The Deck - Saturday Afternoon

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It was sunny out, and the cold felt more like nearly spring to Rose than the middle of winter.  And it was sunny out which is what she was really looking for.  Sure, it'd be sunny all next week in the Bahamas and maybe she should spend her time packing instead, but the sun now was the point. 

She stretched out on one of deck chairs, feeling the sun on her face.  She was trying not to think about anything.  Definitely not the past few weeks, definitely not wondering how it'd be to go back to living completely nocturnally again once she returned to Lissa, and definitely not what was going to happen with whatever understanding she and Dimitri had reached over the past few days.

Except as happened so often, between not actually doing anything and trying not to think about things, Rose found herself pondering all of them and paying less attention to the warm sun.  She so needed to get up and find a distraction. 

[OOC:  Deck, open, no roof, all that, yes]

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[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"You do," he agreed and he shrugged a shoulder. "I'm trying that thing where I ignore my instinct."

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She eyed him for a second, shaking her head. "Had to go home for a few weeks last week," she said in one of those sentences that only happen in Fandom. "Didn't go as well as would like. Got into some shit," her lips tightened, looking down as the memories surged up again. "Got back out of it."

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"Got into some shit while protecting them?" he made a stab at it.

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"Yeah," she said softly. "Moroi aren't the only type of vampires in my world."

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Because one type wasn't screwed up enough. "The nasty ones that feed on the l- Moroi?" See, he had been listening to what she was saying.

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"Kill, feed, turn, all the fun stuff you're probably used to."

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"Yeah," he agreed, sounding more subdued. "Sounds familiar. You ran into some then?"

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She nodded again. "Yeah, they got a hold of three of us and two Moroi." She rubbed her wrists gently. Rose glanced over at Jacob, taking a breath and telling him something she'd hadn't told anyone here. "They tortured the Moroi, starved 'em to try to make them drink from one of us. Neither would. Even if I hadn't known before, that's how I know they're different."

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His eyebrows knitted together and if the whole being born thing hadn't caught him off balance, this sure as hell did. "Fair enough," he relented. "That sounds... twisted."

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"So, you know, maybe I have some idea what I'm talking about and haven't just been brainwashed or whatever you think," Rose said, frustrated and way too deep in memories now.

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He couldn't think of a whole lot to say in response and he shrugged his shoulders. "I guess so," he said. "So did you all get out alright?"

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"The Moroi did. One of the guardians was killed," she shrugged.

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Jacob made a face and he was entirely serious now. "I'm sorry," he said. So far the pack had been lucky and they'd lost no one. It helped that most leeches seemed to be travelling alone.

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Rose nodded. "He came back for me," she said softly but flatly. "I told him not to. I killed the ones who killed him."

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"And now you're kicking yourself because you think it's somehow your fault," he guessed.

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"Mason made his choices," Rose retorted. "It was the wrong one"

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"Bet he'd be pissed if you told him that," Jacob replied.

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She snorted, remembering. "He was pissed when I told him to get them out without me."

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"Sounds about right," Jacob agreed. "If that'd be anyone from my pack? You bet your ass I'm going back for them, no matter the consequences. You can say it was the wrong choice from your end, but he's not going to agree and I'm guessing if it was the other way around, you wouldn't either."

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"Maybe," she admitted, considering if it was Dimitri who'd told her to run. But then Dimitri could handle anything? Except she'd run after him when he gave her the order to stay with Adrian...

"He told me to stay out of it that time with you," she acknowledged.

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Jake shrugged. If Rose hadn't been there, the fight would have done very different. That and fighting in an alley sucked. Less space to manoeuvre, but he wasn't going to contemplate that part of the fighting. "You're stronger in a group. There's a reason we're all cliché and fight in a pack."

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"All I wanna know if how you stake your vampires without hands," Rose said, still upset but she'd more or less accepted the situation and her actions and for now it wasn't as overwhelming.

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"Stake?" he grinned. "I thought we were cliché. It doesn't work that way, they're tough, their skin doesn't cut easily, but our fangs work. We rip them up and then burn them, if you don't, they'll just heal themselves and come back."

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"You turn into a freaking huge wolf and run in a pack. You don't get to talk about cliche," Rose told him. She thought about what he'd said for a moment. "Burning works for us too. And cutting their heads off, but charmed stake are the most practical."

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"Cutting their heads off... it'd just reattach," he said. "I don't think stakes would work either. Unless there's some kind of anti-leech voodoo in that charm?"