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POSTED ON May 30, 2022 23:12:48 GMT

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As the venomous woman bared her fangs at him, Felix only blinked, unsure where this spout of anger had come from. If there were no feelings involved, why was she so riled up?

Honestly, these spiteful replies only further confirmed Felix's lurking suspicion further. But, despite that, he chose to only listen, blinking after every sentence she spat at him, and sometimes throwing in a nod to show he was listening.

At least he was attentive in that way.

When she turned to spin the question back onto him, Felix reacts in a way that should all-too-familiar for the frustrated florist: he shrugged.

"Yeah."

He paused, for once questioning if he should elaborate further before she went into another longwinded tangent.

"You wouldn't be this upset otherwise? It's fine though."

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POSTED ON May 30, 2022 23:26:39 GMT

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The fury boiled over in a frothing interlude of silence, chilling in its bleak totality as Elisabeth glared at him. The abandoned floral shears had found themselves in her hands, and the metal glittered ominously in the light as she aimed it towards him pointedly.

"You think very highly of yourself, I see."

The words came out with a scoff, Elisabeth's own pride bruised by the embarrassment of her initial misstep and now, frustratingly, by her inability to reverse it. Felix's calm certainty of her supposed feelings only incensed her further, pushing her closer and closer to the brink of insanity.

On the surface, Elisabeth was demure, soft-spoken, and gentle as the satiny petals of her flowers. Inside her heart, however, was a seed of something wicked, prickly, and thorned as a briar.

When the blonde spoke again, spite crawled out in every sneering syllable:

"Do you often get confessions of love from women you've almost shot to death?"

It was a cruel question, uncalled for and disproportionate to her situation. He'd apologized; she'd forgiven him; he'd not accepted her apology. To exhume this pain once more only to defend her wounded ego was petty.

And Elisabeth realised it, too late, once she spat her venom aloud.

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POSTED ON May 31, 2022 0:46:06 GMT

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The first of Elisabeth's lashes only spurred up further confusion. Head tilting the other direction, Felix watched, silently, as she continued to throw more of a fit over him pointing out the advances he noticed. Even going as far as to assume Felix's inner impression of himself, which couldn't be further from the truth.

The second of Elisabeth's lashes was far crueler than the first, trudging up the original topic of their conversation: their trip to the woods. Blood running cold, body freezing in place, Felix's gaze fell down to the floor. He knew she hadn't fully forgiven -- who would -- but he hadn't expected her to use it against him like this. At the very least, he thought she understood him, given her own experiences with the demons of her past that night.

Apparently, he was mistaken. A common occurrence with her, it seemed.

"...Sorry," The apology came out in a whisper. "I'll go, then."

Turning, the broken man went for the door, now understanding the state of their relationship to the fullest: how she was only a victim, and he was the villain. Nothing less, nothing more.

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POSTED ON May 31, 2022 1:03:50 GMT

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At his petulant whisper, Elisabeth's anger evaporated into nothingness. It was as if her entire body went slack, a once-taut string relinquishing the tension that had held her moments prior.

She could sense that a line had been transgressed. That her own vindictive nature had pushed her over it at the expense of Felix Gallagher's own wellbeing. That the words spoken could not be unspoken.

How many times had she been the receiver of such lashing verbal blows?

Shame coiled within her, writhing with an uncomfortable whisper of dark thoughts, the kind that normally echoed to Elisabeth in the forgotten hours of night:

Is this all I know how to be now? Cruel, like he was?

Her arms wrapped around herself, the shears falling and clattering from her hands to break into two pieces on the floor. The blonde's head lowered, unable to look at the man whom she had damned just moments ago.

"Felix. Wait."

A hand, hesitant and uncertain, found purchase on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry. That was callous of me."

Her tone was apologetic, pleading in its softness.

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POSTED ON May 31, 2022 10:54:10 GMT

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LThe clanging of metal reaching the floor fell on deaf ears, as the same damning sentence kept itself on loop in his head, reminding him of the aftermath of his own sins. The only attempt that sought out a fruitful result was that of her hand reaching for his shoulder, as the desperation in her grasp was just enough to hold him back from treading any further.

"Why are you apologize," he murmured, head hung, gaze set just above the ground. "You're right to feel that way. I almost killed you."

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POSTED ON Jun 1, 2022 3:54:08 GMT

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"But you didn't want to kill me."

Wounded animals bit those who approached them, regardless of their intentions.

That night, in the Petalburg Woods, she and Felix Gallagher had been each wounded in their own way. The blonde's own scars ran deep enough that they affected her in ways visible and not, twisting every facet of the person that Elisabeth was until who she was before her trauma was unrecognisable to her.

"The man I saw that night... when you were absent from me. That man wanted to hurt me."

Without meaning to, her grip on his shoulder tightened as coal black eyes bored into her mind, staring back from the shadows of her memory. She could feel it even now -- the pull of her hair by its roots, lifting her upwards from the ground to face his unflinching scrutiny; the sound, striking blow of his hand against her cheek, metallic blood pooling in her mouth in its wake.

It had been a phantom animated by older, crueler memory.

"He did. Many times. In ways I do not want to remember. In ways I try to forget."

Each sentence came out with audible struggle, like dragging something buried out of the boggy depths of a swamp. Unearthed like this, Elisabeth's words felt painfully raw, and for all their sternness her voice couldn't raise itself from the lowness of a whisper.

"He's dead now, Felix. He can't hurt me anymore. That night, I knew that. It's the only reason I did not react as you did in those woods. If I believed he was still alive, for even a second, and that you wore his face... I would have killed you. Without a doubt. Without a moment's hesitation."

Her conviction was unshakeable. She had murdered that man in a slow, brutal manner, but had a swifter option been given to her? Yes. She would have taken it. Unabashedly. Joyfully. Disbelievingly.

Anything to spare herself the excruciatingly slow agony that single year had inflicted on her.

"There are parts of me that I do not like in myself. Things jagged edges have left behind. I can be... unkind."

The grip on his shoulder faltered, her voice hushing as this time, Elisabeth hung her head. When she spoke next, it seemed her words were not aimed at Felix at all, but something distant. Something Elisabeth herself couldn't name aloud.

"I am sorry," she repeated, wringing her hands in front of herself. "I don't know what else I can say."

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POSTED ON Jun 1, 2022 4:37:44 GMT

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Felix listened.

Silent, he heard her, Elisabeth Fiorelli , for what felt like the first time.

Both of them were broken.

Both of them still felt the aftereffects of trauma in the deepest pits of their fingernails.

Slow, he turned his head to face her again, eyes brimming with concern. His brows furrowed as she continued to unravel the mystery behind her own actions that night, detailing so much, but also so little. Each word that struggled to come up carried so many emotions he knew all too well -- the hatred, the fear, the pain.

"You don't have to say anything else."

Another step forward. Another step closer.

"I...understand." A similar pain raked his voice. It tightened its coils, growing strained and forced, like a child pleading not to come out. "The person I saw... I would do anything to kill him. It's why I..."

His eyes fall once again, evading her gaze. Vulnerability was always such a hard thing to swallow. To let someone in, to let someone see the person hidden inside your rough exterior.

But, for some reason, there was comfort in it, too.

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POSTED ON Jun 1, 2022 4:54:19 GMT

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Unlike at the start of their meeting, this discomfort that persisted between them held no sense of obligation, no inherent awkwardness built on a power dynamic. This was not a victim burdened with the guilt of an attacker, nor an insulted party lashing out at someone who had misstepped.

Rather, the discomfort came in the ways in which they mirrored one another. Cracks and fissures unseen, blows struck by absent abusers, doubts crawling in the back of the mind like spiders weaving webs.

Airing such things aloud, even in such vague and evasive replies, felt fragile. As if at any moment, they might snap and shatter for the mere speaking of it.

Her answer came out earnest in its forthright reply: "I believe you."

Where Felix's gaze lowered, hers remained fix upon him, as if truly studying him for the first time. Her hands ceased in their restless motion, falling at last to her side.

"If there is anything I can do... Anything you need from me that I can offer, to help you achieve that end. Know that I would gladly give it."

She didn't need to ask his reasons. The way Felix Gallagher had looked at her in the woods was reason enough.

And no one helped me, when it mattered most.

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POSTED ON Jun 5, 2022 20:58:28 GMT

"Anything you need from me that I can offer, to help you..."

Why did it hurt to hear that? Why did it make his heartache and his legs feel melded into each other?

Coughing, Felix straighten his back, his eyes unable to remain on Elisabeth Fiorelli for more than a second. If he did... for once, he wasn't sure what would come from it. A thin layer glossed over his eyes as he bit down on his bottom lip, hard.

"Thank you," He grunted. "If you ever need anything, just call and I'll be there."

The tin man had found his heart after all. The only question? Whether Dorothy would choose to expose it any further, and for once, allow him to feel safe within his hardened walls.

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