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*laughs*

You think?

More like 'I know.'

What- what was it that you bargined for Marni?

What was it?

No- I'm sorry... I shouldn't ask.... Its far gone whatever it was.

Edited 2008-12-30 02:38 (UTC)

Something like the world on a string.

That certainly worked out.

*laughs bitterly*

Yes- yes it did... *begins to sing quietly*
I'll give you stars and the moon
(<i>I'll give you stars and the moon and the soul that I do... and the promise I'll never go</i>)....

that really ended well for us all.

All I want to know- What I should've asked... why?

Because we were young, and we were stupid.

I was, anyway.

*frowns*

You shouldn't have been *ah.. old angers*

I signed that contract because you weren't there. I am here because of you.

Marni- I let you have him- I gave him to you with my blessing... he was never mine. But- that doesn't mean you should have left Rotti to take him. None of us would be here if you had just...

I'm sorry- I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that.
Forgive me Marni.

No, don't. I deserve to hear it. I made you - everyone - give up a lot for the sake of my own happiness.

I care for you Marni- I care for you as much as I care for Nathan, Shilo, Rotti. I have only wanted what was best for you.

But I didn't understand, I didn't know.

All we wanted was for you to be happy.

Thanks, Mag.

I know you did.

...

Shilo, honey?

...Mom.

Wh- what's wrong?

Nothing.

Everything.

Those are hardly the same thing.

Mom. What am I gonna do?

Keep your head down, but your eyes open.

*steps forward to hug her* It'll turn out alright. Like they say - it's always darkest just before the dawn.

...I love you, Mom.

I love you, too.

*stops cold* Please go away.

*dryly* You might as well get used to it.

*the sound of her voice makes his chest tight and hurting. He wants absolutely nothing more then to savor her. Drown there.*

You were always so stubborn. *there's no malice in his tone, there's even a playfulness there*

I'm sorry. *flinches for the first time while saying it and again for the first time hates himself for quitting* I'm done now.

*and she sighs, perhaps a little pointedly, but somewhere between affection and frustration*

You're just as bad as me.

*a quick smile, wry more than truly happy, and she reaches out to very, very gently touch his cheek*

Don't apologize to me. If - if you think you can make it work? You don't have to.

*staring hard into a corner, until her fingers brush his cheek and he looks over at her*

Marry me, Marni Frazer. I love you. I love you. I love you...now and always. Only. *shutting his eyes and putting his forehead to hers*

I can't. I'm leaving a city to drown. I'm putting Shilo's life in danger, Mag's...who knows how many other people...

He'll make them pay to hurt me...but I can't... *chokes out a sob* She was a little girl...like Shilo...and I... what have I become? This isn't the man you married. He would have...

I was never the man you deserved.

I was always yours ... *bites her lower lip, closing her eyes*

If it's what you have to do to pull yourself together? Then it's worth it. Mag - Shilo needs you. You're no good to her dead, and I - I can't do anything for her.

Nathan - there are consequences for everything. Sometimes - sometimes you have to accept that. You are the man I married. I love you. You're perfect. I wouldn't ask for you to change.

... I was never the woman you deserved. But - make me proud.

Make her - make Shilo proud of you. She loves you, just as much as I do.

*hands on his wife's waist, fingers touching her stomach like he did every day for nine months*

*drowning in her words, forehead to forehead as he listens- he memorized every word she ever said to him, and there's a small believing smile when she calls him husband*

You were then and will always be the woman I want. There's no other. *still with his eyes closed* Kiss me?

OOC: I bow before you. That is all.

You had every chance to remedy it.

Don't think that's entirely true.

It didn't have to end this way. You were mine.

Shilo should have been mine. I was going to leave him GeneCo. *looks at her, softly* Oh Marni, I think I could have forgiven you..had you not fled.

She's Nathan and I's daughter, and that's the way it should be. I - I'm not object you could trade around, not like the organs you sell to people every day.

If you never forgave me, fine. I'll accept that blame, but you can't - you have to let him go. He didn't do anything from you - didn't steal me. I made the choice, not him.

*there's a flash of anger but how do you hurt a ghost?*

Marni. Everything is traded around. People especially so. You both had the world at your feet. Didn't I give you everything? Didn't I give him everything? We were a family and you both were too selfish to be realize what would happen...

*livid* You both made the choice. You both walked away. You both pay. I will not be betrayed.

*there's a mix of emotions on her face - love is love, and she didn't leave because she didn't love him*

I - little green pieces of paper being moved around, I can deal with. But - people? They aren't pieces on a gameboard, none of us has the right to play God.

Rotti, I - I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I did, for how I did it.

But please.

Please, forgive him.

*just not enough*

*staring at her in something like confusion* You never understood. They are. *looks away at her apologies* I forgave you a long time ago.

*it's simple enough isn't it* That's why you are where you are instead of with him.

He loved you so much he thought he could handle whatever came. "As long as he had you." Well, he had you. Now he pays. *sneers* You? You disgust me.