The 17th Sundrop

[tangledintower]

Oohhh...I've got this weird headache, for some reason...like there was something heavy there or something. I don't know...what was I doing yesterday? I don't really remember anything.

I hope I didn't hit my head...that would explain the headache, though. Ohh, these weird odd days...I don't like not remembering things!

...wait, I remember one thing. Something about an otter and a lot of puns involving an otter. But that's it...Odd.

Oh well! Must not have been anything important.

[PRIVATE TO FLYNN RIDER//UNHACKABLE BY SHEER ACCIDENT]

...Eugene...?

...Uh...well, I was wondering...could I talk to you? I sort of miss talking to you...

And, well...I know that the last time we talked, things didn't really go too well...but things can't get better if we don't talk...right...?

Comments

[private to Flynn] because apparently saying it's private to myself is implied.

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

Chris is my friend, Eugene. So are you. I don't see why I can't talk to both of you.

[private] her thoughts are so private, even she doesn't know about them?

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

[This is Eugene putting on his big boy pants. And then being sad.]

I thought we weren't friends anymore.

Re: [private] her thoughts are so private, even she doesn't know about them?

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

[She's quiet for a moment.]

...I never meant that.

...I was mad at you. I never wanted to stop being your friend, Eugene...I was just mad you lied to me. I...can understand its hard to go completely cold turkey, but I just wish you hadn't lied...

[private]

[brokemysmolder.livejournal.com]

[It would be so much easier if she was mad at him for stealing. Stealing he could promise to never do again, and it would be hard but he could do it he, he knows he could, for her.

But he can't promise not to lie. A lie of omission is still a lie.

Should he tell her the truth, that she is the Lost Princess? That the woman who raised her is not her mother but her kidnapper? How would she react? What would she feel? What good would it do, with neither of her mothers present? No chance to confront Gothel, or to get to know her real parents. It would only hurt her.

He can't tell her, even though it means lying to her. Better for her to live a lie than suffer that pain.]

I'm sorry.

[For everything she knows, and even more for everything she doesn't.]

[private]

[tangledintower.livejournal.com]

I forgive you. I...well, I'm learning a lot here...and I guess that sometimes lying happens. I don't like it...but it's one of those things sometimes people have to do...right?

[She bites her lip a bit. She's trying, Flynn, she really is...the world outside the tower is strange, the world of social interactions is strange...but she wants to fit in. And she knows that maybe, sometimes lying happens.]

I guess I overreacted a bit.

...I missed talking to you, Eugene...