Darrin felt his stomach drop and his eyes go wide as he watched Angel cut to the exit. He swallowed a panicked breath and promptly hopped off the table to follow after her, reaching down to catch at her wrist.
"Don't leave, please." He said, his voice lowering.
He knew Angel was upset, but he didn't want to have her walk out on him. He lowered his gaze to the ground as he kept his hand at her wrist, looking like a child who'd lost the battle.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:45 pm Post subject:
Angel paused in her tracks, she didn't turn to face him or say a word as her gaze lowered to the floor also. The stage was open and the spot lights would be on Darrin now, Angel said her piece.
She felt cross between snatching her hand back and storming out, she felt like turning and ordering him back onto the table and wait for the doctor, and she felt like crying and yelling in his face all at once.
Darrin licked at his lips, trying to figure out what he wanted to say. He wanted to argue his point, but he knew that he could argue HIS side all day and it wouldn't matter in the least. Angel had made valid points and he couldn't contest them. He was in the wrong from every standpoint, no matter HOW he looked at the situation. Angel was right, if he hadn't been involved with the gang world in the first place, this wouldn't have happened and there would be no worry about someone coming after Angel, his parents, his sisters, or his unborn child.
He took a sharp inhale.
"Look...I'm sorry this happened, Angel, I really am." He said, feeling his voice crack just a bit. "I could say that this wasn't my fault all day long, but at the end of things...you're right. If I hadn't been involved in the first place this wouldn't have happened. This would have never happened to me, and in that sense neither you, my mom, my dad, or my sisters would ever have to worry about...this kind of stuff EVER." He gently ran his thumb in circles over her wrist and bit at his lip for a second. "I know its not a valid argument to say that I need the money for us and that I owe Luca, but that's all I've got. I know it doesn't cut it, but that's all I've got. So...yeah...maybe I am selfish then." He gave a weakhearted laugh before pausing his thumb movements and tightening his grip on Angel's wrist ever so slightly. "I just...I want to leave, Angel, I do because, you're right. Its not just me that can get hurt, and even if it WAS just me, I don't want that weighing down on my family. But...right now, I..." Darrin took a deep breath, his jaw trembling just a bit. "I can't, right now. Even if its me being selfish or whatever, I just can't leave at this moment."
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:08 pm Post subject:
Angel was silent a moment. She felt sympathetic to Darrin's cause; yes he loved her and didn't ask for this, and she loves him so much and doesn't want to leave him. But there's another person involved, someone who hasn't even been born yet. Right now Angel needed to think of the baby growing inside of her.
"I know Darrin, and I'm sorry." She turned to face him finally and slow streaming tears rolled down her perfect cheeks. She leaned forward and kissed Darrin on the lips, not romantically but longingly before pulling back and giving him a long look; drinking him in. "But I'm thinking about what's best for the baby. I'm not going to ask you to draft dodge for us, but you promised me when you found me that I was safe-" Angel choked on her tears slightly, fighting back a heavy sob.
"Thank you for taking care of me, and I'll thank your family too. But I can't be involved in this."
Darrin's heart sank into the pit of his stomach and his eyes shot wide. He gave a slight shake of his head and he felt his eyes instantaneously become damp with tears.
"W...what? You...Angel you can't be serious..." He said, his jaw trembling and his words cracking due to the lump growing in his throat. "Angel this...this...this was a one time thing, its not going to happen again, I-I-I'm sure." His words spilled out in a sputtering mess and he felt his heart pounding harshly in his chest, making the cavity rattle and ache.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:20 pm Post subject:
A sharp inhale escaped Angel's lips as she covered her mouth and the water works started. Angel hadn't known love, love for Annabel and Zeke, love for Darrin's family, but none of it the same or similar to the love she felt for Darrin. Her heart had pounded veraciously in her chest and it reverberated down into the depths of her stomach, she trembled and her knees knocked as she cried and took a step back.
"I don't want to Darrin, I don't even know if I really could...But what else can I do? Nobody knows whats around that corner Darrin, and I don't care what happens to me. But I need to know that our baby's going to be safe." She cried.
"Angel, I can...I can take care of you and the baby and...and...a-and I'll do whatever it takes to do so, but...please...please...PLEASE don't leave me. Not like this." Darrin choked, tears escaping from his eyes. He licked at his lips again and shook his head. "I love you and the baby s-so much and...I can't lose either of you. I'll do anything...just...don't leave me like t-this."
Darrin took step forward and reached up with a shaky hand to cup Angel's cheek, shaking his head still.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject:
Angel whimpers and sniveled with her face in Darrin's shaky hand before lunging forward, in spite of his wounds, and wrapped her arms around his middle; burying her sobbing face in his chest.
Darrin didn't so much as wince at the twinges of pain that shot through his side upon Angel's embrace, after all, that pain couldn't compete with the pain weighing heavily in his heart. He wrapped his arms tight aroudn Angel's shoulders in response and buried his face into her hair, tears freely rolling down his face as he reached up to pet at her hair. He gave a sniff and one heavy sob before pecking his lips to her forehead.
"I-I'll do anything, Angel...honestly. I don't want anything else than for us to hvae our family an-and to be safe." He choked. "I just want us to have our family. I want us to be t-together."
"I'll get this sorted out, I promise you. I'll make it work, I-I'll figure out something." Darrin sniffed before planting another kiss at Angel's temple. "I love you too much to lose you."
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:55 pm Post subject:
"I love you too," Angle said, sniffling as she looked up finally and kissed his lips before pulling away and pressing their foreheads together. "I love you so much..." her hushed voice carried off.
Darrin looked intently into Angel's eyes before closing his own gaze, sniffing as he kept his forehead rested against hers. He slid his hands down her sides and stepped at her waist to rest his palms against her stomach. He reopened his eyes and looked down at her stomach between them and shook his head slightly.
"I'll make it so we don't ever have to worry." He said, his voice cracking.
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:21 am Post subject:
Angel was walking home from the Ramen bar after work, she had counted up her tips and paycheck; it was nice enough outside that she felt comfortable walking home. It wasn’t too far away and she figured she could use the exercise and fresh air. Her hair was down and gently lifting off her shoulders when the spring air blew through it. She hummed quietly to herself as she walked, rubbing her stomach on and off absent mindedly.
"Grim made it real clear, Decker, just jostle that one around." Ray-Chelle, one of Grimley's boys said to his counterpart as they watched their "target" walk passed them on her way home.
Grimley was a member of a large gang, one that gravitated mostly around the dealing of drugs (HE IS THE EAST QUARTUH). As of late the money flow had slowed up and Grimley realized this, so, he'd sent someone out to do some snooping on the sly. It wasn't long before he'd found out that the Corsante pack was behind it, more specifically, one of Luca's lap dogs, Darrin. He'd sent out a group to go and rough up Darrin in a surprise attack, but even after that he felt like it wasn't enough. The boy had taken a good chunk of money from them by dealing...and he had to know that there were consequences, and what better way to teach someone a lesson by showing them the absolute worse consequence:
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