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Rachel Caustello ([personal profile] thecutdiamond) wrote in [community profile] sixwordstories2013-02-13 01:26 am
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 "It's fine. I can get up."
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[personal profile] dum_spiro_servio 2013-02-13 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
"No doubt you can, m'lady." And yet he is Here and he is not going to just stand there idly while she struggled with her crutches. So he leans in closer to her and offers a hand to help her get back on her feet. The fact that he's holding one of her crutches hostage with his other hand might have made her feel more inclined to accept his offer.
belowcastle: (you rang)

[personal profile] belowcastle 2013-02-13 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Naturally, Lady." He may be a Club, but any decent human being (much less a butler) would offer the fallen an arm. Thinking better of the lady's pride, he hands her the escaped crutches instead so she can choose her method.
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Doubles!

[personal profile] threecardmonty 2013-02-13 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Reckon you can at that, Lady Rachel, but my mama would whup me if I didn't offer you an arm."
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[personal profile] allthesamemask 2013-02-13 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Leigh is sure she can. She's just making sure Rachel has help anyway in the form of a girl to lean on.

Grown ups. Honestly.
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[personal profile] belowcastle 2013-02-13 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"My pleasure, ma'am," the last word sounding more like mum than ma'am. "Nearly fell myself if not for a handy column." Gideon scans the ground for anything the lady may have been carrying.

"Perhaps you can direct me? I'm not familiar with this part of Diamond Castle. I fear I may have taken a wrong turn."
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[personal profile] threecardmonty 2013-02-13 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Never said it was needed, only that it was mannerly." She's a former queen--and a Diamond. She'd never let herself appear weak (even if no one would think that of her). Sheer force of will wouldn't allow her to accept the help.

Couldn't blame her none. He'd been cantankerous and mule-headed himself when he'd been injured. "That one wasn't as bad as the one the other night. Think we'll have an aftershock?"
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[personal profile] isadisease 2013-02-14 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
There's a sigh tickling the back of his throat, begging to be let out but is denied. Archie knows this type, has been married to one a long time ago - smart and independent, strong and beautiful, and so hell-bent on doing everything herself that it can drive a man to distraction.

"Yes. You know you can and I know you can, too, but allow me anyway." Picking up her crutches, he crouches down and extends his free hand. Now is not the time for misplaced pride. Here's a man who has seen all the faces of pain and although Rachel is hiding it quite well, she'd have to get a lot better to hide the small treacherous signs of discomfort from this Spade.

"Please, for my fragile male ego's sake?"
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[personal profile] threecardmonty 2013-02-14 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Hope she won't object if he picks up the items she'd been carrying. Common politeness.

"Hard on the horses," he observes as he hands them back. "They're not used to the ground moving under 'em." It'll be another night spent sleeping in his office so he can stay close to them.
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[personal profile] belowcastle 2013-02-14 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm looking for the library. Someone in the kitchen directed me, but I got turned around."

He'd do his research on bachelor parties where the news wouldn't get back to Master Taccetta. It wouldn't do for him to learn exactly how out of water Gideon was when it came to these matters.
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[personal profile] lowtohigh 2013-02-14 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Of course it's fine. Of course Rachel can get up. And of course Eileen wants to respect her aunt's wishes. It's important to let her reclaim herself, after all, her own competence.

But she can only hold herself back so long. She can at least get the crutches ready, right?
dum_spiro_servio: (I don't know how it happened.)

[personal profile] dum_spiro_servio 2013-02-14 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
He inclined his head but otherwise said nothing. Only offered her the crutch he had picked up for her once she had regained her balance.

"Ought you be wandering around alone, m'lady?"
allthesamemask: (tell me if it is worth this; I know not)

[personal profile] allthesamemask 2013-02-14 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
She'll still insist on helping Rachel back to said quarters. "Maybe you oughtn't go outta the castle for a while." No walls to lean on when tremors came.
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[personal profile] lowtohigh 2013-02-14 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It's hard not helping. Hard to hold be stabilizing crutches and not reaching to cling or pull or take weight.

But it's how she's been raised, in many ways. You have to let people do the really important things on their own, support them with love and not by doing it for them. This is how Rachel's going to get better.

It doesn't mean the teen won't be latching on for a hug once her aunt it upright again. "Really all right?"

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