Because I think yours are a different sort of adventure. Raven has to fight, Rei has to face dangerous people...that's not how I want to spend my week. Besides, I want you to lead me.
[Why would someone want to have her adventures? She's an idealistic seven year old who is told to "wait" and "stay inside" how could anyone want her adventures? But she doesn't let those comments show in her eyes. She just smiles, though it gets harder because this place and the people in it aren't exactly easy for a child to contend with. But she smiles. Because she won't ruin Horst's day, his week. She won't.]
You won't be able to handle my sort of adventures.
When I'm a vampire, I'll eat food to keep me from feeling hungry for...well, you know. But it leaves a bit of a headache; not much of one, mind you, it's like a paper cut--you hardly notice it after a while. But I've had it for years, and now it's gone. It's wonderful, Alice!
[She hugs him back, but unfortunately for Horst, this is Alice Liddell, her curiosity and persistence is renowned (quite literally in both senses of the word). She is not satisfied with his answer because no event should make his nose look like that.]
[That.... particular subject makes her stop breathing for a few seconds. Her fingers curl against his sides and she has to look down and away. Because it still hurts and it still scares her. She doesn't know what was taken from Horst but she's just scared. She watched him die and couldn't do anything to stop him. She couldn't do anything because he never said anything to her. He had kept all those thoughts, that... plan, to himself and she was left to watch along with everyone else helplessly as Horst greeted the sun. She doesn't know why he did it, he never told her. She just never wanted to go through it again.]
H-Horst... [She hides her face in her hands and if he still had his vampiric powers he could probably hear her heart racing and pounding in her ribcage.] He still s-shouldn't have hit you.
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Date: 2011-07-14 07:53 am (UTC)You want me to show you how to have an adventure? Why not get Raven or Miss Ray? They seem to know how to have them.
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Date: 2011-07-14 08:21 am (UTC)You won't be able to handle my sort of adventures.
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Date: 2011-07-14 08:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-14 08:25 am (UTC)Are you scared? [She teased.]
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Date: 2011-07-16 08:11 am (UTC)Ah! You're cheek is warm!
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Date: 2011-07-16 08:48 am (UTC)Except that headache is gone...
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Date: 2011-07-16 09:03 am (UTC)[He hugs her.] And I do know. I appreciate it, Alice. If I ever need, I'll ask.
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Date: 2011-07-16 09:10 am (UTC)Horst, what happened to your nose?
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Date: 2011-07-16 09:13 am (UTC)Oh, that. ...Johannes was upset with me. We worked it out, though, don't worry.
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Date: 2011-07-16 09:49 am (UTC)He found out about something I had done wrong. Something that I'm very, very sorry for--but he was still upset by it.
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Date: 2011-07-16 10:18 am (UTC)H-Horst... [She hides her face in her hands and if he still had his vampiric powers he could probably hear her heart racing and pounding in her ribcage.] He still s-shouldn't have hit you.