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Damien al Ghul/Damien Wilson ([info]headofthedemon) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-01-29 20:55:00


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Entry tags:inactive - damien wilson, inactive - lian harper, npc - cerdian, npc - roy harper, plot - "blackest night"

Hello My Lover (Lian)
Morgaine, to put it simply, was going to kill him. So would James.

His only advantage would be that his doppelganger would quite likely die first, when they realized that Damien had slipped away from them at some point.

For the first time in his life, Damien Wilson flew on a /commercial/ plane in /coach/. His mother would have a fit over that alone, but this mission was of the utmost importance. He did rented a car under an assumed name at Star City International airport and then drove through the streets to his destination. Damn, he hated American traffic laws. Passing by Outsiders HQ was surreal, knowing that any of them could be on the streets at any time. If they found him, they would probably see fit to kill him for the wounds he'd inflicted months ago.

In a way, today's trip is an attempt to begin the healing of those wounds.

He parks the car six blocks from the apartment address James gave him and uses the time to meditate and center himself. He's going to need to be fast at this to keep from being seen. He must be ready for any opposition between himself and his target.

And he must be ready for his wife's anger, and even her hate.

When night fell, Damien made his way across the rooftops to Lian's apartment building and scouted the area. The lights were off. He couldn't be certain if she was home or not, so he had to risk it.

Minutes later, after successfully getting a window open, Damien sneaks into Lian's home, much the same as she did to his months ago when this entire thing began. Now they were even.
He waits inside for her to return, hoping that she is still well.



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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 04:15 am UTC (link)
She didn't want to tell him how the baby was doing. She was angry.

"You have two seconds to get the hell out of my apartment, Damien."

Though...there was that small part of her that was happy to see him. Even though she really didn't want to be.

"Or...or goddamnit, I'll do something."

She just hadn't figured out what, yet.

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[info]headofthedemon
2011-01-30 04:22 am UTC (link)
"Lian, I will leave if you wish, but please promise me that you will not do anything to hurt yourself or the baby. I couldn't bear the thought of you hurting yourself in your anger at me." Damien says, holding up his hands in gesture of placation.

This was oddly like dealing with an angry wildcat. He knew Lian was dangerous, but she was also in love with him, at least he hoped she was.

"Lian, I cannot stop thinking about you. I cannot get you out of my head or my heart. Every day with you has been interminable and...I am here, alone. I did not bring Morgaine or anyone else.

Right now, I am at /your/ mercy. But I would like you to remember the choice that /I/ made when your life was in my hands. I knew that it was dangerous to accept you, to let you live. My sister wanted to execute you on the spot, but I stayed my hand.

Not once since that day have I ever been sorry for my choice." Damien says.

"Did something happen to your father again? You sounded upset when you came in." Damien says.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 04:32 am UTC (link)
"I feel so touched that you called off your attack dog," Lian said sarcastically. "But did you do it for me, or to protect your precious 'heirs'?"

"Goddamnit Damien, you can't just come in here and act like everything's fine.

You had my best friend murdered, Damien." She said, a knot forming in her throat. "And I'm supposed to what, pretend you didn't?"

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[info]headofthedemon
2011-01-30 04:43 am UTC (link)
Damien rocked back as if she'd slapped him. What was /wrong/ with her?

"That is /unfair/, Lian. Not once, in the entire time that we were together, did I ever portray myself as someone other than I am. The expression is 'what you see is what you get'. I lived that.

You infiltrated my organization, fed me lies about why you came and...then you pretended to /love/ me. You took my feelings and used them against me.

Then you ran away with our child to another man! I sacrificed the well-being of people who look to me for leadership to bring you home...all for you to choose another man over /me/! ME, Lian!" Damien yells.

"I did not want your friend to die, but he made two crucial mistakes in his bravado. First, he stood between an assassin and his prey. You know the price for that.

Secondly, he was not a civilian as you're trying to paint him. He was about to murder my manservant and then he would have turned on me. He raised arms against me, as did all of the Outsiders.

You know that I had men killed for /less/. Yet there have been no reprisals. /That/ is the depth of my love for you, Lian. I was willing to risk losing face in front of my subordinates to protect you and our child.

I admit to the wrongs that I am responsible for, but before you accuse me, look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are blameless." Damien says.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 05:07 am UTC (link)
"Damnit Damien, you don't think I don't stand there and blame myself every damn day?! It was my own damn fault that I went looking for my mother in the first place and was dumb enough to let my fucking feelings get in the way. I risked the lives of my entire damn team...I lied to them. I lied to my family.

And for what? So I could watch my best friend get his brains blown in front of me and get knocked up?!

So much for sticking to the goddamn plan. "

There was a long pause before she spoke again.

"Maybe I did lie about why I was there and my background, Damien."

Another pause.

"But I never pretended to love you."

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[info]headofthedemon
2011-01-30 05:21 am UTC (link)
Damien wants to yell her about how she betrayed him, about how many times he's wrecked their bedroom (it's /theirs/ not his), his office and how often he snaps at the help now because of her.

"Why couldn't you just come home, Lian? All of this pain and hurt between us could have been addressed if you would have simply come home. Your friend could have been revived. If you had asked it of me, I would have brought your friend back." Damien says.

"Please, can we just /talk/ to each other? Can I just hold you for awhile and we can talk about our..."

Wait a moment. Something she said earlier...

"Lian...did you say 'heirs'? As in...more than one child?" he asks.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 05:31 am UTC (link)
"Because I can't, Damien. I can't just leave my family. Not again."

Her gaze pointedly became fixed on the wall when she asked his next question.

She nodded.

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[info]headofthedemon
2011-01-30 05:34 am UTC (link)
Without thinking, Damien moves forward and drops this knees to kiss his wife's hips, and then, her belly, very gently.

Then he lays his ear to her stomach.

"Hello, in there, my little ones. I am your father. I know that I have not been around much, and that I have made your mother very, very sad...but I hope you will give me a chance to show my quality to you.

And I hope that your mother will let me love her as I always have. I love all two or ten of you, however many there are." Damien says, his arms going around Lian's waist.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 05:53 am UTC (link)
Her head was screaming at her that she was being an idiot, but she managed a small smile.

"Just two," she said.

Without thinking, she unwrapped his arms from her waist, bringing him up eye-level with her.

She kissed him deeply on the lips.

(LOVE)

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[info]headofthedemon
2011-01-30 06:14 am UTC (link)
(FEAR)

Damien Wilson does not allow fear to control his life, but he does still feel it. At any moment, Lian could reject him, turn him away and banish him from their children's lives forever.

So it is a great surprise when Lian bids him to rise and kisses him like she always did. Damien loses himself in the kiss, allowing his heart to finally believe that there may yet be a chance for him to a be a family with his wife and children.

(HOPE)
(LOVE)

Therefore, the car that comes crashing through the window is wholly unexpected.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 06:25 am UTC (link)
(LOVE)>

Lian kissed Damien, ignoring every screaming impulse in her head.

Which was why the car crashing through her window definitely caught her off-guard.

"What in the..." She grabbed Damien's hand out of fear, turning to see what the hell might have caused a Prius to come flying through her window and squash the living room couch.

Her eyes grew wide.

"No...no it can't be..."

(LOVE)
(HOPE)
(FEAR)

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[info]violettidemage
2011-01-30 06:30 am UTC (link)
"Knock-knock, Darts. Did I interrupt you while you were making out with the man who murdered me?" Cerdian asks, floating into the apartment through the hole in the wall.

"I can't help but note the distance to your bedroom and how you two seem to be working out that /issue/ you told me about, Lian. Do you know how /insulting/ it is to see you with the man who ordered my death?" Cerdian asks.

"/Especially/ when I died defending you /from/ him?" Cerdian asks.

"But I guess that was always my purpose, right, Lian? You'd get to use me as a stepping stone to the guy you were supposed to be with all along. That's how it was when we were kids, then teenagers, and finally adults.

You make me sick."

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[info]headofthedemon
2011-01-30 06:33 am UTC (link)
"How /dare/ you speak to her that way?" Damien snarls.

(RAGE)

"If you want to be angry with someone, be angry with me. I ordered your death, and it was deserved. You tested me and you lost. Now leave Lian and I in peace and I won't crush you beneath my boot heel again, fool." Damien says.

(WILL)

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 06:41 am UTC (link)
"Cerdian...Cerdian, please don't do this."

She dropped Damien's hand.

"You were my best friend. I hate myself for what happened to you."

(LOVE)
(FEAR)

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[info]violettidemage
2011-01-30 06:48 am UTC (link)
"I'm sorry, Lian. There's a fly buzzing in my ear." Cerdian says causally.

He flicks his wrist and Damien is lifted from the floor and thrown /through/ her front door, across the hall, through /that/ wall and then beyond it to the street on the other side.

Then Cerdian uses his ring to levitate the Prius and send it after Damien, leaving him and Lian alone.

"I'm sorry. You were saying something about /hating/ yourself? I want to hear that, because I hate you, too. So it's good that we both think you're a miserable, teasing bitch with no self-respect and loose morals.

Poseidon's Beard, Mother was right about you." Cerdian says, shaking his head.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 07:03 am UTC (link)
(FEAR)

"DAMIEN!" Lian's eyes grew wide in horror as she watched Cerdian throw Damien through her apartment building and onto the street.

"It was my fault," Lian said, "I know that. Goddamnit, Cerdian, I held your dead body in my arms! I got your blood and brain matter on my hands! Do you think I'd just go on living life like nothing happened?!

I can't. I can't just pretend like it isn't my fault.

I'm sorry, Cerdian. I'm sorry I got you into this. And you can't hate me as much as I hate myself."

(FEAR)
(LOVE)

"We were best friends. Damnit, do you know how hard it was for me to just stand there and watch as my best friend got his brains blown out in front of me on the sidewalk?"


(FEAR)
(LOVE)
(RAGE)

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[info]violettidemage
2011-01-30 07:19 am UTC (link)
"Let me guess. It was harder than sucking it up to come crawling back to me after Matt Donovan ditched you at Homecoming. But then I find you in here about to go to bed with the man responsible for my death and it makes every word out of your mouth a /lie/, Lian, because that's all you ever do! You lie!" Cerdian screams.

"You've been putting other men before me since we were kids, Lian. Tommy Parker, Jeff Saltzman, Bobby Warner, John and Jack Bromer, Matt Donovan and who can forget Eli Tate? And those are just ones I'm /sure/ you nailed.

But good ol' Cerdian was your little puppy dog, wasn't he? He'd follow you anywhere in the hopes you'd spare him a morsel of the attention you lavished on every other guy who treated you like a piece of ass or just wanted a trophy they could show off. You crooked your finger and I came running out of some misguided hope that you'd see that I loved you more than /anyone/.

But I was the /safe/ option and we all know that the Harper family never plays it safe when the option to do something stupid rears its head. Your father has no impulse control and that apple didn't even fall off the tree." Cerdian taunts.

"I couldn't get more than a smile out of you in seventeen years, but that murderous piece of human excrement managed to get you pregnant inside a few months.

How long did it take you drop your pants for him, Lian?" Cerdian asks cruelly.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 07:31 am UTC (link)
"That's not true! You and I both know that's not true!

We were friends, Cerdian. I didn't...I didn't know how you felt." Tears stung at her eyes. "If I did...then maybe things would have been different.

The comments about her father and Damien, really got her blood boiling.

(RAGE)

"Shut up! Just shut up!"

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[info]violettidemage
2011-01-30 07:37 am UTC (link)
And there it was. Her anger called to him like a moth to flame and Cerdian smiles wickedly at Lian.

"The only thing I ever wanted was your heart Lian. Now, I'm gonna take what should have been mine, among other things, a long time ago." Cerdian says, reaching toward Lian.

An invisible force attempts to draw her closer to him, so that he can take her heart.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 07:42 am UTC (link)
(RAGE)
(FEAR)

Lian took a step back. "Stay away from me. Stay the hell away!"

She sprinted towards her bedroom, where she had stashed the one crossbow that had not been taken from her.

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[info]violettidemage
2011-01-30 07:47 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, Lian. Run away in the enclosed space from the guy who can tear away the walls. /That/ will save you." Cerdian taunts.

He follows her, walking slowly, because he knows she has nowhere to run.

"How are you going to use your bow when that bowling ball in your midsection is getting in the way?" Cerdian says, heading toward the bedroom.

"Wow, after all the times I tried to get into your bedroom, we finally end up here at the end of your life." Cerdian says.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 07:52 am UTC (link)
(FEAR)

"Stay...stay back."

Lian held up her crossbow, shaking.

"Please...please Cerdian, don't make me do this."

(FEAR)
(LOVE)

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[info]violettidemage
2011-01-30 08:02 am UTC (link)
"Come on, Lian. Let me put you and those kids out of the misery of life. I'm trying to help you, after all you've done for me. The only real peace I've ever felt, the only thing that stopped the pain you put me through was dying.

Then the pain stopped. The visions, those stopped, too. The pain, the anger, desire to see you suffer...it all stopped when I died.

Do you really want to subject your children to the pain of knowing that their mother is an unabashed whore and their father is a the leader of a clan of murderers? What about knowing their grandfather is an action junkie, their grandmother is genocidal maniac and one of their aunts is a walking plague dog?

Is that the kind of family you want those kids growing up in? Trust me, you're way better off letting me make this quick for all of your sakes." Cerdian tells her.

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[info]rightontarget
2011-01-30 05:14 pm UTC (link)
(RAGE)
(FEAR)

"You leave them the hell out of this!" Lian's grip on her crossbow became unsteadier. "I understand why you hate me but don't you dare take this out them!"

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[info]violettidemage
2011-01-30 08:11 pm UTC (link)
Cerdian raises his hand and attempts to snatch Lian's crossbow with a wave of invisible force.

"Don't worry, Lian. You'll all be at peace very, very soon." he says.

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