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Post by Simon on Sept 28, 2011 2:22:28 GMT
"Ok, makes sense," he said, reaching to take her leg to check that, then he shook his head, "No, I can't do this, I can't." He retracted his hands.
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Post by Kase on Sept 28, 2011 2:22:58 GMT
"What's wrong, Simon?" Kase asked questioningly.
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Post by Simon on Sept 28, 2011 2:27:47 GMT
He walked a bit towards the door, just so he didn't have to look at her, despite how much he wanted to. He couldn't.
"Kase...," he couldn't figure out what to say after that, and just shook his head, "No...well...," he shook his head again, unable to compose his thoughts.
Then he turned back to her, keeping the distance, averting his eyes a bit, "It's hard for me to look at you, to touch you, even as a doctor, knowing that you have feelings for Damien...even though...even though, for years..."
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Post by Kase on Sept 28, 2011 2:32:14 GMT
"What? what do you mean for years?" Kase asked, genuinely unaware and surprised by what he was saying...
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Post by Simon on Sept 28, 2011 2:36:06 GMT
He just started to blurt it all out.
"For years I've cared about you! Soon after we first met, first became allies, I've cared about you!" He put his hands to the back/top of his head, partially covering his face with his elbows as he was pained by having to confess to something that would go nowhere, "I...I fell in love with you!" He dropped his arms to his sides, "Now...now it doesn't matter. After years of...of wanting to be with you, but never able to be because of the stasis, I thought...I thought that, after finding you on Earth, I would have my chance.
"But I don't. For years I've dreamt of nothing but somehow being able to be with you...and I thought it would have come true. Even when you said there might be someone else, I hadn't lost hope. Seeing you kissing him...hearing what I heard, seeing what I saw today...years of my life, devoted to a future that I had hoped could happen...just gone, before it could ever be tried. Before it could be accepted, or turned down."
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Post by Kase on Sept 28, 2011 2:40:58 GMT
Kase was shocked...feeling like the breath had been knocked out of her for a moment...as he confessed it all....she had been his friend, the few times they had spoken, both at the school, and inbetween stasis periods. Other than that, her mind was incapable of coherent thought as she attempted to process this second bombshell that had been dropped on her today...
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Post by Simon on Sept 28, 2011 2:42:09 GMT
"I don't expect you to have anything immediate to say. It's not like we knew each other too well because of that damned stasis...," he muttered, but loud enough for her to hear.
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Post by Kase on Sept 28, 2011 2:45:51 GMT
Kase had nothing to say for that moment...when she had escaped to Earth, she had seen the Rider base destroyed and all of the Riders vented....she had assumed he was dead....that was a bad assumption of her....but at the time...she was the Last Rider....she had to toughen up and carry on...and try to find allies. She had not looked for love, but it had found her anyway. Kase lowered her head slightly, feeling disappointed in herself for assuming without checking the facts....but then to go back to where your planet had just been attacked was probably not a good idea....what if more enemies were there and they found her?...
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Post by Simon on Sept 28, 2011 2:48:38 GMT
Silence.
"Kase...please. Answer me!" he shouted, starting to break down in the silence, his eyes starting to water up.
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Post by Kase on Sept 28, 2011 2:59:15 GMT
Kase looked at Simon, her eyes watering a bit, "I'm sorry Simon...I didn't know....I thought I was the last Rider left..." she said, looking down in shame.
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Post by Simon on Sept 28, 2011 3:00:38 GMT
"...would it have made a difference?" he asked softly, "If you knew I was still alive?" He looked up, not yet crying, just watery.
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Post by Kase on Sept 28, 2011 3:18:49 GMT
"...If I knew you were still alive...I would have looked for you...tried to save you." Kase said after a moment, "But if I had gone back to the Rider base, I would have been vented like the others...I had to put the needs of others before my own. I'm sorry, Simon. I assumed everyone was gone. I was alone." Kase said sadly, admitting her own faults.
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Post by Simon on Sept 28, 2011 3:20:46 GMT
"I don't blame you for that," he said, turning around to her and walking towards her. He put a hand on each of her shoulders, looking down into her eyes, "I would never have wanted that; for you to go into danger over me."
He knew she didn't answer his question, but he didn't push it.
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Post by Kase on Sept 28, 2011 3:26:19 GMT
Kase tilted her head back to look into his eyes. "I'm sorry...I know I didn't answer your question...but I've spoken the truth...what I was feeling at the time...I can't go back and change my actions...I feel so bad right now." Kase admitted, looking down again.
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Post by Simon on Sept 28, 2011 3:29:22 GMT
He reached down and tilted her head up so he could keep looking into her eyes and properly speak to her, "Don't. You could have been Vented, going to look at any time. Please, it would have been even harder knowing that you were Vented because of me...whether your answer to my question was yes or no. I wouldn't have been able to live with you gone because of me."
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