(He doesn't get to do this anymore. Too much had transpired between them when Vi came back from Stillwater. The half-lies, the sneaky way he put things, she realizes it all in hindsight.
At times, they become whispers in her ear, and sometimes they win. Right now, however, they backfire as more spite. It's a push and pull, hot and cold, and his presence exacerbates it - not that she notices that part.
He does win her when he doesn't promise it. It feels honest, a promise to try that she can hold him accountable, even if she isn't really seeing that trying is a subjective matter.
A promise that he can very easily break, under many grounds, but that she hardly things of because she feels...
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Date: 2025-03-20 11:28 pm (UTC)(He doesn't get to do this anymore. Too much had transpired between them when Vi came back from Stillwater. The half-lies, the sneaky way he put things, she realizes it all in hindsight.
At times, they become whispers in her ear, and sometimes they win. Right now, however, they backfire as more spite. It's a push and pull, hot and cold, and his presence exacerbates it - not that she notices that part.
He does win her when he doesn't promise it. It feels honest, a promise to try that she can hold him accountable, even if she isn't really seeing that trying is a subjective matter.
A promise that he can very easily break, under many grounds, but that she hardly things of because she feels...
Safe. Push and pull, hot and cold.)
Fine. Fine!