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Post by Maple ♥ on Feb 16, 2014 21:27:48 GMT
Belle Dupree: Belle glanced at everyone else, her eyes sad and worried. He was hiding something, she knew he was. But she didn't know if she should say something out loud or not, so she stayed quiet, hand retreating back into her lap.
Lauren of all people was the most curious. "Did you notice something, Belle?" her eyes flashed to the girl and then back to her son, setting her wine glass down. "Is there something wrong?" she asked.
Belle didn't care who saw anymore, she was shaking with worry. Her hands tentatively went to James' side, pulling up the shirt slightly so she could see. When she saw the green and black bruising, her heart dropped and her eyes filled with tears. She didn't know what had happened, but she'd failed at protecting him. Again. "James?" Belle asked, her voice full of emotion and her eyes fogging up with the unshed tears. They weren't too noticeable, but they were coming. "What happened?" she whispered, her eyes trailing over his body, wondering if there were more.
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Post by shades on Feb 16, 2014 21:48:39 GMT
James Skyes ; ; Blue eyes looking at her slowly, sadly, his shoulders shrugging. “I was told it would help me.” He said honestly, James feeling horrible for all his problems and troubles. His orbs looking over to David and Drew, his heroes. And then his parents. Finally they landed on Belle again, blinking sadly. |
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Post by Maple ♥ on Feb 16, 2014 22:02:38 GMT
Belle Dupree: Belle looked at the others at the table quizzically, wondering what he meant by his words. Lauren knew, it was all over her face after a second of thought and then she looked ghostly pale. "No..." she thought the worst, looking at Bastian at the end of the table and then back at James like her entire body had stopped operating. Belle instantly got scared, not knowing what had happened or what was wrong.
"What? What does that mean?" she searched the table for answers, but the whole place was just stunned.
Lauren started to cry, trying to get up from her seat but failing at the movement. "T-The doctor?" she asked James, needed clarification before she went to murder someone.
Belle's mouth went dry. The bruises. A doctor. Telling him he'd get better if he did things... Nausea swept through her like a tsunami, tears pricking at the edge of her vision at she looked at James too. No. This couldn't be happening.
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Post by shades on Feb 16, 2014 22:09:43 GMT
James Skyes ; ; James shook his head, “he told me to call him Andrew.” The young man spoke softly, not knowing he was causing a rift in the air. David looking at Drew, hand on her leg protectively, holding the girl down from killing someone with her mother. A chair scraped across the floor, Bastian standing up slowly. Normally a parent would be ready to murder, and Bastian would kill the doctor if he could. Yet he also knew Lauren would be seeing red, and his hands moved over to her shoulders; holding the woman down in a calming manner, whispering in her ear, his nose rubbing into her cheek lovingly.
“Keep calm, my love.” Bastian hushed. |
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Post by Maple ♥ on Feb 16, 2014 22:17:24 GMT
Belle Dupree: A hand flew over her mouth, her eyes wide with tears. "Oh my God," she breathed, feeling sick and like she'd just been slapped in the face. Her James. Her friend. Her -ahem- boyfriend. And now his innocent, stripped away from him like a snap of the fingers. God she wanted to throw up.
Drew hissed out, "We need to call the police," her eyes a lit with fire and her breathing heavy and hurting for her baby brother. But Lauren's eyes, they were volcanos of acid.
Not her son. Not her baby. NOT ANOTHER FUCKING ANDREW.
Lauren shot up, ignoring Bastian and moving to the front foyer as quickly as possible, jaw clenched, body rigid, heart seemingly stopped. "What good will the fucking feds do? They never helped me!" she screamed out, stomping into Bastian's office, searching for something, something that could kill someone with one shot. She'd failed to protect her children from what she had gone through in her childhood, and now hell was going to pay for what had happened.
Starting with the fucking doctor.
{Oh shit oh shit} |
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Post by shades on Feb 16, 2014 23:06:03 GMT
James Skyes ; ; Looking away guiltily, “no.” James looked like he was brimming with tears, looking at his mother and sister. His body was quivering and shuddering with unshed tears, not wanting to fight as his father was chasing his wife trying to calm the woman. “No.” James forced more command into his voice, causing some eyes to trail back over him.
“Don’t make me go back.” He begged, clutching his jean with sweaty palms. James now shedding full-on tears, feeling the salty tears falling down his cheeks and his chin. Dripping onto his shirt and jeans.
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Post by Maple ♥ on Feb 16, 2014 23:15:29 GMT
Belle Skyes: Belle's tears began to leak as well, slipping down her heated cheeks as she watched James. He looked so scared. So broken. So damaged. And it broke her heart.
As fast as she could manage, she had him in a hug, scooting their chairs close together so she could do so and began murmuring comforting words to him, trying to help, wanting to help. She had to help him. It was why she was even there, to help James. "You aren't going back, ever. You're safe, I promise you're safe," she told him, the crying making her body shake along with her arms holding onto him. His tears wetted her hair and shirt, but she did not care one bit, just clinging onto him as if, if she let go, he could float away and she would lose him forever.
Drew was cussing up a storm, probably not helping James calm down or the situation.
Lauren was scourging through the mess, throwing things around, messing up Bastian's work; but she didn't care. She was in full death mode, her eyes like daggers and her movements strict and rigid. When Bastian touched her shoulder to stop her she flailed, hitting his hands away from her and throwing more things off of the desks and counters flying into the air. She had to find his gun, the only one she knew of that he kept in his office. Her voice was a growl as she ripped up more papers, loosing her cool for the first time in at least ten years.
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Post by shades on Feb 16, 2014 23:38:06 GMT
James Skyes ; ; James continued to sob into her shoulder, “but I wanted to get better.” He sobbed, closing his eyes and brushing the lashes across her skin. His family’s reactions made him feel loved and want to scream for them to stop. He didn’t noticed David’s darkened eyes, rubbing circles on Drew’s leg. Or her swearing, and the words she was cussing out. Nor did he know where his mother went and father chasing after her.
Bastian was trying to calm his wife, knowing exactly what she was looking for and glad that like any common sensed former government agent he hid it.
Grabbing paperwork after her, separating classes and students work. Damn her making a mess of his school work. |
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Post by Maple ♥ on Feb 16, 2014 23:48:09 GMT
Belle Dupree: Belle gripped onto him tighter, her voice shaking as she cried into his neck. "There's nothing wrong with you James. You're perfect," she told him.
Lauren yowled a bit, throwing more things but she was too worked up to keep searching, breath ragged and loud, tears of her own slipping down her face. She'd failed, she'd failed as a mother. This feeling she was having was similar to the one she had when Drew died. Now, she felt as broken as her sons' innocence.
With a sob, she fell to her knees, crinkling papers and whatever else she'd thrown, hand shaking over her mouth as she rocked back and forth. Images of not only what the doctor did to her baby, but also of memories of her past with her own Andrew flashed through her head and made her cry out again, rather hysterical.
Drew got up, moving away from David's grasp to leave the house and get some fresh air before she hurt someone or something. Duke, old and slow now, got up slowly to follow her out into the night where she smacked her hand angrily on one of the trees in the backyard and held her self, trying not to cry but it sickened her as well to what she'd just found out.
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Post by shades on Feb 17, 2014 0:06:34 GMT
James Skyes ; ; James just continued sobbing, before slipping out of her grasp and towards where his mother and father sat on the floor. Both of them in mourning like he had just died, and maybe he did die; or a part of him did at least. Wiggling a bit, James Skyes wedged himself between the two parents. His arms moved around his mother’s shoulders, feeling his father’s grip around his shoulders. Blue eyes wandered to Belle, feeling the steady drum of his fingers on his mother’s shirt and the wet tears drowning him. Or beginning to at least.
“Mommy, I don’t know what his doing to me means,” poor naïve James. “But I will get better for Belle and you and Drew and David and Dad and Duke.” He had said the most words in a long time. Just for his family. |
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Post by Maple ♥ on Feb 17, 2014 5:29:18 GMT
Belle Dupree: She watched them, mouth quivering and heart hurting. Why did she feel like this happening to him was her fault? Of course it wasn't, but it felt like it. Belle gnawed on her lip unhappily, sad eyes trailing over the hurting family and her broken James.
Lauren pulled her baby into her, sobbing into his neck, chest heaving and hurting with every breath. "Oh my baby, I am so sorry. You're perfect, you don't need to get better," she'd done this. She'd forced him to go to counseling and now she was paying for it. "I am so sorry," she whimpered pathetically, clawing at his back and not wiping away the tears that flowed freely down her cheeks.
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Post by shades on Feb 17, 2014 6:02:11 GMT
James Skyes ; ; Shaking his head pitifully, James just felt more tears slipping into his vision. Looking up to Belle, begging for her arms to join this family hug, feeling his mother’s sobs, and father’s slow circles into his arm comfortingly, one hand of James reached out for the girl. Only when David passed did he realize his sister was missing.
In fact, David was ever slowly approaching behind Drew, his mind reeling with comforting words to say. The only thing coming to mind was, “he’s lucky to have you, even if you weren’t there to help him.”
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Post by Maple ♥ on Feb 17, 2014 6:18:03 GMT
Belle Dupree: Belle saw James outstretched hand towards her and she hesitated. To them, she was just the girl James hung out with and met a few weeks ago still. She didn't know if it was her place to over step the family matter. Biting her lip, her eyes flashed around them all worriedly.
Lauren calme down a bit, still running her fingers over James' shirt and crying softly. When she leaned back, she noticed James opening up to Belle to come to him. The mothers' heart swelled a bit, a bitter sweet moment for her to see. A girl who didn't judge her baby or love him any less because of who he was was here with them, wanting to help and heal things just as much as them. And if Lauren had failed, maybe this girl could keep him afloat for a while until she got back on track. With a sad smile, Lauren waved Belle over to their group hug with a sniffle.
Slowly, Belle followed Lauren's instruction and was soon nuzzling into James with most her body while the other arm wrapped around Lauren's small frame. She sniffled too her hair messy in her face though she didn't care as she pressed close to her broken James. Lauren squeezed the girl as well, bringing Bastian down with them and holding them altogether.
Drew wasn't ready to go back, still fuming. "Why did God make him like this?'" she whirled on David, heart pounding, eyes laced with tears. "How could such an amazing God make someone so imperfect and broken. This would never have happened if he was normal," she growled, crossing her arms over her chest and shuddering at the cold in her heart and against her skin. "It's not fair," she murmured, the tears finally falling. Drew had learned to cry in front of her husband long ago, and now was no exception.
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Post by shades on Feb 17, 2014 6:29:37 GMT
James Skyes ; ; James felt everyone press up against him, a small smile touching his lips and gave them a dimpled smile. But even he knew there had to be two more people in on this hug, and blue eyes roamed desperately, and his body waited patiently for them to join his perfect family circle.
“Because, God won’t create an imperfect being, you’re doubting James. And he won’t thrust something on your brother that he can’t handle,” David replied smoothly, moving to hug the girl in his own arms. “He’s amazing Drew, James is. He can take things so much easily now, just watch him, and you’ll know that his quirks weren’t on purpose. They make him see the world a different way, how God wanted him to see him, and for James do something no normal human being can’t.”
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Post by Maple ♥ on Feb 17, 2014 6:35:07 GMT
{ So emotional :') } Belle Dupree: Drew nuzzled into David, letting him comfort her emotionally exhausted state. "You're always right," she sighed, though there was a slight smile on her lips that he couldn't see. David always brought out the best in her and others, no matter how horrible she was or acted.
{ This makes me wonder - since David keeps his faith, his Drew going to have to start going to church and stuff too?? Hehe! }
Her eyes opened against when she saw her family members over David's shoulder, all hugging and James watching both of them from his inside position. While lacing her fingers into David's, she moved to go back inside and join everyone. Lauren practically dragged her down into the hug, then motioned for David to do the same.
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