pas de deux :: CLOSED

[onlydancing]

When; December 16th
Rating; G
Characters; Lilith (onlydancing) & Justine Leblanc (longestfall)
Summary; Mother meets daughter. Daughter meets mother. The old love story on repeat.
Log;

[Snow has begun to fall. It falls on her face ever so softly. Ever so coldly. Like a mother's embrace, the only way she has ever known it to feel. Lilith has left Jean-Paul to his alcohol - that particular sound of rattling bottles is not unfamiliar to her, but who is she to judge her beloved brother? - and ventured out on her own, clad in clothes more appropriate for the season. Bearing no marks of her previous profession, nor of the charity of the church. She is her own woman here. Everything... is between herself and God.

Sitting down on a bench near the fountain, she listens to the sound of splashing water, having gradually slowed down over the past couple of days due to the freezing temperatures. There is tranquility here. A sense of peace... like in Paradise. Jimmy was right when he said, it might be another chance.

A place in between Heaven and Hell, allowing her to live again.]

Comments

[longestfall]

[It takes all her self-control, not to rip her hands away as Lilith starts raving about curses. Witchcraft. Un-godly things. Befitting her name, perhaps, though speaking such words here, out loud where people might hear... Where they may shame the mother for her child's graceless behaviour... Lowering her voice, she pulls Lilith closer, gripping her by the elbows, her slim fingers digging into Lilith's sleeves.]

Don't talk. Why are you so cold? Oh, why are you so helpless!

[She reaches out and begins buttoning up the coat. Like she would have for both her children, ages and ages back, if there hadn't been someone else to do it for her.]

[onlydancing]

[She lets her mother do what mothers should do for their children, but what her own only did when she could not in any way be excused. Accepts the action with the gratitude that comes with starvation. She has been a lost child for so long, now she has been found. Even if Mother never looked for her... She found her, even so. As she did back home. On Lilith's call, she was met with a response as she is now in equal measure. Thus, she simply stands, all but limp in Mother's grip.]

Back in Paris... I died, Mother... I thought I would stand before God... but instead I came here.