Re: The Double (PG-13)
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:20 am
Such a wonderful story! It's good to see Beth realize that she was being bitchy...and better yet, apologizing when needed. Loved it!
That's our girl - alert and infinitely curious about Josef's date. But she realizes quickly that there's more there than she knows:Beth, on the other hand, perched on the edge of her chair, feet braced against the legs like a runner in the starting blocks.
And gets angry:Mick stood, as they approached, eyeing Josef’s companion with altogether too much appreciation.
Lucky, with her odd name, was an old friend of Mick’s, was she? She thought about what Mick had told her about Josef and his rules about getting emotionally involved with humans, and what he had never been willing to tell her about how he’d kept himself supplied with blood, all these years. “I get most of my blood from a blood bank,” he’d said. Not all, just…most. Suddenly it seemed that maybe Josef had brought along someone who knew Mick much, much better than anyone was saying, and she was the only one not in on the big joke.
Not completely sure this is BETH'S fault.“Ms. Turner, I know you don’t like freshies, but I’ll tell you this. At least I feed my vampire.”
Mick was the only one who saw how Lucky’s hands shook as she put her napkin on the table, draping it with elegant, practiced folds,
Luckily, Beth is as quick with her apologies as she is with her temper.Beth threw her own napkin on the table in an abrupt, graceless move, and rose.
Ouch.And maybe I’m oversensitive, but you wouldn’t believe the snide remarks I get, because of my choices. I really don’t need more of it, coming from someone who ought to understand.”
Just an excellent piece all around!Josef, surrounding Lucky, placed himself between her and the rest of the world. Mick, supported by Beth, reached out to the world through her.