
As bitter and heated he was, Sicilien felt as if his heart was going to burst and his eyes became just slightly misty.? Here she was, the love of his life, his sun and stars, alive and well, if not indignantly furious with him.? For what?? Because he dared to kiss her when he saw her?? That he was happy to see her again?? The fact that he saved her once again and this is the thanks he got in return?? Go away?? Not without answers.
"Why is the reaction I get when I see you for the first time in year?.? Years, Etienne.? I killed for you.? Destroyed Palenuma.? And I know what you're going to say.? You'll say that you didn't ask me for any of that, but what did you expect me to do when I held your dead body in my arms?? And yet here you are, sitting before me, wanting nothing to do with me," he spat out, each word hurting more than the next.? Sicillien's eyes began to swell up with tears as he looked at her.? Immediately, his hands flew up to hide his face, sitting down as he hunched over, resting his elbows upon his knees.? The bounty hunter only cried twice in his life.? Once when Etienne "died," and the second when he saw her again.? He didn't know if he was shedding tears now because he was just so disappointed, relieved, or both.
"Why, Etienne?? Did our past mean nothing to you?? Is just yesterday's news now and we are just two strangers meeting each other for the first time?"
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