Justifications: AS/MB [9/10]
Title: Justifications
Author: Royalty25
Rating: PG-13
Prompt Set: 100.2
Prompt: #45 Fade for 100quills
Word Count: 425
Summary: Alicia makes a decision
Disclaimer: These characters are never mine.
Warnings: N/A
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The more Alicia lingered on her feelings, the angrier she became. The week was almost ending and Miles' actions weren't making her feel better. She thought they would, but they weren't believable. In her mind everything he did was shallow, unimportant and worse of all fake. On Saturday she decided to invite him over to her apartment. She needed to find out for certain whether or not he had learned from his mistakes. She knew she was setting him up to fail, but she didn't care.
"What did you want to talk to me about?"
"I've been having a hard time accepting all the nice things you've been doing for me this week. Miles, I love you, but actions in a week can't make up for betrayal lasting longer than that."
"What else do you want from me?"
"How long were you seeing Marietta behind my back?"
"I don't think you want to know the answer to that."
"I wouldn't be asking if I didn't."
"Only a few months."
"Great, so you've made my point. How can a week worth of nice gestures make up for that? Please enlighten me because I can't see it. I don't know how it's possible."
"Again I repeat my question. What do you want from me?"
"I was going to trick you into embarrassing yourself, but that wouldn't teach you a lesson. I was going to ask you to demean yourself, but that's not who I am..."
Miles didn't like where this was going. He had a feeling it would come to this, but he was avoiding the day, ignoring the truth that he couldn't make up for what he did. He felt like a fool. He regretted his actions and blamed himself, but he knew that he wouldn't change anything. Yes, this meant he would still lose Alicia's trust and find himself in his current predicament. Strangely enough the reason he wouldn't change his actions wasn't due to pride but because he knew deep down that it spoke to the true nature of who he was. Yes, he could change that about himself, but he didn't know if he was ready to.
"It's over. I don't want to see you anymore. Nothing you can say or do will change my mind this time. Have a good life. I don't care if it's alone, with Marietta or someone else. Resign yourself to the fact it won't be with me. That's all I can ask you to do. It's obvious to me that our love has long since faded away."
Author: Royalty25
Rating: PG-13
Prompt Set: 100.2
Prompt: #45 Fade for 100quills
Word Count: 425
Summary: Alicia makes a decision
Disclaimer: These characters are never mine.
Warnings: N/A
Previous: one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight |
The more Alicia lingered on her feelings, the angrier she became. The week was almost ending and Miles' actions weren't making her feel better. She thought they would, but they weren't believable. In her mind everything he did was shallow, unimportant and worse of all fake. On Saturday she decided to invite him over to her apartment. She needed to find out for certain whether or not he had learned from his mistakes. She knew she was setting him up to fail, but she didn't care.
"What did you want to talk to me about?"
"I've been having a hard time accepting all the nice things you've been doing for me this week. Miles, I love you, but actions in a week can't make up for betrayal lasting longer than that."
"What else do you want from me?"
"How long were you seeing Marietta behind my back?"
"I don't think you want to know the answer to that."
"I wouldn't be asking if I didn't."
"Only a few months."
"Great, so you've made my point. How can a week worth of nice gestures make up for that? Please enlighten me because I can't see it. I don't know how it's possible."
"Again I repeat my question. What do you want from me?"
"I was going to trick you into embarrassing yourself, but that wouldn't teach you a lesson. I was going to ask you to demean yourself, but that's not who I am..."
Miles didn't like where this was going. He had a feeling it would come to this, but he was avoiding the day, ignoring the truth that he couldn't make up for what he did. He felt like a fool. He regretted his actions and blamed himself, but he knew that he wouldn't change anything. Yes, this meant he would still lose Alicia's trust and find himself in his current predicament. Strangely enough the reason he wouldn't change his actions wasn't due to pride but because he knew deep down that it spoke to the true nature of who he was. Yes, he could change that about himself, but he didn't know if he was ready to.
"It's over. I don't want to see you anymore. Nothing you can say or do will change my mind this time. Have a good life. I don't care if it's alone, with Marietta or someone else. Resign yourself to the fact it won't be with me. That's all I can ask you to do. It's obvious to me that our love has long since faded away."