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[20:55] <%Damyen> CLICK.
[20:55] <%Damyen> Once again, all of the locks she had in place to keep a certain rotund catgirl away from her just clicked open. The Red Prince pulled on the door to the room of the Manor's resident sinnomancer, and stepped inside, without warning, without a word. He had things to discuss with her, a growing worry, the more he heard the way things were going. He was back to his old tricks, with the lack of his cape -- only, this time, in an en
04[20:55] <%Damyen> semble Pandora had probably never seen, the suit white, the red shirt underneath it. The symbol of ares, manhood itself on his belt buckle.
[20:55] <%Damyen> And he was there, in her room, interrupting whatever the little sin was doing.
04[20:56] <%Damyen> "Pandora."
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01[21:00] <+Pandora> --She'd not moved from her spot, she'd heard her sister call to her, asking her to come out and she hadn't replied, she just stayed there, tears had long ago stopped she had no more, she  curled up in the middle of her bed with that cape wrapped around her, she was falling apart slowly, she was so close to being done with it all.. The door clicked, she should have looked up but what point were lock in a place like this.. He spoke, she didnt respond, just a soft sigh escaping her lips.. annoyance? pleased someone had come? Who knew. She waited, would he just leave?
04[21:05] <%Damyen> He closed the door behind him. "You stupid, stupid girl." He said with a voice that... belied such fondness for her. It was paternal, almost, the way he spoke of Pandora. Caring. Infuriated, yes, with her choices and circumstances, but never with her. "You stupid, stupid girl, look at where that took you." He stepped closer to the bed, the entire room growing warmer by his presence. He sat by the bed, and reached down to cares
[21:06] <%Damyen> s those crimson locks of hers'. "The game isn't fun anymore, is it?"
01[21:11] <+Pandora> --A small, quick chuckle, she couldnt help it, the whole situation was surreal, her a mess and him of all people being the one to come forward, she wasnt sure who to trust anymore at this point.. her voice was raw as she finally spoke.. "I've no idea what you're talking about" she looked to him, the smallest of movemements just so she could see him properly, keep an eye on him.. "You're in white.." just a spoken observation, nothing more
[21:18] <%Damyen> "Sometimes, it befits a man to be a white knight." He sat on her bed, then, leaning back... and reached to the girl. And slowly, very slowly, he pulled her up on his arms, to his chest. He did not force her: the lady of sin had ample opportunities to rebuff him, to pull awya. But should she choose to come, she would soon find herself, still wrapped in his cape, to be pressed to his chest, as he made a bed of himself, for her.
[21:18] <%Damyen> A warm, sheltering bed, a rock, now that Piper was gone. Someone, he supposed, had to be there for her. For that lady of beautiful sin.
01[21:24] <+Pandora> --He began to move her Should she? He'd find it easy, she was only a small thing.. she was so so tired, she tried so hard to keep it together all the time, fighting the Sins, fighting Muse, trying to be Pandora, having fun with her new sister, helping those who needed and asked.. She let him move her, she glady took comfort in resting her head on his chest and listening to his heartbeat, then tugged the cape tighter "You, a white knight.. Where is your stallion? The knight always has a stallion, does he not? To whisk away the princess"
[21:29] <%Damyen> "I left it outside. Riding it into your room would send all sorts of mixed signals, don't you think?" His chest was rising and falling softly. His heartbeat was slow, but each time it beat, it was the world. It send a thrumming vibration through her, soft and soothing. She could feel the colors exhuding from him... his Pride, so much pride. He knew he was the best. His Lust, his desire for everything, his excess. He wanted the
04[21:29] <%Damyen>  world, and he moved to take it. His Envy... who did he envy? No, his Envy was moved to only one person: her. Just her. The fingers slid into her hair, as the knight started to pet his lady, "Do you want me to take you awa, Pan?"
01[21:38] <+Pandora> --She watched the colours, the essence of Sin that she seen as, basically, coloured smoke.. "I used to have a pony, she was called Eos" she whispered as she closed her eyes, the steady beat of his heart making her relax her hair being touched helping ease her further, did she want to be taken away from here? The people she cared for, who she seen as friends no matter what they thought of her "Where to, Damyen? Where could I possibly go?" her voice was still soft, not as raw as when he first entered but still.. not right.
[21:46] <%Damyen> "I could take you to my own manor. It is in Rome, Italy... well. I have a few properties around the world. But that... that is Home." And most of them were gone. When he ceased to exist, so did his name in all official documents. Only those of his daughters who had means of their own, and his servants with mystical connections to him (which, were one to look at his connections in the Manor, did involve most of them) remained a
04[21:46] <%Damyen> s his belongings. It was sad case, but this was not the place for his own sorrow, but for him to aid Pandora's. "I could take you away from his place, if you want. All you need to do is to say the word, Pan. Or I will just hold you, here, throughout the night." He gave her a squeeze. A fond, warm squeeze. "... I am no longer leaving you alone."
01[21:56] <+Pandora> --A real chance to leave.. Hadn't she been saying she wanted to leave, but what of Moon.. Dear dear Moon who she promised she'd take away from here "I-I've been to Italy, once before.. It was a beautiful place" she sighed "But.." she looked up at him with a small smile "I can't take you up on that offer, not right now at least.. " a small sigh "You don't have to stay though Damyen, I'll be fine, you were right, I'm stupid but I'll be fine"
04[22:02] <%Damyen> "Pan. I was dead, when I looked into your eyes, and saw the pain. I returned, and Jake asked me about Karie. I looked into your eyes, then, if you will recall, and saw the same pain. Throughout, Pandora, I have asked you, with as much sublety as I can manage, for you to tell me how you are feeling. Now, if you excuse me: fuck sublety." She looked up at him, and he looked down... and the way he looked down. The shine of his eye
[22:02] <%Damyen> s, the way he looked at her like... she was safe. The tingling all over her skin, a moment of warmth, pulling her closer, making her curl up a bit against him, as if his cape formed a coccoon. "The idiot hurt you. I KNOW the idiot hurt you. You will not be fine because you are also being an idiot. And it seems nobody but me can see how much."
[22:02] <%Damyen> "If he was not so important to you I would have skewered him during our duel, you know? For hurting something I care about."
01[22:10] <+Pandora> --She closed her traitorous eyes, windows to the soul indeed.. even hers was questionable at best.. she curled up closer to him, trying to simply bury herself, hide away from his words, words that were so true and so painful, hide away from the whole situation, it was better when she was numb.. she didn't want to feel 1the pain again, she didnt want to break.. but even through all this, knowing SHE was the one who was getting hurt.. "He didn't mean to.. He's.. He's going through things.. Wrath.. Wrath is confusing him" she whispered against his chest
04[22:17] <%Damyen> "Yes, he is going through things. Do you remember when we first met, Pandora? I had Caolan wanting my attention, tugging on my sleeve. I had Jake attemtpting to duel me. And yet, all the time, I had my eyes on you, avoiding both to have our first talk, as you said... hah. As you said I was bad for a woman's sanity. You were right, by the way." He laughed, it was soft, and full of a... sad mirth. "And then, when we met later, a
[22:17] <%Damyen> nd I brushed a room aside, to offer you the lessons. To tease you, to push you, to make you learn. I died, and my dreams were with you. I came back, and I saved you, in a room full of those who wished me back. I brought the cheer and delight back to the manor... and you remember where you were? The one girl on my lap, when that happened."
[22:17] <%Damyen> "I died and came back. I fought and juggled all this madness. Now let me ask you: Did you ever cease to be the one I looked at, throughout this?"
01[22:26] <+Pandora> "I-I.." she frowned, her eyes open once more as she curled up against him "I also tried to stab you.." her rage fueled attempted to slit his throat when he'd called her Muse, just before he'd offered her those lessons "And I'm starting to think most men here are bad for the sanity of women" she sighed "When you died I was so lost, don't get me wrong, you're still an asshole but.. You'd done this to me, you'd let the Sins out and,, and you went and left me in an attempt to be something you're not.. You left them all, they were so sad" so easily distracted by the pain of others, she was..
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04[22:32] <%Damyen> "What did my note read, Pan, dear Pan? We are *both* fools. We are such, such fools. I thought... I thought. Well. You heard it already. You know it already. I was a fool." He looked away, both of them looking away... and then. And then , he looked back to her, reached to her face, thumb brushing her lips, looking into her eyes once again. "... but I am candid about it. I let the world know I am a fool. You hide it in. You hid
[22:32] <%Damyen> e it inside, and when your heart breaks, it just keeps shattering, the pieces scattering not out, but in. Ripping into your soul. Cutting, cutting, cutting. I can feel it. Not with powers, not with magic. I can feel it just by looking at you."
[22:32] <%Damyen> "..."
[22:32] <%Damyen> "... it's alright, you know?" He says, of something that may not yet be apparent.
01[22:41] <+Pandora> --She watched him, searched his face.. She always felt like she was a step behind when it came to him "they will think I'm weak.." tears were burning behind her eyes but she wouldn't cry..  she'd try to hold them back "I don't want to be weak, Damyen.. I'm supposed to be strong and.. and...." she dropped her gaze "nothing is ever alright" she whispers softly "no one gets a happily ever after.. Just pain.. we may get a small break but it all ultimately ends in shattered hearts and damaged souls.." 
4[22:48] <%Damyen> "No. No. You see, this is wrong. I died, Pan, because I did not want to cry. Because I did not want to be weak. I wanted godhood, to erase this from my heart. This love, this weakness, from the woman that toyed with my heart here, from the women who depended on me and whose love softened me. I wanted this 'strength'. This 'strength' is a lie. A lie told to you by those you cannot trust." He leaned closer, brushing his lips ove
04[22:48] <%Damyen> r her forehead, and planting a kiss. Brushing them lower, over her ear... "Cry. Cry for me, and I will never think less of you, Pandora. Not me, nor Zoe, and if anyone ever does, we will put them in their place. To open your heart is not weakness."
04[22:48] <%Damyen> "It is the bravest, strongest thing you can do. Trust me, Pandora."
[22:48] <%Damyen> "Let it go."
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01[22:56] <+Pandora> --She tightened her grip on his shirt, no.. She wouldn't.. she swallowed back the lump in her throat, her eyes were burning.. and she spoke, her voice that of a woman who was tired, broken.. shattered "I-it was because of hope.." she whispered "Wh.. When everything else.." she closed her eyes and took a shaky breath before opening them again and looking at him "when everything has been unleashed, from the jar, the box... All that was locked inside was Hope.." and a tear slid down her cheek, her voice started to break "I had so much Hope, Dammy.. so much of it.. I'd let go of the bad things, I'd unleashed Hell on people and once I was free I had hope" tears seeming to flow freely down her face now as she told him why she named herself Pandora, she couldn't stop them "I don't even have that anymore"
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04[23:11] <%Damyen> "In the end, all that was left is Hope." She called him Dammy... and she could hear his heart skipping a beat. It was cute. It was so cute, and reminded him... it reminded him of his daughter. Of a woman that was much like Pandora, sweet and self-assured, holding her emotions so deep inside. Locked in, like Pandora's box. And then all the evils started flowing, with each tear. "Even when all the Sins run rampant through this w
[23:11] <%Damyen> orld. You are a poet, my little Dora..." His hand continued to run down her hair, he continued to hold her against his chest. He did not do anything else, for the moment. Letting the tears flow. "It's alright..."
01[23:20] <+Pandora> --She shook her head against his chest, his scent was becoming comforting to her, the skip of his heart not lost on her even in her state. "It's not alright" she sobbed, the pain ripping through her all over again, it wasnt alright, her heart was shattered by two beings within one form, he'd hurt her in everyway possible, mentally, spiritually..physically.. and with each tear that stained his shirt her heart splintered and cut her "I don't know what to do.." she confessed to him between sobs "I dont know how to make it stop" if she could have disappeared against his form she would have for how tightly she gripped him
[23:28] <%Damyen> He lifted her face... and then he kissed her. He kissed her full on the lips... the sort of kiss that he had given her before, but only in a dream. A kiss of passion, and delight. A kiss that made the entirety of her body appear to disappear, as her toes curled and ceased to matter, as his tongues danced with hers', as both of them tasted the salt of her tears. He gave her what hope he could, then. That this was real. He pulle
[23:28] <%Damyen> d her to him, one arm around her, the other holding her hair... soon he was rolling in bed with her, holding to her, her entire self disappearing that warm body of his', as both of them drank of her tears and danced with each other's lips and tongues, a dance that made the world disappear, all that existed was that, everything in existence was the touch of their lips, just that, and nothing more.
01[23:39] <+Pandora> --It took her a moment, longer than he was probably used to, for her to even realise what was going on, then her brain and body simply refused to cooperate with what she wanted.. what she wanted? To break the kiss, move away from him, another man that could break her.. What she did? Something stupid.. She moved her arms around him, holding him, pulling him closer even though they were so close already, the heat of him reaching her very core, she kissed him back, poured her entire being into that kiss, her hopes her dreams her fears, she gave her all for this moment, this once she wouldn't fight it, it was simply a kiss, a kiss that showed him her soul and all that she was
04[23:47] <%Damyen> Something so stupid. Neither of them should be doing this. How many people would be hurt? ... well, not his people, since his girls would be ecstastic to have a new sister. But Karie, Jacob, Pandora herself. So many that could be hurt, and yet, in that moment, he did not even _care_, it was all for that moment, all for that long-delayed, intense kiss between the master and student, between the Sin and the God, as they rolled i
[23:47] <%Damyen> nto the bed, and when be broke that, he was stop of her, caressing her hair... how long had it been? Even he, Damyen, was breathless was the kiss broke, panting with her, it had been so long, so long. He touched her now, in a possessive, passionate sense... and he whispered the only words that made sense, and the words that would break her even further. "I love you." The words he did not want to speak, in the manor. The ones t
[23:47] <%Damyen> hat were betrayed, to the first he had spoken them to. The words that were the most shattering hope and the most elating sorrow.
01[23:55] <+Pandora> --And there it was.. The kiss broken, by him? She should be thankful, she was to a extent, her heart hammered against her chest, she felt like she was gasping for breath, it was.. diffferent than Jake or Wrath.. It was, more? And then he went and spoke.. her world froze in place. Her heart stopped, or so it felt like and her blood turned to ice.. No, not again.. "No.." she started at him in horror, she'd heard those words only a few nights before and they had broken her.. And now.. "No.." she whispered
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[00:03] <%Damyen> "If you feel hopeless, I will be there to light up your Hope." His lips touched hers' again, soft, loving, not that passionate kiss, but more... something lighter, loving... it rose to passion... and broke again with a smack. "If you feel numb, I will be here to fill you with sensation." All around her, that wamrth, that /feeling/, the man was atop of her, his scent, his cape, curled up against her, his lips pressing to hers'
[00:03] <%Damyen> again... "If you are helpless, I will hold you up."
1[00:09] <+Pandora> --She didn't know what to do, she couldn't move, was she breathing? She must be. She watched  him, his eyes, his face.. she felt him in every way possible.. "I won't be yours, Damyen" she whispers "I can't.." how easy it would be to just roll over and let someone else take control but.. thats not who she was, broken, possibly beyond being fully repaired? Yes but she wasn't property, not anymore.. "I won't.. I can't.." she couldn't form the words, she couldn't explain herself. His care was touching, addictive almost but.. She couldn't bow to him..
[00:10] <%Damyen> "Why not?" He whispered, as he looked down at her... atop of her, holding her body... his own snuggling up to her so... "Why not?"
01[00:16] <+Pandora> --she tried to block it out, the feeling of him against her, she just watched him, not breaking eye contact, hers a swirling mass of colours meeting his red.. "I.." how to explain "We should only have one person, Dammy.. Two people who are each others everything.." Was it to do with Greed or Envy? Or was how she was raised, a man and his wife, just those two and their undying love for each other, thats what she wanted, other people could do as they wish it didn't mean she had to change what she wanted "Just two.."
04[00:23] <%Damyen> "My girls are to me everything. My girls are to me the sun, moon, and stars. And you, Pandora..." He pilled back, touching her heart. "You are worth the world." He did not use his authority. He did not pull on her blood. He just left his hand there, listening to her heartbeat... looking into her eyes. "Do you still want me, like you have, from the moment you first heard of me?"
01[00:32] <+Pandora> "They may be, you treat each and every one like they are the only person, I've seen it.. Admired it, even. How you do it.." she watched him, felt him placing a hand over her pounding heart, she moved a little, bringing her hand up and gently placing it to his cheek "You're asking me what I want? I don't know, not really. All I do know is that I can't be part of.. "your girls", that is not something I can do.." she sighed, stroking his cheek softly "To say I don't want you.. It would be a lie, but I have more control than to simply bend to your will.. If you have changed, if you respect me at all, Damyen, you won't force something upon me that I don't want to be part of."
[00:40] <%Damyen> "Then just see it. From up close. And know the door..." He leaned closer, kissing her again. Once again, those delightful kisses, that desire to extinguish the world and everything on it. Just the two of them, rolling in bed, holding to one-another and loving one-another... just the two she wanted. Just a moment shared by two broken fools in a world that could just disappear around them. "... the door will always be open to yo
[00:40] <%Damyen> u." He whispered, between the kisses. There was a certain despair to it, like a moment before death. Before it all breaks... and when it broke again, she was ontop of him, curled up in that cape, which by now was a mess, crumpled up and tear-stained, aglow with their warmth...
01[00:50] <+Pandora> --She was stupid, how can you tell someone you wouldn't bend to their will and then go ahead and enjoy them kissing you, the touch, moving with them.. moving against him, it felt right, in an odd way.. he spoke.. she heard him.. and then she was settled back on his chest, for the first time today she was actually starting to care how much of a mess she looked but, not much she could do about that "It's a door that I won't walk through, Dammy.  I've told you what I want.. I won't change" she pulled his cape around her once more curling up to him her small frame seeming smaller against his much larger one "Just two people, forever, thats my happily ever after"
[00:58] <%Damyen> He held her close. He held her so warmly and snuggly against his chest. How did he do this? Not even he would know, how he moved from that passionate lovemaking into something else entirely... something soft, sweet, the way he caressed her hair, the way he held her against his chest. "We will see, won't we? We will see." He whispered to her, leaving a kiss on her forehead, and the softest of whispers to her. "But either way, P
[00:58] <%Damyen> andora... either way, my sin, my wonderful, delightful sin... there is hope. There is a world of hope, out there, and so many who want you."
[00:58] <%Damyen> "And I will hold you, here, until you find that hope again."
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01[01:08] <+Pandora> --She smiled, the first real smile she had today, this whole thing was, strange, amazing but strange.. "I want to have hope.. It's a life line for me, you know" she chuckled "Prince, I think you're getting soft in your old age, you know that, right?" she shakes her head against him "Thank you, for this,, For seeing I was hurt, for helping.."
[01:15] <%Damyen> "And if anyone else tries to hurt you like Jacob did, I WILL hurt them. I will break them. You are under my protection now." He tells her, as he runs a hand through her hair... "You can always come to me. Tell me, to whisper to me, my little sin. And I will hear you. I will always know, as I have known this time, so there is no use in not saying it..." Hs touch was soft, causing her entire body to grow numb, it was not just pe
[01:15] <%Damyen> tting, it was a soft, soft massage to that lady, so sweet curled up over him. The one who had just acted as his lover, and now acted as his daughter, he, who was as her lover, and as her father. Nothing in the manor was normal, after all, and the relationship of sin and blood could be no less strange.
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01[01:24] <+Pandora> --She nodded, slowly, chewing her lip, she felt less.. broken.. more like herself, who she wanted to be, she was content.. but her mind still raced, he'd say he would be there, he'd protect her, she couldn't think of another more totally capable of doing exactly that.. He said she could go to him "Damyen.. I still want to help him.. Both of them.." she lowered her voice, whispering now "I want to help Jake and Wrath"  even though both Jake and Wrath had hurt her in so many ways, she still couldn't stop herself wanting to help
[01:34] <%Damyen> "Well. Yes. Of course you do." He said as he caressed her, that little girl, that girl that had been walking around with his coat all over the Manor. She already had his colors, and she already had his protection. Whether or not she ever realized it. "We _have_ throughouly established you are a complete and total idiot. We did it. With maths. And graphs."
[01:34] <%Damyen> "Do you want a peer review?"
01[01:39] <+Pandora> -She frowns "Just because you've been nice to me don't think I wont punch you" she grinned then, nothing quite like teasing someone who could end you with a snap of his fingers "I promised I'd help, I keep my word, no matter what.. Will you help?" she idly draws patterns with her finger on his covered chest "You don't have to, I just.. I'd like back up, if I'm honest"
4[01:45] <%Damyen> "I told you I would help. You are my little girl, now, and I will keep protecting my little girl, Pan." Beat. "Until the day she is slightly less of an idiot. Maybe that day, who knows. I will be slightly less of an asshole." A chuckle. A soft chuckle, and he leans in, kisses over her lips, her cheek... her neck, where he suckled in air, and left a little hickey. A little mark, for her to remember that... "... you are not alon
[01:45] <%Damyen> e."
01[01:52] <+Pandora> --She shudders as he kisses her, her eyes closing, moving for him, giving him better access.. damn treacherous body.. a soft growl at the back of her throat.. "Did.. Did you just.. mark me?" she shakes her head "I don't think I'll ever be less of an idiot and even if I was you'd never be any less of an asshole" she smiles "But it's nice to not be alone, I don't like being alone much"
[01:54] <%Damyen> "I did not leave a mark on your throat, you are not an idiot, you are ugly and terrible, your eyes are the worst thing in the world to look at, Zoe loves cocks, Caolan is an alpha male, the sky is green, and everything I just said is true, or I am the greatest of all assholes." He whispered to her, giving her a... squeeze. A soft, loving squeeze. His eyes twinkled, wicked, as he looked into hers'. "Never alone."
01[01:59] <+Pandora> --She giggles "Sometimes.. You're actually tolerable" she pokes him gently "never thought I'd go from trying to slit someones throat to being.." she looked them both over, damn she was tiny compared to him, must have been why she failed in that said slitting incident, yeh.. ".. curled up on his chest" she shrugs
[02:03] <%Damyen> "It feels good, doesn't it?" He whispers on her ear, nuzzling it. He was like a lover, then and there. Accepting.
01[02:06] <+Pandora> "mmm.. huh.. what?" why was he so distracting "the being curled up? Yeh, it does.. It's nice.." she sighs raising a brow "stop trying to eat me"
[02:09] <%Damyen> "Nom." He moved, kissed her lips again, then pulled her lower lip when he was done, like he was /trying/ to eat her! "Omnomnom. Delicious sin. Tastes like purity."
01[02:11] <+Pandora> --she laughs and shoves him gently "get off you fool" smiling brightly at him "As yummy as Sin may be you're not to eat it, it'll wreak havoc on your insides" she pokes his nose "No eating me"
[02:22] <%Damyen> "No, no, see, I act like a father here!" He chuckles, a soft sound, squeezing her, "If you start being all motherly, it messes everything up!"
01[02:26] <+Pandora> --She chuckles and shakes her head "Thats all kinds of messed up" she lays back against him, covering a small yawn.. "Dammy.." she whispers.. "Would you stay with me.. Until I fall asleep?" she snuggles against him, pulling the cape tighter around her form
04[02:28] <%Damyen> "... yes." He says, and he went back to petting her, softly. Helping her face to use his chest as a pillow, his heartbeat like the sound of th waves, soothing and constant. "Today, and all days you need me, my little sin..." And, so, he did. And the last memories Pan would have of this night would be, of his warm hand, of his heartbeat, and of the soft lullaby he sung her as she slept. A little tune, a simple tune, filled with
[02:28] <%Damyen>  the one thing that made that girl what she is:
[02:28] <%Damyen> Hope.
01[02:30] <+Pandora> (~Wipes a tear from eye and then claps~ <3 )
[02:31] <%Damyen> ~Fin~