Monday Maunderings.

[agilebrit]

More of my Deathless Prose!

Is anyone still reading these? Anyway, this takes place after the results of this--which you can probably guess weren't too good for Ben, although he finally got a bit of his own back after weeks of torment. "Helpless" is relative, I guess. Fear the man who has nothing left to lose.

And, go:

It would never be a good evening again. Angeline stood there, bereft, shoulders slumped. Perez found her a few minutes later and steered her towards a table. He pressed a drink into her hand. "You knew this day was coming."

"Aye." She looked at him over the rim of her glass.

"You were supposed to tell me when he was this close to breaking," Perez said, his tone slightly accusatory.

"I would have, had I thought he was." And she realized... "Saints preserve us."

"What?"

"He didn't break," she said slowly.

"He killed two people and maimed a third before we stopped him--"

"Don't be ridiculous; nobody stopped him. He attacked vampires who had it coming, stopped himself, and would have suicided had the bouncers not arrived." When had her hands started shaking? "I'd venture to say that he was farther from breaking just now than he has been since I won my wager. He was in complete control for this."

"If that's what control looks like from where you're sitting, maybe we should have a psych evaluation done on you." Perez frowned. "And if he was still under control, then you fell down on the job, big time."

She shook her head and actually smiled. "I am under no delusions that I ever 'controlled' him." The smile turned sad. "Quite the other way 'round, probably."

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Comments

[mela-lyn.livejournal.com]

And I read every one of these... even if I forget to comment. Am dying to know what is going on 100%. You, my dear, are an excellent tease. Lucky husband. ;)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Thank you.

Now, I just need to stop putting the screws to Ben and get back into "what's Janni doing all this time" mode...

[mela-lyn.livejournal.com]

Heehee... Good luck!!

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Oh, those realizations can be a kick in the teeth. Ange almost sounds a little proud of Ben right now - you might want to kick that up a notch, depending on situation, of course.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

There's more in this vein--she points out that the baby seal look just made everyone woefully underestimate him, and that he didn't "lose it" here so much as make a conscious decision that he wasn't going to take any more of West's shit. "Oh, aye, my puppy was dangerous." Hee.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Most excellent. I was worried I was reading more into it that was actually there - so you are definitely getting the emotion across without stating it.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Interesting tidbit.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favorites, because this is her realizing that Ben was stronger than anyone ever knew, not just physically, but mentally as well. People don't underestimate him just because of his size and apparent harmlessness, but because of the panic attacks that he can't help having when he's restrained. But when he makes a choice like this, he's in total soldier mode and no one's going to stop him from Completing His Mission until he does it.