It’s undoubtedly challenging for one like him to just share a couple hours of idleness with someone. To let thoughts drift and all sans intention to scheme. But it’s also nice, being a simple guy in this fucked up, vast world instead of its final punishment in person. Needless to say, being alone with thoughts revolving around all the things wrong with his own history scares him, sometimes. Michael wonders if Katherine feels the same. Keeps it to himself, though. Because just like him, she’s a ticking timebomb and really, he doesn’t want to ruin the moment.
Were it with anyone else, he wouldn’t care.
❛ You do have a point there. I know a lot of wealthy folks and looking behind the facade, few of them are actually happy.❜ The shrug of one shoulder is subtle, his attention now nowhere with shut eyes. Seeing only what Katherine’s depictions paint in his head. ❛ But their kids? Live the best lives ❜, he almost sneers, as if dropping that addition with pure envy. Well, maybe he is envious on behalf of his younger self.
While her remark about his parents having to be “extra” effortlessly causes him to snort, Michael bites back the comment lying atop his tongue. Constance was a full-fletched diva. His father definitely the epitome of extra — though never really a parent for him, so does he even count?
‘Becoming a vampire saved me’. That’s when his lids snap back open and he rolls his head to the side, mouth pulled into a thin line while he mulls over the implication. ❛ Otherwise you’d be dead, right? ❜ Michael gleans Katherine’s mien, brows furrowed through another brief pause. ❛ Whoever saved you… I think I should personally thank them.❜ Might be a selfish thought, but still true. And simpering, he averts his eyes from her again.
a siren flashes past their window, briefly directing her gaze to the world outside this room to spot the fading lights in red and blue, before returning back to the male and his noticeable grudge against wealthy families. she scoffs, thinking about how she was supposed to be one of those enviable kids living their best lives. and how she was definitely not. ❛ i can assure you: not every kid is that lucky. ❜ oh, well.
his comment then puts a tired smile on her lips. ❛ yes. i’d be dead. ❜ her voice low, fatigued. this story is a draining one, and it has followed her through centuries. she perks a fine brow at him. ❛ well, in that case: you’re welcome. ❜ nobody has ever saved her, no white knight in shining armor. she has saved herself, and she would do it again, if she had to.
she edges a little closer, taking the hand that has been toying with her hair to slowly put it back in there. ❛ keep going. ❜