TFLN Continuations

[notsogroovy]

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[notsogroovy]

Do I think you would have kept me firmly in the sister role and tried your best to let me down without ever confronting the issue directly? Yes. Yes, I do.

It wasn't exactly like I was subtle. How many sisters ask their brothers if they'd date them?

[aberranthubris]

How am I supposed to know? I don't have any siblings.

I'm sorry that's what you think of me.

[notsogroovy]

I think you'd let me down gently but awkwardly, that's what I think of you.

[aberranthubris]

I don't know. We'll never know, most likely.

[notsogroovy]

No, I suppose we never will.

[aberranthubris]

And now, do you still feel the same?

[notsogroovy]

Now? Now it's been twenty years and what I said before is still accurate. We don't know each other.

[And she's painfully aware she's sidestepping the question because of course she does. And of course she doesn't. And her feelings for Charles are as complicated as hers for Erik.]

[aberranthubris]

Alright. Perhaps we can start learning each other again.

[notsogroovy]

An unfortunate turn of phrase.

[aberranthubris]

In which way?

[notsogroovy]

Think back to when everything you heard could sound dirty. Now, repeat what you just said to yourself.

[aberranthubris]

... I haven't really thought of myself in that sense for a long, long while.

[notsogroovy]

Probably for the best when you're mostly surrounded by your students and Hank.

[aberranthubris]

I am more thinking the wheelchair. But that's neither here nor there.

[notsogroovy]

I know you. That'd only stop you if you let it.

[aberranthubris]

You're probably right. But perhaps I should say I have let it.

[notsogroovy]

You're saying you've become a recluse in your dotage. Unless there's something about your relationship with Hank that I should know about.

[aberranthubris]

Raven!

[notsogroovy]

Now you'll never be able to look him in the eye again.

[aberranthubris]

I will have to, first thing tomorrow. Thank you very much.

[notsogroovy]

Remind me to be there. This is something I'm going to need to see.

[aberranthubris]

How did I ever trust you even for an inch?

[notsogroovy]

Because I was cute and non-threatening to everyone except the people around us and you never noticed that.

[aberranthubris]

Please, you were sometimes quite a menace.

[notsogroovy]

To you. That's what you noticed. You always chalked up my temper to other people as temper tantrums.